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[ID in alt text] 14/15 of my LGBTQIA+ boots series!
intersex flag themed💛💜
I'll be posting 1+ per week until the 1st of pride month 🏳️🌈 and then I'll post all of them!
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stickers or prints of this series here
Source: jojo-oliver
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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE NEANDERTHAL CHILD WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME? Because they're all I've been thinking about when I'm sad for the past few days. Their existence makes me less sad.
Did you know that this is not a rarity? We have found remains showing catastrophic injuries - permanently disabling ones. With fully remodeled, healed bones.
It is NOT the default, it is NOT human nature to exclude disabled people from society. By nature we look after each other, by nature disability is just a natural part of the human variety that's made us so successful as a species.
By nature, people love.
relatedly, i often find myself reflecting on the longstanding cultural assumption that homo sapiens "wiped out" neanderthals, a fact that's often repeated in sci-fi stories and especially alien invasion films-- "the technologically superior race always destroys its lesser" type spiel. this despite the now well-established fact that homo sapiens and neanderthal actually interbred, such that "most non-Africans today inherit 1-2% ancestry from Neanderthals."
in fact, on the same topic, any time i want to question some norms i remember that for quite a long time the scientific consensus on how humans domesticated the wolf is that we literally captured them, beat them, defanged them, and forcibly bred them over generations. of course we theorize now that wolves and humans naturally developed a mutually beneficial partnership. in his book How The Dog Became The Dog, Mark Derr evocatively describes pre-linguistic anatomically modern humans encountering in the wolf a creature of essentially equal intelligence with as much to teach *us* as we had to teach them. brought haltingly to the fireside by our offal and our natural desire for companionship.
we reflect our bigotries and assumptions backwards on our history to impose a sort of scientific destiny on monstrous cruelty, creating the impression that it's a simple biological inevitability. it is not. we are capable of terrible things and always have been, but i do believe at our core we're a loving animal.
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- Having fluctuating symptoms is valid
- Not understanding your symptoms is valid
- Feeling like your symptoms have gotten worse is valid
- Having your symptoms get worse is valid
- Feeling like your faking your symptoms is valid and happens to so many people all the time
Symptoms are not a fixed feeling. They can get worse and they can get better both experiences are valid.
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advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love
You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you
Fat people are most likely to suffer weight-based abuse from family members and doctors. Not co-workers, or kids at school, or comedians, or internet trolls. Family members and doctors. Let that sink in for a bit.
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spoon theory
Shoutout to leftists who are too poor/disabled to give back to their community.
Shoutout to leftists who are too poor/disabled to shop at local/small businesses.
Shoutout to leftists who are poor/disabled and have to buy things from Amazon and other megacorps because it’s the most cheap or convenient.
Shoutout to leftists who are too poor/disabled to reduce their environmental footprint because they need the single-use plastics.
Shoutout to leftists who can’t go vegan because of dietary needs, disordered eating, or neurodivergence.
Shoutout to leftists who can’t volunteer or go to community events/protests/noise demonstrations because of inaccessibility.
Shoutout to leftists who can only be politically active online because they’re housebound.
Shoutout to leftists who are disabled and are rarely politically active because they simply don’t have the energy.
Shoutout to leftists who can’t be politically active because they’re under the care of a guardian or are trapped in an abusive situation, and they don’t have control over their finances/belongings.
Shoutout to leftists who can’t read theory, or who have trouble reading theory, but still do their best to learn.
Shoutout to leftists who can’t understand theory at all because of cognitive/intellectual disability.
Shoutout to leftists who want to be more active in their community but can’t because they struggle with anxiety, socializing, or maintaining relationships.
Shoutout to leftists with personality disorders, complex trauma disorders, conduct disorders, OCD, psychosis, and any other leftist whose personality or thoughts often unwillingly go against their beliefs due to a trauma response or chemical imbalance.
Shoutout to leftists who don’t have any “practical” skills that would be needed in a commune (i.e farming, building, sewing)
Shoutout to leftists who are too busy simply trying to survive to even think about being politically active.
Shoutout to leftists who have to always ask for mutual aid but can never give back.
Shoutout to all the leftists who can’t do this and can’t do that and can’t do the things that leftists are “supposed” to do. No one person is perfect.
You aren’t a fake leftist for not being able to do these things. All that matters is that you put in the effort, in whatever way that you can.
It’s not about your abilities as an individual. It’s about our power as a collective.
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If you think having uncomfortable conversations is hard - wait until you see the result of not having them.
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you deserve all the safety and love and care and joy you begged the universe for as a child
I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!
You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.
Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”