“Unlike many fields of medical practice, transgender medicine was deliberately intended by its architects to prevent and limit as many trans people as possible from transitioning. This is conventionally termed the “gatekeeping” model of transgender medicine, one engineered primarily in Europe and North America in the mid twentieth century. The story of how this self-limitingContinue reading “Three Questions for Every Paper of Record That Publishes a Story on Trans Healthcare – Sad Brown Girl”
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Biden announces new $1 bln in weapons for Ukraine, Kyiv seeks more heavy arms | Reuters
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a fresh U.S. infusion of $1 billion in weapons for Ukraine that includes anti-ship rocket systems, artillery rockets, howitzers and ammunition. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-expected-announce-around-1-bln-of-weapons-ukraine-sources-2022-06-15/
Corporate ‘Self-Sanctioning’ of Russia Has US Fearing Economic Blowback – Bloomberg
When the invasion began, the Biden administration believed that if penalties exempted food and energy, the impact on inflation at home would be minimal. Since then, energy and food have become key drivers of the highest US inflation rates in 40 years, a huge political liability for President Joe Biden and the Democratic party headingContinue reading “Corporate ‘Self-Sanctioning’ of Russia Has US Fearing Economic Blowback – Bloomberg”
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues 
Quote of the Week – June 15
“Through the empty arch comes a wind, a mental wind blowing relentlessly over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents; a wind that smells of baby’s spittle, crushed grass, and jellyfish veil, announcing the constant baptism of newly created things.” – Lorca
Future Ready Schools
How Silicon Valley and the Defense Department Plan to Remake Public Education
HCX presents HAITI FILM FEST 2022
DENUNCIA PÚBLICA URGENTE En el marco del Paro Nacional convocado por el Movimiento Indígena de Ecuador, Leonidas Iza, presidente de la CONAIE es detenido-desaparecido por miembros de FFAA y Policía Nacional. – Alianza por los Derechos Humanos Ecuador 
“La CONAIE, Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, denuncia que el día de hoy 14 de junio de 2022, en horas de la madrugada (00:30 aproximadamente), agentes no identificados, presumiblemente de comandos élite de las Fuerzas Armadas y Policía Nacional detuvieron a Segundo Leónidas Iza Salazar, Kichwa panzaleo y actual presidente de la CONAIE.”
Aster Aweke – Yeleben Abeba
the only weapon
the poets repeat themselves the only weapon against forgetfulness the poets repeat themselves the only weapon against forgetfulness the poets repeat themselves the only weapon
Aida Rends 