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Diversity in Spider-Man: Homecoming
I’ve lived near SO MANY high schools in queens (they’re seemingly everywhere) and YUUUUUP
Whenever I hear people complaining about diversity in Marvel comics and films I keep wanting to shout at them “90% of their characters live in New York! Have you been to New York? They could make six out of the seven members of the Avengers POC and it still wouldn’t be an accurate representation of the city!”
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ATTENTION TRANS PEOPLE
if you are looking for a name change but cant afford the basically $400 like most people then go to your local court house and ask for an “indigent form” that form you will state that you cant afford to change your name. so then it will be free if very little.
feel free to add to this if other states have any more information
Landon told me to do this so when I went to the county clerks office I asked for a fee waiver, I had to go to the law library to get the right paperwork then filled out my income and my monthly expenses and they waived my $290 court fee. I still had to pay for the notary and fingerprints and whatnot before all that but it ended up being around $50 total rather than $300+ definitely look into it if you need some financial help with this process!
Additionally this link had all the info for name changes in TX that I needed: http://www.transequality.org/documents/state/texas
(I think you can go on that site and select other states as well so it should be helpful!)
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These puppies (all ages of dog by my reckoning) are so good. Precious babies. I want to love on them all and them scritches and hugs.
do you ever just sit around and think I’m in my twenties.
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.
This explains a lot. And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce. Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that. Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid. Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given. It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.
America also spends the most on administrative costs, which spikes up the bill
https://www.singlecare.com/blog/30-medical-bills-go-administrative-costs/
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/11/news/economy/healthcare-administrative-costs-us-obamacare/index.html
People also don’t seem to realize that insurance companies artificially inflate the cost of healthcare and then offer “discounts” to get health care providers to accept or suggest their insurance brand.
Healthcare should not be a for-profit industry, but instead a universal right, and insurance companies are predatory con artists making billions of dollars off of human suffering and death.
This is not hyperbole.
She had the green light. He ran the red.
Everyone knows this, but media still tries to shift the blame to a black woman
SMDH.
Some reporters you respect and others not…
At a recent dance party, people took to the streets in New York City to celebrate. But why aren't more local, state or national groups promoting the truth?
On a Sunday afternoon in late April, there was a small but buoyant dance party at the fairly new outdoor AIDS memorial in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which had once been ground zero of the AIDS epidemic.
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The reason for the party? It was to celebrate and promote the fact that we now know with certainty that people with HIV whose meds make the virus undetectable in their blood (as confirmed by lab tests) cannot transmit the virus to sexual partners. In New York City, a host of organizations – including the health department and Housing Works – have been part of an effort in recent years to end New York State’s AIDS epidemic by 2020. Now, they’re rallying behind the Undetectable = Untransmittable or U=U message, which is the national rallying cry of the Prevention Access Campaign.
In recent months, a stunning array of prominent international agencies and individuals have signed onto a U=U consensus statement saying that, based on modern science, undetectable people cannot transmit HIV. They include AIDS United, GMHC, the Human Rights Campaign, the International AIDS Society, the UK’s National AIDS Trust and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), to name just a few.
“U=U is such incredible news that we’ve been saying we should be dancing in the streets about it,” says Bruce Richman, who started Prevention Access Campaign. Richman says he’s been eager to get the U=U word out since he learned in 2012 that because he was undetectable he was not infectious. (He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003.)
Even since then, scientific evidence for U=U has continued to mount in a series of very large studies, such as one released early last year finding that among nearly 900 serodiscordant (one HIV+, one HIV-) gay and straight couples followed over 16 months, there was no evidence of HIV infection despite their having condomless sex.
This has massive health, prevention and legal implications. It means that HIV-positive folks and their HIV-negative sexual partners can all but stop freaking out about the possibility of transmission. It also renders even more outdated various state laws from the 1980s and 1990s that criminalize HIV-positive people for endangering sexual partners when they don’t disclose their HIV status. Finally, it should serve to reduce the stigma suffered by HIV-positive people, who are often made to feel as if they are second-class citizens for carrying an infectious virus.
But despite all that – and despite the fact that U=U has essentially attained global scientific and advocacy consensus – national, state and local entities still do little to broadcast this fact to the general American public. A brief review of the main HIV webpages for health departments nationwide serving those states and cities hardest hit by HIV found that not one stated in clear language that people with undetectable HIV were incapable of transmitting the virus.
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“None of the websites are saying this, none of the marketing campaigns,” says Richman. “I’ve found that people who know this information tend to be privileged, have private insurance, are often white. That is so unjust that information that concerns our social, sexual and reproductive health and lives is being withheld.”
Richman can become very passionate when talking about how little the HIV health establishment has done thus far to make U=U general knowledge. “When I realized that the power structure thought people with HIV were irresponsible and couldn’t understand this info, I was furious,” he says. “This information changed my life, lifted my feelings of shame and being toxic. That was so freeing.”
“Everyone,” he adds, “should clearly have that information.”
Lack of paediatric doctors and nurses across the UK also means care children receive is at risk, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
This is not a surprise to anybody who’s worked in paeds, and I fear it will only get worse following the government’s less than supportive treatment of dotors and nurses.
Thank you Trevor
oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin lives of our younger generation AGAIN.
How can anyone deny that Pharah isn’t straight when she’s got the Canon Bisexual Haircut
Can the LGBT community back the hell off just a bit please? Like, you already ruined the rainbow for everyone else, now you also want to claim ownership over bob haircuts???
reblog if you’re LGBT and you ruined the rainbow for straight people
"This Generation is too Sensitive"
Things baby-boomers find and/or found offensive.
1) Someone sitting down during a song
2) Interracial couples
3) People asking police not to execute innocent unarmed people
4) Same-sex couples
5) A black president
6) Black people sitting at the front of the bus
7) People saying “Hey if you could say ‘he’ instead of ‘she’ that’d be super"
8) Black people sitting in the same diner as them
9) People not speaking the same language as them at all times
10) Women’s breasts
11) People having a different religion than them
12) Women working
13) People saying “Happy Holidays”
14) Not being allowed to beat and/or rape their wives
15) Corporations not pandering to their religion
16) Black people attending the same school as them
17) Governments not pandering to their religion
18) Indigenous people having rights
19) People calling racists “racists”
20) People having AIDS
21) People calling homophobes “homophobes”
22) Single mothers
23) Schools teaching science instead of their religion’s dogma
24) Atheists
25) Being told they can’t hit their children
26) The mentally ill not being locked up and tortured
But suuuuuuure this generation is the easily offended one.
Younger generations are offended when groups of people who are different than the ruling class are treated badly.
Older generations are offended when groups of people who are different than them exist.
This has been the only good addition to this, my most famous post.
July 2nd.
182nd day of the year.
It’s 12pm.
Congratulations you’ve officially wasted half a year.
I finally understand what Blink-182 means.
