wodneswynn:

websurfingspider:

wodneswynn:

wodneswynn:

So somebody tagged “2 GENDERS” on the graffiti wall. And like…that was it. I can’t even be mad it was so lazy.

Anyways spraypaint is a dollar so now it says “OVER 9000 GENDERS” and has an antifa tag underneath it. You’re welcome.

Now I’m just trying to wrap my head around the inscrutible mind of the absolute fucking nerd who thinks “2 GENDERS” is edgy or subversive.  Like I’m gonna come back to the wall tomorrow and this fool is gonna have tagged “GO TO CHURCH” or “I SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.”

Like I said, I’m not offended as a queer.  I am offended, as a punk, on behalf of taggers everywhere.

I know you were joking, but I literally saw graffiti right after the election that said “give Trump a chance”

That’s the sad part is that I’m not even joking. It probably will happen.

Right after the election the 34th st wall was absolutely ruined with Trump bullshit (some of these no-goodniks even put them *over the memorial panel for the victims of the Gainesville Ripper* because these folks was NOT raised) so what we did was we left them alone except we covered all the Ts so they all said “RUMP” something.

Get on the Rump train. Rump 2016.

kaizykat:

bluepeets:

https://twitter.com/jnthnwwlsn/status/1066854113500192769

ID: A Twitter thread by Dr. Jonathan Wilson, an adjunct professor at Marywood University and the University of Scranton. It reads:

I’ll chime in with so many others today: In my decade or so teaching college, I’ve never had a student ask for a “trigger warning” or “safe space.”

You know what I *have* had students say?

I’ve had a combat veteran make sure I understood he needed a seat in a far corner – where he could see the doorway at all times

I’ve taught the history of the Holocaust in a class where a student had just disclosed that her father was murdered a week before the semester started.

I’ve had a military veteran apologize for missing class due to a court date related to anger management problems.

I’ve had excellent students suddenly struggle just to get to class after experiencing sexual violence or the suicide of a friend during the semester.

I’ve had a student call me in tears after she forgot to complete an exam – a side effect of her cancer treatment. She was trying to finish her college degree in the time she had left as an example to the granddaughter she was raising.

These kinds of stories are *typical* for instructors at America’s colleges – that is, the ones most students attend. Indeed, I’ve mostly taught in relatively privileged circumstances.

So when the question of “sensitivity” and “political correctness” on campus come up… maybe don’t take the claims of reactionaries working at (for example) NYU’s business school at face value.

And – speaking as someone who takes a lot of pride in delivering vivid lectures – if any professor claims that so-called trigger warnings will spoil the dramatic effect of his teaching… you can safely disregard anything he has to say about pedagogy.

(It’s almost always a he.)

Dr. Wilson has also published an article on this topic at Vox.

Source: bluepeets

Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right

oldmanyellsatcloud:

bogleech:

Part of attempts to ban all research that involves human fetal tissue, because the superstitious feelings of anti-choice fanatics over useless, garbage corpse flesh is apparently more important than any number of entire human lives.

Not to draw away from the impact on HIV research at all, but in fact to add to the depth of this issue: acquiring fetal tissue affects many more forms of medical research as well. Vaccines, degenerative disease research, and other immunology related conditions rely on this technology. While advances in pluripotent stem cell research to replace it as a medium is well underway, we just aren’t there yet. This halt on funding will ripple through our community.

Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right