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“Please don’t forget Standing Rock This is an update on Standing Rock. It’s not pleasant. You’ve been fairly warned. Update from Standing Rock volunteer-

Friends, I have returned from Standing Rock with my mind blown, my heart broken and my spirit troubled with foreboding of a deepening tragedy. Volunteering as a legal observer with the Water Protector Legal Collective I witnessed several confrontations between Water Protectors (WP) and law enforcement: national guard, sheriffs and private security (LE). On 1/18/17 - 1/19/17 I observed WP with their hands in the air chanting “hands up don’t shoot” being fired upon at a range of 10 to 15 feet. Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets ( rubber bullets are regular bullets covered in rubber) were used against unarmed WP who had been singing and praying. I observed national guard chasing WP off the Backwater bridge, firing at people running away. I heard people choking and gagging from tear gas. I saw access to the WP medic vehicles being blocked. I spoke with medics and WP who described bullets penetrating flesh and causing terrible injuries, including to one media person who nearly lost his finger when his camera was targeted. I talked with a media person and was told of 4 media people on the bridge that night, 3 had their recording devices shot and the 4th, his hand. I saw a photo of a sheriff aiming a rifle directly at a media woman who was standing apart from the crowd. I heard testimony of the back of the medic pickup truck being awash in blood after evacuating wounded. I watched, and then, inadvertently became a part of, WP being forced off the bridge by national guard who were hiding behind WP vehicles parked along the road and firing rubber bullets at fleeing people. Many people were shot in the back, the neck, the head. When LE fired at people at close range, many were shot in the genitals or in the face. I received information about DAPL security breaching the short wave radio channels of the WP with taunts such as ”come out and fight like men you faggots or we will come to Camp and fuck your women.” There are some young warriors, who, without the support of their elders, many who want the camps cleared to mitigate the economic and social damage being suffered by the local community in having the bridge closed, have vowed to not leave the camps or to let the last section of pipeline be built. Driving away from the area on Monday I saw a convoy of construction vehicles heading to the drill pad. Last night an indigenous website live streamed reports of drilling and construction noises coming from the drill pad. Without the eyes of a free press these attacks and trespasses continue, with the human rights and sovereignty of indigenous peoples denied. The UN Committee on Transnational Corporations and Human Right Abuses was in Standing Rock this week to take testimony of the many transgressions against people: crop dusters spraying poison pesticides and fertilizers on the camps; hair samples indicating the presence of these chemicals; people who have been injured, beat up, arrested, strip searched; media and medics being targeted by snipers; (one medic told me he stopped wearing his Red Cross vest due to medics being targeted); praying people being attacked and the refusal of DAPL and our government to abide by the Rule of Law. The vets who came in Dec to stand down against these crimes need to be on the ground there now, right now. We need to stand up for our brothers and our sisters, for their way of life and, I believe, for our social contract as a democracy which is now threatened. Please share this so word gets out what is happening, thank you. Deborah MacKay”

Making someone smile is the best feeling ever.

(via theheartbreakingsilence)

A Biology Teacher Just Destroyed Every Excuse for Transphobia With Cold, Hard Facts

A biology teacher posted a status pointing out the wide variety of genders in the human and animal kingdoms.

This is AMAZING. The teacher’s rebuttal:

I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, “In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science.” I’m a science teacher so I responded with this.

First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms.) Oh, did you mean humans? Oh ok then. You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, and so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X’s HAS an SRY gene, and so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes- but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice - effing - versa. Don’t use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit.

trans girls are super cute

chubby trans girls are super cute

skinny trans girls are super cute

broad-shouldered trans girls are super cute

tall, gangly trans girls are super cute

short, chubby trans girls are super cute

muscly trans girls are super cute

trans girls with uneven bodies are super cute

trans girls who like masculine things are super cute

trans girls with facial hair are super cute

trans girls who supposedly dont “pass” are super cute

trans girls with stretch marks are super cute

trans girls with scars are super cute

trans girls with short hair are super cute

trans girls with long hair are super cute

trans girls who dont have clear skin are super cute

trans WOC are super cute

straight trans girls are super cute

gay trans girls are super cute

bi trans girls are super cute

pan trans girls are super cute

aro trans girls are super cute

ace trans girls are super cute

trans girls of all orientations are super cute

trans girls who dont want surgery are super cute

trans girls who do want surgery are super cute

disabled trans girls are super cute

nonbinary trans girls are super cute

neurodivergent trans girls are super cute

trans girls who are questioning, dysphoric, non-dysphoric, arent out yet, dont have a ‘feminine’ voice, are struggling with being proud of their identitiy, and everything else are super cute and super valid

ur tummies are super cute. ur hair is super cute. ur leggies are super cute. ur everything is super cute and oh my god youre so pretty i love you and i support u all <3 

all the trans peoples r cute as heck, but this post is for the super cute trans girls out there (hint: thats all of u. all of u r cute). u all rock. go out there and be ur super super cute selves.

Ahhhh this so sweet omg, it's so cute I'm crying so much 😭❤ I really needed a happy cry :)

This Polish commercial is the purest thing I ever seen in my entire life.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

If you’re 5′8″ or taller and identify as female then you are a beautiful Amazon warrior goddess. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. 

get yourself a Jeffrey

this man made his own version of the lion king with his new born. and is…. is that…. coconut oil he rubbed on her forehead. I’m done!!!