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Amazing TED talk on the way the strict gender binary harms us, by XY intersex woman Emily Quinn
Here’s an extract of her talk:
“I have a vagina. Just thought you should know. Just thought you should know. I look like a woman. I’m dressed like one, I guess. The thing is, I also have balls….I’m not male or female. I’m intersex.
“Most people assume that you’re biologically either a man or a woman, but it’s actually a lot more complex than that. There are so many ways somebody could be intersex.
In my case, it means I was born with XY chromosomes, which you probably know as male chromosomes. And I was born with a vagina and balls inside my body. I don’t respond to testosterone, so during puberty, I grew breasts… I don’t actually have a uterus – I was born without one, so I don’t menstruate, I can’t have biological children…
“We put people in boxes based on their genitalia. Before a baby’s even born, we ask whether it’s a boy or a girl, as if it actually matters; as if you’re going to be less excited about having a baby if it doesn’t have the genitals you wanted; as if what’s between somebody’s legs tells you anything about that person.
Are they kind, generous, funny? Smart? Who do they want to be when they grow up? Genitals don’t actually tell you anything. Yet, we define ourselves by them. In this society, we love putting people into boxes and labeling each other…
“But there’s one really big problem: biological sex is not black or white. It’s on a spectrum. Besides your genitalia, you also have your chromosomes, your gonads, like ovaries or testicles. You have your internal sex organs, your hormone production, your hormone response and your secondary sex characteristics, like breast development, body hair, etc.
Those seven areas of biological sex all have so much variation, yet we only get two options: male or female. Which is kind of absurd to me, because I can’t think of a single other human trait that there’s only two options for: skin color, hair, height, eyes…”
Listen to the whole talk here. Believe me, it is worth your time!
Steven Universe, 1976. The only thing that keeps me from making a full video of this is the need of a properly funky arrangement of the theme song. More retro-fitted shows filed under my “title art” tag. (Also on Ko-fi, Patreon and Instagram! Links in blog.)
They’re coming after us now
Women of Star Wars + Onion Headlines
RB IF YOU AGREE
Palpatine, at the end of every trilogy:
maybe i am overly emotionally attached to space robots created to die alone and whom i will never meet, but if NASA didn’t want me to get attached, they shouldn’t have made them friend-shaped
people really love to say “no one is pro abortion” and I’d like to clarify that I’m very pro-abortion. I think abortion is good and we should make it super accesible and easy.
That young boy?
Albert EinStein
this show is so goddamn beautiful
this will always be my favorite thing to revisit in the winter
forgive me
Bacon Pancake, the demo - maybe my shortest song!
Chords-
G, Em, Am, D7
That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.
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Live footage of the cops at the Capitol
I need this movie in my life now.
I didn't know bucket toothpaste was only a thing here!
I pledge allegiance to this flag & this flag only
src: mltshp svg with liberty and justice for all
I got a knife
source: https://www.instagram.com/fairydro... Similar energy to https://mltshp.com/p/1J7PT
pour one out
