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LGBTQ* Videos You May Have Missed
15-Year-Old’s Electrifying, Award-Winning Story About His Lesbian Moms
(following from Queerty)
15-year-old Noah St. John ran away with the “NPR Snap Judgement Performance of the Year” title for his brilliant recounting of a car ride with an unexpected ending.
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your ramp doesn’t mean shit if you lock the fucking door at the top of it (via jessiedress)
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Sundance 2012After Tiller2012, 85 minutes, color, U.S.A., U.S. DocumentarySince the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, only four doctors in the United States continue to perform third-trimester abortions. These physicians, all colleagues of Dr. Tiller, sacrifice their safety and personal lives in the name of their fierce, unwavering conviction to help women. But for some in the pro-life movement, -
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I’m a Diva Cup devotee. It really changed my relationship with my body and my period. ALSO MY PERIODS ARE SHORTER THAN WHEN I USED TAMPONS.
Why I use cloth menstrual pads:
- they are comfortable and gentle on the skin (by allowing it to breath)
- they have none of the added chemicals and bleaches that are found on store-bought plastic pads (which effect the PH balance of your vulva)
- reusable; which saves money and planetary resources
- they are easy to clean on a 30* wash cycle (even toss them in bloody with your normal wash and nothing is stained)
- they clip around your underwear so can be slid back and forth for easy adjustment (I always used to position plastic pads wrong)
- they are pretty to look at and actually cheer me up on my period
Why I use a menstrual cup:
- none of the chemicals or bleaches that are found on tampons
- a cup sits low in the entrance of the vagina (tampons go right up in there) - this completely eliminates the chance of Toxic Shock Syndrome
- they can be worn at night time (this is an absolute blessing)
- they are comfortable - I can never even tell I am wearing one
- are designed to be changed less frequently than tampons (my light-mid flow requires a once every 6 hour empty)
- they attract less bacteria than tampons as they do not have a pourous surface, making them more hygenic
- reusable; which saves money and planetary resources
- they make travelling, swimming, and festivals with your period so so easy
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These amazing animations where created by fine artist and designer INSA. He makes them by painting the space several times to create each frame of the animation.
Note: Please keep the epilepsy warnings in the tags. I don’t want this to cause anyone to have a fit.
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“12:29 PM sb: it can be liberating to take care of someone else less and your self more” -
“Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.” —Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (via anarcho-fabio)
I recently heard about the concept of unschooling for the first time and am so intrigued.
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