this white feminist idea that “no man will ever understand what its like to walk down the street in constant fear” okay but gay men, black and brown men, trans men ……
asian men, fat men, neurodivergent men, physically disabled/disfigured men, muslim men, sikh men, poor/homeless men…
Mentally ill men and invisibly disabled men too.
It’s almost as if the constant possibility of violence is a key feature of how marginalized people are
controlled in public spaces.
And recognizing that would help us understand how our struggles are interconnected, and how we can rise together and take those streets as our own because guess what? we’re the vast vast majority.
On Friday, July 27, 2018, ACT UP NY went to the Whitney Museum’s evening hours and stood silently next to specific artworks in both the Incomplete History of Protest and David Wojnarowicz exhibits, holding framed recent news articles about the HIV/AIDS epidemic that were formatted to look like museum plaques.
Our goal was to connect these otherwise excellent exhibits to the current, ongoing struggle against HIV/AIDS which was left out, and which is continually glossed over not only by arts institutions, but also by governments and through public ignorance.
Many patrons were upset when they realized they were only getting half the story. Dozens of shocked museum-goers spoke to and photographed each of us and our plaques. One woman plaintively asked, “How can we teach kids about HIV when teachers and adults still don’t know anything about HIV?” People gasped about HIV rates in American communities of color, and about the President firing the entire Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Teenagers and young women, pulled in by the recent dates and the presence of living humans, stood and read and asked questions about this complex subject.
In other words, in just one hour, we facilitated hundreds of short, personal conversations and revelations about dozens of ongoing HIV issues.
“People living with HIV who take HIV medicine as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to their HIV-negative sexual partners.”
— U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 2017
“Undetectable = Untransmittable, U=U” campaign aims — and is having success in — changing forever the way organizations and people with HIV talk and think about viral undetectability and infectiousness. Little is more likely to help demolish the stigma against HIV than spreading the U=U news to their partners, family, and community. It offers them and all of us hope.”
— Gus Cairns, NAM aidsmap, February 2017
AIDS is not history. And you can help spread the word.
(If you need an ACT UP shirt, order one and mention that you’re coming — or shoot us a message if it’s a financial hardship — and we’ll have it for you at the action.)
This is a really rewarding action, and your help will make it even better.
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE – THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH – THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER – TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER – TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT – RESISTANT DEFINITE – CERTAIN
WANTON – DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON – IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
It took me seeing about 4 NHS doctors, two of whom were musculosketal specialists, over the course of 8 months before I gave up and paid out of pocket to see a private hypermobility specialist to get my hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome diagnosis, a year after I started presenting symptoms.
I know that I’m fortunate – it “only” took me a year to get diagnosed, I had the resources to afford a private appointment for my diagnosis, and I have the resources to continue to pay for private treatment by a physiotherapist specialising in hypermobility. I’m also lucky enough to have a GP who understands and believes me when it comes to all the weirdness that comes with EDS, and will take me as an expert in my own condition.
Most people aren’t this lucky. EDS is becoming more recognised and more and more people are recognising their symptoms and pursuing a diagnosis, but the NHS still hasn’t implemented a formal diagnostic process. Post-diagnosis, patients are just abandoned. Complications and comorbidities are poorly understood and diagnosis and treatment of the rarer ones such as mast-cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and craniocervical instability (CCI) isn’t readily available on the NHS, forcing people to crowdfund for further private diagnoses and treatment.
The NHS is failing EDSers, and something as simple and bureaucratic as an established care pathway would improve so many lives.
Even if you don’t have EDS, please share and sign – it’s an official government petition so you won’t get spam emails and it takes under a minute.
The recent study “Being vs. Appearing Socially Uninterested: Challenging Assumptions about Social Motivation in Autism,” and the resulting New York Times article, got me thinking about the value we place on socializing. The article does a good job, I think, on telling non-autistic audiences that we are just as human as they are. That autistic people need to be met halfway just like anyone else. That our body language and communication and social interests displaying differently than others does not mean it is lesser.
So I don’t really have a bone to pick with that. Mostly, I just got to thinking about the immense value we place on socializing in the first place.
I tried just using about half a (roughly lb.) bag of berries starting out, and it wasn’t way too much for one person. Leave the rest for later 😉
Not disappointed! Which is almost a surprise when you’ve been craving something. It’s definitely very fruity. I think I would have rather had straight blackberries, but the mix is a lot better than nothing. Probably an even better thing I used like 2/3 Splenda, with the amount it took to balance out the tartness from two types of currants in there. Not even going for very sweet.
Next time I think I’ll add a little more water with that shallow a layer in the pot, because this cooked down to almost a jam consistency. Not bad, but not quite what I was going for. The corn dumplings did work out pretty well, though I figured they would if you like the denser corn dumplings.
Glad I went ahead and tried that tonight, even if I couldn’t quite finish the bowl yet 😅
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