We are wolves and this is our howling

Image description: [Poster with intersex inclusive progress pride flag in the background. Text reads: Every Body Free Screenings. Boston, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. AMC Boston Common (175 Tremont St). Minneapolis, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. Showplace ICON at the West End (1625 West End Blvd). Philadelphia, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. PFS East (125 Sansom St Walkway). Chicago, Monday June 26 at 7pm. AMC River East 21 (322 E Illinois St). Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30 pm. AMC The Grove (189 the Grove Dr). Q&A following the screening with Academy Award nominated, Emmy winning director Julie Cohen, producer Tommy Nguyen, and participant River Gallo. New York, Wednesday June 28th at 7pm. AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway). Introduction by Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning director Julie Cohen.]

Summary of the film:

"Every Body is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people."

I just got back from watching an early screening of this film and it was beautiful, powerful, and meaningful in ways I did not expect! Met so many intersex people in my city and it was just really really, incredible.

Really recommend watching this film for any intersex people. This is the link to rsvp to the free screenings.

The film will also be available in theaters on June 30th.

So, so excited about this!

This film is now available in many movie theaters across the US! It is really worth seeing if you can find it in a cinema near you. The director told me that it will eventually be out on streaming services, but that it will take a while. Really recommend this film so much for everyone to watch-I cannot express how important and meaningful it is.

Every Body is now available to watch online on multiple platforms! Check it out.

There's just this attitude that a lot of weed users have surrounding their drug use (nicotine/tobacco and caffeine addicts also) that irks me because they rely on this idea that they aren't "like those REAL drug users," because weed isn't addictive (untrue) or it's not a "real drug" (untrue) or it's good for them (in some situations, maybe) whereas obviously all those other "REAL drugs" are completely different, don't lump them in with those other addicts, etc etc etc. And it's really frustrating as someone who has used or currently uses those "REAL drugs" or has a history with addiction getting stigmatized even by other drug users/addicts. Like I said, caffeine and nictotine and even a lot of drinkers do this too. Maybe if you have to light up three times a day or if you have to have 12oz of caffeine three times a day or if you go through three cigarettes a day or if you need three glasses of wine a day you have more in common with your fellow addicts and/or users than you want to admit, and maybe the only reason you don't want to admit that is because you see something wrong with "REAL drugs" and the people who use them.

Btw my point here is not that caffeine addiction and meth addiction are the same either in the drugs' effects or the process towards sobriety/quitting and tbh that shouldn't be your takeaway my point is that people with more socially acceptable addictions often contribute to and reinforce the stigmatization of addictions that are not socially acceptable and that sucks and I'm tired.

no boyfriend no girlfriend no money no prospects but at least i got all these images on my cell phone

i feel like there's a bit of a tendency in leftist circles to do the same thing conservatives do, and pine for an imaginary time period that never existed. except instead of like, ancient rome, or the 50s, a lot of people are weirdly fixated on like...the middle ages? or the hunter-gatherer days? or pirates? like people will try to be anti-capitalist and say "oh medieval peasants had better lives than we do" or "humans used to all live in small communities that took care of each other" and like. idk man id rather have vaccines and the ability to leave your abuser and the right to vote.

it's tempting to think that since things are bad, they must be uniquely bad. but there is no utopia in the past that we need to return to, no garden of eden we were cast out of with the advent of. idk the industrial revolution or whatever. we need to create a better future, not despair about an imagined past.

part of this is also the extremely reductive idea that like, White Men are the root of all evil in the world, and therefor pre-colonial cultures must have all been utopias. in reality, they were neither barbaric nor magically perfect, they were just people with their own flaws and virtues. it turns out people everywhere were and are basically the same. looking for the magic button that will make everything perfect again just distracts from the mundane and hard work of making things better.

i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now

Due to recent Tumblr updates, I'm officially announcing I'll be moving to sudoku.com as my primary social media. You can also find me on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

shout out to people with bladder and bowel issues this disability pride month.

its so hard to talk about our symptoms without being seen as gross or unsanitary.

you arent gross. you arent dirty. you arent unsanitary. i love you all <3

applying reduce reuse recycle to ocs. dipping them carefully into flowing water and seeing what sloughs off and then collecting all the shed material until theres enough for another guy to be made.

we need to move this country to a falafel-based economy

we need to move this country to a falafel-based economy

we need to move this country to a falafel-based economy

rb for sample size! ive always lived in a big city and i forget ppl grew up elsewhere so. ye

cursebearing hips

you guys love mean lesbians until theyre mean or theyre lesbians