Discovery

The guy being dragged by a bird – part of an installation titled Hacienda Paradise – Utopia Experiment by Fredrik Raddum.

The balancing elephant – Balancing Elephant by Daniel Firman.

The tea splashes kissing – Kiss of Eternity by Johnson Tsang.

The figure emerging from the wall – Break Through From Your Mold by Zenos Frudakis

The meditating figure splitting apart – Expansion by Paige Bradley.

The horses running through water – Mustangs at Las Colinas by Robert Glen.

The giant peeking from under the lawn – Popped Up by Ervin Loránth Hervé

The man under the raining umbrella –  L’uomo della Pioggia (The Rain Man) by Jean-Michel Folon.

The huge bearded guy – The Appennnine Colossus by Giambologna.

The impossibly balanced stones on a beach – Untitled by Adrian Gray

The dragons with an egg – The Dragons in Love or The Varna Dragons by  Darin Lazarov.

The stairway to nowhere –  Diminish And Ascend by David McCracken

The underwater circle – Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor.

The epic warrior guy – General Guan Yu by Han Meilin

The sinking library –  Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia.  I couldn’t find an artist’s name.

Most “sugar daddies” and other people who take on providing roles like that aren’t legit and either don’t have the cash to back up their claims or they’re looking to take advantage of someone who doesn’t know what red flags to look out for.

Stripping is physically exhausting and requires a lot of athletic skill. Money can also be inconsistent, and it can be difficult to find a place that is trustworthy and works to take of the dancers.

Cam-work takes a lot of , well, work. Equipment is not only expensive, it’s also necessary to get a decent start. It can take years to build up a regular fan base and even longer to make any decent money off of it. It’s also very difficult to find sites to host your streams.

Selling your own porn, whether it’s pics or videos, is a very inconsistent source of income, especially if you’re first starting out and don’t have regular customers. There’s also very, very few sites that will let you host your content and very few payment programs that can be used for purchasing or selling sexual content.

Making professional porn can be risky in itself. A lot of studios purposely select inexperienced workers who don’t have the ability to refuse scenes they aren’t comfortable with, and abuse is rampant in the industry. Not because porn is inherently bad, but because abuse is rampant in EVERY industry and sex workers don’t have protections that people doing other jobs have. Porn is also frequently stolen and shared for free, which means much less pay.

Full service sex work is not only physically and emotionally exhausting, it’s also incredibly dangerous. It’s built on trust that clients will respect the worker’s boundaries and not take advantage of them or hurt them. If something happens, the worker can’t go to the police. They have no legal protections, and would likely face more abuse from authorities. There’s also the very real risk of being arrested just for existing as a sex worker.

Then there’s the specialty sex work, like professional domming, which might seem easy but requires extensive skill sets unique to each job and usually a lot of equipment.

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

Becoming Anti-Racist by Dr. Andrew M. Ibrahim

Fear Zone:

I deny racism is a problem.

I avoid hard questions.

I strive to be comfortable. 

I talk to others who look and think like me. 

Learning Zone:

I recognize racism is a present and current problem

I seek out questions that make me uncomfortable.

I understand my own privilege in ignoring racism.

I educate myself about race and structural racism. 

I am vulnerable about my own biases and knowledge gap. 

I listen to others who think and look differently than me.

Growth Zone:

I identify how I may unknowingly benefit from racism.

I promote and advocate for policies and leaders that are Anti-Racist. 

I sit with my discomfort.

I speak out when I see racism in action.

I educate my peers how racism harms our professions.

I don’t let my mistakes deter me from being better.

I yield positions of power to those otherwise marginalized.

I surround myself with others who think and look differently than me. 

But studies show otherwise: Black women are killed and sexually assaulted by the police, and incarcerated at almost three times the rate of their white female counterparts. Yet news coverage of these cases are focused largely on the relationship between law enforcement and black men.

From the linked article above. None of this diminishes the importance of any Black Lives Matter protests or the lives of black men.

If you’re healthy you probably don’t realize how demoralizing it is to spend all day in a hospital gown

But now a new collaboration is designing fashionable hospital gowns to encourage sick teens that they’re not “just a hospital patient.” See how they react when they try their new robes on.