I had a trial shift at a tutoring centre today and I metioned to the interviewer I was trans. He asked my pronouns and said it was great that I wanted to be a role model for the kids. I was really worried it would go horribly wrong and I’m so glad that diversity is being looked for in teaching staff :D
PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
WWF: Works with companies who harm the environment, displaces/harms indigenous peoples, shady allocation of donations. X
Greenpeace: Supports seal hunting for profit, despite claiming to fight to protect them. XX
Salvation Army: Discriminatory against people in the LGBT+ community. XX
Goodwill: Mistreatment low pay for their disabled employees. X
Who to donate to instead, an incomplete list:
Instead of PETA, try the ASPCA! Local shelters, too, are always good.
Instead of FCKH8, try an LGBT-friendly homeless shelter, or GLAAD. I’ve heard good things about the latter, but don’t know much about it myself.
Instead of Autism Speaks, try ASAN (Autstic Self Advocacy Network)!
Sadly, I don’t know enough about wildlife charities to offer alternatives. When it comes to Salvation Army and Goodwill, however, donating directly to homeless shelters is always good! Make sure, though, if you’re donating clothes, hygiene products, etc., that the shelter accepts physical donations. Not all do.
If you’re not sure about a charity, check Charity Watch! However, it only tracks how much a charity gives in donations relative to how much they earn/are given. Doesn’t track moral failures or discrimination.
If anyone knows any more, feel free to add!
ocean conservancy, earthwatch, the woods hole oceanographic institute, the monterey bay aquarium and mba research institute!
Greenpeace also fucked up the Nazca lines which is both sacred ground and fucking world heritage site for a pointless ad campaign that could have easily been done in photoshop.
If you are in the UK and you are eligible to vote in the EU referendum YOU HAVE TO REGISTER AND TURN UP TO VOTE
This referendum is so close that it will come down to voters turnout. Young people are the ones that are are more likely to want to stay in so if you want to stay in but then don’t vote, statistically we will end up leaving.
This is the most important referendum in Britain’s history for decades please vote if you’re eligible, this will affect our whole futures so vote or deal with the consequences of not voting and letting older generations decide our future
(Even if you’re not from Britain would you please signal boost for your British followers?)
This is REALLY important. This is for any doctor appointment. Whether it be cuz you are sick, or disabled, or ANYTHING. Unless it’s a MRI, Xray, Catscan, etc where NO ONE can be in the room with you (cuz of machines and radiation etc), you do not have to listen when someone says you can’t bring someone back with you.
You are the patient. This is YOUR body. Don’t let them tell you it’s ‘a small room’ don’t let them tell you that it’s not common. This is YOUR body. If you are more comfortable with someone in that room with you- INSIST. Insist multiple times if you have to, be REALLY upset, show that you are upset.
As someone who has been in PLENTY of different doctors offices and procedure rooms, the only real reason to not allow someone else in that room is if it’s because of sanitation/safety reasons (ie - surgeries, MRIs, X-rays, Catscans). Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Like, this is a legal thing, although I can’t speak for everywhere, obviously.
Even the office that employs my shitty, shitty GP has a SIGN on the front desk that says you have the RIGHT to bring someone into all of your appts with you. Not just professional advocates or caretakers, not just if you’re a certain kind of disabled, not just if you need an interpreter, etc.
Anyone can bring anyone just because you want them to be there, that’s your right.
IMPORTANT: you also have the right to dismiss people. If someone’s in the appt with you and you ask them to leave, and they don’t want to, even if your doctor doesn’t want them to, it’s your body, your appointment, and you have the right to insist that they leave the room.
No one but you has the RIGHT to be in your appts if you don’t want them there.
Good to know; thanks.
This is very important! People who have a healthcare advocate tend to get better care (you could google around for actual studies about this). Even just bringing a friend who has no particular expertise gives you more power, simply because there’s two of you, and can encourage care providers to take what you say more seriously.
You’re also less likely to be the victim of discrimination or medical abuse, which is super relevant if you’re disabled, queer, trans, or a POC.
I want to recommend this especially to trans people who are worried about potential medical gatekeeping. Buddy system! Double points if they’re cis and a super solid ally, which is a gross reality that you can use to your advantage.
If anyone needa a plus one for doctors appts, message me. I am white and able bodied. I know about how trans and mental health stuffs.
Modern fantasy creatures and people being exposed to new lifestyles and developing dreams and goals that don’t fit with their species or their culture in the slightest.
A dwarf who was born in a mine, grew up in a mine, and can count the number of times they’ve been surface-side on both hands. One of these times, they witnessed an airshow. They go home and tell their parents: “Mom, Dad, I want to be a pilot.” “What’s a pilot?” “We’ll, y’see…” And a brief explanation later… “YOU WANT TO DO WHAT? WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? DAMN IT, ROK, I TOLD YOU THAT THE SUN WOULD GO TO HIS HEAD. NOW HE THINKS HE CAN FUCKING FLY, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
An elf who has a deep interest in geology and underground exploration signs up for a dwarven digging mission. Shows up first day all long limbs and being seven feet tall, and has to become a 90 degree angle to get through the door. “Hey guys! Who’s ready to look at some rocks? Am I right? Well, it’s a tight fit, but I bet I can do it if I squeeze. Ooh, I know some great digging songs by the way.” The dwarves immediately try to find a way to fire the elf without being sued for racial discrimination. “I told you we should have been more careful about the ad.” “I put in it Gold and Gems Monthly, Brek, how was I to know elves read that kind of thing?” “OHMIGOSH, GUYS COME SEE WHAT I FOUND!” “Your turn, Nik.” “I swear to God, if it’s another goddamn stalagmite again…”
A centaur whose herd migrates to a coast area and sees the ocean for the first time. “Greyhoof, I’m going to be a fisherman.” “What?” “I’m going to sail the seven seas; I want to be a sailor.” “Blackmane, you’re half horse, you can’t sail.” “I can learn.” “You can’t climb their weird ropes things. What would you even do on the ocean?” “It’s called rigging and I’d be a fisherman, obviously, like I told you.” “YOU’RE A CENTAUR, YOU CAN’T SAIL!” “YOU DON’T KNOW THAT. DON’T TRY AND DESTROY MY DREAMS, GREYHOOF, I CAN DO ANYTHING I SET MY MIND TO. I BELIEVE IN ME.”
A mermaid who gets really interested in those land mountains that touch the clouds and meets an extreme mountain-climber on the beach, then decides they’ve found their calling. “I’m going to be the first mermaid to climb Mount Everest.” “What? Bluefins, that’s ridiculous.” “No, no, I’m gonna do it.” “You can’t breathe air.” “I’ll bring a tank of water, like what the humans do with air when they dive.” “YOU DON’T HAVE LEGS.” “I know, that’s what’ll make me the first mermaid to do it. I’m going to have to work around that, but” “FOR FUCK’S SAKE, BLUEFINS. WE’RE TROPICAL.” “No, see, there are these human things called coats. I’ve got it all figured out. Look, I drew plans.” “WITH WHAT?”
This speaks to me today.
But also their friends and family who try so hard to be supportive:
“okay. Mountain climbing. Um… there’s a selkie who comes into the shop sometimes, want me to ask if she knows anything about human coats?”
the dwarf’s aunties building a little wind tunnel that diverts and collects wind from the surface so they can build scale airplanes together
“here, I made you a life jacket. So you won’t die when you fall overboard because you’re a horse.”
So I’ve been told I have to choose my surgeon for top surgery. At the moment I don’t really care, even wiskey and a pen knife seems like a good option sometimes. Does anyone have any advice on how to choose?
Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG! A black woman playing a white English queen? And I’m not even talking about the armour nonsense. What’s next a native american roman emperor wearing a grass skirt? A white Ghandi wearing ripped jeans and psychedelic shirts?
If you throw reality and historical accuracy out of the window for being PC you’re movie isn’t worth watching because it can have no real message.
And this is why I don’t have any plans to stop blogging here anytime soon. Until the concept that “historical accuracy” means “only cast white people” dies a well-deserved death, I’m going to keep posting art and documents that prove that casting historical adaptations with people of color is MORE accurate that leaving them out. When it comes to Black women characters in European Medieval and Renaissance theater, you can go back to PRIMARY sources and see them for yourself:
It sickens me that after three years of posting my research, there are still people who look at images as beautiful as these and say that it’s wrong. This is a Shakespeare adaptation; are you seriously sitting there thinking that everyone’s in Shakespeare’s writing, or in Elizabethan England, was white? The idea of people of color existing outside where YOU think they should be is somehow ridiculous?
As for “that amour” from what I’ve seen (I’m on my phone so can’t post sources) that is exactly what contempary examples of womans armour looked like ie brestplate and tassests, short sleeved maille or maille skirt, head protection all over a dress. Personally I would have gone with a helmet, picking hair out of maille coifs is painful. But I like how you can see she’s wearing padding. All in all A+ for historical accuracy.
