I Don’t Even Know

uhhh name’s bibs (she/her)/formless blob hmu whenever (i sucks at convos but eh) the banner is by shittywatercolour :)

[artsekey]

Emergency Commissions

Hey, guys! I haven’t opened commissions in a long time (and still have a few on the backburner), but my dog just required two very expensive emergency vet visits back to back. 

For this reason, I’m offering sketches and portraits at a discounted rate with a quick turnaround (1-3 days!) These will only be open for a limited time, and I don’t offer sketches normally! These are the lowest my prices will ever be! 

If you’re interested, send me a message here on tumblr and I’ll give you my e-mail so we can discuss specifics. 

All prices are in USD and payment will be done over Paypal. 

[vatican3]

“Hello, my name is Sharlene Pike and I am a black transgender person originating from South Africa and working as a receptionist/host. I moved to the United States 4 years ago alone and without any support, as my parents died in my home country when I was 18. Being a transgender black female immigrant places three discrimination barriers and makes it extremely hard to socialize and find a job to live properly. Nevertheless, I tried my best. I had been working at 7 different companies as a receptionist/host/waitress for these four years, but 2 months ago I lost my job. The reasoning I was given - ‘staff reduction due to COVID-19 complications’. I have been unemployed for these 2 months, but the reason I can’t start a new job is not COVID-19. In February, I was diagnosed with stage-3 esophageal cancer. I had no prior knowledge of my diagnosis as this type of cancer can be quite concealed, and I had only two or three weeks of eating discomfort before I had a medical consultation. The company I was working at had a special program to support staff members who need expensive surgeries or therapies, and I believe my diagnosis was the true reason I was reduced, since it happened just after I told my office I might need an extended medical leave. The sum I have spent on the medical procedures only to clarify the future treatment equals my 3 salaries. The sum I’m asking for is actually covering first 6 months of treatment and the cheapest drug - basically simply to have a chance to survive. I have no health insurance and I can’t take a new job because my health condition significantly deteriorated. The thing that I have learnt throughout these months is that it is very hard to get any, even basic medical help if you are transgender. The death rate of the esophageal cancer is about 30%, which is very high, and I ask you to help me to have a chance to survive. I tried to deal with everything without anyone by my side, but current circumstances left me with no choice but to ask you to donate and share my story. Thank you very much.”

this gofundme was started on june 19th, 2020 and as of june 30th, 2020 she still needs donations! i’ll reblog with the donation link in one moment.

[cocinar-deactivated20200712]

Here’s the fundraiser link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/cancer-treatment-for-transgender-person

Help black trans woman with stage-3 cancer organized by Sharlene Pike

Hello, my name is Sharlene Pike and I am a black transgender person originati… Sharlene Pike needs your support for Help black trans woman w

As of today, 7/8/2020 she has $32,883 raised of the $82,900 goal

[cocinar-deactivated20200712]

$33,073 raised of $82,900 goal

[inuzukahana-deactivated20210106]

$36,231 raised of $82,900 goal as of today July 18, 2020

[aireina]

donate to black trans groups

the following organizations accept donations via Venmo, PayPal or Cashapp:

Homeless Black Trans Women Fund: supports Black Trans women that live in Atlanta and are sex workers and/or homeless

Trans Justice Funding Project: supports grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people, focusing on organizing around racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, and incarceration

Trans(forming): membership-based organization led by trans men, intersex, gender non-conforming people of color, to provide resources and all around transitional support

Black Trans Men Inc.: the first national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering Black Transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities

Kween Culture: provides programming towards social and cultural empowerment of transgender women of color

Heaux History Project: a documentary series and archival project exploring Black and Brown erotic labor history and the fight for sex workers’ rights

Tournament Haus Fund: mutual aid fund for protesters and trans/non binary BIPOC in the ballroom scene in Portland/Tacoma/Seattle

Black Excellence Collective Transport for Black NYC LGBTQ+ Protesters: raising funds to provide safe transport for Black LGBTQ+ protesters (NYC)

F2L Relief Fund: provides commissary support (and legal representation & financial assistance) for incarcerated LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit POC in NY state

Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit: uplifts, impacts and influences the lives and welfare of transgender women of color in Detroit

Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund organized by Black Trans Femme in the Arts Collective: supports Black trans protesters with resources like bail and medical care

Black Trans Travel Fund: a mutual aid project developed to provide Black transgender women with the financial resources to self-determine safer alternatives to travel, so they feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm

Reproductive Justice Access Collective (ReJAC): a New Orleans network that aims to share information, resources, ideas, and human power to create and implement projects in the community that operate within the reproductive justice framework

the following organizations can be donated to individually or all-together via this split donation form that will split your donation amount to equal parts:

Okra Project/Tony McDade and Nina Pop Mental Health Fund: provides Black Trans people with quality mental health & therapy and addresses food security in Black trans communities

For The Gworls: provides assistance to Black trans folks with travel to and from medical facilities, and co-pay assistance for prescriptions and (virtual) office visits ⁣

Third Wave Fund: an activist fund led by and for women of color, intersex, queer, and trans people under 35 years of age to resource the political power, well-being, and self determination of communities of color and low-income communities; rapid response grantmaking, multi-year unrestricted grants, and the Sex Worker Giving Circle

Unique Womens Coalition (Los Angeles, CA): supportive organization for and by transgender people of color, committed to fostering the next generation of black trans leadership through mentorship, scholarship, and community care engagement work

Black Trans Women Inc.: a national nonprofit organization committed to providing the trans-feminine community with programs and resources 

SisTers/Brothers PGH (Pittsburgh, PA): A transgender drop-in space, resource provider and shelter transitioning program

Love Me Unlimited for Life: helps transgender community members reach their goals and fulfill their potential through advocacy and outreach activities

My Sistah’s House Memphis (Memphis, TN): designed to bring about social change within the Trans Community in Memphis by providing a safe meeting space and living spaces for those who are most vulnerable in the LGBTQ+ community

Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project: builds and centers the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants through community-building, political education, direct services, and organizing across borders; provides cash assistance to Black LGBTQ+ migrants and first generation people dealing with the impact of COVID-19

Taja’s Coalition at St. James Infirmary (San Francisco/Bay Area): navigating housing, medical services, legal services, and the workplace, as well as regularly training agencies

Marsha P. Johnson Institute: helps employ black trans people, build more strategic campaigns, launch winning initiatives, and interrupt the people who are standing in the way of more being possible in the world for black Trans people

Black & Pink Bail Fund: national prison abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling the criminal punishment system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by the system 

Black Visions Collective (MN): healing and transformative justice principles and develops Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership, creating the conditions for long term success and transformation

Middle Tennessee Black and Indigenous Support Fund (Middle, TN): a community fund for Black and Indigenous queer and trans folks to foster wealth redistribution in its larger community, direct the funds to Black and Indigenous community members, and build the leadership of Black and Indigenous community members

SNaPCo (Atlanta, GA): a Black, trans-led collaborative to restore an Atlanta where every person has the opportunity to grow and thrive without facing unfair barriers, especially from the criminal legal system

Brave Space Alliance (Chicago, IL): created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people on the South and West Sides of Chicago

House of GG: a nonprofit, founded trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, that is raising money to build a permanent home for Transgender people  and be part of a growing network of Southern trans people who are working for social justice

TGI Justice Project: a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers challenging and ending human rights abuses committed against TGI people in California prisons, jails, detention centers

Trans Women of Color Collective: creates revolutionary change by uplifting the narratives, leadership, and lived experience of trans people of color

Youth Breakout (New Orleans, LA): seeks to end the criminalization LGBTQ youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans, organizing with youth ages 13-25 who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system

Translash: a trans-led project uses the power of individual stories to help save trans lives, shifting the cultural understanding of what it means to be transgender, especially during a time of social backlash, to foster inclusion and decrease anti-trans hostility

TRANScending Barriers:  empowers the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services

My Sistah’s House: a trans-led nonprofit providing first hand experience and field research to create a one-stop shop for finding doctors, social groups and safe spaces for the trans community, providing emergency shelter, access to sexual health services, and social services

TAKE Birmingham: focuses on discrimination in the workplace, housing advocacy, support for sex workers, providing trans-friendly services, and working to alleviate the many other barriers that TWOC face

Dem Bois: provides charitable economical aid for female to male, FTM, trans-masculine identified person(s) of color ages 21 years old and older for them to obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and or genital reassignment surgery

G.L.I.T.S: approaches the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers

Emergency Release Fund (NYC): aims to ensure that no trans person at risk in New York City jails remains in detention before trial; pays cash bails

HEARD: Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities: supports deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled, and disabled people at every stage of the criminal legal system process, up to and including during and after incarceration

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition COVID-19 Community Response Grant: works daily to end discrimination and inequities faced in health, employment, housing and education to improve the lived experience of transgender people

Princess Janae Place: provides referrals to housing for chronically homeless LGBTQ adults in the New York Tri-state area, with direct emphasis on Trans/GNC people of color

The Transgender District: aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Assata’s Daughters (Chicago, IL): Black woman-led; organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services

Collective Action for Safe Spaces: A grassroots organization that uses comprehensive, community-based solutions through an intersectional lens to eliminate public gendered harassment and assault in the DC area.

The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) work for justice and equality through group economics, education, leadership development, and organizing cultural work throughout rural areas in Alabama

The Outlaw Project (Phoenix, AZ): prioritizes the leadership of people of color, transgender women, gender non-binary and migrants for sex worker rights

WeCare TN (Memphis, TN): Supports trans women of color 

Community Ele'te (Richmond, VA): provides safe sex awareness and education, linkage to resources, emergency housing assistance

TAJA’s Coalition (San Francisco, CA): ending violence against Black Trans women and Trans women of color 

Black Trans Task Force: intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black Trans people in the Seattle-Tacoma area

The Transgender District: stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Black Trans Media (Brooklyn, NY): #blacktranseverything storytellers, organizers, poets, healers, filmmakers, facilitators that confront racism and transphobia

Garden of Peace, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA): for black trans & queer youth, elevates and empowers the narratives and lived experiences of black youth and their caretakers, guides revolutionary spaces of healing and truth through art, education, and mentorship

House of Pentacles (Durham, NC): Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans youth into the film industry and tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and Trans

Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition (Minneapolis, MN): committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy

RARE Productions (Minneapolis, MN): arts and entertainment media production company for LGBTQ people of color that promotes, produces, and co-creates opportunities and events utilizing innovative artistic methods and strategies

Baltimore Safe Haven (Baltimore, MD): providing opportunities for a higher quality of life for transgender people in Baltimore

Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts: recently helped organize a Trans Resistance Vigil and March through Boston, in place of the Boston Pride Parade that was cancelled due to COVID-19

Semillas: in Puerto Rico, the trans, gender non-conforming and queer communities are facing many obstacles to survival

Street Youth Rise Up: change the way Chicago sees and treats its homeless and street based youth who do what they have to do to survive

[ren-c-leyn]

You, writer, yes you, you have the capability to write someone’s new favorite story, and don’t let your goblin brain tell you otherwise. Keep going, that person/those people are probably wandering bookstores as we speak with blank expressions because they can’t find your story yet.

[intelligentchristianlady]

Please just stay home.

[luvmangosdope]

Thanks to whoevet made this post!!! My allergies kicking my ass right now. I got scared for a min

[dailydankmeme]

I spent my two-hour layover mourning the two halves of my Ovation. Help me save others from the same fate!

[travislatrine]

SIGNAL BOOST. I honestly didn’t know this.

[cameoappearance]

#my dad - a professional musician - has many horror stories from people who didn’t know this and had their guitars totally wrecked on planes #advice duck

[coasttocoastlikebutteredtoast]

The More You Know.

[unclebeanbag]

I did not know this

[animar-seal-of-elephants]

This goes for violins and any other stringed instrument as well

[theinturnetexplorer]

Homosexuality explained in a German Children’s Book

[improfem]

Ok, two notes: it doesn’t say “my dad and his friend” it says “my dad and his boyfriend”, they’re just the same in German. And it doesn’t say homosexual, it says gay - this is actually still pretty modern language despite the way it looks.

[idunnotm-has-no-idea]

IM CRYINGGGG MY HEART

[chaoticobsesseddumbass-deactiva]

GJDHDG

[programmerhumour]

Repost to spread. (Not really humor)

[knights-vigil]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/new-warning-issued-for-all-whatsapp-and-imessage-users-major-threat-to-encryption/

New Warning Issued For All WhatsApp And iMessage Users: ‘Major Threat’ To Encryption

Is this the beginning of the end for secure messaging?

[late-nite-student-ramblings]

The transition to online classes

Hello there! 

So my university just recently went from

“summer break and a two week quarantine afterwards ” 

to 

“The rest of the semester will be online”

and I just wanted to share how I’m going to deal with the transition. I’ll try and keep my anxieties to myself about all that is happening and just let you know what I plan on doing. 

Please note: I am fortunate enough to be in the same timezone as my university, and therefore my professors, I have acceptable internet access available to me and I don’t have drastic life changes i.e. being incoming freshman or graduation. This is just all I could think of on the spot.

Generally 

1. Try an be productive over break-Sounds stupid I know, its break and no one expects you to be productive but believe me it will be much easier to get in the grove of things when classes start up again. 

2. Find a dedicated space to work in that’s not your bedroom- It’s going to be even harder to separate work and leisure during this time.

3. Online planners are a lifesaver- It’s easy to forget about deadlines and dates

4. Keep to your regular schedule- Most of my profs are trying to keep the same schedule; uploading materials at the same time as classes, zoom sessions at the same time, online office hours, etc so this is easier for me than most; keeping the same dedicated time to your classes will, again, keep you in the grove of being productive.

5. Get ready like you’re still physically going to classes- get dressed to get yourself in the right head space.

6. Act like you’re still in class- take notes, pay attention, active listening, keep track of questions to ask via email or whatever. 

7. Right now is a really good time to work on your written communication with your profs.

8. Email your professors ASAP about anything that could prevent you from getting work done- I have a couple of classes that I have to be on university computers for due to the incompatibility of personal computer and software required.  

9. Start your homework earlier than normal- In my experience, its usually more difficult to get help strictly via email so give some buffer time to figure things out.

10. Keep up with your classmates- Not just for social reasons, though it does help the cabin fever, they can be a valuable extra resource when you need help. 

Lastly, remember to be patient with yourself, your profs, your school, and the people around you. 

I’ll add more when I think of them. If you have anything to add, questions, or tips that I haven’t though feel free to share.

Good luck and all the best,

-Eleks

[immxrtal-bitch-deactivated20200]

!!!

the music industry is being hit hard at the moment. with a lot of tours being cancelled because of the corona virus, its really important that we support our favourite artists right now!! we need to be doing the most for them, considering a lot of money and financial revenue is being lost because of cancellations. buy their merchandise, stream their songs. this isn’t just about the big artists either, support upcoming ones too!! help them achieve their dreams!! now is the time to support music, its been there through every step of our lives, we need to be there for the artists now.

[biseckuals]

yall mind if i love and support bi men real quick

[my-stupid-advice]

Love and support!

[lilbabypansexual-deactivated202]

Y’all mind if I also support bi non-binary peeps real quick

[trekkienatural]

Go ahead

They deserve it

[thechekhov]

Old cats are bastards, more at 9. 

(author’s note: this goes without saying but PLEASE don’t let your animals anywhere near alcohol. it’s very toxic to them.)

[kuribho-deactivated20180129]

This song is very catchy but you know what's catchier...

These hands

[whitepeopletwitter]

[30-minute-memes]

oh the regret

[eggocrumbs]

Remember that part when they finally got together and adopted a pomeranian?😔🌈✨ 

[gumuhit]

unaligned (2016)