[karlmarxmaybe]

Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo

Donate to:

Operation Olive Branch's (https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch) spreadsheet of verified fundraisers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/edit?usp=drivesdk of people suffering the genocides of Gaza, Congo and Sudan.

@Nabulsi and @El-Shab-Hussein's list of verified fundraisers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yYkNp5U3ANwILl2MknJi9G7ArY4uVTEEQ1CVfzR8Ioo/edit?usp=drivesdk for Gaza and @El-Shab-Hussein's list of verified fundraisers from his direct contacts in Gaza and Sudan: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/748756401076207616/hey-guys-i-have-a-priority-fundraiser-rotation?source=share

Focus Congo, an ONG accepting donations to provide aid to the Congolese: https://www.focuscongo.com/en/spende/

Friends of the Congo, another ONG that accepts donations to help Congo: https://friendsofthecongo.org/

Khartoum aid Kitchen: an initiative to feed people in the Sudanese state of Khartoum, affected by famine: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-hunger-in-sudan-the-khartoum-kitchen-appeal

Gazafunds.com: a website that presents you with rotating verified fundraisers for Gazan people and prioritizes those most in need: gazafunds.com

Esimsforgaza: initiative to donate e-sims to provide the essential Internet acess to families in Gaza, so that they can receive donations, search information useful for survival and contact their relatives: https://gazaesims.com/ Instructions in english for donating an esim: https://gazaesims.com/ and instructions in Spanish, translated by me: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DHHsHSAFJQrr3GPtZ5iG_5xUSGkIjVwpkpQy57XR3x8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Crips for esims: initiative to buy esims for Esimsforgaza. If you don't have the financial stability to maintain an esim, it is recommended you donate here; the initiative will use that money to maintain esims steadily: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

Genocide is destroying millions of lives. Help the victims, be on the right side of history.

[torbins-braid]

a retired 501st trooper remembering the march into the Jedi temple

[annabelle--cane]

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

[optical-trapping]

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[legalizegay]

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[gorgynei]

still have prints of these pieces available in my shop! <3

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[hag-o-hags]

Don't sleep on @queerliblib the Queer Liberation Library for all your queer Libby needs!

[kaban-bang]

[kaban-bang]

[scrupulosity-comics]

title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’

[scrupulosity-comics]

lot of terfs have been reblogging this so I may as well publicly state that the woman on the right is modeled with permission after my transfemme friend. if you relate to it as strongly as many of you claim in the tags I urge you to reflect upon that with empathy and compassion about the depth of experiences you truly do share with trans women.

otherwise fuck off I guess. my art is not fuel for your hatred.

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

mid-way pride month check-in

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:

and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.

[strawhatsufi]

not really. there's not a causal link between being gay and proletarian revolution. in fact all proletarian revolutions have been carried out by straight people and the queer movement or whatever it is is consistently reactionary imperialists. i am not trying to be an asshole here but i think we need to be realistic about the fact that this conflation of the two as if being gay makes you a communist is genuinely insane and completely detached from reality and in itself a deeply reactionary idea to hold. the average gay works at lockheed martin or aspires to, views trafficking children from asia as a human rights issue, like their right to do that as a human rights issue, and thinks that the uyghurs are being genocided but also that they have it coming for being homophobic muslims. and yeah there have been Moments like yank gays organising against the vietnam war or whatever because that was in style at the time and everybody was doing it, but honestly i'm seeing people claim way more credit than they deserve

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

sylvia is directly commenting on the “average gay” you mention here. being gay absolutely does not automatically make you communist or even leftist, which is emboldened by the heteronormative western “gay rights” movement that prioritizes marriage and participation in extractive economies. histories frequently erase queer revolutionaries or they do not make themselves known. to claim a complete straightness of proletarian revolutions as a direct implication of gay complacency is pretty misplaced here. many queer movements seek acceptance in their violent contexts, this is true. colonialism, imperialism, crusades etc followed by pinkwashing have in turn rendered a great deal of reactionary positions from resistance groups in the global majority. additionally, varied and vast queer histories (queer being a haphazard umbrella term here, sorry) were erased by colonialism, only to be made into the enemy on their own land. baseline, so many movements that exclude queer people do so out of a fear that only serves to empower empire.

i’m not mad at your thinking, but i do think the framing lacks some rigour. i’ve heard many times in an almost stagist manner that queer movements can come after revolutions, but a revolution that doesn’t involve queer people holds little weight, in that a revolution that upholds capitalist structures of family, patriarchy, etc will always meet the ire of its people and the greedy poison touch of the enemy. i make no excuses for queer people who allow themselves to be exploited for the empire’s riches. no one should. but it is equally dangerous and dare i say ahistorical to assign revolutionary history to straights as opposed to a people united.

[spankerella]

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[massachusetts-official]

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[californiasleazeking]

[bermuda-triangulated]

Fit check

[bermuda-triangulated]

[mousidy]

so do you "love trans women" as in you like to fantasize about being fucked by a Scary Predatory Tranny, or do you love trans women?

[mousidy]

gonna push harder on this one cause I consider myself kink positive, but I don't consider kinks to be beyond critical thought. and I think if your kinks align very closely with the narratives spun to oppress trans women by the right wing propaganda machine, you should examine that, especially if you proclaim to love trans women

we live in a culture that relentlessly ascribes dangerous, heavily sexualized stereotypes to trans women. it's honestly pretty mundane and unshocking that people would find this tantalizing and that it would inform their sexuality, just as it's mundane and unshocking that these stereotypes inform any other area of how someone thinks and feels. and I do think it's everyone's responsibility to unpack how their perception of trans women has been impacted by this. yes, even in the realm of kink and sexuality

[mousidy]

transmisogynistic stereotypes are not heavily sexualized by coincidence. they're designed to be psychosexually powerful. the things that make them tantalizing are the things that make them so dangerous for trans women

[mousidy]

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness