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@iliveinashed / iliveinashed.tumblr.com

I am a grumpy anarcha-feminist. I don't actually live in a shed, but if Iain Duncan bloody Smith got his way, i probably would. I am a massive geek, activist and Discordian weirdo. i post art, crafts, silly stuff, deadly serious stuff and stuff about my current Tabletop RPG games. if anyone knows of any decent crochet tumblrs, message me and hook me up! I have a tea blog here http://riotgrrlteaparty.tumblr.com/ genderfluid they/them to strangers, friends just need to ask! bisexual, demisexual, genderqueer. UK based no porn follows please!
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angstalottle

Something really shitty has just been passed by the UK goverment.

A new bill that is stripping out human rights has been passed and we need to fight it before it costs lives. The new Human Rights Bill has made nazi Germans esc changes that will effect you or somone you love.

The most notiable parts being:

-If you are admitted to hospital with a disability or chronic condition a doctor can put a DNR do not ressusatate on you and you can’t appeal it.

-They are stopping woman from being able to move fowards with assault charges

- They are making it impossible for victims of terrorism to get justice. They won’t let people like the victims of  the hillsborough disaster hold the people responsible

Please do your own research if you must but we can’t let this happen!

There a petition to sign that’s already half way there so please share it around and tell ppl in the UK what is happening.

I would really REALLY appreciate it if my American followers come bring some recognition to the UK’s plight rn too.

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speciose2

[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

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One for the lads

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG

Also!! Disabled boys and boys who are pre-hrt/surgeries are all wonderful handsome lads!!

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transmattrs

I basically need this reminder every day

fuck toxic masculinity 

This one’s for you, lads

exactly

Men need body positivity too y'all

[image id: a tweet by Wisdom Goals (@/wisdomgoals) that reads  “Boys your bodies are perfect. You don’t need to be 6′2″, ripped, and have a 6 pack to be handsome. It’s ok to have a tummy, or be skinny with no muscle. It’s ok to be short and have acne, stretch marks and cellulite. Y’all are handsome in your own way.”  /end id]

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soprie

Bellybuttons

Skirt length

Collar length / cleavage

Knee holes

No fish net material or embellishments

Piercings

Shoes / platforms / heels

You wanna tell me you suddenly dont know how to police a student's body? You've been doing it for a hundred years.

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Calonge says the researchers found that about 90 percent of all abortions happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. And complications for all abortions are “rare,” the report says.
But the report did find that state laws and regulations can interfere with safe abortions.
“Abortion specific regulations in many states create barriers to safe and effective care,” the report says.
Calonge says those rules often have no basis in medical research.
“There are some requirements that require clinicians to misinform women of the health risks, that say you have to inform a woman that an abortion will increase her risk of breast cancer,” he says.
There is no evidence that breast cancer follows abortion, for example, but five states require doctors to tell women there is a link, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that focuses on reproductive and sexual health. “There are policies that mandate clinically unnecessary services like pre-abortion ultrasounds, separate inpatient counseling. There are required waiting periods,” Calonge says.
According to Guttmacher, 27 states make women wait at least 24 hours for an abortion and 11 states require women to have an ultrasound before they can terminate their pregnancy.
And there are state laws that dictate who can perform abortions and where they can do them. Some require all abortions to happen in the equivalent of a hospital or surgery center. Others require a doctor to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The National Academies report says waiting periods and requirements for unnecessary tests can result in long delays because women may have to travel to get care and have trouble getting appointments.
“Delays put the patient at greater risk of an adverse event,” the report says.
Hal Lawrence, the CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says the report settles the debate over abortion-restricting laws and regulations. “Those sorts of laws have been totally debunked,” he says. He says the study shows most of those laws do nothing to improve women’s health. “Abortion is safer when it’s performed earlier in gestation,” Lawrence says. “And so delaying and making people wait and go through hoops of unnecessary, extra procedures does not improve the safety. And actually by having them delay, can actually worsen the safety.” The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 voided some state abortion laws when it ruled that Texas’s strict rules around abortion facilities impose an undue burden on women. But other laws remain in place even without any backing in medical research. Still, Donna Harrison says there are good reasons for the requirements.
“The tendency to look at abortion as though it were not a serious medical procedure is irresponsible. I mean, we all know that the fetus is killed during an abortion but women can be harmed by irresponsible medical care,” says Harrison, the executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
She says data on complications from abortion is incomplete because doctors and patients don’t always report it accurately, or at all.
“There is no good data collection — and when you have garbage in, and you have garbage out,” she says.
And she says waiting periods are important so that women can give fully informed consent before they undergo what she says is a sometimes dangerous, surgical procedure.
The new report — which runs more than 200 pages — addresses most aspects of abortion care, including the use of the abortion pill, mifepristone.
For example, it concludes that the strict requirements on how doctors can administer mifepristone may need review. The researchers say the rules may be erecting unnecessary barriers. The report also says nurse practitioners and physician assistants can perform abortions just as safely as physicians.
Also, abortions have no long-term consequences on women’s physical and mental health, the report says.
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shodaw

Let bi boys date girls

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Who isn’t letting them……

Gay boys who see me with a girl and say I shouldn’t be allowed in lgbt spaces because I’m actually really straight

Straight girls who see me as their “gay friend” or who say they don’t care about sexuality but wouldn’t date a boy who’s had sex with a boy

Straight people in general who say “isn’t he really just gay” or telling girls that I’m actually gay and faking it with them

Gay people who say that because I have the option of dating a girl I’m the same as the straight people who oppress our community

Gay people who say I’ll never understand oppression or what it’s like to “actually” be gay

So there’s quite a few people not letting them!!

Keep reblogging this post all the comments are people showing how much they hate bisexual people

Biphobes unfollow me, you’re not welcome here. LET👏PEOPLE👏LOVE👏WHO👏THEY👏WANT👏

I haven’t seen a post like this for bi boys, only for bi girls. let’s fix that.

Reblog this post to cleanse your follower count of biphobes 💖💜💙

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I posted a thing like this once and got told to stop bringing my straight boyfriend into gay bars.

*waves* i’m the ‘straight boyfriend’. i’m actually a gay husband but yay tumblr.

although that particular incident was as much nonbinary erasure and misogyny as bisexual erasure. you didn’t describe your nethers so they assumed you were a cis girl and sneered accordingly.

anyhow, a good post and worth spreading. ‘straight passing privilege’ for bi folks is exactly the same as ‘becoming a priest/nun privilege’ for gays – you don’t have to tell the truth and face oppression, you could just not date someone you love, and structure your whole life around restricting yourself for social acceptability! whee, just like being het, amirite? :/

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so here’s a fun story about this movie. guess who loves this movie? me! i do! i love this movie. i love this movie so much that when i was in the 7th grade and i saw “first wives club 2” on pay per view i was like: HELL YEAH!! FIRST WIVES CLUB TWO!! NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS A SEQUEL!!!

here’s the synopsis for first wives club 2:

disgruntled first wives take their ex-husbands’ new lovers under their wing.

sounds great, right? awesome viewing material for a precocious 11-year-old.

so i buy this movie, and like, three minutes into it i’m starting to feel suspicious?? like it’s really low quality and my girls are nowhere in sight?? how come none of the first wives are the same?? how come they’re alone in a bedroom with mood lighting?? why is she taking off her shirt?? why are they both taking off their shirts?? WHY ARE THEY–

here’s what i did not know about first wives club 2:

  • it is a lesbian porno of no relation to the beloved 1996 classic.

so of course i, horrified that i’ve accidentally bought porn on my family’s account (and in that state of panic that kids work themselves into whenever anything regarding sex is mentioned), quickly shut off the TV and go upstairs and watch an episode of veggie tales to like, cleanse my soul and apologize to jesus, and that’s that.

EXCEPT, OF COURSE:

  • you have to pay for pay per view.

so the end of the month comes and i have completely put this incident out of my mind, haha, i accidentally bought porn, how funny, TELL NO ONE. right? and i’m sitting at a nice dinner with my mother, my stepfather, and my very religious aunt deb, and we’re just talking about farm things, whatever, when suddenly my mother puts her fork down and says, “okay, there’s something we need to discuss. as a family.”

  • AS A FAMILY.

and i’m like, running through a list of people i know who could conceivably be dead, and fantasizing about my mother announcing that she’s going to buy me My Own Computer Just Because U Earned It Kiddo, and she pulls out a piece of paper that says DIRECTV across the top. and i’m like: OH NO.

“i received the tv bill today,” my mother said, and i was like, shoveling potatoes into my mouth as fast as i could because i knew that when i went to PORN PRISON they weren’t going to feed me this kind of quality starch. “does anybody want to tell me who purchased the pornography?”

as a reminder, a quick table survey:

  • my mother, surprised and disappointed by the porn bill (innocent)
  • my stepfather, a grumbly old cowboy who just wants to sing along to kenny chesney and watch the hunt for red october (innocent)
  • my aunt deb, a super religious catholic whose best friend is a nun named Sister Placid (innocent)
  • me, the 11-year-old with a mouthful of potatoes who definitely purchased the lesbian pornography

silence.

my mother said, “i’m not going to ask again.”

silence.

my aunt looked at my stepdad. my stepdad looked at my aunt. NOBODY LOOKED AT ME, THE 11-YEAR-OLD WITH A MOUTHFUL OF POTATOES WHO DEFINITELY PURCHASED THE LESBIAN PORNOGRAPHY.

my mother shook her head and put the bill down. “this was incredibly inappropriate,” she said. “skip, deb, whoever. buy that shit on your own time. i’m not paying for it. what if molly had seen it?”

  • WHAT IF MOLLY HAD SEEN IT?

“don’t expose my kid to that crap.”

  • DON’T
  • EXPOSE
  • MY KID
  • TO THAT CRAP

“if you want to watch porn, fine, but do it in private and don’t expect me to pay for it. i can’t believe one of you did that in the living room.”

  • I CAN’T BELIEVE ONE OF YOU DID THAT
  • IN THE LIVING ROOM

but molly, why didn’t you own up to it and explain that it was an accident?

  • are you fucking kidding
  • i did not want to go to porn prison

the fun conclusion to this story is that i never owned up to it, which means that there are 3 people in the world who have not solved the mystery of the lesbian porn. a quick survey:

  • my mother, who lives every day wondering whose porn she paid for
  • my stepfather, who probably wishes he knew less about his wife’s sister’s porn preferences
  • my aunt, who probably wishes she knew less about her sister’s husband’s porn preferences

but molly, why don’t you own up to it now, with the safety of time and distance and the knowledge that porn prison isn’t real?

  • are you fucking kidding
  • this is the best thing i’ve ever done

Always reblog.

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