“I wouldn’t be here without four of my friends on this journey. I want to thank Niall, Louis, Zayn, and my dear Liam.”
— Harry Styles during his record-breaking 12th consecutive sold-out show at Wembley Stadium
LGBTQ+ activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson died 34 years ago today.
Her body was discovered floating in the Hudson River, with her exact cause of death remaining unsolved.
Yes, SHE is a female. She's also an Olympian. A Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model. Has a Bachelor's degree in nursing and a Master's degree in business administration. An NIRA champion, All-American and Most Outstanding Player. A gold metalist in the Pan America Games and a bronze metalist in the 2024 Summer Olympics. And most importantly in this situation, she advocates for body positivity for women/young women because fuck ass lowlifes like you exist.
I would say happy birthday, America, but unfortunately I love abortions and immigrants and public education and universal healthcare and Black people and the environment and not bombing children with my tax dollars.
y'all straight girls who claim to support
LGBTQ ppl, use our lingo, and have your "gay best friends" but continue to date homophobic trash boys without even correcting them
there's a special place in the trash pile for you.
Women giving birth in the United States are more likely to die than police officers are in the line of duty. And unlike police fatalities, which have hit an 80-year low, maternal mortality has more than doubled since the 1980s. That means a woman today is more likely to die in childbirth than her grandmother was. This is in a country that spends more on healthcare than anywhere else on earth.
The United States is the only wealthy nation where this trend is moving in the wrong direction. Every other developed country has continued improving.
We got worse. And according to the CDC, more than 80% of these deaths are preventable. We're not talking about medical mysteries. We're talking about failures in follow-up care, hemorrhage management, and access to treatment that other countries figured out decades ago.
The same men who flooded my comments this week saying women shouldn't vote are the ones who get to decide maternal healthcare policy. Women are dying at rates their grandmothers didn't, from things we know how to prevent, and the people blocking every solution have decided the people dying shouldn't have a political voice. And they're doing all they can to keep it that way.
Realizing that you can stay seated during the pledge because the Constitution overrules your middle school homeroom teacher was a formative experience for so many young activists