I didn’t even fully understand how terrible US healthcare was until my partner and I started volunteering for an NGO in Colombia. I have type-1 diabetes and recently caught the flu here, which required me to spend a week in the hospital (two days of that in a special care unit). My total cost: $0.00. We’re both…
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My partner and I are currently doing volunteer work for an NGO in Colombia, and we’ll be here for the next two years. We talked about going on strike, but neither of us felt that taking our time away from people on the margins made any sense, so we’re going to find something to do related to International Women’s Day…
If you are a member of a union and you strike, the union will formally negotiate with the employer for particular demands, which isn’t the case here.
Watch as they continue to lay this bigotry at our doorsteps, too. “We’re doing this for you! We’re protecting women!” Fuck. That.
Plus, I don’t trust him. (Duh.) He could throw gay people under the bus. After all, he chose Mike Pence for VP.
I posted this link in another thread yesterday, but it’s been amazingly helpful for me (and I love signal boosting it): https://5calls.org/
You guys probably have both resources already, but for anyone who doesn’t, these have been invaluable to me:
Same!
One popular book — Judy Blume’s Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret? (1970) - hardly constitutes evidence of the “cultiest” attention to menstrual onset or represents “incessant” writing of books...
I sort of want to quote Lindy West at him:
Probably all the designers there were women, if you are seeing pink and thinking in women you do not realize the sign is wrong...
I thought there was a mass ungreying when Univision stepped in?
So, that just made me laugh very, very hard. I nearly avoided saying anything, because silence sort of seemed like the best response for this particular subject. However,
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Nina Hagen. Antiworld.
Yeah. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been grabbed by men when my ink was visible, as if just having tattoos they could see meant it was their right to manhandle me. “You obviously want attention, or you wouldn’t have gotten these. I’m just giving it to you—you should be grateful.” It’s always “you should…
the political equivalent of one of those mutant factory farm chickens with breasts so big it can’t walk
Someone else posted this in the comments awhile ago, and I saved it because it was so right: