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Devil RESIGNED! 🤪🤪🤪 Black, She/her. Late 20s.

[anglophobelit]

[ramdaughter]

Donations Needed

Making a new post for visibility.

I will not find out about my disability support application until around June 17. I was rejected for emergency assistance due to not currently having an income.

I live with chronic illness and disability and I am asking for help to make it to next month. $1200 CAD will help me secure rent, transportation, medicine, and other essentials.

I'm sorry to ask when things are difficult for just about everyone right now. Every bit helps. Thank you.

Donation Link (paypal.me/BelindaNkuah)

GOAL: $451/1200 CAD

Update (June 10):

As always, thank you for sharing and donating. This is an incredibly difficult time for me and I am deeply grateful.

I was not approved for disability, which is common for first time applications 😒 I will be submitting a request for review. I've also received an opportunity for some contract work, with payment starting July. In the mean time, please continue supporting this post. Every bit helps.

[lestatdelioncuort]

Jacob Anderson as LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.01 "DETROIT"

[anglophobelit]

I don’t think I get enough credit for not being a demon. I’m Yoruba and a Gemini with Virgo placements. Despite these challenges, I have killed zero people….. yet there are no accolades.

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

GARLIC BUTTER STEAK BITES

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[pure]

patriarchy is the longest enduring form of subjugation that exists. we need to start saying capitalism exists because of male supremacy. we need to start saying white supremacy exists because of male supremacy. #They like to lie about the order of events to downplay the ideology that unites them all.

[covid-safer-hotties]

The pandemic isn’t over—and queer people shouldn’t be acting like it is | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: As a community, we talk a good talk about keeping each other safe, so why aren’t we doing it now? 

[anglophobelit]

I wish short form content didn’t exist…the world was better when people regularly had to read for online social interaction but also I want to make content around proper context and history of some really common terms like intersectionality, male gaze, systemic v structural racism and I feel pressured to make those things into videos because it’s the only thing people pay attention to :(

[stillnaomi]

denying trans kids hrt when they're sure of which puberty they want to go through is also an act of oppression. even if puberty blockers are available, we're not protecting kids by denying them the opportunity to go through puberty at the same time as their peers

"what if they go through physical changes that they later regret?" we allow cis kids to take that risk. in fact, most of them are never even given a choice and told they might regret it. just educate trans kids about what hrt will and won't do for them, then let them decide

[anglophobelit]

Bring back thought crimes but specifically for dr*mione shippers. The ripple effects of that pairing…

[helicalsymmetry]

cute diy video where the fuck is your respirator

[vruba]

“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”

— Teju Cole  (via feminizt)

[ramdaughter]

Donations Needed

Making a new post for visibility.

I will not find out about my disability support application until around June 17. I was rejected for emergency assistance due to not currently having an income.

I live with chronic illness and disability and I am asking for help to make it to next month. $1200 CAD will help me secure rent, transportation, medicine, and other essentials.

I'm sorry to ask when things are difficult for just about everyone right now. Every bit helps. Thank you.

Donation Link (paypal.me/BelindaNkuah)

GOAL: $425/1200 CAD

Update (June 1):

Thank you to everyone who has shared, donated, and encouraged me. I was able to pay rent on time and I'm now focused on covering necessities for June. My job search continues. As always, any assistance is appreciated.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.

you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.

every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.

the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.

some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.

you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.

some resources to learn more here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/feeling-fat-may-be-worse-for-you-than-being-fat-idUSTON079061/

The Healthiest Weight Could Actually Be 'Overweight', Huge Study Finds

A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index

there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

U.S. Weight Loss Industry Grows to $90 Billion, Fueled by Obesity Drugs Demand

The U.S. weight loss industry reached an unprecedented high in 2023, estimated at $90 billion, largely driven by surging sales of the widely

Body fat supports your health in surprisingly complex ways

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it also regulates bl

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight

[polari]

scrolling through the tags on a post about a serious social issue simulator

#just a reminder to any POC people that follow me: please DO NOT be afraid to send me long and detailed asks explaining the specific problems and extent of harm done by my art if i ever make art that includes any racist stereotypes #i'm Just Some Guy please educate me

#tw s3xu4l 4ss4ult #s*exual ass*ult ment #tw s///a #hopefully those filter it out pls ask to tag!

#OP i completely agree #literally [completely new statement in direct opposition to the statement made in the post]

#im sorry for being american #im sorry for being white #im sorry for being a man #im sorrty i know it hurts ppl i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself

#house md did an episode on this #queuenited healthcare shooting

#tw colonization #ok unrelated but this actually rly reminds me of how certain ppl behave in the tadc fandom

#as a white person i approve this message

#Look I'm white as the freshly fallen snow and even I know not to do this #Do better y'all

#im white but im appalachian and we experience this too #so i relate

#like i agree but op can you stop yelling

#People in real life: Hey man how are you

#WAIT WHATS TRANSMIGOSYNY HELP- #IM NOT CHRONICALLY ONLINE CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLS😭😭😭

#some people act like this because of autism but otherwise i agree

#Please know that there are good men and not all men are bad and men can be very healing #and a real man would never act like this you should never worry about men because most men are normal

#sure i'll reblog that

#not ted lasso

[robo271]

him and mack losers together <3

[robo271]

WAIT I'M SORRY FOR CALLING YOU A LOSER YOU'RE NEVER A LOSER

[robo271]

fuck he actually wonjsnwjsjwmswkw

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[anglophobelit]

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and while I completely agree with the spirit of this post—that it is fundamentally important to ask why the media or information you’re consuming is presented in a particular way—I do think it’s important to highlight that the umbrella of what we often call “media literacy” is very very wide, and includes a lot of different skill sets that are related but not the same. The traditional understanding of media literacy really has broadened since its conception and especially in the past decade, but I think one of the casualties of that broadening as compared to its initial usage is that I do think we need to spend a bit more time emphasizing the different kinds of work that go into things. Understanding why the author made the curtains blue involves an understanding of literary symbolism, tone, (possibly) character, and plot; understanding why an author making certain racialized character choices is racist requires an understanding of character, of history, and of the distinct racial discourses that surround different racialized people. Understanding when a news source is biased involves both being able to interpret how information is presented and being able to evaluate the legitimacy of sources, which involves thinking about their funding, their political leanings, their history of reporting, etc. Identifying propaganda requires all of the above, as well as a good sense of current political movements. All of these also shift based on genre: a novel might say the same thing as a news broadcast as a poem but they all mean something very different, and the interpretation required vary as a result.

Again, all of these are related!! And people have all of these skill sets! But I think it’s important that the broadness of skill sets—and they are sets of skills, not individual skills themselves—required for interpretation be acknowledged, especially in this moment where we are being asked to do increasingly heavy lifting with respect to the media we consume and literacy rates are declining. When I taught, I encountered more than a few students who were so smart and amazing but who were also so convinced that they knew how to do all of this because they were able to ask “why”. And being able to do so is half the battle!! But like also only half !!