I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.
I, the wife of Ramsey Orta, am a survivor of domestic violence by Ramsey… Jessica Orta needs your support for Legal Fees & Support Fund to D
the following is the description from the gofundme page:
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I, the wife of Ramsey Orta, am a survivor of domestic violence by Ramsey Orta during the Black Lives Matter movement. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jessica (Hollie) Orta, but I am known by Bella Eiko for live streaming the Occupy Oakland and Ferguson movements.
Over the last few years I have spoken out about my relationship, and marriage, to Ramsey prior to his incarceration. Ramsey physically, mentally, emotionally abused and financially extorted my son and I as I tried to position myself to organize support for him during his incarceration. After I drove to Las Vegas to avoid any further attacks from him, he used the money given to him by the movement to chase me down to Las Vegas and terrorize myself, my son and my then 82 year old Great Aunt. He often threatened me with gang violence and gave my address to people who wanted to harm me as punishment for not staying to endure more of his abuses while supporting him as he negotiated a lesser prison sentence.
In one of our altercations Ramsey physically attacked me by choking me and kidnapping my son for ransom money. You can imagine my shock because of him filming Eric Garner being murdered in the same way. The night before that attack, Ramsey verbally harassed me for not being able to hold in my urination after driving around for over half an hour looking for parking and then walking blocks trying to reach the apartment on Baruch in record breaking cold. These are only a few of the situations I have dealt with during our marriage.
I am asking that the movement that has been supporting Ramsey Orta to hold him, and those who knowingly shielded him from any repercussions for his actions, accountable for his domestic actions towards Black Women. I would also like to be able to go through a divorce process without him abruptly being able to stop it. In November of 2019, he backed away from the divorce proceedings, having his attorney tell me that he would be in touch, after I responded that I would want his assistance for long term therapy for my son and I after being exposed to his violence. Help in this area is greatly appreciated as it is more expensive than I can afford as a single mother.
I also would like the movements, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Oakland, Hands Up Don't Shoot & I Can't Breathe, to take action in keeping my son and I safe. I have had to move away from the city far from my friends and family because I feel I am in danger if I were ever to return, especially with him now having access to his welcome home fund, coupled with the blind support of many Black Lives Matter supporters.
I have been an organizer and given my life to this movement as a Black Woman, and this movement has only stood against me in support of Ramsey Orta. I am asking that this movement consider how it will move forward if it continues to silence Black Women and overlook the bad action of their heroes. The plausible alternatives for police in handling these kinds of situations moving forward are conversations that I’ve been trying to have for years.
I am not asking for police involvement. If I wanted to handle this with the police, I would have pressed charges on Ramsey but I am adamantly against the continuation of the prison industrial complex. I strongly believe in police abolition but we cannot continue to build a movement in which black women and black children continue to be targets of misogyny in their households. You cannot continue to praise someone for a single action, when they've attacked and perpetrated violence towards the most vulnerable people in your community. In order to talk about police abolition we must also talk about the future we wish to replace it with. We will not be able to accomplish that safe future if we don't hold accountable the actions of individuals that resemble those of the same patriarchal system.
With love & All Power to the People,
Bella Eiko”
i just saw this on twitter and i know i reblogged something about him before i knew so please if you can donate to her please do
So…JK Rowling is now deliberately linking her sexual assault and domestic abuse with trans women (utterly abhorrent) and saying that “any man” can get a gender recognition certificate and use this to enter women only spaces (blatantly untrue).
If you can’t see the blatant TERF dogwhistles in this I cannot help you. She has clearly been radicalised because this what TERFs do. They prey on women’s traumas and use this to brainwash them into supporting their cause. They prey on the fears of the vulnerable and twist them for their own bigoted and vile agenda.
JK Rowling will not listen to us now. We can only hope at some point she breaks away and starts to truly listen and educate herself.
The best we can do is support trans youth *especially* trans women and trans women of colour even more so; who are more likely than any minority to experience abuse, mental illness, bullying, homelessness, sexual assault/rape and murder.
A person with such a high platform as JK is going to do serious damage to the trans cause we must combat this!
Not just with petty posts of how much she sucks but with action. Donate to trans charities, educate those around you, write to your government, those of you who follow me in the UK write to your MP about the revision of the Gender Recognition Act Review. This has been underway since 2018 and would allow trans people to change their gender without waiting years for appointments at gender clinics and jumping through nonsensical hoops.
Do not allow transmisogyny and transphobia to go on unchallenged.
We must make sure the world is a place where trans women are loved and supported and leave people like JK in the past where they are choosing to stay.
Donate here:
MissionThe National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of tra
Transgenderlegal Defense & Education Fund
Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of
Helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995
really getting sick of people who aren’t trans women saying “y’all find out JK Rowling is a terf every three months…. we already fucking knew” like. sorry, but it didn’t stop being a big deal that the most well known author in the fucking world literally belongs to a hate group dedicated to eliminating trans women’s rights. that’s a big fucking deal, and people are allowed to talk and post about it when it happens.
“y’all find out JKR is a terf every two months!!!” is just a way to dismiss trans women’s worries about her. yeah we already knew, but she’s STILL doing it and it’s HURTING us. but you wouldn’t know because y’all don’t actually give a shit about trans women.
y’all don’t realise like. JK Rowling being a terf isn’t like a fun example of this annoying “boomer” being out of touch and politically incorrect; JK Rowling is the MOST WELL KNOWN AUTHOR in the WORLD and she is now actively telling people they should join the terf movement. this is going to cause trans women to die. she’s already buddy-buddy with politicians who have the power to cause trans-related legislation.
JK Rowling being openly a terf and advocating for terf politics and policies on her Twitter is going to have real world effects. this isn’t dumb fandom drama. this isn’t “read another book”. trans women are BEING HURT and are GOING TO GET HURT because of this. i have already had an uptick in terfs in my inbox/notes after this. this isn’t funny. this isn’t meaningless. this is NEWS and it’s SCARY so stop fucking joking about it.
ID: “This Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who don’t shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who don’t bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who can’t afford transition, trans people who aren’t out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who don’t plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isn’t white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who don’t identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who don’t pass and don’t want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so don’t forget the T.” End ID
P.S. : can someone tell me if I did the image description right cuz I have no idea
like and/or reblog this if your blog is open (pre, during and post pandemic) for people to drop in for a chat and even find a friend! (mostly because I think it’ll be nice for ppl to connect during this time) 💘
One of the reasons Twilight was so hated initially was because preteen and teenage girls liked it. It was incredibly racist and depicted extremely unhealthy and abusive relationships. But that’s not why grown men made fun of young girls for liking it. They never looked or cared enough to read into why it was so harmful, they just excused it as something dumb because of the target demographic. Twilight’s message was actual terrible and misogyny paints girls’ interests as something to be made fun of are both true statements. Things are allowed to exist as a duality.
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