[blacklesbiansconfess]

Black trans men elders have done so much for the trans community but get little support or visibility in return. Let's change this!

Dr. Kortney Ziegler is raising $100k to split between three amazing Black trans men who have paved the way for our community to live as open and authentically as we can.

Ethan Thomas Young:

Ethan is Almost 61 years old trans man with Cerebral Palsy. He is working part time as a peer support specialist.

Rev. Louis Mitchell:

Rev. Louis Mitchell is a pioneering "intentional man". He is known around the country and abroad as an elder, advocate, teacher, student, minister, parent and friend.

Kylar Broadus, Esq.:

Kylar is a lawyer, civil rights activist, and first transgender person to speak at the Senate to defend the rights of transgender workers across America.

Supporting Black Trans Elders organized by Kortney Ziegler

Black trans men elders have done so much for the trans community but get little support … Kortney Ziegler needs your support for Supporting

[justcatposts]

Cat finds a new friend 

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[milf-zone]

All police departments are evil but the NYPD is exponentially more evil than any other PD in the country.

The NYPD has an annual budget if $6 billion. A lot of this budget goes into excessive overtime. When you have such a large budget, it translates into over-policing and dramatically shifts the type of policing that happens. Cops will be more interested in issuing fines as opposed to spending time solving actual crime. This affects poor people and neighborhoods (often people of color) at a disproportionate rate. So over policing for revenue collection and under policing for serious crime ends up becoming a loop.

So when you hear that the NYPD needs an annual budget of $6 billion because "NYC has a high crime rate" just know that it's like this on purpose. The NYPD drains tax revenue and distributes it internally through excessive overtime and uses fines and fees (officers literally have quotas) to justify it's need for such a large annual budget.

If the NYPD budget was cut, I promise you they wouldn't impose an 8pm curfew and have 8000 officers on duty collecting overtime. A budget cut for the NYPD means we could allocate much needed funding to help small local businesses hurt by COVID. We could fund programs on homelessness, mental health, youth services, combating overcrowding in schools and transportation.

If you live in NYC, I urge you to call/email the New York City Council and ask them to cut NYPD funding. This is your right as a tax payer.

The current chair of the Finance Committee is council member Daniel Dromm

Email: [email protected]

District office phone: [phone]

Legislative office phone: [phone]

[camp-counselor-life]

From Girl Scout’s social media. The original Twitter thread is here.

[6abczooballoon]

"Well, I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don't know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle survived. So whatever I'm doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities and I think that this is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectives that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism."

—Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Chapter Three: We Have to Talk about Systemic Change (Interview by Frank Barat in Paris [December 10, 2014])

[fotojournalismus]

Black Panthers in Chicago, Illinois, 1969.

Photographs by Hiroji Kubota

[distantvoices]

"Rodeo Queens" By Justin French For Dazed Magazine September 2019

[fruitsfruits-deactivated2023072]

I'm not about to make another long ass post or do another GFM bc it's actually psychologically draining and I've posted enough. Just a reminder that the case has been going on for a year and my sister and her husband are broke with no idea how to pay this bill that's accumulated from trying to protect black children. If black lives matter, black girls must matter.

Pay Akela Kirk using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/womminist and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[lookataleaf3000]

hey king i’m looking for good lesbian organizations to donate to, do you have any suggestions?

I am not an expert but here’s what I know about and a couple I found after a little searching. I tried to list both US and international, though unfortunately limited myself to those who had pages in English, because I couldn’t quickly verify stuff otherwise — I just did this during a couple mins downtime at work so it’s not even slightly comprehensive. Please feel free to add more or let me know if any of these are defunct.

“Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) works to combat violence and injustice against Black lesbian women in the townships of South Africa, which is particularly prevalent, but often silenced.” http://few.org.za

“AALUSC's vision is to ensure the spiritual, cultural, educational, economic and social empowerment of African Ancestral womyn and that our voice is represented in policy reform and decision making around issues that affect us.” NYC/Atlanta https://sites.google.com/view/aalusc/home

“ZAMI NOBLA National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging aims to empower, affirm, and serve the lives of lesbians of African descent as a resource for the latest research on the issues that affect us the most.” https://zaminobla.org

“OLOC–Old Lesbians Organizing for Change–through social, emotional, spiritual, and political activities–recognizes, empowers, and facilitates a safe and supportive community by and for every Lesbian 60 years and older.” https://oloc.org/

“The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is a multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-identity organization that grew from a lesbian feminist vision. We are committed to achieving rights for all, upholding strong values such as self-determination, community empowerment, movement building, and connection across issues and generations.” https://www.astraeafoundation.org

“The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.” https://alp.org

I found this link that has info on 4 womens, Lesbian, bisexual, transgender organizations in India. https://feminisminindia.com/2018/04/03/4-lbt-organisations-india-listicle/

Aswat: Palestinian Gay Women “Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms’ mission is to fuel our feminist-queer movements and shift power to LBTQI women by investing in capacity building, fostering collective feminist action, advocating for sexual diversity and gender justice, amplifying LBTQI+ women voices and propelling queer-feminist organizing through leadership development.” https://www.aswatgroup.org

The Coalition of African Lesbians is a feminist, activist and pan Africanist network of 14 organisations in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa committed to advancing freedom, justice and bodily autonomy for all women on the African continent and beyond. https://www.cal.org.za

[ch-cago]

PLEASE help my mom who’s homeless but in a steady recovery program afford gas to get to work tomorrow!!!

she’s less a week into her job that will literally get them out of a shelter and into permanent housing.

Venmo: @chicajo

PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/chicajordan / [email protected]

Cash App: $chicajordan

[ch-cago]

JK, any money sent to me would have to be transferred to my mom, so please send directly to her (unless you can only use PayPal)!!!

[ch-cago]

Hi this is kind of an emergency! In order for my mom to keep working she needs some gas money to get from their long term shelter placement program to her job!!!! Please help

[bombnails]

Housing for trans people experiencing homelessness organized by Milan Nicole Sherry

Introducing House of Tulip.House of Tulip is a Community Land T… Milan Nicole Sherry needs your support for Housing for trans people experiencing homelessness

House of Tulip is a majority Black and majority Women run community land trust that plans to help combat homelessness in the Trans and Gender Non-conforming community of Louisiana starting in summer of 2020.   Their goal is to offer support and a path to homeownership to those struggling.  Please click the link to learn more and donate, and share to support this cause. 

[onehotminute]

[lesbianchai]

HERE IS A LINK THAT WILL AUTOMATICALLY DRAFT UP AN EMAIL TO AURORA GOVT , JUST PUT YOUR NAME AND PUT SOME PERSONAL FLAIR

HERE IS A PETITION TO SIGN

[beaniebabyaday]

todays beanie is: logger the bear!

[lookataleaf3000]

Saw my first fireflies of the summer :’)

[thesociologicalcinema]

“Mad women fight back”; “Bet your ass we’re paranoid” - Psychiatric survivors during a protest in 1976

[bananapeppers]

the woman on the right is Saralinda Grimes, and I believe that this photo may have been taken at the June 29–July 29, 1976 sleep-in in the office of California Governor Jerry Brown enacted by members of Network Against Psychiatric Assault and Women Against Psychiatric Assault, documented in Madness Network News 4, no. 1 (1976). I welcome correction.

in her own words, Saralinda Grimes was a “deaf Native American lesbian feminist” (Madness Network News 4, no. 3 [1977], 9). she was active with Women Against Psychiatric Assault.

[lookataleaf3000]

The three most recent messages I’ve gotten are about difficult body stuff, and I see all three of you and am sending love but can’t properly respond right now. I get really activated by all medical stuff and this week I’ve had to see multiple medical ppl and will have to two more times at least in the next few days, so I just kinda can’t rn. But do not even think about apologizing btw I’m just sorry I’m not answering right away, hopefully I remember in a few days unlike usually where I just forget foreve r

[sweeterxfiction]

72% of women in the US with HIV are black. Talk about disproportionate. The cool thing is there is an organization, Black AIDS Institute, that is trying to fight HIV/AIDS in Black communities! Definitely worth checking out, even if you can’t donate. They’re pretty fuckin cool.

(Edited bc I didn’t put in the US, which was truly stupid of me)