I am dead serious: If you are a Walmart employee, at any level and in any store — like if you are a high school kid with a part time job stocking shelves — message me any question you have about unions. Like ask me “What’s a union” if you want. I will explain it to you.
I am a grievance chair for a white collar union whose workplace only unionized within the last five years and whose management fought as every step of the way, but in the end we fucking won. It can be done, and I can tell you how.
For years, this has frustrated Ellen Buchanan Weiss, whose toddler son is mixed race. She’s tried searching for photographs online to reference conditions such as chicken pox and hives, but tells me that “even adding the qualifier ‘chicken pox on black child’ yields mostly Caucasian examples.” Recently, she decided to do something to help other parents facing similar barriers, and began collecting photos on her own. Her project Brown Skin Matters is an Instagram account filled with reference images of dermatological conditions on non-white skin. You can see what ant bites can look like on a child who is Hispanic and black. Or how the viral illness Fifths disease can manifest in a child who is black and white.
From the photos, it’s clear that conditions look different on different skin tones. On a post featuring a black child with chicken pox, one person commented: “Thank you! My mom (white) always said she wasn’t sure if we’d actually had chicken pox because they didn’t look how she expected. But the pediatrician said we did.”
While Weiss is not a medical professional, she is working with physicians to review the viewer-submitted photos. She emphasizes that the information on Brown Skin Matters is for educational and reference purposes only, and not a diagnosis. “I’m just a regular person who dearly loves her son and wants equitable representation and resources available to him and other people who look like him,” Weiss says.
This is awesome bc there are SO many conditions that are given symptoms like ‘pink/flushed/redness’ and that doesn’t look the same at all on brown skin.
Sometimes you can see the redness, sometimes you can’t, sometimes the inflammation actually triggers our skin to protect the damaged tissue from the sun by developing MORE melanin.
i saw a headcanon saying that when eddie stopped taking his placebos some of them were his real ADHD pills and that’s why he’s so hyper as a kid in chapter two and i’m accepting this headcanon purely to be self indulgent and also ADHD boyfs richie n eddie
do the spiderverse kids all have. slightly different meme cultures
miles: look I can fit my whole fist in my mouth
gwen:freaky flexing. but alright
miles:
miles, through his fist: I’m sorry what did you just say
Peter B: oh Fuck! Dat boi is on his way
Gwen, to Miles: is that what the meme is in his world, or is he just that old?
Gwen and Peni: *drop in on Miles dimension to find Miles and Peter hanging out*
Gwen: two dudes
Gwen and Peni: chilling out poolside
Gwen, Peni, and Miles: five feet apart cuz they’re straight dudes
Miles: hey, finally one that’s the same for all of us
Peter B, literally crying: hey I’m going to swing back to my dimension for one sec I just,,, I need to check something… I’ll be right back one second,..
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