#lgbtq medi

[pandamorphic]

Yeesh took way longer than i wanted, literally took like a week to sketch and line and adjust 😭 anyway finally did a thing for pride lol my boys!!! Every time I hear Always by PATD I think of them 💜💜💜

[niallsecretlove]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!! 💞💞💞💞💞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mackenzie Mays at LA Times:

Wearing pigtails, a pleated skirt and a furry heart-shaped purse, Chloe Cole bounced up the steps of the California Capitol this spring, leaned into a microphone and insisted that transgender children don’t exist. For the dainty 19-year-old, to erase transgender children is to erase a part of her past. Cole has said publicly and in court documents that she first began questioning her gender identity when she was 12. She left a letter on the dining room table telling her family that she was a boy. She wanted a new name, like Ky or Chi, and a more comfortable life. With the blessing of her parents, who sought the advice of physicians and mental health experts, the self-described socially awkward kid from the Central Valley received routine injections to suppress her puberty and boost testosterone. She was glad when her voice got deeper and her jawline became more defined. In 2020, at age 15, she underwent a double mastectomy in pursuit of her most authentic self.

But now, Cole identifies as a woman and says she regrets those decisions. And she’s making a career out of that regret — traveling the country as a leader of the controversial “detransition” movement and emerging as a right-wing icon. [...] Research shows that youths receiving the kind of care that Cole did at her age is rare and that the likelihood of transgender people changing their mind is even rarer, with some studies showing as little as 2% seek to detransition.

But while Cole’s experience may be uncommon, her reach is wide. In the last year, she has testified before Congress about being “the victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America”; attended President Biden’s State of the Union address as the guest of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson; and urged lawmakers across the nation to outlaw treatment such as hormone therapy for minors. Half of states now prohibit gender-affirming care for those under 18, including Wyoming, where Republicans christened their ban passed in April as “Chloe’s law.” Major medical organizations condemn the policies that Cole promotes, and LGBTQ+ activists warn that people like her are a danger to already vulnerable youths. They worry that the amplification of her story is part of an organized effort by conservatives to discriminate against LGBTQ+ young people whose access to care is crucial to their well-being, citing high suicide rates among transgender people.

Most of Cole’s critics don’t deny her personal story in the same way that she discredits the experiences of hundreds of thousands of transgender youths. But as her profile rises, they question her motives. Cole, who turns 20 this month, works as a patient advocate for the new nonprofit Do No Harm, a leader of anti-transgender legislation, and charges up to $5,000 to speak at public events about gender ideology, according to the Young America’s Foundation, which represents conservative personalities such as Ben Shapiro. She’s told her story on the podcast of hard-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and joined Charlie Kirk, a leader of the MAGA movement, on college campuses where students protest her presence.

[...] The details of Cole’s transition journey are playing out in court, as she sues her medical providers for giving her the treatment that a few years earlier she begged her parents to pursue. Cole — who said she does not use her real last name out of safety concerns — says now that she was never actually transgender, just confused and anxious about puberty. She alleges that her medical providers were too quick to diagnose her and ignored a list of other mental health problems that she believes, if properly treated, could have prevented the medical interventions she now regrets. She has turned her transition process — which she once viewed as the reflection of supportive parents, uncommon for LGBTQ+ youths — into a nightmarish cautionary tale. The mastectomy initially came to her as a relief after spending her days uncomfortably binding her breasts, walking home from school under the blaze of triple-digit San Joaquin Valley summers wearing extra layers to help her disguise. Now, she talks at public events and on conservative media about her surgery scars in grotesque detail, describing infections and mourning that she will never be able to breastfeed her future children.

[...] That question is predicated on recommendations from major medical organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics that say gender-affirming care is “medically necessary” and potentially “lifesaving” because of the trauma that transgender kids may face. One large study out of Denmark last year showed that transgender people are 7.7 times more likely to attempt suicide and 3.5 times as likely to die by suicide. But Cole’s case has tapped into concerns — on both sides of the political divide — about the right age for gender-related medical treatment. Last month, the Biden administration said it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors amid debates about the minimum age for different types of care. England recently moved to limit the ability of people younger than 16 to medically transition, and some experts considered LGBTQ+ allies have expressed hesitation amid rising transgender youth rates.

[...] Cole doesn’t just blame her doctors and therapists for her transition. In her lawsuit, she names a long list of other people and factors that pushed her there. She blames the internet and LGBTQ+ influencers she followed on social media at a young age. She blames a boy who assaulted her in the eighth grade by groping her breasts in class — an incident she said traumatized her and made her no longer want to be a girl. She blames being on the autism spectrum, though she does not have an official diagnosis. She blames what she called the horrors of being a woman and the odds of being raped. The youngest of five siblings, she blames being a tomboy who simply looked up to her brothers and wanted to be like them.

[...]

Cole stops short, though, of blaming her parents. She said that she still lives with them and they have “managed to heal as a unit,” but it hasn’t been easy. “This is my decision that I took on. I don’t want to put that on them. I feel like they have gone through just as much grief as I have,” Cole said. “This is something that has brought them a lot of pain. They have a lot of guilt.” Records show her parents filed for divorce in 2019 in the throes of her transition. They did not respond to requests for comment. To chalk up being transgender to a symptom of some disease or as a flaw that needs to be fixed is offensive to the community but is not a new strategy for conservatives. The national GOP platform approved at the Republican convention last week pledges to “end left wing gender insanity” and calls to stop schools from “promoting” gender transition and to “keep men out of women’s sports.”

[...]

One of Cole’s therapists, an expert witness in the case, details the moment that she decided to detransition. She was 16 and had used her chore money to buy LSD. In a state of “bliss and happiness,” Cole heard a voice “telling her that she was lying to herself about being a boy,” according to a declaration submitted to the court. She then became a Christian, according to the declaration, and requested a Christian therapist. When she detransitioned, Cole said she lost all of her friends. She dropped out of high school and took a proficiency exam in lieu of graduating. “It felt like the whole world was turning its whole back on me,” she said. “I was basically a shut-in. I was spending my whole day playing video games in my room.” She also lost her online community of LGBTQ+ supporters. So she found a new one.

Some of the biggest names in the conservative movement have welcomed Cole with open arms, including psychologist and author Jordan B. Peterson, who called gender dysphoria a “sociological contagion,” and activist Billboard Chris, who called gender-affirming care “the biggest child abuse scandal in the history of modern medicine.” Cole’s schedule stays packed. When she speaks at events across the country, she receives standing ovations and the attention of sympathetic audiences. They cheer when she announces she’s suing, and gasp in disgust when she talks about her surgery. That acceptance keeps Cole going even as students have protested her events at college campuses in Iowa, Indiana, New Hampshire and Utah, where she tells her story again and again and holds signs outside classrooms that say things like “children are never born in the wrong body.”

She has more than 20,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 200,000 followers on the social media platform X. Her supporters make donations to her website to help fund her travel for her advocacy work. Cole, a registered Republican who will soon vote in her first presidential election, has gotten bolder since she began public speaking. Four months ago, she was adamant that she didn’t care about politics.

But as November nears, Cole is using her platform to support Trump. Online, she’s posted a video of her shooting a gun at a shooting range in support of the Republican nominee’s endorsement from the NRA; praised Tesla founder Elon Musk for moving his companies out of California over the state’s new transgender youth protections and called transgender people part of a “self-harm cult.” In her lawsuit, attorneys allege that Cole wanted to transition in part because she “craved the social approval” that transgender kids received from the LGBTQ+ community “that she was not otherwise receiving from her peers.”

The Los Angeles Times delves into how Chloe Cole (whose real name is Chloe Brockman) became a leader in the right-wing political detransitioner movement that seeks to call for bans on gender-affirming care after her experiences with gender-affirming care.

The political detransitioner movement that is led by Cole and few others are a small portion of detransitioners.

[pikolswonderland]

Garten Of Banban: As Above So Below LGBTQ+ Headcanons because…WELL WHY THE HELL NOT!

HELLO EVERYONE!! I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much content on my GoBB rewrite, so I figured I’d just make this post for now, enjoy!

Morley Newmaker - Sapphic Asexual Demigirl, She/They

Tobias Newmaker - Unlabeled Cis Boy, He/Him

Claire Roberts - Unlabeled Cis Girl, She/Her

Uthman Adam - Aro/Ace Demiboy, He/They/Xe

Weverly Mason - Bisexual Cis Woman, She/Her

Banban - Pansexual Trans Man, He/Him

Banbaleena - Bisexual Trans Woman, She/Her

Jumbo Josh - Polyamorous Bisexual Trans Man, He/Him

Stinger Flynn - Unlabeled Aro/Ace Intersex Demiboy, He/They

Captain Fiddles - Unlabeled Genderfluid Person, He/She/They

Opila Bird - Pansexual Cis Woman, She/Her

Tarta Bird - Bisexual Cis Man, He/Him

Little Beak - Unlabeled Intersex Girl, She/Her

Slow Seline - Sapphic Asexual Intersex Woman, They/She

Sheriff Toadster - Gay Cis Man, He/Him

Nabnab - Biromantic Asexual Demiboy, He/They/Xe

Nabnaleena - Aro/Ace Demigirl, She/It

Queen Bouncelia - Polyamorous Bisexual Cis Woman, She/Her

Sir Dadadoo - Polyamorous Bisexual Cis Man, He/Xe

Bittergiggle - Pansexual Nonbinary Intersex Person, They/Them

Tamataki - Bisexual Demiboy, He/They, Xe

Chamataki - Lesbian Demigirl, She/Him/Xe

Syringeon - Biromantic Demisexual Trans Woman, She/Him

Mandi (Black-Eyed Syringeon Baby) - Unlabeled Intersex Demigirl, She/Him

Medi (White-Eyed Syringeon Baby) - Unlabeled Genderqueer Person, They/Them

Kittysaurus - Pansexual Cis Woman, She/It

Zolphius - Polyamorous Panromantic Demisexual Nonbinary Person, Any Pronouns

The Nanny - Unlabeled Aro/Ace Woman, She/They/It

Thingamajig (The Chapter 5 Alien Dude) - Polyamorous Unlabeled Agender Person, They/Xe/It

[lamilanomagazine]

Siracusa: arriva il Pride ma prima della grande parata due giornate di “Pride Village”

Siracusa: arriva il Pride ma prima della grande parata due giornate di “Pride Village”. Saranno due gli incontri del “Pride Village” che animeranno, giovedì 29 e venerdì 30 giugno, la piazzetta in fondo a via Riviera Dionisio il Grande, all’ingresso dell’area dei Monumento ai Caduti d’Africa. I due eventi, come di consuetudine, si terranno nei giorni precedenti alla parata finale del 1° luglio. Si comincia giovedì alle ore 18 con l’incontro dibattito all’insegna del dialogo interreligioso dal tema: “Fede, Identità di genere e orientamenti sessuali” al quale prenderanno parte: Ioana Niculina Ghivalchiu, pastora Chiesta evangelica Battista di Siracusa, Floridia e Lentini; Don Carlo D’Antoni, parroco della Chiesa cattolica di Bosco Minniti di Siracusa; Gabriele Spagna, responsabile della Sinagoga di Siracusa e Anna Adorno, responsabile “divisione donne” Regione Sicilia dell’Istituto Italiano “Soka Gakkai”. Moderano le giornaliste, Nadia Germano e Alessia Zeferino. Alle ore 20.00 proiezione del docufilm “Alfredo’s Fire” (2014), introdotto da Eleonora Gennaro per Arci Siracusa, realizzato nel 2014 dal regista statunitense Andy Abrahams Wilson. Il docufilm, della durata di 40 minuti, racconta la storia di Alfredo Ormando, scrittore omosessuale originario di San Cataldo, un paesino in provincia di Caltanissetta, che nel 1988 si uccise dandosi fuoco in piazza San Pietro. Ad uccidere Alfredo, però, non furono le fiamme che avvolsero il suo corpo ma l’ipocrisia, il pregiudizio l’omofobia, il provincialismo e la cattiveria della gente che lo avevano ferito nel profondo alimentando il tormento interiore di non poter conciliare la propria fede cattolica con l’essere omosessuale. Concludono alle ore 21.15 le artiste siracusane, Lucia De Luca e Nicoletta Palermo, Valentina Muscia e Lucia De Luca in concerto con lo spettacolo: NiVaLù Pride Songs. Al trio si aggiungerà la partecipazione straordinaria del polistrumentista Carmelo Guastella. Venerdì 30 giugno, protagonista del Pride Village, alle ore 18.30 “Cittadini LGBTQ+ tra uguali doveri e differenti diritti”, tavola rotonda sui diritti delle persone LGBTQ+ conquistati, su quelli osteggiati e su quelli per cui ancora è necessario lottare. Parteciperanno all’incontro: Marilena Grassadonia, attivista LGBT+ e per i diritti civili, ex presidente dell’associazione Famiglie Arcobaleno; Lele Russo, avvocato “Rete Lenford - Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI+”; Emma Lo Magro Psicologa e psicoterapeuta – Gruppo di lavoro “Psicologia LGBT+” dell’Ordine degli Psicologi Sicilia; Armando Caravini, presidente Arcigay Siracusa; Alessandro Bottaro, presidente Stonewall Siracusa. Moderano le giornaliste Nadia Germano e Alessia Zeferino. Il Siracusa Pride 2023 è organizzato da: Arcigay Siracusa e Stonewall GLBT Siracusa in collaborazione con: Amnesty International - Gruppo Italia 85, Arci Siracusa, Arciragazzi Siracusa 2.0, Astrea in memoria di Stefano Biondo, Centro Antiviolenza Ipazia, CGIL, COBAS Scuola Siracusa, COBAS pubblico impiego Siracusa, Giosef Siracusa, Giovani Menti Libere, No all’Odio - Movimento di contrasto ai discorsi d’Odio, Rete Degli Studenti Medi Siracusa, UIL, Zuimama Arciragazzi.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Vietata la Bibbia in un distretto scolastico dello Utah: "Pornografica". E in California è rissa fra genitori per un libro a tema Lgbtq+

Bibbia vietata nello Utah. Il distretto scolastico di Davis ha bandito il testo sacro nelle scuole elementari e medie perché contiene “volgarità e violenza non adatte agli studenti più giovani”. Il provvedimento fa  seguito alla denuncia del genitore di uno degli alunni, che secondo il quotidiano Salt Lake Tribune si era lamentato del fatto che la Bibbia di Re Giacomo “non contenga valori seri…

[widiyaniahmud]

-Fitrah Manusia-

UAH -LGBTQ

Hikmah terbesar manusia untuk menghadirkan harmoni dalam kehidupan. Misi Manusia Menjadi Khalifah dimuka bumi ini (Al Baqarah: 30)

Manusia diciptakan berpasangan, adam (lelaki) dan hawa (perempuan) diberikan pelatihan dulu di Surga sebelum turun ke dunia.

Sifat berketurunan akan saling menggantikan Misi Abadi di dunia menjadi (Khalifah).

Keturunan dimaksudkan untuk memakmurkan bumi (diantara perbedaan) provinsi, suku, negara dll. Diharapkan berharmoni.

Keturunan harus kuat menghadapi tantangan di setiap zaman. Pastikan keturunan kita diberikan bekal yang kuat (kekuatan intelektual, fisik, iman) .

Kehidupan bisa dipandang sempurna dalam menjalankan misi, jika manusia berjalan sesuai FITRAH Nya.

Nilai kemanusiaan harus dijaga yang telah Allah gariskan (menempatkan sesuatu dengan seharusnya) (Adab dan Adil).

Laki laki (pakaian,tampilan fisik, hak dan kewajiban) ,begitupun perempuan.

Adil "menempatkan sesuatu sesuai dengan tempatnya"

Adab "menerima dan bersikap sesuai yang Allah gariskan"

Zaman Nabi Luth ,manusia menodai fitrah nya.

Penyimpangan fitrah adalah tugas kita bersama ,sebagai tanda kita peduli. Supaya manusia menjadi terhormat (beradap sikap moral kepada Tuhan Nya)

LGBT bukan Fitrah dari Tuhan Nya

Cara menghormati LGBT dengan cara membantu kedalam fitrah, jangan di fasilitasi, tapi jangan dijauhi, mendoakan untuk sembuh, membantu terapi medis dll. (Bukan ruang untuk pembenaran )

#01 Januari 2023

#Belajar dan mendengar

#Ust Adi Hidayat (Podcast di Spotify)

[warriorsbardsnbrews]

WBB Podcast chats with Dana Piccoli

WBB Podcast welcomes a very special guest: The Fairy Gaymother™ herself, Dana Piccoli!

Dana is the Editor in Chief of QueerMediaMatters, an entertainment writer and pop culture critic.

We had a great time chatting with Dana about her new website, queerbaiting, representation, media access and, of course, Xena!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts,  GooglePlay,iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, and Soundcloud!

QueerMediaMatters: www.queermediamatters.com/ Dana Piccoli's Spreadshirt page: shop.spreadshirt.com/fairy-gaymother/ Check out Dana's website: danapiccoli.com/

Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/WBB_Podcast Send us a message on Tumblr: warriorsbardsnbrews.tumblr.com If email is your thing, send one to wbbpodcast1@gmail.com Follow our Instagram for beer choices and Podcat: wbb_podcast Thanks to Grace: https://bigmammallama5.tumblr.com/ for our logo! We have merch!: www.redbubble.com/people/bigmammallama5 or email us!

[inc-inn-doc]

[lackadaisys]

i HATE when people criticize a movie that includes lgbtq+ rep by saying it’s “trying too hard to please people” or “trying to appeal to a liberal audience”. Like, no. they’re not trying to “appeal” to anyone, they’re just done trying to appeal to YOU by purposely excluding a certain group of people. Excluding is appealing to hate. Treating people equally isn’t appealing to anyone.

[blacknailpolishonguitarstrings]

Marlene McKinnon and her parents

TW FOR MENTION OF DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

-Marlene McKinnon is a free spirit, she needs her freedom and her space like a fish needs water

-And yet her parents are the exact opposite

-In some ways they do give her freedom, she supposes, they never really check her school work or grades, they don’t mind letting her go out with friends and they trust her to go out for long walks alone, but it’s not enough

-Her dad is a Ministry worker at the Department of International Liaisons, her mother, a Medi-witch at St. Mungos, both purebloods

-Her family isn’t part of the Sacred 28, and they aren’t extremely rich either, but they live comfortably, above the usual middle-class Wizarding family

-They paint themselves as non-conservative and not very traditional either, yet prejudices and negative opinions perdure

-And far too often, her family strips that much needed freedom away from her

-They don’t understand her and it tires her out

-It starts with the little things, like stripping her room bare of any object salve for the bed thanks to magic during the nights, because “you need to sleep Marlene” to the constant fights over every little thing, like the time she used the wrong pack of butter while baking

-More and more restrictions fall into place, don’t do this, don’t do that, “don’t cross your arms like that it’s a bad omen”, “don’t cross your legs it’s bad for your blood circulation”, “don’t speak to us like that young lady”, on and on and on

-The fights become bigger and bigger as she retreats into herself, spending as much time as possible in her room “I’m studying extra for my OWLs this year mum”, and the long walks she disguises as “exercise and fresh air” are her only solace, her escape from the constricting house

-It’s always blaming her for everything, “you don’t spend time with us”, “your relationship with your sister is awful”, “you don’t tell us anything”, “you don’t trust us”, all synonyms for a thinly veiled “you don’t love us” and maybe, indeed, she doesn’t, maybe the hatred she feels for her parents most days overcome whatever’s left of the love

-Whether it’s the forced physical contact or the “quality time” spent together, Marlene is suffocating, drowning further and further into a deep sea of numbness and exhaustion

-Again, the changes start with the little things, like the choice of darker and darker clothes, the sudden desire to do something crazy to her hair, the carelessness regarding school, then the bigger ones, when lively and joyful and friendly Marlene becomes a cold person, who retreats into herself and builds up walls thousands of meters high and thick, walls which never crumble but only open up from time to time to her closest friends, when the sleeping problems start, and when she has the sudden desire to inflict pain upon herself and feel it in every nerve of her body, raw and fiery, it is just to feel something

-Mood swings ensue, constant tiredness of everything, no desire to spend time with other people, no desire to do anything really, and she falls into deep moments of sadness and anger, the times of joy becoming scarcer and scarer until Dorcas comes into her life

-Dorcas is an explosion of colour, a magical firework brightening up her world, and for a few brief moments, Marlene dares believe that everything is alright now, that she’s isn’t crackled and broken anymore, but it all comes crashing down way too soon

-She outs herself, by accidentally leaving a pride pin on her bedroom floor, and the flood of questions comes

-She lies, saying she isn’t sure, that she’s just going through an identity crisis trying to figure herself out, and she really is, but that part of herself, which loves girls, is crystal clear to her

-And yet, the reactions, the “you’re too young to know”, “you don’t have any experience”, “don’t label yourself just yet, don’t close doors for yourself”, and, worst of all, the “but I wanted you to have children, you know, it’s important that a woman is pregnant at least once in her life for her health” and “same-sex relationships, especially for women, are very dangerous for health” hurt her, and impede her from being who she is

-It tells Marlene straight away “we don’t accept this, we don’t like it, this is not okay”

-Every eye roll at the smallest mention of anything regarding the LGBTQ+ topic, every contradiction when she brings up feminism and inequality and racism, issues that she wants to fight against and causes she believes in, tell her, over and over, “your senseless opinion does not matter, you are nothing but a mere child”

-And thus, Marlene starts thinking more and more about fictional worlds and other time periods, seeking a break, an escape route away from that which she calls life, because while she doesn’t want to die, she doesn’t want to live whatever this is either

-Her friends, who are always there no matter what, aren’t enough anymore, she doesn’t really trust anyone any longer, and she doesn’t want to, can’t, say anything because Marlene doesn’t understand it, all she knows is that it hurts

-It doesn’t feel like she’s living anymore, she’s simply existing, going through her every day routine because she has to do something, not because she wants to, and nothing brings true happiness anymore

-She is well and fully lost

-Worst of all, this huge negative impact her parents had on her life, this broken relationship, happens all through letters, brief visits at Hogsmeade, and holidays, yet the pain it causes wields such power over her that it slowly obliterates her and it becomes too much

-And the excuse? Through tears, “you are so grown up now, I want my little girl back”

-And every damn time the same bloody thought flashes in her mind “it’s too late now, I am not that person anymore, and I will never be that little girl again, and I don’t show it, but it hurts that you can’t love me for who I am, mother, father”

[shsenhaji]

📚 Fragile Remedy - Book Review

Link to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4449535962

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Genre: YA dystopia, LGBTQ+ characters and themes, romance, found family

This book drew me in, ripped my heart out, and soothed the jagged edges of my soul by the time I had finished the last page. According to the author, this is a quiet book, focusing on a quiet romance — as well as found family — against a dystopian background. I loved every aspect of this book. The characters, the relationships, the worldbuilding, the commentary on privilege, classism, poverty, substance abuse and addiction and withdrawal, as well as the twists and reveals. I also appreciated how the author provided content warnings on her website, given that this book does tackle heavy issues.

In Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingrande Mora, the main character Nate is living in Gathos City, attempting to hide and survive from those who wish to use him; for Nate is a GEM (Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue), created as a cure for the fatal lung rot and used solely by the elite. While he has found a home with Reed and his crew, Nate’s secrets create a barrier between love and true happiness. Furthermore, unless he regularly takes a medication called Remedy, his health is in serious danger — and the doses aren’t lasting as long, and his supply is becoming scarce.

Firstly, though, I want to discuss Nate. What a character! So full of warmth and kindness, but also suffering from a lack of self-worth — believing that the lives of Pixel, Reed, and the other Alley Cats are more important than his. His struggles felt so visceral, and especially when he was grappling with the possibility of death. I loved how much he wanted to help others, how much he cared, and I also wanted to give him a tight, warm hug throughout most of the book. Watching him have to deal with the burden of secrets, of potentially putting his new-found family in danger, of the withdrawal from Remedy as it stopped working properly, was absolutely heart-wrenching.

There were many twists, turns and reveals in Fragile Remedy that took me by surprise in the best way. Some were completely unexpected, such as [SPOILERS] Pixel’s true nature or the truth behind the Breakers. Some were the kind you figure out minutes before the main characters due, like how Nate realizes that his mother is alive and wants to reconcile. [END SPOILERS] However, they were all superbly done, and properly set up throughout the book. The truth about Remedy especially was so brilliantly written.

I also want to briefly discuss Alden, who was a wonderfully complex character and whose relationship with Nate was one of the book’s backbone. Nate’s feelings of love and betrayal were so visceral, as well as the reader’s understanding of how much Alden cared about Nate’s safety in his own way. That tangle of emotions, betrayal, and responsibility was handled so well, and the resolution to their storyline brought me to tears multiple times. The way the author handled the topics of complex relationships and addiction was done well and with great sensitivity and compassion. I did not expect to get so emotional over Alden, but that is what happened as I made my way through the book. 

Finally, what really made this book — apart from the characters and the difficult topics that were tackled with great care — were the themes of love, family, redemption, and hope. As many others have said, this dystopian story is full of hope, balancing the darkness from the world of Gathos City and the Withers. It’s about love finding a way, no matter what, even if it would be more responsible and beneficial to not care about others. It’s about two people who desperately love each other but cannot breach the gulf created by secrets and guilt, who do everything in their power to keep the other alive, who finally manage to be together against all odds. It’s about Nate, who desperately wants to be loved, finding a loving, supportive family. Nate, who manages to not only survive — but thrive.

There’s grief, there’s hopelessness, there’s loss, and there’s evil. Yet Fragile Remedy, above all else, is a story about how love and our ties to family we’ve created saves the day, even in a small way, and how we can all find love and acceptance even in the darkest of times. 

[ross-nekochan]

TUTTO IL MONDO (Giappone incluso): battaglie sulla parità dei sessi, per i diritti LGBTQ+, diritto allo studio, dirittochecazzoneso

GIAPPONE: Più di un QUARTO delle scuole MEDIE private giapponesi impone la regola ai ragazzini di indossare intimo (per inciso: mutandine e eventualmente toppino per ragazze) rigorosamente BIANCO PURO SENZA DISEGNINI.

Un paese ALL'AVANGUARDIA (???), un paese che presenzia al G8 (!!!), un paese dove non un ragazzino di 11 anni, oltre a dover mettere una divisa scolastica (spesso costosissima), non è manco libero di mettere la mutanda di One Piece o una con una fragolina sopra.

Ditemi voi se è meglio ridere o piangere.

「自由」、「個性」って何だと分かりますか。

[fandomforward]

GLAAD's Social Media Safety Index recommends that social media platforms:

Protection of LGBTQ users in community guidelines

Mitigating algorithmic bias and bias in artificial intelligence (AI)

Addressing privacy and outing (including data-privacy & micro-targeting)

Promotion of civil discourse

Overall transparency and accountability

Content moderation (and multiple related and overlapping areas including hate speech and misinformation mitigation, enforcement, transparency and accountability, user-reporting systems, self-expression, etc.)

LGBTQ hiring, inclusion and leadership

Engagement of independent researchers and social scientists

Engagement of affected users/communities, especially underrepresented groups

Innovation

Corporate responsibility

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