Matilda (movie) remake where Trunchbull looks like one of those hyper feminine bleach blonde Republican women you see on talk shows as the token girl/eye candy. And then Miss Honey is a soft-hearted, handy, tie-wearing Butch.
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), dir. Jamie Babbit
STOP! are you operating on an arbitrary set of terms and rules known only to you? have you created an ultimatum or specific if/then scenario for someone else without communicating it to them? have you considered making a decision and calculated all the consequences and potential reactions to those consequences and consequences for those reactions before you actually made the decision? it may be time to say some words out loud to another person!
I think of this post constantly so I made a graphic to send to other people
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I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache
life just goes on no matter what
Everyone living in the USA needs to inform themselves about "crisis pregnancy centers." They're not legitimate medical facilities and typically only have a nurse on staff, if even that.
"Crisis pregnancy centers" are UNREGULATED organizations that present themselves like medical facilities and often offer medical advice and information, but they are staffed by volunteers many of whom are not medical professionals, typically funded by churches and pro-life orgs, and exist to convince people not to have abortions. They often give "patients" misinformation and lies about abortion, contraception, and pregnancy.
These organizations often take the place of legitimate medical facilities particularly in impoverished areas despite being essentially fake medical clinics that offer few services and that are not bound to ethical or sanitary guidelines of real clinics.
A "crisis pregnancy center" in Kentucky was recently in the news because a nurse who volunteered there found that trans-vaginal ultrasound probes were being sanitized using disinfectant that was both expired and totally ineffective against HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection, meaning the clinic could have given their clients STIs with their shitty unregulated sanitation practices.
My MOM visited one of these "centers" when she was pregnant with me (a planned and wanted pregnancy) because she didn't know it was fake and unregulated!
People deserve real healthcare, not lies, randos dressed up in white coats, and disease-spreading, unsterilized equipment like it's the 1700s.
In case you’re wondering if there’s a CPC near you, check here! (courtesy of the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health)
or have a scroll through the Fake Clinic Database
both links courtesy of Reproductive Transparency Now, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of fake clinics and started by a dear friend of mine!
As of Thursday, 6/22/23, lesbian poet and lifelong anti-racist activist Minnie Bruce Pratt is receiving palliative care. If you would like to send her a message, you can do so through her sons at the link above.
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon (from the San Jose Museum of Art)
Cyanotype prints on found book pages exposed to moonlight.
I’ll probably make a big post/essay spilling my heart out about it one day but for me, relating to images of wolves and werewolves is tied to so so many things in my life.
Being a lesbian, butch, the feelings of otherness and alienation and “predatory”-ness that come with that. Refusing femininity and allowing myself to be hairy and bare-faced. Actively cultivating a muscular body. Feelings of dysphoria. Being a woman, being tied to a monthly cycle of physically changing and bleeding. Embracing some changes and feeling discomfort with others. The spiritual aspects of that monthly cycle, it’s ties to the moon, the cycles of life and death. My love of nature and being at peace in it. Desiring a community of women like me, my desire to protect and defend those women.
Such a good analogy for “privatizing the profits, but socializing the losses.”
Taxpayers, not the wealthy owners of OceanGate, will be paying the millions of dollars in costs for the search and rescue—and I almost wouldn’t have a problem with that (the coastguard rescues hapless people every day, and I don’t think that regular citizens should be forced to pay for their own rescues, because saving people is what a society should come together and do).
But the owners of OceanGate not only knew of the risks, they eschewed any kind of government regulation (like having an emergency location beacon that would have made the search far easier) because they said it would inhibit growth and profits. And I can’t help but believe that the coastguard and the navy and all of the other public agencies, are searching just a little bit longer and a little bit harder, because it’s rich people who are missing.
And don’t even get me started on how Greece’s coastguard is most likely responsible for the murder of hundreds of refugees, or how Italy and much of Europe have made it national policy for their coastguards to not help refugees at sea.
Anyway, it’s well past time for more people to start seriously thinking about how our society always bails out banks and wealthy billionaires, but tells poor people to exercise better judgment and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
There’s an interview clip in the replies to the tweet where an older lesbian explains how this works in practice. Incredible.
Minnie Bruce Pratt 😭😭😭😭💔
For those who haven’t seen, she is currently receiving palliative care due to complications from a severe illness.
Minnie Bruce Pratt 😭😭😭😭💔
