Stop all this bickering and do something useful.
SCATTER, CHILDREN!
When you get back, we can make some ice cream sandwiches or watch some R-rated movies. Or whatever the fuck it is you 80’s & 90’s babies like to do.
Auntie has spoken. With Love.
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Help out a mother in the struggle
up there is a picture of me and my mom - my mom’s in that striped sweater.
For the past several months, she’s been experiencing mega hardcore tooth ache that keeps her up all night in addition to other aspects of her deteriorating health. My mom does have community health insurance that lets her get an annual check up and other services upon request - what she can’t do is go to the dentist. She’s a single mother and has been one for quite awhile and she’s strong about/with it but things get rough sometimes working on commission w/o enough business for her to save up money. I am unemployed and sometimes have community engagements that help me earn a few bucks.
This society has told people like my mom that if you’re working class you shouldn’t ask about or ask for money - that you should be weird about it even if it could help you. The politics of capitalism aside, I’m asking on behalf of my mother to help her out.
I’m trying to raise $300 for her that would help her get a check up, consultation, and her tooth extracted. Please donate what you can/what is comfortable for you and help spread the word.
My mom’s revolutionary and I can’t do half of the stuff I do today without her lessons of humility, modesty, and badassery.
Here’s a link to her donation website.
I’m willing to exchange services/goods for the support. Stuff like sharing viet food recipes, writing letters, making stuff, knitting stuff - you call it.
Signal boost.
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Hi! I just started a tumblr, the Transgender Housing Network. After seeing dozens of posts come across my dash about displaced or homeless trans people needing places to crash, I decided that there had to be a way to organize these posts somehow, and to put those in need in contact with those willing to lend a hand. If you’re trans and need a place to stay, or if you have a couch or floor or spare bedroom available for someone in need, I urge you to reblog this post, follow the blog, and get the word out. Everything is still under heavy construction, but the more people that see and hear about this blog, the more people will be able to benefit from it! I know that there are so many people here on tumblr who are in need of a place to stay for a night or two, and I also know how many amazing, wonderful people would be willing to host someone and help out a trans person in need. We all know what a huge problem unemployment and homelessness are for trans people (especially TPOC and trans women) — even a place to stay for a night can make the biggest difference! So PLEASE, even if you can’t offer up your couch, REBLOG AND SIGNAL BOOST. I really, really think that this is something that could help a lot of people, and I would LOVE to see this spammed all over my dash and the dashes of all of my lovely followers!!
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An art student at my school, Western Kentucky University, is getting tons of national heat right now for her own backlash against a pro-life group. The group covered an entire set of bleachers with 4,000 crosses and from the art classroom windows you could see that it spelled out the word “LIFE.” They also targeted students walking by and asked them questions about abortion and had a board up that said, “How do you justify abortion?”
This went on for a full week. She, I and many others at my school felt voiceless and bombarded. She responded with an art piece for her class, which was covering the crosses in condoms. The university police did not interfere as it was a freedom of speech, but now my school administration is demanding a public apology from her and does not support her actions. She has so far refused to apologize, but nationally, there is no one on her side, especially since Fox News got involved.
Please read this blog post by a gender and women’s studies professor at WKU for more details and educated insight. Show support and show this student and my school that she does not owe an apology. We’re trying to make this viral enough to where we can get Rachel Maddow to pay attention and speak out about it. Help spread the word, reblog this post and let’s overtake the bigoted anti-choice voices that are attacking this student right now.
EDIT: There is now a petition that will be sent to the school. Please sign and spread this around!
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I made it through the move
ad am now SO FUCKING BROKE until my checks get forwarded and my ex pays me the damn support. I still owe the old landlord a pile of money and she’s calling me about it, and I just paid my co-op room share with a check that will fucking bounce or hopefully just overdraft me if they cash it soon.
I know i said I was done asking for help, but if anyone can donate anything to get me through the next couple of weeks, it would help so fucking much right now. I’m so close to being able to get through financially, but I am just not there quite yet, even with the help I have gotten.
So, if you want to help, my paypal button link is here. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7ATA6VF6RKZP6
Thanks for any help or reblogs, and for all the help we’ve gotten to make it so far. You guys have pretty much already saved my life getting me out of that marriage, so I hate that I am asking again, but getting this far only to wind up fucked over these last couple hundred bucks I am short would suck too much.
Thanks so much guys, I mean it.
ChipIn to Help Get Aaminah Shakur to the Allied Media Conference
I would like to be able to attend the AMC this year, along with my teen son. We will need money for the Greyhound to get there, housing arrangements, food, and transportation costs between the Greyhound and campus. I would also like to be able to be prepared with copies of my zines to sell, and will have to pay someone to check on my cat for the 6 days we are out of town.
For more information about me and the art & media I make, please see my blog.
You can also support me by purchasing items from my Etsy shop.Please share this with others even if you don’t have the means to help! Thanks!
Am also still open to discussions with anyone local who is going and has room in their vehicle, Detroit peeps who may be willing to open their home & save us the housing costs, and any other creative ideas about how to make this happen.
[Image: Two pictures. The first is a shoulders up picture of teenager Abdul al-Awlaki, a thin, smiling young man with brown skin, curly black hair and glasses. The other is of a birth certificate from the State of Colorado.]
To everyone so outraged about Trayvon Martin, please meet Abdul al-Awlaki. Notice his birth certificate, he’s an American, born in Colorado.
Abdul was a 16 year old American citizen that was murdered on orders of our very own President. His crime? That his father was a suspected Al Qaida member.
Unlike the Trayvon Martin situation there is no grey area here. This teenager was specifically targeted and killed because of his religious and ethnic background and who his family was.
He committed no crime, he was guilty of nothing yet he was murdered by a drone strike.
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED?
WHERE WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO SCORED POLITICAL POINTS COMMENTING ON ONE TEENAGERS DEATH ORDERED THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AMERICAN TEEN?
You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are. In one situation we have what appears to be an extremely unfortunate, tragic mistake and we have Congressmen on the house floor wearing hoodies and thousands protesting and screaming for justice.
On the other hand you have a child who was intentionally targeted and assassinated on the orders of the President yet you turn a blind eye. This country makes my stomach turn.
What? If I believe so, he is the son of Anwar al-Awlaki. Even though I disapprove of what his father has done, why would they done that, unless the son was in the lead of his father? This is just brutal.
i’m going to cry
you don’t even fucking understand that this could happen to ME and it could be completely legal. there would be no CHANCE of ANY sort of legal action. if someone hated me enough, they could simply report me to the government and i could be murdered or imprisoned and tortured for years. that’s it, those are the facts. this has happened to SO many more people than this young man. SO MANY PEOPLE. PEOPLE MY FAMILY KNEW.
i literally can’t even hold myself together, i’m about to bawl.
this is the last thing i needed to see right now. a reminder that my existence doesn’t mean shit to my own government.
Um, I am glad that this case is getting attention but the wording of the OP and the comparison to the Trayvon Martin case is really problematic. What the hell do they mean by “gray area?” Like Trayvon somehow deserved it? That whole thing reads like ‘why are you all paying attention to that black boy when this is so much more important?’ NO.
There needs to be more awareness about case of Abdul Al-Awlaki, but that is NOT the way to do it.
Shame on you, OP. Shame on you for trivializing a teenager’s death to exemplify another’s. Both of these boys are worthy of recognition, but your method is deplorable, at best.
Thank you for adding the commentary I couldn’t find the energy to do.
This story is devastating.
The OP said:
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED?
*sips tea slowly*
First of all, you need to fall the fuck back. Like really back, before someone tells you something about yourself that you aren’t going to like.
Where was I? Mourning the death of Trayvon Martin. Focusing on the healing and uplift of MY people. If you haven’t noticed (which I’m sure you did not), we’ve been under siege since we got here and, being born with a death sentence written into our skin, we’ve had a bit to deal with. So pardon us if we stop to mourn a fallen child while the world moves on without him.
So where the hell you get off asking where “we” been? Shit, where were you?? Unless you out there protesting with us and assisting with our rallies and helping to demand change, you really need to keep your mouth shut about “where are we.” You don’t get to ask for our support when you aren’t backing us up in OUR struggles. It is VERY clear that you don’t actually give a damn about OUR children, seeing as you made it seem as if one Black boy’s death is irrelevant compared to this situation. And while I’m real sympathetic to his case, YOU need to stop addressing US like we owe you shit.
“You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are.”
Go to hell.
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Blogsite for Women/PoC/Queer/Trans* Folks and Our Allies
So I just discovered this little gem in my submission box:
regarding your post about needing a blogsite run by Women/PoC/Queer/Trans* people - this is highly possible to do if enough people are interested in getting together to do this :) there is a free software called ‘buddypress’ that can be used to set up this kind of site. if anyone is serious about starting this, it would be good to find people interested in being the staff, and if there is a good amount of interest, start up some kind of donations to pay for a domain and hosting server. i have never used buddypress before but i am experienced in webdesign/development so i can offer my skills to help set it up if people want it started :)
This is 80,000 levels of fantastic. 80,000. Forever Reblog.
THIS SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN. Can we signal boost this until it’s a thing?! Pweeease? We should start a kickstarter!
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[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the matriarch of the family, passed in April, just two weeks after the US Supreme Court denied Troy’s final appeal, paving the way for the state of Georgia to set a new execution date. According to Martina, her mother died of a broken heart—she couldn’t bear another execution date. Troy was executed on September 21, despite an international outcry over executing a man amid such overwhelming doubt. Troy’s sister Martina succumbed to her decade-long battle with cancer on December 1, exactly two months after her brother Troy’s funeral, leaving behind a teenaged son.
There are still outstanding medical and funeral bills for Martina that the Davis family must pay.
The Davis family has had to bear more tragedy and sorrow than any family should ever have to. Together, we can ensure that the financial aspect of these losses will not be a burden to them.
Any amount will be highly appreciated.
Any questions can be directed to Jen Marlowe at donkeysaddle@gmail.comALSO: comment left by Jen Marlowe, with info for mailing checks:
checks should be made out to the “The Martina Davis-Correia fund” and can be sent to:
Kimberly Davis
PO Box 2105
Savannah, GA 31407ALSO IMPORTANT: the Dread Times post says that after the deadline, “donations can be made via Kim Davis’s paypal account, at aug1970@bellsouth.net”.
Donate and repost!
So basically I’ve decided that I’m just going to keep reblogging this until the goal is met. I just made a donation now, and am grateful that I was able to. There are 9 days left, and almost $6,000 has been raised. But that’s over $2,000 more to go.
For those concerned about legitimacy/making sure that the money actually gets to the Davis family, I checked it out for you; the organizer, Jen Marlowe, is a reputable journalist who did a great deal of work on Troy’s case and knows the family personally, and the email address listed is in fact hers.
The Davis family has been through unfathomable pain and injustice. The least we can do, if we have the resources, is help minimize their hardships in this small, material, yet important way. They’re owed a hell of a lot more than just being able to pay their medical and funeral bills, and they deserve all of our support and gratitude for their amazing and courageous fight. Please help spread the word about this. I’d really love to see them ultimately get more than just the bare minimum they need.
Reblogging for signal boost!
Moniquilliloquies.: I’m looking for YA books with POC in them.
I tutor reading and phonics at an inner-city middle school in Denver. Most of the students are Latino, from low-income households, English Language Learners, and immigrants. Some of them are undocumented immigrants, or their parents are undocumented. Some of…
Reading In Color is a review blog, run by a Black-Latina high school student. 95% of the books are YA/MG. 95% star teens of color, and the few that don’t are marked “off-color” in the title. The blog’s been running for years so it has a good backlist.
Reblogging again because OOOOHHH RESOURCE
After seeing a bunch of Twitter folks passing around some really whitey-tightey YA book lists and saying they’re “must reads”, I think this needs to get some serious signal boosting!
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Custer Died for Your Sins: ALERT: JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT
BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool essential to their livelihood.
Please flood the office of Robert Carolin and tell him the elders need to eat during the winter and these confiscations are WRONG! Slow motion genocide in action. This must be stopped!
…
Mae Tso, Bessie Begay and Pauline Whitesinger are those whose names i have been given who are being impacted. We can’t let them get away with this!
Hopi Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
P.O. Box 158
Keams Canyon, AZ 86034
P: 928/738-2228
F: 928/738-5522
Robert Carolinyo! people do this seriously!
this is not a joke! please call!
[Image removed. Image featured two drawn cupcakes exchanging an extremely anti-Black racist “joke” featuring the n-word. I refuse to even have that on my blog you can go to the link below if you simply must see the content.]
If anyone ever had a question as to what hipster racism is.
This is it.
Like, this entire blog.
Just looking at it made me tired.
Just….ugh.
[Image: a gif of The Beast from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast angrily pointing with the caption “What is this shit?”]
Damnit. Really? Hiding behind cute cupcakes? And of course they’re all horrifically racist black “jokes”. Lawwwwwd, not today, I just can’t.
[Image: A picture of Bill Cosby in his role as Cliff Huxtable on the Cosby show, seated looking disgusted and disbelieving.]
um… an entire blog of racist jokes is a TOS violation, innit?
email Support@Tumblr.com & report
thank god some clueless teens on tumblr racism was dead because this blog would be super racist if racism still existed!
no but seriously, report it.
Signal boosting and reporting ASAP. Let’s see how long it takes Tumblr to take this down (if they even bother at all).
[Image: A missing poster with a picture of Orlando Noubleau, an elderly Hispanic man. The poster reads:
Last Name: Noubleau
First Name: Orlando
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 135
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Gray
Race: Hispanic
Date of Birth: 8/23/44
Last Date of Contact: 12/31/2011
He was last seen wearing a blue pants a gray shirt and a brown jacket. If Orlando Noubleau is located, please contact Francisca at 510-502-6521 or contact SFPD at 415-553-0123
My Grandpa Is Lost, And Has Alzheimer.
PLEASE call if you see him. He was in San Francisco.REBLOG, help please.
(Source: xdorris, via jhameia)
North Carolina!! AN ELDER NEEDS OUR SUPPORT
She needs “a bedroom for me and my stuff and my cat, some pain meds, and a line on a job.” She’s getting kicked out of her place by the first of the month, but she’s a real established organizer, a genius trans woman of color former graphic designer and in need of community support. She needs help ASAP andwants to avoid institutions and civil services that are hostile to her needs. please message with any job openings, safe spaces in north carolina, or resources.
Paypal is donations can be received at octopus@safe-mail.net, in care of( the former) dancingonembers?
all money would go to her, ANY places to crash after the first of the month would be great.
she is black and indigenous, a mother and elder, amazing,The elder’s email is Amandaforcarrboro@gmail.com.
Fellow North Carolinians, get on this!
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Kiri is in trouble, guys. (warnings: medical and financial crises)
tchy:
And I know I posted something like this less than a week ago, but this is an emergency.
She was just hit with some unexpected medical and therapy bills, which completely wiped out her savings. She’s short on rent for this month and has pretty much nothing for food at all. Please, donate, reblog, signal boost, do whatever you can. I don’t have any to spare right now myself, so this is the best I can do. Please, please, please.
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