We'll Get Together & We'll Get It Undone!

[effigyerror]

angelgills on disc. You have to tag me in orange things !!

[mousidy]

so can I just say there's a reason I wasn't going on and on for paragraphs underneath transfem voices project submissions about how "monstrous" and "demonic" submitters' abusers were, or how their experiences were "horror movie material"

first of all, TVP was not about centering my feelings about transfems' abusers or what they went through. going on about how disgusted and enraged I felt underneath submissions would have actively detracted from the voices I was trying to center. TVP was not about my voice

second, abusers are not a subhuman class of people. they are often very ordinary people that exist in our lives. even my worst abuser did not abuse me because he was a subhuman monster or a demon. he abused me because he had systemic power over me, and that power went unchecked by any of the people or systems that could have protected me. he was thoroughly, mundanely human

the world is full of TME people who abuse transfems in ways that range from minor to major. I do not believe this means the world is full of subhuman monsters and demons. I believe that it means there are systems and norms that facilitate and enable this abuse. this isn't "rot," it's systems working as designed

[mousidy]

[cringeunworthy]

I'm gonna get so much mileage out of this one

[toskarin]

[shaking your hand] hey you ever hear about the scorpion and the frog [not letting go] exciting friends and a good adventure

[callali1y]

me: it's just like really weird and upsetting when someone is trying to find out my deadname, yknow?

chill af short dude i met weaving gold on his badass loom: oh yeah no i understand completely. do you want that baby or can i have it

me: oh yeah for sure man

[pxlestine]

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]

[bat-demon]

So uh im a black trans lesbian and ive been trying to get a new job since the last one I had let me go for bullshit reasons, I was in a car crash in the work truck and wasnt the one driving but the guy who was didnt get canned, and I still havent found a new one yet and I need help paying rent since unemployment hasnt come in yet I need 1100$ by the 30th

0/1100

ca/vn: Smokeyquartz

palpey

kofi

[bat-demon]

75/1100

[bat-demon]

125/1100

good news yall! i have job lined up but it wont start til mid august please keep sharing and donating i REALLY dont wanna get me and my disabled gf evicted

[bat-demon]

175/1100!

[bat-demon]

theres over 1500 notes on this post and im not even a third of the way there im gunna become homeless 🥲

[bat-demon]

225/1100

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black people will never stop talking about this, but when we are on sites such as Tumblr, where so many of the white people feel that not only are they not racist, but that calling their racist behavior racist is emotional warfare on them, they will make sure to keep Black voices as silenced as possible.

Also, a lot of the Black people who got deleted or run off of the site weren't even accused of any type of Russian anything. A lot of them were just run the fuck off by the white Tumblr base on harassment shit.

[estrellasuerte]

hello! my name is illi/A and i am a disabled indigenous lesbian with diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis who needs help.

So, with that in mind: I AM CROWDFUNDING FOR A WHEELCHAIR FOR DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH!!!!

WHY? because! i have severe degenerative nerve damage that is severely disabling and detrimental to my life. currently i struggle to remain seated in most chairs. i am losing function in my dominant hand and cannot write, hold utensils, or even play video games. i am becoming extremely depressed as a result of my rapidly worsening condition. i have been in need of mobility aids since i was 18, progressing from canes to walkers, and now to a wheelchair.

i am also very poor. because of my disability, i can only work odd jobs. i have been denied food stamps and medicaid. so i'm asking for help in getting a renewed lease on life

SO with that out of the way: the chair i'm interested in is $299 with $70 shipping. i am gonna crowdfund intensely in the hopes of getting my legs before september, so i can be a participant in my life again.

every donation and reblog helps more than you could imagine. thank you for reading!!!! i love you <3

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[estrellasuerte]

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[estrellasuerte]

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[estrellasuerte]

1/3rd of the way there!!!!!!!!

[silenthillmutual]

hi, new post. i'm the restless dream system & i support myself & my partner & our two cats on a part time librarian paycheck and it is not going well!! i am trying to find a new job, but it's difficult. i really need help with rent & health insurance specifically.

i am going to set a goal of $400 to cover insurance & part of rent. if you can help, my CA/Vnmo are transdankovsky

[payed pal]

my cats btw [old picture but theyre cute here].

[silenthillmutual]

$20/400 or whatever i can get

[save-maryam]

Sometimes, time seems to move in a vicious cycle, repeating itself in a painfully astonishing manner, as if mocking humanity's ability to learn from its mistakes. Two images are separated by 79 years, yet they appear as though no time has passed, as if the gap between them is merely a few fleeting moments.

[save-maryam]

The first image: A Palestinian elder holding the keys to his home, from which he was forcibly displaced after the Nakba of 1948. An image filled with pain, with tears that dried on faces, and hearts that collapsed under the weight of loss. Yet, hope for return still filled those hearts.

💳 Please donate - ✅️ Vetted # 15

[save-maryam]

The second image: A recent photo that tells the same story, but this time, the protagonist is my young sister, Maryam, holding the keys to our home from which we were displaced and demolished after the Nakba of 2023.

There is no difference between the two stories, except that this time, the story is even harsher and more painful.

[save-maryam]

Please help Maryam.. help us and donate 🙏

[mousidy]

it's interesting bringing up some transfeminist theory to my drag race watching cis therapist thinking she'll disagree but then she just starts spitting incredible transfeminist truth that would cause 100 years discourse on tumblr.

[mousidy]

she was telling me that all her transmasc clients have soared up through their careers and have private insurance, while all her transfem clients are financially struggling and are on state insurance

she was like "they transition into privilege and patriarchy is happy to accept them as men" and what's awesome is she said her transmasc clients generally understand this privilege and use it responsibly, including in support of trans women

like girl they would kill you dead on tumblr.com

[mousidy]

and you know to be clear these aren't even things I would have said. I mean there's definitely Nuance at the very least. if I were to say the "transitioning into privilege" and "being accepted by patriarchy as men" things myself I'd want to be able to prove them out relatively rigorously, and I haven't done that, so don't take this as me doing a full cosign on these claims. but damn, she did just kind of say them

[mousidy]

on the transitioning into privilege thing: I don't tend to say this one because I think it's at least probably not linearly true. my theory of this one is kind of in a fetal development stage but I tend to imagine that coming out as trans is a sharp drop in privilege not immediately outweighed by manhood, but then that passing as a man and performing masculinity start to up one's privilege again. #privilegemath

[mousidy]

on the "being happily accepted into patriarchy" thing, my therapist was saying that men tend to be cool with it because it reaffirms that manhood is good and desireable. I hadn't really considered that angle in my own analysis. I usually operate under the assumption that an oppressor class will not be so happy to accept upward movement with open arms, but maybe your average man is not really concerned with gatekeeping manhood as a class, so long as the goodness of masculinity is being affirmed? definitely a thought that's influencing my theory a little

[dame-jigglebones]

gonna be honest that therapist is just spitting straight facts and I've seen it first hand. my own mom refused to accept me as a woman and in the same breath praised a trans man who works for her without even a hint of disapproval or a single pronoun slipup. benjamin "shitstain" shapiro complimented a trans man's masculinity directly and didnt even rescind it after he told him he's trans.

and yeah, the reason trans women are specifically targeted is directly because our very existence denies the validity of the patriarchy, which bakes into our very society that men must be above women. choosing to be a woman and throwing away being a man is inherently counter to that.

same reason women can wear pants but men cant wear skirts. its always been baked in that its (relatively) okay to choose masculinity over femininity, but absolutely not ever the other way around. femininity is supposed to be something to be forced into, not sought out.

[dame-jigglebones]

additionally, its actually necessary for an oppressor class to accept "upward" movement, when it means joining their ranks. this goes for any class with higher privilege. the best way to gain influence is to grow, and accepting new members into your class is an easy way to do that. it's why missionaries are like, even a thing.

[sivavakkiyar]

1 year ago today (July 19th)

[sivavakkiyar]

2 years ago today (July 19th)

[deathlonging]

ID: Wikipedia

2024 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a ruling stating that Israel should end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. The ICJ identified that all member states of the UN are under an obligation not to recognize the occupation as legal nor "render aid or assistance" toward maintaining Israel's presence in the occupied territories. /end ID

[18cents]

china: woman of the people's commune (1964)

[t4t4t]

Previous post.

Two disabled trans women need help staying housed through August. Anything helps.

https://ko-fi.com/t4t4t

https://venmo.com/u/nora-esther-rose

https://www.paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

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[tankie-transfeminist]

I do appreciate all the support on my post about Marlow Trottie, but yall need to do that kind of thing for Black trans women while they're still alive too. That's actually more important in a lot of ways.

[rinsedrice]

please help my friend move to safer housing, shes a black trans woman who i love so dearly and who deserves every good opportunity that comes her way

Donate to Survival Funds for Healing and Stability, organized by Tori Peck

EMERGENCY SURVIVAL FUNDS NEEDED We are a Black trans disabled couple with a cat… Tori Peck needs your support for Survival Funds for Hea

the gfm is not yet updated to reflect this but we do need to reach $2,500 as soon as possible so she can move. her partner has a post fundraising for them with more payment info if ppl need ❤️

[rinsedrice]

really grateful for how much traction this has gotten however we need $2k before the month ends and have raised only $223 of that! putting other pay info here:

cshapp/vnmo: torkz428

paypl: torkz

thank you all sm ❣️

[savee-baby]

PLEASE DON'T WAIT UNTIL MY BABY BECOMES ANOTHER TRAGIC STORY YOU READ TOMORROW.

I keep imagining the moment someone asks me, "Is Qais still alive?!" I am terrified that one day I will not know how to answer. No mother should ever live with that fear hanging over every breath.

[savee-baby]

Every day, I fight two battles at once: comforting my child through pain and searching for a way to afford the medicine, bandages, and treatment he still desperately needs. I feel myself breaking a little more each day.

[savee-baby]

I am pleading with you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, helplessly watching my baby bleed before my eyes with no way to ease his pain. Please donate today and help me save his life before it is too late.

Please donate now Gofundme

[savee-baby]

I am not asking for miracles. I am asking for the chance to keep fighting for my son. Please donate or share Qais's story today. Your kindness could help protect his future and remind us we are not alone.