Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.
This one has an urgent deadline, August 4th ⬇️
https://gf.me/u/x8y8ak
<p><strong>Short Summary:</strong> I am an individual non-binary pan… Atlas Raymond Ursen needs your support for Disabled Enby Needing Hel
Help me get home, please! $2,409/10,000 《《 high priority
Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,815/3,500 《《 escaping toxic environment; could use more recent donations
Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,326/29,000
Shane’s Top Surgery $2,723/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting
Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,667/2,500 《《 needs more contributions
Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $3,195/38,000
Nyne’s top surgery $3,016/8,000
Help Grayson start transition $1,236/2,000 《《 keep this going!
Skyler’s Transition Fund €533/3,000 《《 needs more contributions
Londynn’s New Life $8,873/15,000
NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,795/37,000
Zoeys transition fund £4,667/10,000
Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $16,852/100,000
Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,842/11,000 《《 this one needs a boost
Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $3,500/15,000
Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $2,032/35,744 《《 needs more contributions
Help Create Corbyn $2,183/4,000
Flora’s Transition Fund $950/5,000 《《 needs more contributions
Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,517/5,000
Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,115/7,500
Atticus’ homeless fund $5,648/10,000 《《 needs a boost
HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $8,217/60,000
Ahren’s Top Surgery $3,976/7,500
Malakai’s Top Surgery $1,444/10,000 《《 needs more contributions
Top Surgery $8,000/8,000 FUNDED!
Community Housing Security $1,147/45,000 《《 needs more contributions
Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,170/35,000
Jacobs top surgery $6,950/8,000
Skye’s Top Surgery $2,057/8,500 《《 surgery is August 10th & he won’t know how much insurance will cover until day of
Hunter’s Top Surgery $5,510/12,000 《《 time sensitive, get this funded before September!
Alexandria’s Transition fund $3,562/40,000 《《 needs a boost
Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,990/8,450
Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $4,544/9,000
help koo start a new life $1,240/25,000 《《 needs more contributions
Landon’s Top Surgery! $1,055/2,000 《《 vital to covering what insurance doesn’t; deadline July 30th (read update)
Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $2,157/6,000
Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $15,000/15,000 FUNDED!
Travis’ Transition Fund $16,845/30,000
Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $3,900/8,500 《《 NEEDS FUNDING BEFORE AUGUST 4TH
Tyler’s Transition Fund $13,918/30,000
Clarabelle’s Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,812/20,000
help deluca get top surgery ! $5,154/7,000
Help Black Trans Woman Transition $20,920/20,900 FUNDED!
Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $8,832/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled
Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $22,141/25,000 《《 keep the momentum going
Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,901/20,000
Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,448/15,000
Malikais Top Surgery $4,190/7,500
Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,970/7,000
Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,554/25,000
Transition Funds for Dallas $6,930/15,000
Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $7,341/10,000 《《 let’s get this goal met asap
Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,449/40,000
Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $11,200/13,000
Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $15,019/20,000 《《 more than 75%; keep it going
SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $4,570/25,000 《《 needs more
Cody’s Top Surgery $2,758/7,000
Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,845/6,000 《《 needs to be funded before October
Help Erika Begin Her Transition $8,973/10,000
I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.
Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.
hey fyi there are things i really like about my autism. most of the best things in my life and my favorite things about myself are very much related to my autism & my experiences as an autistic person.
it’s just…more than 1 out of every 54 people is autistic. that number is going to go up as we get better at diagnosing it. there are tens of millions of us. we exist everywhere. autistic people are members of every community, and we’re not going away. being on the spectrum comes with a lot of struggles (many of which are preventable, the result of lack of social accommodation), but it shouldn’t just be seen as something in need of treatment. we’re not something in need of fixing. there are a lot of really good things this world wouldn’t have if it weren’t for the contributions of autistic people–contributions made because of, not in spite of, being on the spectrum. so please stop boogeymaning and othering us. acknowledge our disabilities & need for accommodation while also being aware of the positive things we bring into the world.
statistically, you’ve almost certainly met someone on the spectrum. but the combination of social stigma and issues with diagnosis make many of us invisible to casual acquaintances. one big reason i’m a fan of autistic headcanons is that many creators create characters with autistic traits without having a name for it, and without realizing the real-life people who inspired these characters were probably on the spectrum.
as someone who didn’t have a word for it until adulthood, there are a number of people I encountered during my upbringing who looking back were probably also on the spectrum. there are simply so many of us. And we deserve to be seen.
Hot take but we actually do need more representation of healthy M/F relationships in media, and I personally feel like deriding intimate partner abuse as “straight culture” does a disservice to everyone.
People in M/F relationships shouldn’t only see representation painting their relationships as inherently unhealthy and bad, because it normalizes abuse and makes it easier for abusers to take advantage of others. If “that’s just how straight relationships are,” fewer people will be able to recognize the warning signs of a dangerous situation. Also, not every M/F relationship is “straight,” because queer people can absolutely be in M/F relationships, and deserve to see themselves represented, too.
On the flip side, queer people shouldn’t be led to assume their relationships will never be unhealthy and bad. The vast majority of my social circle is queer, and I have seen some truly vile things happen to my friends because they didn’t really get an education on what abuse in queer relationships can look like.
I just feel like it’s irresponsible to paint toxic relationships as “a straight people thing.”
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They replaced the Colston Statue in Bristol with a sculpture of one of the protestors who stood on the plinth once he was felled, and it’s beautiful. It’s not permanent- but it should be.
People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves
Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes I’ve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.
Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:
Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.
“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.
“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.
“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.
Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.
People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.
No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.
Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.
Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, who still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry “white purity” skinheads, you’re actually mixed with a whole other species.
Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.
Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.
Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size. Don’t believe anyone who says its our nature to fight “every man for themself.” We’re humans, not bears. We fight for each other.
And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids – community care and support is our way. We don’t cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.
Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.
Occam’s razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Don’t believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ‘theory’ on how bipedalism evolved.
Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.
Final thing: No one’s mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We can’t “stand in the way” of natural selection by caring for our ill. We don’t need to “help” evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so don’t fall for anyone that tells you not to “stand in the way” of natural selection. That’s fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.
Not to mention natural selection doesn’t have a “will” that you can stand in the way of. Its not an entity with wants, its a millions-year long process. And its impossible for our decisions to “stand in its way.” Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.
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