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Note: I moved this under a read more since donations can no longer be made here. Feel free to make some to a charity of your choice though!
Did you know it used to be the Christmas goat that brought you your presents in Sweden?
To keep the spirit alive, you can officially make a donation in the name of this little crochet goat to support everyone's right to survive their pregnancy! Just go to this link and follow these steps:
Please note that this collection only remains active until 15 Dec 2024! More information about the organisers can be found at the bottom of this post.
On the right hand side/top of the linked page, you can see the current sum of donations. Below that are some options we need to fill out to make a donation of our own.
First we need to disclose whether the donation is being made by a private individual (Privatperson) or a business (Företag). I'm assuming you're a private individual, so leave the first option selected (on the left).
Next we choose the method of payment. "Swish" is a Swedish payment service that won't work for foreigners, and if you're Swedish I'm assuming you already know how it works. Foreigners, please choose the second option to pay by card (Kort).
Now for the fun bit! How much do you want to donate? The standard options are presented in Swedish krona (kr). I have put the rough exchange rates to US dollars for each option below:
50 kr ≈ $4.56 | 100 kr ≈ $9.13 | 300 kr ≈ $27.38
You can convert from your currency to Swedish krona using this tool. Just choose your own currency in the first drop-down menu ("from").
In the final field you have the option to instead enter your own amount, if you want to give less or more or in between any of the previous options. Note that the amount you enter is in Swedish krona, so look up the exchange rates so that you know how much you are giving if you choose this option!!
The final two check boxes are options that relate to the public display of your donation (see the bottom of the page). If you don't check either option, your donation amount will be visible but your name will not be.
Check the first box if you want your name to show up in the public list of donations, leave it unchecked to remain anonymous. Check the second box if you want to hide the amount you've donated, leave it unchecked to show the world your donation amount.
Finally, hit the red button to be taken to the payment page. Fulfil the payment, and be sure to double check the amount you're donating. Note that we use commas instead of dots to separate decimals in Swedish, so 50,00 kr means simply 50 kr.
And that's it! Thank you so much for your donation!! 🥳🐐
Please reblog this post so that more people will hopefully donate, or at least get to enjoy a tiny Gävlebock!
What is this charity thing?
Musikhjälpen is an annual charity event organised by the Swedish public broadcasters. Every year in December, 3 hosts are locked in a glass cage for a week and they broadcast in shifts, nonstop for 144 hours (6 days, 24 hours per day) to create an occasion for charity donations. They are visited by various music artist, celebrities, and talk to people who have special knowledge about the donation theme of the year or who organise initiatives for donations. You can watch clips of previous performances on their youtube channel here.
The event's official donations website also allows the public to set up their own "initiatives", to which donations can be made. This is what I have done! The money goes directly to the event organisers (the public broadcasters' aid agency, Radiohjälpen), who then pool all the money that is collected during the week. After the week is done they will begin portioning it out to trusted charities that are relevant to this year's theme. This year's theme is Alla har rätt att överleva sin graviditet, or in English: Everyone Has a Right to Survive Their Pregnancy.
Learn more about musikhjälpen on English Wikipedia or on Sveriges radio's website (in Swedish).
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If you prefer, the goat will be just as happy if you make a donation to a charity of your choice. You'll have to find links to other causes on your own though! 😊
I should probably also mention that I am in no way officially affiliated with Gävlebocken, I just crocheted a little guy and thought it would be nice to spread some constructive spirit among all the calls for arson. 😇
i see a lot of people call imane intersex when actually we don't know if this is fact. if somebody is going off of the failed gender test then you need to know the context around this test:
iba is such a corrupt organization and could have easily just disqualified imane for no reason by using the gender test as a cover-up. the context is very shady. nobody knows if imane is intersex and we don't even really know if she actually has high testosterone because the iba didn't do a testosterone test & she has been able to compete in other tournaments with no mention of her testosterone. we also don't know if she has an XY chromosome. imane has never confirmed any of this. we shouldn't spread misinformation (which i have done as well when i wasn't aware).
Knowing what I know about the sport, alarm bells went off when the whole situation with Imane Khelif vs. Angela Carini went viral.
First off, Imane is Algerian. That country isn’t exactly known for being LGBT+ friendly, so the likelihood that an Algerian male would transition to female – in such a public way no less – is slim. In fact, changing genders is illegal in Algeria.
And wouldn’t you know, Imane is a cis gender woman. She was born anatomically female. There is zero evidence that she has a Y chromosome.
In March 2023, the IBA disqualified her for high levels of testosterone. However, there are many reasons a woman might have high level of testosterone, and doesn’t necessarily have to do with having a Y chromosome.
Even though the IBA disqualified her, that disqualification needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The IBA is a notoriously corrupt organization. It is so corrupt, they’ve effectively been barred from the Olympics. It’s their fault that boxing might not be at the 2028 Olympics too.
Either way, Imane competed in IBA competitions previously. She’s been a competitor since 2018. For six years, IBA did not ban her from competition until this year.
“But wait!” some might be saying, “Angela Carina says she fights like a man and having her compete is unfair!”
If that were true, Imane would never lose. However, let’s take a look at her record. She has 37 wins, 9 by KO, and 7 losses.
That means seven women have defeated Imane. Seven women walked into the ring against her and managed to beat her decisively. How did these seven women manage to go toe-to-toe against Imane and win?
Maybe Imane simply was unskilled previously but her amazing “man-like” power has managed to carry her through recent competitions.
Okay, but look at her KO percentage. Only knocking out 13.5% of opponents doesn’t scream “crazy macho power” to me. Her power is par for the course for her weight class. And actually, a good many women have a higher KO percentage than Imane – her punching power is therefore the opposite of exceptional.
What bugs me about all this is that Imane Khelif worked hard to get into the Olympics. Now a lie has detracted from her win. She doesn’t deserve this.
Shame on everyone for misgendering Imane Khelif and spreading misinformation.
You know what’s especially sad about this?
Imane Khelif got into boxing because the men in her village were violent towards her. She was athletically gifted, they felt threatened by her, and therefore picked fights with her.
Because of this, she had to learn how to dodge punches. She got so good at dodging punches from her male harassers, that she became a boxer.
And when she became a boxer, she had to struggle to pursue it because her father didn’t approve of girls being boxers.
But now she’s at the Olympics, living her dream, and what happens? People question her womanhood.
oh my god imagine overcoming a childhood of misogyny in your sport and all of the "girls can't do that" just to make it to the olympics and have a bunch of TERFs calling you a man
Explore the world of early bacteriological research with this historical footage from the Wellcome Trust, now available on JSTOR. This short film, dating back to between 1910 and 1919, showcases the movement and agglutination of typhoid and cholera bacilli, providing a rare glimpse into the origins of modern bacteriology. Believed to be one of the earliest surviving film records of this type, it highlights cultures possibly from the Bombay Plague Laboratory (now the Haffkine Institute for Training, Research & Testing).
Dive into this unique piece of scientific history.
Clip: Bacillus Typhosus (Typhoid and Cholera Bacilli). Wellcome Collection.
There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.
First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?
Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.
One of the things I'd always heard was that Pride should be welcoming to straight people because a lot of people cannot be publicly out so they instead present as straight and it creates like... an aura of deniability with the people closest to them.
When I helped run an LGBT+ group we were super clear about allies being welcome in our messaging exactly because we wanted to make sure people who were not out yet for whatever reason could safely join!!!
I love how the TARDIS had a human form with eleven and she was like "my thief, my thief, I love my thief" BUT FAILED TO MENTION THE GOD OF DEATH HAD BEEN IN HER BACK FOR DECADES.
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