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[neverenoughmarauders]

I've not been able to stop crying for two hours, but it is tears of joy. I've waited so many years to see this news. 23 years I've waited. I cannot begin to describe what this means to the Huntington's community.

One day I'll write about what it's like to grow up knowing you might have a terminal, incurable illness, and not be allowed to test yourself because "it's such a serious decision" they don't want it hanging over you until you're an adult (as if it doesn't hang over you as you witness a parent die, and know you've got 50% chance of inheriting the same illness--as do your siblings). One day, I will talk about how, in the fear of traumatising children with the knowledge they might be incurably, terminally ill, they also took away their right to decide over their bodies to a degree that is traumatising. One day.

But today I am going to cry. Because it's over. Because no child will ever have to go through the same uncertainty, because at least they will know there is a treatment option available. A treatment option that one of my siblings might come to rely on. With all the shit things happening around us, my childhood hope and dream have been realised. That's got to count for something.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

[naamahdarling]

This is incredible. Just absolutely incredible good news, and shocking considering how hard progressive neurological diseases are to treat at all.

It's such a terrible disease. This procedure is technically difficult and the surgery/infusion takes a long time but it is EFFECTIVE and reduced progression by 75% with surprisingly few side effects, and it's expected to be permanent.

They're looking at making it available very soon. I hope it is made affordable enough to treat everyone who has it.

[norabee]

I don't even think this should be a "rent-lowering gunshots" type of post, but here we are: "transandrophobia" plain-out does not exist. The word "transmisogyny" was coined to discuss the intersection between transphobia and misogyny, and "androphobia" or "misandry" do not fuckin exist as structural forces in the slightest. Men are not punished for Being Men, and trans men are men, plain and simple. The word you're looking for is transphobia, please just block me if you disagree with very literally any of this. K bye

[sweet-tea-skitty]

!!!!!!

[gettinggangstalkedfor3years-dea]

Obviously every space ever is going to be racist to some extent because people living nowadays are raised in this very segregated and racist world, there is a certain level of baseline racism in every single space no matter what, however, the reason why there's so few visible black Trans women in our spaces is not just limited to white transfems being racist, so much of it is because black transfems suffer so much more scrutiny, harassment, violence and prejudice than white trans women, there is so few black Trans women in our spaces not JUST because white women exclude them, white women are allowed to survive (and I do not mean thrive) due to their white privilege, something that black Trans women aren't afforded. It is so much more morbid and gruesome and scary than it should be, and it SHOULD make your stomach turn and make you upset. Both that black transfems get brutalized, excluded and threatened out of the public life and that all the blame for marginalization of black trans women falls on another marginalized group by people who do the oppressing who seek to find a scapegoat nobody wants to defend.

[almondmilkhunnis]

VETTED CAMPAIGN DELETED BY GFM AND NEEDING TO RAISE FUNDS FROM SCRATCH

GFM unjustly terminated Fidaa's @fidaa-family2 campaign and she lost all of the funds she'd raised so far to help evacuate her family. She has to start all over with a new campaign.

Fidaa's campaign has been vetted here and here. Please consider donating to her if you have anything at all to give. Small dollar amounts can add up so never think you won't make a difference! If you have enough to buy a cup of coffee, consider skipping it to give to Fidaa instead. Imagine how frustrating it would be after months of fundraising to lose what you've worked hard for. We need to show Fidaa our support now more than ever!

Help My Children Sila and Hamoud

Fidaa and her beautiful kids Sila and Hamoud are raising money to survive the genocide in Gaza. Whether these funds go to food (prices are s

You can also donate through Paypal directly.

Please reblog & share this post even if you aren't able to donate. Let's help this fundraiser reach as many people as possible. <3

[almondmilkhunnis]

Fidaa has established a new campaign after scammers hacked into her old campaign, and she was forced to close it. She has to start from scratch once again with a new campaign and needs our help more than ever. Please consider donating to Fidaa and her beautiful children Sila and Hamoud.

[saveaboudfamily]

I saw the end of the world in Gaza.

If you care, please reblog and add #EndTheWar.

[saveaboudfamily]

[saveaboudfamily]

The sky burned above us and the ground shook beneath us. We ran with nothing but fear in our hands. Please donate if you can, your support is the only thing keeping us alive.

[aboodgaza0]

Guys we are only 128€ away from 20k please donate to me

[blackjame]

11-Year-Old Expelled After Taking Gun Away from Classmate, Friend Says He 'Acted Out of Courage and Compassion'

The mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her 11-year-old son was expelled for taking a gun away from a class

Link if you want to help with his schooling:

Donate to Help Sakir Everett Continue His Education, organized by Catra Davis

On what could have been a tragic and devastating day, 11 year-old Sakir Everett … Catra Davis needs your support for Help Sakir Everett Cont

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Punish a Black 11 year old for preventing a school shooting, but let off Texan police officers for not preventing one. There's no winning is there.

[lesser-vissir]

Straight up the dumbest criticism of intersectionality theory not covering intersections for non-oppressed positionalities (ie transandrophobia, misogyblanc, misandrinoir) is the claim that actually it's more bigoted to say that the more privileged person experiences the "default" version of oppression because it reinforces them being the default.

Saying that, eg, white women experience "default" misogyny does not mean black women experience something else entirely. Black women experience misogynoir, yes, but they also experience plain ol' misogyny, the same one white women do.

This all just looks back to the idea that intersections are merely about describing "unique experiences" in a nebulous "everyone is special in their own way <3" way, rather than intersections describing entirely new axis of oppression.

Misogynoir isn't "misogyny directed at black women". That's just misogyny. Misogynoir is a set of specific manifestations of oppressive systems that operate on the intersection of blackness and womanhood.

Figure it out.

[manuciruja]

Every single fucking time a latinoamerican country implements a progressive law/policy you people have to be all like "how fucked up are we that *country name* is being more progressive than the US" as if it's somehow inconceivable that a country you deemed as backwards and barbaric could possibly be making more right decisions than your imperialistic shit hole of a country.

[whereserpentswalk]

Also applies to Asian and African countries.

[manuciruja]

True ^^^

[himejoshikomaeda]

it’s hard to decide what the worst transmisogynistic-trans-guy-ism is, but i think it might be “transwomen should be fucking and sucking trans men and making out sloppy style”. like are you listening to yourself. do you know how fucking insanely misogynistic you sound. can you imagine a cis man saying “women should be fucking and sucking men” in response to a woman having feminist principles? that’s you.

[strawhatsufi]

honestly it's not even really about how well people in rich countries live it's about how everything they have is because of the exploitation of poor countries. a poor person can live in a rich country and sleep in a doghouse and that dog house will still be built by migrant labourers with import wood owned by bill gates. homeless first worlder who lives in a car how many people died to build that car. how many people died to fuel it. how many of them lived down here and how many people lived up there. that's your answer isn't it.

[strawhatsufi]

we both live in violent repressive police states but your police state is to protect the imperial superprofits of your bourgeoisie and my police state is also to protect the imperial superprofits of your bourgeoisie

[strawhatsufi]

the point of this post isnt that there arent poor people in usa. usa is not one of the better places in the world to be poor in my opinion. i have done it. it is a country of lifelong debt, school shootings, and penal slavery. you could not pay me to live there. the point is:

1. if someone in usa is poor, it is not the problem of anyone in another country, even someone in a higher economic bracket,

and 2. if someone not in usa is poor, even poor people in usa are somewhat culpable for that.

[aintmyjewelry]

watching Trump’s press conference and yes he is blaming autism on Tylenol. I hope Tylenol lays down the craziest lawsuit on Earth. I hope it makes their reaction to the 1980’s Tylenol murder look like child’s play

[swanpaw]

#the 80s what

the 80s tylenol murders. tl;dr: you know that tamper seal on new bottles of medicine everyone hates? those are there because in the 1980s, some freak went into a pharmacy and poisoned a bunch of tylenol. 7 people died in the initial crime, more in subsequent copycat crimes. they never caught who did it.

Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia

Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia

[alex51324]

Another thing here is that the company's response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.

Even though they weren't doing anything differently from other medication companies that made them vulnerable to this--and it remains unclear whether the tampering was happening in the factory, the stores, or some other part of the supply chain--they moved very quickly to recall products and develop tamper-resistant packaging, and as a result they regained the public's trust a lot more quickly than you might guess. (And the new packaging they developed also became the industry standard.)

So part of the comparison here, is that if Tylenol manages to pull off a similarly effective response to this, it could be a playbook for other companies and organizations to resist Trump's baseless attacks.

[theonehitwonder]

It fucking astounds me how many people completely understand “being treated like a child is horrible” but never reach the very logical conclusion of “we should not treat children like that”

[politijohn]

Source

So this happened when everyone’s attention was on Charlie Kirk’s death

[blogofvariablequality]

'to protect the south from north korea' yeah they just had to work that in there didn't they.

[blogofvariablequality]

wait also 'forced to work as prostitutes' is a fucking weird way to talk about mass state-sanctioned rape

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

A lot of people genuinely believe that permanent disability isn't a thing that happens to good people who work hard and make responsible choices. A lot of people genuinely think that we get the life we work for and deserve. And this is definitely part of the explanation for why ableism is so prevalent

[pocket-deer-belly]

i hate that being fat is dangerous not for any of the reasons people think but because the medical field just stops giving a shit about you. yeah sorry we haven't tested this medicine on people with your body size so we might underdose you. yeah sorry we don't train our surgeons on people like you so you have to change your body to accommodate them. yeah sorry we don't make medical equipment for people of your weight. yeah sorry our doctors train for like a decade but never have to contend with the fact that a fat person might not be suffering from being fat but from a real medical problem. yeah sorry your medical issues will go unaddressed until you become small enough for us to care and they will get worse in that time

[pocket-deer-belly]

and then statistics show that fat people die more so it's gotta be cause they're fat right not for any other reasons it's just cause they're fat so clearly being fat is unhealthy

[ladiablesse]

the white supremacist who claimed that black women “do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously” is now being memorialized by his nazi brethren using a phrase that was originally part of a movement to highlight black women and girls who were victims of police brutality and femicide. but i remember when nonblack libs and leftists were getting mad at us for saying that “say her name” should only be used in reference to black women and girls because our deaths are often overlooked and our movements frequently co-opted.

[doriangraysrockcollection]

trump's gonna declare himself king via executive order and the democrats are gonna be like, DEADNAME, democracy is at stake. Can you spare $2?