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Studies in Distraction: Random Biology Poop, or How Hipsters are a Cultural Cordyceps

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Random Biology Poop, or How Hipsters are a Cultural Cordyceps

So on the matter of gentrification one of the things that struck me is how strongly hipsters resemble the parasitic fungus Cordyceps sinensis or the “Caterpillar fungus.” C. sinensis waits lurking, like hipsters, for a harmless caterpillar to pass by. The caterpillar (or the vibrant neighbourhood/cultural item) ingests a spore or inhales it through a breathing spore and the fungus slowly parasitizes its host, filling its body cavity with mycelia (Starbucks, American Apparel, etc) and eventually mummifying it completely and creating a fruiting body for the dispersal of yet more spores (hipsters) to parasitise yet more caterpillars (neighbourhoods). All that is left of the host is a hollow mockery of the life that once was, a dead fungus replica of the once thriving host, where at least you can get a good latte I guess. And I guess it gets ground up later for use in traditional Chinese medicine. I don’t know, I’m kind of shooting from the hip here.

Also here’s a creepy video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

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pixyled: esmeweatherwax: racemash: thespunkywallflower: J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.   You guys should really google him.  (if you click the link, I did it for you) fucking hell I just nearly got sick. tumblrs taught me so much I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting. This is just apalling 

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esmeweatherwax:

racemash:

thespunkywallflower:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. 

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. 

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. 

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.
 

You guys should really google him. 

(if you click the link, I did it for you)

fucking hell I just nearly got sick.

tumblrs taught me so much 
I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting.

This is just

apalling 

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THE AMERICAN DREAM ..RIGHT??!!

If you live in GA or know one of your followers does please re-blog this. Ill be posting more information from Spark (events, updates) as we get them concerning HB 653 and our efforts to stop shackling. Please visit the links below and pass them along.

“On April 14, 2011, our anti-shackling bill, HB 653, was introduced and will be reviewed during the 2012 legislative session. This is the first pro reproductive justice bill introduced in Georgia in 4 years”

- http://sparkrj.org/content/

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9041527/SJTA/Legislate%20THIS/SPARK_RESOURCE_INTERACTIVE_rev_02182011.pdf

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