i know this is just one post on tumblr but i am BEGGING people who can to be loud about strange world.
it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!
please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!
let the idiots at the top know we WANT better representation in movies!
finland doesnt get nearly enough shaming abt the whole ‘trans ppl need to be sterile in order to legally transition’ thing on an international scale tbh. especially after getting several notices abt it from the EU over the years.
it’s the same in the czech republic. you also have to “prove” your transness in a series of tests taken months apart so they know you didn’t bullshit through it the one time. there are also several hearings where you have to claim to be absolutely het and binary in front of a bunch of old cis men who then may or may not let you go on hormones. czech is an extremely binary language, too, so you can’t change your name if it’s a name on the other side of the binary spectrum. meaning if i, afab, wanted to change my name to one used by men, they wouldn’t let me unless i have the little M on my identity card. which they won’t let me have unless i’m sterile. i’ve had several trans friends who are on HRT but don’t want operations tell me of the most dehumanizing situations this has put them through. it’s painful, it’s absolutely maddening and inhumane, and the czech queer community is doing its best to get the conversation going but we do still need more ears and mouths to do the listening and talking. trans people everywhere need more ears and mouths to listen and talk in their favor. it is getting unbearable.
For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.
Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.
By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.
The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.
You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.
You know how sometimes you catch someone in a lie, and so they tell an even bigger lie to try and cover up the first lie they told?
Well, that’s happening right now.
Last winter, a handful of celebrity doctors went on mainstream news networks to assure us that Omicron was “mild.” They carpet-bombed us with articles and tweets, doing their best to brainwash everyone.
They were wrong.
In the end, real science junked that idea. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that Omicron killed more people than previous variants, even when adjusting for other factors. Another study by doctors at Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical found that Omicron was just as deadly. In fact, “the risks of hospitalization and mortality were nearly identical.” As it turns out, the entire idea of “mild” Omicron was based on an old, flawed idea known as the law of declining virulence, developed by a doctor who was studying tick-borne disease in cows. It was debunked decades ago.
Most epidemiologists know that viruses don’t magically evolve to become milder. Virus evolution is random and chaotic.
In some cases, viruses evolve to become more deadly.
A handful of actual scientists tried to explain all this last winter, including disease experts at Johns Hopkins. A handful of other established experts spoke out against this myth. As a microbiologist at Penn State told Politifact, “You can’t just say it’s going to become nicer.” They were largely ignored, because everyone already sort of believed the misinformation. If they knew it was based on a study about cows, they probably would’ve thought twice.
This year, the makers of “it’s mild” are back.
They’re selling “immunity debt.”
We should be skeptical.
Schools and daycares are sending letters home to parents talking about this “immunity debt.” They’re saying that healthy children are getting sicker, even dying, because they weren’t exposed to enough germs over the last two years. Newspapers and TV stations across the country are running with it, proposing it as a “possible reason” for this year’s explosion in pediatric hospitalizations. Meanwhile, major medical organizations have sent a letter to President Biden urging him to declare an emergency over an “alarming surge of pediatric hospitalizations” due to a range of respiratory viruses, including Covid.
A lot of people are drinking the “immunity debt” kool-aid.
After all, Americans have believed for generations that getting sick is “good for you.” We think our immune system behaves like a muscle. We worry that if we’re not giving it a workout, we’ll get weak.
It’s a myth, just like the law of declining virulence.
1. your immune system is not a muscle that needs exercise. getting sick more often wears down your immune system – this is why older people are more susceptible to illness, because their immune systems are worn out.
2. this “immunity debt” thing was made up by some rando in a 2021 article. it was speculation. there is no scientific evidence to back it up.
3. the microbes that live in your gut (friends! we love them!) are part of your immune system. best way to keep them healthy is to eat a varied diet and go outside sometimes.
4. if we were going to get this “immunity debt” then it would have happened last year, when schools reopened, mask mandates were dropped, and most kids got covid last winter
5. covid can wipe out your immune system, destroying the immunities you’ve built up to various diseases. it’s like measles that way.
6. the likeliest scientific explanation for what’s going on: all those kids (and a lot of adults) caught covid, it wiped out their immune system, and now they’re catching dozens of other illnesses that they no longer have immunity against.
I have been absolutely overwhelmed with the love on my Qui-Gon “don’t let the trolls dictate your cosplay” video! I’m so glad you all enjoy my beard. 😎
As much as I love the makeup transformation, I’m also incredibly proud that I built almost everything for this cosplay myself, so here’s a look at that process which spanned several months 😜
As always, happy to answer questions about how this became a reality!
Everything made (pants were thrifted/boots thrifted and modified) by me apart from the following—
Lightsaber: @darkwolfsabers
Pouches: kit from @printedpropz
Food capsules: file from TheJazzyWorkshop on Etsy / printed by @jobielee
As an ace person who doesn’t think pride should be a g-rated, corporation friendly event, current internet discourse is exhausting.
I remember being a closeted teen and my mother complaining about two women holding hands. She didn’t think it was appropriate in public, where anyone could see. And I was just standing there, wishing so badly I could be one of them.
She also frequently would explain (straight) sex jokes to me at that age if I missed them in movies or tv shows. The message was clear. It wasn’t a judgement on her part about sex. It was a judgement about being noncomforming. And damn that got into my head.
I never got to go to pride as a teen. I wish I had. I wish I had gotten to see people loudly and proudly, strategically not giving a fuck. And yes, I include pda, revealing outfits, kink, and whatever else in that. I wish I had gotten to see people purposefully expressing themselves regardless of the social unacceptability of that expression.
It took me forever to realize that social acceptance through becoming part of the norm isn’t the goal. It took me forever to get the damn respectability politics out of my head. I wish I had had more counterpoints to that when I was younger.
So no. I don’t wish I could have gotten to go to a defanged, sanitized pride as a teen. I wish I had gotten to go to a proper one.
The blue effect is also how Tide works, so if you can’t find the bluing products shown in the video, you can try using Tide. Regardless of what you use though it works because the blue helps color correct for yellowing that whites easily pick up. (Save Dawn for non clothes things though) (also if you have sensitive skin and use Tide, be sure to set for an extra rinse)
Vinegar is also really good for getting pet smells, including accidents, out.
Adding in a little borax powder to the drum is good for a detergent booster, especially if you have hard water issues.
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