Art by: HippyPotter

IF YOU ARE UNMARRIED, DON'T HAVE KIDS, AND HATE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE A FUCKING WILL

this has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood probate lawyer

Again:

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

This goes especially for LGBTQ+. Please do not get deadnamed in your obituary.

How to make a will.

How to make a living will (Advance Healthcare Directive) so you don’t get fucked over by biological family if you end up in a situation where you cannot make your own healthcare choices.

Some more blackademia for you

Two completely different conversations

since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past. 

Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

"Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -C.A.C.

Being chubby is OK. Having a squishy belly is OK. Having stretch marks is OK. Having curves is OK.

we’re still out here being cute and fuckable and desirable and BEAUTIFUL.

embrace that shit, babe.

true 

imma still go to the gym tho

Mary Mallon is far better known by the nickname she earned n the press when she infected multiple families that she worked for with typhoid fever. ‘Typhoid Mary’ was the name given to her by the media during her first forcible quarantine that lasted a period of 3 years. She had been working as a chef and had very low standards of hygiene, reportedly claiming she did not know why she needed to wash her hands as she was not ill. Mary was in fact an asymptomatic carrier of the typhus bacteria, meaning that while she appeared physically healthy she was spreading the deadly bacteria wherever she went.

After her first period of quarantine Mary was permitted to be released on the basis that she no longer work as chef and seek employment in a job that would not facilitate the spread of the disease. She agreed to this and managed to work as a laundress for several years, but eventually changed her name and returned to her previous occupation., Once again typhoid fever began to spread, but Mary continuously changed her name in order to avoid being apprehended by the authorities.

Mary was eventually tracked down when she started a severe outbreak of typhoid fever in Sloane Hospital for Women, where two people died as a result of the disease. Once she was apprehended she was sent to Riverside Hospital, where she would spend the rest of her life. On her death from pneumonia an autopsy was carried out and live typhoid bacteria was discovered in gallbladder.

I would encourage everyone to read the Wikipedia article on Typhoid Mary to understand the full scope of her negligence and callousness towards others. You can be an asymptomatic carrier of disease and endanger others by not following medical advice and not taking yourself out of harmful situations. You can spread disease even if you think you’re healthy. 

Don’t be a Typhoid Mary. 

Protect others. 

I’ve never actually seen what it looked like before Mt. Rushmore…it’s so saddening.

P r e a c h

Literally no excuse ^^^

Also like… Half the characters from cowboy beebop are black or dark skinned.

So git gud

Lucky 7 cow reblog for good luck

Me

This is important.

It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment

“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor

We never outlawed slavery in America. We simply transferred ownership of slaves from individual landowners to the government and large corporations.

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-introduces-bill-to-stop-private-prisons-from-exploiting-tax-incentives-for-profit

For reference, they’re referring to the clause that goes, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

I see what the Aunties see now.