Today took an odd turn. Picture it: McDonald’s, 2017, 6:30 PM. I’m sitting in the drive thru, having placed my order some 20 minutes prior. It was clearly a busy night at the restaurant, and I was 7 cars back from the first window where you pay (for those unfamiliar with this setup, many drive through restaurants in the U.S. have a two window system. You order at the speaker, you pull up to the first window and pay, then…
I have learned firsthand just how hard my medicine works to keep things in order when it comes to maintaining homeostasis. I had gone without my blood pressure and blood sugar medications for the past 5 days. See, even though the state assured me that I was back on Medicaid, it wouldn’t take full effect until March, and I had ran out of my medications this past Sunday. I figured I could try to get Medicaid to cover my prescriptions…
As an LGBTQ+ advocate, ally, and pansexual myself, I am concerned over the fetishization of entire classes of people. Considering the current political and social climate in which we live, I found this article on transgender porn to be an important one that I wish to share. Please be sure to like Rachel’s page. -Amaris ————————– (Bailey Jay) Content warning: this post contains mentions of trans slurs and descriptions of transphobic violence. … Porn featuring pre-op/non-op trans women has always…
There is an oft-quoted saying that goes, “You cannot pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” The expression is lifted from Ursula Fosters book of the same title. I’m sure the expression itself has been around a lot longer than that, but to echo Beverly Weston of August: Osage County, she gets credit for it because she bothered to write it down. I hear this expression quite often, and every time I do, I have to stop…