250 years of human history in 3 minutes, a sort of trailer for the educational portal Anthropocene.
Also see Hans Rosling’s BBC animation of 200 countries over 200 years in 4 minutes.
The fact is that transgender people—in particular, transgender people of color—have simply not experienced the same strides forward as their lesbian, gay and bisexual brothers and sisters. A landmark new report, ‘Injustice at Every Turn,’ presents undeniable proof. This report, released on Friday, is based on a comprehensive survey of over 6,000 transgender people and the findings are too shocking to ignore, especially when it comes to African-American transgender people.
Our transgender brothers and sisters are far more likely to lack proper medical care, to be unemployed, to live in extreme poverty, and to be HIV-positive—and that’s when compared to their white transgender counterparts, not just the general population. The survey’s respondents were four times more likely than the general population to live in extreme poverty. One in five reported having been refused a home or apartment, another one in five report having been refused health care. More than one in five, 22 percent, reported having been harassed by law enforcement, and nearly half reported fear of seeking assistance from police. African American respondents reported all of this in even higher numbers.
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Mandy Carter, Still No Freedom Rainbow for Transgender People of Color (COLORLINES) If you haven’t already, I recommend taking a look at that report. The race statistics are sobering, and too important to ignore. (via kiriamaya) |
Maud Returns Home is a final initiative to bring the remains of Roald Amundsens polarship MAUD from the North West Passage, back to Vollen and Norway where she was built nearly 100 years ago. Maud sunk in shallow water 80 years ago. She still rests on the seabed today in the same place, close to Cambridge Bay in the North West Passage, North Canada, and she is now in a state of slow deterioration.
Your Oxford comma example with orange juice and toast (or whatever) is a bit lacking.
So, I made you this.
