i haven’t been on here in years but just want to say if anyone wants to write an avatrice fic inspired by she’s pretty by beth mccarthy i think that would be pretty cool

i’ve thought more about this. it’s bea’s pov she meets ava at a bar they have a lovely sexy night that is presumed to be a one night stand and then. bam bea is ava’s TA in a small class or something

REBLOG IF YOU WANT PRIDE FLAG EMOJIS FOR ALL PARTS OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

I remember in pride month tumblr had all those pride flags somewhere and I was shocked to see they were gone on the first day of july….

The Congresswoman from MO-1 did not come to motherfucking play with the tips, the lashes and the chest tat. 

Full on, fuck around and find out vibes.

She also got the Michelle Obama ‘you said what?’ eye brow look down.

wow funny how white house aides and cabinet members are capable of resigning and speaking against tr*mp now that they're all going to be unemployed in two weeks anyway and have nothing to lose

so very convenient to suddenly develop "morals" after four years just so you can be absolved in the court of public opinion and while he and his family go back to their gaudy penthouse and suffer no consequences other than MAYBE an exile from politics at the most you get to stroll right back into DC with a clean reputation and denounce him as if you weren't standing beside him cheering him on the whole way

“where were you during the coup?” on my couch in sweatpants because it was noon on a wednesday during month ten of an out of control pandemic

really terrible but not at all surprising to have factual, real-time evidence that police would not shoot right wingers even if they formed a mob and stormed government buildings

police literally dragged disabled protestors out of the capitol when they were doing a sit-in for healthcare and teargassed + shot blm protestors marching for human rights but try to deescalate and take selfies w armed insurrectionists and people still want to act like the police don’t exist specifically to enforce oppressive systems

The whiplash of feeling excited and hopeful about Blue Georgia to the horror and anger over witnessing an actual live fascist coup. January 6th sure is a day.

some trump supporter interrupted a reporter to yell "at least we're not burning businesses down" and like

Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment

When you say it to people and they break

“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”

To really break them, tell them it’s cheaper to give homeless people homes than it is to leave them on the street.

ive been reading a book that basically explains how so-called “brain differences” between the genders is the result of gendered socialization and not the cause of it. i honestly expected the book to be very cis-centric but its actually the opposite, the author stresses that testimony from trans ppl is actually indispensable because we’ve, in a sense, “lived both experiences”

more cis feminists should have this mindset

one of the first examples that she uses to introduce her point about how perception by others can shape a person’s performance actually uses a trans woman. it explains that as a certain trans woman became to be seen as a woman more and more frequently, the ppl arond her eventually started viewing her as being ill equipped for tasks that they did not bother her about pre-transition. eventually she even found herself underperforming in these tasks herself.

whats the name of the book

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

Here’s a pdf, babes <3

I knew it was this book before I’d finished reading the first two lines. Honestly this book is indispensible if you want to debunk any gender determinism people claim is science. I can’t recommend it enough.

She’s written a new one! It won the Royal Society prize for science book of the year, and it’s called Testosterone Rex, and it is excellent.

(Bonus: it’s making old white men really really mad.)

(Bonus bonus: I am myself a neuroscientist, and the old white men mentioned above – who are not – could not have missed the point harder if they’d actively tried. Which. Maybe?)

Thanks to moon-boob for providing a PDF, but please, buy the book if you have the disposable income. SUPPORT THIS AUTHOR!!

This is the millionaire who took a pay cut so all his employees could make living wages btw