Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

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*banging my fists on a table* LET CASHIERS HAVE CHAIRS

Every time I see a cashier with a chair I’m like “I support this business”, no joke. That shit shows me that a company actually CARES about it’s employees. Quit making people stand on their feet for 8 hours straight that shit is torture. 

This is so weird what countries are you all living in where I come from ALL CASHIERS HAVE CHAIRS!!! Like, really, each and everyone of them!

(Also, while it’s nice having a chair while working, trust me, after a few hours of sitting you’ll be glad to stand up every now and then. Also if there are many people and they are queueing in front and behind you, it’s actually quite uncomfortable to sit, because you’re surrounded by people who stand and look down on you.)

America, friend-o.  Land of the obscure bureaucratic rulings and low minimum wage.  Help us.

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The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))

What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?

Endemetriosis

Vaginal Thrush

Menorrhagia

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Fibroids

Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.

Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.

Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.

Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.

Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.

Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.

Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects. 

This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!  

Sources: Nature, Nature, Medscape, Biomedcentral.

Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.

Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?

Except that’s not right at all.

Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis - and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.

Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.

And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.

Bonus round: Look up PCOS and gender identity.

Then look up PCOS and diabetes.

Ok, to show how incredibly important this post fucking is, I just looked up endometriosis and I match just about every sympton, and it would explain not just my incredibly painful periods but many other things as well. I had no idea this existed.

Please, read this post and reblog this so others can learn.

I will reblog this every time because my cousin (a cis girl) went through seven years of pain without being taken seriously until SHE suggested it was endometriosis. And that’s not even unusual - that’s the average amount of time it takes between first symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis.

…wait WHAT.

I had endometriosis for 17 years before a doctor suggested my symptoms were abnormal. Everyone else said, “that sounds like a normal period to me.”

Had endo for 13 years before a doctor finally fucking listened to me. I’ve had FOUR SURGERIES since then to clear out adhesions.

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Methods of Inheritance

It only took me like two weeks to have enough free time to post the second part of this, but HERE.  And here’s Part the First.

Here are the signs that every child learns in the fifth grade.

One.  Exhaustion, coupled with crippling insomnia.  (Fact: Harry should have seen the circles under her best friend’s eyes, and the loll of her head as she fought to focus in class.)

Two.  A gleam in the eye, a silver sheen to throw back light when struck at the right angle. (Fact: the darker the eye, the more obscure the glint.  Harry knows this, but cannot help but blame herself for missing it.)

Three.  Carelessness trending toward ruthlessness, toward anyone not considered a personal possession.  (Fact: the boy who had upset Harry had not deserved the cracked ribs, nor the shattered nose.  He certainly had not deserved the cold gaze and mocking laugh that fell on him as he lay bleeding in the dirt.)

Four.  A sudden disinterest in sleeping altogether, and a total vanishing of the need. (Fact: Harry had thought this enviable, in her more bitterly whimsical moments of high school.)

Five.  A crippling fear of iron, and blackened burns on contact.  (Fact: Harry has not considered herself clever since she was fifteen, because it was only the sight of her best friend cringing back from a wrought iron fence that made the connection between her strange behavior and the lectures they had heard about children stolen and replaced with something else.)

Six.  Total disintegration of the mortal glamour.  (Fact: Marys had been so lovely, standing in the sunlight, all sharp ears and sharper eyes, that Harry had almost wept.  She still hates herself a little, that the tears in her eyes were not of grief.)

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A great day for The Navajo Nation!!

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A judge has ruled in their favor to continue their lawsuit against Urban Outfitters for their gross misuse of the word Navajo to describe their shitty clothes.  Urban Outfitters tried to say that there was no standing to the lawsuit because The Navajo Nation couldn’t show “injury in fact” but Judge Bruce D. Black ruled the tribe has does, and can continue its claim under the Arts and Crafts Act.

Cultural Appropriation is disgusting and to call something “Native American” when it’s not is illegal. 

This is huge!!! Congratulations to the Navajo Nation!

Reference to the original lawsuit (2012)

Press release of continuation (2015)

we have been following this story for a long time and i hope its not over!

we cannot let this happen!

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words-writ-in-starlight:

okay but like can we talk about star trek just for one second.

because.

like.

so much tv and so many movies and so many books are all about how the future is a disaster because technology ends the world and aliens attack and humanity is awful.

and then there’s star trek.  motherfucking star trek.  where, yeah, shit goes wrong all the time, but technology lets us reach and grow and learn, and humanity builds itself starships and warp cores and makes contact with aliens and builds this interstellar family out of all these disparate cultures and it names its flagship Enterprise because that’s what it is, it’s this enterprise of hope and discovery, and no matter how often they all risk their necks and get in fights and end up shooting it out with the Borg or the Klingons or the Romulans or whatever, humanity still looks up at the stars and says “you know what, let’s boldly go, motherfuckers,” and that’s the kind of future I wanna see.

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