Valour

Effective immediately no trans girls or women are allowed to join GGUK, info on how current members are affected has not been shared yet

Cowardly and not good enough

GirlGuiding UK 'We don't want to be trans exclusionary'

Girlguiding UK 'But we're gonna anyway, so sorry trans girls, guess it sucks to be you'

listen... people with girlfriends and boyfriends and theyfriends expand the kingdom of God... i thought you wanted to do numbers????

I dont care about the Polycule ... bring all They/Them down to the food giveaway

The parts of Christianity we've invested ENTIRELY too much time in

Who going with who
where do they "be" putting "it"
who gets to preach the sermons
which method of baptism
How many ethically consenting and informed "boos" you running

none of which make you a better Christian

The parts of Catholicism i like

The bones
the architecture
the outfits
the orders
The gold cup

Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.

I am down for this element of discourse, because we wont break the patriarchy unless we deconstruct this shit brick by brick

I mean, I too look healthier in specialised lighting, when a dedicated team of experts has dressed me, done my make up, and the images have then been digitally gussied up

Press tours are EXHAUSTING, like theyve done what 3 pr 4 weeks of constant flights, hotel travel, interviews etc ?

For sure, and like, everyone is going to have their own view. And crucially, their own experience with ED that means they land in a different place, I'm just sharing my stream of consciousness

And maybe I'm being too nice. Maybe they are both deep in the grips of Ana right now, or promoting it

(Also, I'm not like criticising people for having those feels, body stuff fucks us all up and dominant western culture is so aggressively fat phobic that I'm surprised to meet people without a history of disordered eating, we're all in the same hell)

Also, its not like either of them have historically, as adults, been anything other than fairly thin? If we were talking about HIGHLY DRAMATIC WEIGHTLOSS etc Id get it, but, this discourse might be more healthily processed with a different frame on it

Yeah my position ends up being - thin women exist too. Now thin women do not experience the same level of oppression as fat women, but like I super need people to realise that Anorexia is horrific and it fucks you up. You are not responsible for how other ppl read your anorexia

As for their attachment too each other, I do not understand why that generates any discourse whatsoever, people are allowed to love other people, and isnt it actually NICE to see two high profile women really caring for each other? Like, isnt that just a good thing?

Now, if Ariana was detailing an extensive diet of juice cleanses and fasting (looking at you gwyneth paltrow!) then Id be like BITCH PLEASE

BUT we cannot, and it is actually just replicating the harm etc, decude that because a woman is thin, is in haute couture, is famous that she promotes ana

Like Cynthia and Ariana ( and Michelle Yeoh!) are not responsible for our cultural obsession with thinness. Its not on them. And, even as powerful women with a platform, they are still oppressed by the discourse about their bodies ?

(I have a long history of eating disorder, and have been in recovery since like 2014, I'm not just opining with no skin in the game)

I worry that discourse around individual women's bodies and their presentations that assigns responsibility for being pro ana is a dangerous game

Hmm. So I don't read either of them as being pro ana or promoting eating disorders in general

And I think for women in the public eye they are damned if they do, damned if they dont - for me it would be a problem if they were saying shit that was pro ana?

OOOOOOOH THAT SOUNDS FABULOUS

Funny it's only the EXECUTIVES who keep saying "AI" is inevitable and will be in everything. When it's developers, coders, writers, artists, independent creators, and smaller studios run by those people, they're somehow shockingly AGAINST using plagiarismbots that can't code, write, or draw.

Wait wait have I missed about the Wicked promo tour? I spent the whole thing being a vapid fashion homo and screeching at the archival pulls that Cynthia and Ari were wearing

(And like affirming that J Bailey is just Very Pretty)

The super rubbish thing about having a cyber stalker is I have so much NEWS that I want to shout out into the internet, because I am an adhd chaos goblin over-sharer, but for like safety reasons I can now only be like wierdly obscure, and is is, frankly, THE MOST ANNOYING THING

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

I don’t have a new book to promote, but four of my former students have their first books coming out this academic year and, people, you are going to hear about them.

A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Nooo, Alice Wong has died! Rest well, your magnificence lit the way for so many of us.

Those of you who have been praying for our little family recently - thank you so much. I'm very happy to say the intention we were asking for has come through!

(I won't be more specific here because open Internet! But it's a good thing)

Hey I just met you
And this is batshit
But here's my number
Call me fascist

really looking forward to the meltdowns from everyone who thought Daddy Trump would dress down the big bad socialist instead of hyping up his new best friend the Cool Mayor

how do you not know how this guy works by now