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I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

the day is gonna end anyway and your warm bed will be waiting so you might as well do the hard things and not let them ruin your day

kosmogrl

this is unironically how I push myself to do everything I dread

mysharona1987

asieybarbie

Jupiter from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls 🪐✨☄️ Wish this concept became an animated series, all the designs are too cute!

#art

kuken-i-buken

has anyone else noticed that pretty much everyone who is worth knowing seems to be doing really bad all of the time and is never allowed a moment's respite from all the pointless cruelties and horrors ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓

captain-price-returns

Lebanon's prime minister accused Israel of war crimes after IDF attacks on Red Cross vehicles also stopped rescuers from reaching the site.

Really horrifying what is happening to journalists covering Israeli crimes.

captain-price-returns

In a rare moment, the Lebanese state, emergency services, and media outlets came together to publicly state that Israel intentionally targeted the journalists.

captain-price-returns

Sequence of events follows that an Israeli drone first targeted one of the vehicles in the journalists' convoy, killing two. The Red Crescent was denied permission to move in by Israel, and an hour and a half later another Israeli drone blows up the journalists' car as they shelter under a tree. The journalists then move to a house, which a half hour later is bombed by IDF jets, killing them. Red Crescent then receives permission to go to the site from Israel.

kropotkindersurprise

and of course the IDF targeted the ambulances anyway

seravph

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

seravph

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

autoenucleate

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

specialagentartemis

Aro and ace activism is housing reform, is well-funded public housing, is an expansion of affordable housing, is allowing single people to get affordable and public housing, is rent controls to make it possible for single people to be able to afford to live alone on a single salary.

Aro and ace activism is healthcare reform, so that no one needs to rely on a spouse for health insurance, so that healthcare is available to everybody regardless of income, so that no one’s lived experiences or basic dignity are dismissed or overridden by doctors

Aro and ace activism is well-funded and expansive public transit, so that you don’t need to have someone on hand to drive you places if you are incapacitated, so that you don’t have to pay for an ambulance if you need to get to the hospital quickly

Aro and ace activism is disability and elder care services, so that no one needs a spouse to care for them, so that no one needs children to care for them, so that marriage is not a bind for disabled people, so that people on disability who want to and can live alone can

Aro and ace activism is community-building, it’s public events, it’s free social activities, it’s mutual aid, it’s activities that bring community members together without socializing relying on just a romantic partner

Aro and ace activism is developing a culture of believing when people tell you who they are and what they want rather than assuming you know them better than they know themselves

Aro and ace activism means a better world for people without “normative” desires or “normative” social support, which means a better world for everybody

kaijuno

In 1944, a tiny 15-month-old named Eileen Saxon was carried into Johns Hopkins Hospital. She weighed less than a healthy newborn. Her lips were blue. She couldn't cry without gasping for air.

Doctors called babies like her "blue babies" — born with a heart defect so severe that oxygen never properly reached their blood. Nearly all of them died young. Medicine had no answer.

But a woman watching from the side of that operating room had spent years searching for one.

Her name was Helen Brooke Taussig, and almost nothing in her life had come easily.

Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was 11. She battled severe dyslexia, teaching herself to read by sheer force of will. A childhood illness slowly stole her hearing until, as a young doctor, she went deaf. When she tried to study medicine at Harvard, they told her women could attend lectures — but would never be granted a degree.

So she went elsewhere. And she kept going.

At Johns Hopkins — one of the few schools that accepted women — she earned her MD in 1927. Barred from the internal medicine residency she dreamed of, she was sent to pediatrics. A "lesser" specialty, some whispered. It would become her superpower.

Running a children's heart clinic, Helen faced a cruel irony: cardiology depended on listening — and she couldn't hear. So she invented her own way. She placed her hands gently on each tiny chest and learned to feel the rhythms of hearts that beat too fast, too slow, too wrong. She read lips. She used early X-ray machines. And she noticed something no one else had: the blue babies all shared the same hidden flaw — not enough blood reaching the lungs.

She had an idea. What if a surgeon could build a new pathway — a shunt — to reroute the blood?

She brought her theory to surgeon Alfred Blalock and the brilliant surgical technician Vivien Thomas. After hundreds of experiments, they were ready.

On November 29, 1944, they operated on Eileen Saxon.

She lived.

The story shot across the world. Parents carried dying children to Baltimore from every continent. Within seven years, the team had given over 1,000 blue babies a second chance. Pediatric cardiology — a field that hadn't existed before Helen — was born.

She wasn't done. In the 1960s, she traveled to Germany to investigate a mysterious wave of babies born with missing limbs. She traced it to a drug called Thalidomide — and her testimony kept it out of the United States, sparing thousands of American families a tragedy.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her chest. A year later, she became the first woman president of the American Heart Association.

A deaf girl who wasn't supposed to become a doctor. A woman told she didn't belong. A scientist who listened with her hands.

And somewhere in the world today, a child is alive because of her.

kaijuno

crippled-peeper

“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

crippled-peeper

This one made the fascists and the racists really really mad. I get hate mail daily for this post

Imagine getting mad because someone else’s child’s chemotherapy doesn’t cost them 100,000$ .

ramavoite

Puppet History: History Contingency Tapes - “The Curious Life of Ole Worm”

daraoakwise

150 years ago, a boy was born to my great-great grandmother. And that was the last time that happened anywhere on my maternal line until my son was born in 2016. This is a story about intersex people.

For 150 years, the women of my family kept having daughters, who either also had daughters, or they were oddly unable to have children. Strange quirk, we assumed. No boys.

In the late 1970s, my mother’s sister had a daughter with Down Syndrome. Genetic testing was done, and it was discovered that although she looked female, she actually possessed the male XY chromosome combination. Her sister was born three years later. And because of that genetic concern, her genes were checked. And she possessed … the XY chromosomes. A third daughter, born a few years later, possessed the usual XX.

Keeping in the tradition, my mother had two daughters. Because of our cousins’ genetic conditions, my sister and I were both checked. Both of us appeared typically XX. And so for more than thirty years, it was dismissed as a quirk, and no one said the word intersex because that wasn’t a thing in 1980.

In 2014 I had a son, breaking the chain of girls. It was an interesting story! I then had two daughters, and didn’t bother to do any genetic checking.

And then in 2020 my sister became pregnant. Early genetic testing said boy, XY. Twenty week anatomy scan said girl. Definitely 100% girl. Uhhh?! As expected, she*** was born genetically male, possessing only male gonads in the form of undescended testes, but female external genitalia.

It was Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, a genetic mutation carried on the X chromosome. See, all bodies start female. Then, when the hormonal influence of the Y chromosome kicks in, instructions on the X are supposed to detect the testosterone and create male genitalia. Except a person with AIS is non-reactive to testosterone, and the body stays, at least superficially, female. Genetic check would say boy. Presence of testes says boy. Pants check says girl. Making the question of sex (sex. Gender is something else, ok?) distinctly complicated.

If someone has a mother who is a carrier of AIS, there are 4 possibilities. Unaffected XY, and so genetically and structurally male. Affected XY, and so intersex. Affected XX, and so a female carrier. Unaffected XX female and entirely unaffected.

My grandmother was a carrier. My aunt and mother are carriers. My sister is a carrier. When my niece was born, my single non-intersex cousin and I did genetic testing. And we are both carriers as well. My son is an unaffected XY male. My niece is affected XY intersex. Both my cousin and I also have 2 daughters each. And, because it is medically and psychologically relevant, we had them tested. All XX.****

And I was ready to check one more thing: are my daughters carriers? There is a 50/50 chance. And then I stopped, because they are preschoolers, and that is their reproductive decision. They know three intersex people. And if they care, someday they can check their genes and the odds that my grandchildren will be intersex. The intersex people they know will, I hope, be able to talk to them about the beauty of their lives as one of the wonderful variations of humanity.