I'm a transgender man, chemist, classical studies student, aspirant to the Episcopal priesthood, and maybe medicine too, Ancient Greek speaker, and Smith College graduate. I am passionate about anti-oppression work, especially the intersections of gender, race, and class, and how that applies to healthcare.
Bill Nye explains why he always wears bow ties. [video/image via jakealc1]
Lmfao.
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David Bowie - Interview - Afternoon plus - 1979 [x]
Not much has changed in the way people treat bisexuality smh
“are you bisexual” “yes” “i’m not sure i understand” “I’m bisexual” “what do you mean” “ThAT I AM BISEXUAL”
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Virginia Woolf’s corrected proofs for To The Lighthouse, at the Smith College Rare Book Room
This what i been saying. These aeenr just microaggressions, in a relationship it holds much more water. These men are still sexist even if they give the impression to be trying! This is all of them, and the reason why I can’t fall in love with men!!
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lmao without obamacare, i would have died at 23, a month ago.
kidney stones are completely curable, but I never would have seen a doctor, because I never would have been diagnosed with them. I would have been in constant excruciating pain and never know why.
I would get an infection in february 2017, and I would die, at 23. I would never know why I died, or why I was in pain, because I would never have been afforded the luxury to ask a doctor about my pain.
I would have simply sucked it up, as not to fall further in debt, knowing I cannot afford medical attention, and therefore am undeserving of asking questions like “why am I feeling this pain?”
People say, the poor would go to the hospital in time if they thought they were going to die, and that they would deal with the debt they accrue from said visit. this is untrue. Many of us would rather die than be a financial burden.
Many of us feel we are never sick enough to deserve the expense of medical attention, to deserve the expense of seeing a doctor. Many of us die because of this.
I had pneumonia for three months and didn’t see a doctor until my grandmother took me because I couldn’t get off the floor from crying from pain. No, we won’t just up and go because you, not-poor insured person, would.
We will literally suffer because we believe we are too poor to deserve life itself.
I had a kidney infection and pneumonia but waited a full 7 days hoping I could just, I dunno, drink a lot of water and and sweat out the fever, I even managed a few shifts at my serving job, taking handfuls of advil to keep my 104 fever down. Finally my roommate was too worried when speaking was difficult and I hadn’t peed in a few days and took me in, I was so close to dying they encouraged me to fly my parents out.
When I was discharged I had a stack of new medical problems (like pulmonary hypertension from the pneumonia) as well as a fresh new perspective on the autoimmune disease I had not been treating. The drs told me if I don’t treat it it will kill me next time, that was the same year Obama put through the ACA and I could go on my parent’s insurance for a year or two all of a sudden, when my autoimmune disease had previously kept me from being able to get insurance.
It’s like obamacare saved my life and then some. I’m so scared to see the fall out when this garbage goes through with the gop, there’s so many like us.
I’d certainly be dead in the ground by now if the ACA hadn’t gone through when it did.
Back when the NHS was introduced here, they found that most people making use of the new services weren’t those suffering from developing conditions. Instead, those who had to neglect their conditions for up to a decade or more and had just continued to deteriorate. It’s almost as if history repeats itself…
I’m really scared. I know so many people with serious health problems both mental and physical. I might have endometriosis. How many of my friends will die?
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