Hereâs a chance to change some black trans lives
Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. Iâve copied all the fundraiser links below, and hereâs the link to the original post in case youâd prefer to look at the list that way.
This one has an urgent deadline, August 4th âŹď¸
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<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 ăă high priority
Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,815/3,500 ăă escaping toxic environment; could use more recent donations
Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,326/29,000
Shaneâs Top Surgery $2,723/7,750 ăă this one has been up for over a year and heâs still waiting
Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,667/2,500 ăă needs more contributions
Grace Mwangiâs Gender Confirmation Surgery $3,195/38,000
Nyneâs top surgery $3,016/8,000
Help Grayson start transition $1,236/2,000Â ăă keep this going!
Skylerâs Transition Fund âŹ533/3,000 ăă needs more contributions
Londynnâs New Life $8,873/15,000
NYIEMĂâS GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,795/37,000
Zoeys transition fund ÂŁ4,667/10,000
Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $16,852/100,000
Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,842/11,000 ăă this one needs a boost
Cocoâs Medical Transition Fund $3,500/15,000
Mayaâs Transition & Recovery Fund $2,032/35,744 ăă needs more contributions
Help Create Corbyn $2,183/4,000
Floraâs Transition Fund $950/5,000 ăă needs more contributions
Amina Transition And Rent Fund âŹ3,517/5,000
Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,115/7,500
Atticusâ homeless fund $5,648/10,000 ăă needs a boost
HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $8,217/60,000
Ahrenâs Top Surgery $3,976/7,500
Malakaiâs Top Surgery $1,444/10,000 ăă needs more contributions
Top Surgery $8,000/8,000 FUNDED!
Community Housing Security $1,147/45,000 ăă needs more contributions
Kianaâs Gender Transition $2,170/35,000
Jacobs top surgery $6,950/8,000
Skyeâs Top Surgery $2,057/8,500 ăă surgery is August 10th & he wonât know how much insurance will cover until day of
Hunterâs Top Surgery $5,510/12,000 ăă time sensitive, get this funded before September!
Alexandriaâs Transition fund $3,562/40,000 ăă needs a boost
Mylesâs Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,990/8,450
Zekeâs Top Surgery Fund $4,544/9,000
help koo start a new life $1,240/25,000 ăă needs more contributions
Landonâs Top Surgery! $1,055/2,000 ăă vital to covering what insurance doesnât; deadline July 30th (read update)
Donate to Mylaâs Breast Augmentation $2,157/6,000
Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $15,000/15,000 FUNDED!
Travisâ Transition Fund $16,845/30,000
Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $3,900/8,500 ăă NEEDS FUNDING BEFORE AUGUST 4TH
Tylerâs Transition Fund $13,918/30,000
Clarabelleâs 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!
Wriplyâs surgery/ continued living fund $8,832/26,520 ăă this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriplyâs socials and sheâs still active, still waiting. Letâs get this fulfilled
Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $22,141/25,000 ăă 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
Finnâs Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,970/7,000
Kyoâs (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 ăă letâs get this goal met asap
Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,449/40,000
Noelleâs Breast Augmentation $11,200/13,000
Aeriâs Moving Out & Transition Fund $15,019/20,000 ăă more than 75%; keep it going
SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMANâS LIFE $4,570/25,000 ăă needs more
Codyâs Top Surgery $2,758/7,000
Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,845/6,000 ăă 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, Iâll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. Iâm also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.
Been hearing a lot about âreparationsâ lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly wonât.
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.Â
itâs justâŚmore 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 weâre 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 shouldnât just be seen as something in need of treatment. weâre not something in need of fixing. there are a lot of really good things this world wouldnât have if it werenât for the contributions of autistic peopleâcontributions 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.Â
statistically, youâve 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 iâm 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 didnât 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 âstraight cultureâ does a disservice to everyone.Â
People in M/F relationships shouldnât 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 âthatâs just how straight relationships are,â fewer people will be able to recognize the warning signs of a dangerous situation. Also, not every M/F relationship is âstraight,â because queer people can absolutely be in M/F relationships, and deserve to see themselves represented, too.
On the flip side, queer people shouldnât 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 didnât really get an education on what abuse in queer relationships can look like.
I just feel like itâs irresponsible to paint toxic relationships as âa straight people thing.â
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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 itâs beautiful. Itâs 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 ârationalâ is probably one of my big pet peevesÂ
Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes Iâve 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.
Hereâs a quick handy reference list or anyone who isnât sure:
Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.
âAlpha malesâ are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.
âSurvival of the fittestâ simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it âfitsâ 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.
âRaceâ 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. Itâs just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isnât âless evolvedâ than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.
People didnât evolve âfrom apes.â Itâs more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.
No human on Earth is âcloserâ to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.
Neanderthals were also a âsiblingâ species of ours. We didnât 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 âwhite purityâ skinheads, youâre 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. Donât believe anyone who says its our nature to fight âevery man for themself.â Weâre 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 â community care and support is our way. We donât 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.
Occamâs razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Donât 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 âtheoryâ 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 oneâs 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 canât âstand in the wayâ of natural selection by caring for our ill. We donât need to âhelpâ evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so donât fall for anyone that tells you not to âstand in the wayâ of natural selection. Thatâs fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.
Not to mention natural selection doesnât have a âwillâ 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 âstand in its way.â Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.
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