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you know sometimes shower thoughts end friendships and that's crazy

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Schools where I live are legally required to be acessible and accomadate everyone. I go to school with not only a student in a wheelchair but also a teacher in a wheelchair. The school has a tradition of raising money for charity every year that started to raise money to make the school more accessible because a student had recently started needing to use a wheelchair full time.

The one and only ramp into the school has a gap between the ramp and the platform to the stairs. The button to open that door doesn't work and there isn't a button to call the office at that entrance. There's a hallway that not only has five classes down it but is also has the entrance you need to take for your final exams and the only way into this hallway is stairs... and that girl the charity was started for had classes down that hall....

Re people on foot thinking wheelchair access is guaranteed because the law guarantees it, I've had multiple access issues at medical facilities and thats the last place you'd expect to have no idea what to do with a wheelchair. AND YET...

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I originally only saw the second image so I assumed that it was an unironic image and that "Evil Science Center" was referring to scientology, before realizing it's more probable to be about atheism to than be pleasantly surprised that none of the above assumptions were even close to correct

Being presented these two choices right next to each other makes me feel like I'm a character in a Jack Chick Tract or something.

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Not only can ms be short for microsoft it can also be short for milliseconds, Mississippi, Montserrat, and Malay, AND mr can be short for Mauritania and Marathi so fuck it Mg. rocks

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

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bitches be like

"can't stand transmisogyny"

ten minutes later

"me and the besties ^^ (making call-out posts for trans women over things they havent done + calling trans women emotionally manipulative for talking about their feelings)"

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apply for jobs you’re not qualified for! audit upper-level classes! get drunk with your TAs! see that poster advertising that lecture series? go there take notes and ask questions! thank the presenter for talking about this topic you love! if the class is full before you register, email the professor and ask if they can squeeze you in! RAISE YOUR HAND! tell the disability accomodation office to do their goddamn job! ask for help! file complaints! go to class in your pajamas and destroy the reading! you got this! you KNOW you got this! be arrogant enough to learn EVERYTHING! take your meds! punch a velociraptor in the dick! fear is useless and temporary! glory is forever! shed your skin and erupt angel wings! help out! spread your sun!

i had a really good morning! you deserve a really good morning! kill anyone who says you don’t and build a throne from their bones!

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[Image Id: A quote retweet by user cai/@AnneNotation with the text "we won the war on teen pregnancy and whew everybody is mad". The original tweet is by s🦦be (s[otter emoji]be)/@unitas_spiritus with a quote from an article "More than half the drop in America's total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children." Attached is also an image of the article./.End Id]

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Well I wasn't one when I got here so...

Straight guys who use tumblr are the funniest people ever literally how did you end up here

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"i was a transtrender" no you werent. you were just questioning your identity and then you decided that wasn't for you. that's a fucking healthy thing to do. fuck off lmao

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What is wrong with gender socialization theory?

the problem is that it is used to reinforce social essentialism in a way that reinforces ideas of sexgender assignment that are either untrue or misleading. people talk a lot about bio-essentialism on here, but not so much about social essentialism. to put it simply "Social essentialism entails the belief that certain social categories (e.g., gender, race) mark fundamentally distinct kinds of people". or, a woman is a different kind of a person than a man, solely or in-part because they received fundamentally different social environments in their upbringing

this simplifies a whole heap of factors, often without careful examination of what those factors are, or why they might matter. a lot that is ascribed to "female socialisation", for example, is actually a rational fawn response to the experience of marginalisation. what this looks like will be shaped by other intersecting identities and experiences. the demands placed on someone who is socially perceived/treated as a woman are contingent on so many factors that it becomes obfuscating to talk about "female socialised people" as if that is one coherent group or experience

the other problem is that it has become TERFs' favourite way of separating cis women from trans women (i.e. referring to them as "male socialised individuals"). this ignores several fundamental components of how a trans woman's upbringing may typically look quite different from that of a cis man

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like it's fucking bonkers reading a book on autism where the author has to be like "if you don't tend to relate to how autism is described, try reading into female autism. even if you're a man". what use does any of this serve at this point

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just saw someone say "crazy how there's no landback movement in Australia". yeah that would be crazy. good thing it isn't true! you can find this out by googling "landback australia". or by looking at the following:

there is actually a pretty significant Indigenous land rights movement here in Australia. the language of "landback" is not always used because it was pretty thoroughly demonised by the Howard government (see: "they're going to steal your backyard"). for more on land rights:

these are both starting points rather than completely comprehensive guides or anything. but maybe do even five seconds of googling before making assertions about what political movements do and don't exist

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They are different: Hoodie, Pullover/Hoodie, Sweatshirt

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

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Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

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I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

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hello world!!!

I want to talk to you about swallowing (not in a sexual light)

swallowing is supposed to be:

efortless

automatic

painless

and should happen without conscious thought

choking is supposed to be infrequent

if that does not sound like your swallowing experience you are probably part of the 5-15% of the population that has dysphagia. if your swallowing is bothering you then you can (and should) bring up your concerns to a doctor

swallowing is not supposed to be difficult!

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Having a bajillion posts in my queue is super fun because by the time most of them are posted I'll have entirely forgotten about them so it's like a treat for me too