zivazivc:

freshest-tittymilk:

freshest-tittymilk:

jacqueleeblebs:

glblctzn:

This incredible invention is keeping girls in school

For Trinitas Kunashe, like many girls in Malawi, getting her period was unexpected, unexplained and a burden for her everyday life. Often, girls who do not have access to pads prefer to stay home and out of school for the duration of their periods.

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But Trinitas is changing that with her amazing new invention:

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Made from bright and comfortable locally-sourced fabrics, Tina Pads are a hit amongst girls in her community. They are waterproof, practical and fun – and most importantly reusable.

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Determined to make sure no girl is forced to miss school because of her period, Trinitas is a passionate believer in the power of education to change lives.

#SheWill Succeed

You can read more about and donate to this amazing project here: http://www.flametreeinitiative.org/entrepreneurs/tinapads

BOOST THIS!!!

It’s a link to the project!!

SUPPORT BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES

SUPPORT BLACK WOMEN IN BUSINESS

I get so happy when i see people reblogging this version bc i had to dig through dozens of thousands of reblogs on mobile to make sure people find out about this incredible project… The world needs this!

Reusable pads should be a thing in our societies too because the regular ones are a big enviromental problem.

We Don’t Do That Here

daltongraham:

kitswulf:

therainstheyaredropping:

> The college I attended was small and very LGBT friendly. One day someone came to visit and used the word “gay” as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s. A current student looked at the visitor and flatly said, “we don’t do that here.” The guest started getting defensive and explaining that they weren’t homophobic and didn’t mean anything by it. The student replied, “I’m sure that’s true, but all you need to know is we don’t do that here.” The interaction ended at that point, and everyone moved on to different topics. “We don’t do that here” was a polite but firm way to educate the newcomer about our culture. […]

> It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules. When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and energy to do that. And sometimes, even if I did have the time, the person involved doesn’t want to be educated.

> This is when I pull out “we don’t do that here.” It is a conversation ender. If you are the newcomer and someone who has been around a long time says “we don’t do that here”, it is hard to argue. This sentence doesn’t push my morality on anyone. If they want to do whatever it is elsewhere, I’m not telling them not to. I’m just cluing them into the local culture and values. If I deliver this sentence well it carries no more emotional weight than saying, “in Japan, people drive on the left.” “We don’t do that here” should be a statement of fact and nothing more. It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals.

> Me: “You are standing in that person’s personal space. We don’t do that here.”
> Them: “But I was trying to be nice.”
> Me: “Awesome, but we don’t stand so close to people here.”

> Them: Tells an off-color joke.
> Me: “We don’t do that here.”
> Them: “But I was trying to be funny.”
> Me (shrugging): “That isn’t relevant. We don’t do that here.”

I really really do want to endorse this. Making a person’s behavior about capital-M Morality is a great way to get people to dig in their feet and escalate situations. By going “Hey, that behavior doesn’t fit in this context.” it removes a ton of the resentment and toxicity on both sides of the interaction.

Wow.

We Don’t Do That Here

rockpapertheodore:

fandomsandanythingelse:

twentyonelizards:

broadjay:

consider: adhd immortal people

“what was it like 400 years ago?” fuck if i know. i don’t even remember what it was like last week.

catch me procrastinating basic tasks for twenty times longer

“oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to get around to fixing that window, but I’ve just been so busy, y’know?”

“you’ve lived here since 1740″

MMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Walking through a museum and seeing some old things of yours and just going “FUCK. FUCK GOD DAMN IT, I’ve been looking for this forEVER” and then trying to haggle with the curator to get your shit back

thebibliosphere:

dragontatoes:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.

Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.

Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.

Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.

One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.

Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.

Like maybe my tone is hard to read, maybe it just comes off as really angry but it’s not, it’s fear and worry. I read posts and clutch my head in alarm going “no! No! That’s how people die!” And then I get exasperated because a bunch of people not formally qualified chime in with “um actually this is a lie” and it’s not, it’s really, really not.

I’m not some big pharma advocate. I’m a crunchy witch hippy just like you with salt rock lamps and rose quartz all over my house. I just happen to have spent the last 15 years of my life studying the actual science of holistic medicines and I’m trying to help you not get hurt (or worse) becuase you trusted a sales person with no idea what the ever loving hell they were talking about beyond a sales pitch designed to maximize profit. Gah.

Extracts aren’t even pure flavor, they’re mostly alcohol, and I believe it’s safe to ingest as much as you can stand to put in your mouth.
There’s a bottle of orange oil in our house that says to dilute 1 drop in four ounces of fluid (good luck getting only a single drop). That’s also foodgrade oil. Don’t ingest essential oils that aren’t foodgrade, and don’t so much as touch it until it’s diluted to only 1-2 drops per cup of plain water.

As previously stated in other posts, there is no such thing as food grade essential oil. Its a label made up by marketing companies to make you feel safe about drinking them. Hell “therapeutic grade” doesn’t even mean anything, there’s no standard for control on the US that is officially recognized by any health board.

You can swish some oils on your mouth when diluted with a carrier oil (I use olive oil or coconut for mouth rinsing) mixed with water, but water alone does not dilute essential oils in any safe way to use on or in the body.

Water + neat eo in an air diffuser = safe

Water + neat eo on skin = at risk of chemical burn

Water + neat eo for drinking = at risk of internal chemical burn and or other possible complications.

Tinctures and teas guys, tinctures and teas and extracts for eating.

Essential oils = do not swallow.

I’ve been doing this for longer than some of you have been alive, I’m trying to keep you that way.

tharook:

franklyalexandra:

tharook:

Are we so sure the sexy amphibian from the Shape of Water is male, anyway? Who are we to presume the genders of Amazon amphibian people?

Gods are often depicted as having multiple genders

Yes. I like this.

@catywampous replied:

Guillermo actually talked about this and said that the Asset has no gender and is capable of changing it’s sex based on reproductive needs (or in this case, desire), just like many amphibian species.

The amphibian person is genderfluid and I love them.

ed-nygma-variations:

i have a friend who is colorblind.

i have another friend with synesthesia where she sees colors when she listens to music

my colorbind friend has always wanted to see color and because my friend with synesthesia and my colorblind friend have the same taste in music, she describes color to my colorblind friend by relating it back to music

like “the sky is duke ellington’s satin doll”

and it is the purest thing this is what pure friendship is

kazoomusic:

kazoomusic:

lauramkaye:

thehypnobunny:

the-late-adopter:

shitifindon:

drethelin:

ozymandias271:

what does “men who adhere to strict gender binary” even mean tho

NO ONE adheres to the gender binary! NO ONE FITS THEIR GENDER ROLE PERFECTLY! THAT’S THE POINT! AARRRGGH! 

NOOOOO OOOOONE…. ADHERES TO THE GENDER BINARY LIKE GASTON!

Originally posted by clarabellecow

when I try to hear this in my head my mental voice is incapable of pronouncing it fast enough to fit the timing of the line

“noooo oooone… adjksjfksfjslenry like Gaston!”

and when I try to fit it to one of the longer such lines, my mental voice becomes too confused about conflicting scansion to continue

no one’s droll like gaston
no one’s swole like gaston
no one fits his assigned gender role like gaston

I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy
My what a guy that gastooon

Bless you for making it scan

NOW I CAN’T READ IT WITHOUT SINGING IN MY HEAD

No one’s droll like Gaston,
No one’s swole like Gaston,
No one fits his assigned gender role like Gaston!
For there’s no one online half as phony,
His tinder’s got dick pics to spare,
You can ask any neckbeard or brony
They’ll show you (no homo) whose trilby they’d wear!
No one drawls like Gaston
Or catcalls like Gaston,
Or manspreads on the train in a sprawl like Gaston!
I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy!
My what a guy that Gastooon!

…I’m not sorry.