Im not as hard as I wish I was

I am 29 years old and utterly confused as to the theme of this blog. I blog pretty things, brag and complain about being a spouse and parent, talk about dd/lg related stuff, talk about experiencing racism sexism and classism, and swing wildly between gender identities and presentations. I also complain about missing the 90s and how kids these days are doing punk wrong. Also a regretful adult braces wearer. Oh, and Im an Australian migrant from the states by way of african abduction. its complicated....enjoy

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When Princesses Go to the Gyno

Belle gets a prescription for birth control.

Cinderella gets tested for STDs.

Mulan gets a Pap test.

Tiana gets the HPV vaccine.

This collaboration between Danielle Sepulveres and Maritza Lugo is too amazing for words. Check out their work via Seventeen Magazine.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

This is how racism, xenophobia and white supremacy is normalized.

This is not ok, CBC.

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Learn to defend against a bigot grabbing your hijab from behind!

In this post-election hate-crime spike, self defense is more important than ever. Practice this move until it becomes muscle memory and teach your body to react before thinking.

(via Zee Abdulla)

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for reading learners:

when the attacker grabs you from behind, reach your dominant arm behind you

link it around the attacker’s arm ABOVE the elbow

close your elbow around the attacker’s arm to lock it in place

use your free hand to grab your dominant hand to secure the hold in place

use the free hand to pull your dominant hand up and towards the front of you in a swinging motion to release the attacker’s hold on your hijab

i hope that was helpful!! stay safe loves <3

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IMG_0321 by Colette Denali on Flickr.

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“ハッピーハロウイン” - Halloween Sylvanian Families!!

[webbedfingers]

Today we made a friend ^^

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Happy Halloween by Ryuichi IKEDA

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~🎀☁️Little Kitty🐱💕~

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Shhh… just a few more minutes. -Jade

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Could you please do the Houses as Bob's Burgers gifs?? :)

Gryffindor:

Hufflepuff:

Ravenclaw:

Slytherin:

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Shiiiiiiiit

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U.S. Military Tested Chemical Weapons on WWII Soldiers by Race

According to NPR, 60,000 American soldiers of color were enrolled in a secret chemical weapons testing program. These soldiers were exposed to Lewisite and Mustard gas. Exposured to these chemical agents causes lung irritation and blisters. These soldiers of color were locked into gas chambers and exposed to the agents. The government used white soldiers as the control group.

“They said we were being tested to see what effect these gases would have on Black skins. You had no choice. You did not know where you were going. They didn’t tell you anything.”

Rollins Edwards, 93, of Summerville, S.C. 

Edwards says his skin still falls off in flakes as a result of the testing.

“If you could imagine a million fire ants on you and stinging at the same. I put my gas mask on right away, that was the only thing that saved my face.”

It wasn’t the only test. For the next 30 days, Edwards was made to sit, lie and crawl unprotected across open fields while gaseous clouds floated down on him and the other men with little to no medical attention. When the trial ended, Edwards was told never to speak of what had happened to him or he’d face 40 years in prison.

This revelation that the Army tested chemical weapons on soldiers of color is both troubling and an outrage, but the concept of Black people being used in medical and other experiments is by no means a new phenomenon. There are numerous examples of Black people being used as guinea pigs in unethical medical experiments. Perhaps the most well-known example is the Tuskegee experiment.

…and theyre mad about a flag, national anthem and #Kaepernick

These are the things we just are supposed to forget. Why is my history polluted with destruction being specifically aimed at my ancestors, no wonder the congress does not want to entertain the idea of “reparations”… too much information will come out that they don’t want to admit!! 

And it makes me wonder where the skin condition eczema comes from and can it be passed down… as A result of them testing on our people! Smh #Hate it!

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Leaf in amber

Fossilised tree sap often entombs small objects that need a hand lens or microscope for proper examination, but larger ones, whether insects or plant material are much rarer. In either case though, the preservation is often of exceptional quality as attested by this Cretaceous leaf some 105 million years old, discovered in the oldest commercially exploited deposit in Burma which looks like it might have fallen off an autumn tree and entombed in sap yesterday.

Loz

Image credit: Federico Barloche

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important work

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