I think it’s the American way... A constant smile is so ingrained into what we’re supposed to be that any expression of sadness is uncomfortable or unacceptable, because nobody knows how to cope with it. So they deny it. Cheer up! It’s not so bad! You’re bringing me down, man, why can’t you just put on a smile for us?

really beautiful. really eloquent. really wish it hadn’t ended with a Bono quote.

I will remember to use “how are you today?” after reading this.

Thank you for your work with cats in need.

It was funny.

I lived in Miami for three years. There is definitely an international flair, but there’s an equally strong Everglades influence as well. Just south of Miami is a little part of Alabama that got lost somewhere.

Jesus. Part of me is angry so many innocent people had to die and get hurt to bring the rampant corruption and bigotry in U.S. police departments into the public eye, and another part of me is just happy the rest of the world is now seeing what our more vulnerable communities have known about them all along.

I’m reaching? I don’t lie and call a safe, simple medical procedure “violent” or call it more traumatic than a full term birth.

but they do stress that they believe the most non-violent and least traumatizing choice for the mother is to carry to term.

I’m sure her clinic isn’t the only one like this

Sure you are...

Wait who is saying that PoC can’t discriminate against each other? Because anti-blackness is or has been a prominent feature in a lot of non-black PoC rhetoric in the US.

It is really hard to just own that shit,huh? I mean without prefacing it with ‘but Africans did it or the Brazilians did it longer’. I find that as unacceptable Germany saying ‘but the Turks did it first...’ Slavery, peonage and Jim Crow advantaged white people in the U.S. as they were intended, full stop.

When did being Black and mentally ill become a capital offense?

Because the police wanted to punish her for being black and female.

fify

How broken does a system have to be before people finally do something about it? How is it that a woman who is a known schizophrenic is being bounced around from jail to jail as the only way to *maybe* get her psychiatric treatment? This makes me so sad.

THE FUCK. I am right there with you. I don’t usually care about spoilers, but only if I knowingly glance something related knowing I haven’t caught up yet. BUT VACCINES? Seriously? Fucking A.

Your comment is a classist, ableist trainwreck.

Since my grandma was a contemporary of Rose Kennedy and very interested in her treatment, I’ve always been aware of his practices. Traveling around to spread the gospel of lobotomies doesn’t answer why he couldn’t set up shop at a John Hopkins type facility. I think he’d be more effective with a well regarded research…

I think Freeman’s presence is more like the early gynecological experiments done on American slave women. You need to understand that before scientific testing on animals became widespread, the test subjects were unwilling or uninformed black citizens of the United States.