Insects are going ka-poof, countries are literally sinking, etc. Just fucked.
Environment in multiple crises - report
Terry Crews Refuses To Be 'Shamed’ Over Alleged Sexual Assault In Powerful #MeToo PSA
’Social Justice’ Author Faces Backlash Over Tweets Attacking Marie Kondo for Not Speaking English
Baltimore will no longer prosecute marijuana possession cases, state's attorney says
SENTENCED TO LIFE AT 16 IN SLAYING OF MAN WHO SHE SAID PULLED A GUN ON HER
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Showing posts with label trans* issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trans* issues. Show all posts
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Sunday Snippets: New year
Between the new awesome looking Congress and my kiddo's say cheese smiles, I have a little bit of hope back.
What 'Love Actually,' Cardi B and Meghan Markle share in common
The Quiet Crisis Killing Black Women
‘Super Saturday’ sends DC-area shoppers on the hunt for deals
“She wants to find a couple-pair of shoes,” said Donald Dudley, a DMV local who was browsing with his wife. “Whatever we come across if it’s a bargain, we’re going to go with it. If not, we’re just going to keep it moving and finish the rest of our day shopping.”
What 'Love Actually,' Cardi B and Meghan Markle share in common
The Quiet Crisis Killing Black Women
‘Super Saturday’ sends DC-area shoppers on the hunt for deals
“She wants to find a couple-pair of shoes,” said Donald Dudley, a DMV local who was browsing with his wife. “Whatever we come across if it’s a bargain, we’re going to go with it. If not, we’re just going to keep it moving and finish the rest of our day shopping.”
#Unexpectedharrypotter
The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro
Don't shop, de-clutter and learn to make repairs: How my house went a year without buying stuff we don't need
Twitter Suspends Account of Loujain Hathloul's Father After Tweeting About Her Torture and Sexual Abuse
Hallmark Is Now Selling Cards to Celebrate Transgender People Who Are Transitioning
‘A Pumping Conspiracy’: Why Workers Smuggled Breast Pumps Into Prison
The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro
Don't shop, de-clutter and learn to make repairs: How my house went a year without buying stuff we don't need
Twitter Suspends Account of Loujain Hathloul's Father After Tweeting About Her Torture and Sexual Abuse
Hallmark Is Now Selling Cards to Celebrate Transgender People Who Are Transitioning
‘A Pumping Conspiracy’: Why Workers Smuggled Breast Pumps Into Prison
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Sunday Snippets: The Year of all of the Things
I have two first birthday parties, a bridal shower, a wedding, our vow renewal, and a huge work conference in the next two months. I miss sleep.
Belgium is abolishing all prison sentences under one year
“A short prison sentence, a try-out in jail, rarely leads to good results. It does not contribute to re-integration, but helps inmates to learn bad habits,” Mr Geens told MPs on the announcement of the measures.
Belgium is abolishing all prison sentences under one year
“A short prison sentence, a try-out in jail, rarely leads to good results. It does not contribute to re-integration, but helps inmates to learn bad habits,” Mr Geens told MPs on the announcement of the measures.
Cats in a nutshell
I love dogs When I lived with friends during college breaks, they had the most hyper dog ever. She was a sweetie but a nut. Whenever I had bad endo pains flare, she knew immediately and would come and lay her head on my lap until I felt better.
My jaw hit the floor In what universe is this ok?
Very cool! And not just because I'm married to a mechanic.
Important PSA
Yeah, fuck Indiana
Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures
Because this makes sense
Color me surprised that this was a response
Awful
22-year-old Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the NYPD killing Eric Garner, was arrested shortly after on trumped up charges. He has since been locked up at the notorious Rikers prison in New York.
I love dogs When I lived with friends during college breaks, they had the most hyper dog ever. She was a sweetie but a nut. Whenever I had bad endo pains flare, she knew immediately and would come and lay her head on my lap until I felt better.
My jaw hit the floor In what universe is this ok?
Very cool! And not just because I'm married to a mechanic.
Important PSA
Yeah, fuck Indiana
Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures
Because this makes sense
Color me surprised that this was a response
Awful
22-year-old Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the NYPD killing Eric Garner, was arrested shortly after on trumped up charges. He has since been locked up at the notorious Rikers prison in New York.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Sunday Snippets: Yay summer!
I am rejoicing the warmer weather. Even when I drive a black car with leather seats. It's okay, I didn't need skin or anything.
Because cats & This is what is like to have a cat, period. & Even big cats are kitties at heart
Wonderful news
AHEAD OF HER TIME’: YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921-2014)
Disgusting
Very Cool!
Now, though, she's planning to embark this month on a flight around the world, a trip that closely replicates the 1937 journey of the original — and more famous — Amelia Earhart. If she's successful, this Amelia, at 31, will be the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft.
Completely awful
Alba Quiñones Flores started her period the first week that she was in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection. Every morning, a guard delivered sanitary napkins to her cell of 20 women—but only four or five pads for all of them. Quiñones couldn't scramble to the door fast enough to claim one. She'd injured her ankle crossing the Mexican border before CBP picked her up near Falfurrias, Texas, and she still hadn't received first aid. A CBP agent had thrown out the pills and insulin she needed to treat her myriad health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, migraines, anxiety, and convulsions. So Quiñones wound up using the same, single sanitary pad for her entire period.
Bad-ass
If you are reading this, thank this woman. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMAN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.
Ah, childhood.
The third one makes me want to scream and punch something Because WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.
Heartwarming "Mommy Wars" my ass
Say what you will, but this is a family that seems to really love each other
Welp, that's one of the most adorable things I've ever seen
To Read: Yes, all I had no idea about the first one.
And people wondered why I'm terrified of the ocean/deep water Because it will eat your soul.
Fuck. Yes. Awesome and lifesaving idea.
Because if you deviate from the norm.... *off to find the book*
Ugh. Truth
Smaller Closets I also did some thinking on this subject this week.
Because cats & This is what is like to have a cat, period. & Even big cats are kitties at heart
Wonderful news
AHEAD OF HER TIME’: YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921-2014)
Disgusting
Very Cool!
Now, though, she's planning to embark this month on a flight around the world, a trip that closely replicates the 1937 journey of the original — and more famous — Amelia Earhart. If she's successful, this Amelia, at 31, will be the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft.
Completely awful
Alba Quiñones Flores started her period the first week that she was in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection. Every morning, a guard delivered sanitary napkins to her cell of 20 women—but only four or five pads for all of them. Quiñones couldn't scramble to the door fast enough to claim one. She'd injured her ankle crossing the Mexican border before CBP picked her up near Falfurrias, Texas, and she still hadn't received first aid. A CBP agent had thrown out the pills and insulin she needed to treat her myriad health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, migraines, anxiety, and convulsions. So Quiñones wound up using the same, single sanitary pad for her entire period.
Bad-ass
If you are reading this, thank this woman. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMAN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.
Ah, childhood.
The third one makes me want to scream and punch something Because WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.
Heartwarming "Mommy Wars" my ass
Say what you will, but this is a family that seems to really love each other
Welp, that's one of the most adorable things I've ever seen
To Read: Yes, all I had no idea about the first one.
And people wondered why I'm terrified of the ocean/deep water Because it will eat your soul.
Fuck. Yes. Awesome and lifesaving idea.
Because if you deviate from the norm.... *off to find the book*
Ugh. Truth
Smaller Closets I also did some thinking on this subject this week.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sunday Snippets: I'm a Godmomma!
My new goddaughter, Zora, came into the world Thursday night after almost 22 hours of labor. It was an honor to be in the room. And today is also my brothers' 21st birthdays. I remember when they were born too!
I love seeing cats be badasses I would try this with Midnight, but we'd get maybe five feet per day because she would have to stop and sniff every single blade of grass.
Go. Read. NOW
The lives of black Americans are better than they were half a century ago. The humiliation of Whites Only signs are gone. Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows—and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere. The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970. Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at New York University, studied children born from 1955 through 1970 and found that 4 percent of whites and 62 percent of blacks across America had been raised in poor neighborhoods. A generation later, the same study showed, virtually nothing had changed. And whereas whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhoods, blacks tended to fall out of them.
The whole point of all of this is to take care of stuff that needs taking care of so that you feel like your day has beem productive and you feel genuinely tired and happy at the end of the day.
I love seeing cats be badasses I would try this with Midnight, but we'd get maybe five feet per day because she would have to stop and sniff every single blade of grass.
Go. Read. NOW
The lives of black Americans are better than they were half a century ago. The humiliation of Whites Only signs are gone. Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows—and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere. The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970. Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at New York University, studied children born from 1955 through 1970 and found that 4 percent of whites and 62 percent of blacks across America had been raised in poor neighborhoods. A generation later, the same study showed, virtually nothing had changed. And whereas whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhoods, blacks tended to fall out of them.
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Can't wait to buy this issue Go out and get your copy
American Girl was my jam back in the day Makes me happy to see this
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday Snippets: Oh, look snow....again.....*cries*
Rape culture, what rape culture? & An article by Zerlina Maxwell
Gah! SO cute!
Feels! I love random acts of kindness.
YES! I'm so beyond tired of blackface, it's wrong, plain and simple.
What. The. Hell. Footage I got of being HARASSED by Lou Ann Zelenik and others after a court hearing. Islamaphobia is alive and well in this part of the U.S.
Gah! SO cute!
Feels! I love random acts of kindness.
YES! I'm so beyond tired of blackface, it's wrong, plain and simple.
What. The. Hell. Footage I got of being HARASSED by Lou Ann Zelenik and others after a court hearing. Islamaphobia is alive and well in this part of the U.S.
Endo Awareness Month Endometriosis is a weird and kind of unbelievable disease. It’s hard to describe, and it involves a top-secret body part called the uterus that you don’t hear about it much, but it affects 157 million of women across the world. (Check out this video.) Because it's underrepresented in medical training and causes debilitating pain that can’t be measured, tested, or seen on scans, you have a nice recipe for an invisible disease relegated to "crazy women."
Yup! I remember being told by a coworker, after I said I wasn't feeling well, I had to leave early and they just looked at me, sighed, and said, "You don't look sick." I had a boss tell me that, that she couldn't stop me if I really needed to leave early.
Exactly! As you can see from the chart above, the Zero Waste lifestyle is actually more about not doing(i.e, not participating in unsustainable activities) than it is about doing (working on Zero Waste) as one would expect. For me, Not participating in unsustainable activities has made room for living more, along side working a fulfilling full-time job.
Interview with Ariel Gore Her new book, The End of Eve, is out. Go buy it. Seriously.
(Photo credit: http://i-am-a-child-of-time.tumblr.com/post/80903611484/jake-english-i-teach-my-class-about-privilege)
Yay!!! That human rights wrong was corrected today when the Maryland House of Delegates voted 82-57 to pass SB 212, the Fairness for All Marylanders Act! This bill, unlike the unjust 2011 one I blasted all over these TransGriot pages at the time along with a coalition of trans people just as pissed off about the unjust bill, expand Maryland's anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender people in employment, housing, access to credit and public accommodations.
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