joy is a Venezuelan trans woman who's raising funds to start hrt, here's the link to her gofundme:
Hola soy Joy tengo 21 años de edad, vivo en Venezuela y soy una chica trans d… Esteban Blanco needs your support for Ayuda a Joy con su tran
the info there is in spanish so here it is in english:
Hi, I'm Joy, I'm 21 years old, I live in Venezuela and I'm a trans girl. Since I was a little girl I knew I was a woman, from the moment I was hiding to put on my mom's clothes, to the refusal I felt when I saw myself in the mirror.
Many will understand and others will not, but my stage of acceptance to become who I am was very recently, because living in a country where inequality and misogyny go hand-in-hand made the fear and rejection I felt for being who I am was increasing more and more, it was not until last year that I said: "This is me and no one will change me". Because in this country I have no rights "as in many others" I have always wanted to live in a place where my rights are enforced and know that I am equal to all cis people, I have not yet started my treatment because the treatments in my country are extremely expensive, I study fashion design and bakery and I would love to dedicate myself to any of the two branches very soon.
The objective of this fundraiser is to give me the opportunity to take the first step to start my Hormone Replacement Therapy and to be able to begin to exteriorize my true self. You can't even begin to imagine how thankful I'd be to have your help in my beginning to become who I really am.
The fact of helping me would imply a great call to many people to be aware that we are here and that trans people exist, and at the same time, I feel extremely grateful that you are part of the change and that together we are more.
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donate if you can, even a small amount makes a huge difference here in Venezuela. if u cant donate reblogs are appreciated<33
here's her twitter you can also help spread the campaign by rt-ing her pinned tweet !!
i think that the way tumblr and twitter at large interact with media—trope-lenses, romantic shipping, memes, incorrect quote dialogues, aesthetics, opinion echochambers, discourse about whether a piece of media is good based on whether it is ‘safe’ and harmless by virtue of showing nothing bad— is inane. seeing media this way sanitises, cauterises, and makes fiction barren and superficial. you are not allowing yourself to be moved by art or literature anymore, only forcing your will on insisting it reflect a world you want. media has become a means of self-expression—where what you engage with says something about you as a consumer— which of course means that now there are trendy and non trendy ways to interact with media that keep changing, and these different ways of engagement separate people into factions based solely on the media they consume, which is ridiculous. life and stories and people are not like this; not neat lists of good and bad to quickly categorise to be saved the work of thorough, in-depth judgment and understanding. i’m annoyed that i let site culture convince me this all was normal. it’s absolutely not. many of you are misguided. some of you are just stupid though
[i.d.: tweet by poonam (@ poonamkachandd) tha reads: Thread: If you are a non Indian looking to donate to help the covid situation in India, [alll caps] please do not donate to the PM Cares fund or any RSS organizations. You will come across a lot of Hindu supremacist living abroad who will direct you to those funds.]
COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.
They’re not only hoarding and blackmailing, but the cherry on top is that the US, UK, Australia, most of Europe, Brazil et al. actually voted AGAINST waiving intellectual property agreements for the existing vaccines, something that India & South Africa proposed MONTHS ago to the World Trade Organization, and which most of the Global South voted yes to. So rather than letting countries manufacture these vaccines themselves, meaning they could have their own supply, they’re being kept, by multiple measures, beholden to the Global North for donations. The US voted multiple times to block this, before and after Biden’s inauguration.
Read more:
Overview from JANUARY of this : https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/01/02/india-south-africas-covid-vaccine-proposal-wto-patent-waiver-must-considered-compulsory-licensing/id=128652/
Update from February: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/trip_23feb21_e.htm
Recent coverage of the deal not being met (again): https://www.law360.com/lifesciences/articles/1363457/wto-fails-to-reach-deal-on-covid-ip-waiver-proposal-again
Map of the vote (colorblind-friendly): https://twitter.com/comradesquirrel/status/1370595876536729600?s=21
[Image description: a world map. Countries in black (US, Brazil, most of Europe, Japan, Australia) opposed; countries in green (Africa not including Algeria/Libya/Western Sahara/Eritrea; China, South Asia, and most of southeast Asia; and Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua) are co-sponsors/full supporters; countries in yellow (Canada, Mexico, Chile) are undecided; countries in light brown (Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, the Phillipines, and Papua New Guinea) are general supporters; and the remainder are gray, which is not designated as anything]
Meanwhile as India is getting hundreds of thousands of new cases a day and running out of oxygen tanks for hospitals, the US won’t lift restrictions on raw material exports that would support vaccine production: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-defends-restrictions-on-export-of-covid-19-vaccine-raw-materials-amid-indias-request-to-lift-ban/
On vaccine nationalism: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-vaccine-justice/
Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill.
yeah and the irony of australia voting against waiving that shit is that our vaccine rollout and supply has been absolutely terrible because we have to ship these vaccines over from Europe and the US to here which is an insanely long distance, when we could be making it in the university laboratories that were initially contributing research to the vaccine. Brisbane labs were contributing significant research, even I had a friend working in a lab that was doing COVID research and development. We have the capability to manufacture these vaccines ourselves but the lib government would rather have a dangerously slow vaccination process rather than fund public healthcare and education (as most of the research was done in university labs).
the covid situation in India is extremely bad right now. there are 200k+ new cases every single day, there's a SEVERE oxygen shortage in hospitals, and less than two percent of the country is vaccinated. I've had two covid deaths in the building I live in.
our government does not care.
I'm aware most of this site and my followers live outside India, so here's what you can do.
- if you're in the US you can use this link to find your representative and then contact them asking them to support the suspension of vaccine patents. here's an email template, though PHONE CALLS are more effective.
- this is the UK link to find your MP
- https://peoplesvaccine.org/take-action/ has more things you can do and resources to educate yourself
- this is a constantly updating Google Doc listing fundraisers accepting international donations . It includes organisation distributing food, oxygen cylinders, PPE, and covid kits to frontline workers and vulnerable people.
yo I hate having to make posts like this but I have been struggling to get new freelance contracts all month and I would like to be able to both eat and pay rent. if you’ve got the desire and means to help an underemployed trans woman my paypal is [email protected]
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