hello, so I’m pretty much done with this tumblr, but here are some things I’ve drawn recently. mostly birds
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hello, so I’m pretty much done with this tumblr, but here are some things I’ve drawn recently. mostly birds
Masahisa Fukase :: Ravens, Erimo Cape, Hokkaido, Japan, 1976
In the summer of 1976, Masahisa Fukase travelled from Tokyo to his hometown in Hokkaido and began to photograph ravens, an ill omen in Japan. src: Phillips
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towards a life that was never mine towards my ghosts in the thickest darkest pines where the moon dappled snow takes the form of a heart’s deepest fears
Maethawee Chiraphong - The End (Despair)
Feodor Rojankovsky
Celebrate pride by helping TWOC! Every year people spend thousands of dollars at corporate parades and parties, and we’re starving and struggling the whole time.
If you are a Trans woman of color you should reblog this and add your paypal/GoFundMe, and if you are a cis gay you should donate.
I guess I’ll start it off, but I’m a black trans woman that’s struggling a lot right now so if you wanna help I’d really appreciate it!
Paypal.me/SaintKam
I’m a black trans musician poet and youth mentor. Me and my partner are struggling to stay afloat. My job is up in the air with my boss quitting soon and traveling for a NYC performance in two weeks, needing coin for the rental car/food.
Paypal: [email protected]
Venmo: khrystennechrysalisamidst
I’m a 17 y/o twoc and immigrant that’s struggling to get by and I have unreliable housing atm
my paypal is www.paypal.me/gwennyugen
I’m a black trans girl trying to move out of my unsupportive parents house/ be able to keep taking hormones. My paypal is https://www.paypal.me/RainonW
Aurora levins morales, "nightflying"
Hey. I guess the time for a more formal post has come because of yet another potential death coming up in my family. I live in Baltimore with just my parents. I’m Rhodesia btw if you don’t know yet. My parent’s were trying to make it work again after years of separation but my grandmother passed away and my dad instantly relapsed back into abusive alcoholism and addiction, which he’s been battling since I was young. This has rendered him unable to drive because he’s lost his license so many times and it has kept him in and out of prison extensively. With that being said, my mom is the one who has a car and he’s taken it while drunk and put her only means of transportation at risk. I am trying to get her back home to Upstate, NY where we hail from over the course of the next month or so.
I’ve had a vaguely steady door-to-door sales job for the past several months, however there have always been shady practices within this company (they’ve been sued for wage theft 29474728 times) and I am one of a few people in my office to have wages taken from them or in my case, not being paid at all. In order to get my wages back I have to file a claim, and in the interim all my savings went towards getting my family down South for my grandma’s funeral two weeks ago and now to help my mom separate from my father again and move back home. I also am now facing the loss of my grandfather who has a compromised heart and last night went into a dangerous transplant operation. In case of anything unfavorable occuring, I’m also going to need to get us down to Connecticut to be with that side of my family.
Any and all financial assistance I receive goes towards those aforementioned things, as well as travel to interviews/work and helping to feed my family. Everything helps. I walk around looking raggedy because I am literally counting change and it isn’t helpful during interviews (I’m already black and have to be as woman-passing as possible to even be considered lol). Lots of other people are probably facing more dire straits than me so don’t feel obligated but it seems I’m gonna be getting out of this hole for a minute. I posted pictures of me because I dunno what else to post, if you want to see e-mails between myself and payroll at my company or the 63 cents in my bank account let me know lol.
You can send anything at all to paypal.me/rhodeezya. I’m very embarrassed to be doing this but also pride doesn’t feed people and my mom is a saint. Thanks.
Just gonna…. Slide this on through. And also I cried all the other day to the few people that really looked out like Phil @verifiedaccount um I love you all desperately and am perma-cucked by my heartfelt emotions towards you all.
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aurora levins morales
All of this talk on free speech reminds me of how vital it is to study history - not revisionist accounts - but empirical history and power struggle. Especially as a Pakistani-American who has lived 15 years in Pakistan and some 13 years in the U.S., “free speech” fascinates me as a supposed human right. So, here are some quick thoughts from history about “free speech” in the legislative and political context of the United States.
On the surface, we can all ostensibly agree that “free speech” is a democratic right. But once power structures - more specifically laws - are concerned, “free speech” isn’t so clearly cut out for everyone across the board. If it was, American history would not be so replete with laws that essentially denied certain ideologies and their human followers no space to speak and, most importantly, no space to live.
Over time, I’ve learned that many Americans have abstract understandings of free speech. It’s not understood in terms of institutionalized power imbalance. The general assumption is that we all enjoy equal and consistent pathways to free speech. This is false. Many of us were granted the right to speak and conduct freely after certain legal battles. And those pathways are still under attack. The language is different but the hostility remains the same.
Examples from American history shows the power imbalance has been real. People often forget that the “free speech” of minorities and leftists has been the main target of systematic attacks. Here are a few.
1. The California Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919 hit poor farmers the hardest. Some were deported, others were sent to prison for decades.
The Internal Security Act of 1950, also known as the McCarran Internal Security Act, hit leftists the worst for being “disloyal."
The Levering Act of 1950 demanded poor workers to sign a "loyalty oath.” Some 30 tenured professors were fired because they simply refused.
The Palmer Raids from the 1920s against leftists, esp. anarchists, included censoring the free speech of left-leaning workers. Not rightists.
The COINTELPRO program hit racial minorities the worst, specifically Black activists and their right to free speech.
The Dillingham-Hardwick Act of 1918 hit anti-war activists and their free speech along with labor unions. Deportations, imprisonments.
The Smith Act of 1940 regulated free speech of anti-war activists and minorities. The far-right used it to persecute marginalized voices.
The list goes on. The idea that the ideological right in America has suffered an equal amount of incursions is simply false. There is a reason why many leftists take issue with the mainstream rush to defend a Nazi’s right to free speech: they have not endured attacks the way leftists and especially racial minorities have. If people were made aware of American history more thoroughly, I genuinely think the conversation on free speech would be very different.