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January 2012
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Me: I'm pretty sure the last thing I said before AJ was born was "Jesus fucking Christ."
Spouse: The last thing you said before AJ was born was a wordless agonized howl unlike any sound I have ever heard you make before. Or ever hope to hear again.
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Birth, bodies, and chronic illness.
alierakieron:
Prescript: @Vikkiage wrote an amazing post a bit back about the problems with a lot of body positive slogans, especially for trans people. Cabell added her own thoughts about how these slogans relate to her own medical issues, and that definitely spurred this post. I felt that adding what’s below as a reblog would be derailing, as I’m taking it in a different direction, but I also...
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Dear student following me on Tumblr: Thank you for...
Excellent cat name, btw.
(Speaking of deity pet names, my cat Pandora was originally named Sekhmet, but I changed it when I discovered that my ex, still in the same town, also had a cat named Sekhmet. It weirded me out.)
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@alierakieron
alierakieron replied to your post: Great.
Is that a common reaction? A friend of mine (who you may know? If you know TJ, couldn’t remember how those circles synced up) has the exact same problem with painkillers, and a slipped disc. Either way, good luck.
Nope, don’t know TJ, I don’t think… I don’t know how common it is in the population overall, but apparently both my...
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Great.
It’s that point in the evening where I try to decide if I should not take a second pain killer and hope that my migraine won’t keep me awake horribly late… or take a second pain killer and hope that my idiopathic insomniac reaction to narcotics doesn’t keep me awake horribly late.
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meloukhia:
Mark Follman at Mother Jones: Gabby Giffords and an Ominous Development in Missouri
Just hours before Giffords made her way into the nation’s Capitol, an unknown provocateur was stalking the halls of the Missouri Capitol, tagging the doors of lawmakers—most of them Democratic women—with images of rifle crosshairs. From the Columbia Daily Tribune:
Orange stickers with an...
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Cis straight white people are trying to shut Arkh...
thearkhproject:
Yesterday, notice was received from Kate at Indiegogo that part of #Arkh’s pitch on indiegogo was “unlawful”. Namely, that the lines about using the money to hire queer people and PoC artists were “breaking anti-discrimination laws”. Now Arkh’s goal is to not only make this game, but to use the money to support the community at the end of its goals, the queer community and the...
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alierakieron:
Laila’s Fight; Thru the eyes of a zombie baby
ayiman:
angelangheart:
angelangheart:
Laila is a 9 year old angel who is fighting for her life. She needs a kidney as soon as possible. She is O+ and can only recieve O+.
Laila is from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She is suffering from End-Stage Renal Disease. Her mother set up a Facebook page to raise...
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Link: Guess who’s making a “derp face”, and guess... →
politeyeti:
cpmatters:
At first I thought what if they didn’t intentionally make fun of people with disabilities? Then I remembered being mimicked and laughed at when everyone had a copy of the yearbook from grade 7 to 12.
fromonesurvivortoanother:
Guess who’s making a “derp face”, and guess who has an actual disability?
1. Derp face [source]
2. Zach Anner, who has Cerebral Palsy...
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Just so we're all clear.
nudiemuse:
Re: this post.
Let me break it down for the bunch of people who just do not get what I was saying.
It was not about the specific girl in the short video from Jane Elliott’s workshop.
Let me repeat that.
It was not about or towards that person on a personal level.
My anger and fuck you is directed to the responses I saw to her being upset, in a situation that she volunteered for....
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Cynthia Nixon On Being Gay: 'For Me It's A... →
honestandunapologetic:
raggedyanndy:
artisticgoldfish:
cassie-cooties:
*HIGH FIVES!*
Also watch the video at the end.
Fuck yeah!
I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.
FUCKING YES.
This. This is too queer for the general public...
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honest and unapologetic: re: jane elliott →
honestandunapologetic:
you know, i’ve been watching these videos about jane elliott’s blue-brown eyed experiment, and i’m absolutely floored at how many (white) people - both in the experiment and viewers - have called this woman and her methods a bunch of names - classless, harsh, foul, racist (hah)…i mean, the list…
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Actual Black Person.: When I didn't cry. Re Jane... →
nudiemuse:
I’m not including the video find it yourself.
I’m only going to say this once to every single person trying to focus on the weeping White children and whatnot.
Fuck you and fuck your tears.
I do not give a tin shit if someone watches that, or participates in something like that and comes out…
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microaggressions:
Being in a class the first day, when the professor is trying to learn names. He asks the names of everyone who speaks. I speak; he doesn’t ask my name. I notice he also doesn’t ask any of the other Asian-appearing students their names when they speak, either. What, do we all look so alike you know you wouldn’t be able to tell us apart, so you’re not even going to bother...
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soon we shall live in the past: Anime and the... →
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social…
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“The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial...”
– bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)
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“When you say to a person of color “When I see you, I don’t see you as black! I...”
– Jane Elliot on the absurdity and invalidation of claims of “Color Blindness” by white folk (via brazenbitch)
not to mention no one ever says this to White people. if you didn’t see me as black you wouldn’t feel the need to say it to ME, and not any other non-poc in the room, BECAUSE YOU WOULDN’T...
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– “The Way It Was” — Mother Jones Magazine — Abortion before Roe v. Wade. (via deltumbles)
read this article, it’s 100% incredible.
(via homotronic)
Trigger Warning: Article describes molestation by a backalley abortion provider.
(via prolifehypocrisy)
Roe V Wade closed off entire wings of...
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Because your pandan cake left you dissatisfied:... →
thesavagesalad:
This was never meant to be a fun and enjoyable activity. It was never meant to be one of those “LOOK BEYOND OUR DIFFERENCES, WE’RE ALL THE SAME” kind of things.
Why?
Because racism isn’t a fun thing. And unfortunately, we live in a society where we are not treated as equals. AND IT FEELS AWFUL. To the commenters who are up in arms about the treatment of the one white girl...
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I'm getting infernally SICK of the white whiners...
thegoddamazon:
Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.
The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided” exercise.
Now, these students were all required to sign waivers saying that they would undergo high emotional...
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cabulous rhymes with "fabulous": I believe in good... →
Pain killers like advil typically have harmful side effects if over-used (acetaminophen, or Tylenol, is in my opinion heavily over-used because it doesn’t actually work very well for most people, can cause liver damage, and is added to other medications—like hydrocodone—for no other reason than to punish people for using them “too much”). Most of the medications in...
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I believe in good food, not medicine..
bubonickitten:
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healthorhighwater:
I believe in… Avocados, not Advil Beans, not Benadryl Cauliflower, not coedene Dragonfruit, not Dramamine Eggplant, not epitol Flax seeds, not Fortical Grains, not Glucotrol Hummus, not heparin Iceberg lettuce, not ibuprofen Juniper berries, not jolessa Kale, not Keppra Lemons, not Lunesta Mushrooms,...
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Actual Black Person.: Late night make up recs. →
nudiemuse:
A few late night low cost, versatile and easy to use make up recs.
For my brown people:
The ELF transformer. This is a quad of four sheer, duochrome shadows. Alone on brown skin they are subtle and fucking magic y’all. For 3 bucks you get the four different shades and they work by imparting…
"I am now straddling my boyhood hero"
tesseralharmonics:
“No, no. Uh… Between my legs I have… No…”
Oh, Hamster.
(It’s Top Gear time again!)
Aw, you got my hopes up for Tony/Steve. :p
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Rare rave review: Both of the pharmacists at the...
They found me shorter, fatter syringes with interchangeable tips so that I can draw my injections with a fat needle and inject with a thin one.
If only they and my GP could handle all of my care.
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Kate Bornstein: Call For Submissions for My New... →
gqid:
^ Click through to read more! You can contribute via Twitter (“submission tweets must include the hashtag #MNGW”), post an answer to the initial question to the blog link above by commenting, or e-mail (mynewgenderworkbook at gmail dot com). The first question is “What’s your gender?” and more will be coming in the future. This is all to help in the updating of My Gender Workbook by Kate...
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Jay-Z anthem to fatherhood is music to the ears of... →
karnythia:
So, this article claims that 72% of black kids in America are growing up without fathers. Not only do I need to see the receipts for that stat, I need some kind of critical thinking skills applied to the idea of parenthood & race. Let’s be real, a lot of black kids growing up sans fathers don’t have black fathers. And that’s before we discuss what absentee means (that could be...
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karnythia:
Muslim girl attacked for wearing hijab | Press TV
anedumacation:
mehreenkasana:
androphilia:
Friday, January 20, 2012
An 11-year-old Muslim schoolgirl has been subjected to a horrific racist assault by a group of older white girls in Surrey just because she was wearing headscarf.
Surrey Police stated that the little Muslim girl who was waiting for the bus was “targeted...
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Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets →
carrawayeffect:
Women’s and men’s washrooms: we encounter them nearly every time we venture into public space. To many people the separation of the two, and the signs used to distinguish them, may seem innocuous and necessary. Trans people know that this is not the case, and that public battles have been waged over who is allowed to use which washroom. The segregation of public...
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Dear asshat from high school:
When a person is complaining about how a specialist, two different nurses AND two different pharmacists seem unable, working together, to get her the appropriate equipment to safely self-administer necessary but HIGHLY DANGEROUS medication, the correct response is not to blither on about how “a healthy baby is worth anything you have to do.”
Obviously, I want a healthy baby, and I...
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gqid:
Untitled: Singular They Reading List
ivancoyote:
The singular “they:” Selected readings
Canberra Society of Editors (2000). A singular use of they. Retrieved fromhttp://www.editorscanberra.org/a-singular-use-of-they/
Department of Justice Canada (2011). Singular “they.” Retrieved fromhttp://www.justice.gc.ca/fra/min-dept/pub/legis/n41.html
GLAAD (2010). GLAAD’s media reference guide:...
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saathi1013:
apriki:
One day I am going to see an action espionage thriller movie in which the protagonist is a female
and her quirky team mates are also female
and the bad guy is female
and all the bad guy’s lackeys who provide cannon fodder for the protagonist during their badass chase scenes are female
and the fan favourite who will inevitably die to bring home the emotional resonance of...
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So, seriously, is hematology just the specialty of...
Good thing that pharmacist made concerned noises—my heparin levels are bad enough that the first thing the nurse calling with my results asked was if I’d been skipping doses. Yeah, that’s always what you want hear.
The good news: There actually are pre-loaded syringes available with what is ALMOST my dose.
The bad news: I said “almost.” I will have to give myself...