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[freyaxfratley]

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[palaeoiris]

Today is Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, which was first celebrated in 2005 on the initiative of Intersex International. The date coincides with the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a 19th century French intersex figure whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault. Today is a day to draw attention to the struggle for intersex rights, whose issues are often overlooked, even within the LGBTIQ+ community.

The violent nature of the socially constructed sex and gender binary is perhaps most clearly exposed in the existence of intersex people. The struggles for both intersex and transgender liberation are deeply interconnected and intertwined. True liberation for queer people isn’t possible without the liberation of intersex people from the forced gender and sex binaries of our society.

Learn more here >>>> intersexday.org

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[360degreesasthecrowflies]

More on today’s (UK) higher education system

It's always got my goat a little that most of the highest-earning students post-graduation, the few who will actually for sure be able to pay their student education and maintenance loan off, will come from STEM, while at the same time the cost of the STEM students' degrees in the first place is subsidised by all the other students' degree prices being artificially raised beyond what they actually cost to run, in the interest of some idea of fairness or treating everyone equally although they are in different situations.

It does not cost £9k a year to have several contact hours with a professor a week and access to a reference library. Yet, that's what students on courses that are set up that way are forced to pay, while for the same price STEM students are getting 35+ contact hours a week, the use of expensive and specific machinery, buildings, and technical rooms, class trips, demonstrations using expensive resources, and so on.

And all the while the STEM students grumble at and look down on students of other subjects for having the temerity to exist and have skills in different fields, all - or at least many - of which are crucial in different ways to completing different tasks within business, industry, and our society. It really feels like someone up several steps on the ladder is playing us at a divide and conquer game here so we don’t notice who’s really being taken for a ride. Spoiler - it’s not just a single group of us.

[freyaxfratley]

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[freyaxfratley]

Rise Plushie Pride Icons 3/3

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[palaeoiris]

Yesterday we debuted these two designs as first physical stickers available from our ongoing Palaeo Artivism collection. You can get them as stickers from our Etsy and Teepublic stores. But if you're priced out of buying these as stickers, we also put high-res files on our website as resources available FREE FOR PERSONAL and ACTIVIST USE.

Feel free to print them out on home, school or office printers, and put them up everywhere you can! We would love to see them in physical space more, so if you do and send us a photo that would make us so happy! And we can post it for you if you wish to stay anonymous.

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