elon isn't bad because he's ugly or cringe or "moves like an alien mimicking human behaviors" or whatever he's bad because he's a fucking fascist. can we focus please.
Sunscreen, its marketing, and its physical makeup is just another way that white people are prioritized in the outdoors industry.
A 2018 study found that Black and Hispanic people are much less likely to use sunscreen than white people. The researchers explained, âWhile most participants recalled family discussions about sunscreen and sun protection, the understood intent was to warn against âfurther skin darkeningâ or to âprevent aging,â not to reduce sun burns or skin cancer risk.â The myth that people of color are inherently protected from the sun due to melanin, and therefore donât need sunscreen, is a pervasive one. While skin cancer is less common among people of color, itâs still possible for them to develop the condition, and therefore should not be taken lightly. But this need for sun protection is complicated by the racialized way in which sunscreen is marketed, ongoing myths around who needs sunscreen, the idea that sunscreen is just a way to maintain proximity to whiteness, and the ways that many sunscreen companies still fail to consider the needs of darker skin tones when creating their formulas.
The idea that people of color, especially darker skinned people, donât need sunscreen is still a pervasive myth, and in some ways, this makes sense: The American Cancer Society finds that the annual incidence of melanoma is five in 100,000 for Latinx people and one in 100,000 for Black people, compared to 26 in 100,000 for white people. But a lower likelihood of skin cancer isnât an excuse for giving up on prevention. For example, a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that men across races have a higher rate of new cancers than women, but we donât tell women that they donât need to wear sunscreen. Our likelihood of skin cancer increases dramatically as we age, but that doesnât mean kids and teenagers should skip the sunscreen.
These things actually permeate your brain and plant little seeds that people then carry around with them and influence how they behave. And itâs so important to analyze this, especially when you have an audience of MILLIONS.
Hereâs Why Racismâs Not âJust Comedyâ - Chescaleigh
The fact that theyâre using a visibly pregnant person for the header image is absolutely absurd. Like itâs always weird that they choose to do it, as the majority of pregnancies are terminated before 12 weeks, but itâs especially telling when theyâre using an image like this while talking about ectopic pregnancies.
So I read the article, and itâs even worst than you think.
Their reasoning that abortion isnât necessary is because itâs possible to save someone after the Fallopian tube bursts.
Thatâs right. They are arguing that itâs better to wait for the tube to burst and get life saving surgery instead of an abortion because by then the âbaby is deadâ and therefore abortion isnât needed.
Youâve heard it hear folks. Preventative healthcare isnât necessary healthcare cause people can get life saving major surgery later/s
Elizabeth Acevedo is the first Latina and only writer of color (non-white) to ever win the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Dominican-American Elizabeth Acevedo has just won the Carnegie Medal for her ...
âElizabeth Acevedo is the first Latina and only writer of color to ever win the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
Dominican-American Elizabeth Acevedo has just won the Carnegie Medal for her debut novel, The Poet X, which tells the story of Xiomara, a quiet Dominican girl who joins her schoolâs slam poetry club. Elizabeth, daughter of immigrants and a slam poet herself, is the first Latina and first author of color to ever receive the honor.
The prestigious award recognizes outstanding childrenâs literature and its recipients include authors the likes of C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Neil Gaiman.Â
 According to judges, the novel is an âexploration of culture, family, and faith within a truly innovative verse structure,â and itâs main character, Xiomara, âcomes to life on every page and shows the reader how girls and women can learn to [âŠ] love their own skin,â reports The Guardian.
Elizabeth, a former 8th grade English teacher, dedicates the novel to all her former students, and to one student in particular, Katherine, who refused to read any of the books Elizabeth offered because ânone of these books are about us.â
Read the full piece here
Watch: Poet Elizabeth Acevedo nails the hypocrisy of anti-choice advocates.
In the final days of Roe v. Wade, my one consolation may be the fact that none of the people currently passing laws about the human uterus actually know how it works. Consider: According to one recent finding, â40 percent of Republican men voters say itâs âtrueâ or are not sure whether âmost women get their periods at the first of the month.ââ Consider: Hannah Smothersâs reporting for Cosmopolitan on the LEEP, a âroutineâ gynecological procedure to remove irregular cervical cells, which occasionally has the somewhat extreme side effect of making it impossible for the patient to orgasm. Research suggests LEEPs can damage or cut cervical nerves, numbing the entire area; doctors arenât taught how to avoid those nerves, and patients are not warned before undergoing the procedure.
Considerâas I do, every dayâthe Twitter account @men_writing_women, which routinely turns up psyche-scarring works of accidental body horror: Women who tuck purses into their vaginas, or whose vaginas donât exist until they have sex, or whose vaginas and neighboring regions are somehow so hypersensitive that they can feel a sperm penetrating one of their ova. Elderly women who are âstill beautifulâ at the advanced age of 36, or fat women who weigh âone hundred and fifty pounds.â Itâs not about bad writing: The books being quoted are often widely acclaimed. Itâs about the fact that it is completely acceptable for men to write scientifically impossible female characters, because theyâre not encouraged to learn how women experience their own bodies. Pulitzer Prizeâwinning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides thinks womenâs breasts shrink when they get sad. Another unfortunate young lady, as penned by canonical great John Updike, will never make the swim team; her âbuoyantâ butt floats to the surface of the water, like an inflatable swim raft.
In a world where you can get a Pulitzer for mood-ring boobs, how is it surprising that people donât know enough to be horrified by a six-week abortion ban? If you think every menstruating person on Earth gets their period at the same time as their rent is due, it follows that knowing youâre pregnant should be easy and instant; it would never occur to you that someoneâs abortion window might expire before she even realizes sheâs missed a period. In a culture where gynecologists arenât trained on cervical anatomy, itâs not shocking that cardiologists arenât trained to recognize heart disease symptoms in female and AFAB patients; in one study, 53 percent of women with heart attacks were turned away by their doctors, who told them their symptoms were ânot health-related.â A medical establishment that doesnât know how to care for AFAB bodies inevitably winds up abusing them. Until very recently, it was standard practice for medical students to perform non-consensual pelvic examsâin laymanâs terms, sticking their goddamn hands up peopleâs vaginasâon patients under anesthesia. When I say very recently, I mean very. States just started banning the practice this year.
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