Lab coats make thing about 20% cooler

panicatthediscokilljoys:

You’re right that is pretty dang sweet!

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yamino:

artoftransliness:

transissues101:

To me this depiction of gender is much more accurate, and allows us to label ourselves anywhere on an infinite spectrum. Instead of putting ourselves on fine lines whilst calling anything off the line abnormal, we can be labeled anything therefor allowing any form of gender expression to be considered normal.

Interesting model for viewing gender. 

Lately I’ve been thinking about gender spectrums and if it would be possible to accurately visualize.  I like this model.  I think I’d be somewhere in the grey/yellow-orange border.

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paranoidsuperhero:

best-crisis-ever:

project-argus:

Good Guy Jonas Salk

Develops vaccine using the stolen HeLa cells from a poor African American woman from Virginia named Henrietta Lacks just like billions of other scientists who didn’t give her or her family any recognition or any money for anything she’s done for the entire scientific/medical community. And it took a curious woman in biology class to wonder at all about this whole thing and now we know she died with people barely knowing her real name and now her family in their old age can barely afford health insurance and her grave didn’t even get a head stone until the 90s.

People should read the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. What they did to that woman and her family was an outrage!

We learned about Henrietta Lacks when we covered cell culture, it was horrific. In a nutshell Henrietta Lacks had cervical cancer. The doctors took samples from this cancer without consent and Henrietta died the same year. The samples were then developed into what are now known as HeLa cells which were and still are commercial products that are used for all sorts of things including vaccine development. The Lacks family received nothing for Henrietta’s unwilling contribution to science.

The argument goes that at that time (1950s) consent was not needed for the taking and retention of samples and that the discarded tissues/body parts are no longer property of that person and so if they are made into a commercial product they donor/donors family are not entitled to anything. Personally I don’t think this argument is a good excuse.

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middlemarching:

shadowmageevelyn:

middlemarching:

katiekenna:

maresalsalis:

I sent an ask to the cis person who complained that when trans* people talk about how many of us are murdered, we are hurting cis peoples’ feelings.

This was their response.

I just can’t

even

what?

Here’s their Tumblr: http://katiekenna.tumblr.com

Because it’s only you that needs defending, right?

I think you mean well, but you’re painfully wrong about the way you’re addressing this issue. You’re also not the first person to respond this way. And I’m not actually angry with you.

What, exactly, are you defending the cis community from? I genuinely want you to consider this question, because if your answer is “the trans* community,” then I would like for you to explain to me what threat the trans* community poses to you by discussing how it has been, and continues to be, brutally victimized by members of the cis community. Please note my diction. No one was pointing the finger at you until you interjected your perspective into a conversation that was not actually about you, and attempted to make it about you.

Try to imagine how you’d feel if a cis man pushed his way into the middle of a conversation you were having with other women, cis or otherwise, about rape and sexual assault, and lost his temper with you because “not all men do this, I have to stick up for men!!” Well of course not all men do this. You know this; he knows this; everyone around you knows this. But he’s successfully derailed your attempts to grapple with the issue by turning himself into the victim, and that is wrong.

The cis community does not need defending from the bigotry, marginalization, and erasure that the trans* community suffers from. The trans* and cis communities are not, and have never been, on equal societal footing. That’s, y’know, part of the deal when you’re a member of a marginalized group. You, as a cis person, have to take this into consideration when you decide to engage with the trans* community, or any marginalized group of which you are not a member.

There’s nothing wrong with being cisgender, or privileged in any other capacity. To paraphrase a great quote I read online sometime ago, having privilege is like having large feet. Marginalized people don’t hate you for having big feet. We just want you to watch where you step.

I have to reblog this, because not too long ago (and even still every once in awhile), I get these feelings of feeling like I’m being attacked because I’m cis gender, or that I’m being made to feel guilty for something I didn’t do.

After reading this, Lizzi, I can promise you; I WILL be striving to be more aware of the things I say and the messages I communicate with my words and actions.

So thank you for writing this. It made me understand things a lot better.

you’re a sweetie <333

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