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After way too many years on this hell site - I think I'm going to finally retire my Tumblr. My Instagram (arudetrans) will be my only social media account from now on. Feel free to follow me on there if you wish 💗

#love yall

yourbigsisnissi

Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.

daloy-politsey

powertripenterprises

“Socialism never took hold in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - source disputed, but accurate

swagintherain

It’s that simple.

gingerautie

This is why universal programs are important. Every single kid in my school got an eye test through the school at age 10. We just had some opticians come in and take over a room for a week to test every child. Testing for shit like colourblindness too. You need to test every single kid, or some of them will get missed. They might get missed because their parents don’t have vision problems and missed the signs, they might get missed because their parents can’t afford regular opticians visits, they might get missed because their parents couldn’t afford glasses, or couldn’t afford new lenses when a kids’s prescription changed. but they’ll get missed, and that’s really, really bad.

Systemic inability to afford glasses is terrible. I forget how lucky we are here to have the NHS. I mean, my mum hated her big blue NHS glasses, but she had them. And when I got glasses age 14 you got an £80 voucher for kids frames, and then lenses were free. IDK what it’s like now what with the cuts and all, but universal access to basic healthcare is so important.

neurodiversitysci

People underestimate the degree to which kids do badly in school because of vision problems. Personally, if I were helping a child who was failing, it’s one of the first things I’d check.

With wealthier kids who actually get eye exams, and have their vision corrected to 20/20, it’s visual processing problems like difficulty converging at near or processing clutter or tracking. With poorer kids, it can be all of that, or just needing glasses.

And then kids grow up thinking they’re stupid or lazy when really they just can’t see.

ventela1

Many people don’t think of poor eyesight as a disability, but it is. You don’t have to be legally blind to benefit from accommodations, i e eyeglasses.

ana-sola-deactivated081518

This is why it pisses me off when yt leftists say the Black Panthers breakfast program was not “revolutionary enough”. The mere act of surviving is resistance and revolutionary. When everyone wants your children dead, feeding them and ensuring their survival is resistance to the status quo. Fuck yt leftists. Y’all ain’t shit.

nonbinarypastels

“but why would anyone transition if they’re not dysphoric? why should non-dysphorics be allowed to transition?”

trans & nb people don’t have to be dysphoric in order to dislike certain things about their body and want to change them or to feel that they would like their body more if certain things about it were different.

cis people are up in doctor’s offices getting work done on them literally every single day—there have even been multiple reality tv shows all about cis people getting extensive plastic surgery, often without having to jump through any hoops other than the ones necessary to get to their checkbooks—without experiencing dysphoria and yet when trans & nb people want to medically change their appearance in the slightest way suddenly y'all want to slam the doors shut and insist that they’re not allowed to do shit with their own bodies unless they experience a sufficiently high amount of misery and self-hatred for themselves and their identity.

medical gatekeeping towards trans & nb people is transphobic. it’s based in a double standard that denies and limits access of care to trans & nb people specifically because they are trans & nb while it freely and easily gives the exact same care to any cis people who can afford it.

queerstuffyo

Not to mention that someone without dysphoria who wants to medically transition has the right to do that to feel better or get more enjoyment from life/their body/whatever even if they feel just fine now. People shouldn’t have to settle for the bare minimum. As far as ik, many many people are encouraged to try to make their lives more rich and enjoyable, and that, logically, should also extend to trans/nb people regarding their transitions and what they want for themselves.

doujinshi

not to vague, but have you ever loved someone like truly loved them. and I mean with their flaws and everything and accepted that. Do you know how like consuming that is, and I’m not talking about romantic love. I mean the power that comes with loving someone with like everything you have. through the good and the bad. through everything they’ve been through, through them doing things that shows how fundamentally flawed they are, and even in the sigh that you breathe that frustrates you, you can still feel it. how much you love them.

#am

pixelins

romance,,, isn’t dead - the muses

etrogim-deactivated20200109

she’s trying (i’m she)

flowgently-deactivated20190429

“If her past was your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, and peace.”

—

Eckhart Tolle

fairycosmos

i hate applying for jobs because the employers are always like: do you enjoy working in a stressful environment???? do you strive for unobtainable standards of perfection???? are you good at dealing with people that make you feel extremely uncomfortable??? do you mind losing real hours of your life in order to make minimum wage?? are you a fan of capitalism??? do you love selling your soul just so you can afford to live???

fandomshatepeopleofcolor

This is important!!! Also you can go through the thread for more info about this !!

miscreant-side-puffs

Pass this on

nevver

Save yourself, Michael Seif

quickweaves

#lol im the bottom that wears baseball hats

luna-mistrunner

I’m fairly certain America hinges now on propaganda that everything is okay and we’re still a first world nation when actually, our country is slipping further and further, and we’re really just. The best third world country out here. Not even comparable to most first world countries, so we fucking aren’t one anymore

Sounds like we live in a police state where the rich tax the poor not to feed or protect them but to fund programs and legislature that defunds their resources and encourages them to die. The rich get richer and the middle class shrinks and suffocates while the entire country falls apart because corporate power greed refuses to see the consequences of their actions.

I wish I had the faith to believe what goes around comes around, but I think it’s time to understand that we’re the ones that need to come around and take action. The rich aren’t going to do jack shit for us anymore. Even the rich that care about people on the bottom don’t have the courage to help people en masse

shindetsuku

Economically speaking, one of the foundations of a 1st world country is a strong middle class (source, my BBA in Economics and International Business), and it’s been abundantly clear that America’s middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant since pretty much the 1970′s, American CEO’s wage disparity is the highest in the world when compared to the average of their workers.

Basically, the us *isn’t* a first world country anymore. Our economy may still be one of the highest (I’m not sure if China has overtaken us yet), but our infrastructure is crumbling. Roads and school and bridges are in dire need of repair, our education system is laughable when you see how much money we have available for it. Military spending is out of control, often on things the military doesn’t even need or want. All in the name of continuously soaring profits for the highest echelon of society, who never needed it to begin with.

waennsch-daennscho

Here’s some expresses from a recent article about a UN official investigating poverty in the US:

“A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.

“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.comearlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where “raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.”

“Some might ask why a U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States,“ Alston said. “But despite great wealth in the U.S., there also exists great poverty and inequality.”

Alston also pointed out that the U.S. “has been very keen” on other countries being investigated by the U.N. for civil and human rights issues. “Now, it’s the turn to look at what’s going on in the U.S.,” Alston said. “There are pretty extreme levels of poverty in the United States given the wealth of the country. And that does have significant human rights implications.”

“The idea of human rights is that people have basic dignity and that it’s the role of the government—yes, the government!—to ensure that no one falls below the decent level,” he said. “Civilized society doesn’t say for people to go and make it on your own and if you can’t, bad luck.””

http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601

omgthatdress

SZA leads the heavenly choir. The pink is gorg on her, too.

#fuuuuu k

intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv

yall hear about fucking hb2796

intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv

NO I’M FUCKING SERIOUS HAVE Y’ALL HEARD ABOUT FUCKING HB2796 WHICH LITERALLY FUCKING EXCLUDES TRANS PEOPLE FROM CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION

intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv

I’m going to keep fucking reblogging this

punchanazi-eattherich

“ No Federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless such law expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class. “

grimthetransman

@yall I see ignoring this please dont. I get it its upseting, but this is IMPORTANT information that could SAVE our lives and our rights.

Also this boils down to stripping rights away from intersex and trans ppl from what I understand, meaning that we would no longer be protected under federal law. This is scary. Call your reps and get this shut down as soon as you can. We can beat this together. We need each other right now. Share this, spread this information.

vijara

how you can help:

call your local senator and representatives! websites like 5calls tell you your national representatives based on your location and if you use their mobile site, you can call those representatives through their site. they don’t yet have hb2796 on their site, but you can use their system regardless!

here is an example of something you can say: “My name is (your name) and I am a constituent in (your town/city/district). I strongly oppose house bill 2796, which aims to remove gender identity protections from civil rights legislation by forcibly clarifying “gender” or “sex” to indicate only a person’s assigned gender at birth. Transgender people require civil rights protections as a vulnerable part of our population, and it is extremely important to me that they receive those protections. Thank you for your time and attention.”

IF YOU LEAVE A VOICEMAIL: leave your street address to ensure your call is tallied!

when you call, they will not argue with you, and basically just tally how many people contact them on a certain issue. also, if you want to support other issues on the 5calls site, don’t be afraid to make multiple separate calls! call volume matters and if you call more separate times it will be better.