[royalhandmaidens]

good morning to everyone, especially the three muslims taking the fbi to court for illegal and discriminatory spying on our communities 🥰

[royalhandmaidens]

anyway, CAIR is taking the case, and for any muslim who may be unaware - they take cases pro bono - completely free

CAIR is a resource every american muslim should know about: they’re a group of muslim lawyers who provide free legal services for everything from consultations, education on your rights, and registering to vote, to taking your case on for free if you’ve become a victim of a hate crime, discrimination, or islamophobia

[brinty]

[dailywoc]

JUNG HO YEON & ZENDAYA — CFDA Fashion Awards

[football]

MIDNIGHT MASS 1.07  FLEABAG 2.06

[luulapants]

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

[cuntess-carmilla]

I can’t wait ‘til we have conversations about the inherent power that doctors wield and largely utilize to oppress and marginalize anyone other than rich + fully abled + cishet + dyadic + fit + white men, and how much they benefit socially, economically and personally from maintining or outright inflicting the suffering of the chronically ill and disabled in particular.

They’re the literal gatekeepers of human well-being and our bodies’ survival, and they abuse that power constantly, often in collaboration with the state and the ruling class as a whole.

[cuntess-carmilla]

IN THEORY doctors should be a chronically ill person’s best ally, but in practice they’re typically our worst fucking nightmare. I think that says a lot.

[greededling]

yall ever Listen to Music?

[qalamoun]

‘Children of Shatila’ (Lebanon, 1998) film by Mai Masri. In this scene the youth of the Palestinian refugee camp interview an elder with a video camera.

[goobra]

this is not an onion headline

[goobra]

a trans woman was suspended from her job at netflix because she tweeted about dave chappelle's transmisogyny and he's a multimillionaire whining about being "cancelled" you cannot make this shit up

[iwatchforher]

bonus:

[vaspider]

After I had a doctor ruin my health, cost me years of my life, and nearly kill me by missing the diagnosis of a tumor which was compressing my spinal cord, I learned this script:

“I’m not here to talk about my weight; I’m here to talk about [problem]. I have a history of doctors focusing on my weight and ignoring problems like ‘a tumor in my spine,’ so I’m sure you’ll understand why I would prefer we did not ignore my stated complaint to focus on my weight instead.”

“I would like to focus on the complaint that brought me in today, which is [complaint], not my weight.”

“What tests or course of treatment would you recommend to a thin person presenting with my symptoms? Why are we not doing that? I would prefer to proceed with those tests and that course of treatment.”

“Please write in my chart that I asked you for these tests and course of treatment that you would give a thin patient with my symptoms, and you declined.”

“I’d like to request a copy of my visit notes from today,” [if the above don’t work and you don’t have MyChart, “what’s the correct email for my written request?”

It may be difficult to insist on a patient advocate to be in the room with you, but in many states you are legally entitled to one. I bring one of my partners bc I have medical-triggered PTSD. They know how to advocate for me or support me if a doctor tries to steamroll me..

If you are in a hospital situation and cannot get an official advocate in the room with you, ask for a chaplain. Chaplains are used to being in a room to comfort and help patients and in many circumstances, just having a witness in the room will change a doctor’s tune REALLY fast.

Medical fatphobia is a big problem, and it really heavily affects but is not restricted to people that doctors perceive to be women (whether or not those people are women). Don’t let yourself be bullied!

[utopians]

literally skateboarders on college campuses don't fear death or god. no brakes no handles just a blank faced college student hurtling past you faster than a semi truck on the interstate weaving through crowds iced latte in one hand speeding into traffic and dodging cars like a fast and the furious movie. they approach a 200 foot drop and you're begging screaming for them to stop but they just go right over the edge and ride down the entire cliff face at a 90 degree angle and skate off like it's nothing and not a drop of the iced latte has spilled

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

casual reminder the MCU is the work of the devil

How the Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan

[madeline-kahn]

Sex Education S3E1 1917 (2019) dir. Sam Mendes 

[chiromantka]

i love horror so much i love when it’s so garbage that you can’t help but laugh at it and i love when it’s the pretentious film major type of horror where nothing happens for two hours and i love when it’s so mediocre you can’t form an opinion on it and i love when it absolutely doesn’t make sense

[maykitz]

interesting how kindergarten kids naturally respect and adore blue collar workers to the point where toy garbage trucks, construction vehicles and the like are a common sight in childrens bedrooms, but only a couple years older they've already had that very thoroughly taught out of them. replaced by a worldview of arrogance towards the lowly, unaccomplished and uneducated who serve as living cautionary tales of what happens if youre too lazy or too stupid to study hard. some very unbiased educating at play to foster the next year of adults who see nothing wrong with the people performing the most vital tasks in a society being the ones who scrape by on starvation wages and backbreaking work hours

[thesociologicalcinema]

Frequently I encounter non Native folks who tell me they think reservations are some form of reparatoins to Natives from the US government. I even had someone close to me tell me they thought reservations were places to “reserve” our cultures.

Where I’m from (South Dakota) reservations were concentration camps where they sent us to die after they stole and colonized all of the land every US citizen occupies. In the early SD Rez days our ppl had to get permission from district agents (white settler men) to get food, fix our homes, or even leave our community to travel to another community on our Rez to visit relatives. We couldn’t hunt cuz they killed millions of our buffalo. If we didn’t get permission from the white settler agent we couldn’t eat, fix our homes or visit relatives because we would be violating US law & could be arrested. Also our cultures & ceremonies were illegal under US law until the Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978.

So plz educate the ppl you love and care abt because everyone in the USA is living in an illegal settler colony, Indigenous ppl survived their genocide & we’re her to say these settlers never gave af abt us & never will.

~ @FrankWaln

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

i feel like people sometimes forget that literally a core tenet of capitalism is that there will always be a class that is forever trapped in poverty, always being exploited, always on the brink of starvation and homelessness. this isn’t a “problem” that has only cropped up recently. rather, it is how capitalism Works. you can’t have billionaires without also having poverty. poverty cannot be eliminated under capitalism.