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Patrick Kelleher (February 19, 2024). "Yes, trans women can breastfeed too. Here’s why it’s safe, healthy and good for both mum and baby." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/trans-women-breastfeeding-explainer-research/

tl;dr One study was about how transgender women can produce milk. Another study found that the nutritional value of their milk is the same. This news article also tells the stories of some families who do this for their babies. It quotes one of these mothers, Twitch streamer and PhD student Nominal Naomi, who said,

"If you’re trans, you can be a mother. You can be a father. You can be a parent. You can actually have a family and this life – this dream is possible for you, and you can even breastfeed your kids [...] The only thing that’s stopping you is other people’s hate and vitriol, and I don’t want to let that get in the way of me loving my family as best I can."

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Transformers One (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Transformers One has several scenes of rapid-firing lasers, all of which occur during the second half of the film. There are very mild electrical arcing effects in a few scenes of the first half, and one of intense electrical arcing as someone falls down a chasm. This film is also very colorful, which may cause eye strain in some viewers.

A lot of this film takes place at extreme heights. The camera follows action through high-speed chases, complex flying maneuvers, and fast orbiting shots.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 8/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Transformers One

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3 Idiots (2009) - Rajkumar Hirani

“Even a circus lion learns to sit in fear of the whip, but you call such lion well trained, not well educated.”

3 Idiots is an ironic title because it’s a film full of wisdom. But where there is wisdom, there is controversies. This was especially true to the Asian community on family expectations with career. To have an education is not the same as being well educated.

Rancho is the symbolic character of genuine learning. But more interestingly, we see his two relatable friends. One needs to graduate for his family. One wishes not to graduate at all. Their story is a tug-and-pull of being practical and being free.

One thing is for sure. We need to do better for our students. 3 Idiots is not just a fairytale of rags to riches, but a reality that poverty can reduce education to an escape. A love of learning flourishes from an environment that it is safe to learn.

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This is a slide from a presentation that I did together with my partner @who-is-page: "You Are Not A Museum Piece: Putting Yourself Out There In The Alterhuman Community." You can watch the whole presentation on Youtube here.

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Admin Brandon here with wonderful news: John Krasinski's IF is SAFE for photosensitive audiences!

I'll have my video review and evaluation of this film available on Patreon today, and on Facebook and Tumblr on Tuesday.

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Soul (2022) - Pete Docter

“Your spark isn’t your soul’s purpose.”

Is life really all about finding our purpose? When we’re kids, we’re taught to dream big, discover our passion and hence, ourselves. But when we don’t find that thing we want to do for the “rest of our lives”, we can feel like a failure.

Soul is a journey of this unborn soul called 22 who doesn’t want to live. But by chance, she’s able to travel to Earth and experience life. She wasn’t fascinated by the “purposes” we think like playing music, teaching or barbering. Instead, she enjoyed eating, walking and feeling a cool breeze.

A spark is not a life-defining purpose. It’s simply the little moments that make us happy we’re alive. 22 never needed to find her purpose to live because it’s living itself that is the purpose.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Night At The Museum DVD

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Zinnia Jones (May 31, 2021). "Early use of masculinizing steroid oxandrolone in trans boys can add 2 more inches of height compared to testosterone." Gender Analysis. Live link. Archive.

The above blog post is about a study about looking for more suitable sorts of puberty blocking and hormone therapy for transmasculine youth. It found a treatment that is more effective for letting them grow up to be a couple inches taller, if they start it early, at age thirteen or fourteen. It's about this study:

Grimstad, F. W., Knoll, M. M., & Jacobson, J. D. (2021). "Oxandrolone Use in Trans-Masculine Youth Appears to Increase Adult Height: Preliminary Evidence." LGBT health, 8(4), 300–306. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0355

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Inside Out 2 (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Inside Out 2 has several scenes showing a series of glowing threads that flash brightly with some strobe effects when a new character begins interacting with these threads. There is some lightning in the background of one action scene. An early scene of people taking selfies has a few bright camera flashes. A late sequence depicts a swirling vortex of rapid movement that may contain some strobe effects.

There are scenes of high-speed travel and action at extreme heights. One brief scene depicts being sucked into a tornado-type phenomenon, with highly disorienting camera movement.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: One extended sequence depicts an intense and visceral anxiety attack.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Inside Out 2

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"A few notes about how to design your own relationships!

"You don't have to have sex! Or have it soon, or often, or in any particular way. And sex doesn't have to go along with romance, intimacy, or commitment.

"You don't have to be monogamous! You can also be nonmonogamous, monogamish, polyamorous, open, exclusive with more than one partner, or into the occasional threesome.

"You don't have to live together! Or share a room, or share a bed, or do it all the time. (You don't have to share your finances, your stuff, or all your friends either.)

"You don't have to get married! And the legal paperwork, religious ceremony, and social event don't have to go together.

"You don't have to have kids! But you also don't have to have a partner if you want to, or have to raise your own biological offspring.

"You don't have to stay together, or plan to! It's not a failure just because something ends, and that doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful.

"You don't have to label or define your relationship how other people tell you, or at all!

"You don't have to be monogamous because you live together, get married because you have kids, combine these things in any particular way, do them in any particular order, or progress at some preset speed!

"If what you really want to do is do it all in a really traditional way, that's okay too! But you can also mix and match and do whatever works for you!"

Signed with a heart, SexEdPlus.com.

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Full transcript at sexedplus.com Follow sexedplus for more like this Resources Book - Sex From Scratch by Sarah Mirk Article - SoloPoly: Riding the relationship escalator (or not) Book - Redefining Our Relationships by Wendy-O Matik

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Little Forest (2019) - Soon-rye Yim

“When things are hard, remember the scent of the land, the wind, and the sun here.”

This film was like a breeze in a desert. In a nutshell, this movie is a story that in a world of chaos, we find solace in food. When we’re sad, we look for comfort bites. When we’re happy, we share meals with others. When we’re satisfyingly tired, nothing is better than a hot dinner.

But of course, we get busy that food feels like something automatic. We resolve to frozen microwave snacks and chew on it without giving it much thought. We simply eat to get full, but not nourished.

The Little Forest brings us back to that time where food, as it was scarce, was cherished. Even though we’re not all farmers, everyone has their own little forest: the place which nourishes or depletes them. Hye-won left the city Seoul. Why? Because she was hungry.

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I am watching wizards and I was not expecting actual live action footage of adolf hitler to show up in this animated children’s movie from the 70s.

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The Garfield Movie (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

The Garfield Movie has several uses of electrical strobe effects. These include lightning, electric fences, stun guns, and cameras flashing from all directions. All of these strobe effects are very strong, as well as unpredictable.

All of the camera work is very smooth. An action sequence late in the film takes place in and around a vehicle traveling very fast. The same sequence also has some peril at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 10/10. Motion Sickness: 3/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of The Garfield Movie

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Will a trans man’s testosterone therapy make a home pregnancy test inaccurate?

Someone asked us:

Since a transman can still get pregnant while on testosterone (even though the chance is slim), can he still use a home pregnancy test? Or will his hormones affect the results and give a false negative/positive or something?

Don’t worry. The pregnancy test would still be accurate. Pregnancy tests only test for the presence of a specific hormone in the body: Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). HCG is a hormone that’s produced after a fertilized egg has implanted into the wall of the uterus. So taking “T” will not interfere with pregnancy tests.

If a trans man gets a positive pregnancy test, he should talk to his health care provider about his options, as testosterone could have an effect on the pregnancy.

-Mylanie at Planned Parenthood

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Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock

“What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.”

Rear Window is one of my best chamber movies alongside 12 Angry Men. It’s a simple whodunit which is easy to do, but hard to do well. Hitchcock accomplishes the latter.

A photographer is stuck in his apartment because of an injury. Soon enough, he’s convinced he witnessed a murder. He spends days staring out the window. How did the neighbor do it?

Balancing the simple plot, the dialogue gives depth. It makes you feel like it was also a healing film without you noticing. It’s this subtlety that makes people call this film second best from Hitchcock.