deletingthisblog44-deactivated2 asked: Hey Kate, can you keep up your working relationship with Commonplace Books, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale, so you can keep making excellent merch? Thanks! ;D
Listen I have photos of Jeffrey and Cecil that’ll keep me employed by WtNV for years to come, don’t you fret
Plus, the blood ritual
No, being cis/straight/white/male doesn’t mean you automatically won’t face any difficulty in life.
However, you will not face difficulty because you are cis/straight/white/male.
This should not be hard to understand.Too many people think of privilege as something one has over, when it is not an over.
It something one is permitted socially to do that another person of a different status is not.
This guy posted on my university’s confession page about how he thinks the concept of privilege is bullshit bc he’s a white cishet dude and he was kidnapped as a kid and saw his brother get shot and he has horrible PTSD and it’s like… You are completely missing the point but I can’t really say that to a stranger who just opened up about his horrific childhood trauma
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Thoughtful underwear with hidden powers. For every pair purchased you fund 7 pads to a girl in need.OH SHIT YOU GUYS THIS COMPANY IS MAKING UNDERWEAR THAT IS STAIN RESISTANT, ANTIMICROBIAL, AND WILL ABSORB UP TO 6 TEASPOONS OF LIQUID BUT STILL LOOKS FUCKING SEXY
AND DID I MENTION THIS PART:
For every pair of THINX you buy, you help one girl in the developing world stay in school by providing her with seven washable, reusable cloth pads.
AND WHY IS THAT SUCH A BIG DEAL? HERE’S WHY:
After doing some research, Agrawal says she found that more than 100 million girls in the developing world were missing a week of school because of their periods, and using things such as leaves, old rags, or plastic bags in the place of sanitary pads.
THE SIZES RUN FROM XS TO XXL AND THE PRICES ARE NOT INSANE, THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY HIGHER THAN THOSE 5 FOR $10 SALES AT TARGET BUT YOU WON’T HAVE TO THROW THEM OUT BECAUSE YOU MISCALCULATED YOUR FLOW AND BLED ALL OVER THEM BEFORE YOU COULD GET TO A BATHROOM
I’M SORRY FOR SHOUTING I’M JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS
LIKE HOLY FUCKBASKET IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME
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Young Scientists Say They’re Sexually Abused In The Field (NPR)
In a survey of scientists engaged in field research, the majority — 64 percent — said they had personally experienced sexual harassment while at a field site, and 22 percent reported being the victim of sexual assault.
Most of the people reporting harassment or assault were women, and the vast majority were still students or postdocs.
And for female victims, the perpetrator was more likely to be a superior, not a peer. “This is happening to them when they are trainees, when they are most vulnerable within the academic hierarchy,” says evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde , an author on the study in PLOS ONE. Hinde and her colleagues say this could be a factor in the large number of women who enter scientific fields but don’t continue.
Students work at an archaeological dig near Silchester, England.
