Inflammatory Essays, Jenny Holzer
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@SaraSoueidan: Dear men, This is how you greet a veiled Muslim woman (a Hijabi). Hand on your chest, not offering to shake hers. ????
so prominent BLM activist deray mckesson just retweeted this which i think is super cool for various reasons :)))
I did not know this. Is it OK for a non Muslim woman to shake hands with a Hijabi? Or do we do the hand on chest thing too?@popcanpoli
hey so i don’t wear a hijab and i’m not muslim so i definitely don’t have the authority to answer this question (or any other questions i’ve been getting abt this) (i’m just a lil canadian politics blog i didn’t expect this to blow up lol)
BUT here are some tweets by the original tweeter (who wears a hijab) that clarify some things
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This is also good if you’re meeting an Orthodox Jewish person who’s not the same gender as you! Not all Orthodox Jews hold by this restriction, and many consider it a permissible exception to shake hands in a formal greeting context; I’d guess this is parallel to Ms. Soueidan’s last-quoted tweet above. And as that says, the sensible thing is to wait for initiation.
Yup! Back when I worked for an LGBTQ organization, I had to warn my (Christian) boss ahead of time that the Orthodox rabbi we were meeting with would offer his hand to my boss but not to me. I just didn’t want my boss to be surprised and say something inappropriate.
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Does Planned Parenthood offer Hormone Replacement Therapy for transgender people?
Someone asked us:
Can Planned Parenthood provide hormones to transgender people? And if so, what are the costs?
Why yes, yes we do. There are an increasing number of Planned Parenthood health centers that offer hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for trans clients. (Cost will vary depending on your insurance and Planned Parenthood health center policies.) Currently, the Planned Parenthood health centers that offer hormone treatment for trans folks are:
California:
Colorado:
Maine:
Montana:
New Hampshire:
New York:
North Carolina:
Vermont:
Washington
– Calvin and Maureen at QueerTips
IMPORTANT NOTE: OBTAINING HRT THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY SORT OF PSYCH DIAGNOSIS OR SEEING A SEPERATE ENDOCRINOLOGIST. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE PLACES AND WANT HRT, PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS
they also do it in portland oregon now!
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At this point I suspect Brexit simply isn’t going to happen. The chickens have come home to roost and have shat horrible economic and regulatory revelations on the heads of all the prime Brexiteers, who stepped up bravely to the challenge of steering the country through the rapids they pointed us towards by, to a person, jumping overboard. No-one left with any reasonable expectation of political power wants it to happen, a significant number of chumpy leave voters don’t want it to happen, and the EU doesn’t want it to happen, and so basically we’ll have ratcheted up the violence against people of colour, immigrants, and Muslims, given the economy a kick in the proverbials it’ll take an age to recover from, and proven without a doubt to the entire electorate that their vote doesn’t matter – we showed stay voters that their votes can be entirely obviated by incredibly obvious lies and we’re going to show leave voters that their votes have been ignored – for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHAT SO FUCKING EVER.
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The metaphor I’m using is that Boris bet David that David didn’t have the guts to shit in the bed. David shat the bed, and then left. Now the other Tories have to either a) climb into a shat bed, which is… unappealing or b) change the sheets and climb in, which will let everybody know that they’re not really cool kids.
I should be on Newsnight.
“Will you climb into a bed that’s been shat in, or will you change the sheets?”
“That’s a very complex question, Jeremy, and I think you’ll find the answer I’m going to give at my press conference tomorrow very–”
“I don’t want to wait for your press conference, and neither does the public. Simple question, yes or no: will you climb into a shat bed?”
“I think the British public is fed up of beds, so–”
“Yes or no, minister?”
“It’s a–”
“There’s the bed that Mr Cameron left for you. It’s full of shit. Will you, yes or no, climb in and pull the covers up to your chin?”
“Enough of this.”
“I’d like to state for the record that the minister has stood up to leave but has failed to unclip his microphone and is now unsuccessfully attempting to untangle himself. It’s like watching a dog running in circles with its lead tied to a tree. Sooner or later he’s going to– Yes, I’d like to state for the record that the minister has fallen over.”
“This is harder than drinking water.”
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I am too sad right now to look at any Brexity news aside from that which you personally post, so thank you for being the best journalist your nation’s right wing could hope for.
honestly you’re not missing anything skipping most news on the subject, it’s basically all
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HK Project
developed by Koola & Viv | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
A cat adventure game set in a city inspired by Kowloon. It’s still in really early development, you can follow the dev log here.
via PixelProspector
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I’m starting to see why people get confused by me…
how did you do that
Wait what
I need you in my life. just to hang out with and confuse everyone we come across
where did your boobs go if i may ask
They’re actually still there! I made an undersuit that has foam muscles that go out the same distance as my boobs so that I didn’t have to bind, as the costume is already hot and heavy. I was worried binding on top of all that might make me more likely to pass out, and I needed to bulk out my body anyways to stay proportional for the scale. The suit looks like this:
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Darwin, wanna take a selfie?
Human: “Darwin, you wanna take a selfie?”
Darwin: “Moop.”
Human: “Oh.”
Dawin: soft “moop”
Human: *whispers* “Okay.”
Darwin: *turns around and slips in the back seat*
@sketchys No selfies?
MOOP NOISES OFDBGDKBHWEBGK
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We’ve fostered a LOT of cats over the years, so here’s an incomplete list of weird cats we’ve had:
1. An Abyssinian that would jump from the second story banister to land perfectly, and with utter grace, onto your shoulder when you enter our house on the first story (ok, but imagine a cat leaping onto you, it’s terrifying)
2. Satan (her real name is Cassandra) who will only sleep if she is completely under the covers and tucked in
3. Elena, a Kurilian Bobtail, that was so affectionate it bordered on harassment. She would climb your leg for you to pet her and follows people around the house
4. Osiris, a Chausie, that actually plays fetch. No joke. He also responds if you say his name, and has been on the news 6 times so far, in various different cities
5. Dolly, who we actually taught to roll over and sit on command for chicken tenders
6. The kitten that decided to travel down one of the heat vents in our home and my father had to take 3 feet of drywall out to retrieve him
7. One of the cats (still not sure which) managed to eat the insides of a full package of sausage rolls left on the counter but left the bread part totally intact
8. two years after re-homing Lemon the cat, we found her stash of tape dispensers under our living room couch. There were 26 tape dispensers
9. one of the cat’s we re-homed likes to go kayaking with his new human. He has a cat life vest and everything
Why isn’t there a picture of the cat kayaking omg.
I had to hunt through 4 cat photo albums on their facebook to find this for you…
That wasnt a complaint, it was actually really fun.
*delighted pterodactyl noises*
OMG OMG OMG thank you so much!
I’ve been having a rather difficult day/week and this post really helped cheer me up.
Thank you again.
