I’m going to making a new blog soon that will be mostly personal/theoretical writing and my art. Reblog/social-justice circle-jerk/social networking free (ish)!
Message me for the url if you’re interested in keeping in touch over there. I’ll probably be back on this account periodically for my endless scroll fix.
I’ve kind of kept my distance from Tumblr for a bit. Weird feelings about it, and being busy, and cheating on Tumblr with Reddit, etc.
These are my life updates:
I’m going to San Fran from June 1st to 10th! So excited. Plus it only took me 10 minutes to find someone to cat sit my batshit kitty for free! It works out really well cause it’s an old friend who was forced to move out of TO by an illegal eviction and now she’s also able to have a little vacation at my apartment while I’m gone. Life is good.
I dropped my summer online courses cause I’m not disciplined enough to keep up with them on top of writing this funding proposal. But said funding proposal is going really well and my prof is taking me out for lunch at the end of the month.
My relationship with her is great, and I’m pretty sure she’s seeing this as a mentorship situation. In the end I’m going to have some amazing reference letters, and a shoe-in for working in public health. This makes it plausible that I could avoid getting an acute care (read: high intensity hospital job) as a new grad, which is often kind of prerequisite experience for getting into other fields. That kind of work is not really for me. (Although, Kelly’s sister had an appendicitis attack a couple weeks ago while her mom was out of town, and just being at the hospital and helping her through emergency surgery + recovery had me questioning that statement. got me a little excitedfor putting my hands back into the medical side of nursing this fall.)
It’s also great because she’s treating me as an equal in this project, and it’s always been acceptable for me to challenge her ideas, and her to challenge mine, and to explore the political and theoretical nuances in both our course work and the research project. She’s also encouraged me to approach her with my own research questions in the future. Once I get a handle on the funding and ethics approval processes, I can do what I want.
Which. blows. my. mind.
Outside of all that: I cut out sugars/starches from my diet and think I realized that I probably have a gluten allergy. I’ve had frustrating asthma/sinus problems for years that no one’s been able to provide any good answers about. Since cutting out gluten I wake up breathing better than ever. Optimistic about what could happen.
Lately, I’ve been reading, seeing people, have made a lot of new friends the last couple months, been going to a queer discussion group that’s been very stimulating, and cooking healthy delicious meals like it’s going out of style (maybe it is?). I got all A’s, despite calculating my grades wrong and anticipating B+’s. Looking forward to Radiohead (June 16) and Hillside Fest (July).
TL;DR - Once upon a time I became a productive person without realizing it. The end.
n maxwell lander
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: From Fan mail: -
In regards to that reblog about HIV testing. In the UK you are discouraged from giving blood if you have been tested for HIV. Banks within the UK also hold the right to refuse you a loan or mortgage if you have been tested for HIV. They consider the fact that you chose to get tested is a sign that you live a ‘risky lifestyle’. Absolutely ridiculous.
NO. Just no. This is nonsense.
The part about not being able to donate blood in the UK if you’ve had an HIV test is bullshit. Regarding HIV, you can only not give blood if you have tested positive. Negative tests are irrelevant. I don’t even think they ask. I know plenty of people who donate regularly and have had negative HIV tests.
The second part (about loans and mortgages, but additionally for life insurance) is also definitely not true and has not been since 1994.
Insurance companies, mortgage companies and loans companies (including banks) may not ask your GP if you’ve had an HIV test. For life insurance sales, or if the loan or mortgage includes life insurance (but actually most don’t these days), they will ask if you have tested positive but they will not ask about negative tests.
So let’s stop with the misinformation, yeah? Nobody needs more discouragement from testing, for fuck’s sake.
May not be true in the UK, but I was denied at Canadian Blood Services for having had a (negative) HIV test one week prior. I had answered ‘yes’ to having had an HIV test within the last month. The staff pulled out the policies manual in response to my shock. It’s not complete nonsense (though it’s such bullshit). I imagine the rationale is that if you’re getting a test you must be engaging in ‘risky activities’ which would prompt you to get a test. Which is bullshit, cause anyone ‘sexually active’ has reason to be getting tested.
(via fuckyeahgenderstudies)
Canada considering "genderless" passport options -
All articles covering this are incredibly vague, but it’s been suggested the change would be an option for the ‘gender’ field to be removed from the passport entirely.
Made this linocut yesterday & finished and printed today. Now I’m looking for a way to waterproof the ink & maybe paste them somewhere! Really liking how it turned out.
Nip. Not even once.
abandoned airplane squat