i don't say this very often so you can trust me when i say for the love of god please unmute

Audio description: Very loud trilling purrring.

Very important kitty noises

i don't say this very often so you can trust me when i say for the love of god please unmute

Audio description: Very loud trilling purrring.

Very important kitty noises

My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein (1998)

now with a link to read it for yourself!! xx

i’m not hot enough to make up for how weird i am

Here's that paper on intersex medicalization I've been working on for the last month.

This paper covers basic criteria for what it means to be intersex and how common it is, crossover between intersex and trans populations and issues, medical misconceptions about intersex surgeries done on infants, the origins of those surgeries, where we are now with the medical community re: medicalization, statistics on mental health issues faced by intersex people, and some goals of some intersex activists.

Keep in mind this paper was supposed to be an informational report for a composition 101 class and that I had to cut back some of my tone and extra details regarding the nuances of intersex identity and queerness. I did what I could with the time and context I was given.

The content I had to read while doing this paper gave me two weeks of mental breakdowns and I'm still super depressed and my birthday is coming up if anyone wants to show support!

CA $fuzzcheeks | PP @ fuzzcheeks | Ven @ novastarchild

#i had no idea there were only TWO hospitals in America that refuse to perform invasive surgeries on infants. the fuck is that

Yeah, just in case anyone hasn't read the paper, this is still true from all the info I can find. Only two hospitals in all of the USA have said they won't do surgeries on intersex infants anymore, and none are required to record data about these surgeries as what they specifically are.

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

November 15 2019 - Protesters in Chile take down a police drone using the concentrated power of around fifty lasers. [video]

I find vast featureless rows of identical Shit deeply unsettling and you will find this in my horror writing (current wip uses a location based heavily on amazon warehouses) but it also makes me really weird about cornfields. As is the nature of writers

I am right though. Anybody else think about the horror of monocultures

[ID: four images. 1, a cornfield, showing nothing but corn in perfect rows stretching into the horizon. 2, A shot of warehouse shelving from above. 3, The parking lot outside of disney world. 4, A commercially grown pine forest, with nothing but identically sized pine trees planted in rows, stretching into the dark. /end ID]

Moodboard for colonialist ecological horrors beyond your comprehension

They need to make a more concise all-encompassing word for the hydra of colonialism/capitalism/consumerism/etc. I'm calling it White Greed core

And how could I forget homogeneous "nice neighborhood" mcmansion sprawl. Maybe the most hostile environment of all. That's just growing a monoculture of upper-middle class white people. That's a WASP nest

Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trump’s Election Victory.

Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.

And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: “As a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.”

“The man who is a staple of my childhood didn’t say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I don’t know where we go from here,” somebody else wrote.

Another popular comment reads: “He didn’t say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.”

“Neither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,” one more acknowledged.

“So much responsibility on Steve’s hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure he’s doing okay too. I mean I’m not doing great, but he’s still looking after the kids he raised,” somebody else added.

While another concluded: “I bet you didn’t think you’d still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.”

I met Steve at Comic Con a couple years ago. I told him, “thank you for being there for me as a kid when it felt like no one else was. He responded “no, thank you for all your help; without you, I’d still be trying to figure out what Blue wanted for her snack!” and I had to try very hard not to cry, he was so nice.

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

It's amazing how easy it is to stand up for people and yet you all still fucking don't.

I need your attention

Last night, homophobic people broke into my house, they stole my phone, food, solar battery, gas cylinder, money, bag of clothes, and other necessities I have been using on a daily... Please help donate and share on my gofundme thank you so much❤😘 🤟🏳‍🌈https://gofund.me/4b7d0709

this is a friend of mine, can anyone help her out please?

okay I know that this was supposed to just be a funny haha whatever thing. but dear god this annoys me so much.

children aren’t seen as human. when you go to school, you get put in a tight room with 15-35 other emotionally volatile children who you might have known for years. you have to ask to go to the bathroom and sometimes you get told no. you’re taught that the one size fits all system that will always, inexplicably, not work for your brain, is the only way education is. you literally eat prison food (I’m serious, the same people who make prison food make school food in the US.)

and, of course, if your american, (which it seems like op is) you run the risk of getting killed.

adults always act like children are completely unaffected by capitalism but the truth is we aren’t. the education system has been hijacked to glorified prison to make good workers and not actually reach anything to empower children. ‘oh children don’t have to work’ fuck all the way off.

I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

New new NEW art (14)(THIS ONE!).docx

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

Some statistician needs to quantify how much time the average person spends looking at ads. I can find statistics online for the number of ads a person sees per day, but not for the amount of time spent looking at them.

I think time is the more important statistic.

I think if people actually knew just how many hours of their lives per year were being stolen from them by advertisers, it would radicalize them.

It's not just flawed, it's flawed in UnitedHealthcare's favor.

That's not a flaw... that's fraud.

I work in healthcare, and let me tell you, NO ONE denies care as much, as often or as blatantly badly as UHC. Not a one. It's known in the industry to be one of the worst insurance carriers around. DO NOT sign up for UHC this or any other open enrollment period. (I work in rehab and the things they deny are basic and hugely important to quality of life)

I'm reblogging this again because I realized that I didn't include something important. If you have a plan with UHC (or any carrier, honestly) and you are denied something that you and your care team believe you need, ask your doctor to ask for a "peer to peer" review. This is a process in which the doctor speaks to another doctor in the company. It cannot be handled by AI and cannot be just denied without review by an actual doctor. Peer to peer!

Peer to Peer

my jaw hit the floor

excuse the fuck out of whoever this is

the gnarliest, dirtiest shredding with that fucking casio keyboard metronome beat I can’t stand it