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The far-right Missouri attorney general just announced that gender-affirming care for young people is already prohibited by law in the state, despite passing no legislation, because it is “experimental”.

This far-right attorney general was the principal investigator of the local transgender center after a former employee ran to the right-wing press with lies about “child mutilation” and leaked the personal information of patients. Everything she said was a lie, and she is currently being protected by whistleblower laws and the far-right state from any blowback of keeping patients’ personal information on an Excel file on her personal computer.

See this horrifying excerpt from the article breaking the news:

I can’t even finish this post, sorry. I’m so scared.

See the full article here:

Black History Month: Zelda Wynn Valdes

You may not have heard of Zelda Wynn Valdes, but you’ve certainly seen her designs. The fashion designer is credited with creating the original Playboy bunny costume. The work of the trailblazing fashion designer/entrepreneur highlighted the coveted hour-glass figure in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, was the first Black designer to open up her own shop on Broadway. Valdes created gorgeous gowns many stars like Mae West, Joyce Bryant, Josephine Baker, Gladys Knight, Sarah Vaughan, Dorothy Dandridge, Ella Fitzgerald and countless others. Later in her life, she created costumes for the Dance Theater of Harlem, and Zelda Wynn Valdes also helped found the National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers. She died in 2001 at age 96.

Check out some of her work.