blkwlw:

ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosaurus:

gryphyl:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

believe-out-loud:

This bill would allow the Federal Trade Commission to classify conversion therapy and its practitioners as fraudulent.

❤ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THIS PASS ❤

And (according to this article anyway) it explicitly covers conversion therapy for gender identity!

SPREAD IT MY DUDES

SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE

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‘LGBTQ people were born perfect’: A new bill would ban conversion therapy nationwide

eveningstarwoman:

the Butterfly Cave is a sacred place where women from this indigenous community conduct ceremony, pray, and pass knowledge down to young women and girls; sign this petition to support their fight to protect it!

‘We’ve begged, pleaded, done everything’

vinegardoppio:

The stories were compiled by German historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth in the 1880s – around the same time as the Brothers Grimm folk tales – from across the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz.

While the well-known Grimm fairytales often feature a vulnerable princess and dragon-slaying hero, Schönwerth reverses their roles – offering readers powerful female and vulnerable male characters.

In Schönwerth’s fantastical version Cinderella, for example, the heroine uses her golden – not glass – slippers to rescue her lover from beyond the moon.

yoooooooooo omg

Not so happily ever after: Fairytales that lay undiscovered for 150 years tell stories of wicked step-fathers witch-slaying princesses and scared young princes

prettyarbitrary:

dorkthropology:

YOU CAN COMMENT HERE. As of right now there’s only 10k. Public comments close May 26th so get on this shit while you can.

These are the places up for consideration:

Basin and Range
Bears Ears
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Canyons of the Ancients
Carrizo Plain
Cascade Siskiyou
Craters of the Moon
Giant Sequoia
Gold Butte
Grand Canyon-Parashant

Grand Staircase-Escalante

Hanford Reach
Ironwood Forest
Mojave Trails
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Rio Grande del Norte
Sand to Snow
San Gabriel Mountains
Sonoran Desert
Upper Missouri River
Vermilion Cliffs  
Katahadin Woods
Marianas Trench
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea
Rose Atoll

COME ON PEOPLE. TELL THEM WHY THESE NATIONAL MONUMENTS MATTER TO YOU. If people can leave 50k comments about why the EPA should keep regulations, and crash the FCC’s website over net neutrality, you can bring it for our national monuments.

Our national monuments are part of the national parks system, and include both protected wilderness and protected cultural and historical landmarks (including, surprise surprise, sites significant to indigenous cultures). 

They are important not only for the sake of nostalgia, national pride and beauty–although all of those are valuable in their own right–but also for the sake of anthropology, American history, environmental science and biodiversity.  These sites are often of great scientific interest, housing
rare species and natural phenomena,

battlefields, and some of the oldest human settlements in the Americas.

The locations on this list didn’t become federally protected as a lark.  Most of them were added to this list thanks to a great public outcry, because experience had proven that nothing less was sufficient to protect them.

Should Trump eliminate these beautiful national monuments? Here’s your chance to weigh in.