mom of 2 --had four strokes in 5 years + survived bitches!!!
Survived heart surgery... My heart was attacking my brain Fuckity-fucker!
BLM trans lives matter
In high school we had a separate trade school that was used as a boogeyman for bad kids.
“Keep screwing around and they’ll send you to tech!”
I was what could affectionately be called a party nerd and was sent on a bad kids field trip to see what awaited us if we stayed bad.
It was INCREDIBLE.
They had schools for electricians, stone masons, engineers, mechanics, aestheticians, chefs, etc. All hidden away!
I remember thinking: “do you really want burnouts doing electrical work?”
“why aren’t the nerds allowed in here?”
I petitioned the dean to let me use AP credit to go to school there for a semester (I wanted to get into engineering) and I remember his absolute disgust in telling me that no one should WANT to be there.
Very weird take, it would have let all of us dorks get applied practice in our abstract fields far earlier
Things nobody tells you about AuDHD:
- Shower paralysis is real
- Your brain has a 3-hour battery pretending to be 16 hours
- "Tired but wired" is your default state
- You need recovery days from basic activities
- Being told "everyone gets tired" while your nervous system runs on fumes
Your fatigue is an event.
Mine is the background operating system.
I was about to go to the bathroom, so I pulled a tampon out of my purse. My male coworker looked at it and said, “Wait… you use tampons?” I said, “Yeah, why?” He immediately made a face and said, “Those are so gross. I don’t get how women can put those inside themselves.” I asked, “What’s so gross about them?” He said, “They go inside you and come out covered in blood.” I said, “So is it the blood that’s gross, or the fact that they go in a vagina?” He paused and admitted it was because they go in a vagina. I looked at him and said, “You know what else goes in a vagina? A penis.” He just stared at me. I shrugged and said, “Exactly. And boys never seem to stop talking about those.”Funny how a vagina only becomes “gross” when it’s associated with women’s health.
When cops say a Black child's water bottle looked like a gun they can execute them without facing any accountability for it but when someone shoots a round at the ground near a cop to prevent them from shooting a protestor in the back they get 100 years in prison.
Abolish it all
I’ve never been a morning person.
When I had to work starting at 8am I would spend the entire weekend in bed recovering.
Turns out my cortisol starts climbing at noon and “peaks” around 4pm. My body just functions differently.
When allowed to sleep late I’m far more productive
Always felt like an interesting modern update would be to make it about a Muslim teenager dealing with virulent Islamophobia at school & her conservative mother. Also the book’s few references to anti-semitism & the famous pig blood scene would translate so well in this version.
According to a witness, police saw a Black child play-fighting with his white friends. The police then chased the Black child down and put him in handcuffs.
Massive respect to the kind man who stepped in to help him and made sure they remembered that he is a child and should be treated gently.
Adultification is real.
Let's set the record straight...
We DO NOT want Flock.
We DO NOT want Axon.
We DO NOT want Motorola.
We don't want ANYONE building a database of our daily lives. We just want to live without being tracked, monitored, logged, profiled, or monetized.
Just leave us alone.
🇨🇺After Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors to New Orleans. The Bush administration refused.
While working-class and Black communities were abandoned without food, water, or medical care, socialist Cuba stood ready to help because it had built a system organized around meeting people's needs.
This July 26 marks 73 years since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Despite more than six decades of U.S. blockade, Cuba continues to show what is possible when disaster response is built on public planning, mass participation, and international solidarity instead of profit! Let Cuba live!