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Doting siblings :)
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Same weird family
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summary:
Yamaguchi sometimes put himself into their male customers’ shoes. He couldn’t really help it; something buried deep inside wanted someone to fawn over him and tell him he was doing everything perfectly. And sure, he probably could casually drop that into a conversation with Tanaka or Sugawara and they’d accommodate him, but as it turned out, Yamaguchi was also a little bit of a masochist. Because the only model whose attention he wanted was Tsukishima Kei’s.
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Defunding the Police: What it Means and Why Planned Parenthood Supports It
Planned Parenthood — in solidarity with patients, staff, and supporters — stands with the Movement for Black Lives’ call to defund the police. Defunding the police means investing less in militarizing police forces and investing more in community-based solutions, education, and health care.
From slavery 400 years ago to present-day attacks by police, systems of white supremacy have imposed imposed a public health crisis on the lives and safety of Black people. Today, there are far too many examples across the country of police officers strong-arming and killing Black people. Yet certain lawmakers want to continue pouring money into weapons, training, and systems that allow officers to commit violence without consequences. It’s time to shift our priorities.
Instead of investing in systems that brutalize Black communities, elected officials must prioritize public-health approaches that strengthen Black communities. Excessive and discriminatory policing should be replaced with a model that promotes community support, connects individuals to available services, and actually creates safe and sustainable environments.
What Defunding the Police Means
Defunding the police doesn’t mean reducing safety, as the Movement for Black Lives explains. Defunding the police is all about protecting and serving communities in ways OTHER than militarizing the police. Defunding the police really means investing in community-based solutions, education, and health care.
A successful plan to defund and divest from the police will look different in every city and require participation from the community. But across the board, Planned Parenthood supports calls for national, state, and local governments to:
- Shift away from massive spending on police forces that often don’t keep people safe, and reverse centuries of disinvestment in Black communities; and
- Shift toward a massive investment in community safety that works — including increased funding in public health — so we can all live connected, represented, and free.
Why Planned Parenthood Supports Defunding the Police
Planned Parenthood’s first priority is the health and safety of our patients, and that concern doesn’t stop once patients walk out our doors. Our support for people’s health and safety extends to Black, Latino, and other patients and staff of color — including immigrants — who live in a world where law enforcement officers pull them over, engage in brutality, and target them because of the color of their skin and immigration status.
Planned Parenthood supports efforts to defund and divest from the police because the continued militarization and brutal treatment of Black people runs counter to our values: caring for people’s bodies, lives, and futures. Everyone deserves to live in a world where people are equally protected, and have the resources they need to be healthy and safe.
We stand with the Movement for Black Lives in defense of the basic human rights of Black people, and we stand in solidarity with all of our social justice partners against hate and discrimination.
Retweet this full thread: https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1271547583861796866
We Commit to Advocating for Policies That Will End Police Violence and Systemic Racism
It’s unacceptable that Black people disproportionately suffer from state violence and killings.
Planned Parenthood is committed to advocating for policies that will dismantle the system of white supremacy and oppression of communities of color — including policies to end police violence.
Specifically, we’re calling on public officials at all levels of government to work together to adopt four key proposals: holding police officers and departments accountable, divesting from police budgets, investing in community-based solutions, and ensuring peaceful neighborhoods. Here’s the breakdown of those four proposals:
1. Evaluate local, state, and federal budgets and policy priorities. Then, divest resources from policing.
2. Reallocate resources to the health care, housing, and education that people deserve. Invest in community-based solutions and policies that prioritize public health approaches.
3. Enact laws and policies that allow everyone to parent their children in safe environments and healthy communities — without fear of violence from individuals or the government. These policies are necessary to ensure that individuals, families, and communities have the tools they need to stay healthy and thrive.
4. Eliminate policies that criminalize health care, including punishments for people living with HIV and people’s behavior during pregnancy (including self-managed abortion).
In determining exactly how to defund the police, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Thankfully, examples of successful efforts to defund the police demonstrate what’s worked. And one thing is certain: True reform requires community participation.
Get Involved
Ensuring that the humanity and dignity of Black people’s lives are valued, seen, and believed is an integral part of the Black Lives Matter movement — and Planned Parenthood is unapologetic in our support of it.
We must demand accountability, justice, and an end to the inequity that continues to define every moment of life for Black Americans. We are working with organizations and communities to build a future where Black people have the right to live their daily lives without fear of violence; make choices about their bodies without fear of persecution; and access sexual and reproductive health care without entrenched barriers.
Join us in calling for justice and freedom. Get involved in defunding the police, creating safer communities and defending Black lives. GO TO M4BL.ORG.
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All pictures are scanned and edited by me (@nightyelfy) directly from the Given Illustrations Book (Natsuki Kizu, Shinshokan - please support the author any way you can).
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Now Playing: #HQPlaylistContributors ft. Catríona
Catríona will be sharing her captivating art in our #KUROKEN booklet! Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite music is metal!Spot her at:
> https://instagram.com/sun.tails
> https://twitter.com/suntails
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Now Playing: #HQPlaylistContributors ft. Wave
@waveoftheocean is one of our amazing illustrators for the #IWAOI booklet! They like lemons and lemon pastries. The music genre they listen to the most is pop!Spot them at:
> https://www.instagram.com/waveoftheocean/
> https://twitter.com/waveoftheocean
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- Konoha: Just be casual. Try some light flirting.
- Akaashi: I can do that.
- [later]
- Bokuto: Nice work! High five!
- Akaashi: [intertwines their fingers]
- Bokuto: Wh-
- Akaashi: I'm in love with you.
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Soma can you please stop kissing things before putting them in your mouth?? 😂 this is becoming a habit haha
Egu (and the editor) totally missed the first tiny kiss, but it was there 🙃
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COVID-19: No, We’re Not All in This Together
The pandemic, the protests, and why racism endures as a public health crisis
By: Ylonda Gault
My daddy used to say: When America gets the sniffles, Black people catch pneumonia. My dad didn’t invent the saying but he used it to explain everything from the war on drugs to the 1990s national recession. Even as a child I knew what he meant. In other words, the country’s history of institutional racism and unjust policies make every part of Black life — including economic growth, fair housing, health care access and more — exponentially harder than it is for others. Today, as worldwide protests against police brutality continue and COVID-19 ravages the Black community, we see clearly that old sayings are so often repeated because they bear truth.
The pandemic, a danger for all, is lethal for Black people, who’ve died at a rate of 61.6 per 100,000 people, compared with 26.2 for whites. Yet, this peril is not new. We’ve been brutalized for generations. The murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and George Floyd, to name but a few, are only an extension of plantation overseer violence and Klan lynchings that have been hallmarks of our 400-year existence in America. In recent weeks, the streets have erupted because structural racism is — and has long been —the public health crisis that no masks, sanitizer, or social distancing can remedy.
With widespread mandated sheltering and business shutdowns, the serious and potentially deadly infection — caused by a virus for which there is no known cure, vaccine or treatment — has meant lost income or job loss for some and, for others, a huge inconvenience. But research shows that Black people are much more likely not only to get infected with COVID-19 — but to die from the disease because racism undergirds our health care systems, workplace policies, and the environment. — Indigenous and Latino communities are also more vulnerable.
That’s not because we are, as a race, doing something to cause infection. We’re not to blame. Nor is it because we’re unhealthy as a group, or because of something in our biology.
Why are Black communities hit hardest?
Institutional racism is the pre-existing condition that has left Black communities far more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others. While many think the racist barriers to Black people’s rights and freedom came to a close with the end to enslavement, they have not only persisted — but grown more entrenched. From Jim Crow segregation, voting and housing discrimination, to heavy-handed policing, generation after generation of targeted bigotry has led to a lack of equity in health care, housing, education, and opportunity. For example, for Black people who work in the service sector; their jobs put them at greater risk of getting COVID-19 — as does the environment. These circumstances are not the result of bad luck or poor choices; they’re created by a long legacy of racist policies that have put Black people in harm’s way and made our communities more at risk from the virus that causes COVID-19 than white people
Of course, chief among the risk factors is the barrier to health care access. Black people who work in low-wage jobs usually lack insurance, leading to delayed or bypassed essential health care services — because of the cost. We’re also more likely to live farther away from medical care and face language barriers. And Black people and other folks of color are distrustful of health care professionals because of historical mistreatment. The U.S medical establishment has a history of exploiting Black folks, Latinos, and Indigenous people by performing medical experiments on them without consent, and even stealing their dead bodies from the grave for research and profit.
Barriers to preventive health care — again, a primary outcome of structural racism in the U.S. — mean Black and Latinx communities also have higher rates of health issues like diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease. People with chronic health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times more often than otherwise healthy individuals infected with the coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times more often, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The public health disaster facing Black communities is the result of hundreds of years of U.S. policies that bolster white supremacy and marginalize Black people. But the pandemic is just a single symptom of the nation’s public health disaster. What is being played out over the past few weeks, as people take to the streets to protest a national pattern of violent over-policing, is another.
Why protest during a pandemic?
Just as structural racism created fertile ground for COVID-19 to take root in the Black community, it has also helped plant the groundswell of pro-Black organizing across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder May 25. Black people, for whom racial profiling and stop-and-frisk policies are a way of life, don’t need a viral video to prove their realities; police have killed roughly 1,000 people a year since 2015, according to The Washington Post’s real time police shooting data base. While many outside the Black community see the recent spate of killings at the hands of police as random and unrelated — “a few bad apples,” so to speak — the pandemic and police brutality are two crises inextricably linked. Both are killing us. And both seem to be unrelenting.
It’s Shakespearean that as he lay dying — a white police officer nonchalantly kneeling on his throat, Floyd can be heard in a plaintive whisper: “I can’t breathe.”
Black America has long been suffocated by racist and dehumanizing policies. Certainly protests have erupted in the past, in response to the brutal murders of Black people by the police — notably, the 2014 murders of Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in St. Louis. But none have gripped the national and global attention of what is happening now. The volume and breadth of outrage is magnified — at least, in part — because the added dimension of COVID-19 deaths has created a perfect storm.
Unlike Ferguson demonstrations, for example, when protesters of late carry placards that read “Stop Killing Us,” the statement has implications far broader than police violence. And the simple phrase, Black Lives Matter, hits different now, too. There will always be detractors and deniers who reflexively counter that “all lives matter.” But there’s a new resonance to the BLM phrase, and wider acceptance among white Americans of what it means to “matter” — and with it, a deeper awareness of the unjust conditions that disproportionately keep the rest of the world from understanding all the ways that Black lives matter.
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twitter and instagram requests (1/2) to celebrate the season 4 of haikyuu!! 🎊
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