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I laughed so fucking hard at this
I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.
What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.
Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?
Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.
This week, I:
-drove back to nor cal from la visiting my family
-went to work, had a really intense therapy session, and went to an al anon meeting
-started the leadership class at school, prep for being a TA in the fall, and it was so thought-provoking and compelling. It had me rereading Zaretta Hammondās āculturally responsive teaching and the brainā
-reconnected with skateboarding. Revisited an old skate video with Elissa Steamer and found out that sheās queer. This skater I looked up to as a kid is like me. Listened to a podcast. It was great. Iām feeling really inspired. Listening to The Sundays 1990 album āreading writing and arithmeticā, really enjoying it. -got my car serviced finally. Alignment was fucked from getting rearended back in March. Should have been done bY the body shop and covered by insurance but meh. It wasnāt. -going to Queer surf water safety training tonight.
I do not know why the U.S. is hosting the World Cup as we generally do not give a fuck about soccer. And I would not recommend traveling here right now to my worst enemy.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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This interview with Ncuti Gatwa crossed my dash again, and I was reminded of how much I like it. Because it makes the rare Third Argument for representation in fiction, the argument I think is the best, and I'm always happy to see it. I quote:
At times, Gatwaās casting in those projects has been dismissed as an exercise in ābox-tickingā. Gatwa scoffs. āFirst of all, you donāt know anything about me. Secondly, tick fcking boxes! People need to be fcking seen. What are you going to do, tell the same stories? Have the same people fronting things for all of eternity? Representation and inclusivity and branching out⦠it enriches us all. How embarrassing. You people with your tiny mindsets ā open a book, look out the window and then f*ck off.ā (source)
What do I mean by the Third Argument? Well, I'm not sure I've ever made a post about this directly, but as far as I can see it, there are three main arguments for greater diversity in popular media. The first two are the most common, and they go like this:
It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see people like them on screen. That is, the beneficiaries are marginalized people.
It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see and learn about people who are not like them through art. That is, the beneficiaries are non-marginalized people, who then (hopefully) pass on the benefit by treating marginalized people better.
These two arguments are the source of a lot of debate here on ye olde tumblr. Despite both being arguments for representation, they pull in different directions. What counts as 'good' representation for the purposes of Argument 1 often would not be good for the purposes of Argument 2, and vice versa. Authentic versus sympathetic. Ugly or over-sanitized. You see this debate play out constantly. It's really hard for a piece of - say - queer media to do both at once.
But these debates tend to leave out Argument 3, the one that Gatwa is making above. And that argument cuts through a lot of this debate.
3. It is good for media to be diverse because art needs variety. The beneficiary of representation is art itself, absent any social effects that may or may not be present.
For this argument, diverse stories are intrinsically good. It is good to make art that's not just the same thing you've seen a hundred times before. Putting the kinds of people who don't often make it into mainstream media into your art is an extremely efficient way to make that happen. It's not the only method, but it's a really good method.
For representation to be 'good representation' according to Argument 3, all it needs to be is interesting. A story you haven't heard before, at least not in that medium. That which counts as 'bad representation' by the lights of this argument are stock characters, like the Eternally Patient Mother, the Gay Best Friend, the Wise Black Advisor. Perhaps there was a time in which these characters were new, but that time has long passed. There's no art in pulling a bog-standard character trope off the shelf. Show us a new kind of guy. The world is infinitely diverse. You're not going to run out. Telling the same stories with the same voices for all eternity, as Gatwa says, is boring. Even if there was nothing else wrong with it, this would be. Art isn't supposed to be boring.
And that's why Argument 3 is my favourite. I do want the world to be a better place, of course, and I think art is a part of that. But the main job of art is to be good as art. And diversity in all aspects of the production of art makes art better.
"It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism." --Mary Robinette Kowal
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Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.
We gotta fix that.
Progress.
Onwards!
I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:
While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.
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Iāve been watching skate videos. Andy Anderson, Rodney Mullen, Tony Hawk talking about Andyās video. Skate IQ channel breaking down all the gates and offering bite size coaching. Now that Iām surfing the face of waves and feel my body wanting to turn and carve, Iām looking at concrete the way I looked at it as a kid. Iām craving the vestibular input only a wave or wheels and bearings can give me. (Make no mistake, as a 37 year old, I deeply fear and respect concrete. I fall harder than I did when I was 10.)
Iām reflecting on the late 90s, being the only girl with 3 other boys in 4th and 5th grade who started skating. A little scruffy group of punks. Robbie, Andrew, Michael and me, a group of white so cal kids who were smart, liked music, and being outside together. Sometimes Iād roller skate on my moms old 70s skates while they attempted ollies. Weād all ride razor scooters, bombing down hills and jumping off curbs. We sat at the same table in class at school and would tech deck off each others pencil cases. Weād pour over skate magazines. We made mix tapes with the likes of Offspring, Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smash Mouth, Pennywise.
I had gender feelings around this time. Knowing I was one of the boys, but unfortunately not actually being a boy. The only picture of me from that era that captured my true gender expression was from a mid-year class photo. I was wearing straight black jeans, a baggy grey tee shirt with fish on it. My hair is down, long and straight. Iām wearing vans. Only because my mom forgot about the picture day. Iām sure she would have fussed about ālooking niceā had she known. Or perhaps I knew by then what was expected of me, and I would have policed my own gender. We all had our favorite pro skaters that we gravitated towards. I zeroed in on Elissa Steamer. She was a pro skater, one of the only girls sponsored at the time. She could do it. She was in the magazines, she had the weird art on the skate decks. She was the only female playable skater in āTony hawk pro skaterā 1 and 2. Among all these boys, Tony and Chad and Rodney and Bob, here she was.
And so Iām 37, actually progressing in surfing, finding myself more drawn to skating than ever before, except when I was 10. I feel like Iām picking up where I left off. I decided to see what Google had to say about Elissa Steamer.
I just looked her up. Sheās queer, engaged to a woman, living in SF just an hour north of where I live now. Of course she is. I smiled to the ceiling upon reading it. Like. Weāve always been here. Queer people, finding each other. (Iām crying while typing this now.)
The only word I had in 1999, as me and my friends were taking sex Ed and getting ready to go to the scary world of puberty and middle school was ātomboyā. And it became dangerous to be a tomboy. Iām reclaiming that right now. 10 year old Nina is super present for me today. Little non-binary Nina. You can skate. You can wear the vans. You can hang with the boys and the bois. You can surf. You can eat enough to fuel your body. You can wear your hair long. You are right where you need to be.
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Hi, sorry if this is a dumb question. So, I've had my (hormonal) IUD in for a couple years now, hoping for it to stop my periods. And it mostly has, besides a little bit of spotting here and there, and that's been my new normal. However more recently I've been masturbating more frequently, and I tend to do mostly vaginal penetration as my default. My toy is rather large and hits kind of deep, there have been times when I hit what I believe to be my cervix, as I'm left sore and immobile for a while after (not worried about that, I'm a masochist + the pain doesn't last more than an hour or two). But around the same time, my periods have been coming back heavier, more than just spotting. Not as bad as they were pre-IUD, but it's noticeable.
My question is: is it possible that I knocked my IUD around during deep penetration and shifted it's position, and for that to have affected the heaviness of my periods?
hi anon,
I am not in any position to speculate about what's going on in your cervix. if you're experienced abnormal bleeding and worried that you've displaced your IUD then you need to check in with your healthcare provider about it ASAP.
Hi anon. Suggestion: doctor time. Citation: personal experience (below).
I had the copper IUD for 4 years. Fucked with a dildo in the way youāre describing, bled at an unusual time and for a while. Went to the gyno 2 months later. Sure enough, the IUD had moved out of place and confirmed by ultrasound. It needed to be taken out, because if itās not in the right place, it doesnāt work.
I now have the mirena (progesterone) IUD, and donāt have periods. Still Fuck w dildos. Havenāt had any problems.
Suggestion: doctor time.