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If people really think kneeling during the National Anthem is disrespectful to veterans wait until they hear about how the Dept. of Veteran Affairs treats veterans.
I don’t post much about things outside of the queer community. but as a veteran i want this tattooed on my body like god damn
One of my favorite things to see is random people trying to interact with unfamiliar outdoor cats. Just standing there with a hand out, making kissy noises, maybe meowing at the cat while it ignores them. Mankind at its best and least dignified
Despite ~33 pages’ disability evidence, a heavily criticised gov. department
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cut all of my care
I’ve been living in CONSTANT FEAR FOR MY LIFE for MONTHS. Most can’t fathom how this utterly destroys you, physically & mentally.
This fundraising is literally to prevent me from dying from dehydrating if carers can’t bring food and water to me; I can’t leave my bed.
Without regular cleaning, my lease could be terminated next month. Finding accessible housing (less than 1% of all homes) is
virtually impossible & NO ONE CAN SURVIVE HOMELESSNESS BED BOUND.
The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”
Interestingly, what actually happened is that people who settled in Northeastern Europe came to rely heavily on milk products, particularly preserved milk products (cheese) from kept livestock as a source of protein and fat through the long frozen winters in the area. Those who could eat cheese lived, those who couldn’t starved. So, we adapted to keep producing the enzymes that let us digest lactose past infancy and into adulthood.
Other cultures (particularly in warmer climates with shorter winters) that had more varied sources of fat and protein throughout their lean seasons didn’t need to develop this adaptation.
Give this a few thousand years to simmer, and various European cultures developed hundreds of different types of cheeses that were integrated into cuisine in just as many ways. Using/loving cheese has been handed down to the descendants of those Europeans, and hey presto you have the map above.
Imma be a downer and add an important note that milk has been wielded, intentionally or not, as a really awful tool of colonialism in North America.
This map doesn’t show it, because it’s post-colonial, but Native Americans, to this day, are also largely lactose intolerant (1) as dairy of any kind wasn’t part of the Native diet after early childhood, so their bodies simply don’t produce the lactase to digest lactose after they have been weaned. When colonization hit and indigenous kids were forced into white institutions like the boarding schools that were designed to eradicate Native cultures and lifestyles by instilling “good white Christian values” into the Native children, they were made to drink milk as part of the diet they were forced to follow (2). This obviously made them unbelievably sick and more prone to serious illnesses like tuberculosis and measles that often swept through the schools.
Even to this day, Native folks have a higher propensity toward lactose intolerance: around 80-100% of Native Americans are lactose intolerant (3). This still causes issues, especially in education. Dairy products are an inescapable component of school lunches most everywhere, and milk is often the only beverage served to students with free or reduced school lunches (4). A 2009 study of 4th graders showed that well over half (68%) of Native students in public school were eligible for the free or reduced lunch program (5). Being all but forced to drink milk or eat dairy when lactose intolerant (since options like juice or water aren’t readily provided through his program) and then being made to sit in a classroom while fighting severe gastrointestinal issues puts Native children at a severe disadvantage educationally, compared to their milk-drinking peers. This line of reasoning also definitely extends to children of other minorities with high rates of lactose intolerance and high rates of students living in a low income family who rely on school lunches for a good deal of their daily nutrition, like black students (74% on reduced lunches (5) and 60-80% lactose intolerant (3)) or Hispanic students (77% on reduced lunches, 50-80% lactose intolerant).
It’s just one of the nasty ways the system is stacked in favor of even low-income white folks like me, so I’m gonna do my bit to call it out.
If you’re in the DC area, participate in Operation Dream Act Now on Thursday, Nov. 9th, 1pm at Columbus Circle, in front of Union Station. From there, we’ll be marching into offices of members of Congress to demand a clean DREAM Act by December.
If you can’t make it to DC then, visit http://weareheretostay.org for actions you can take locally and online.
This fails to mention that she was the first woman to run for US president, as well as being the first woman stockbroker on Wall Street alongside her sister Tennie Claflin, and their newspaper published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto known to date
@reservoircat HEY LOOK WHAT JUST POPPED UP ON MY DASH
YES, I HAVE *OPINIONS* ABOUT THIS POST.
Okay, for starters, Victoria wasn’t a sex worker. She wasn’t necessarily anti-sex worker in the manner of the time–she viewed it as a societal ill that occurred because of the inequality of women and the power structure which allowed and abused such sex work. But she very much wanted to destroy the structures that forced many women into sex work and sex trafficking.
The claims that Victoria herself was a sex worker come from two things: her supportive stance on ‘free love’, i.e. the allowance for men and women to chose their own consensual sex partners outside of marriage, and her rise to power as a millionaire New York stock broker and newspaper owner. See, men of the time refused to believe that Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee Claflin could truly be such shrewd, ambitious and forward thinking businesswomen all on their own. So they spread the rumor that the sisters got their positions and fortunes from being sugar babies basically.
She was also virulently anti-trafficking after her younger sister and business partner Tennie Claflin was kidnapped and sold into brothels by one of their business rivals. When this happened, Victoria and her husband Colonel James Blood tracked the traffickers down and retrieved Tennie at gunpoint from her captors.
Victoria was not well liked by her fellow suffragists either because she was an ardent supporter of Black suffrage and total equality of all races. She regularly told Stanton and Anthony to go fuck themselves.
It was awesome. She was awesome.
I just love Victoria Woodhull so much ;-;
Can we necromance this woman and make her President?
