the continual discovery of fresh types of nonsense

medication abortion (mifepristone + misoprostol) is medically safe and effective up to ten weeks, and can be self-administered at home. how safe and effective? at-home self-administered medication abortion up to ten weeks is the standard of care in the united kingdom. even where abortion is legally restricted, as in parts of the united states, it is possible to access mifepristone + misoprostol by post.

the best thing you can do for reproductive rights in america right now (and at any time) is offer your resources to the organizations dedicated to *getting people abortions*, including providing information on self-administered abortion. my org of choice is the mountain access brigade in knoxville, tennessee, but there are lists of abortion funds and other orgs circulating everywhere right now. the legislative fight is important, but *getting people abortions* regardless of the state of the law is the most urgent project and also the most underresourced.

the second-best thing you can do is keep repeating to anyone who will listen that medication abortion is medically safe and effective up to at least ten weeks and can be self-administered at home. no coat-hanger memes, no ‘safe abortions will become impossible’, no gilead-themed doomsaying bullshit. just repeating that medication abortion is medically safe and effective up to at least ten weeks and can be self-administered at home.

there will be abortions across america after roe. the work is to make those abortions as safe and accessible as possible. find the people doing the work and lend them your assistance. and do not impede the project by facilitating apocalyptic visions of back-alley massacres. one more time: medication abortion is medically safe and effective up to ten weeks and can be self-administered at home.

guys, i am not responsible for problematic content in the media i enthuse about on this blog. when i say hyperfixations are not endorsements, i am not kidding: i am not making recommendations here, and if you choose to consume the said media you are taking your own risks with its content. i am a big believer in content advisories, and if you are curious about something i am into you can always ask me if i think there might be anything in it that warrants one, but it is not incumbent upon anyone to issue caveats before expressing interest in or enthusiasm for something, and it is no one’s responsibility to account for every aspect of any object of their interest on the chance that someone in their audience might go check it out on their own time. okay? okay.

it is one o’clock. i need to be somewhere a little over a half hour’s walk away at five. why does it feel like i do not have enough time to get there

shorter: if gill’s story in the fourth series had even once included an acknowledgement of what killed helen bartlett – say, in including gill’s burden of guilt for her role in helen’s destruction in the otherwise quite affecting and i think quite successfully told story of gill in the aftermath – i would feel in general much more tolerant. 

[abuse cw]

it sure is fun to listen to these men talk about how gillian is ‘trouble’ and how ‘only a man of [robbie’s] sort of caliber could rise to that sort of a challenge’. the best is how robbie says ‘your behaviour can be challenging’ in that condescending tone and shuts up her objection with ‘you’re talking shit now, gillian’ and it’s a super romantic dance scene about how they belong together! my favorite thing of all is how thoroughly gillian assents to this narrative of herself, how entirely she internalizes it, even in spite of the enduring spark of indignant resistance that she never quite lets go of. this is a great time, i love this! a+ love story, sally, well done. 

[rape cw]

me: okay, it’s okay, we’re going to get up and go have a day and start catching up on this mountain of stuff, it’s okay

me literally two seconds later: *checks rapist’s facebook*

hamilton has posed a lot of problems for me in a number of registers but if i’m being honest the biggest one is: daveed diggs