I still can't believe I just saw a 7'5 guy take a pull-up 30-foot game-tying three. This is what it must've been like to see a movie in color for the first time.
Domestic violence is not a mental health issue unless you consider patriarchy, misogyny & thinking of women & kids as possessions a mental health problem. Most people with mental health problems aren't violent. People automatically pivot to mental health to avoid the truth.
Testicular cancer has a 95% cure rate when caught early. Zac was 22, had a swollen testicle, abdominal pain, and months of worsening symptoms. He saw multiple doctors. Not one ordered an ultrasound. By the time his mother paid for a private scan, it was stage 3.
This is the failure I see over and over. Young men get told they're too young for cancer. Women get told their pain is anxiety. The scan that takes 15 minutes and costs almost nothing keeps getting skipped in favor of antibiotics and reassurance.
Imaging is not an overreaction. In a young patient with a palpable mass and escalating pain, it's the standard of care. His mother did everything right, and she is the reason his story is reaching the people who need to hear it. Rest in peace, Zac.
I don’t think the sports world is ready for how many unexpected positive tests they are going to find if every athlete is tested.
Especially anxious to see how this plays out in sports like women’s basketball, where genetic gender testing isn’t done
If they are truly going to do genetic testing on every female athlete, guaranteed there will be unexpected positives that will have a major life impact in the athlete who may have had no idea.
Non-Black people downplaying racial slurs often comes from a place of familiarity/understanding. You most likely did the same as a teen, which is why you’re defending it.
I knew Palestine had lost all meaning to people when “spiritually Israeli” became popular. An actual horrific genocide has been watered down so far that now it’s just an internet meme for anything people don’t like, despite the suffering never stopping. It’s actually so sad.
It’s terrible that Huerta felt like she had to keep this secret for so long in fear of “hurting the movement.” This speaks to a long-enduring attitude among working class organizations where sexual abuse of female comrades is silenced in favor of protecting the “bigger cause.”