Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. BlueSky: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
“Jolene, you’re so beautiful, Jolene, you’re so perfect, Jolene, your voice is just like the sound of summer rain, don’t mind me I’m just going to sublimate my anxiety about clearly being super in love with you into anxiety about my boyfriend, who is basically a featureless blob in this song that I wrote ostensibly about my love for him that’s really all about you, Jolene”
Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.
But something else happened.
Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.
“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.
Using computer models, they found that the number of measles cases in these countries predicted the number of deaths from other infections two to three years later.
“We found measles predisposes children to all other infectious diseases for up to a few years,” Mina says.
And the virus seems to do it in a sneaky way.
Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.
VACCINATE. YOUR. DAMN. KIDS.
“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
It doesn’t matter if you rock natural kinks and curls
or weaves, wigs and sew-ins.
Don’t let nobody tell you shit.
To all white girls
Your hair is beautiful
It doesn’t matter if you’re rocking curly, straight, thin, thick, hair or if you’re rocking dreads
Don’t let anyone tell you different
Lmao you really fucking tried it bitch
To everyone with hair.
Whether you’re a boy or girl, white or black It doesnt matter what colour you are. Rock whatever hairstyles you fucking want to. End of.
Black women face specific marginalization and prejudice due to their hair. Black women. It’s completely nonsensical to add this commentary.
You know, I was reading gradientlair’s piece on white female aggression the other day and I really believe that derailing specifically positive posts about Black women is a part of that. Passive aggressive rather than just aggressive, but it still applies.
They say “all girls” and “Everyone” but they mean “White girls but at least not you Black bitches”.
Seeing Black women support each other or say positive shit about each other literally offends them.
Amazing isnt it? Is white female narcissism nature or nuture?
The oppression of White supremacy is so pervasive that rejecting it is deemed “harming” White women despite them being centered in every and any notion of visual beauty and despite beauty itself being constructed as inherently anti-Black. Some White women have suggested that Gradient Lair is “against” them because the images here (on this free, personal blog, not mainstream media or major media outlet) are of Black women. … But to ignore the way White women can physically dominate space and verbally harm yet can rely on White supremacist notions of their “delicate” womanhood, White Tears™ and “threats” to their “purity” by involvement with Blackness, the construction of White womanhood can be and is regularly used as a weapon against Black women and Black people in general.
