A Demon From The Streets

here’s a small resource list with very important information & links on the ongoing war in Palestine. any silence leads to another innocent dead body. 🇵🇸

| From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. |

master posts with donations, petitions, campaigns:

daily click post with donations going to relief funds:

art commissions for Palestine relief efforts:

where to find up-to-date information on the war:

| From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. |

this is not an end-all-be-all list, but it’s a start to getting more information & efforts out there. reblog, donate, click on every link you can. do something. 🇵🇸

First steps of a baby elephant

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you knew gym class was going to be insane when these things got pulled out

Look at that thats pretty cool

In summary: keypad locks on dressing rooms so no one can just wander in, panic buttons in areas where dancers are alone with customers, required education re: safety issues, handling /preventing sexual harassment, and identifying & stopping human trafficing. Clubs must have security on site and a written policy for handeling drunk or agressive clients. On the money side clubs are limited in how much of a dancer's payment they can take as their "fee" but they are allowed to sell liquor now which should make up for any lost profit.

This should make clubs physically safer and give employees more financial stabiliy/ make wage theft more difficult.

Boy, I felt that one

Baby elephant tries practicing his terrifyingly adorable charge

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FACTS!

Additions: if your viral load is suppressed by medication to the point it’s undetectable, it’s considered untransmittable, even without condoms. Children with HIV+ carriers are usually given medication when they’re born, to make sure any of the virus doesn’t take hold (which we also do to adults who fear they’ve been exposed, it’s called PEP ((Post Exposure Prophylaxis)), which is a month of medication and must be started within 72 hours of exposure).

(There’s also PreP - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, which is taking medication if you feel you are at risk of being exposed to HIV, whether through sexual partners or sharing injection needles)

This is why we need universal free healthcare - so people can go on and have happy, healthy lives despite the HIV diagnosis. Nobody should die or live in fear when the treatment is so damn simple and effective.

HIV is not as deadly as it once was in the 1980s-1990s. 

There’s been a lot of progress in this. So long as you’re taking your medications (anti-retrovirals), it’s essentially become another chronic disease like diabetes or COPD etc. HIV patients nowadays are living into their 60s and 70s and are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease rather than opportunistic infections or AIDS defining illnesses. 

If the HIV viral load is undetectable, then your CD4 counts (your white cells that are affected by the virus) should normalise. Such that you’re no different to the general population when it comes to infection risk.

Yes, we should all still be precautious, but it’s no longer a death sentence. 

Stigma remains because of how it is transmitted.

We need to share this information as widely as possible.

Silence still Equals Death.

[image description: a widely smiling black woman hugs a black man and their two children, who are also smiling widely. The woman holds a sign reading “HIV+” and the man and the children hold signs reading “HIV-”. This image is on a tweet by bucci jenkins @/Glorico who says “bruh what”.

There are 2 replies to that tweet, by GEM @/Rozthecreator reading “the woman is hiv positive, she takes her meds which makes her count low, she can’t pass it off to her husband which makes her still able to live her normal life and reproduce. The stigmas of hiv has to stop, and as Blacks especially we have to educate each other.”

The next reply is by t a y l o r @/G14_Classified_, reading “people on this app talk about sex 24/7 but are completely ignorant when it comes to stds and how they can/can’t be contracted. Yikes”.

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this one right here. this one is important to me. it's not cartoonish, it feels so genuine. so truly loving and sincere. definitely one of the best

hell yeah, I love rectangle

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the "people hugging" emoticon, two people with basic designs, each a different shade of blue, holding eachother tightly.

neither person has any major features that make them stand out, there are no facial features, but there is a strong sense of warmth with how they were drawn.

this pencil sharpener that every classroom had

for those my age

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