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For fifteen years, I thought I was allergic to this.

My father thought drug tests work like allergy tests. He had restricted my diet from gluten already and thought that justified the negative result of my gluten allergy test. From the age of fifteen, until twenty-seven- I didn't know the truth.

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I love the beginning of cooking.

Before you know exactly what you're add, and well before you can taste anything.

Pure creative energy.

Today is the first time I've cooked, or done the dishes, in a long time. A week or two, maybe. That's a long time when you're used to cooking daily.

Depression is hard to tell your friends about. It's hard to tell myself about it.

Part of my internal dialogue is discontented but majorly, I just don't care to change. I can't compel myself to move like I used to.

I'm making fried rice.

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I know my life on paper looks sad, and a lot of parts are.

I believe that this story will be successful.

In many of the most important ways, it already is.

I am grateful to my experiences and am humbled by life everyday, still. My story is messy and it will be hard to write, but honestly probably harder to read. For myself, really. I love writing and know that once I express something in words, it's alive. It doesn't just fade over time and through years of practice repressing memories.

I digress.

I haven't done anything, all day. The last time I sat around and did nothing was very recently. It's a really easy thing to do for me these days. I don't remember ever being able to do that before. I'm prone to depression, but that was a long time ago. I realize now that five years may not be that long of an amount of time, actually. Given the years in my life that I'd gone without it, is what makes it feel very accomplished I guess.

I digress.

I could eat only vegetables and drink tons of water and fast and work out every day. I know I want to, but I can't get started.

My path is on hold. What should I do with this time? It's irresponsible to stand still and yet I can't move.

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This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science

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Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

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As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.

Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

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The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

"We should be grateful for what we have and restart"

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I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.

— Marc Jacobs

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There is power in kindness.

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“There are two types of people you will meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe unfold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book.”

— Unknown (via resqectable)

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“Archaeological artifacts suggest that in all the Neolithic and early Chalcolithic societies the Divine Ancestress … the Mother Goddess, was revered as the supreme deity.”

— Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

Tonight, count the stars and remember a trailblazer.

We’re saddened by the passing of celebrated #HiddenFigures mathematician Katherine Johnson. She passed away at 101 years old.

An America hero, Johnson’s legacy of excellence broke down racial and social barriers while helping get our space agency off the ground.

Once a “human computer”, she famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

And when we began to use electronic computers for calculations, astronaut John Glenn said that he’d trust the computers only after Johnson personally checked the math.

As a girl, Katherine Johnson counted everything. As a mathematician, her calculations proved critical to our early successes in space travel.

With slide rules and pencils, Katherine Johnson’s brilliant mind helped launch our nation into space. No longer a Hidden Figure, her bravery and commitment to excellence leaves an eternal legacy for us all.

“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” - Katherine Johnson 1918 -2020

May she rest in peace, and may her powerful legacy inspire generations to come! What does Katherine Johnson’s legacy mean to you? Share in the comments.

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