Highly recommendsAn irony of masculinising transition is that it puts me in closer affinity with menopausal women than my 35-y old system previously was, and boy, am I mad at the poor research and misinformation out there!
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Joanne FisherMarvel Cooke, a seasoned African American labor activist and member of the Communist Party, wrote this set of investigative reports for the New York-based radical newspaper The Daily Compass in January 1950.
https://libcom.org/article/bronx-slave-market-1950-marvel-cooke
Anxiety and depression had been mainstays in my life since my teen years, but this was different. With burnout, the feelings metastasized to the point where I no longer recognized my own mental illness.
https://www.thecut.com/2022/11/a-month-in-a-tuscan-villa-didnt-fix-my-burnout.html
John BullThis article on stolen creme eggs notes that the estimated value of the haul has dropped.
So it is FINALLY time for me to use the most useless bit of knowledge I know:
"How do the police calculate the street value of stolen chocolate?" /1
"You Made My Mum Eat Poo": The Coogee Bay Poo Mystery, 10 Years On
“The effects are clear: disabled people, already among the most vulnerable people in Australia, are forced to choose between their relationships or their independent income. When they opt for the former, they are forced into a situation that domestic violence advocates describe as inherently abusive. “
https://overland.org.au/2023/02/consequences-love-centrelinks-relationship-testing-and-eugenics/
The consequences of love: Centrelink’s relationship-testing and eugenics - Overland literary journal
Much has been written about how Australia’s welfare system operates as a way of punishing marginalised, disabled and poor people simply for being poor, creating what is effectively a system of eugenics. However, the aspect of the welfare system that most deserves this label is one of the least talked about. Let’s discuss Centrelink's relationship-testing.
Friday essay: parents of 9-month-old babies as 'workers in waiting'? How ParentsNext monitors single mothers
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Really compelling essay from Eve Vincent’s book on welfare in Australia
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Friday essay: parents of 9-month-old babies as 'workers in waiting'? How ParentsNext monitors single mothers
ParentsNext requires the parents of very young children to perform monitored activities in return for Centrelink payments. Eve Vincent talks to single mothers about ‘the indignity of investigation’.
The Political Heterosexual’s hatred of the men she loves and the queer’s championing of the No Cis Men position are one and the same: the last bastion of binary gender stability
donni saphireVery few socks mate for life