#sarah prager

[decaffeinatedmisery]

Some Cool Facts I learned from Queer, There, and Everywhere: 27 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager:

Bisexuality and polyamory were the norm in Han Dynasty China, with many empowers having a female wife and an official male companion. It only ended because Emperor Ai of Han had wanted his male partner, Dong Xian, to succeed the throne.

Queer people had their in own country in Oceania from 2004-2017: The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

Abe Lincoln had a male “intimate friend” called Joshua Fry Speed

Albert Cashier was a trans Irish immigrant who fought for the Union. His fellow soldiers from the Ninety-Fifth made sure he was buried as a man

Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were lovers, their correspondances shared after their deaths.

#queer history #queer #queer facts #lgbtq #lgbtq books #lgbtq+ #lgbt history #albert cashier #The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

[sparklywatercolors]

Started reading Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager. It's rly good so far and I'm very invested.

#personal #book reccomendation

[androgynealienfemme]

A few days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, a woman who described herself as an anti-abortion activist showed up in the waiting room of Dr. Marissa Lapedis, a family-medicine doctor who performs the procedure in Atlanta.

But she wasn’t there to protest—she had an appointment.

“She talked about being in marches, and said she had spent a lot of time volunteering in crisis pregnancy centers—you know, showing patients the ultrasound image and explaining what happens,” Lapedis, a fellow with the group Physicians for Reproductive Health, told The Daily Beast. “She said she had been anti-abortion her whole life, and that her whole family was like her—and yet she was so appreciative of the care she received from us. She literally was like, ‘I’m so grateful that I’m able to make this choice for myself.’”

Lapedis’ experience is remarkable in part because she resides in a state with a looming ban on the procedure after six weeks—though the law has so far been held up in court.

“You sometimes have anti people who are like, ‘Promise me no one’s going to find out, my boss cannot know,’ [because] they work in the Republican legislature or something. Which has happened—but this patient was so appreciative.”

Abortion providers across the country are reeling from the fall of Roe, and some face the prospect of legal reprisal from law enforcement in their own state or even other states where patients need help. Almost inevitably, they are reflecting on the many patients they’ve seen who came in for a service they claimed to fervently oppose—and in some cases actively protested against.

“All of us who do abortions see patients quite regularly who tell us, ‘I’m not pro-choice, but I just can’t continue this pregnancy,’” said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. “We’ve even seen people coming into the clinic off the protester lines to get their abortion, then return to protesting outside the clinic.” And to be clear, she added, “These are not people who turn anti-choice after having an abortion, but who simply access this essential service when they need it in spite of their personal beliefs about abortion in general.”

According to Prager, the phenomenon is so common that abortion providers have a name for it: the Me Exception.

“We in the movement often say people believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest and ‘me,’ meaning whatever reason is relevant for that person,” she said. And yet, she noted, of the many surveys describing how Americans view abortion, virtually none reflect that reality.

“Anti-choice people have no incentive to be honest about whether or not they’ve had an abortion, and we as physicians would never leak a story about a patient,” she continued. Doing so is prohibited under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, the federal law that protects confidential health information.

The hypocrisy of the right is always immensely wild to read about. Of course women on the right get abortions. Of course pro life activist women get abortions.

1. Because it’s a healthcare need that any person who can get pregnant may need for health reasons, but also:

2. Because it’s fine for them but not for anyone else. Because they have a real reason unlike those other women. God will forgive them, but no one else can be forgiven. They are Good and the rest of us are Bad. So therefore their abortion is Good and for the rest of us it’s a Bad Abortion that must be Prevented.

Conservatives will allow themselves and each other and us to die for their batshit morals and yet they will continue to do whatever the fuck they want behind closed doors. Whether it’s something harmless like having gay lovers, or something horrific like abusing their families or children. Whether it’s using drugs, having premarital sex or getting abortions, they will always do it behind the scenes and forgive themselves for it.

It’s the rest of us that must be controlled tho. Not them, they get to have the control.

Anyways once again banning abortion will not prevent abortion, only make it more dangerous for those of us that will need one. And being pro life will not mean you won’t need an abortion eventually. Because it’s a form of healthcare that a pregnant person may need if they cannot or do not want to continue their pregnancy. It will always be needed so long as pregnancy has health risks, contraceptives fail, and assault occurs.

#news #politics #reproductive rights #feminism #prochoice #pro life

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Maryanna’s eyes widened as the waitress delivered dessert, a plate-sized chocolate chip cookie topped with hot fudge and ice cream. Sitting in a booth at a Cheddar’s in Little Rock, Maryanna, 16, wasn’t sure of the last time she’d been to a sit-down restaurant. With two children — a daughter she birthed at 14 and a 4-month-old son — and sharing rent with her mother and sister for a cramped apartment with a dwindling number of working lights, Maryanna rarely got out, let alone to devour a Cheddar’s Legendary Monster Cookie. On this muggy September evening, though, she was having dinner with her “sister friend” Zenobia Harris, who runs the Arkansas Birthing Project, an organization working to reduce the odds that Arkansas women and girls die from pregnancy and childbirth. In a highchair next to her, Maryanna’s daughter, Bry’anna, spiraled sideways and backward, her arms outstretched, flying. Her eyes would settle on her grilled cheese, and she’d swoop her small hand down to pick up the sandwich. Maryanna suffered mightily during Bry’anna’s birth. (Kaiser Health News is not using the family’s last name to protect Maryanna’s privacy.) She remembers telling her mother, “I don’t want to do none of this.” Nurses routinely checked to see how far she had dilated, a painful prodding of the cervix typically done before pain medications are administered. “Nobody talks about that. I would not open my legs wide enough for them,” she said, cringing at the memory. “There were seven nurses up in there, and I was like, ‘No! Why ya’ll doing this?’” Hours later, a doctor used vacuum suction to pull the baby through Maryanna’s 14-year-old vaginal canal, ripping apart the skin and muscle of her perineum. ... Infant mortality rates in Arkansas are highest for babies born to women younger than 20, and the large number of teen births fuels the state’s third-highest infant mortality rate in the country. Arkansas women have the highest rate of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S., according to CDC data, about double the national average. For young women who continue their pregnancies, the emotional and physical challenges can be daunting. The age at which girls in the U.S. begin menstruating has dropped in recent decades, in part due to widespread obesity, but the physiological changes necessary to birth and feed a newborn require additional years of development. “When she has her first menstruation, she is capable of becoming pregnant, but that doesn’t mean she is capable of having a child,” said Dr. Dilys Walker, director of global health research for the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California-San Francisco. Walker explained that during adolescent development, the beginning of menarche signals the start of a growth spurt that can take up to four years to complete. During that time, a girl’s uterus and bony structures, including her pelvis, remain narrow, developing slowly as she ages. It’s a precarious moment to give birth. It’s not uncommon for girls to face obstructed labor “because their pelvis is not developed enough to accommodate a vaginal delivery,” said Dr. Sarah Prager, an obstetrics and gynecology professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Going through with a vaginal birth could cause lasting damage to a teen’s pelvic area and rectum. So, teenage childbirth often ends in cesarean section, causing uterine scarring that almost guarantees she will need to give birth via cesarean section if she has more children. “Adolescents are at increased risk for low-birth-weight babies, high blood pressure in pregnancy, preeclampsia, higher complications from sexually transmitted diseases, and increased rate of infant death,” said Dr. Anne Waldrop, a maternal-fetal medicine fellow at Stanford University.

For everyone out there planning to vote for "prolife" politicians this November, just know that you are voting to hurt and possibly murder children.

#Voting #Abortion #Midterms #Pregnancy

[troger]

The Women Who Leave Anti-Abortion Picket Lines to Get Abortions

snatched from behind paywall, sry format 🤷‍♀️

Patrick Adams

Updated Jul. 03, 2022 4:31AM ET Published Jul. 02, 2022 11:14PM ET

A few days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, a woman who described herself as an anti-abortion activist showed up in the waiting room of Dr. Marissa Lapedis, a family-medicine doctor who performs the procedure in Atlanta.

But she wasn’t there to protest—she had an appointment.

“She talked about being in marches, and said she had spent a lot of time volunteering in crisis pregnancy centers—you know, showing patients the ultrasound image and explaining what happens,” Lapedis, a fellow with the group Physicians for Reproductive Health, told The Daily Beast. “She said she had been anti-abortion her whole life, and that her whole family was like her—and yet she was so appreciative of the care she received from us. She literally was like, ‘I’m so grateful that I’m able to make this choice for myself.’”

Lapedis’ experience is remarkable in part because she resides in a state with a looming ban on the procedure after six weeks—though the law has so far been held up in court.

“You sometimes have anti people who are like, ‘Promise me no one’s going to find out, my boss cannot know,’ [because] they work in the Republican legislature or something. Which has happened—but this patient was so appreciative.”

Abortion providers across the country are reeling from the fall of Roe, and some face the prospect of legal reprisal from law enforcement in their own state or even other states where patients need help. Almost inevitably, they are reflecting on the many patients they’ve seen who came in for a service they claimed to fervently oppose—and in some cases actively protested against.

“All of us who do abortions see patients quite regularly who tell us, ‘I’m not pro-choice, but I just can’t continue this pregnancy,’” said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. “We’ve even seen people coming into the clinic off the protester lines to get their abortion, then return to protesting outside the clinic.” And to be clear, she added, “These are not people who turn anti-choice after having an abortion, but who simply access this essential service when they need it in spite of their personal beliefs about abortion in general.”

According to Prager, the phenomenon is so common that abortion providers have a name for it: the Me Exception.

“We in the movement often say people believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest and ‘me,’ meaning whatever reason is relevant for that person,” she said. And yet, she noted, of the many surveys describing how Americans view abortion, virtually none reflect that reality.

“Anti-choice people have no incentive to be honest about whether or not they’ve had an abortion, and we as physicians would never leak a story about a patient,” she continued. Doing so is prohibited under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, the federal law that protects confidential health information.

Still, health professionals are permitted to discuss cases in general terms, and when asked about patients with anti-choice views this past week, abortion providers had no shortage of sometimes incredible tales about activists deeming themselves an exception to the rule.

Dr. Portia Jones, a family-medicine physician in Washington, recalled the time a woman “whose sister-in-law was the president of a big right-to-life organization” had asked to be “snuck in the back door” of the clinic where she was working in Philadelphia. Then there was “the picketer who brought her daughter in for a procedure and was back on the picket line the next week,” she recalled. On another occasion, a woman came in “and declared to a full waiting room that they were all sinners and should leave immediately,” she said.

“When I drew her aside, I found out she was there for an abortion, too,” Jones told The Daily Beast.

Jones and other abortion providers attributed many such instances to a sense of exceptionalism on the part of patients who decide their situation entitles them to do what they believe other women should—legally—be unable to. “I’ve done a lot of options counseling with patients who had to do some pretty creative moral jujitsu to justify their behavior to themselves,” she added. “But our role is to give people information, to create a space for them where they can make decisions, and to support them in that process.”

While 13 states with so-called trigger laws are poised to be the first to effectively prohibit almost all abortions, roughly two dozen states in total have laws on the books that could be used to sharply restrict the procedure, according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. The laws are, of course, the product of decades of far-right organizing against reproductive rights, with actions ranging from peaceful protest to the election of anti-choice officials to violent attacks.

But providers said the hypocrisy among the rank and file powering the so-called pro-life movement was glaring.

“I’d say about a third of my patients would reveal in their counseling or during the procedure, you know, ‘I want you to know I’m pro-life, but you understand why this has to be,’” said Dr. Nicholas Gideonse, recalling his work as an abortion provider in rural Oregon. “I think in almost all of those cases, they were making that choice in order to be the best parent that they could be.”

There were certainly those pro-life patients who “stridently insisted that their circumstances were particular and special,” Gideonse added. But there were cases, too, of pro-life patients who came to him seeking compassion.

“I’m remembering a soft-spoken younger woman who felt that I, because I had delivered her other unplanned pregnancy, understood how pro-life she really was and that for this reason I was the person who could perform the procedure she needed now,” he said.

Rather than a one-off, stories about anti-choice activists literally coming off the protest line to seek care were rife. That phenomenon may fade in states where clinics are shutting in the face of legal threats, but providers were confident hardcore activists will continue to seek their care.

Several years ago, Dr. Meera Shah, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in New York, provided abortion care to one of the protesters regularly outside of her clinic.

“I treated her with compassion and kindness just like I do everyone, knowing that people come to us with their own lived experiences,” she said. “I don’t know what this person was exposed to, or what her community is like—it may be unsafe for folks to express an alternative view [about] abortion in their communities or their families. But I do know that nobody anticipates this. Nobody thinks they’re going to be in that situation. You can have these fixed beliefs around something that you think will never impact you, and then when you’re in the moment, your thoughts around it can change, and that’s very much the case with abortion. We see it all the time.”

In her book, You’re the Only One I’ve Ever Told, Shah explored the everyday reality of abortion care that mainstream political dialogue mostly fails to capture.

“I think that the anti-abortion movement comes at it with very strong preconceived notions,” she said. “Their lived experience has taught them that abortion is bad, so they just run with that. But what they fail to do is keep an open mind and express empathy for those who are going through it. And that’s what got us here.”

[nerds-in-wonderland]

🏳️‍🌈📖Queer Coming Of Age Novels📖🏳️‍🌈

QUEER THERE AND EVERYWHERE

By: Sarah Prayer

"World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals—and you’ve never heard of many of them.

Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer who didn’t make it into your history books, these astonishing true stories uncover a rich queer heritage that encompasses every culture, in every era."

#nerd humor #nerdy memes #nerd #d&d memes #classical art memes #classic art #bookblr #nerd moodboards #nerd aesthetic

[bludraws094]

i fucking love this guys gameshow videos (warning for discussions of different kinds of bigotry and manipulation (the videos show clips of people saying hateful or overall shitty things in order to debunk them))

they are under the cut due to the amount of links and also the topics

i put what each one is about

this is about prager u, and is the most serious of these

this is about a guy who “prefers younger women”

lady who is trying to imply trans people are pedos and murderers(??)

“white pride” (this one is just “oh nope we cant talk about that you win i guess” when it came to the disproving part)

bill that supposedly says parents will lose custody if they dont support a childs gender identity (it doesnt say that at all)

[tallmantall]

#JamesDonaldson On #MentalHealth – Nearly Half Of #Multiracial #LGBTQ+ #Youth Seriously Considered #Suicide In The Past Year

A new report is one of the first to look at #mentalhealth in #queer #youth that also considers the intersectionality of identifying as multiple #races or #ethnicities By Sarah Prager Compared with #LGBTQ+ #youth who identified as one #race or #ethnicity, those who identified as #multiracial were more likely to have seriously considered or attempted #suicide Nearly half of #multiracial #LGBTQ+ #youth seriously considered #suicide in the past year. Those are the new findings in a report published this month by the #LGBTQ+ #youth #mentalhealth organization the #TrevorProject.  It’s been well established that #LGBTQ+ #youth are at increased risk for #suicidalthoughts and #suicideattempts compared with their #straight and #cisgender counterparts. But according to the #TrevorProject, this research is among the first to consider how the intersectionality of identifying with more than one #ethnic or #racial identity affects #suiciderisk.  “To our knowledge, this new report is the first of its kind to exclusively explore the #mentalhealth and well-being of #multiracial #youth who are #LGBTQ, highlighting their unique #mentalhealth experiences, risk factors, and protective factors,” says Myeshia Price, PhD, the director of research science at the #TrevorProject, who is a coauthor of the report.  This data should inform future research and the development of interventions to help, says Nicholas E. Grant, PhD, a clinical #psychologist and the president of GLMA, a national organization focused on promoting health equity for #LGBTQ and all #sexual and #gender minority individuals.  “#Suicideprevention, intervention, and ‘post-vention’ programs and initiatives must be tailored to be based in cultural humility. We are long past the point where it is acceptable to simply identify that one model works for the majority,” he says. For the new research, 33,993 #LGBTQ individuals ages 13 to 24 answered online surveys in late 2021; 4,379 reported that they identified with more than one #race or #ethnicity.  Across nearly all the questions about feelings of #anxiety and #depression, #suicidalthoughts, and #suicideattempts, the young people who identified as #multiracial were at higher risk than those who identified as monoracial. In most cases, those who identified as exclusively a #youthofcolor had a higher risk than those who identified as #white and another #race or #ethnicity.  The data showed that when it came to #suiciderisk: - 48 percent of the #multiracial #youth reported seriously considering #suicide within the past year, compared with 44 percent of those who identified as monoracial - 17 percent of the #multiracial #youth reported attempting #suicide within the past year, compared with 14 percent of those who identified as monoracial Among those who identified as more than one #race or #ethnicity: - 52 percent who reported being exclusively a #youthofcolor said they had seriously considered #suicide in the past year, compared with 47 percent of those who identified as #white and another #race or #ethnicity - 21 percent who reported being exclusively a #youthofcolor said they had attempted #suicide in the past year, compared with 16 percent of those who identified as #white and another race or #ethnicity The data also showed that #multiracial #youth were slightly more likely to report having had feelings of #anxiety in the two weeks before taking the survey than monoracial #youth (75 versus 72 percent). And among the #multiracial #youth, those who identified as exclusively a #youthofcolor were slightly more likely to have such feelings than their peers who identified as #white and another #race or #ethnicity.  The trend was the same for #youth who reported having feelings of #depression in the prior two weeks: 60 percent of #multiracial #youth reported having such feelings, compared with 57 percent of monoracial #youth; and 66 percent of those who identified exclusively as a #youthofcolor reported having such feelings, compared with 59 percent of those who identified as #white and another #race or #ethnicity.  #James Donaldson notes:Welcome to the “next chapter” of my life… being a voice and an advocate for #mentalhealthawarenessandsuicideprevention, especially pertaining to our younger generation of students and student-athletes.Getting men to speak up and reach out for help and assistance is one of my passions. Us men need to not suffer in silence or drown our sorrows in alcohol, hang out at bars and strip joints, or get involved with drug use.Having gone through a recent bout of #depression and #suicidalthoughts myself, I realize now, that I can make a huge difference in the lives of so many by sharing my story, and by sharing various resources I come across as I work in this space.  #http://bit.ly/JamesMentalHealthArticleFind out more about the work I do on my 501c3 non-profit foundationwebsite www.yourgiftoflife.org                            Order your copy of James Donaldson's latest book,#CelebratingYourGiftofLife:From The Verge of Suicide to a Life of Purpose and Joy www.celebratingyourgiftoflife.com More Insight on Intersectionality of Being #LGBTQ+ and #Multiracial Previous evidence showed the steep disparity in #suiciderisk for #LGBTQ+ #youth compared with #heterosexual and #cisgender #youth.  Data published in 2020 by the #CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention (#CDC) showed that #lesbian, #gay, and #bisexual #highschoolstudents were at higher risk of #suicidalthoughts and #suicideattempts from 2015 to 2019 than their #heterosexual peers. Another nationwide survey of #highschool #students, published in 2018 by the #CDC, found that while 13.3 percent of #heterosexual #students reported having seriously considered #suicide, 47.7 percent of #lesbian, #gay, and #bisexual #students had. Neither of those reports, however, collected the same detail when it came to #racial and #ethnic identity as the new research from the #TrevorProject, nor did they analyze #suiciderisk by the intersectionality of identifying as #multiracial and being #LGBTQ. “The work here is notable, as it is common in research to look at participants' primary identities, but not often specifically examine the unique factors and lived experiences associated with #multiracialidentities,” Dr. Grant says.  It helps increase understanding of both the risk and protective factors that #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth can experience, he adds. “This work is also significant in that it explores the experiences of #multiracial #LGBTQ #youthofcolor compared to #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth, who may identify to some degree as #white, which expands the conversations around #whiteprivilege and how it is experienced by these #youth.” Dr. Price says this is the first step in addressing the problem. “Once we have research that allows us to better understand where the greatest need and disparities exist, it helps us set a road map and path forward for addressing them through evidence-based action,” they say. Determining How to Better Address #MentalHealth Needs for These #Youth The new data from the #TrevorProject also found that 31 percent of #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth had experienced #homelessness in the past or had experienced food insecurity in the past month. More than three quarters (77 percent) reported experiencing discrimination based on their #sexualorientation or #genderidentity in the past year, and 39 percent experienced discrimination because of their #race or #ethnicity. More than two-thirds had also been physically threatened or harmed because of their #sexualorientation or #genderidentity.  Similar findings came from a 2017 University of Chicago report, which showed that young people who identified as #LGBT were at higher risk of #homelessness than straight and #cisgender #youth; and #LGBT #youth were found to have a 120 percent higher risk of #homelessness than non-#LGBT #youth, in a nationally representative survey sample of more than 4,000 individuals ages 13 to 25.  “It is critical that we invest in #mentalhealthservices and prevention programs that are attuned to the nuanced ways in which #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth navigate and experience the world,” Price says.  Grant agrees. “Our interactions with healthcare systems, and more specifically with #mentalhealthcare systems, are largely informed by our culture. The more we can uplift and support work, such as that from the #TrevorProject, the farther we will get in developing and establishing effective programs that will help people when they are in crisis.” Another important finding from the report is that social support from family, friends, and #schools significantly lowered #suiciderisk for #LGBTQ young people. The survey found that #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth who reported high levels of social support from family were 55 percent less likely to attempt #suicide in past year. If a #multiracial #LGBTQ #youth attended an #LGBTQ-affirming #school, it reduced their risk of a #suicideattempt in the past year by 33 percent.  Another 2021 report from the #TrevorProject found that all levels of respect and affirmation, such as respecting preferred pronouns or being able to change a name on legal documents — significantly reduced #LGBTQ #youth’s suicidality. Wayne Pearson, LICSW, an #adolescent and young #adult #psychotherapist at Fenway Health, a Boston-based healthcare center that specializes in caring for #LGBTQ+ individuals, says that if you know someone who is struggling with their #mentalhealth, let them know that they can talk to you and have an open and honest conversation.  “Giving that person the time and space to have these difficult conversations is important,” he says. “A lot of times people considering #suicide feel as though they're alone, and having someone to help identify that I hear you, I see you, and I value you is really important.” Read the full article

[intentionallyjoyful]

March 5, 2023.

Capturing Today

General overview of the day:

Went to church, made awesome bread, watched movies, talked with my parents, got a short nap in, enjoyed some time daydreaming and in prayer, spent time outside with the nice weather. Rest.

How did I take care of myself today?

Prioritized getting a nap in. Spent 2 hrs outside.

My favorite moment of the day:

Chatting with my parents on the phone & playing soccer with the kids.

Some challenging moments:

Just dealing with exhaustion/headache for a week straight.

Response to those challenges:

took it easy today & got a nap in. Ibuprofen helps.

Something(s) I’m grateful for:

My parents adjusting their lifestyle & hopefully relocating to being closer to me more. Dennis Prager’s videos and his wisdom.

Summarize today in one word:

Rest .

Imagining Tomorrow

My intention tomorrow is:

Gym, park picnic with Sarah + get free Bundt cakes, swim lessons for Damian, homeschooling.

It’s important to me because:

quality time with a friend and educations/skill building for the kids.

How will I embody it?

Just do the things! Don’t let myself waste time on my phone and be present + productive.

[thunderrabby-blog]

Miscarriage care can be hard to come by in the ER : Shots

Miscarriage care can be hard to come by in the ER : Shots

Dr. Sarah Prager and Dr. Kelly Quinley work together for the nonprofit TEAMM, Training, Education and Advocacy in Miscarriage Management, which operates on the premise that “many people experience miscarriage before they’re established with an OBGYN.” Rosem Morton for NPR hide caption toggle caption Rosem Morton for NPR Dr. Sarah Prager and Dr. Kelly Quinley work together for the nonprofit…

View On WordPress

[missearthfanpage01]

JUST IN: Katharina Sarah Prager (@kathipra) wins the 2022 Miss Earth Austria title #MissEarth #MissEarthAustria (at Austria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgX2ZcVPQ7Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#missearth #missearthaustria

[deargodsno]

To-do list for today:

8:30 Join the picket line outside Planned Parenthood to talk women out of getting abortion.

11:30 Have my abortion.

1:30 Rejoin the picket line.

Seriously. This happens often enough that abortion providers have taken to calling it the “Me Exception.”

The Women Who Leave Anti-Abortion Picket Lines to Get Abortions

“All of us who do abortions see patients quite regularly who tell us, ‘I’m not pro-choice, but I just can’t continue this pregnancy,’” said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. “We’ve even seen people coming into the clinic off the protester lines to get their abortion, then return to protesting outside the clinic.” And to be clear, she added, “these are not people who turn anti-choice after having an abortion, but who simply access this essential service when they need it in spite of their personal beliefs about abortion in general.” [emphasis added] According to Prager, the phenomenon is so common that abortion providers have a name for it: the Me Exception. “We in the movement often say people believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest and ‘me,’ meaning whatever reason is relevant for that person,” she said. And yet, she noted, of the many surveys describing how Americans view abortion, virtually none reflect that reality."

This includes women who work for Republican legislators, or who have connections to major leaders of the forced birth movement. In many cases, they display a sense of entitlement, and certainly they are overflowing with hypocrisy. And it’s not a rare thing, either:

"Rather than a one-off, stories about anti-choice activists literally coming off the protest line to seek care were rife. That phenomenon may fade in states where clinics are shutting in the face of legal threats, but providers were confident hardcore activists will continue to seek their care."

Of course, professional ethics, not to mention HIPAA, prevents doctors from revealing names (something that never seems to stop the other side). And I’m not at all suggesting that anyone should do so. But Americans don’t — or didn’t used to — care much for hypocrisy. There has to be something we can do with this to wake more people up to the reality of abortions and the hypocrisy of the forced birthers.

#abortion #abortion saves lives #right wing hypocrisy

[26lettersandmanyjourneys]

03.04.2022

More history - this time the queer version

#26lettersandmanyjourneys #books #reading update #pic #queer there and everywhere - 23 people who changed the world #sarah prager

[booksandwords]

Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager. Illustrated by Sarah Papworth

Age Recommendation: Middle Primary Art Style: Colourful Topic/ Theme: LGBTQ+ People & History

Rating: 5/5

I want to start by saying this is almost problematically American given the words on the back of the book 'In every culture and in every century, LGBTQ+ people have not only existed and thrived, they have revolutionised'. So many of the stories are from people lived as a substantial enough amount of their life in the US to have their country listed as the United States. Some could have been left out in order to have more geographic diversity. As a book aimed at children, it does simplify the situation for many of them dramatically so. Alexander the Great was no exception, sexual expectation and acceptance of sexual relationships have changed dramatically through time. Which is partially the point though that is not made clear and it probably should be. So many of the people featured are bi or their orientation is maybe a guess or an assumption. I will say that maybe the write-ups are a little wordy for those in the youngest demographic. The framing on the text boxes are a nice way to bring everything together. The art style is okay, including so quotes where appropriate. The settings are effective. Like Billie Jean King's write surrounded by tennis balls, her name spelt out using tennis iconography; Ma Rainey's name stylised in a font of her time surrounded by jazz instruments; Cleve Jones with all his quilting imagery.

Have a random dump of some of the good and the bad

Alan H. Hart — feels kind of unnecessary. He was the first American person to transition with the help of medical doctors and a leader in the tuberculosis treatment field. But given Lili Elbe is in here I just think the space could have better used.

Benjamin Banneker — Bless the inclusion of an ace. A scientist.

Chevalier d'Éon — born Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, aka Mademoiselle La chevalière d'Éon. A badass spy trans spy in the time of Louis XV (and Louis XIV) her entire debut wardrobe was a gift from Marie Antoinette

Christina of Sweden — What is a book like this without Christina?

Franciso Manicongo — This is one I hadn't heard of, 1500s Angola/ Brazil. The whole thing is mostly heartbreaking. But it is also fascinating to my anthropologist's brain. The idea that Angola at this point had different clothes for trans people fascinates me.

Frieda Kahlo — Another I absolutely expected, but how it was written is odd. Diego and Frieda are something else. Putting Frieda in a children's book does not allow her to be done justice.

Gilbert Baker — "Do you know the word 'vexillographer'? It's time to learn." One is that a word? Two who chose to put it in a children's book? Baker is the man who made the rainbow flag so closely linked to the LGBTQ+ community.

Lili Elbe — Lili is a badass. She was one of the first to get physical transition surgery. Always supported by her loving wife Gerda Wegener. Lili's death from complications for her fourth surgery hurts me.

Natalie Clifford Barney — It's nice to see at least one poly in here.

Wen of Han — I would also suggest people look up the story of Ai of Han, known to some has emperor cut sleeve. Wen of Han and Ai of Han are related some 5 or 6 generations apart.

We'Wha — Their identity is "lamana" it's an example of non-binary gender. The book does explain the meaning of this one, I just appreciate that it was included.

The inclusion some of the LGBTQ+ history at the end is useful. A timeline of LGBTQ+ history, Glossary, Pride and Identity Flags and LGBTQ+ Symbols. There is a selected bibliography as well, I'm not sure how acceptable they would be the demographic. It's not the best book it's not the worst book. I think it lost track of its audience somewhere along the line but it does tell the stories to the extent it does fairly well. I think it could have chosen a wider people on a global scale, possibly different identities. Look I'm ace there is only one ace and his feels a bit off, ace is not a new identity but we are often less vocal than others harder to assert historically. Do I think it is a good book? Yes. I think it would be a good choice for a child particularly for those who have a personal connection to the LGBTQ+ community or an interest in history. But I'm pretty sure there are better out there.

#rainbow revolutionaries #rainbow revolutionaries: fifty lgbtq+ people who made history #sarah prager #sarah papworth #lgbtq #younglings #book review #ktreviews #read 2021 #non fiction

[eretzyisrael]

What’s ironic about the Times piece, probably unintentionally, is that the holiday of Hanukkah itself is a celebration in part of Jews who defended their distinct religious identity against the pressure of the dominant Greeks. For someone to greet the holiday by surrendering to the dominant culture — “my kids will celebrate Santa and the Easter Bunny,” Prager writes — is less an abandonment of Hanukkah than a reenactment of it, with Prager on the enemy side. While Prager professes, in the abstract, to “respect the incredible value of keeping traditions alive, especially those that centuries of persecution have sought to erase,” this seems to be one where actions speak louder than words.

It is the latest in a long string of anti-Hanukkah pieces in the New York Times. In the Jewish Week, Andrew Silow-Carroll mentioned two: “a snarky 2010 piece by novelist Howard Jacobson saying Hanukkah didn’t feel authentically Jewish because its heroes are soldiers and religious zealots — perhaps the quintessential critique of a Jewish tradition by a secular Jewish intellectual. Another novelist, Michael David Lukas, picked up on this theme in 2018, calling Hanukkah ‘an eight-night-long celebration of religious fundamentalism and violence.’”

In 2009, Times columnist David Brooks wrote that the Maccabees were “not the last bunch of angry, bearded religious guys to win an insurgency campaign against a great power in the Middle East, but they may have been among the first. They retook Jerusalem in 164 BC and rededicated the temple. Their regime quickly became corrupt, brutal, and reactionary. The concept of reform had been discredited by the Hellenizing extremists. Practice stagnated. Scholarship withered. The Maccabees became religious oppressors themselves, fatefully inviting the Romans into Jerusalem.”

#hanukkah #new york times #sarah prager #holidays #religion

[galliproof]

(awesome artwork by @nikinyellow ✨)

today’s pride recommendations are:

fiction: of fire and stars by audrey coulthurst

a princess, betrothed to a prince, falls for his badass princess sister instead. you want traditional ya fantasy, full of the usual tropes, but with lesbians? this may be the book for you, my friend.

non-fiction: queer there and everywhere: 23 people who changed the world by sarah prager

“this 2017 book is the first lgbtq history book written specifically for young adults. queer there and everywhere is a collection of short profiles of queer and trans people throughout history from the americas and europe. in accessible and light-hearted language, prager introduces important historical figures that are well-known — frida kahlo and eleanor roosevelt, for example — and others who will likely be new to adult and young adult readers alike, such as elagabalus, a teenage roman emperor who might be considered bisexual and trans using today’s terminology, and kristina vasa, a bisexual-behaving gender-non-conforming 17th century queen of sweden.” - description taken from autostraddle.com

send in your art and book recommendations if you wanna see them on one of our daily posts!

#pride #pride month #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #lgbt #book #reading #recommendations #literature #fiction #non fiction #fantasy #prose #queer there and everywhere #sarah prager #of fire and stars #audrey coulthurst