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now i had shaved my legs maybe once or twice at this point, because my (frankly barely visible) leg fluff was apparently "bad" and did not enjoy the process or result. my mum, to her credit is p progressive and never pressured me to shave (except for my pits. she's odd about pits. convinced having armpit hair is bad for the skin or something idk) but there was this ASSUMPTION that bc i "was a girl" i would now inevitably need to remove the hair from my legs for the rest of my life. we were both given epilators SPECIFICALLY bc our mums believed that if we started epilating early, the follicles would get damaged and the hair would stop growing.

we were too young to get our belly buttons pierced (something that if we changed our minds could be removed and leave only a tiny mark as evidence), too young to start even puberty blockers among the people i often talk to, but plenty old enough to start the attempting to permanently destroy all the follicles on a good third of our bodies to the extent we were gifted these devices despite showing no real desire to do so!!

now quite apart from being trans, i love my leg fuzz. love all of it actual. had to shave my pubic hair for surgery once and threw a FIT i was so mad (turns out it wasn't actually 'necessary' at ALL) i would have been gutted to have missed out on that because I'd used the fucking epilator.

these arguments are always framed as 'what if they change their minds' or 'blah blah some risk' or 'they're too young to know what they want' but it's never actually about that.

A friend of mine works as a disability advocate, and has spent most of her working like battling the DWP and making sure low income and disabled people are able to fucking survive. (She also provides this service for me for free because we’re friends and I can say without a shadow of a doubt I would be D-E-D if not for her)

And because I have trouble understanding questions, we go through any paperwork together.

So one of the questions I tend to trip on is ‘can you walk X distance?’ because… I can! On a good day! Or with my crutches! Or leaning on a wall! Or very very very very VERY slowly.

So she’ll ask the question and I’ll answer and then she’ll ask if I could do it on my worst day, completely unaided. Because the point of the benefits is to get you that aid.

So once you’ve parsed out what the question is really asking you, ask yourself “Could I do this on my absolutely worst day, completely unaided?” And if the answer is no, tell them you can’t do it.

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Can you hear this exoplanet screaming?

As HD 80606 b approaches its star from an extreme, elliptical orbit, it suffers star-grazing torture that causes howling, supersonic winds and shockwave storms across the planet. Its torturous journey boils its atmosphere to a hellish 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit every 111 days, roasting both its light and dark sides. HD 80606b will never escape this scorching nightmare.

This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror!

An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space.​

Cygnus X-1 Presents:

It’s Dinner Time and You’re The Meal!

Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster named CygnusX-1. This black hole, which has about 14.8 times the mass of our Sun, will stretch and squeeze anything it captures in its immense gravity. Cygnus X-1 is waiting, snacking on its neighboring star. Don’t get too close, or you’ll become its next meal!

This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter, and you might encounter the frightening corpses of exoplanets or the final death throes of once-mighty stars.

Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter. It is scattered in an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe. Dark matter is invisible, only revealing its presence by pushing and pulling on objects we can see. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will investigate its secrets. What will be revealed?

In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays. These beams of doom are unleashed upon their unfortunate surroundings, shining a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 terrifying seconds. No spaceship will shield you from the blinding destruction of the gamma ray ghouls!

These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, Phobetor and Draugr, are consumed with constant radiation from the star’s core. Nothing but the undead can subsist in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy.

That's James Maddison's flute. James Maddison owned over 100 slaves. Due to debts he had to sell land and slaves over his lifetime. By the time of his death he owned 36 slaves. No slaves were freed during his lifetime or in his will.

The power that this successful Black woman has over his legacy right now.

Not just playing his flute, but shaking her ass while playing his flute.

Oh, the white supremacists are so mad.

You know how often people play instruments that are hundreds of years old? Instruments are made to last hundreds of years. They're preserved through use. First chair violinists in major orchestras often use violins that are centuries old.

My aunt owns and sells instruments both young and old, and it's a huge dishonor to the memory of the creator to demand that the instrument go in a museum never to be used.

She invited Lizzo by @ her on Twitter because she saw Lizzo would be in town for her tour. Lizzo spent three hours touring the LoC and looking at historic flutes in the collection.

Carla Hayden was previously the head librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, which is the city library organization for Baltimore. She kept the libraries open during the Freddie Gray riots so people would have a safe place to bring their kids.

Watch: Kiosk - Sweet Destiny (the movie) I don’t think I’ve ever asked my followers to reblog anything but this time it would mean. The actual world. To the people of Iran. If you could spread awareness of the Iranian people’s fight for freedom right now. I’m not on Twitter or Instagram (although this post is optimized for instagram so PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST IT ON IG) but from what I could see there is not as much noise about this as it should be. Nor is it easy to find posts with resources and basic information. And on tumblr I’ve only seen some posts from dedicated feminist blogs or actual Iranians. And from what I’ve gathered they NEED US to share what’s going on. They are shutting down internet in Iran so it’s up to us to not let the world look past this, not this time. PLEASE join the fight for women’s rights!!!

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