disney channel did not debut its first sapphic couple between two main characters in a children’s cartoon.
dana terrace did.
cartoon network did not give us the first wlw wedding in a children’s animated tv show.
rebecca sugar did.
cartoon network didn’t make bubbline canon.
pendleton ward did.
nickelodeon isn’t responsible for korrasami, it’s first ever wlw couple.
bryan konietzko and michael dante dimartino are.
do not let these corporations take credit for something that LGBTQ+ creators fought and took risks to get where they got. especially when said corporations made these people fight tooth and nail and take the risk of their shows being canceled altogether.
dana terrace, rebecca sugar, pendleton ward, bryan konietzko, michael dante dimartino, and every other creator that fought for then representation we deserve. thank you. your efforts are not unappreciated.
She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.
Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.
Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.
Classy.
Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.
She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.
Russia is trying to ban legal transition for trans people
Elena Mizulina put forward a bill, that basically bans legal transition. It includes:
Adding the “sex” graph to the birth certificate. That graph cannot be changed in any way, and you also can’t get a new passport because of that.
banning (again) same-sex marriage, but now it is made based on the birth certificate so trans people cannot marry their loved ones.
banning the right to adopt children for the trans people
and WORSE, ALL THE CHANGES MADE IN THE PAST WILL BE DECLINED. People will get their old birth certificates back. the existing marriages will be no longer legal. And I don’t even want to think what will happen to the already adopted children of transgender parents
People are scared as fuck. I see lots of panic in russian social media and also on Twitter. They made a hashtag #ProtectRussianTransLives, so you can check it out for more info. And yeah, people started protesting.
The protest hasn’t even started properly. The police detained all of them, called them slurs, misgendered them, asked about genitals. Those pigs arrested two women - Mila Zemtsova and Polina Symonenko
Mila is a journalist who came there with a license. The police immediately arrested her for the organization (!) of the protest which is absolute nonsense. They kept her in the police department for more than 48 hours and took away her phone. She got a fine for nothing.
(translation: I want to not be afraid to show my passport)
Polina’s case is worse. She was arrested for repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public action (hope I wrote it right). Polina was also kept in the department for 48+ hours (it is illegal), misgendered and deadnamed. She was beaten in the court for taking a legal break. They gave her 14 days in a men’s prison.
This is hell. Please spread this post. People must know about this.
If you are from Russia, you can write a letter to the government. Here’s the link for the instruction:
Петицию против законопроектов, нарушающих права трансгендерных, гомосексуальных и интерсекс людей за сутки подписали почти 20 тыс. человек…
Sign the petition:
Отклоните законопроект о запрете трансгендерным людям на брак и усыновление детей!
Every good series deserves to have an episode with the “we all have to dress up formal to go to (and/or infiltrate) a fancy event or party, but shit hits the fan and oh no, we have to fight monsters/aliens/the undead/assassins/etc., while dressed in black tie and with only whatever weapons we could manage to sneak in on our persons, also look extremely hot while doing it” trope
