#we need to protect young people

[albonium]

with the things i'm seeing on twitter it's making me scared so i'll say it here too because there has to be young people following me:

having sex with someone who has a penis and not using a condom means you could catch diseases but also get pregnant. someone pulling out before they ejaculate isn't making it safe. it's not a way to prevent diseases or pregnancies. timing unprotected sex with menstrual cycles/using your body temp is not a way to avoid pregnancy. you can still get STIs if you used a condom. oral sex isn't safe you can get STIs including HIV. condoms can break or slip off and that can be enough to cause all the things mentionned.

get tested regularly, talk to your doctor you're not the first one or the last one to have sex and talk to them about it there's nothing to be ashamed of

[tenwhiteandalusians]

pertaining to the idea of tenax’s band of strays i do think it’s touching that the kids are the ones who saved him and waited outside the door to make sure he’s okay. for all tenax claims to be harsh and cruel it’s a fine indicator of his character that the kids won’t rest without him and are there every time he’s in danger.

[pseudodog]

during those weeks id tie my hair up into a bun, took my wallet off its chain, tightened the straps on my backpack and had my pepper spray in my hand constantly cause i was so scared of being Grabbed on the street while making deliveries

[soursherbat]

forgor ive never posted abt our system here bc we're incredibly private but uh. yeagh hi

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Seele (Honkai: Star Rail). Listen, I used to write her and I miss her a bit, and also: there's Belobog people around. And also, well, she's much more interesting than people give her credit for. Also, prepare for some 'rewriting', because Belobog's pacing in specific ways kind of blew a little bit much.

[answersfromzestual]

'Parents must be fully involved' in student's decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says

Gross. Because so many parents are just okay with their kid transitioning. It's not like a kid of SIXTEEN years can have their own identity without consent from their parent/ guardian...

This is going to cause a crisis. A mental health crisis in youths. There already is a crisis! I believe children and youths are humans, and this is a blatant violation of their human rights and our jobs to protect them.

Some people have really crappy parents when it comes to coming out with a new pronoun. This is going to cause a skyrocket in depression and probably sadly teenage suicide...

We need to start asking our kids, their kids, everyone's kids what THEY want.

What do pronouns have to do with a child's education? Why is this a priority over schools having updated learning experiences? Updated courses? Even hiring more social and youth workers?

Why do they just not use any pronouns before 16? Names are there to be used.

This is a target Ontario. By Doug Ford.

Sorry, I am appalled by Saskatchewan's government, Ontario's as well. Our government (Canada as a whole) likes to say one thing "progressive" and then do the opposite and carbon copy of how little changes that has lead to so much danger in the United States, and other countries around the world.

This endangers lives just to make the people who are older, biased, and heavily hold outdated, values feel better.

Stop pandering to the boomers and the echo boomers. These are not the people who we need to target. Younger voters (gen x and later) are too busy fixing what those generations broke to go vote. (Just as a side note me, my partner, and several of my friends all of the same age did not receive their voting registration. This puts a huge hurdle out there for us. It means we have to wait in line for possibly hours to wait in another line to fill out the form the government should have sent you. Last time I voted it took FOUR hours before I was done. Many companies pressure employees that they can't leave to vote because it takes so long. You get a maximum of three paid work hours to vote. Most people are bullied into trying to go after their shift, even if it's really not feasible.

Funding has also been cut in mental health resources. I don't believe these kids will have any form of mediation or help from the school or government. They barely had it when I worked in the school sector. There are not enough social workers to go around. Working in the school sector I had to cover 6 schools in 5 days...

Working in my sector is exhausting as well because there aren't enough of us to go around here either. My shift ends for me to stay around five more hours to finish my documents...

I don't remember anyone asking us if the government should cut funding to hospitals, mental health programs, education programs, or if my child needs my permission to use the pronoun of choice! I don't remember asking for the police to get license plate readers for all cruisers or to give the government officials raises and freeze doctors' wages even lower because doctors are willing to take a cut for more nursing staff. Where is the democraticy in this?

This was my personal opinion written under the article.

Stay Golden Everyone ✌️ 💙 💜

[aceshigh10987666]

You know it's true by the tone of the news articles. Are they horrified that someone who was unaware of their intersex status is having their personal information splattered across the news? Are they upset that this person is being excluded and their past accomplishments erased simply because of the way their body is designed?

No, they're glad that the purity of the sexes is being upheld, and it's a little sad that some cis person is taking the punishment that was designed for trans kids, except, wait...

...are they glancing at someone's elementary school records or birth certificate to verify that this person is the gender that was OBSERVED at birth (or for some intersex people, assigned at birth)? No, they are not. They are examining chromosomes. They are doing physical examinations to discover ambiguous genitals that would not be reflected in the gender on the person's birth certificate. This specifically targets intersex people, not perisex trans people. It merely catches perisex (non-intersex) trans people while we're at it.

And one more thing: this specifically targets those intersex people who have already undergone medical abuse and disfigurement, punishing them even when they have followed (usually nonconsensually) society's edict to appear to be cis perisex.

This doesn't target intersex people with a mixed gender presentation because you would have already assumed they were trans, no testing needed. Those people have already been successfully targeted. They are targeting gender conforming intersex people. They are targeting people with intersex variations that don't result in nonbinary secondary sex characteristics. They are targeting people who have already suffered genital mutilation and/or forced HRT.

This says that even when intersex people do conform to the gender binary in a way that matches their birth certificate's observed or assigned sex, even then they deserve to have their passion taken from them, their awards retracted, and their personal medical information distributed to the public.

This is not about perisex trans people. This targets a different group under the excuse that they are looking for perisex trans people. And when it is discovered that an intersex person has been caught in that trap, it's sad, but no harm at all in telling everyone their full name, their hometown, and the specifics of their intersex variation.

That's necessary in order to protect cis perisex kids from this lack of purity in gendered sports, right? Because we're worried that the intersex person will continue to participate in gendered sports unless we dox them and ensure that they will be subjected to discrimination each time an employer or landlord or partner's family members googles their name and finds the old news articles? Maybe it's okay because if they wanted to avoid that doxxing, they should have changed their name. It's only right that intersex people should have their name taken from them, too.

This perisex person is thoroughly disgusted. Stop it. Intersex people deserve to be protected from bigotry. They deserve equal opportunity. They deserve to have the right to decide whether others know about their status as an intersex person. They deserve to enjoy the joy of participating in sports and earning accolades without fears that those will be taken away, knowing they will be publically bullied just because their body isn't like the ones we learn about in sex ed. There should never be an intersex person who has to decide not to participate in sports because they may eventually be doxxed.

This behavior is our choice as perisex people and we are choosing to victimize them. We don't stop when we realize they're intersex rather than perisex transgender. We don't stop when the intersex person is found to be cisgender. We destroy their lives anyway. This is not transphobia. It's bigotry specificaly aimed at gender-conforming intersex people.

Context.

[musashi]

i want more nuance to be entered into the discussion of the green girl sorority and how differently cynthia plays elphaba in comparison to those who came before her because while a lot of people are rightfully like "why was elphaba not black from the beginning" and celebrating that she is now being played by a black woman, i think we need to be careful in just writing off all the elphabas of the past as Random White Girls when the role was championed (and often followed/succeeded) by a jewish woman

the pop culture archetype of the Wicked Witch has deep roots in antisemitism stretching faaaar far back. there is a level of reclamation happening in casting idina menzel, a jewish woman, to play the Misunderstood and Maligned young girl who is branded as exactly that. and stage!Elphaba is also written and acted with jewish stereotypes in mind--she is loud, aggressive, no-nonsense, blunt. she is quick to advocate for herself and shut down the discrimination she faces. all of this is very intentional! her personality is abrasive from years of abuse, and that makes propagandizing her easy. this is literally the thesis statement of the musical--it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed.

cynthia's performance of elphaba is fucking INSPIRED despite going in a completely different direction. she's much more reserved, analytical, one of her key character traits is how well she can read people (see her calling out Galinda as insecure/putting on airs in their first scene together, clocking that Fiyero is using his party guy persona as a shield for his own depression) elphaba's attempts to blend in and make herself smaller all fail simply because of her existence, if not that then because she feels empathy so strongly she often struggles to hold back from acting, protecting.

personality wise, though, cynthia's elphaba is very quiet and closed-off, not at all the bullet-to-the-face that she is in the stage show, and... she still gets propagandized and maligned. though this seems to contradict the other interpretation, it tells of the other end of the spectrum of propaganda, one that black women watching (and many, MANY other marginalized folks) are sure to identify with--it does not matter how "nice," how reserved, how small a black woman makes herself. a racist society will still scrutinize her every action for a way to parse ill intent from it, brand her as an angry black woman who is dangerous and wicked, and write off any humanity she has in the process.

these two very different interpretations tell of the lie of assimilation. the fact of the matter is, when you are marginalized, there is no way to sand down your edges enough to make the people oppressing you "accept" you. that is why wicked is a tragedy at its core. whether loud and aggressive or quiet and unimposing, there is nothing elphaba could have done to make the people of Oz see her as anything other than a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

so while i definitely appreciate that people are excited for black girl era elphaba, i would encourage us all to still show appreciation for what came before--that was not white girl era elphaba. that was jewish girl era elphaba. two houses, both alike in dignity, two stories both worth being told.

[ujuro]

I think kpop fans owe classy riwon an apology for piling on her for looking ten at age fifteen because the girls now almost 18 and she does not look any older 😭

[tunneldweller]

[image description: "you just die #fear is the mind killer, boomers have... a lot of fear #a lot of fear and hurt that they don't examine or know how to examine and it bleeds through #something something 'it all traces back to trauma' #it... we talk about this a lot" end ID]

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

[snekdood]

i worry a lot about some transfems and its not me trying to be like "im better than you" or some shit its bc some of them remind me of me when i was a kid and new into being considered a girl/woman and being really naive thinking people would treat me better than they would- like i knew people were gonna be shitty but i wasnt prepared for the sheer amount of dehumanization and being reduced to just a sex object... idk... I just want some of you out there to be careful...

[arcticmist0324]

Have you ever been vindicated by the narrative, so to speak, but in a frustrating way you absolutely DID NOT WANT?

Like I got laughed at for calling the Brony fandom out on its bullshit back in the day. And now people who were very young fans have spoken out about how “okay being easily exposed to gore/NSFW material at that young of an age was not cool” ……. Guess who called that from the past.

[paetalks]

nanami kento, very serious looking guy working in the finance department, having a little crush for the new girl who just got hired by the creative team.

you didn’t even know him, not until the christmas dinner party at the office. you were fairly new, only been working there for four months. working for a big company had not always been your goal, but when you got offered the position freshly out of college you couldn’t say no. it was well paid, in the city center, and allowed you to put your degree to use - which was a big plus, since finding a good job lately seemed to be stressful for people with an art degree (or so you were told by basically everybody).

when you first saw him, your heart skipped a bit. he looked insanely good, with his white shirt hugging a toned chest and short blonde hair falling slightly on his forehead. he was talking with your creative project manager, big hands gesturing softly while speaking and a light smile on his face. it was the first time you ever laid eyes on this beautiful man, and as soon as you realized you were staring a bit too hard, he had already made eye contact. eyebrows slightly furrowed, his eyes met yours. before you even knew, you were walking up to him.

“hi” you said, breathily. you felt your hands sweat and damned yourself mentally for behaving like a girl seeing a cute boy for the first time. up close, you realized he must have been a little older. not too much but the confidence he exuded was clearly not the one of someone in his early twenties - nothing like a guy your age. your manager looked around, confused on why you were intruding in their conversation, and eventually asked “hi, y/n. did you need something?”

you blushed immediately, looking away from the beautiful man, realizing there was no good reason to justify your sudden intrusion. you just saw a good looking man and walked up to him as if nothing else was going on. “oh…” your mouth slightly open, your mind racing to find something appropriate to say.

“i think we have not been introduced yet.” his voice was deep and you felt it in your stomach, like music at a concert. your eyes darted up to the unknown man, nodding shyly. “right. my name is nanami kento, pleased to meet you.”

you felt your insides melt while shaking his big hand, mumbling your name and smiling softly. five seconds later, you pretended like someone was calling your name from somewhere where your other colleagues were and excused yourself, quickly leaving just like you did arriving.

watching you walk away, nanami let out a soft smile, hoping the man in front of him was not going to pay much mind to it. “oh, don’t worry about y/n. she’s young, and new. she’s still trying to find her way around here, you know?” your project manager laughed awkwardly, still wondering what was all that about. kento shrugged, watching you from afar. your cheeks were red and the grip on the glass you had in your hands looked incredibly stiff.

what neither you or your protect manager knew was that nanami kento did know who you were. he had noticed you, maybe on your first or second day, when you got lost and popped up in the finance department. your colorful sweater and laptop full of stickers looked very out of place and when one of his colleagues approached you, letting you know that maybe you had walked in the wrong office, you did turn another color from embarrassment and started profoundly apologize. he thought you were cute, and funny, but the more he got a glimpse of you in the hallways, the more he noticed you wherever he were.

the break room, the coffee shop in front of the office building, the elevator. he found you in every room, even if you didn’t even know he was there. it was like he couldn’t get enough of you, like looking at you from afar was something he had grown addicted to in such a short time.

he wouldn’t have called it a crush, but whenever he needed to print something he would carefully choose the printer on the same floor your office was on - hoping that, when walking by, your door would be open and that he could catch a glimpse of you. okay, maybe thinking back, there had been a few moments in which he felt very infatuated by the idea of you…

looking at you from across the room, while zoning out on the conversation he was in, and noticing how sometimes you would look back too, he told himself that yes, that was definitely a crush.

idk i love the dynamics of stoic boyfriend x artsy girlfriend. wtv??? i’m done .

[feras8]

Hello everyone, I am Firas from Gaza🇵🇸, I support my family of 9 people.

The temperature is now 10 degrees Celsius, it is very cold especially inside the tent we do not know what to do, we are even afraid of starting a fire because of the reconnaissance planes exactly (quadcopter).

Anyone can help, donate to us we need to buy some necessities such as:

-Some fabrics and blankets to make the tent warmer from the inside.

-Nylon covers to protect the tent from the rain.

-Some warm clothes for the family.

Honestly: We spent all the money we saved during the last displacement especially since transportation was very expensive. In addition, food prices are crazy, a 25 kg bag of flour costs $300.

Donate what you can to save my family's life 🙏💔

Thanks to you we have managed to raise 1,144€ since the beginning of our campaign, and like every other Palestinian fighting for his life against the oppressors, I do not want to surrender to the murderous regime. Please, together we can raise enough to provide basic necessities and also enable us to escape through the border crossing once it opens.

[sarah-abo-hwidi]

From Gaza to Europe: A Young Girl's Dream is Finally Coming True!

Vetted by association (Mahmoud khalaf) here.

Before the genocidal war on Gaza, I was immersed in university life and enjoyed studying English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza (IUG), which was utterly destroyed by Isr*ael. They destroyed the place that helped me find my passion: performing on stage in English.

My family and I have been displaced multiple times and we ended up now in a tent that does not protect us from any bullets, shrapnel, or the cold and rain of winter. I had never thought I would have to live in such hellish conditions at the age of 20, an age at which I was expecting to be studying at university and enjoying the company of my friends like any other girls my age around the world!!!

Below is my letter of acceptance from Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Ireland, the place where I am reclaiming and achieving my dreams.

Amid the pain, horrors of war and many near death experiences, luckily, I was awarded a scholarship to do a BA in English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College in Ireland. A glimmer of hope shone in my sky, happiness rushed strongly through my veins, and a voice within me roared: "A unique destiny awaits you, Sarah. Seize this opportunity, honor your people abroad, and use your talent to tell the world about Palestine and touch their hearts."

Read more about the scholarship here.

I am literally at a crossroads at this stage in my life. I could keep running from a place to another with my family searching for safety and wasting years of my life without education. Or, you could help me evacuate with my family to Egypt and then go to study at Mary Immaculate College in Ireland.

Please do NOT decide to look away and send my only opportunity for a good education to go with the winds. Please boost my campaign by:

donating, reblogging and sharing.

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[specialmouse]

(the Al-Anqar grandchildren)

DONATE

Nabil Al-Anqar worked his entire life to provide for his family; his beloved wife Fatima; his four children, Mohamed, Ahed, Ghada, and Khaled; and his grandchildren, Lama, Amir, Fatima, Noor, Eman, and Nabil. He owned an aluminum workshop before the war. It took him many years to save up for an apartment for his family, but at the age of 61, he finally did it: a beautiful apartment on the top floor. It was a physical testament to his hard work, and his youngest son Khaled was to be married here.

A month later, his dreams were destroyed by IDF bombs.

(The apartment, before and after)

Nabil’s family was forced to evacuate several times. Instead of the new apartment, the Al-Anqars now are seeking refuge in a partially-developed UNRWA school that receives no aid. The windows, still not fully installed or broken entirely, have blankets stretched across the frames in an attempt to keep the cold out. Sewage spills out onto the streets. Bombs kill dozens in refugee tent camps not half a kilometer away.

(Pictures of current conditions)

Nabil has no way to support his family right now other than this GoFundMe campaign. The price of flour has risen to 150-200€ a bag. Nabil’s grandchildren, some as young as 1 year old, lack shoes and winter clothing to protect themselves from the chill.

As ceasefire talks intensify, so has the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. This week and a half we have before Trump takes office is CRUCIAL. Whether a ceasefire is reached before his inauguration or not, we need to be supporting both community efforts on the ground, as well as campaigns like this, where your money is going to support 14 people (Nabil and his wife, his four children, six grandchildren, and his two daughter-in-laws).

Please donate and share this campaign; it is halfway funded!!!!!

€10,468/€20,000 - JAN 20TH!!!!!!!!

This fundraiser is verified by Gaza Vetters, at #6 on the list, under Ghada’s name.

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