伦敦版画工作坊回顾：
近期山西和顺精障工学女硕士花花被收留事件引发广泛的公众关注，而铁链女事件三周年纪念日也近在咫尺，我们在伦敦与 @weareallchainedwomen 协作开展了版画工作坊，参与者们的用心创作令人动容。“小花梅”与“花花”们本就是太阳与飞鸟，不需要“介绍”、“收留”、“捡到”，是时候打碎绵延数千年的古老铁链了。不知道现场哪幅作品给你留下了最深刻的印象？
非常感谢合作的艺术家带领本次的工作坊。刻木寻梅会持续与大家一同创作，如果有组织或个人有兴趣将版画工作坊带到自己所在的地方，欢迎私信与我们联系。愿我们在创作里看见更多的农村精障女性和被拐女性❤️ source
近期山西和顺精障工学女硕士花花被收留事件引发广泛的公众关注，而铁链女事件三周年纪念日也近在咫尺，我们在伦敦与 @weareallchainedwomen 协作开展了版画工作坊，参与者们的用心创作令人动容。“小花梅”与“花花”们本就是太阳与飞鸟，不需要“介绍”、“收留”、“捡到”，是时候打碎绵延数千年的古老铁链了。不知道现场哪幅作品给你留下了最深刻的印象？
非常感谢合作的艺术家带领本次的工作坊。刻木寻梅会持续与大家一同创作，如果有组织或个人有兴趣将版画工作坊带到自己所在的地方，欢迎私信与我们联系。愿我们在创作里看见更多的农村精障女性和被拐女性❤️ source
Today, the House is discussing a bill in Congress that threatens to strip many intersex students, especially girls and women, of their right to play sports. interACT sent a letter of opposition to Congress.
Like similar statewide bills that seek to restrict sports participation based on vague definitions of “sex”, H.R.28 (and S.9, currently in the Senate) are discriminatory and harmful.
H.R.28 and S.9 list “reproductive biology” and “genetics at birth” as the determinants of a student’s sex, but it is unclear how these will be interpreted for intersex students. Also unclear are how a student’s sex would be “verified” and who decides whether a student is “female enough.” Any form of enforcement raises massive privacy concerns for students, in addition to inviting harassment, invasive questioning and stigma that can be deeply harmful to youth.
As Hillel, an intersex former middle school player from Florida shared, source
Like similar statewide bills that seek to restrict sports participation based on vague definitions of “sex”, H.R.28 (and S.9, currently in the Senate) are discriminatory and harmful.
H.R.28 and S.9 list “reproductive biology” and “genetics at birth” as the determinants of a student’s sex, but it is unclear how these will be interpreted for intersex students. Also unclear are how a student’s sex would be “verified” and who decides whether a student is “female enough.” Any form of enforcement raises massive privacy concerns for students, in addition to inviting harassment, invasive questioning and stigma that can be deeply harmful to youth.
As Hillel, an intersex former middle school player from Florida shared, source
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My friend Mel and her fam are moving into a new place today, but they have to come up with $400 to get their heat/gas turned on, and they are barely getting by already. Anything helps 🙏
Venmo: lloranutycips
Cashapp: $melpetscats source
My friend Mel and her fam are moving into a new place today, but they have to come up with $400 to get their heat/gas turned on, and they are barely getting by already. Anything helps 🙏
Venmo: lloranutycips
Cashapp: $melpetscats source
Tumblr user civilization-deactivated2030:
Who taught you to hate your voice? Who taught you to hate your laugh and your smile? Who was it that told you your bones were the problem? Who insisted that you are being too loud when you are happy? Who made you to fear the weight of your own footsteps? What type of person was it that told you how much space you are allowed to take up? Who taught you to hate yourself? Who taught you there was a right way to be and you arent it? source
Who taught you to hate your voice? Who taught you to hate your laugh and your smile? Who was it that told you your bones were the problem? Who insisted that you are being too loud when you are happy? Who made you to fear the weight of your own footsteps? What type of person was it that told you how much space you are allowed to take up? Who taught you to hate yourself? Who taught you there was a right way to be and you arent it? source
Tumblr user thelightfluxtastic:
I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.
I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.
I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.
I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.
So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.
The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.
Tumblr user thisisthinprivilege: source
I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.
I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.
I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.
I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.
So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.
The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.
Tumblr user thisisthinprivilege: source
Tumblr user homo-ousios:
The three-ring binder is the apex of book technology, by the way. All the advantages of a codex, plus you can add, remove, and reorder pages at will - pages which you can furthermore protect from damage in transparent sleeves, and store commentaries, notes, and other paratextual addenda behind them without obscuring the primary content. Truly the queen of codices. Reblog if you love the three-ring binder. source
The three-ring binder is the apex of book technology, by the way. All the advantages of a codex, plus you can add, remove, and reorder pages at will - pages which you can furthermore protect from damage in transparent sleeves, and store commentaries, notes, and other paratextual addenda behind them without obscuring the primary content. Truly the queen of codices. Reblog if you love the three-ring binder. source
Tumblr user ingridverse:
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see
I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?
But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?
Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)
Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.
If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.
Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.
Tumblr user redcurlzbychoice:
Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment. source
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see
I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?
But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?
Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)
Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.
If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.
Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.
Tumblr user redcurlzbychoice:
Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment. source