There are more than 30 million women living in the United States with life-threatening, chronic conditions. Medical ID bracelets make life safer for these women and should be worn 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But nobody wants to wear them.
Sarah Harmon - the creator of the Poppy Medical ID project - after being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1998, spent much of her teens and early 20s wearing her a visible reminder of disease on her wrist. It was painfully awkward, both physically and psychologically, having to explain the ugly, utilitarian bracelet that broadcast her disability to everyone she met. Why couldn’t something functional, effective and medically essential also be beautiful?
Two years ago, Sarah quit her job in business development to start Poppy Medical, a company that would make medical ID bracelets that women (and children) actually wanted to wear. She enrolled in jewelry school, learned 3D printing and set up her supply chain. Now Poppy Medical’s Kickstarter campaign is trying to raise funds for production and to take preorders for the bracelets. This a community driven campaign and the community is needed - Let’s make a difference!
Extraordinary piece on Donald Trump’s ghostwriter, who wrote ART OF THE DEAL. What a scary read when given the context of where we are now. Choice quotes:
- “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”
- Schwartz told me that he has decided to pledge all royalties from sales of “The Art of the Deal” in 2016 to pointedly chosen charities: the National Immigration Law Center, Human Rights Watch, the Center for the Victims of Torture, the National Immigration Forum, and the Tahirih Justice Center. He doesn’t feel that the gesture absolves him. “I’ll carry this until the end of my life,” he said. “There’s no righting it. But I like the idea that, the more copies that ‘The Art of the Deal’ sells, the more money I can donate to the people whose rights Trump seeks to abridge.”
- “I don’t take it personally, because the truth is he didn’t mean it personally. People are dispensable and disposable in Trump’s world.” If Trump is elected President, he warned, “the millions of people who voted for him and believe that he represents their interests will learn what anyone who deals closely with him already knows—that he couldn’t care less about them.”
Reference to this conversation between Marvel and Sony on the “lack of interest” around female Super Hero movies - it’s always bothered me.
CORRECTION - from those examples they’re saying that they chose to hire shit writers to make movies they cared very little about for a quick buck (Catwoman), and/or they chose to take over creative liberties to make studio changes that theythought would make a better super hero female film (Elektra was re-written multiple times at Fox’s request and production was rushed to accommodate Garner’s Alias show’s shoot) - gtfo out of here with that bullshit.
My baby niece deserves to know she can grow up to be strong, confident hero. Don’t tell me we aren’t ready for a female super hero franchise.
This is, unquestionably, the greatest moment I’ve ever read in any piece of Star Wars media. It shook me to the core going through this panel-by-panel on ComiXology. Holy. Shit. So. Good.
It is pretty cool until we get to that panel of Luke mid-sneeze.
Ummm… not to detract from the power of these panels and how good they are, but… didn’t Vader first find out about Luke being his son when the Emperor TOLD him Luke was Annakin’s son in Empire Strikes Back?
