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FUCKING PREACH
It’s all about control, sexism, racism, it’s not about babies or lives or the Bible
Okay, but I've seen this argument thrown around for years, and I never believed it because it's been pushed into my brain since I was a child by my extremely Christian parents that abortion is fundamentally evil because it goes against the Bible. But I'm taking a 2nd Wave Feminism course and I finally found out that this is actually 100% true? Until the Reagan campaign and associated Republican politicians tried to find another social issue to sway Southerners, especially Southern women, in their favor, abortion was not a primary issue for churches. It was only when feminists started mobilizing and, as a result, many institutions such as the Catholic church tried to mobilize against them that churches started advocating against abortion. Abortion did not become an issue of morality for the right until the 70s. Before then, abortion was simply not discussed because most things relating to sex weren't publicly discussed. So no, according to popular belief, the argument that abortions are killing babies did not always exist, it was just an argument crafted when the Republican party needed another social group to oppress for political points
Of course it was Reagan
Why’s it always Reagan?
When you ask these same prolife people what services their churches or groups offer to low income women or women in general to help them carry a healthy pregnancy and then what sort of help they provide to new and often times single mothers so that they can raise their children safely you get silence. It was never about ‘helping’ women it was always about controlling them.
AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania
as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.
this is fucking MURDER.
insulin has been mass produced (from animal extracts) since -1923-. slow acting insulin has existed since the ‘50s, and ‘human’ genetically engineered insulin (derived from E. coli bacteria) has existed since 1982.
insulin treatment for diabetes is not some new or ‘unproven’ treatment. according to beyondtype1, “Humalog rapid-acting insulin came on to the market with a list price of $21 a vial in 1997.” adjusting for inflation, a vial these days should cost about $34 at most. instead, it costs over $300. there is NO reason for it to be steadily gaining in price to the point that diabetics are unable to afford their lifesaving medication, other than the sheer inhuman greed of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
let me reiterate: life without insulin (for Type 1 diabetics in particular) is a slow and painful death sentence. the ability to treat diabetes is a relatively modern phenomenon that has allowed countless people to live full, healthy lives. we should be expanding full covereage and access to insulin to diabetics the world over, and it should be FREE.
Have y’all heard about Open Insulin Foundation?
“ We’re a team of biohackers with a variety of backgrounds, and skills, and relationships to insulin and diabetes from many cities and countries around the world, including Oakland, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Paraiba, Brazil; Dakar, Senegal; Yaounde, Cameroon; and Puerto Rico. We’re working to develop the first practical, small-scale, community-centered model for insulin production to make insulin accessible to all. We envision a world in which communities in need have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin, and where people living with diabetes and their communities can own and govern the organizations that produce the medicine they depend on to survive.
What We Do
We are creating an open-source (freely available) model for insulin production that centers on sustainable, small-scale manufacturing and open-source alternatives to production. We are developing protocols to produce short-acting (lispro) and long-acting (glargine) insulin, working on developing open-hardware equivalents to traditional production equipment, are researching sustainable regulation pathways to bring our insulin to the public, and are building capacities for local, small-scale manufacturing.
How Do I Participate?
Our work would not be possible without the support of volunteers, interns, and community advisors. We welcome people of all backgrounds from all over the world to bring their enthusiasm, time, connections, and experiences, both in life and in work. Our volunteers promote us on social media, build equipment, run experiments, write reports and blog posts, facilitate meetings, connect with other organizations and groups, meet with experts in the field, run virtual events, and contribute in designing tools, resources, and methods of all sorts.
Potential Partners
We welcome collaboration with other groups that share our mission―community labs, academic institutions, patient advocacy groups, and NGOs.
Donate
Your donation will help us get closer to our goal. With a healthy financial situation, we can pay for lab supplies, acquire lab equipment, recruit scientists, and pay for consultation fees for regulation and manufacturing experts.”
Open Insulin Foundation
don’t measure a woman’s worth by her clothes - terre des femmes
THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED SO FREAKING MUCH, TODAY PEOPLE CALLED ME WHORE BECAUSE I WAS WEARING A SKIRT AND WE ARE IN SUMMER, IT’S SO HOT IN THIS COUNTRY AND I HAVE TO USE PANTS SO GUYS DON’T GET ” DISTRACTED ” respect girls
you may notice not one of those words is positive, not even neutral its a game where there are no correct answers, just different ways to be told you are invalid, wrong, and should be ashamed. thats a shitty game to force people to play
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Finding love as a transgender person
Marianne Oakes has shared an amazing collection of transgender love stories over at GenderGP.
Here are a few of them.
Marianne wrote:
The myth that trans people struggle to find love is damaging to our future generations, if trans youth or worse still, their parents believe this, then the impact can be loss of hope. My experience is pretty much like all the lovely comments here, let’s stop the myth, xx
More here!
These stories help so much. Not just because of the trans people find love just like everyone else, which is an important message on its own, but because there are some stories of other people who didn’t know since they were kids and this is so fucking reassuring!!!
Married my husband, came out the following year and we’ve been together for six!
‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama
I think I will reblog this a second time
[ID: Tweet from monicayk97 reads, "honestly i'm just fucking done and tired with it all. i'm angry that i know the white supremacist shooter's name before the names of the asian women. i'm angry that it's working class asians that are targeted and people wanna erase us all as wealthy. i'm just fucking angry" end ID]
some places to donate (compiled by monica):
advancing justice (atlanta, GA local org)
stopaapihate (aapi women-led)
'i'm ready' movement (aapi women-led)
asian prisoner support committee
apienc (for queer and trans asian people)
source tweet. (edit: includes other orgs to donate to, as well as some additional comments/corrections to original tweet)
Does anyone else have a particular date or event that ‘started’ the pandemic for them? Even though that event clearly happened after everything ‘started’?
Sometime in January I think. Just watching the number of cases spread on one of the early tracking sites that pulled from CDC and WHO data. (I think it's long since been taken down but back before folks were taking it very seriously it was one of the best easily-readable sources of information)
March 23rd, the day I left the office and started working from home
April 6th, 2020.
It was the supposed to be the last week of school for term 1 (Australian schooling system). I’m on an island and we had cases in hospital of people who had returned from a cruise ship with it. Poor hospital management led to a hospital and community outbreak.
We had seen kids basically disappearing for a couple weeks prior as parents pulled them out to stay home, but 6th April was the first day of all kids at home... a week early.
Us teachers had the next four days to prepare to work online for an as-yet undetermined period of time. Easter/Maundy Thursday was it. We left at 3pm for four weeks (Easter and term break is only meant to go for 2).
We hit level 4 lockdown straight away in my region. That meant all non-essentials shut down. Enforced social distancing and not allowed to be out in public unless exercising. The beaches even were closed unless you were actually swimming. I remember being so lonely at home (I live alone) that I would go out for three hour walks each morning just for the opportunity to greet passers by (Aussies like to greet strangers like labradors). People had drawn in chalk all sorts of uplifting things on the main walkway along the river. I would smile at each one, like it was written for me.
I didn’t see my parents or sister and her family for months. They’re all essential workers aside from my niece... who was 5 at the time.
My birthday was in lockdown, I had presents left at my door from friends. A lemon tart (my favourite) was one of them, I thought it was from my grandparents... but it turns out their present was chocolate... the one type I don’t like (that’s a story for another time).
I got so damn lonely in lockdown I rescued guinea pigs. Yup. Chunky Potato shaped mice. They damn well saved me from myself because life was sucking and home was lonely. I researched my ass off on how to care for these fat bebes and now they take up a good third half of my living room.
Lockdown was hard, but so much easier knowing I was keeping my neighbours, my friends, my family and my students safe. Coming out of lockdowns in May, then July/August meant our social sacrifice worked... because we rode out that wave.
So... April 6th, 2020.
March 7th 2020
I was very happy because the night before we celebrated my little sister’s birthday with Sushi and family. We were talking about how were had an event to host the next day (we’re party planners) and were a lil scared to head into LA County. Everyone just mentioned to bring hand sanitizer. The next night we hosted the event, used a shit ton of sanitizer all night, and headed home knowing we were going quarantine ourselves just in case. In the next few days lockdown began. In the weeks ahead it only got worse and worse. Still as party planners, people would call, and still call, asking us to send people/workers to their house for a party, vocalizing just how much they don’t care about the pandemic or other bs. We haven’t hosted an event 1 year today, Not because the business wasn’t there. Because we felt it was morally wrong to capitalize while contributing to the spread of covid. So it’s been 1 year today for me. Telling this helped, Hope others feel that way too♥️
Guys I’m going to make a hot take
The whole “I wish I could be with a woman, but instead I’m stuck with my stupid, gross husband/boyfriend” sentiment I see repeated in bi circles is just the “progressive” queer version of the boomer “I hate my wife” jokes
look I found 1 (one) adult human who is capable of putting up with my shit for 17 years you think I want to dump him for someone with higher/different standards? In this economy?
Besides. He’s clever and I like him. This is a guy who looked at his life carefully, decided he was cishet, then his spouse came out as nonbinary and he was like, “Welp, this is confusing but I’d rather be with you than not with you.” (Our genders are different, he can still be cishet, as a treat, it isn’t really relevant in the general scheme of things.)
Most human beings have their “stupid gross” moments. Women are no exception. Nonbinary people are no exception. I’m just glad that I’ve found a human who likes me enough to put up with mine.
I care about a lot of humans. This one, I adore. We’re neurodivergent music/language nerds who like many of the same things and our sense of humor is about 89% convergent and let me tell you that is ASTONISHING given how niche our interests tend to run.
The idea of swapping for a generic someone of another gender? Or a generic someone at all? Ugh. So much work. And I’d miss him. I’ve been in relationships with a variety of people of different genders and this is the one I picked.
Like if you’re going to be with someone, the only way that shit is going to work long term is if you respect, support and defend them and they do the same back. And defending a partner does not include dissing their gender to score “queer points” because you’re insecure about whether you’re a Valid Bisexual or not.
considering it's black history month, UNFRIENDLY reminder that police brutality and racism aren't magically gone just because joe biden's the president now. keep the energy you did for george floyd, breonna taylor, sandra bland, ahmaud arbery, atatiana jefferson, and many many more these next four years. there's still so much work that needs to be done. we CANNOT give up.
Why hasn’t this been done before?
You know why.
Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t
Cause racial health disparities…