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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed easing blood donation guidelines for gay and bisexual men.

Under current rules, the FDA allows donations from gay and bisexual men if they haven't had sex with another man for three months.

In a draft proposal posted to the agency's website, the FDA said the new rules would allow anyone to donate blood — regardless of gender or sexual orientation — as long as they haven't engaged in certain sexual behaviors in the last three months.

That would mean most gay and bisexual men who are in a monogamous relationship with another man will no longer need to abstain from sex to donate blood.

"This is a great first step in getting in the right direction," Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said on a call Friday. The new rules, he said, are consistent with those of Canada and the United Kingdom.

Under the new guidelines, blood donors who report having a new sexual partner or more than one sexual partner would be asked about their sexual activity over the last three months.

People taking oral medications to prevent HIV, such as PrEP, and people who have recently had sex in exchange for money or drugs would be subject to a three-month deferral period under the FDA proposal. Those taking injectable PrEP to prevent HIV infection would be deferred for two years from their most recent injection.

People with HIV, including those who take medication that drastically reduces their viral load, would still be asked to not donate blood.

“Maintaining a safe and adequate supply of blood and blood products in the U.S. is paramount for the FDA, and this proposal for an individual risk assessment, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will enable us to continue using the best science to do so," FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said in a statement.

On Friday’s call, Califf said donating blood is “one of several really important symbolic methods of demonstrating one caring for other people.”

The agency's restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men stem from the AIDS crisis, which began in the early 1980s, when little was known about the virus.

As of 2019, an estimated 1.2 million people in the United States had HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Advocacy groups and medical organizations, including the American Red Cross, have urged the FDA to lift restrictions on blood donations for gay and bisexual men, saying the practice is discriminatory and has contributed to shortages in the blood supply in the United States.

A report from the Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA School of Law, found that if the FDA were to lift donor bans for men who have sex with men, the annual blood supply would increase by 2 to 4%, or 345,400 to 615,300 pints of blood annually.

The FDA is not expected to reach a final decision until after a 60-day public comment period.

Marks, of the FDA, said the agency plans to work with blood collectors during the comment period to help them make any necessary changes needed to implement the new rules.

#us politics #news #nbc news #2023 #Food and Drug Administration #biden administration #lgbtqia+ rights #lgbtqia+#lgbtqia+ representation #Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research #Dr. Peter Marks #hiv/aids #Dr. Robert Califf #AIDS crisis #American Red Cross #Williams Institute #center for disease control and prevention #blood donations

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oneequalworldblog · 9 months

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How Many Of Us?

How many people are affected by the recent waves of GOP-led anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? The data is not usually part of their lawmaking. In the past three years at least 21 states have passed laws targeting gender-affirming care for transgender people, or making it illegal for transgender kids to play sports, or made it a crime for transgender people to use the correct bathrooms. But missing from…

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#anti-trans laws #demographics #intersex #transgender #williams institute

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garadinervi · 2 months

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The Elements According to Relative Abundance, by William F. Sheehan, University of Santa Clara, CA, 1970 [Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA]

#graphic design #typography #chemistry #periodic table of the elements #william f. sheehan #dmitrij ivanovič mendeleev #science history institute #1970s

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pagansphinx · 10 months

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Today's Painting

William Adolphe Bouguereau • Nymphs and Satyr • 1873 • Neoclassism • Clark Art Institute - Williamstown, Massachusetts

#william adolphe bouguereau #neoclassicism #painting #art #fine art #bannedonpinterest #art nude #french painter #nymphs in painting #satyrs in painting #19th century art #clark art institute #french artist #mythological painting #mythological art #favorite painting #art history

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luceibs · 1 month

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WILLIAM AFTON!?! /j

#the magnus protocol #the magnus pod #the magnus archives #fnaf #mr bonzo #william afton #the magnus institute #tmagp #tmp ep 10

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captainfairygodmother · 22 hours

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Am I going mad, or is this poem genuinely Good Omens coded?

"I went to the Garden of Love,

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;

So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,

And tomb-stones where flowers should be:

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,

And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, "The Garden of Love"

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #william blake's “the garden of love”#because like the poem is about criticising how religion/institutions has taken over the joys and nature in life #(which was a view shared by many romantic poets)#BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT'S NOT CROWLEY ABOUT HEAVEN TAKING AZIRAPHALE FROM HIM?????

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teacupfullofstars · 4 months

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I'm listening to The Magnus Archives while also being in my FNAF Era is wild. Also, William Afton is an Avatar of The Hunt but has hints of The Stranger and The End. Anyways my brain rots are seeping into each other.

#the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #tma entities #the hunt tma #the end tma #the stranger tma #william afton #fnaf #fnaf movie #steve raglan #five nights at freddy's #mathew lillard #og

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 1 month

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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velvet4510 · 29 days

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callmewisteria · 1 year

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the more i think about the institute in fallout 4, and the FEV experiments, the more convinced i am that the institute scientists who started the programme just played way too much resident evil as kids, and thought they could do what william and annette birkin couldn't in re2 with the g virus

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#The Williams Institute #Florida #Don't Say Gay Law #Rainbow Families #News

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Abdulla Moaswes (عبد الله موسوس), The Epistemicide of the Palestinians: Israel Destroys Pillars of Knowledge, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, February 2, 2024

(image: «Audre Lorde's Collected Poems, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, William Butler Yeats’ Selected Poems and Two Plays, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. These are some books my younger brother Hamza Abu-Toha sent to me today which he got from under the rubble.» – Mosab Abu-Toha)

#photography #book #journal #abdulla moaswes #mosab abu toha #hamza abu toha #audre lorde #jonathan franzen #william butler yeats #john green #institute for palestine studies #2020s

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roseamongroses · 10 months

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i got so many opinions about shuri being stripped of her girlhood/childhood self. being forced to grow up/ forcing everyone to see that she is no longer a child and how it relates to her identity as a black woman in a nation where she didn't have to be adultified at a young age

and AND AND (depending on how closely the tv series sticks to the comics of course) her interacting with riri who was stripped of her girlhood v young because of her talents/ genius and placed into academic enviroments with very little support (if it werent for the black people willing to intervene and help her not crumble) but i think i might break articulating it cause that feels like a therapy session tbh

#mcu #marvel let me in the writing room i just wanna talk #shuri udaku #riri williams #mcu!riri #marvel comics #wakanda forever #thinkin bout how riri was essentially punished for acting her age in those institutions #like yes bby please drop out they don't deserve u

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quo-usque-tandem · 3 months

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The Shadow of Death by William Holman Hunt

#art #painting #The Shadow of Death #William Holman Hunt #The Art Institute of Chicago

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eaglesnick · 7 months

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“To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.” William Blake

Everyone (of a certain age) knows the song Jerusalem. The music was written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916 to boost British morale during World War 1. This song, words by William Blake, is the official anthem of the British Women's Institute, and historically was used by the National Union of Suffrage Societies. It is also the song that traditionally ends the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms.

I mention this song as it contains the lines:

And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon England’s mountains green:

And was the holy Lamb of God,

On England’s pleasant pastures seen!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:

Till we have built Jerusalem,

In England’s green & pleasant Land.

Yesterday we were informed that in this “green and pleasant land” of ours, one in six of British wildlife species is in danger of extinction. Bird populations are expected to be reduced by 43%, and 26% of British mammals are expected to disappear.

Far from being a “green and pleasant land” we are knowingly destroying the very environment we depend upon for our well-being. From polluted waterways and beaches to the sanctioning of pesticides and herbicides banned elsewhere in the world; from anti-clean air campaigns to the promotion of more fossil fuel extraction and carbon emissions, we are knowingly walking into an ecological disaster.

Neither Sunak nor Starmer seemed concerned about our countries ecological future, and neither it seems do many of our fellow citizens. The former are more interested in personal power, the latter more concerned about how much it will cost them in monetary terms.

A lesser-known poem by William Blake is “London” wherein he describes:

“The bleak, polluted urban environment that resulted from the unrestricted burning of coal, the discharge of raw sewage into the Thames, and the inexorable spread of contagious disease." (J.C McKusick: “The End of Nature: Environmental Apocalypse in William Blake and Mary Shelly.”; Springer Link, 11/11/15.

If Blake’s environmental apocalypse turns out to be as true for the 21st century as it did for the 19th, then we will only have ourselves to blame.

#uk politics #william blake #environmental apocalype #oil #gas #clean air #womens institute #suffragettes

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thedigitalmuseum · 7 months

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The Output: Episode 1: PEOPLE

Who are the different people involved in the new Institute for Digital Culture? What constitutes an Institute within a university in 2023? And what do we even mean by "digital culture"?

In this first episode of The Output, we're going to ponder what it means to hold so many different perspectives of what digital culture is - and what it could be - within a research environment like this one.

You'll hear contributions from university staff and associates including Steve Williams - Director of Library and Learning Services, Clarissa Wilson - PhD candidate, Andrew Fletcher - Director of Attenborough Arts Centre, Ross Parry - Professor of Museum Technology and Director of the Institute for Digital Culture, Andrew Hugill - Professor of Music and Creative Computing, Uzma Johal MBE - Co-Founder and CEO of Threshold Studios, and Dr Alberto Cossu - Lecturer in Media and Communication.

The Output is written and presented by Dr Sophie Frost and Chris Thorpe-Tracey, who also edited it. Artwork is by Matt C Stokes. The Output is a Low Rumbling production for the Institute for Digital Culture at the University of Leicester.

#2023 #sophie frost #Steve Williams #Clarissa Wilson #Andrew Fletcher #ross parry #Andrew Hugill #Uzma Johal #Alberto Cossu #Chris Thorpe-Tracey #Institute for Digital Culture

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