✰For U / ¡UFO!✮

𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏, 𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝑰'𝒎 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏. ✧ 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚. ⦅ 🛸 ⦆

[bonyato]

ℹ» 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍 𝚊 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍! ヾ(๑╹ꇴ ◠ ๑)ﾉ”

⋆ ࣪. ₊ ˚ Cаrrd 🌐 en.pronouns page

[girlwyrm]

guess i dont have a home or a family anymore. cool. great.

[girlwyrm]

im like the white girl bad luck brian

$fishewife - cshap

@ fishewife - vmo

@ meurbabe - pypl

[oldshittydog]

hi , please consider supporting my girlfriend

sierra has been going through an incredibly difficult time recently, and her parents' financial abuse has left her without any means of earning an income or moving out. she is effectively at the mercy of people who have every intention of keeping her dependent on them.

i love her and i want to see her thrive and be free to live her life in a safe environment, able to support herself. it means a lot to me, and everyone who knows and cares about her.

she needs around $2000 to move out and settle in seattle. i have over 200 followers. this goal is easily reachable if everyone gives $10. if you can't, a reblog would be highly appreciated

thank you for your time <3

$20/$2000

[girlwyrm]

$311/$2000

im sobbing i wasnt expecting to receive a dime tysm

[ardentstrength-deactivated20170]

Shout out to the people who are making progress that can’t be seen. I’m proud of you.

[evergreen-femme]

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

[t4t4t]

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem "Even Boḥan" by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) • the Open Si

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

[unabashedllamamusic]

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

[convolutedblasphemy]

The best way I can describe to an allo person how you feel about sex as a topic as a sex-repulsed or averse asexual is that it feels like a hype that never ends. As though Despicable Me came out and everyone around you was sending minion facebook memes to each other for years to come. The stores are full of minion themed products; they're in ads and your friends talk about them all the time. And deep in your heart you're like "I'm glad that they're able to enjoy something I personally don't like and am not interested in :3". But there is always this little voice in the back of your head that's like "If I have to see ONE MORE of these little yellow FUCKERS today then God help us all." You make an active choice to communicate only the former.

[bones-arent-real]

It is genuinely so infuriating that Wikipedia's official policy is to misgender anyone who uses neopronouns

[anotherevilenby]

[save-the-child-qais]

STOP NOW… MY BABY QAIS IS BLEEDING SEVERELY AND URGENTLY NEEDS BLOOD UNITS TO SURVIVE.

Because the border is closed and new medical supplies are blocked from entering, I am still forced to use torn old cloth to cover Qais’s wound.

[save-the-child-qais]

The doctors warned me that Qais’s condition is collapsing because severe anemia and malnutrition are slowly shutting down his tiny body, and I stood there unable to save him alone.

[save-the-child-qais]

I beg you as a broken mother in Gaza living every second in fear of losing her child forever. Please, don’t let my baby Qais become another forgotten tragedy—donate now and help save his life.

Gofundme - Vetted#679

[save-the-child-qais]

Unfortunately, donations have completely stopped, and my baby Qais’s condition is worsening every day from bleeding, malnutrition, and lack of treatment. Please, I beg you, donate now before I lose him forever.

[farahhaboub]

$550 is still missing… if only 22 people donate $25 each, we can finally save my sister and get her the treatment she desperately needs. My sister has now gone 4 days without her medication while she is still in intensive care, and her condition is getting worse instead of improving after the surgery. Please, we are begging you not to leave her alone in this condition.💔

Every hour without treatment is terrifying us. We already fought so hard just to get her through surgery, and now we are scared of losing her because we cannot afford the medicine she urgently needs. The donations are very few, and people keep ignoring our cries while my sister suffers in pain in the ICU.😔💔

I am exhausted from begging every single day, but I cannot stop because my sister’s life depends on it. Please, even a small donation can make a huge difference for her right now. If 22 kind people donate only $25, we can reach the amount needed and help my sister continue fighting to survive.🙏😔💔

Current process : 15,491 / 16,041

Vetted by : @90-ghost

Vetted by : @sar-soor

Vetted by : @fairuzfan

[grendel-menz]

I’m making this post on the behalf of Hamza and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza.

In Gaza, people’s incomes have been severely impacted for the past three years. Please consider helping my friend Hamza and his family — which includes several children— afford food and proper medical care as prices continue to be high and unstable.

FUNDRAISER HERE.

[hamza-only]

Any donation saves a life, any contribution saves a life, anything makes a difference

[alkliliyfamliys-blog]

My family and I are asking for your help and donations. We are currently living in very difficult conditions in northern Gaza. Please help us.

[ahmedaldani333]

Imagine what I'm going through right now. Put yourselves in my shoes and imagine what you would do. I'm currently living in Gaza inside a completely destroyed and torn tent, as you can see in the picture. The occupation forces destroyed our home, just like they destroyed everything beautiful we owned.

[ahmedaldani333]

I can barely write this post. I'm suffering from severe anemia, intense nausea, and constant dizziness. My health is deteriorating rapidly, and I urgently need to buy my medication and painkillers. Please support me and help me by donating.

[ahmedaldani333]

I desperately need your help to buy my medication. Please don't leave me alone in this ordeal. Your donation, no matter how small, will make a huge difference and save my life . please donate now .

[jstor]

100 open access books on JSTOR

African American Studies

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition

Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions

J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings

The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

African Studies

Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa

Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

American Indian Studies

Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History

The Urgency of Indigenous Values

Anthropology

Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest

Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice

Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land

Voices of Indigenuity

Archaeology

Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology

New Deal Archaeology in the West

The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, volume III: Metal Objects from Gournia

Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History

Architecture

Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos

Asian Studies

Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985

Communication Studies

Covid and…: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic

Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity

Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance

Migrant World Making

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907

Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives

Cultural Studies

Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)

Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel

Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

Toward a Gameic World

Development Studies

Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

Education

Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Environmental Studies

Ecologies of Imperialism

Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil

Feminist & Women's Studies

Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities

Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures

Film Studies

Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema

Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream

The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Food Studies

The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector

Gender Studies

Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939

Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918

History

Captivity's Collections: Natural History and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization

Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896

Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi

Language & Literature

Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium

Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History

Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism

Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels

Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond

Understanding Agatha Christie

Latin American Studies

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Law

Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America

Linguistics

Cantonese Since the Nineteenth Century

Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field

Middle East Studies

Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces

Music

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

Peace & Conflict Studies

Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War

The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras

The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia

Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe

Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam

Performing Arts

Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide

Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy

Philosophy

Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges

Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Vol. 2 The Affective Hypothesis

Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis

Political Science

Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan

Local government and democracy in the United Kingdom

Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece

The Cost of Voting in the American States

The New Star Chamber and Other Essays: Annotated Edition

Population Studies

Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century

Psychology

Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe

Public Health

Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1870

Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011

Religion

Christan Colleges and Universities: An Empirical Guide

From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People

The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities

Science & Technology Studies

Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City

Sociology

Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence

As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies

The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

Technology

Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies

Urban Studies

Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space

[jstor]

FYI, all of these books were made open access as part of our Path to Open program, where included books are set to become open access three years after their publication date.

Many of the above books can be downloaded as PDFs in full!

[animentality]

[foone]

BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn't just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

This tweet isn't just an observation, it's the result of years of research and study. And it's absolutely true.

[luxiomahariel]

never kill yourself. there will be media that will impact you in deep and profound ways, but they havent yet been made. you need to live to see them.

[highlandkall]

as much as i get the sentiment behind "make more bad art" there's gotta be a better way of communicating "you don't have to be technically proficient or hold yourself to a specific standard of practice" that doesn't sound as backhanded lol

[lenasai]

critically stagnant spotlight campaigns for today (5/5.)

all campaigns are vetted by the organizers of gaza funds. this site has been vouched for by palestinian bloggers. for full transparency, a list of campaigns is available to view on their site. additionally, if you look at my list of individual campaigns, you will see that i personally trust these campaigns and have donated to them many times.

basim and hla: 16 days since last donation

nada muhaisen: 16 days since last donation

ahmad abuabdou: 15 days since last donation

yahia hawajry: 11 days since last donation

karem al-kahlout: 9 days since last donation

ahmed atallah: 9 days since last donation

campaigns in danger of becoming critically stagnant:

rania alneder: 5 days since last donation

individual posts for these campaigns are generally ignored, which is why i've moved to using this pinned post instead. it simply takes me too long to queue up a bunch of posts people will just scroll past. please don’t ignore this, you have the opportunity to throw someone a lifeline and do some real good. even if you don’t have any money, a reblog is free and can help get more eyes on these campaigns. none of them are on tumblr, to my knowledge. nobody sees these campaigns unless people reblog posts about them or make their own posts.

thank you in advance for your consideration.

tags for reach under the cut (you can always let me know if you'd rather not be on this list, or if you want to be added to the list!)

@weirdlizard26 @mohammedaftabqasim1 @visenyasdragon @violentbisexuality @tamamita @transannabeth @eruthiawenluin @loviefrog @xx-obliviousfantasy-xx

@comrademango @dlxxv-vetted-donations @theaulys @0luna123 @myceliacrochet @inbetween2637 @yellowis4happy @rob-os-17 @butchmagicalboi @nogender-onlystars @smartasspikachu @ares-laments @sunmooneclipseandstars @oceanblue971 @slo2004blog

@minighostpan @womenbehotfr @esperantokomencanto @blogsonthefritsnfribbles @random-autie-fangirl @autisticmudkip @comicsanslover @sahara-silver @jolyne-best-jojo @artsy-jandi @ankle-beez @astra--cosmos

@queerquestioning @cooper-klebba @battleteacake @onedumbazz @anreill @yuzensoniktornavida @existentialplasticextra @narratorstrash

[genderqueerdykes]

if you have a “weird” gender, you are quite literally the definition and example of what trans is, not a bad example, or an outlier. you are the very heart and soul of the experience of transness. keep it up

[kat-of-letters]

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

[blujayonthewing]

#stop playing the game of ‘who is it okay for me to hurt?’ #the answer is no one #the answer is ALWAYS going to be no one #none people is the correct number of people to hurt [X]