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lesbian beauty & the beast 👑💔
#original#beauty and the beast#actually posting art today too wo!w!! hi#ive been working on this one in short bursts for the last week and ahalf or so#im so normal about this and it doesnt reflect on my mental health in any way#love my beast women gross and handsome and torn apart by the agonies.#two women going through it. i hope you can infer.
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To all of the lovelies that are concerned about having access to contraceptives in the USA, please know that Plan B has a shelf life of a few years when stored properly (Plan B Fact Sheet, 2024). The same can be said for Julie Plan B.
These are not abortion pills. These morning-after pills delay the ovulation process, which means the menstrual cycle starts quicker and prevents the fertilization of the egg. Take when needed and store safely. All of these can be bought online and/or Target and CVS.
#contraceptives#And call with your healthcare provider to see what works best for you#women’s health#I’m being mom/auntie/foxy grandma today
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I experienced the biggest shift in my feminist consciousness when I stopped seeing women as the 'other' and start seeing us as 'we'. I realized it's not about how the world sees us or how my personality is different or whatever I couldn't relate to in other women; it's what's threatening and disadvantaging all of us. It's we, the women, who are fighting a common enemy and this threat surpasses any differences that we might have between us, it surpasses all my personal squabbles and disagreements, because this is bigger than that.
What happened to women historically are not distant and 'unfortunate' events that have nothing to do with me, they have everything to do with why my life is the way it is right now. M*n burned women, and because of this now we, the women, don't have reasonable or effective healthcare anymore. They didn't burn them in a craze or hysteria, they burned them for studying female illnesses and developing medicine, for keeping women healthy and sane, for benefiting us as a group. It's the reason why I suffer from menstrual pain today and the reason why there's not a ready cure, reason why me and others were not educated on our genitals or our sex-specific illnesses, it's why our health problems are not, and won't be taken seriously.
M*n also burned women for owning land, and during the history, did everything they possibly could to stop women from inheriting, owning and managing land. And it's the reason why I will not be considered to inherit my fathers land, why most of women will not gain land just by having family ties, while males absolutely will, they'll be the first choice to inherit both land and property. It's the reason I will have to fight for the most of my life to acquire a piece of land and not only it will be difficult, but most people will believe that I shouldn't own any. Because they've managed to create a standard where women historically rarely had land, and made this into our normal. They did it to give land to themselves.
The fact that women were barred from colleges and high education in the past is not unrelated to me and my situation today. It's the reason my female ancestors were subjected to poverty and servitude, with no way to free themselves – and by extension, the reason I am still in poverty today. If my female ancestors were from the start, well educated, owning both land and freely managing their health issues, I would inherit not only their knowledge, skills and property, but also the financial security that comes with it. My female ancestors would be able to invest in their children's future, to make sure their female descendants don't have to suffer and fight for food, or a piece of land to exist on. Instead, what they were forced to do was serve a m*n and hope that he would be kind to their children and maybe secure them some more financial safety than they had - and he didn't. Because m*n save those things for their own class.
The fact that women were banned from their own last names and lineage cuts me off from my history and my heritage. I don't get to draw my female-centered family tree or know what my female ancestors lived through and how they got me here, and if they even did it purposely, or were forced into childbirth without ever having a choice. I don't get to be proud of their achievements, inherit their wisdom or read their life stories. Instead I had to hear about male war escapades and be disgusted that the male lineage was filled with violent offenders.
The fact that women were historically enslaved or trapped in various types of servitude, despite how it was being called, has huge impact on my life today. It's the reason why, from the very start of life, I've been taught that I would be better fit for a role of servitude. That my place is in the kitchen, keeping home, feeding others, cleaning and doing menial tasks that would never be rewarded or paid for. It's why even my reproductive rights have been represented to me as my 'duty to the humankind'. None of that would be happening if women throughout history weren't in a servant/slave class. But, this wasn't only ever true for women, was it?
M*n during history were enslaved too, and yet all m*n are not taught from birth that they would be much very well fitted for a servant role, and to act as a resource for others. They're not told that their only value is to keep house, serve in the kitchen and clean house for others. To sacrifice their reproductive rights for someone else's purposes. That's because our age of servitude never ended. They're still at it, teaching every woman what she is before she even knows there's possibly a choice of freedom. Where they can't enforce us legally, they do it by grooming, by tradition, by violence in our home. We have not been freed from servitude until no female child is ever told that she needs to be a resource, to pick up and clean and cook and please everyone around her. We are still being trapped into belief that we have no choice, that our servitude is normal, expected, and nothing to fight against because they made it a tradition. We still have our female children in servitude before they even understand that what is asked of them is a part of a historical oppression.
Whatever was done to women and girls throughout history affects every bit of my life right now, and what my life would be without it is almost unimaginable for a woman who never experienced living outside of an oppressed class. Our history is not only scarred but then cut away from us, we're being convinced that anything from the past is 'long forgotten' and 'no longer relevant since we can now vote', but it's only done to isolate us from the female class consciousness, to convince us that our life right now, is the best we could ever hope for, and there was never any way for it to be better, for us to have any more power than we do. While they give power to themselves.
We had the right to freedom, healthcare, knowledge, education, land and inheritance, for the entire history. All of it has been cut away and taken from all of us, resulting in us never being able to accumulate any security or safety for our own, not even enough to keep us out of life of poverty and servitude, not even enough to ensure that our children will be safe. And on top of that, we've been 'othered' and isolated from each other, so we cannot even work together on acknowledging what's been taken and how to reach safety. We're turned to self blame, and self loathing for our low status in the population, as if it's personally each of our faults that we couldn't overthrow the oppression or thrive in a hostile society.
Women are not the 'other'. M*n are. We the women are robbed of our property, inheritance, resources and right by m*n, systematically and consistently. It's affecting each and every one of our lives. It's why we can't care for our children, why we get turned away from our doctors, why each of us has to heal their own organs, why our mothers and grandmothers can only give us horror stories of survival and tell us we should make peace with a life of servitude, for they've never seen a woman survive any other way. It's why we had and still have to rely on m*n for housing and survival, even though there would be absolutely no need for this had they not robbed us of our half of the land. It's why developing class consciousness is necessary, we cannot recognize or fight this while we're othered from each other.
#radical feminism#feminism#female class consciousness#how history shaped female lives today#female servitude#enslavement of women#womens inheritance#womens health#womens education#womens rights#radfem
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Tumblr is the last social media I’ve been holding on to and I might genuinely come on here much less after this election because this website is so sickeningly white and it SHOWS
#I’ve seriously been unable to look on here most of the day#I’ve unfollowed so many people#it truly makes me sick to my stomach to see the way people are reacting to this election on here#I had to go to TIKTOK for a palette cleanser. TIKTOK!!!!#tiktok fucking ruined my mental health last year but today it was actually helpful#because on there my fyp is almost all black women expressing righteous fury#actually reacting to this like a real fucking person with emotions and thoughts and fears that are affected by this#instead of just JOKING!!!!!!! JOKING!!!!#and making fucking excuses for being complicit#sick of it I’m fucking furious#goodnight 🖕#lyla's talking again
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questioning sexuality is so exhausting
#(edit: sorry for the rant in the tags and i just. i want someone to talk to me)#i keep on doing it for no apparent reason#someone was talking about lust yesterday and i realised today that.#even tho id thought i don't experience it. i possibly do. but exclusively towards women.#i hate it here!#for a multitude of reasons i will never have a relationship with a woman but! i may be incapable of having a relationship with a man!#at some point in the last few months i have abruptly pivoted from definitely wanting marriage and kids to being ambivalent on marriage#and not wanting kids. that's such an outlier in my life that it might just be a mental health thing tho idk#but at the same time i. want to be loved.#i don't know what i want anymore and im tired of questioning myself#i definitely overthink it but idk how to stop it#and i hate hate hate how the moral obsessions have bee lately#this isn't entirely related but it kind of is#like Am i a terrible morally bankrupt person for having certain thoughts or is it just religious ocd go brrrr?? am i overthinking it?#i don't know. i don't know!#for a while labelling myself as arospec ace kinda calmed that down but. i don't know#i do't want to be attracted to women. i don't want to have to look away so often. i don't want any of that.#but i don't know how to stop it.#i don't even know if i'm attracted to men at all.#this is a cry for help and encouragement and prayers no matter what your views on these matters are#queer stuff tag#i nearly fessed up to my friend yesterday about same sex attraction and i might've except that it would have probably outed me as#the person who anonymously sent in a question several months ago about the side b movement to a church thing#ive only told one person at church about any of that sort of stuff and it was very vaguely worded#also see: this friend is the mother of the boy i?? i don't even know how i feel about him#i increasingly think it wasn't romantic at all. but i don't know#i would love any encouragement you got. anything at all.#i don't know how much this stuff is affected by the fact that i consider myself unloveable and think it highly unlikely any boy will ever#care for me#now im rambling. sorry
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Me :)
#my photgraphy#my pics#my post#girl#tumblr girls#beauty#me#today on tumblr#night#makeup#girls#brazil girls#beauttiful girls#pretty girls#my phoyography#japan photos#photooftheday#photoshoot#photography#mental health#healthcare#pretty woman#beautiful women#woman#japan girl
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Anyone remember how in Mass Effect 2 it's revealed that Miranda hooks up with random men from dating apps, with the explicit purpose of getting pregnant and never seeing them again?
The Doylist explanation for this is obviously that this is Mass Effect and the writers either didn't know, or didn't think about artificial insermination. Like Miri babe, you can entirely skip paying for tinder gold and just use your exorbitant salary as an unethical scientist/assassin working for the proud boys, to have a licensed professional get you pregnant in the sort of strictly business relationship you're looking for.
However, for a Watsonian explanation, I think it's much more funny to imagine Miranda just has a huge breeding kink she refuses to acknowledge as such; and the reason you never see her drink is because she knows she will start rambling about how every woman secretly desires to spend her whole life pregnant and make everyone uncomfortable.
#valk yelling at clouds#I feel like the mass effect team didnt know much about womens reproductive health#see also Miris magical benign tumor that in the year 42069 is entirely incurable#we can do ovary transplants today why is that not an option for her???#what is up with the fertility clinic just going 'we're sorry you're gonna die alone and unloved you barren hag'
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Self-Care Affirmations. Post it Forward. Thanks for Tipping!
#positive vibes#positivethinking#positivelypresent#lifestyle#life quotes#quoteoftheday#affirmations#selfcare#mental health#positivity#today on tumblr#self esteem#daily life#mermay#positive words#positivemindset#self love#working women#postitforward
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I’m not cut out for even slightly more intense health issues than my usual stuff yall so here’s my will for when i die of feel too bad disorder: i’d like to dedicate my few life achievements to all the sapphics out there and also they can have all my stuff i guess
#i did not go to a doctor yet because i was better yesterday#and it is now worse again!! rude!!#now i have to consider going today🙃#i do have a few general health issues but i don’t ever get sick or anything#so now im an absolute WIMP when it comes to feeling bad#im ready to fight whoever invented feeling bad cause it is not fun!!#also ready to pass away so pls enjoy my objects i love them a lot#you guys don’t get to have my books though please bury them with me as my final request#you can however keep my degree which is useful as tinder or perhaps a part of a decorative stack of useless papers#this is a joke and im over exaggerating and probably fine btw#just some things acting up probably not anything bad or serious#however the only thing im yearning for rn is for this to go away#so probably won’t have enough yearning for women to make many posts#unless i find some in my drafts or some such#idk#but i wanted to post about it since i know sometimes radio silence gets yall worried#so!! im good just going through it lol
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hi- the WallStreet Journal recently published an article about the approval of over-the-counter birth control pills, and the author made the following claim: "Nearly half of U.S. pregnancies are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a group that supports abortion rights and tracks related statistics. Women who have unintended pregnancies are more likely to lose their baby and delay needed care. Their babies are also at higher risk for health problems." (empahsis added). The article links to the claims in the first half, but has no support at all for the claims in the second half. I'm attempting to find studies to support or refute these claims, but not seeing much- have you seen anything on this topic?
Hello! Sorry for the delay on answering this ask. I haven't heard about that claim, but when I looked it up, it makes sense. I found the CDC talking about it, "Unintended pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of problems for the mom and baby. If the mom was not planning to get pregnant, she may have unhealthy behaviors or delay getting health care during the pregnancy, which could affect the health of the baby."
This report is outdated from 2006, but it discusses what the CDC is referencing.
In addition to having chronic diseases, a substantial proportion of women who become pregnant engage in high-risk behaviors and contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes. In 2003, a total of 11% of pregnant women smoked during pregnancy, a risk factor for low birthweight (10), and 10% of pregnant women and 55% of women at risk for getting pregnant (i.e., those not using contraception or using ineffective contraceptive methods or using effective contraceptive methods inconsistently) consumed alcohol, a risk for fetal alcohol syndrome (45). Certain women also continued to engage in high-risk sexual behavior, potentially exposing themselves to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV (46). Although a smaller proportion of women used illicit drugs, this high-risk behavior has been associated with adverse outcomes. These behaviors often co-occur, therefore, compounding the risk for adverse outcomes for certain groups.
They claim that women who plan their pregnancies have better preconception help than those who don't intend on getting pregnant. So that could be the reason why women with unintended pregnancies are more likely to lose their baby or their baby is more high risk for health problems.
More info I could find on this issue: http://www.nchealthystart.org/aboutus/incite/incite_may_09.htm
I also found a report from the US government discussing the health risks between intended pregnancies and unintended pregnancies:
A number of investigators have studied whether children born as a result of unintended pregnancies (both mistimed and unwanted) are at greater risk of various poor outcomes, such as low birthweight, than are children born as a result of intended pregnancies.
Women who have mistimed or unwanted conceptions tend to initiate prenatal care later in pregnancy and to receive less adequate care than women who have intended the pregnancy. When compared with women who planned to conceive, women with an unwanted pregnancy are 1.8 to 2.9 times more likely to begin care after the first trimester.
There's a lot the report discusses, but just a warning: it's really outdated. It's from a book published in 1995. We are in need of current research being done on the topics of pregnancy and abortion. From what I have gathered from these studies is women capable of childbearing need to take their health seriously and take care of themselves. Don't do drugs and don't drink excessively. Preconception health care is important and we should be taking more folic acid.
I hope this answers your question. Sorry I am so late to respond. Life has been hectic for me. But let me know if you have any further questions!
-Sarah
#preconception health care#learning new things today#women's health#womens health#health care#prolife#pro life#pro-life#ask#asks#thanks for the ask
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#saw a friend today who decided on having kids now that she's getting married to her longtime boyfriend#i deeply appreciate that friend but i never got on board with how she speaks so matter-of-factly of having a baby#bc she believes she 'owes' her significantly older bf#another motivation seems to be that she just wants to be done with her job and become a sahm (crossong myself)#also shes annoyed by other kids but bought into the idea that 'it's different once they're yours'#well yeah for life and death reasons not because your child suddenly becomes a ray of sunshine 24/7#idk idk i see how she could manage somehow but she gets easily overwhelmed and dissatisfied as it is&says she doesn't have any savings so.#hm. worried.#also wanting to become pregnant to have a reason to stop smoking as if there aren't so many pregnant women smoking right this second#between this and my friend who keeps dating mentally unstable men in order to have a kid despite a risk of maternal death#and a another befriended couple that seems to be head over heels for getting pregnant asap despite some red flags#it feels very very isolating to be a woman right now#oh i forgot to vent that friend a seems to reject it when i say that statistically it can take like a year to get pregnant#and she also doesn't want to get tested.#like i get that since im not planning on kids rn and took active steps for birth control im more aware of the risks and statistics#but it's worrying how little some people want to think about things like money mental health physical etc before having kids
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"There's nothing wrong with keeping quiet, after all, hadn't women traditionally been expected to be demure and restrained?"
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
#this book left me speechless#han kang#art literally#art#bookblr#books#my reading list#the vegetarian#mental health#women#artists on tumblr#sending you all the love and energy#hope youre feeling alright today
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Saw a trans woman today picking up ophthalmic antibiotics, her whole face was puffed up and she was delirious holding her head in her hands from pain, look at what they’re doing to our people, look at what bacteria is doing to our people
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Are you in Ohio? Are you outside Ohio but know a voter there? Today is Election Day for Part One of a two stage process to determine whether Ohio will protect Reproductive Freedom.
tl;dr – Vote No on today's August ballot measure and vote yes on the November measure: August NO — November YES.
There is a lot of interest in this election. If Ohio voters reverse the gerrymandered GOP legislature's decision to ban almost all abortions, Ohio will become the largest state to do so since the regressive Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling by SCOTUS last year.
You can usually tell how much interest there is in an election by the amount of early voting. Early voting has been brisk in Ohio.
Almost 700,000 Ohioans cast ballots in the early voting period leading up to the Aug. 8 special election on the constitutional amendment to make it harder to pass future amendments. More than 118,000 Ohioans have voted early, either by mail or in person, during the last three days of early voting alone on Issue 1. Early absentee ballots began to be sent out on June 23, and the first ballots were returned five days later. Since then, 696,905 Ohioans have voted early by mail or in person at county early voting centers. That’s already more than the 638,708 Ohioans who voted in the legislative primary last August. And it's more than twice the around 289,000 Ohioans who voted early in the primaries in May 2022, in which seven Republicans and three Democrats were running for their parties' nominations for US Senate and both parties also had contested primaries for governor.
If you've received a mail-in ballot but neglected to mail it, you can still deliver it TODAY in person to your election board.
There are about 68,000 ballots that have been mailed to voters that haven't been returned. If they are, they'll be added into the early vote totals. Anyone who has voted their ballot and hasn't mailed it by now should hand deliver it to their local board of elections. They can be deposited into secure drop boxes at those locations. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and close at 7:30 p.m.
State elections, state legislatures, and state constitutions have been neglected far too long by liberals.
#ohio#issue 1#vote no#ohio constitution#the sanctity of reproductive freedom#a woman's right to choose#abortion#election 2023#today is election day#get out the vote#state government#dobbs v. jackson women's health organization#scotus#roe v.wade
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accidentally read too far in my little women reread and now oh im miserable
#little women is the only book that i let myself not finish. repeatedly#i used to try to brave the whole book at least every other reread (every year)#but the past few years ive hashtag protected my mental health by stopping before things got too heartbreaking#which is usually no more than a few chapters into the second half#and THIS year (2023) (like five minutes ago) not only did i go a little bit further than i should have#i also (in an episode of insanity) actually sought out the chapter in which jo breaks lauries heart#anyway..am miserable#i dont know why i picked it up again today. i read exactly the healthy and appropriate amount yesterday#anyway. im going to make myself miserable with the film so whatever#kirastfu
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i hate men
#i'm sorry today is one of Those Days when i hate men in general and the only exception is my brother#i don't really mean it but. as i do almost every day i read the news and there are like#4 women murdered one girl r*ped etc.#and i hear this kind of news every. fucking. day#i'm tired. also as i think i already mentioned other times in my extended family there's history of *severe* violence against women#the kind of thing you hear on the news (and no i wish it was an exaggeration but it's not)#so this is also very personal to me#and my mental health hasn't been good in ages#also i'm outraged about what's happening in gaza but that's another matter#val speaks#txt
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