its actually kinda depressing that there are ppl on here who consider themselves to be fans of bloggers, nobody on this website is worth that… you don’t need to degrade yourself like that
like… i value content creators and artists, and ofc i’ve made some iconic funnyposts on here too but my followers are not my fans, they are my equals, i wouldn’t want anything other than that or it’d be uncomfortable
Oliver wants me to amp up the donation requests so I got him to let me take a nice photo. He’s 11, a potterhead (Slytherin) loves The Hunger Games, Minecraft, Terraria, She-ra, and wicca.
He’s stressing about the cost of appointments because he’s really keen for puberty blockers so I’m hoping to raise $1000 by the end of February. That would get us two psychiatrist appointments or a psychiatrist and a couple of clinical psychologist appointments (depending on how the psych decides to go about assessing him for gender dysphoria) including the Medicare rebate with a little left over for boys clothes.
His counselor wants us to get this process going ASAP because having lost my dad (who was also like a father to Oliver) we’re afraid his dysphoria could trigger something awful, not to mention the extra financial pressure we’re under.
We’re at $130 now which is amazing, thank you so much to everyone who has reblogged and especially everyone who has donated. If we could reach our goal and get the ball rolling it would be a huge weight off all our shoulders, especially his
Any left over money after transition expenses will be used for the orthodontic treatment he needs (my mother is trying to cover this but both my kids need it so we all need to pull together to pay for it)
rami malek is such a talented actor and an amazing human being, he’s so well spoken, he cares about and fights for lgbt rights, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, equal pay, opportunities for people of colour, mental health, he’s so proud of his ethnicity and he’s played the main role in the biggest biopic of the greatest rockstar, he’s played an openly gay character when it was more stigmatized, a character with mental health issues, he’s had to learn and pick up and do so many things for his role as freddie mercury and elliot alderson and people still sleep on him and have the audacity to say that he’s untalented
I cant believe some people have enough money to make major impacts on the world and they just….dont do it. wouldn’t you rather your legacy be the guy who saved the world rather than the guy who had an un-spendable amount of money and hoarded it all I mean we can probably rule out the notion that any one of those guys would give up their billions just out of the goodness of their hearts but I can’t believe the potential headline “multi billionaire donates wealth, single handedly ends poverty” doesn’t appeal to them in slightest
Excerpt: “The idea of a mentally impaired “crack baby” resonated with long-held racist views about black Americans. It captured the imaginations of reporters, politicians, school officials and others who were historically conditioned to believe just about anything about the African-American poor.
As the medical writer Harriet Washington wrote of this period in her book “Medical Apartheid,” Dr. Chasnoff’s provisional research “was swallowed whole, then regurgitated in a racialized form by newspaper, magazine and even medical accounts.”
Americans were told on the nightly news that crack exposure in the womb destroyed the unique brain functions that distinguish human beings from animals — an observation that no one had ever connected to the chemically identical powdered form of the drug that affluent whites were shoveling up their noses. The legal scholar Dorothy Roberts argues in her reproductive history “Killing the Black Body” that, by focusing on maternal use of a drug associated with black people, the press promoted the notion that the “monstrous crack-smoking mother” was typical of black women.
The appetite for stories of black depravity extended to medical journals, which favored shoddy studies showing that cocaine harmed babies over better research refuting that claim. Eugenicists who had long sought justification for sterilizing African-American women found some affirmation for that view when, in 1989, The Washington Post opinion writer Charles Krauthammer noted in a widely syndicated column that black women were spawning “a bio-underclass’’ of impaired children “whose biological inferiority is stamped at birth.” This disability was said to be “irrevocable.” Mr. Krauthammer went on to say that “the dead babies may be the lucky ones.”
News organizations embraced far-fetched ideas like the one advanced by doctors who believed they could discern babies who had been exposed in the womb by the tone of their cries. In 1990, Time magazine argued that the case for limiting the rights of women — and elevating the rights of fetuses — was gaining strength, based on the fact that maternity wards around the country were ringing “with the high-pitched ‘cat cries’ of crack babies who may face life long handicaps as a result of their mothers’ drug use.”
The Times amplified the “damaged generation” theory, too. This editorial page argued in 1989 that it would cost more than $700 million to prepare fewer than 20,000 children for school in the state of Florida alone — a figure that was clearly drawn from myth. The former executive editor Abe Rosenthal, in a column entitled “The Poisoned Babies,” urged the authorities to suspend the parental rights of crack-addicted women, a course of action that had already been shown to drive women away from treatment and provide substandard care for many children.”
