Making a new post again. Im unemployed & unable to work due to disbaility + college busyness. Looking to move out soon and preferably help my boyfriend out with moving a long too. My current goal for moving out is 500 USD approximately. Goal towards funding my boyfriend’s flight to here, would be 960 USD approximately.
I’d prefer if donations towards the flight went to my boyfriend, and one towards affording the apartment’s rent went to me. Please share & help if you can, please dont tag as anything, Thank you
50/500$
Hi. Situation is getting dire by each day that passes. Please help us move somewhere safe.
Same amount as before. Links in original post above. Please share, Thank you.
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
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“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.
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“Untitled” — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it, as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications that same year.
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The SF Gay Men’s Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
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“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.
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“Blue” — Derek Jarman
This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film’s final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
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“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
I can’t stand Child free people, as a child free person.
Like I have a legit trigger based in children screaming. That is a PTSD thing from years of abuse when I was a child. So I can’t hardly deal with children in public but guess what!!! That’s a personal problem! I deal with that by not going at times when kids are there! Or by putting in headphones!
But demanding the world become more hostile to children than it already is is just the peak of fucking entitlement.
“Oh but my wonderful anniversary dinner shouldn’t be ruined by the sound of a baby screaming”
Go to a restaurant that doesn’t allow children. They do exist! They tend to be more expensive but they exist! Or! Or! Better yet! Don’t eat out! Rent out somewhere for the night and cook your own damn food!
“I shouldn’t have to listen to a baby screaming on a plane”
That baby is far more uncomfortable than you are. It’s literally in pain because of pressure changes in the cabin. Parents hate it too! There is no good answer for this so suck it up! Get noise canceling headphones and listen to a podcast or a book or music.
Children are human beings. They’re not annoying pets that people happen to create. They have a right to be in public, to exist just like anyone else.
If you want eternal calm and quiet move out to the country and become a fucking hermit.
I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.
this is literally correct. im so mad that i cant find it right now, maybe i will later, but a few months ago i read a paper that was a report on a survey of k-tape use by sports medicine people and physical therapists, and 70% of them reported that they knew/had observed that k-tape does absolutely nothing, but that athletes are so superstitious that the PTs would use the tape anyway because it improved performance via placebo. the majority of studies on k-tape are either inconclusive or a very definite “this does absolutely nothing”.
i could see it maybe being useful specifically for proprioception due to pull sensation, and possibly in EDS patients where skin elasticity had something to do with muscle/joint stability and taping the surface provided more resistance. otherwise its less relevant to injury than prehistoric medical tatooing, at least the latter would involve microinjury with a needle, which we do have evidence to support lol
Oh oh lmao I have a similar thing I use sometimes for archery. It’s this:
It’s skintight as shown, very very tight, and against your skin each of those blue stripes is some kinda soft sticky material. Not adhesive, but it grabs the skin.
so speaking as a low level athlete in just the one sport, it’s a totally proprioceptive thing. The pull on my skin gives a sort of awareness of where that body part is - elbow, shoulder blade. I *want* to really move my back (good for an archer) because the shirt is subtly pulling in that direction.
Thus the net effect is that the pulling sensations sorta …hm…change what your brain expects to feel when you move, and just that little rattle onto a different mental track can be beneficial.
An example would be tapping on a different body part as a distraction when getting an injection - dreading that needle makes the pain Much worse, so v tapping elsewhere breaks up the dread and puts the needle pain back into perspective.
So for an athlete it’s perhaps like.. tension makes everything hurt worse, but especially an injury. The PT cannot force the athlete to stay relaxed, but they can tape a dodgy joint after stretching/flexing/therapeutically manipulating it (the actual beneficial process), at which point the feel of the tape becomes a reminder to the athlete to be careful and precise when moving that body part. Stay focused on form, stay relaxed, and you’ll be fine. And if they believe it..and fix whatever form error caused the injury.. they’ll probably be fine.
KT tape: psychology you can see!
HI generally this function of k-tape is called cueing, either for postural (proprioceptive) and or isometric/specific muscles or muscle groups
The cool thing w k-tape (and most things, including nutrition bioavailability) is that the placebo affect is both real and proven so it’s like. Rather than detracting from the efficacy, buying in/believing improves the treatment
Anyway compression sleeves/braces/garments/running tites/unitards do sort of the same thing (sensation on your body) to help you 1. Feel your body in space (proprioception) 2. Activate muscles you may be not using in concert with the movement like you want them to
Both of these models can be super helpful when correcting any favoring due to injury, or correcting poor form during exertion, same diff.
Beyond all of that, the superstition element - believing that it Will Help, also can do this really cool thing to help a person Trust their body, which can improve performance and pain sensations. Like, if you believe you’re going about your sport or general business with this magic scaffolding in place to help things work right and not hurt and heal, generally it will do so. This is different from dissociating from the pain of an injury, because it invites the person to accept and move with and listen to the body sensations, because you have this weird tape on you and you can feel the weird tape on you
Ok end rant i think it’s really cool how well k-tape can work and how Fully Believing practitioners think how it Must be Biomechanical this is Facts and Logic and Tendons but it’s definitely mostly sensation and belief and listening to your body in space
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