Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack

akiameokami:

phiralovesloki:

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onlyblackgirl:

foryoursexualinformation:

And in other news, water is wet

Not like women have been telling y’all this since the beginning of time or anything.

I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”

No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.

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Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack

figsandnewtons:

The number of notes on that post advocating to not pursue an impeachment of Trump due to Pence is actually horrifying.

1. Pence is running things anyway. Showing the public the man behind the curtain is quite crucial. Remember, when Trump offered vp to Kasich, he told him he’d be in charge of both domestic and foreign affairs.

2. Trump’s temperament is likely to have extremely negative geopolitical consequences in a way that Pence’s wouldn’t. Who do you see as more likely to engage in a ground war along with Russia? Trump already talked about invading Iraq again. And this isn’t touching the nuclear arsenal thing.

3. Pence is not popular in Congress at all. A republican who is hugely hated in Indiana does not really have a ton of political capital, especially since he tanked their economy. A lot of the reason GOP swung to Trump late is because *he* was the charismatic face that was creating this supposed populist “movement” (the marches sort of knocked the wind out of that a little). It’s Trump that is being held up, and it’s Trump specifically the neonazis are looking towards (Bannon wrote his fucking inaugural address). We need Trump, the man, to go ASAP for that reason.

Pence will be our worst president, but he’ll be survivable, he’ll have no chance at reelection, and seeing as he’s already most definitely the one driving policy (Dep of Ed pick was his, almost without question, for instance), we at least need to have that recognized so he can be held accountable.

Pence is not the “real Hitler.” Authoritarian movements prop up one person. In this case it was Trump. The MAGA hats have jack-all to do with Pence, and exceedingly little to do with policy. Which is why Trump, specifically, is the threat to our democracy.

Guys this is very important

selfishpond:

Okay so I’m sure you’ve all heard of the quiet place project. Well if not I am going to tell you because it has stopped me from doing serious damage more than once. 

So part one, you’ve got the comfort spot 

This gem right here is where you can literally create a 100% anonymous username and just absolutely spill your guts. Then people can read it and give you advice, and it honestly is so helpful. Because the other people on it are in the same situations as you, and they understand. You can comment and give advice on other peoples posts too, and it’s just really great. 

Number 2 is the thoughts room. 

This little beauty is similar to the comfort spot. Except instead of posting your thoughts, you type them into the box and then when you press enter they disappear and turn into stars against the blue sky. There is a whole bunch of different languages to choose from at the start, so if English is not your first language then you can probably find it here. There is the most comforting music that plays in the background as well, which is so great. 

Next we got the quiet room 

Which is so good for panic related things because it silences all of your other tabs and when you make it full screen it talks to you very calmly and then literally forces you stop for just 30 seconds and do nothing and just breathe. 

Okay, so this is my actual favourite, it’s called the dawn room

The dawn room is so great for stopping you from self harming. It begins by telling you that its going to be alright, then it asks you to write something about someone you love. After that messages from other people, just like you, appear on the screen, one after the other, and the background slowly become brighter and happier. This page has genuinely stopped me from hurting myself more times than I can count. I’m not suggesting that it will work for everyone, but it is an absolute gem. 

Finally, there is a page called It will be okay

This page runs for about 5 minutes, and it is basically a typing simulator that tries to convince you that everything is going to be alright. It is very calming, and good for lonely times.

I can honestly say that this website has done me so so much good. I appreciate it with every bit of my being. 

asynca:

sourcherryblossom:

fuckyeahnorsemythology:

bacon-and-liberty-for-all:

Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.

Reblogging because we stand against hate.

Reblogging because fuck yes

Mainstream media is really important in shaping a popular opinion – this movie (the Sound of Music, for people who don’t recognise it) was the first thing I knew about Nazis and the beginning of the war. I’d never heard about them before, and I remembered mum having to explain to me what the symbol meant. This movie showed likeable, strong and sympathetic characters tearing up Nazi flags and resisting the Nazis. It showed Nazi-sympathizers as intimidating and unfair. It showed us that normal people (Rolfe) could fall for their propaganda and we could lose them. 

I was seven years old when I first watched this and immediately I knew Nazis were terrible, and because of the power of the story and the warmth of the characters this feeling sunk to my core. 

I worry a lot about kids whose first introduction to world events is a movie like ‘American Sniper’. 

blackcanarydinah:

27 January: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this day we honour and remember the approximately 22 million innocent souls who fell victims to hate racism and prejudice crimes, nearly 7.5 million of which were slaughtered for being who they were.

  • 6 million Jews (1.5 million of which were children)
  • 1.5 million Romani
  • 270 000 People with disabilities (be it physical or mental)
  • 55 000 gay people (approximately)
  • 14 million civilians, caught in the crossfire, famine and ugliness of war from all over Europe.

This day is an important reminder of what once was and what should never be again.

May their rest be more peaceful than their life and may their memory be a blessing.

Never Forget.

It’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day

westillneedtofighteugenics:

Never forget the Porjamos–the genocide of over a million Romani people by the Nazis.

Never forget the Farhud, a Nazi-inspired pogrom in Iraq, 1941.

Never forget the Nazis also killed Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.  

Never forget Aktion T4, a the so-called “mercy killings” (genocide) of those called “useless eaters” (disabled people).

Never forget that this policy of eugenics was directly inspired by the USA’s eugenics movement and purposefully exported there. 

Never forget that the parents of the first disabled child killed in Aktion T4 wanted their child dead. 

Never forget the hundreds of Black Germans who were forcibly sterilized by the Nazis. 

Never forget the “inverts” and “homosexuals” who were rounded up and sent to their deaths because they were deemed a threat to the “Aryan Race.”

Never forget the “nice Germans” who didn’t “care about politics” and silently watched their neighbors be taken away to be tortured and killed. 

Never forget the Resistance. 

Never forget the anti-fascists and the Partisans who were of many nations, including Jews, who fought the Nazis and rescued concentration camp survivors. 

Never forget the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an armed resistance of Jewish people that saved thousands of lives from the concentration camps. 

Never forget the smaller acts of resistance like industrial sabotage practiced by those in the concentration camps to reduce their contribution to the Nazi war machine. 

Never forget the communists, anarchists, trade-unionists, and other radicals who opposed Nazism and who were incarcerated and killed. 

Never forget the Danish gentiles who saved 90% of its Danish Jewish population of 7,000 while under years of Nazi occupation. 

Never forget that the United States of America’s xenophobic, racist, eugenicist, antisemitic, ableist, and anti-Romani immigration quotas policy condemned millions of people to death. 

Never forget the fate of the M.S. St. Louis. 

Never forget that Nazism was fairly popular in the USA until Germany declared war on it. 

Never forget that antisemitism persisted during that time and was heightened during the McCarthyism. 

Never forget the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) who violently suppressed political radicals (including killing the Jewish communist Rosa Luxemberg and other members of the KPD) during the Wiemar Republic, inadvertently aiding the Nazis. 

Never forget that this and their “lesser of two evils” strategy that led Hitler to become Chancellor. 

Never forget Magnus Hirschfeld, a sexologist, Homosexual Transvestite*, and German Jew–and his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

(Institute for Sexual Science). *his own terms 

Never forget that the Nazis burned it and all the works in his library. 

Never forget the “Masculunists” (the forerunner of today’s “homonationalists”), their hatred for Magnus Hirschfeld, and their support of the Nazis who later betrayed them in the Night of Long Knives after using them like the tools they were.

Never forget

Willem Arondeus, a Dutch Homosexual gentile artist, writer, and resistance leader who led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office on July 1st 1943 in order to hinder the Nazi round-up of Jews. 

Never forget his final words: “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.” 

Never forget Chiune Sugihara who saves tens of thousands of Lithuanian Jews by disobeying orders and giving them (often false) visas. 

Never forget that the city of Shanghai brought in tens of thousands of Jews, more than any USA city. 

Never forget the USSR, not the USA or Britain, liberated most of the concentration camps and captured Berlin, ending the war. 

Never forget the Japanese-Americans who liberated Dachau that USA textbooks never mention.

Never forget the Kapos.

Never forget that the world knew. 

Never forget all the Holocaust survivors who escaped the concentration camps and arrived in Britain, the USA, and the USSR and told the world their stories. 

Never forget the silence. 

Never forget that the entire chain of command for the USA, including President Roosevelt, ordered the air force not to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz and the gas chambers which would have saved thousands.  

Never forget that it was the Tuskegee Airmen–a racially segregated, all-Black division–that disobeyed orders and bombed the railways to Auschwitz.

Never forget that Hitler’s plans of genocide were inspired by the United States of America’s genocide of its Indigenous Peoples. 

Never forget Henry Ford and all the other American Nazi-collaborators.  

Never forget the pogroms just after the Holocaust officially ended. 

Never forget that never again means never again to anyone. 

Never forget the betrayal. 

Never forget the solidarity. 

Never forget that “first they came for the Socialists.”

Never forget that an injury to one is an injury to all. 

silversarcasm:

look, there are major issues with the way doctors are put on a pedestal and treated as infallible

when doctors are seen as always right, sick people who contradict them are always seen as wrong

when doctors are always believed, people who need medical help don;t get it because a doctor said there was nothing wrong with them

when doctors are seen as always knowing whats best, people go through the wrong treatments which can severely damage them

a climate in which people who hold power over vulnerable people are seen as unchallengeable is fucking dangerous and does literally get people hurt and killed

PSA: Most Roma don’t use, or like using “antiziganism”

rrojasandribbons:

It is not our word. It was coined and used by various academics only recently, and said academics have admitted that they basically just copied the term “Antisemitism” in a way it could be applied to Roma. And, then said academics disputed using the word altogether because calling attention to specific acts of anti-Romani racism might just somehow “stigmatize” us further.

Most notably, though, “zigan” is a slur!
Like, way more offensive than “Gypsy” kind of slur.

The entire short history of that word is just pretty awful, so please feel free to use terms like anti-Romani, anti-Romani racism, anti-Romaniism, and try not to make the monstrosity that is “antiziganism” any more popular than it is.

Thank you.