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There was a TikTok post about an advertisement for “blood-making pills for weak women” someone found in a newspaper from the 1890s and everybody seemed to think it was just an example of the weird misogyny of the day and age but no. Anemia was a massive public health concern. It always has been through history but part of the reason we have this idea of old timey women thought history being physical weak, chronically cold and pale and fainting is because they often they were. Anemia was also a massive problem for men in that day but even now it disproportionally affects people who menstruate. So tonics full of stimulants and “healthful vitamins” were marketed at young women in pages upon pages of advertisements in every newspaper. People generally felt like shit all the time back then.

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If you see your USA mutual looking at the news and then producing a burger from their pocket and eating it, that can mean nothing good. This is the »emergency burger« used to strengthen oneself in times of dire need, and resorting to it is an unambiguous sign of great distress

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Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.

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Just kind of put off by the extent to which our culture is based on feeling superior to other people

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Disclaimer for the radfems with zero reading comprehension: yes bad johns with bad motivations exist. Yes it's a problem. Not saying otherwise. OK? OK.

We know that there are people who treat paying for sex as something that entitles them to anything they want, that view the people who's services they purchase as the commodity. But to pretend this is inherent to purchasing sex, that this is the relationship that every client has to the transaction, and to using the services of a sex worker, is frankly ignorant. This misconception feeds into the idea that paying for sex can ever be eradicated if we end oppression and ensure no one needs to work to survive, but the reality is there will always be people who want to give something in exchange for sex.

For many it is simply convenience. People want to have sex, paying streamlines things. For plenty paying is an act of submission, that one is *very* common. For some it elevates the person they are having sex with, for someone to be so attractive that you've got to bid for their attention. Some are at a point where they *only* want sex, and paying a proffesional eliminates the risk of the social difficulties and emotional distress that can arise from trying to meet someone for sex in other contexts, a sex worker won't catch feelings. Some people have a great amount of anxiety around sex and feel more comfortable with a proffesional. Some just simply have not been successful seeking sexual relationships. Many ND clients find that the transaction and associated negotiation eliminates the barriers to sex that their nerodivergence poses, social interaction can be very difficult. Some just like offering something extra, paying is to casual sex as cooking a meal is to sex in a relationship, it's nice to do something extra for someone. Some people have specific sexual interests that they struggle to explore otherwise. Some have sexual difficulties that need someone more experienced and knowledgeable to handle. Some *cant* meet people otherwise due to disability that keeps them at home. Some are treated with such contempt by civs that they can't face trying with them anymore. Some feel trapped in unloving and contemptuous, even abusive relationships and just want to feel cared for. Almost all just want some connection.

Sex is complicated, why do people expect the reasons for paying for sex to not also be complicated?

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I don't think it's as complex as it's usually made out to be;

anarchists are going to tacitly agree that anarchism could theoretically be reached from a different kind of state better than it could under the current ones;

anarchists are also going to know that insistence we're "all on the same side" is disproved in history and ongoing rhetoric, constantly, and that once the "communist state" (? ? ^_^ hokay) is done wiping out the petit bourgeoisie it'll turn to protecting its power structures from its old "allies", the ungovernable "counterrevolutionaries" who refuse to entertain work detail or report for responsible reeducation funded by a compassionate People's Emergency Temporary State

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Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.

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Fundraisers for Gaza- October 7

Donate if you can, share if you will not! Go Fund Mes have been linked for more information!

It's been a YEAR of genocide, yall. These folks have been going through a year of suffering we can't even comprehend. I don't know where I was going, I just... If you don't donate any other day, at least today.

@nooralanqar - €23,417 raised, €40,000 goal

@aymanbasil2 - €3,433 raised, €15,000 goal

@hazemsuhail - €11,374 raised, €50,000 goal

@shadyfamily - €1,271 raised, €50,000 goal

@motazmohammed - €3,253 raised, €50,000 goal

@ahmedomar3 - €5,812 raised, €50,000 goal

@mohammedayyads-blog - €3,838 raised, €35,000 goal

@ahed-family2 - $4,120 raised, $40,000 goal

@shamraed - €1,528 raised, €35,000 goal

@eman-kha - $3,287 raised, $40,000 goal

@akramaldwaik18 - 0/$25,000 goal ‼️‼️‼️

@olaferwana1 - €9,552 raised, €35,000 goal

@nader-alanqar3333 - €4,693 raised, €50,000 goal

@mahrahpalestine - $19,615 raised, $50,000 goal

@ahmadwaleed555 - $9,982 raised, $25,000 goal

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It's me. I'm Chronically ill bitches

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to people who dmed me: cannot donate currently so i'm going to save your messages until when i can so the notifications are still there to remind me. i apologize for the delay

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A year ago today, on October 7th, 2023, the world finally turned their eyes towards Palestine. And on that day, I wrote a song called City Of Gold. It’s a song about my frustrations with trans people like me feeling like we have no place in the world and a song of solidarity with the people of Palestine as their lives and homes were taken from them.

I’m releasing this song and committing to giving 100% of all of the funds raised with this song to the people of Palestine from now until forever. And a big part of why I am doing this is because of my dear friend, Raja.

When Raja and I first connected, we were strangers with nothing in common - Raja, a Muslim woman in need of help and I, a queer trans woman fortunate enough to be able to. But over the last six months we have shared our lives, our experiences, our grief, and also love, comfort, and tears. She has become my sister and I her's.

Along with donating all of the money made on this song, I am also organizing a Gofundme on her behalf to help her raise enough money to start to rebuild her life.

Raja is an award winning director and filmmaker, and also a wife and mother of two young children. She escaped from Gaza with her family and is now in Cairo thanks to the fundraiser we were able to successfully complete earlier this year. And now, a full year later, we are trying to raise money for Raja and her family to rebuild her life and tell her story.

With over a year of ongoing genocide, her voice and her story are of the utmost importance, now more than ever. And even though she has escaped with her life, she still has not escaped genocide. She still does not have freedom.

None of us are free until all of us are free. Please stand with us, the rejects of heaven. Help us build our place in the world.

Fundraiser for Raja

City of Gold:

Bandcamp and Soundcloud are available today, all other streaming platforms will release on October 14th.

Additionally, I documented the entire process of writing and producing this song back in October of 2023 for a class I was making on Studio.com. I didn't know I would be here doing this back then but now that I am, I am also donating 50% of the profit from the class to the people of Palestine from now until forever. The class is $80 but if you use the link I provided here, 90% of that will go directly to me as the creator. Art commissioned from nurtur33d

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"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

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i've been thinking lately about how pointless it is to pit the trans and intersex communities against one another, or act like they should never be associated with one another

if i hadn't started looking into being trans, i would have never found out about the intersex community. if i hadn't listened to trans intersex people, i would have not known where to go when it comes to people who were born outside of the biological sex binary. not even my own perisex doctors helped me learn about the terminology and what my conditions meant for my health, safety and well being

if it werent for a community that's regularly looking into and taking hormones for their health, safety and well being, i would've been totally left in the dark. and especially when it comes to how i feel about gender, and how i've had to transition into the concept of gender itself. i never got a chance to establish a gender or figure out what mine actually was as a kid, due to my intersex experience. everyone guessed and gendered me for me

i was a boy one moment, a girl another and a thing, or an "it" the next. i was a bulldyke. i was a tranny. i was a faggot. i was a butch. they tried to "fix" me by forcing me to buy "girl clothes". i was everything but what i wanted to be, or what i felt i was. it was always established by someone else, and i felt powerless to do anything about it, until i found the trans community. here i found a group of people who were also desperately trying to take their identity into their own hands and define it for themselves

it not only informed me of the name of one experience i was having, but it also told me that it was okay that i stopped the estrogen HRT that i was forced to take, and that i wanted to start testosterone instead so i could continue to grow out my beard and experience masculine changes in my body. i found a community of people who also felt disconnected from their voices, their faces, their bodies. i instantly felt like i was among peers

even if i couldn't figure out my gender at first. to me, my body was what needed changing, and that finally lead me to the intersex community. but it was only through the trans community that i personally found this, and found the encouragement to even talk to other intersex people at all. of course there are perisex trans people who have horrible opinions, and will be shitty toward intersex people, but it was imperative for me to discover the trans community as well as the intersex community

for me, being intersex and trans are inseparable experiences. they are one in the same. not every intersex person is like that. it's okay to be cis and intersex. but for me, i need both of these things to be considered together, at once, because they cannot be separated, and i do not want them to be. some people want to be in the part of the intersex community that is not trans, and that's good, that's where those folks belong. i feel at home in both the intersex and trans communities, so this is where i stay

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I am pleading once again for white liberals to read The New Jim Crow and see how racist policing and law enforcement is 1) bipartisan and 2) the key to how people of color (Black people specifically) are systemically, violently, and purposely kept in check in this country. Begging y'all to see that someone doesn't have to say a slur to be antiblack in the entirety of their belief system, that the status quo you live under is maintained by the suffering (both current and potential) of millions

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My grandfather has a brain thing right now that makes it hard for him to talk in more than one word sentences but he can understand people just fine and lately it’s been kinda pissing me off how many healthcare providers talk to him like he’s five years old. Like he can understand you. He can answer yes or no questions. We just told you that. You don’t have to talk about him to me like he’s not here.