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26.10.20 - the fifth consecutive day of protests against Poland’s court’s near-total ban on abortion.
they follow a ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Court that abortions, even in cases of foetal defects, are illegal.
it means that abortion is now only valid in cases of rape or incest.
the fight is about the right to choose.
Getting excited about Halloween:
As soon as I see a “sexy indian” costume:
I’m sorry but I strongly refuse to accept “married man finds the love of his life in another woman and leaves his wife and children behind (to get married to the new one)” as romantic - not even a little bit.
same but im not sorry
you know what is romantic, unmarried carefree man meets love of his life, single mother with several kids and he bonds with them and loves them and becomes a part of the family and is a total sweetheart
yes Im aware this is aristocats
some of you people NEED to be fucking reminded that loving minorities will always be more important than hating bigots
BLM goes before ACAB ALWAYS. loving black people is more important than “pissing off bigots.” loving jewish people is more important than “making nazis angry.” dont just fight against oppressors, start fighting for minorities. fighting against the oppressor is important, but start doing it for the right reason.
10.10.20. Washington DC
BLM protests continue, over 120 days now. DC protesters have been in the streets for months to defund the police. In response to calls to defund the police, the police have increased their brutality. How could reform work on those who abuse power to maintain it?
“Still protesting bc police reaction to protests against police brutality is police brutality”
it’s interesting how I haven’t seen news coverage about it in months. I wasn’t even aware they were still ongoing.
people drop everything as soon as it isn’t trendy.
It’s not that people are dropping it; it’s more like corporate media making a conscious choice not to cover the ongoing protests.
Kinda both. Some big media are very deliberately complicit in the erasure of movements for justice, but the ones that are not will still completely ignore protests the moment they’re not trendy because what isn’t trendy doesn’t sell and they’re all just in it to make a profit after all.
A twitter thread from Christy Harrison, MPH, RD:
High BMI is NOT a risk factor for hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, or mortality in COVID-19, according to this large new study of 10,000+ people with the virus (CW: weight-stigmatizing language, BMI numbers)
I hope we’ll see major media reporting on this study, as it’s one of few studies on this topic to fully adjust for confounding variables, and definitely one of the largest studies that I’ve seen to date on this topic.
Interestingly, it found that although Black patients were more likely to be hospitalized and to receive mechanical ventilation than white patients, they WEREN’T more likely to die.
This may have something to do with equalized healthcare access (this study was conducted in the VA healthcare system) or less-discriminatory care in that system (where the percentage of Black patients is much higher than many other healthcare systems).
Also, Hispanic ethnicity was not associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes in this study, which again may reflect the better access to quality care that patients of color receive in the VA system.
That access and quality may also be why larger-bodied patients fared just as well—and in some cases better—than smaller-bodied patients in this study (see Table 1).
In short, this study supports what I’ve been saying since March: we need to stop jumping to the conclusion that high BMI independently raises COVID-19 risks; when we have good studies that control for confounding variables, those supposed risks disappear. It’s not the weight.
Another notable point: As is often the case when you account for appropriate confounds like access to medical care and the negative health effects of poverty, underweight people actually have the highest risk of health complications from COVID compared to other weight groups.
[Spanish transcription: ICE continuará haciendo redadas durante la cuarentena. Aquí hay algunas cosas para recordar:
-No abra la puerta.
-Solicite una orden firmada por un juez, con el nombre y la direccion de quién quiera entrar en esa dirección.
-Ejerza su derecho a llamar a un consulado para obtener un abogado antes de cooperar.
-Permanezca en silencio, no responda a ninguna pregunta y no firme nada.
-ABOLID ICE.]
[English transcription: ICE will continue to do raids during quarantine. So here are some things to remember:
-Don’t open the door.
-Ask for a warrant signed by a judge, with name and address for who they want at that adress.
-Excercise your right to call a consulate to get a lawyer before cooperating.
-Remain silent, don’t answer any questions, and don’t sign anything.
-ABOLISH ICE.]
a post on here could be like “make sure you litter guys! the earth is actually adapting to digesting different kinds of materials if we stop littering we’re hurting it” and a good handful of you would reblog with “yiikes :0 didnt know this. followers make sure to throw your trash on the ground
There’s a reason lots of good parents say to babies stuff like
“You’re excited to go to the park!”
“Oh, it makes you mad that we can’t go outside.”
And then when the babies get a little bit older the parents can say
“You seem upset. Are you sad?”
“Are you excited that gramma is coming over today?”
Which lets the kid (who is learning to utilize speech) respond with yes or no, which may prompt more questions, like
“So you aren’t sad, are you angry?”
“Yes, does it make you happy when gramma is here?”
And then, finally, when the child is learning to use language in a more complex way, the parents can say,
“How does it make you feel?”
“Why are you feeling like that?”
And it’s all about teaching emotional awareness. I really reccomend using the process on yourself. Learn to ask, “am I happy?” “Am I sad?” “Am I anxious?”
Then practice identifying, out loud or on paper if you can, “I’m happy.” “I’m upset.” “I’m sad.” “I’m anxious.”
Final step: “Why am I feeling anxious? I’m still thinking about that awkward conversation earlier.” “Why am I happy? It’s such a beautiful day outside.” “Why am I sad? None of my friends are responding to my messages.”
It really helps you notice patterns (“I’m more likely to be happy when I’m around this person.” “When I haven’t eaten, I often feel angry.” “If I don’t plan ahead, I get anxious.”) which is the first step in avoiding things and people that are bad for you and encouraging things and people that are good.
Basically don’t forget that you’re just a baby who got more complicated.
Not sure how to articulate what you are feeling? Try starting at the middle and working your way out to the more specific feelings!
A lot of therapy I’ve been to has just been teaching me how to do exactly this
Whether or not an individual has ethical or sympathetic motivations for wanting an abortion really has no bearing on whether or not bodily autonomy is a right.
Like... y’all can (and do) drive yourselves mad fussing over situations in which someone might seek an abortion for reasons that are bigoted or offensive. You will accomplish nothing from this, because at the end of the day, “is bodily autonomy a right?” is a yes or no question. It either is or it is not. People either deserve access to abortion or they do not. We can’t pick and choose.
What we can do is try to eliminate stigmas, strengthen support systems, and reduce the societal and medical divisions that cause people to not want to carry to term.
@certifiedcoolkidno1 Okay, so. We both agree that aborting a foetus only because it would become a person with a survivable disability is an ableist motivation, and I think that we would both like to live in a world where such things did not happen. What I am saying is that the problem here is the ableism itself, not the pregnant person’s right to make decisions about their reproduction. The problem is rooted in societal ills that can be fixed by reducing stigmas and improving accessibility and support systems that allow people with disabilities high quality of life and equitable access to the same opportunities and resources as their abled counterparts. Remove the reasons why a disability would be stigmatized and you remove the motivation to abort.
What you are advocating is to remove and criminalize an individual’s right to reproductive autonomy; perhaps you support access to abortion if the person in question has sympathetic reasons for wanting one—perhaps they are a child, or a rape victim, or carrying to term will kill them. But if their motivation is impure and unsympathetic, you think they should be forced to give birth against their will—as punishment? Out of spite? Does their ethical failure mean they deserve to be made to have a child they do not want?
I share your concerns about eugenics, and I think many of the issues surrounding prenatal genetic science are deeply worrying and expose a lot of ugliness in how we view human worth (not that this ugliness was ever actually hidden...). But there are a thousand better ways to address these problems than by restricting bodily autonomy. By criminalizing abortion, you do not actually stop them from happening—you just ensure that only wealthier people will be able to access them safely under medical supervision, while others will turn to more dangerous methods and be unable to seek medical help if things go wrong without risking prosecution.
A white supremacist advocating ethnic cleansing, racial violence, and/or the forcible sterilization of people with characteristics they deem “undesirable” is someone who is promoting genocide against people that already exist. Violence against living humans can and should be criminalized. The forced sterilization of unwilling living humans can and should be criminalized. Those are coherent problems that can be coherently legislated against without jeopardizing bodily autonomy; we cannot coherently legislate between sympathetic and unsympathetic voluntary abortions without a human rights crisis. Just try to imagine what that would look like—what would the investigation process entail, when trying to determine a person’s secret reasons for wanting an abortion?
“Voluntary abortion is a one-way ticket to eugenics and should therefore be criminalized” is a snappy little piece of rhetoric designed to muddle your prirotities and make you question your convictions, but it in practice it’s no different than any other anti-choice rhetoric. A more relevant question—though still fraught with controversy—is how genetic conditions are identified and disabilities detected in utero; should we try to find an “autism gene”? A “gay gene”? Is there any actual good that can come from this flavor of genetic science, and is it worth the obvious potential for evil? Has the wisdom and compassion of our civilization matured at the same rate as our scientific capabilities? Those are the real questions, and ones which abortion rhetorics are paltry answer to.
(@certifiedcoolkidno1 is a minor and someone I bear no ill will towards—do not engage with this post unless you can do so civilly and constructively)
No one goes into a sexual encounter intending for it to ultimately lead to an abortion. There are plenty of reasons someone who wants to deliver a child might abort a specific pregnancy, including but not limited to medical necessity; my own mother experienced two ectopic pregnancies before she had me, and would have needed to abort if she had not miscarried naturally.
You’re promoting the idea that pregnancy and childbirth are punishments that people earn for having irresponsible sex—that they should be forced to carry to term because they deserve the unwanted consequences of a sexual encounter. Would you say the same of rape survivors? Of children? Or do you agree that people can become pregnant through no voluntary action of their own, and aren’t “asking for it”?
If pregnancy is a punishment, then undeserving people should be spared from it and allowed to abort. And if “irresponsible” sex is something that deserves to be punished, then surely “forced childbirth” is cruel and unusual, and does not fit the “crime”—just because a child is born is no guarantee that it will be cared for. Someone aborting a viable foetus is not someone who wants or is ready for a child, and “adoption by a competent and caring family that will not abuse it” is far from guaranteed. If someone does not want to bring a child into the world because they don’t feel like they can ensure it is adequately loved and protected and provided for the way it deserves, then why would they trust the wild gamble that is the foster care system?
If your opposition to abortion is “life begins at conception and foetuses have an inherent right to be born that is more important than the parent’s right to not be pregnant,” then there is no defensible case for permitting “blameless” abortions for rape survivors and children, and the idea of “irresponsible sex” is completely irrelevant.
Lastly... if “irresponsible sex” really is something that deserves undesirable punishment, would you support alternative penalties? Fines for premarital sex? Incarceration? Public stoning for married couples who don’t want to have children but got pregnant anyway? How much community service should someone be required to do if they didn’t realize their birth control would be negated by a Halloween smoothie made with activated charcoal?
Sarah Kendzior is a professional journalist and also a scholar of authoritarian regimes. She spent the entire time from Trump’s election to his inauguration basically screaming on cable news that things were about to get So Bad, So Fast and almost no one took her seriously. But she was right! She’s been right about pretty much everything, because it turns out expertise bestows strong predictive abilities!!
Spoopy Season Safety
Oh my god reblog to save a me thank you
via hautehijab on instagram
[Image I.D: Tips for protesting in a hijab.
The less fabric, the better. If you wear a rectangle hijab, tuck in the long ends. Squares are preferred as they’re smaller.
Do not wear pins. Use a magnet if you have one or wear jersey or another hijab that does not require pins.
Bring an extra hijab. Bring an extra hijab in case you get tear gassed- it can linger on the fabric and get reactivated, so it’s best to change. End I.D.]
AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania
as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.
An excellent demonstration of how it’s cowardly “journalism” to use the passive voice in headline writing. “Companies will raise the price of insulin too high for an estimated 40 million people by 2030” is the news. It’s not something that’s JUST GONNA HAPPEN.
