i draw sometimes

it would be so awesome

2026:

a friend of mine on bluesky is helping raise funds for her friend Eve, who is currently at significant risk of ending up on the streets due to excessive medical bills from emergencies and health issues.

shes only 18, has no supportive family, and is having to decide between going homeless or returning to dangerous (for her) survival sex work.

her gofundme is half funded right now!

please consider a donation - even one as small as $5 will help! - or, at the very least, a signal boost!

$729/$1300 (6/9/26)

(you can also boost on bluesky here)

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

one’s character has no impact on whether they were/are a victim or not, victim status is not something that is only afforded to the palatable.

it's not just "that doctor has internalized misogyny" it's that western medicine is, as in so many parts of our culture, deeply authoritarian. the patient is meant to be a passive problem to be solved by the active doctor. there is meant to be a stark harsh line between you and the doctor, where you are pure of any medical knowledge and simply report the raw data & let the doctor interpret it. this is how the system works. it fucks over marginalized groups the most because that's how marginalization works, but even a thin white abled cis man could get fucked over by this shit if he's unlucky.

#but i really do think changing the culture of residency is the key to changing so many problems in medicine

#if you're expected to work to the point and past exhaustion you're going to expect your patients to tough it out

#if you're expected to treat your attending as an unquestionable authority then you're going to expect your patients to treat you that way

#diversity is not going to fix the issue that doctors have to endure legitimate trauma to get their license

#and are also discouraged from getting therapy for that trauma for fear of losing that license which absolutely happens

#the fact that therapy is discouraged and can risk your job rather than MANDATORY for physicians is so backwards

#i know what viewing all those pathology images did to me i can't even imagine what that does to someone working in clinical care

#i think the way doctors behave make more sense if you realize that every single one of them has unprocessed trauma