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May. 15th, 2013 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Massive cyclone is expected to hit Burma/Myanmar in the are where the Rohingya are living in temporary camps fleeing the anti-muslim violence. Some people have already been evacuated, but not nearly enough as there is little in the way of sturdy shelter. More than 50 people are feared dead when a refugee boat sank. (100-200 people were on the boat. 42 are known to have swum to shore.) As bad as this likely is, my real fear is for what will happen when the cyclone hits. (I wrote this just before bed. I couldn't get updated casualty figures. Apologies).
* In response to the factory collapse and related protests in Bangladesh four clothing companies including H & M have agreed to bring in experts and pay for proper worker safety. 100s of other factories remain closed.
* First Trans Person Elected to the NAS: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/dr-ben-barres-elected-to-national.html
* "CNN-The Caucasian News Network:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/cnn-caucasian-news-network.html
* Re Angelina Jolie's Breasts. I think everyone has a right to remove troublesome body parts for any reason at all. It infuriates me that a woman can remove her breasts for cancer prevention, but it requires expensive psychiatric review for a man to remove his. I hate the gate keeping system for trans people regardless of directionality. Trans people are just as capable of making basic medical decisions as cis people. Can we hurry up and stop pretending they aren't? Anyway, I am very glad Angelina Jolie had money and the option to make a rational medical decision without months or years of paternalistic bullshit. Now how about extending the right to bodily autonomy to the rest of us?
* Obamacare Repeal Vote:
* Heritage Foundation's Immigration Study:
* This was not quite the worst case of food poisoning I've ever had. The winner is still the one I had in Corvallis the Winter we had no heat. This was a close second, though.
Most of this posting was made yesterday before I got sick. Obviously, I spent today in no condition for news watching.
* In response to the factory collapse and related protests in Bangladesh four clothing companies including H & M have agreed to bring in experts and pay for proper worker safety. 100s of other factories remain closed.
* First Trans Person Elected to the NAS: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/dr-ben-barres-elected-to-national.html
* "CNN-The Caucasian News Network:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/05/cnn-caucasian-news-network.html
* Re Angelina Jolie's Breasts. I think everyone has a right to remove troublesome body parts for any reason at all. It infuriates me that a woman can remove her breasts for cancer prevention, but it requires expensive psychiatric review for a man to remove his. I hate the gate keeping system for trans people regardless of directionality. Trans people are just as capable of making basic medical decisions as cis people. Can we hurry up and stop pretending they aren't? Anyway, I am very glad Angelina Jolie had money and the option to make a rational medical decision without months or years of paternalistic bullshit. Now how about extending the right to bodily autonomy to the rest of us?
* Obamacare Repeal Vote:
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* This was not quite the worst case of food poisoning I've ever had. The winner is still the one I had in Corvallis the Winter we had no heat. This was a close second, though.
Most of this posting was made yesterday before I got sick. Obviously, I spent today in no condition for news watching.