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[kiiimiko]

It’s that time again, folks! For the fifth time (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and now 2018) I’ve shaved and donated my hair for cancer patients. Please read on to learn how you can do the same...

(copied from my original/first post) It all started in 2010 when I first shaved my head (well, a hair dresser shaved me) and donated my hate my hair to the charity Pantene Beautiful Lengths in memory of my friend Kali who died of bone cancer. Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a program that makes wigs for cancer patients going through chemotherapy. For those who don’t know, chemotherapy is a form of treatment for various cancers that involves using powerful chemicals to destroy the bad cells in a person’s body. Although chemotherapy is very successful in helping the patient, it also makes their head and body hair (e.g., eyelashes, eyebrows, leg and arm hair) fall out. It’s a very humiliating process and some people opt out of treatment solely because they know strangers will stare and mock them! I want to help those people change their minds by helping make wigs using my donated hair. Although there are many hair donation companies I’m sure you’ve heard of the popular charity Locks of Love. PLEASE DO NOT USE LOCKS OF LOVE! I had planned on doing so until I found out they aren’t a reliable company. Among the many negative professional reviews by both the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and Forbes, LoL is criticized for making patients buy their wigs at a very high price. Basically, buying from LoL would be no different than buying a wig for a Halloween costume! Instead, I decided to use Pantene Beautiful Lengths. Pantene’s charity is very reliable and approved by The American Cancer Society. And most importantly, Pantene does not make patients pay for their wig! Please consider donating your hair! It’s simple and easy to do with their basic rules of at least eight/8 inches of unbleached hair of any style and form. (Check their page for the full list of requirements.) I promise your hair will grow back faster than you think and it will really benefit those in need. Even if you don’t donate, please spread the word to others. You never know who you might inspire!

[ilovepandacam]

A Tribute to Bao Bao by the National Zoo

[ilovepandacam]

Screenshots from February 16th’s painting session with Bao Bao. (Despite multiple attempts yesterday, Tumblr won’t let me upload the whole video. If you’d like to watch, please click here to view the National Zoo’s Facebook Live video)

[ilovepandacam]

It’s official! You can now follow I❤PC on both Tumblr and Instagram. While I haven’t quite decided how the pages will differ (feel free to offer suggestions!) I have already posted a few photos I took over the summer while visiting the National Zoo. Please check them out at instagram.com/ilovepandacam

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[sailor-moon-rei]

by  BELCORNO

[ilovepandacam]

(from the National Zoo’s facebook page) Bao Bao also got her own cake yesterday as part of the National Zoo’s panda birthday celebration. It was similar to Bei Bei’s cake but had more slices of sweet potato and was topped with a giant number 3.

[ilovepandacam]

Bei Bei finally woke up to have his cake (made of apple and beet juice, pears, and yams) leftovers

[ilovepandacam]

IT’S BEI BEI’S BIRTHDAY! The National Zoo celebrated his big day with a Zhuazhou - a traditional Chinese celebration for a baby’s first birthday. During the ceremony the parents place an assortment of articles in front of their child, and the child is to choose from the articles. What the child has chosen is said to determine his or her future inclination and capabilities. Bei Bei needed a little help from mom Mei Xiang with his Zhuazhou, choosing the honey-coated poster with the Chinese knot meaning Luck and Friendship. You can see the whole celebration on the National Zoo’s facebook page here.

[kiiimiko]

Secret from PostSecret.com

[papermagazine]

’NSYNC REUNITED LAST NIGHT FOR JC CHASEZ’S 40th BIRTHDAY 

[ilovepandacam]

(from the National Zoo’s facebook page) Lately, Bei Bei has been playing in the pools in his exhibit and in the hose when keepers are cleaning. And it’s adorable.

[ilovepandacam]

Tai Shan (aka Butterstick) turns 11 today!

[kiiimiko]

It’s that time again, folks! For the fourth time (2010, 2012, 2014 and now 2016) I’ve shaved and donated my hair for cancer patients. Please read on to learn how you can do the same...

(copied from my original/first post) It all started in 2010 when I first shaved my head (well, a hair dresser shaved me) and donated my hate my hair to the charity Pantene Beautiful Lengths in memory of my friend Kali who died of bone cancer. Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a program that makes wigs for cancer patients going through chemotherapy. For those who don’t know, chemotherapy is a form of treatment for various cancers that involves using powerful chemicals to destroy the bad cells in a person’s body. Although chemotherapy is very successful in helping the patient, it also makes their head and body hair (e.g., eyelashes, eyebrows, leg and arm hair) fall out. It’s a very humiliating process and some people opt out of treatment solely because they know strangers will stare and mock them! I want to help those people change their minds by helping make wigs using my donated hair. Although there are many hair donation companies I’m sure you’ve heard of the popular charity Locks of Love. PLEASE DO NOT USE LOCKS OF LOVE! I had planned on doing so until I found out they aren’t a reliable company. Among the many negative professional reviews by both the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and Forbes, LoL is criticized for making patients buy their wigs at a very high price. Basically, buying from LoL would be no different than buying a wig for a Halloween costume! Instead, I decided to use Pantene Beautiful Lengths. Pantene’s charity is very reliable and approved by The American Cancer Society. And most importantly, Pantene does not make patients pay for their wig! Please consider donating your hair! It’s simple and easy to do with their basic rules of at least eight/8 inches of unbleached hair of any style and form. (Check their page for the full list of requirements.) I promise your hair will grow back faster than you think and it will really benefit those in need. Even if you don’t donate, please spread the word to others. You never know who you might inspire!

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I was inspired by several articles about the Tampon Tax recently and some of the protests against the categorization of tampons as “luxury items,” so I made this up. It’s funny because it’s true.

[profeminist]

Tampons are a “luxury item”

[gehayi]

Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.

I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.

He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.

“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”

His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”

I thought,  You have got to be kidding.

Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.

And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.

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Sailor Moon Crystal - Episode 32