I know pregnant people get hate for talking about pregnancy a lot, but I promise you we stay pretty damn quiet for how absolutely unhinged and alien the experience is—despite being a fairly universal one
The scene in The Hunger Games where Peeta says Katniss is pregnant and the audience is outraged and demands the Games be stopped is such a perfect encapsulation of the so-called 'pro-life' movement, coz they were all perfectly fine with kids dying until a foetus was involved.
i swear to you when i turned 25 i felt my brain click into place. eye contact felt longer, time felt slower & simultaneously faster. memories created were more vivid. interactions were more intentional. before 25, i was just doing shit to do it. it’s a blur, i couldn’t tell you.
“oh so you want -your- tax dollars to pay for free school lunches?” literally yes. please take whatever is necessary to keep kids from going hungry. how the fuck is this controversial.
Just to put things into perspective for a second. This government is currently objecting to raising a newly qualified doctors pay from £14 to £19 an hour