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Jul. 3rd, 2017
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new icon! changed it from Honey from Ouran High School Host Club (clipped from the show opening) to Cisco Ramon on a trans pride flag background for a number of reasons. three(ish? I wanna say?) years ago when I chose my previous icon, I wanted to project a lot of youthful cheer. now I’m substantially older and I have different priorities. I love Cisco Ramon (a lot more than I ever cared about honey - despite the icon, I’ve actually only watched about 15 episodes of Ouran) and I love trans gender! also, I’ve been looking to change my icon for a while because, uhhhh, Ouran high school host club and “shota” looking characters as a concept bad! anyway, I’m pretty happy with this change :0)
new icon! changed it from Honey from Ouran High School Host Club (clipped from the show opening) to Cisco Ramon on a trans pride flag background for a number of reasons. three(ish? I wanna say?) years ago when I chose my previous icon, I wanted to project a lot of youthful cheer. now I’m substantially older and I have different priorities. I love Cisco Ramon (a lot more than I ever cared about honey - despite the icon, I’ve actually only watched about 15 episodes of Ouran) and I love trans gender! also, I’ve been looking to change my icon for a while because, uhhhh, Ouran high school host club and “shota” looking characters as a concept bad! anyway, I’m pretty happy with this change :0)
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fineshirne:
cisco is a trans man thanks for coming to my ted talk
good post op
fineshirne:
cisco is a trans man thanks for coming to my ted talk
good post op
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via http://ift.tt/2sxq38W:HIV 'Undetectable = Untransmittable' Is a Game-Changing Fact. Why Isn't the Message More Public?:
actupny:
On a Sunday afternoon in late April, there was a small but buoyant dance party at the fairly new outdoor AIDS memorial in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which had once been ground zero of the AIDS epidemic.
[…]
The reason for the party? It was to celebrate and promote the fact that we now know with certainty that people with HIV whose meds make the virus undetectable in their blood (as confirmed by lab tests) cannot transmit the virus to sexual partners. In New York City, a host of organizations – including the health department and Housing Works – have been part of an effort in recent years to end New York State’s AIDS epidemic by 2020. Now, they’re rallying behind the Undetectable = Untransmittable or U=U message, which is the national rallying cry of the Prevention Access Campaign.
In recent months, a stunning array of prominent international agencies and individuals have signed onto a U=U consensus statement saying that, based on modern science, undetectable people cannot transmit HIV. They include AIDS United, GMHC, the Human Rights Campaign, the International AIDS Society, the UK’s National AIDS Trust and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), to name just a few.
“U=U is such incredible news that we’ve been saying we should be dancing in the streets about it,” says Bruce Richman, who started Prevention Access Campaign. Richman says he’s been eager to get the U=U word out since he learned in 2012 that because he was undetectable he was not infectious. (He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003.)
Even since then, scientific evidence for U=U has continued to mount in a series of very large studies, such as one released early last year finding that among nearly 900 serodiscordant (one HIV+, one HIV-) gay and straight couples followed over 16 months, there was no evidence of HIV infection despite their having condomless sex.
This has massive health, prevention and legal implications. It means that HIV-positive folks and their HIV-negative sexual partners can all but stop freaking out about the possibility of transmission. It also renders even more outdated various state laws from the 1980s and 1990s that criminalize HIV-positive people for endangering sexual partners when they don’t disclose their HIV status. Finally, it should serve to reduce the stigma suffered by HIV-positive people, who are often made to feel as if they are second-class citizens for carrying an infectious virus.
But despite all that – and despite the fact that U=U has essentially attained global scientific and advocacy consensus – national, state and local entities still do little to broadcast this fact to the general American public. A brief review of the main HIV webpages for health departments nationwide serving those states and cities hardest hit by HIV found that not one stated in clear language that people with undetectable HIV were incapable of transmitting the virus.
[…]
“None of the websites are saying this, none of the marketing campaigns,” says Richman. “I’ve found that people who know this information tend to be privileged, have private insurance, are often white. That is so unjust that information that concerns our social, sexual and reproductive health and lives is being withheld.”
Richman can become very passionate when talking about how little the HIV health establishment has done thus far to make U=U general knowledge. “When I realized that the power structure thought people with HIV were irresponsible and couldn’t understand this info, I was furious,” he says. “This information changed my life, lifted my feelings of shame and being toxic. That was so freeing.”
“Everyone,” he adds, “should clearly have that information.”
actupny:
On a Sunday afternoon in late April, there was a small but buoyant dance party at the fairly new outdoor AIDS memorial in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which had once been ground zero of the AIDS epidemic.
[…]
The reason for the party? It was to celebrate and promote the fact that we now know with certainty that people with HIV whose meds make the virus undetectable in their blood (as confirmed by lab tests) cannot transmit the virus to sexual partners. In New York City, a host of organizations – including the health department and Housing Works – have been part of an effort in recent years to end New York State’s AIDS epidemic by 2020. Now, they’re rallying behind the Undetectable = Untransmittable or U=U message, which is the national rallying cry of the Prevention Access Campaign.
In recent months, a stunning array of prominent international agencies and individuals have signed onto a U=U consensus statement saying that, based on modern science, undetectable people cannot transmit HIV. They include AIDS United, GMHC, the Human Rights Campaign, the International AIDS Society, the UK’s National AIDS Trust and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), to name just a few.
“U=U is such incredible news that we’ve been saying we should be dancing in the streets about it,” says Bruce Richman, who started Prevention Access Campaign. Richman says he’s been eager to get the U=U word out since he learned in 2012 that because he was undetectable he was not infectious. (He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003.)
Even since then, scientific evidence for U=U has continued to mount in a series of very large studies, such as one released early last year finding that among nearly 900 serodiscordant (one HIV+, one HIV-) gay and straight couples followed over 16 months, there was no evidence of HIV infection despite their having condomless sex.
This has massive health, prevention and legal implications. It means that HIV-positive folks and their HIV-negative sexual partners can all but stop freaking out about the possibility of transmission. It also renders even more outdated various state laws from the 1980s and 1990s that criminalize HIV-positive people for endangering sexual partners when they don’t disclose their HIV status. Finally, it should serve to reduce the stigma suffered by HIV-positive people, who are often made to feel as if they are second-class citizens for carrying an infectious virus.
But despite all that – and despite the fact that U=U has essentially attained global scientific and advocacy consensus – national, state and local entities still do little to broadcast this fact to the general American public. A brief review of the main HIV webpages for health departments nationwide serving those states and cities hardest hit by HIV found that not one stated in clear language that people with undetectable HIV were incapable of transmitting the virus.
[…]
“None of the websites are saying this, none of the marketing campaigns,” says Richman. “I’ve found that people who know this information tend to be privileged, have private insurance, are often white. That is so unjust that information that concerns our social, sexual and reproductive health and lives is being withheld.”
Richman can become very passionate when talking about how little the HIV health establishment has done thus far to make U=U general knowledge. “When I realized that the power structure thought people with HIV were irresponsible and couldn’t understand this info, I was furious,” he says. “This information changed my life, lifted my feelings of shame and being toxic. That was so freeing.”
“Everyone,” he adds, “should clearly have that information.”
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ryangoslingofficial:
“Being poly is inherently LGBT because it’s not the norm”
Huh wha huh huh what huh wh??
(speaking as: bi nonbinary person who dates same, polyamorous in inclination and practice)
I understand why people do this - lots of parallels with LGBT experiences! it’s a relationships thing that you do, pretty inherently, have to tell people about unless you want to hide a huge chunk of your life that a non-polyamorous person would be free to share, and you can face a lot of shitty societal backlash for being open about polyamory and it can be hard to figure yourself out and you’re underrepresented and also a lot of LGBT people ID as and/or conduct their lives polyamorously. but I really do not agree with polyamory being labeled inherently, on its own, an LGBTQ experience.
parallels… do not necessarily an LGBTQ experience make. there are a lot of differences too. for one thing, I think polyamorousness is a lot more fluid and situational than being gay, bi, or trans. the boundaries of individual relationships are negotiated within the relationships. who you’re attracted to and your gender identity are relatively static. I think polyamory vs monogamy is a dating and lifestyle preference, like preferring to spend a lot of time with your partner or be more independent, or preferring long term commitment vs shorter, more casual relationships, or whether you want to have kids with a partner. I don’t think that these preferences, while they can be as strong and persistent through your life as what gender you prefer to date, (even if your preference in this area is unusual, like being stridently childfree) is really an LGBTQ thing.
ryangoslingofficial:
“Being poly is inherently LGBT because it’s not the norm”
Huh wha huh huh what huh wh??
(speaking as: bi nonbinary person who dates same, polyamorous in inclination and practice)
I understand why people do this - lots of parallels with LGBT experiences! it’s a relationships thing that you do, pretty inherently, have to tell people about unless you want to hide a huge chunk of your life that a non-polyamorous person would be free to share, and you can face a lot of shitty societal backlash for being open about polyamory and it can be hard to figure yourself out and you’re underrepresented and also a lot of LGBT people ID as and/or conduct their lives polyamorously. but I really do not agree with polyamory being labeled inherently, on its own, an LGBTQ experience.
parallels… do not necessarily an LGBTQ experience make. there are a lot of differences too. for one thing, I think polyamorousness is a lot more fluid and situational than being gay, bi, or trans. the boundaries of individual relationships are negotiated within the relationships. who you’re attracted to and your gender identity are relatively static. I think polyamory vs monogamy is a dating and lifestyle preference, like preferring to spend a lot of time with your partner or be more independent, or preferring long term commitment vs shorter, more casual relationships, or whether you want to have kids with a partner. I don’t think that these preferences, while they can be as strong and persistent through your life as what gender you prefer to date, (even if your preference in this area is unusual, like being stridently childfree) is really an LGBTQ thing.
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hey, does anyone want this? it’s kaworu from NGE, I got it at anime expo or comikaze or something few years ago. it’s about two inches long, single sided. I’ll mail it if you want.
hey, does anyone want this? it’s kaworu from NGE, I got it at anime expo or comikaze or something few years ago. it’s about two inches long, single sided. I’ll mail it if you want.
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sinbadism:
kropotkhristian:
American propaganda works so well that we still have people out here thinking it was totally fine and justified that the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, killing well over 100,000 innocent people. It works so well that, even though the United States is the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb in warfare, people think that the United States is still the only qualified entity to invade other countries in order to stop them from having nuclear weapons. It works so well that you can read all about every war crime committed by the United States all around the world, with little to no government censorship, and that STILL doesn’t make people rise up in anger. It works so well that you can read accounts of the CIA or FBI literally trying to brainwash Americans into total subservience and people STILL won’t resist.
Americans put the Soviets to shame in how effective their propaganda is. It’s not even close.
The conservative estimate just of the immediate deaths is around 250,000. It’s probably twice as many when you add just deaths from radiation in the years after it, and who even knows how many people died a good 10 or 20 years earlier than they could have because of the radiation
sinbadism:
kropotkhristian:
American propaganda works so well that we still have people out here thinking it was totally fine and justified that the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, killing well over 100,000 innocent people. It works so well that, even though the United States is the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb in warfare, people think that the United States is still the only qualified entity to invade other countries in order to stop them from having nuclear weapons. It works so well that you can read all about every war crime committed by the United States all around the world, with little to no government censorship, and that STILL doesn’t make people rise up in anger. It works so well that you can read accounts of the CIA or FBI literally trying to brainwash Americans into total subservience and people STILL won’t resist.
Americans put the Soviets to shame in how effective their propaganda is. It’s not even close.
The conservative estimate just of the immediate deaths is around 250,000. It’s probably twice as many when you add just deaths from radiation in the years after it, and who even knows how many people died a good 10 or 20 years earlier than they could have because of the radiation
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