can i recommend NYC’s Ali Forney Center? it’s a center for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Harlem. in January it became the first 24/7 drop-in program for homeless LGBT youth and it provides a huge number of services, including food, shelter, clothing, showers, STD/STI testing, mental health care, and medical care.
they’re currently launching a housing program specifically for trans teenagers (who can stay for up to 18 months!) and will be offering safe hormone replacement therapy at their medical clinic. [x]
it’s an amazing program and deserves your support.
Donating to individuals is also good. I signal boost basically anything I see coming from a source I trust.
(I have no earthly idea why her fundraising page is still pending moderation. It’s been up for ages and she’s legitimately a real human who actually exists in real life. Confused :/).
Here is another amazing woman who is currently fundraising:
both are places in chicago which are primarily designed toward LBGTQ* individuals health. both are excellent sources of information and the people who work at the howard brown centre are amazing, as they take in trans youth quite often. malice-aforethought would you happen to know any other charities or health organizations that could be boosted?
The Ruth Ellis Center provides support and resources for LGBTQ youth in and around Detroit. For a lot of kids this is the only place providing any stability/resources/help. Other lgbt orgs around Detroit have been notoriously racist and the Ruth Ellis Center always needs more support.
Anonymous asked: People need to stop glorifying stretch marks and fat rolls. You can tell people their beautiful all you want, but you know what's beautiful? VS models. Tell your followers to get some coco butter or lazor surgery to look like them. Stop romantisizing imperfections.
photos not mine - found on google images under “vs models untouched”
Guess what kiddos? Skin isn’t plastic/rubber! When you move it will stretch, or bunch, or pull, or roll. It’s what skin does!! And marks happen -to everyone-
There is nothing wrong with those who want to get cosmetic surgery, because it’s what will make them happy.
But that “Stop romanticizing imperfections“ bullshit isn’t applicable. It’s not romanticizing imperfections, it’s accepting the body for how it is naturally, and realizing that it’s okay to exist and to love yourself as you are, without having to live up to other people’s ideals of ‘perfect’ photoshopped beauty.
We’ll never hear about this again. And we may never hear from those scientists again.
Amazing though.
Big Oil’s gonna be piiiiiiiiissed
Somebody go put these folks in the witness protection program before they get hits put on them by ExxonMobil
I’ve actually heard of a man mysteriously disappearing after he refused to the government to not go through with his making of a substitute of gasoline with water. So everybody needs to reblog. Seriously.
Anonymous asked: I gotta say, it sounds like you got some pretty shitty EMT training. I'm a pharmacy school graduate and we were always taught how to treat/diagnose ALL patients, if their ethnicity/gender/etc required something different than the standard. You should get your money back.
Hi, anon, thanks for your input. I’m glad your pharmacy schooling was so high quality, it’s great that you were educated in how to treat everyone, and it’s unfortunate that not all textbooks/courses are up to that level. I was personally taught in a relatively small town with an admittedly less-than-diverse population, so it’s possible that there were effect from that. Also, from what I know pharmaceutical schooling is intended to be a career, while–contrary to popular opinion–many EMTs work on a volunteer basis, or work as an EMT in addition to another job. It’s completely feasible that the higher level education in emergency medical services, like Advanced EMT training or paramedic training, is more complete in these matters.
That said, the class I took was thorough in all other areas, and with prompting the teachers were both able and willing to give answers for the treatment of patients of various ethnicity/gender/etc. I did outside research to confirm what they told me, given that they were speaking from experience and not from the textbook. The flaws were not in the specific course, but rather in the official material–textbooks lacking explanations of how to administer CPR to a large-chested individual, or suggestions of ways to communicate with someone who either speaks a different language or who is nonverbal for some reason, just for example.
Also, I would like to politely express that I worked hard in that class, which I took in addition to a full class load at my college, and my family does not often have seven hundred dollars to drop on extra things, even something as useful as medical training. The teachers worked hard to deliver a quality education, and the inherent flaws in the textbook were not their fault. While I’m aware that this comment was in all likelihood intended to be completely benign, and even if it wasn’t I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, it did not completely come across that way. I agree that it is a serious problem that not all medical fields are as on the ball as pharmacy school evidently is, but it is neither my fault nor the fault of the men and women who taught me–indeed, my teachers had clearly gone to some effort to ensure they were capable of treating everyone. Again, thank you for your input, and I hope you have a lovely day.
“If you don’t support Snape and his problems, you hate the mentally ill.”
NEWS FUCKING FLASH
JUST BECAUSE HE HAD A SHITTY CHILDHOOD, JUST BECAUSE HE’S MENTALLY ILL DOES NOT FUCKING EXCUSE HIS ACTIONS.
I am mentally ill, and I ENCOURAGE people to call me out when I pull bullshit. I was bullied, I was abused as a child, and I have NEVER FUCKING called a friend a FUCKING SLUR.
I have never OBSESSED over a person when they didn’t want me around, and I would never TORTURE a child just because of my hurt fee-fees. Everyone wants to excuse him, and talk about how Snape just needed a little forgiveness.
No. What he did, despite mental illness, despite childhood trauma, was not okay. Stop fucking insisting that he is the beacon of mentally ill characters in that book.
You know who suffers from PTSD? You know who lived every day of his life, struggling because of his illness?
Remus Lupin.
Lupin wasn’t a good person despite his illness. He was a good person WITH his illness. Maybe he made some bad decisions, but ultimately, he was a good person. A good person with PTSD, a good person with an illness. He never used it as an excuse, and he never expected anyone to just accept everything he did because of it.
What mental illness does Snape have?
I’ve seen a lot of his fans argue that he has depression and/or PTSD. Don’t think JKR’s said anything about it one way or the other, though.
