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chicago nabisco workers on the picket line have the most powerful auras

please donate to their strike fund

🏳️‍🌈 It's National #HispanicHeritageMonth, which means we're highlighting LGBTQ+ Hispanic heroes allll month long.

First up is a coming out story on the blog from our own Alex Orué - read how he started as "a shy, gay, Mexican-Catholic boy" ...and ended up Director of It Gets Better México.

A lil sneak preview:

"In 2003, shortly after my parents announced they were getting a divorce, I was with my father and my two little brothers on a father-son(s) weekend. I saw a gay couple walking down the street in Mexico City, ignoring the judging eyes of people like my dad. Seeing two loving men — unashamed and in public — gave me hope, but I also got the message from my dad that it wasn’t safe for me to say so just yet.

Six years later, I left Mexico to attend college in British Columbia — and to find an accepting community far away from the judgment of my friends, family, and faith. While exploring a small library in Vancouver, I discovered Dan Savage’s book The Commitment. It was the “it gets better” message I needed to hear. It convinced me that I deserved a happy life, even if Catholic guilt told me otherwise.

I came out to my family and close friends on Skype a year later..."

Read the rest of the story here!

dogsuffrage

“Only 1% of white people in the US had slaves” is a great example of using a fact for misinformation. That is true, but extremely manipulative bc it cuts out really important details about the statistic.

1) It includes the more populous Northern states that did not allow slavery.

2) It ignores the fact that family units were much larger and only the family patriarch tended to actually own the slaves for the family, meaning there were significantly more slave-holders than slave-OWNERS. So you need to measure by household.

So, using the exact same data (the 1860 census) you can determine that about 25% of households in the south had slaves. In Mississippi alone 49% of households had slaves. South Carolina is 46%. The 1% figure I’ve believed in the past is propaganda to undersell the role of the general white population in slavery and to undersell just how much everyday southern whites benefitted from slavery.

And I haven’t even mentioned that slave owners often rented out their slaves…

nudityandnerdery

And ignores how many people, even without necessarily owning slaves, fought vehemently against the idea of abolition. Even in states that didn’t allow slavery, there were incidents of violence against abolitionists.

basketcat

shanah tovah, y'all

armymutualaid

Donate to Afghanaid

Afghanistan is currently in the midst of conflict which has forced hundreds of thousands of Afghans to flee their homes for safer refuge. Together, we can help vulnerable Afghans get the training and tools they need to help themselves, their families and their communities. Donations will give life-saving assistance to the men, women, and children affected by the crisis. For this fundraiser we made a page for Army Mutual Aid - to donate, click here. To learn more, click here.

If you choose to donate, DM us the proof of donation and we will make a gif-set of your choice in return.

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GOAL: $300

bundibird

This article was posted on the 10th August 2021.

Heres a link to the crowd funding page for Rukhsana Media.

spidaerman

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent.

verb925

Happy International Non-Binary People’s Day!

singinginthecar

israel has been bombing residential towers, refugee camps, media offices and now there are reports that it plans to bomb two UN run schools in palestine. reminder that many ppl who have been rendered homeless by these bombings have found shelter in these schools. palestine's hospitals are overflowing, their top doctors are being killed in these bombings, and the pandemic is still raging while israel is blocking humanitarian aid as well. these are war crimes. this is a genocide.

gulabilli

PLEASE do not stop talking about Palestine and spreading information, especially from Palestinians, whether it's here or on other social medias you use more often. Palestinians themselves have said over and over again that spreading this on social media helps, I've seen some people say that it feels different this time now that the world is starting to hear their voices. and please donate if you are able to

emerald-studies

Please give @ogorchukwuu on instagram a follow.

superhoeva-old-deactivated20240

i was having a pretty good day until derek chauvin's mother spoke.

with not one an ounce of sympathy, carolyn pawlenty proceeded to ignore all the pain, tears, and death that her son has caused the floyd family and countless others. instead of apologizing and acknowledging someone else's pain other than her own, she whined about how she believes that her son "has a good heart and he has always put others before own." she even went as far as to say that he was innocent and "a good man." pawlenty also mentioned how she won't get to see her son, or talks to him on the phone, or give him a "special hug." how dare she cry about not getting to see her son when gianna will never get to see, talk to, or hug her father again, because of her son.... when floyd's siblings will never get to see, talk to, or hug her father again, because of her son... when floyd's other family and friends will never get to see, talk to, or hug george floyd again because of her son...

not only did her words enforce the idea that his parents are a large part of the reason chauvin is the horrible person that he is, but they are a perfect example of white delusion and white disregard of the suffering that black and other racial minorities go through and have been going through for centuries.

no carolyn, your son is not a good man. he is not innocent. he is a murderer, and he deserves a lot more than 22.5 years in jail.

with all of that being said, here are a some important links: official gianna floyd fund (george floyd's child), george floyd memorial foundation, the official peace and healing for darnella fund

(feel free to reblog with other helpful links!)

genuinelyshallow

Gaza is under attack again this very minute. Israel broke the ceasefire once the media calmed down.

transgenderjihadist

I'm making this fundraiser on behalf of my friend River, as it isn't safe… Naailah Hakim needs your support for Help a muslim lesbian escape

Very nervous about making this post. This has been a long time coming, but to actually have it happen feels rlly scary. "feel the fear and do it anyway" I suppose?

One of my best friends is organising this fundraiser for me. The details can be found in the link but the gist is:

My name’s River, I'm a muslim lesbian in the middle east, I'm physically disabled, parents are extremely abusive+controlling, and I'm being made to marry a man later this year. I don't have money, nor can I make any, and I need to escape this household and country before then so that I can start a safer, better life insha'allah.

Please donate and reblog this post, and thank you to everyone that chooses to help💖

20/4,500

560/4,500

1,293/4,500

1,730/4,500

2,628/4,500

thank you so so much for all your help, i honestly have no words. ❤️

devilishxher

Toyin is a 19-year-old Activist from Tallahassee. She bravely protested and wrote about race, police, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Toyin was looking for shelter when a Black man sexually assulted her AFTER she told him about previously being sexually assulted. She went missing hours after tweeting about her sexual assult. Then shortly after she was found dead.

Black Women are truely fighting white supremacy and the patriarchy that nurtures gender violence. We must abolish the system! She had so much life ahead of her. Her powerful spirit. She will not be forgotten!