#Reproduction

[queeringhope]

Hypocrisy hides in plain sight.

White men legislate control over women.

The fastest way to keep women in poverty is to remove their reproductive rights.

[myfandomrealitea]

Actually I think having kids is too normalized.

I mean like; not only has it become an expectation for people (not just talking about fascists and sexist pigs controlling women's choices) but people are just so... Out of touch with what "having a baby" actually means.

Not just for the immediate future but also long term.

"We'll cross that bridge if it comes to it!" is an alarmingly common response these days when parents are questioned about the future with their child. People seem to be so caught up in just having a child and a pretty nursery that they don't seem to think beyond that point at all.

I know so, so many people who suffered a shitty upbringing because their parents had a child because "its just what couples do." Parents who never planned for unforeseen circumstances. Parents who left crucial developmental stages to other people. Parents who never bothered to learn how to actually raise another human being.

[nemfrog]

Human reproduction. Anatomie élémentaire en 20 planches. 1831/1839.

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[marimo-n2m]

Acrylic Pen Exercise 3⚾️

[ere-the-sun-rises]

I was nine, on the first day of grade five, when I got my first period. And I was regular to the day from the start. I was finished all of my sexual development before I had graduated gradeschool. I had to wear women's clothes because nothing "age appropriate" fit me - at age twelve.

Sex education in Canada begins in grade five, in the back half of the year, and it focuses on biology not sex as an act. I'd had a regular period for six months by then. Period/wet dream talks happened in grade six. Reproductive biology (as in, how babies are made/gestated/born), happened in grades 7-8. Sex ed about the actual act (and possible diseases) happened in grade nine - when I had a fully regular period for nearly six years.

By the time I could vote, I'd had my period for half my life. Nearly a decade of my childhood, I was biologically eligable to become a mother. But I wasn't trusted with a vote for the same reason I shouldn't have been a mother - I was a goddamn child.

Having a period has never magically made anyone an adult.

That woman is a middle school teacher too. Imagine working with 11 to 14 year olds day in and day out and thinking “Abortion should be banned. Don’t want to get pregnant? Don’t have sex. These are individuals with bodies and minds strong enough to carry pregnancies.” that takes a level of evil so vast it is almost unfathomable. I got my first period age at the age of 11, the week of my grandpa’s funeral. I was so small and so scared and my teachers were so nice to me and so patient when I bled through my pants. To imagine this woman holding interacting with vulnerable children like that and thinking they should be denied abortion almost has me tearing up.

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[warandpeas]

Allergies

[rhythm-catsandwine]

If you live in Missouri, PLEASE! i beg of you! Go vote.

You may think we are a very red state, so it does not matter. But it does.

But there is amendment 3!!!!!!!!

Go fucking vote and end this abortion ban.

Find your location to vote. If you have to, tell your work you need to vote on the way to work or take the day off, even if it means you will skip a few meals. Skip dinner with family if you have to.

Just do whatever you have to do! Just fucking vote!!!!! It's one time that can change a lot.

Here in Missouri, the ban is harsh ......you can not get one even for rape or incest!

VOTE YES ON AMENDMENT 3!

I rarely ask this, but please reblog this!

[dhddmods]

You are not immune to being intersexist. Being anti-mutilation & anti-hormone abuse isn't enough.

We are so sick of radfems/TERFS/SWERFs and perisex queer people claiming to be intersex allies, while perpetuating intersexist ideals. We have had to correct some of these behaviors within ourselves over the years (ie; making intersexist jokes, using the H-slur while being unaware it was a slur, etc), because its so ingrained in society.

You are not immune to spreading intersexism. If you are still doing those things, learn now to stop and do better.

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Gatekeeping intersex variations & traits is intersexist.*

Calling intersex variations & traits conditions, disorders of sexual development/DSDs, urogenital deformities/disorders, hormone disorders, or chromosomal disorders is intersexist.**

Claiming intersex people can be sorted into a binary system ("female intersex" & "male intersex") is intersexist.***

Using f-ta (*u) or b--ddel (*ae) is intersexist and a slur.

Using h-rmaphrodite/h-rm (*e) - yes, even on animals - is intersexist and a slur. Use cosexed or intersex instead.****

Labelling altersex or cosexed characters as "intersex" is intersexist. Treating intersex variations as synonymous with cosexed is intersexist.

Identifying as "transintersex" is intersexist. Intersex & perisex are not a choice. Use one of the countless other terms to describe transitioning to mixed or null sex traits instead.

Lying about being intersex to get access to sex affirming care is intersexist, and isn't any "safer" than outing yourself as trans or altersex.

Claiming that intersex people can't be trans, or gatekeeping how they identify, is intersexist.

Mocking menstruation & pregnancy in people who aren't female-perceived (ie; mocking mpreg) is intersexist.

Calling intersex traits "too complicated" to bring up in basic biology class and sex education is intersexist. It only takes an extra 30 minutes to teach the basics of it.

Using small dick, no balls/small balls, or low T as insults is intersexist. Mocking people for having the "wrong" secondary sex traits (breasts, hips, muscle mass, body/facial hair, voice pitch, etc) is intersexist.*****

Calling HRT feminizing and masculinizing is intersexist. Using AFAB/AMAB interchangeably with mulleripathian/wolffipathian is intersexist.

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*Intersex describes a wide spectrum. This includes penile traits, urethral traits, ambiguous genitals, the agenital spectrum, reproductive traits, hormonal traits, and chromosomal variations. It is not just "mixed parts." You can read about them in our guide.

**Yes, intersex people often have comorbid disorders, but that does not make their intersexuality a disorder. Yes, sometimes (keyword SOMETIMES) urethral traits need surgery in order to urinate, but that doesn't make it a deformity, it just means that evolution isn't a conscious being.

***Yes, some intersex people have mostly mulleripathian traits or mostly wolffipathian traits - but that doesn't change the fact that they are intersex. Also, some intersex people are extremely ambiguous. Are you going to tell a person with XX-XY chimerism, ovotestes, a uterus, and a penis that they can be categorized into a binary sex system?

****Use cosexed when referring to animals who primarily have mixed sex traits (ie; slugs, snails, certain bugs, etc.) Use intersex when referring to animals who have a mulleripathian & wolffipathian variant, but fall outside of that (ie; a gynandromorph beetle or bird, a hyena born without a penis or pseudophallus, a calico cat with XXY chromosomes, etc.)

*****All of those are intersex traits. In fact, all of those things are genderqueer/varsex (trans, GNC, altersex, etc) traits too. Joking about people's bodies in general is just bigoted and disrespectful, why are you using body shaming as a punchline anyways?

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[theguythatcollectsdolls]

Doll cabinet update

Need to dust 😭

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[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This is far from surprising, Republicans love to talk a lot about how they care about life but they really don't. True care would be establishing a national childcare system, true care would be preventing school shootings, true care would be eradicating student lunch debt! But it was never about care but rather control, they seek to control women's bodies and use children as a cudgel like they do with other groups. Do not be deluded, Republicans will gladly strip women of their rights if we do not put up a united fight, they will strip us of all our rights if we do not vote them out of office. Vote blue and vote Democrat, it's the only feasible way short of violent tactics to prevent the loss of the rights we hold dear.

[unreesonable]

For one night only (27 Jan 2014) Reece appeared in Cool Rider, a musical based on Grease 2. He played Mr Stewart the biology teacher, and helped promote their kickstarter campaign to record the full cast album.

Below are pics of him in rehearsal and recording the album, and a clip that someone (a thousand blessings upon you) managed to record during the show.

[remash]

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