“Fashion is a monetary privilege and an understanding of gender is an educational one.”
I have seen and am obsessed with every single movie on this list. Accurate list is accurate.
I went and got all the medical journal articles on HRT I could find, developed an understanding of dosage regimens, contraindications, etc. Then I booked an appointment with a physician’s assistant at Planned Parenthood of Chapel Hill, explained to them my situation, how straightforward it could be to build a pilot HRT program and monitor it, offered myself up as Patient Zero, then meetings with billing, and the medical director. All told, three hours, and at the end I walk out with a pocket full of prescriptions. They consulted with endocrinologists and Planned Parenthood national to help build out the program, and I’ve been on HRT ever since, five years and counting.
When ‘canon’ becomes the end-all-be-all yardstick, I think it’s too easy to lose the subversive aspects of fandom that make it such an important place for learning. If canon is the only thing that matters why have discussions about how women are treated, or how characters of color are written, or how this narrative perpetuates rape culture, or how that story is strawman feminism? Canon is important but frankly I think it’s just the starting place for fandom’s greatest strengths: creation of new content and critique of the source material.
I wanted to take her cat for a walk on a leash.
She wanted me to go get her cookies and instead of asking me directly to do it, she hinted at it. Then she got mad that I didn’t pick up on the hint.
We fought about if fruit is a carb until it got so heated I had to cry in the bathroom.