made an instagram for discussing sickness and disability on film. as if i needed more social media profiles to look after. excited about it as a little project though.
In the winter of 2016, I crossed the Arctic Circle for the very first time and visited a sleepy town in Sweden called Kiruna. Sitting atop one of the world’s largest iron ore deposits, Kiruna was a flourishing mining town in the 20th century, but it is now sinking due to all the mining tunnels that were dug underneath it. The whole town is currently in the process of being relocated. What struck me most during my visit to Kiruna in January was that the sun barely rose above the horizon, making the world look like twilight time all day long. When the sun did approach the horizon at sunrise and sunset, an intense pink glow that I’ve never experienced before filled the sky. Curious to see more of this, I set off to Arctic towns in Norway and Finland in 2018 and 2019 to produce a growing body of work titled ‘Polar Warmth’. Below is a selection of my favourite photos from this series. — Maya Beano
A federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, launched in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, found that the police department and the city itself engage in a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and racial discrimination that violates both the United States Constitution and federal law. The so-called pattern-or-practice investigation — like the federal investigations into police departments in cities including Baltimore; Ferguson, Missouri; and, most recently, Louisville, Kentucky — focused on widespread issues within the police department rather than individual incidents. The Minneapolis Police Department, the probe found, “uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force and other types of force”; “unlawfully discriminates against Black and Native American people in its enforcement activities”; “violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech”; and discriminates against people with behavioral health issues.
Cool. Can we finally defund them like 73% of Minneapolitans wanted in the immediate aftermath of the George Floyd's murder?
Someone on my idpol post put in the tags “I DO think cis people should tell everyone they are cis tho.” I don’t! I don’t think cis people should need to disclose it. I don’t think straight people need to disclose that. I don’t think anyone should be forced to reveal their gender and sexuality labels no matter what they are, actually!
“It’s bare minimum as an ally” It’s not!!!! They’re not required. They don’t have to. It’s not that they “should”, they very much should not unless they want to. Straight trans people exist, that you desperately want to “out” as an ally and not a member. Questioning people who haven’t made a decision and default to “straight” or “cis” shouldn’t be forced to reveal themselves to you.
A well-meaning asshole in one of my zoom classes once approached me for being one of the only people who didn’t add pronouns to my name and suggested I add pronouns to “show (I’m) an ally.” Buddy, not only am I trans, I am so trans that I was struggling so deeply to distinguish what pronouns I wanted to use, after changing them in the past, and not only use but use in a legal professional setting.
The absence of pronouns wasn’t an absence of support, it was keeping a private struggle private until I knew how I wanted to be addressed. The most bland ass cishet looking motherfucker in the world could be grappling with an identity so complex it would make you puke, OR they could be cishet and it would be equally none of your business until they decided to disclose.
I see a lot of people on tumblr getting really cocky about "how could this person believe that ChatGPT would give them real information and then present it to other people as the truth without verifying what an idiot" considering that they're chilling on the share screenshot, eat hot chip, and lie website.
Fuck zodiac signs, what piece you picking?
Puffins and Sea Thrift, 2011 David Scheirer Watercolor and ink
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Prints of this piece are available for purchase via the artist’s Etsy shop, Studio Tuesday; for updates on new work, find Scheirer at @studiotuesdayart on Instagram.
Because i don’t check the ‘for you’ tab tumblr now just fills my dashboard with ‘recommended’ posts. You’d think my refusal to look at the for you tab would let them know that I’m not interested in that, but lo!!
there’s an Italian sandwich place next to a library I sometimes work at and they have signs up explaining the names of their various sandwiches and I—
Today I got the Dante sandwich, which is prosciutto, tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil and olive oil. It was good but not as good as the Beatrice sandwich (sorry Dante). Next time - maybe later this week - I’m going to try the Putgatorio sandwich.
I didn’t get the Purgatorio, i actually went for the Michelangelo. One of the all time great sandwiches.
I also want to show you their current specials board, which includes a gourmet vegetarian option named EL MAGNIFICO. Also a Machiavelli sandwich.
Favorite part of seeing a new doctor: when they ask about birth control
Doctor: Sexually active?
Me: I'm over 35 and have a toddler, so we'll say yes but it's really more of an aspirational thing.
D: Hormonal birth control?
M: No.
D: Are you trying to get pregnant?
M: Ha, no, once was more than enough.
D: Barrier method?
M: Just the aforementioned toddler, so no.
D: If you don't want to get pregnant, you really should be using some form of birth control.
M: Oh, I am. I find that the absence of fallopian tubes is extremely effective.
D: o___o checks my record Oh. Right.
M: >:-}
my favourite story is when my doctor was like she was in her third trimester, pregnant. I'd been seeing her for several years by that point. When i first started seeing her I was IDing as a guy.
"Is there any chance you could be pregnant?" ". . . No?" "When was your last period?" ". . . . . . Never?" She puts down her clipboard for a second and looks at me confused.
"Sarah, I'm trans, you knew me before I came out . . ."
"oh my god"
She held her head in her hands in embarrassment and disbelief that she'd forgotten and then blamed it on the memory issues that some people get when pregnant but I guess that also means that I was passing so that's nice lmao
That is amazing. I love your semi-himbo doctor.
My GYN office still asks me when my last period was every time I go in.
The same GYN office that did my hysterectomy a few years ago.
Truly incredible continuity of care.
I constantly get asked if there's any chance I could be pregnant - even before I had surgery to remove my womb due to womb cancer, which makes it pretty much impossible to get pregnant. I also had a coil at the time. But no, can't get away with not asking... I think they made me take a pregnancy test actually. Which is so stupid as endometrial cancer feeds on oestrogen and is not necessarily leaving the hormones in that area unbalanced.
In one sense it's funny but it's also infuriating as this cancer and cancer surgery was one of the most traumatic events of my life... it still hurts that I don't have a womb and don't have any chance of ever being pregnant, and medical professionals still ask me if I could be pregnant or if I'm having periods after looking at my file or speaking to me and finding out I've had a radical hysterectomy. Hate it. No thanks.
I think it’s very weird that when one country is criticized y’all tend to be like “oh well my country we would never —” uhh YES in your country too, that’s how states work? Y’all talking about people living in China or the US not knowing their history because the bad parts aren’t taught well in school: sure!!! But I know many people from Belgium who know next-to-nothing about the genocide in the Congo, from the Netherlands who say all their colonies were only trading posts, from Thailand who say that the indigenous people in their country have been and are treated fine only they don’t make an effort to be Thai, from Portugal who will tell you about what an amazingly positive force they were in their... territories, from Czechia who will tell you their country holds no responsibility for treatment of the Roma—but also it was and is justified; all were taught these things in school.
My point isn’t “other countries do this too so it doesn’t matter!!” No! My point is that every single state commits and covers up atrocities in some way. There is no ethical state.
American liberals especially seem to have a tendancy to think that there is a Good and Perfect state and we must only find it and imitate it and then our problems will be fixed. But trust me: it doesn’t exist, (and it’s certainly not in Europe??). We must create our own systems, and have the courage to change those, too, when we see their flaws.
Image description: A photograph of Marjane Satrapi holding a cigarette, with her name in the upper-right corner. Below the image is text that says:
"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same.
- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Graphic Novelist"
A very, very gentle reminder that "prev tags" is now completely useless, bc you can no longer click back thru the reblog chain and see the prev tags. You can see the reblog in front of you, and you can find the original post - by itself, completely devoid of context - but you can't click thru to the previous reblog. This is apparently intentional, since I literally emailed support about it - being able to click back thru the reblog chain and being able to see the source post in context on op's blog are fundamental parts of the user experience imo and I am pissed - and their response was basically like yeah we meant to do that but if you want to talk about it you can go to our WIP blog, where the ask is literally only open one day a week and we will completely ignore you.
PLEASE tag ur reasoning im trying to prove my gf wrong
Every vowel is in an odd position of the alphabet, so the “vowels are even” crowd is free to get destroyed by facts and logic
>not indexing from 0
there are 5 vowels in english. right? a, e, i, o, u. which is odd. why are we converging on even?