For the Face
I thought I would try out all of the foundations, BB & CC creams, tinted moisturisers and primers currently sitting on my desk!
Okay so this first photo is my face without any makeup whatsoever, for comparison. As you can see, there are some gross spots - particularly around my chin. Sigh.
Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage: Are We Forgetting the
The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process, while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant, we often, in practice, drop the T. No federal law offers protection to transgender people from discrimination in the workplace; the population sees double the usual rate of unemployment, and ninety per cent of transgender individuals report harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination at work.
“In 2002, in order to get a hard-fought non-discrimination bill passed, gay and lesbian activists in New York stopped fighting for provisions related to their transgender allies.”
“In 2011, the largest-ever study of transgender Americans showed that nineteen per cent of transgender or gender-nonconforming people had been denied health care. Similar rates have been refused a home or apartment because of their gender identity. Twenty-eight per cent of those in the study reported being subject to harassment in medical settings, and a full forty-one per cent reported attempting suicide (this compared to 1.6 per cent in the general population).”
“After gay marriage became legal in New York, in 2011, the chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, Pauline Park, told the Huffington Post, “The more privileged gay white men who live in Manhattan are more likely to open up their checkbooks” for same-sex marriage than for transgender rights.”
For most, it’s much easier to empathise with what you know more intimately - whether you, or people close to you, are lesbian, gay or bisexual often encourages you to support their rights. But trans* individuals aren’t as visible. They don’t have a platform with corporate support. People aren’t opening their checkbooks on a large scale to help them. They’re left at the fringes of any discussion about gay rights, and the example from New York in 2002 summarises why - it’s easier to get widespread support for same sex marriage than it is to get support for measures to ensure the safety of trans* people.
People have slowly come to accept the idea that some people are attracted to members of the same sex. I feel like some ‘allies’ feel like it’s too much too soon to also ask these people to try and be as accepting of those who identify as a different gender to the one they were assigned at birth? Or no gender at all? But it’s not asking too much. It’s the least we can do, if we want to be remotely decent allies, remotely decent people. Trans* people exist, and a lot of them are struggling. Ignoring their realities for our own convenience isn’t okay.
(I hope this doesn’t read like me speaking over any trans* people, I just don’t see enough of this on my dash/Facebook etc!)
(Source: neutrois, via yourhomophobicdad)
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.” - Andy Bernard | Such a great finale for such a great show, will be dearly missed.
I’m always tying my happiness to things that are far out of my reach.
The main one is my weight - in my mind, everything comes back to that. I’d be happier if I didn’t look the way I did. I’d have more friends if I didn’t look the way I did. Maybe I’d even get a boyfriend! If only I didn’t look the way I did (the latter is probably true though).
I mean, that makes a bit of sense, since I’ve had people telling me from the age of 5 that I’d just feel better about life if I lost a bit of weight. But I don’t want everything to be tied to this seemingly impossible thing.
Another one is that I’d feel happier if I didn’t live here anymore. I went on exchange for 3 months and felt worse. But moving overseas permanently isn’t realistic right now, and I know that, but one part of my brain just doesn’t get it.
I don’t know how to let go of the belief that I’d finally feel happy if I just… wasn’t me.
(i am an asian male living in singapore)
people on here pretend that culture is something that ABOSLUTELY NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED AND KEPT BY THEIR RACIAL PROGENITORS BY ALL COSTS
but culture has always fucking been about sharing, even when people were screwed over
if you live in a western country, have never been outside it, and have never empirically experienced how other cultures share themselves with people then please stop talking about ‘appropriation’
cultures share each other. they don’t share everything about themselves, but things are shared. especially in asia, fuck dude, we are all about sharing.
the question most people ask my country when you meet with them is ‘have you eaten’. because we love food. we love sharing food. when westerners come we want to show them all we have because there is something magical about sharing who you and your people are with someonehistorically that has been taken advantage of but we’re at a point where if someone tries to exploit you it can be called out and taken down
no one gives a shit if you do yoga, subscribe to buddhism,
hell one of my monks lives here and he’s white from chicago? and he lives in the temple with everyone else and they all respect and love each otherwhat? you’ve never been to a buddhist temple? you’ve never even talked to a fucking monk? you haven’t eaten with them and laughed and understood that it’s about love, sharing, and togetherness rather than going ‘fuck off whitey’?
then shut the fuck up
“but culture has always fucking been about sharing, even when people were screwed over” By screwed over do you mean when Native people experienced genocide at the hands of imperialists in numerous countries? ‘Screwed over’ suggests that what happened was minor, when that is far from true.
Those Native people still live in the Western countries you’re referring to. They still suffer, and they are still mocked and belittled at the hands of society. Western countries contain hundreds of cultures, so a person living in one can most definitely experience how different cultures interact. I live in one, and have also travelled extensively, so I’ve seen these cultures in Australia, blending together (sometimes), as well as in their places of origin. I still acknowledge that cultural appropriation exists and negatively impacts upon those cultures that continue to exist and survive despite countless efforts to wipe them out.
There is a huge difference between collaborating and sharing and stealing, mocking, appropriating and minimising. It’s very odd to me that you cannot see the difference. Sharing cultures is consented to by both parties. Appropriating them isn’t.
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