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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

odinsblog

This is their logic:

ur-favorite-fishgirl

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

corrupteddoodles

courage the cowardly dog is not cowardly because that poor dog will be facing the flayed corpse of god or some shit every episode. courage the reasonably horrified dog

nightvaleofficial

#wtnv

snow-nose

controversially i guess, i think people who are not "good" at reading and writing should still be able to do it if they want to. i really don't care if people can only shallowly understand a character or misinterpret them entirely, if they don't understand symbolism or metaphors or see no value in them, if they think what I think is "bad writing" quality-wise is really good, if they skip certain parts of a book, or in what order they read a book. likewise, i don't think people having bad grammar or dialogue or purple prose or less description or too much description or pacing issues or not understanding how what they're writing about works are bad or lazy people

and this is because i think anyone should be able to participate in the arts yes but specifically i think art made by people with intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, and cognitive disabilities has just as much value as art made by people who can know or do more than us, regardless of what we're able to know or do

and in an age of worsening fascism, i don't think "if you don't follow the abled, english-speaking standards of reading and writing you are morally lazy and irresponsible and shouldn't be participating in the highly esteemed and sacred arts" is a very good stance to have

the equation of high intelligence, cognitive ability, and academic and artistic proficiency with good morals

not really unrelated, but i have a fact for you. people used to say people had or came from "good breeding" or "good genes" as a compliment

sarakipin

Anything to walk on land 🔪 2021

happy aapi month to all my fellow gaysians, especially my trans siblings in asia and the asian diaspora! 🫶🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

knightfaetality

Since these videos are showing transmasculine bodies and I’m not sure to what degree it would be appropriate to secondary post elsewhere—all my E/SEAsian transmasculine folks interested in top surgery and medical transition content, I think the following videos are inspiring:

this video from @ang_nef which raises awareness on how some Sinocultural bodies may react towards testosterone, and the propensity (or lack thereof) for facial hair. The existing stigma that equates masculinity = facial hair, marginalises EA MoCs amongst other POCs and non-MoC peoples who do have facial hair. Unfortunately many internalise this lookism to measure their worth, while feeling poorly about their gender performance when measured against it.

this video from @viiixiucos which raises awareness on keloid scarring and procedures that some people require that might lead to a single scar across the chest rather than two scars on either sides. I also think it is especially insensitive for people to react to the creator in this way. Keloid scarring is common amongst African, Chinese, Latine and Irish peoples. And even where it is uncommon for some people to see this, to react in this manner is not only offensive but potentially harmful given how it isn’t just scarring that can often be a personal insecurity, but others’ reactions to it is one of the risks leading to hesitancy to have top surgery.

Love and courage to my Asian tmasc and men brothers, masculinity is yours. Anti-Asian-masculinity and Sinosexism will never take that from you!

Transmasculinity is not uniform, the expression and experiences of transmasculinity is unique to every individual. Our awareness on transmasculine physicality should center BIPOC bodies especially 💙

#transmasculinity #asian transmasc

cloudabserk

i’ve seen people complain about the word love in english being romantic, platonic, casual, passionate, familial, etc instead of having proper different words for all these things. but i think it’s kinda cool! you can love your boyfriend and family and friends and your favorite food and a fictional character and your job and a book you read last week and the universe. and you might love everything different but its still all love :)

a-fairy-in-a-flowercrown

'I asked chat gpt'

Ok well I asked the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home and she replaced your air conditioner with suspiciously compliant bees.

#wtnv

inketh

🌿 ‘Natural’ • trans day of visibility

inketh

ID: There are two parts to this digital piece: the first is an illustration of a blue figure resembling an anthropomorphic canine with its skeleton visible on the right half. The second is a poem taking up the left half of the canvas. The figure is posed looking off to the right with its body front-facing the viewer. Its legs and one of its arms go off the canvas halfway down the thighs and at the left elbow. The left leg is stepping forward, the right arm is by its side, and the left arm is reaching off the canvas. There is a single notch in its right ear, and mastectomy scars and body hair that are highlighted with bright blue. The figure's skeleton and uterus are visible with darker lineart, and there are geometrical etchings resembling tattoos on both the humerus bones and the left femur. The body and skeleton have a human form, while the head and skull have more of a canine form with pointed ears and a muzzle. The figure is intertwined with spiraling green vines of fern and bull kelp that cover its crotch between its legs and over the right eye, forming a halo around the head at the center of the primary spiral. The background resembles a blue wave over a solid green backdrop. The style mixes lineless forms (the main body and plants) with more outlined elements (the skeleton). It has a moderate amount of detail/realism and minimal lighting/shading. The poem is structured in six sections; the first four are larger, and the last two are smaller, with the final stanza creating a stair-step visual. It reads: I am the sting of the salted sea petrichor puddles of tears collecting in potholes. Blackberry thorn scratches scab into milky scars My blueberry bruises have blossomed into wildflowers. Unfurling fiddleheads against my fingertips, and honeysuckle between my teeth I am wrapped in kelp silk and swallowed by the waves and her whales, Sunlight through branches of mycelium veins Moss and algae grow on my bones in the shade of the sea. Chrorophyll Microbial Cellular breaths I feel you in everything end ID

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I’m becoming one with nature (climbed up a hill and fell in a blackberry bush and got stuck)