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"For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking.

None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: all had taken a drug called Lupron.

Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is commonly used off-label to help short kids grow taller.

The drug’s pediatric version comes with few warnings about long-term side effects. It is also used in adults to fight prostate cancer or relieve uterine pain and the Food and Drug Administration has warnings on the drug’s adult labels about a variety of side effects.

More than 10,000 adverse event reports filed with the FDA reflect the experiences of women who’ve taken Lupron. The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints.

In interviews and in online forums, women who took the drug as young girls or initiated a daughter’s treatment described harsh side effects that have been well-documented in adults.

Women who used Lupron a decade or more ago to delay puberty or grow taller described the short-term side effects listed on the pediatric label: pain at the injection site, mood swings and headaches. Yet they also described conditions that usually affect people much later in life. A 20-year-old from South Carolina was diagnosed with osteopenia, a thinning of the bones, while a 25 year-old from Pennsylvania has osteoporosis and a cracked spine. A 26 year-old in Massachusetts needed a total hip replacement. A 25-year-old in Wisconsin, like Derricott, has chronic pain and degenerative disc disease.

“It just feels like I’m being punished for basically being experimented on when I was a child,” said Derricott, of Lawton, Okla. “I’d hate for a child to be put on Lupron, get to my age and go through the things I have been through.”

PBS - Women fear drug they used to halt puberty led to health problems (2017)

#w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #dysphoria #dysphoric #gender dysphoria #feminism #feminist #lupron #puberty blockers #transition #hrt

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Sex Binary and Intersex Master Post

This took me some 30+ hours to write/design/compile but it's finally done! If you're not a biologist, I strongly recommend you give this whole post a read (yes, it's long, but I think it has some very important information). Feel free to reference this post and repost the images anywhere to debunk bad gender science!

Here's the Google Drive link.

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #intersex #intersexism #sex binary #binary sex #feminist #feminism #w4w masterdoc

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#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #feminism #feminist #quotes #rebecca solnit #men explain things to me

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Happy Pride Month! To kick off pride I'm busting some myths about the Stonewall Riots, Marsha P. Johnson, and giving some love and recognition to Stormé DeLarverie!

This was sitting unfinished for months but I got it together and completed it in time for pride.

Edit (6/12/23): I believe only the first Joseph Ambrosini photo was confirmed to be taken the first night of the Stonewall riots; I couldn't find sources that indicated if the other photos were taken on that same night or not.

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #feminism #feminist #lgb #lgbt #pride #stonewall #marsha p johnson #storme delarverie #lgb history #lgbt history #gay rights #gay history #lesbian #w4w lgb

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Have you ever heard that claim that transgender people have brains of their chosen gender? Or the claim that men and women have completely different, dimorphic brains? Well, neither of those statements are true! Here's the explanation as to how neurosexism and bad science have hijacked our understanding of brains & sex/gender.

No information in these infographics mean you can't respect transgender individuals' chosen identities. It just means that "brain sex" is a neurosexist myth and neuroscience studies are insuffiecient to defend transgender identities as innate.

Feel free to repost these images or repeat the information next time you see someone claim that science has proved that brain sex is real or neuroscience explains why transgender people are the gender they say they are. Also, these take me a long time to make so a reblog is always appreciated :)

#neurosexist #cordelia fine #brain sex #sex binary #trans #transgender #w4w post #stats #w4w infographic #gina rippon #delusions of gender #gender and our brains #quotes #gender #gender vs. sex #neuroscience #neurosexism

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Happy Pride!

I made this infographic series on some statistics centered around bisexual women.

Bisexual women are more likely to:

Be victims of sexual assault/rape

Be victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Be at risk for suicide

Suffer from anxiety and poor mental health

Use substances

I plan on doing some more bisexual female/lesbian infographics and some LGB history posts for Pride.

These infographics also take me several hours to research, write, compile, and design, so a reblog or follow is very appreciated :)

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #feminism #feminist #bi #bisexual #bi women #bisexual women #pride #lgb #w4w lgb

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My writeup on (some) effects of testosterone on pelvic health! I also did some infographics on Binding and Transmasculine Individuals here.

A special thanks to @d3nt4l-d4m4g3 whose posts on Testosterone and Pelvic Pain and The Longterm Repercussions of Testosterone helped me kickstart my research.

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #dysphoria #dysphoric #gender dysphoria #feminism #feminist #transmasc #trans man #ftm #trans guy #trans boy #trans ftm #w4w dysphoria

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Binding & Physical Health in Transmasculine People

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Edit (05/30/2023): I just noticed I had repeated the last quote twice, so I fixed that. My bad!

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#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #dysphoria #transmasc #trans man #ftm #trans guy #trans boy #trans ftm #w4w lgb #w4w dysphoria

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Lesbian Stats & Facts (Health, IPV, and Hate Crimes)

#w4w post #w4w infographic #lgb #lesbian #stats #w4w lgb #Homophobia #lesbophobia #Ipv #Vaw #violence against women

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Sati and Misogyny

I wrote a 15-page paper on the practice of sati, or widow burning, where a widow burns herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre. I wanted to design something to share some of the facts I learned about the class/caste/religious/gendered motivations for why women committed sati (and yes, it was a deeply misogynistic practice).

I had a lot of fun making this and I want to make more desi-focused feminist infographics in the future as well!

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #feminism #feminist #desi #desi history #desi feminism #sati #desi feminist #south asian #south asian history #indian history #womens history #herstory

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How do you make your infographics if I can ask, and how long does it normally take you to design, do the research, find what quotes you like, etc. I’m very interested in making my own, especially about the drag queen issue but I struggle with adhd and staying on task and get unmotivated easily.

What I use to make Infographics/Posts

You don’t need anything fancy to make infographics! I’m familiar with Adobe InDesign and the Adobe design suite, but those tools are expensive and are hard to learn.

I use Canva to make my material. I don’t pay for their premium account, so my account is completely free! It gives you templates and design elements to work with. I really like Canva because it helps me quickly design and post material.

How long does it take?

Making posts with just a quote usually takes me 5 minutes per post, so they're pretty fast to make.

My infographic posts take the longest to make. My Intersex and Sex Binary posts took me over 30 hours to research, plan, compile, write, design, and edit. Some smaller infographics like Transmasculine Individuals and Binding took ~4 hours.

A lot of the time is spent on the research stage. The good news is I've compiled a lot of my research into this ~300-page master document! It's full of studies and facts, grouped by topic as a resource for other women. It's so big I've really only scraped the surface in terms of what I've been able to adapt so far.

Feel free to take a look for yourself if you want to make your own posts/material, or if you're just curious! If you're interested in making posts about any of the topics listed, this might help shorten your research. I've also named/linked all my sources, so you can click the hyperlinked sources or Google the name of the study and read the whole thing if it interests you.

Work Process & Motivation

I also struggle with motivation and finishing projects. The key (for me) is to organizing my digital workspace.

If I see a statistic or study that interests me, I stick it into my masterdoc. If I see a Tumblr post with an interesting idea, quote, or fact, I save the post as a draft

When I have time, I go through my drafts and pick a few posts I feel like adapting.

On Canva, you can search for keywords like "Instagram Post", "Instagram Story" or "Quote" and Canva will give you suggested templates.

I have a Canva document saved of a bunch of templates I want to use for quotes, for example (you may recognize some of the backgrounds/fonts from my posts):

When I pick a quote I like, I copy and paste the template square into a blank page on my document where I keep all my quotes and I just edit the text and mess around with the design elements until I'm satisfied.

I can then easily export my posts!

My process for infographics is similar. I search "Infographic" and save infographic templates I like, then just add in the information when I have the time and motivation.

I get demotivated sometimes, so it helps to do a lot of posts back-to-back when I'm motivated and have time. I then add the posts to my Tumblr queue, so my blog is posting daily, even on days or weeks when I don't have the time, energy, or motivation to make material.

I know online activism can get really tiring and it can be easy to burn out. Stickering, flyering, reading feminist/woman-centered books to educate yourself, signing petitions and writing letters, meeting with like-minded women, and volunteering for women's shelters/causes are great ways to help women in real life that don't feel as impersonal as a Tumblr blog. If there's a topic you're passionate about, make that infographic or post, but also think about what you can do in real life to advocate for or advance the cause!

I find mailing women radical feminist stickers (which you can order for free here!) is a great way to remind myself that I'm not alone and there are other women like me. Every envelope I pack makes me feel really connected to other women. I also work for an organization that helps women in the Global South and try to read feminist books in my spare time.

TL;DR - Use Canva, spread the word, and try to help women in real life!

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