Let’s talk about the current state of healthcare for the trans community. While there have been many improvements in care for gender-diverse folks in recent years, it’s no secret there are still alarming and unacceptable disparities when it comes to accessing gender-affirming care. The landmark 2015 US Transgender Survey, the largest survey of transgender people to date, found that 33% of our community who had seen a health care provider in the past year reported having at least one negative experience related to being transgender, and 23% of respondents did not see a doctor when they needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgender person.

Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”, Hagar Poems

[ID:

Warning: God has slipped the noose.

We must confirm the worst

of our righteous fears—

God has escaped the mosque,

the synagogue, the church

where we’ve locked up God for years.

We repeat unto you:

God is on the loose.

Henceforth beware:

You may find God in heathen beauty.

You may stumble upon God unaware.

Take appropriate measures:

You may have to behave

as if each human being

could reflect God’s Face.

/end ID]

Divine

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Maya Angelou, from “Our Grandmothers,” in The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

[ID: 5 pale pink boxes with darker pink text on them.

The first box has a header saying “Different types of hallucinations @speakingofpsychosis “ There are four boxes in a white to pink gradient that say “Auditory” “Visual” “Olfactory and Gustatory” and finally “Tactile”.

The second box has a header saying “Auditory” with a sub header saying “Auditory hallucinations are the most common type of hallucination. Ever person will experience them differently, but common auditory hallucinations are:

Not everyone who has auditory hallucinations will hear voices. It is important to note that hearing voices does not make someone “violent” as portrayed in some media.”

The third box has a header saying “Visual” with a sub header saying “Visual hallucinations involve seeing things that aren’t there. Hallucinations may be of

It is never appropriate to tell a psychotic person that what they’re hallucinating is real, a spirit, or a religious vision. This is incredibly harmful and can cause the person to spiral further.”

The next box has a header that says “Olfactory & Gustatory” It has a sub header saying “Olfactory hallucinations involve your sense of smell. You may hallucinate pleasant or unpleasant smells. Common olfactory hallucinations are:

Gustatory hallucinations involve your sense of taste instead of smell. The tastes are usually unpleasant or off putting”

The final box has a header that says “Tactile”. The sub header says “Tactile hallucinations involve the feeling of touch. Common hallucinations are

end ID]

—Jouette M. Bassler, "1 Corinthians," The Women's Bible Commentary, 1992.

Lim Heng Swee

Lim Heng Swee

And because I love this art and this doesn’t even link to the artist in any clickable way, here’s their etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/ilovedoodle

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (via lonequixote)

Source

— Natalie Babbitt

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