Intersectionality matters. Part of why this is happening to this young lady is because of her skin color. She took matters into her own hands, because the system would do nothing to help her and others young girls and young women, and she will be punished for opposing the system.
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… CDPH interviewed the patient’s family and learned that the patient was a long-term user of skin lightening creams obtained from Mexico (applied to the face twice daily for the past 7 years); the cream was analyzed and found to contain 12,000 ppm mercury. …
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The skin-tone industry has to be one of the most tone-deaf things going.
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Seriously, we have 50 billion swashbucklers about men. Where is her movie?
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OMG, I so would watch the hell out of such a movie…
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I know a lot of people around here have no idea what’s going on in Romance Writers of America, or don’t think they need to care because it’s just a bunch of romance writers, but you should be:
Read this whole thread:
Oh, and dissing Romance as a genre? I did in the past, but I am not proud of it. As a genre largely written by women, for women, a lot of the mocking was simply due to that. If your only exposure is the big publisher-name formula stuff, I suggest a) reading more widely in the genre and b) recognizing where your bias comes from. I would not say I am a romance fan, but you won’t see me dismissing the genre, now that I know why it’s been dismissed for so long. The fact that a lot of this kerfuffle is being pushed by a white man who claims the org – which has existed for decades – will collapse without him to lead it, is just icing on the cake.
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As a follow-up: Dear asshat who wrote the Witcher review saying “women can’t swordfight”, there’s a woman outside who wants to know if you’d care to revise your bullshit statement.
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Recently watched an excellent fight scene in Star Trek: Discovery involving both Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) against, well, everyone else:
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Please, can we burn it down? Let’s do it.
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Can anyone suggest good accessible resources for gender-based trauma? I don’t know how much this contributes to my other issues, but having trouble right now.
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Can you explain a little more what you mean by gender based?
The best general book on trauma is The Body Keep the Score.
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I wasn’t sure where to put this, but hair is a feminist issue, especially for Black women.
This must be so difficult for her, on a personal level. But, she’s still stunning. More importantly, though, she’s a fierce fighter for human beings and against corruption.
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(This may not really be germane to this thread, but I don’t think it’s important enough to merit its own. Feel free to delete/move as one sees fit.) I just discovered that she has been unpersoned over at the other joint. Her posts are still there, well some anyway, but there is no user profile at all.
Wonder what that was about?
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