I took 10 minutes out of my day to write this email and you should too. It's hard to feel like stuff like this actually DOES anything but when all you need to do is write an email and could potentially help ensure future trans Healthcare policies What's to lose

Hello! Just checking in, sorry I've not been on, just been busy working and not anything I can share yet! Although I do have a wee painting in the RSW exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy gallery in Edinburgh, a free exhibition running til 6th February. Hope you're all well : )

Dog walk today

In just three months, Israel's assault on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other war has managed in a single year. But I'd be curious to learn how many of those other conflicts return any search results at all for the now common phrase "and his entire family".

“So here, you see the ironies of history; history mocks us. It shows us that the things we thought people suffered in the past – they’re still in front of you. It says, you think you are writing about the past; you’re really writing about your future.”

Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish: ‘We can’t begin to comprehend the loss of art’

Darwish, one of the ‘foremost contemporary Arab poets’, discusses the Israeli strikes on Gaza, art and the role of poetry in times of war

Ohio has basically defacto banned trans healthcare for adults using a similar strategy to why there was only a handful of abortion clinics in the entire Midwest before the Dobbs decision (TRAP laws) cis people please repost this so this info doesn't get stuck in the queer social bubble

CGchrisgeidner.bsky.socialJan 5, 2024 6:00pm

Breaking: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) bans, by executive order, gender-affirming surgery for minors, effective immediately. The move followed last week's veto of a broader bill. He also announced two proposed rules that will apply to all care, including adults. substack.com/profile/2269...

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Dispatches from Palestine | AGNI Online

In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” We believe that all who bear witness to the ongoing violence in Gaza...

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It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.

COVID Is 'Still a Pandemic,' WHO Leader Says

The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, according to one of the World Health Organization’s leading infectious disease experts

With you except fr the intermittent fasting, which some people (including me) need to do for health reasons. Everything else, hell yes.