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Did a project on Homo naledi– love these funky little hominins! I loved getting to draw some of my favorite relatives of ours and really getting to practice getting bones right.

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Drew Yuu (Bloom into you) 😙

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canon rangshi dynamic be like

Bunny hat

Cait in a suit :)

My boy... baby baby boy....

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Some rabbit and hare studies I made for class <3

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atla hyperfixation come back... get me out of here i miss my cats 😭😭😭

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It was Indigenous People's Day so I made some intersex + Indigenous flags

Since I've been on a roll in making intersex flags. First: flags for the three major types of Indigenous groups whose lands were stolen to create the country I live in (Canada):

Left: intersex and First Nations (American Indian Movement) Middle: intersex and Inuit Right: intersex and Métis

Then I made some intersex flags for some specific First Nations whose cultures I have at least basic familiarity with: Left: Haida ................... Middle: Huu-ay-aht ......... Right: Musqueam

Left: Blackfoot ........... Middle: Anishinaabe ...... Right: Haudenosaunee

Note: The last three are confederacies of multiple nations. Order is based on geography, going west to east.

Personal Note: I am a settler and am not a member of any of these nations. I've moved many times in my life, and these nations are the rightful stewards of the lands that I personally feel I have the most connection to. 💜

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

kanincotton

bruh just say coloniser tf is this settler shit lmao 😭😭😭

-sincerely a native person LOL

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Good morning this just a fun reminder that "brain gender" is pseudoscience brain phrenology and that natural sciences (medicine) don't have any more of an understanding of sex and gender than social sciences (sociology) do.

The distinction between "hard" science and "soft" science is stupid and you should re-evaluate the ways in which you prioritize one over the other and why, especially if you consider yourself an activist! Examine your biases!!

ftmtftm

Like straight up part of why hard science is considered "hard" and soft science is considered "soft" is because social sciences, much like art, are seen as more frivolous "women's work"* that concern themselves with things less "real" whereas natural sciences are seen as real, tangible, and are a field with serious issues with boys clubs and misogyny!

*Until a man comes along and then it's worth something

And also!!! Take a wild guess when social sciences began to be seen as frivolous and as "women's work"!!!

(It's when women started publishing feminist literature describing their own oppression. It's the same phenomenon that views women as elementary school teachers and men as professors, women as artistic hobbyists and men as professional artists, etc. etc. Science done by men is hard and real and science done by women is soft and fake.)

kanincotton

the reason hard science is considered hard is because it deals with objectively measurable data. i dont love the whole concept of "hard vs soft" science tbf because its very black and white, there plenty of fields that dont fit neatly into a hard or soft science (obvious example being psychology), but that dosent change the fact that theres still a difference in these things, theyre just not as either-or as theyre often presented.

it also doesn't make one better than the other either, they're just useful for different things, and can often be complimentary to each other is seeking to achieve a social, technological, medical, etc goal.

hard sciences are quantifiable, repeatable, and falsifiable. soft sciences are not. that is the difference.

there is absolutely truth to the sexist aspect of the way we VALUE hard vs soft sciences sure, but thats not what actually makes them what they are.

chemistry is a hard science because we can observe the properties of an element and how it interacts with its environment, study its components on a subatomic level, and then have hundreds of other chemists repeat those steps and see if it maintains those structural and behavioral properties under those conditions. we can measure that in objective data, repeat it, explain it, and make accurate predictions based on it. water is 2 hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom no matter who you ask or whos preforming the test. it exists that way regardless of cultural context, the history of the field or those who work in it, and regardless of what language is used to describe it.

those things are not true of soft sciences like sociology. you can not repeat, quantify, or falsify social attitudes, history, cultural change and development, etc in those ways.

that does not make them less useful or important, but it does make them reasonably less easy to point to as an objective fact. again, they are useful for different things or often in combination with each other to get the largest possible context for the thing we are trying to understand, describe, or solve.

but the line is not just based on the value we assign them, even if that is an issue of its own.

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