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tutorial for drawing characters with cleft lip! sorry that it's mostly unilateral-centric but it makes up the vast majority of resources and photos. still tried to get tips for drawing bilateral clefts in though.

please keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People : )

What  would  it  be  like  to  never  feel  heartbreak  again?  What  if  you  could  conquer  grief,  tamp  it  down,  and  never  feel  the  searing  heat  of  it?  All  of  that,  and  more,  can  be  yours  as  easily  as  saying  one  word. 

Yes.

Recently, I was dismayed to read this article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, examining how companies benefit when their employees list pronoun in their bios. The paper really encapsulates the disjoint between trans folks’ medical and economic needs, and cis folk’s vested interest in turning trans allyship into a personal and corporate branding effort.

Study authors Johnson, Pietri, Buck, and Daas found that when employees at an organization listed their pronouns in their bios, cisgender participants felt more positively toward the organization, and were more likely to believe it was a safe place for LGBTQ folks. In two follow-up studies that included trans participants, this effect was found to hold regardless of whether the company merely encouraged employees to list their pronouns, or required them to do so.

I saw a lot of cis people spreading this study around online, presenting it as proof that listing pronouns is a meaningful act of trans inclusion. But there are several massive problems with the paper’s methodology, and with how people have interpreted its conclusions. And examining these problems really gets to the heart of a widespread issue in social justice circles today: allies devote far too much attention to signaling that they are safe, rather than taking concrete steps to help marginalized groups in a material way.

The first and most glaring issue with this paper is that in the first study, the attitudes of transgender people were not measured at all. Only cisgender gay, lesbian, and bisexual people were recruited. In other words, the study found that pronoun listing, a symbolic act of trans inclusion, made non-trans people view a company more positively. 

This is the equivalent of asking straight employees how they feel about a company’s same-sex domestic partnership benefits. Who the hell cares? Why would you even ask? If these interventions are genuinely intended to help trans people, trans people should be the respondents you recruit. So right out the gate, the authors of the paper have unwittingly shown their hand: they care about how symbolic acts of trans inclusion make cisgender people feel, rather than the safety of trans folks themselves.

Second of all, the outcome measures in this paper are focused solely on optics — how favorably someone views a company from the outside. The experiments examine how safe and LGBTQ affirming a company appears, not what its actual policies or relationship to its trans employees are. 

I think it’s actually downright irresponsible for researchers who care about transgender rights to focus on this. They’ve essential given corporations a guidebook on how to perform inclusivity and brand themselves as trans-friendly, without actually having to invest in the wellbeing, safety, or health of trans employees. We already know that companies love to rainbow-wash themselves, using Pride month marketing campaigns and warm and fuzzy symbols of queer acceptance to drum up brand loyalty, even while mistreating their actual LGBTQ employees.

Finally, this paper tested the effects of companies requiring employees to list their pronouns in their bios. Now admittedly, the researchers found no difference between encouraging employees to list pronouns and requiring them to. But there was really no good reason to even draw that comparison at all, because no transgender rights organization in the world has ever suggested that pronoun listing be mandatory. 

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games above in order:

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