it's tricky.

mara. a woman who happens to be queer, trans, fat and trying.

[unceremaraniously]

This website offers an opportunity to submit a comment objecting to the HHS’ proposed rule to legalize discrimination in heath care against transgender folks. It also has tips on how to structure and write your comment. It’s an effort by the Transgender Law Center and the National Center for Transgender Equality, so it‘s legit.

Please, it may only take you five or ten minutes, if that. It’s one way to make your voice heard, whether this directly affects you, a friend or relative, or if you’re an ally and actually care about trans people.

We need to do something. Get fucking pissed. Let’s go. Now.

[trans-parenting]

[blackarachnya]

before you geeks bring out the inevitable “horny people have no rights xd” jokes again id like to remind you that there are sex workers on this site that either partly or fully rely on this site for income and theres literally nothing about this thats good or helpful 

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tumblr bans all adult content, such as "female-presenting nipples"

Rob Beschizza:

Tumblr, the mainstream web’s last redoubt for niche smut, is going to clean house. The social blogging platform is banning all adult material on December 17.

Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations. The exceptions include nude classical statues and political protests that feature nudity. The new guidelines exclude text, so erotica remains permitted. Illustrations and art that feature nudity are still okay — so long as sex acts aren’t depicted — and so are breast-feeding and after birth photos. “Users have a chance to appeal flagged content”

The policy change takes effect on December 17th. From then on, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community.

Even the cold dead embrace of a Yahoo! acquision could not end Tumblr, such was the power of fandom gathered there. But Yahoo never knew what it owned in Tumblr and was indifferent to its continued existence. The management of new Yahoo owner Verizon, however, has a pulse. It knows what Tumblr is and it hates it. It will hack it down until a perfectly clean advertising- and appstore-friendly traffic center remains.

That phrase Tumblr uses, “female-presenting nipples”, is darkly comic given the context of its ultra-woke audience. They didn’t give even the slightest thought to what people other than lawyers and appstore gatekeepers might think of it. In that sense, it seems to have a knowing reactionary air about it. It’s a “go fuck yourself” so perfectly aimed at Tumblr users it’s almost impossible to believe it isn’t intentional.

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/03/tumblr-bans-all-adult-content.html

[unceremaraniously]

Cannot stand this continued narrative among so many anti-Trumpers that he acts the way he does because he may be mentally ill. This offends the shit out of me, an actual mentally-ill person who is not anything he represents.

He’s just a creep with too much power. And a miserable fuck of a person.

[profeminist]

“#ItsOnUs to elect officials who will keep our communities and campuses safe from sexual assault and sexual predators. #BelieveSurvivors” 🎨: @thrashbird + @lifeafterdeathstreet 📷: @impermanent_art

-  It’s On Us 

How to find your polling place

Google search will show you your polling place

How Uber, Lyft, Lime, and Zipcar will get voters to the polls on Election Day

Please share this simple #1-2-3 with anyone who says “voting doesn’t matter”

[bob-belcher]

[justanothergreyface]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Do not just assume that the Democrats are going to win…the only way we can GUARANTEE that the Democrats make gains in these midterms is for people to go out and vote

Whatever the polls say, get out there and vote democrat, whereever you are

Do not just assume that they’ll “Definitely win” and so it doesn’t matter if you go out and vote or not

[zetsubonna]

They said Clinton would win, too, remember?

Vote. 🌊

[unceremaraniously]

Yes for Patient Limits - Safe Patient Limits SAVE LIVES

“Today in Massachusetts hospitals, there is no law and no limit to guide the number of patients that can be assigned to a nurse at one time (aside from the ICU). Massachusetts hospitals are facing deteriorating patient care conditions, leading to more complications, readmissions, and errors, as well as longer hospital stays and real life-threatening risks.

The Patient Safety Act will dramatically improve patient safety in Massachusetts hospitals by setting a safe maximum limit on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time, while providing flexibility to adjust nurses’ patient assignments based on specific patient needs.

The initiative is supported by a broad coalition from across Massachusetts, including registered nurses, patients and family members, health and safety organizations, community groups, unions and elected officials.

The filing of the Patient Safety Act comes on the heels of dozens of prominent research studies and reports that show the need to set a maximum limit on the number of patients that can be assigned to each registered nurse at one time if we are to avoid mistakes, serious complications and preventable readmissions.”

If you’re in Massachusetts and support patient safety and better working conditions for our nurses, please vote “YES” on question 1.

[incendavery]

we all deserve respect and dignity!!

to learn more, or to donate time/money to the cause, please visit freedommassachusetts.org

[incendavery]

just a quick reminder that transphobes are fighting to deny us basic human rights on both a state AND federal level!!

[transgirlpinup]

[thelatebloomer13]

In the US this year, at least 20 transgender people have been fatally shot or killed by other violent means. Remember their names.

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Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien

Viccky Gutierrez

Celine Walker

Tonya Harvey

Zakaria Fry

Phylicia Mitchell

Amia Tyrae Berryman

Sasha Walls

Karla Patricia Pavon

Nicole Hall

Nino Fortson

Gigi Pierce

Keisha Wells

Sasha Garden

Diamond Stephens

Vontashia Bell

Dejanay Stanton

Londonn Moore

Antash’a English

Cathalina Christina James

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Protect trans women.

Trans lives matter.

[thelatebloomer13]

Nikki Enriquez

Shantee Tucker

[frodo-sam]

[tastefullyoffensive]

“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”

[nu11-pointer]

Wait it’s a fucking WAR CRIME?!?! I mean that might not be 100% accurate but now I gotta know

[tlitookilakin]

holy crap, collective punishment is a war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Collective_punishments

and according to the exact legal phrasing-

No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.

[squided]

Power-move: accuse your teacher of a war crime using knowledge they supplied you with

[pervocracy]

Few things lay bare America’s pretentions about class so clearly as the distinction between a “tiny house” and a “mobile home.”

[wilwheaton]

Justice Kennedy retirement. Thoughts?

RIP America.

[tearsofmascara96]