Rika Klassen

@rikaklassen.northsky.social

Deafblind (ASL/EN) EN: She/her Header description: Panoramic view of Taagish Méné (Tagish Lake) with clouds surrounding the mountains. Photo taken on the traditional territories of Carcoss/Tagish First Nation and Taku River Tlingit First Nation.

But responding to hate speech with "go fuck yourself" isn't dogpiling. Even if a hundred people do it. If those hundred people are independently responding to contemptible garbage with contempt? That's not an organized attempt to silence someone. It's a disorganized enforcement of social norms.

i honestly care less more about the existence of that show more than the fact that its author is the primary anglosphere literary cultural capitalist and is basically untouchable in anglosphere common law systems, which is to say the rest of the planet. well, what can u do

Amazing map! Thanks for sharing @coolhand.bsky.social. It’s beautiful. Any chance you can add in some sign languages to this? For example, Auslan in Australia and NZSL in NZ should have links to BSL in the UK. 😊

Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · yesterday

@adamcschembri.bsky.social @simongreenhill.bsky.social just looked to see who has mentioned Glottolog on here academically and you’re our winners! I don’t know what to do with these visualizations. Perhaps I should send them to the project as a gift. There are many more.

"Legal representatives said] they were unable to obtain sign language interpreters for their clients who are deaf.. "they had to remain in remand for longer" ...individuals w/ serious mental health conditions had spent months in prison for minor offences before charges were withdrawn or overturned"

💜 phonakins 🍉🌲@phonakins.com · yesterday

"These are not just Aboriginal people with disability going into the prison system, the remand system, the prison and the police cells," the Gomeroi woman said. "These are turning up also in our deaths in custody numbers."

Thank you for the space 💜 I'm trans/enby & physically disabled type 2 diabetic. Large medical bills in collections & 4 of my 6 Dr's, turning me away. Including my pcp who fills most of my 23 meds, if I lose access to my meds, I'll die. I need help, please. GFM ⬇️ I also have CA & PP: HMSBeardsley.

Crow ($1443/$4500 pls check my pinned)@hmsbeardsley.bsky.social · 2w ago

843/4500 Large med bills in collections. I'm being turned away by 4/6 of my Dr's, including my PCP who fills my 23 different meds I take daily. If I lose access to them, I'll die. Everything I make working full-time goes to other bills. I need help, please. GFM ⬇️ also have CA & PP: HMSBeardsley.

For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete

The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.

fastcompany.com

Hello Friends! It's September 1, and that means it's PURSE GIVEAWAY DAY!! If you're new here, I have a hobby of collecting designer and premium purses I find at thrift stores and restoring them as best I can. But now I have too many, so I'm giving them away to trans femmes who want/need purses!

Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link

Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.

nature.com

it's genuinely staggering just how many people repress themselves based on the ideology that "sex is inherent, unchanging, and permanent no matter what one does". such ridiculousness that one simply wishes to take a hammer to "sex" and smash it to pieces to free all people.

There are truly so many people who aren't trans women who nonetheless feel absolute brazen confidence in spouting their rancid gutter-tier opinions about trans women. This is the product of a society that claps like circus seals every time someone has the original thought "tranny bad".

I don't have my hopes up since everyone was walking around barefaced during wildfire smoke wondering why they felt lousy, but maybe acutely horrible BO will get y'all to finally protect yourselves.