Stargazer

i tend to regret basically every decision i make and i don't know what to do about it 

[losersstargazer]

crash

[dovekiss]

The most comprehensive link to donations, petitions, resources and information. Silence is compliance in violence.

[luckcat-deactivated20240730]

A list of misinformation that’s being spread, please check that things are true before you repost/reblog them

A playlist of 56 videos that are all donating their ad revenue to causes related to the black lives matter movement

[marxist-feminist]

Advocates say the fastest way to help immigrants separated from their children: Post their bail

When undocumented immigrants are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), they are held in detention until they go to trial where the court will decide whether they can stay in the country. In some cases, the immigration judge will let them go while they await trial if they first pay a bail bond. Bail is set at a legal minimum of $1,500, but can be much higher. The bond is meant as a deposit to ensure the accused will report to their trial. If they attend all of their court appointments, they can get the money back. But many people have trouble coming up with the funds. The average bail bond issued by the San Francisco immigration courts in 2014 was $3,411 and the average cost of bond in immigration courts nationally is $6,500. Bond amounts could be as high as $80,500 on Central District of California immigration bonds, according to a 2015 study by USC law professor Emily Ryo. Donating to community bond funds can immediately “lead to freedom,” she said. Community bond funds are charities, like RAICES, that use funds to post bail and provide legal defense for detained people.This is one of the fastest ways to reunite immigrants with their family, said Pilar Weiss, project director at the National Bail Fund Network.

DIRECTORY OF CRIMINAL SYSTEM BAIL FUNDS

National organizations funding bail across the U.S.

National Bail Out

The American Bar Association

Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

Freedom for Immigrants

Local organizations funding bail for immigrants

Arizona Tucson Second Chance Bail Fund Colorado Colorado Freedom Fund California Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund Immigrant Families Defense Fund The Orange County Justice Fund Connecticut Connecticut Bail Fund Immigrant Bail Fund Florida LGBTQ Freedom Fund Hawaii Hawaii Community Bail Fund Illinois Champaign County Bailout Coalition Chicago Community Bond Fund Iowa Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project Kentucky Louisville Community Bail Fund Louisiana New Orleans Safety & Freedom Fund YWCA Greater Baton Rouge Community Bail Fund Massachusetts Massachusetts Bail Fund Minnesota Minnesota Freedom Fund Nebraska Omaha Freedom Fund Nevada Vegas Freedom Fund New York City Bronx Freedom Fund Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Lorena Borjas Community Fund WSLS Bail Fund New York State Columbia County Bail Fund EOC of Suffolk Inc. Charitable Bail Fund OAR of Tompkins County Bail Fund Syracuse Jail Ministry North Carolina Southern Coalition for Social Justice Bail Fund Alamance County Community Bail Fund North Carolina Community Bail Fund of Durham Oregon Portland Freedom Fund Pennsylvania Dauphin County Bail Fund Philadelphia Community Bail Fund Philadelphia Bail Fund Tennessee Hamilton County Community Bail Fund Memphis Community Bail Fund Nashville Community Bail Fund Texas Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee Fianza Fund Community Bail Fund of North Texas Virginia Richmond Community Bail Fund Roanoke Community Bail Fund Charlottesville Community Resilience Fund Washington Northwest Community Bail Fund Wisconsin Free the 350 Bail Fund

DIRECTORY OF IMMIGRATION BOND FUNDS National organizations across the U.S.

Freedom for Immigrants National Bond Fund

Haitian Immigrant Bond Assistance Project

LGBTQ Freedom Fund

RAICES Bond Fund

Arizona Pima Monthly Meeting Immigration Bond Fund California Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund Immigrant Families Defense Fund Orange County Justice Fund San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium – Borderlands Get Free Fund Colorado Immigrant Freedom Fund of Colorado Connecticut Immigrant Bail Fund Iowa Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project Massachusetts Beyond Bail & Legal Defense Fund Michigan Kent County Immigration Bond for Our Neighbor’s Defense Fund Minnesota Minnesota Freedom Fund New Hampshire NH Conference UCC Immigrant and Refugee Support Group New York LIFE Bond Fund (New Sanctuary Coalition)New York Immigrant Freedom Fund Ohio (includes Northern Kentucky) 3R Fund for Immigrants Texas Fronterizo Fianza Fund Hutto Community Deportation Defense & Bond Fund RAICES Texas Bond Fund Vermont Vermont Freedom Bail Fund  Virginia Cville Immigrant Bond Fund Washington Fair Fight Immigrant Bond Fund

[subversivelystitched]

Here's a chance to change some black trans lives

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I've copied all the fundraiser links below, and here's the link to the original post in case you'd prefer to look at the list that way.

Help me get home, please! $1,105/10,000

Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,610/3,500

Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $16,626/29,000

Shane's Top Surgery $934/6,180 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he's still waiting

Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $330/2,500 《《 needs more contributions

Grace Mwangi's Gender Confirmation Surgery $2,966/38,000

Nyne's top surgery $2,893/8,000

Help Grayson start transition $1,101/2,000

Skyler's Transition Fund €380/3,000 《《 needs more contributions

Londynn's New Life $8,793/15,000

NYIEMÄ'S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,195/37,000

Zoeys transition fund £3,959/10,000

Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $15,805/100,000

Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,762/11,000

Coco's Medical Transition Fund. $3,395/15,000

Maya's Transition & Recovery Fund $1,922/35,744

Help Create Corbyn $1,748/4,000

Flora's Transition Fund $360/5,000 《《 needs more contributions

Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,206/5,000

Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,050/7,500

Atticus' homeless fund $5,578/10,000

HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $7,368/60,000

Ahren's Top Surgery $3,961/7,500

Malakai's Top Surgery $754/10,000 《《 needs more contributions

Top Surgery $7,195/8,000 《《 up since last year; he's so close!

Phoenix gotta move! $572/45,000 《《 needs more contributions

Kiana's Gender Transition $2,140/35,000

Jacobs top surgery $6,855/8,000

Skye's Top Surgery $2,027/8,500

Hunter's Top Surgery $4,610/12,000

Alexandria's Transition fund $3,562/40,000

Myles's Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,825/8,450

Zeke's Top Surgery Fund $4,469/9,000

help mika start a new life $499/25,000 《《 needs more contributions

Landon's Top Surgery! $795/2,000

Donate to Myla's Breast Augmentation $1,957/6,000

Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $14,373/15,000 《《 so close!

Travis' Transition Fund $14,063/30,000

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $2,025/8,500

Tyler's Transition Fund $13,725/30,000

Clarabelle's Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,300/20,000

help deluca get top surgery ! $4,842/7,000

Help Black Trans Woman Transition $17,523/20,700

Wriply's surgery/ continued living fund $8,597/26,520

Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $21,656/25,000

Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,676/20,000

Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,018/15,000

Malikais Top Surgery $4,077/7,500

Finn's Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,920/7,000

Kyo's (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,509/25,000

Transition Funds for Dallas $6,790/15,000

Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $5,901/8,000

Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,329/40,000

Noelle's Breast Augmentation $11,135/13,000

Aeri's Moving Out & Transition Fund $14,809/20,000

SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN'S LIFE $4,245/25,000

I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I'll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I'm also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.

Been hearing a lot about "reparations" lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won't.

[ratcity]

here is a twitter thread of black trans women’s gofundme’s that still need to reach their goals

[rumman]

if you haven't spent money at a Black-owned business today you can donate to these two grassroots orgs run by Black women:

be a blessing // margins

be a blessing is an org helping homeless people with food and other necessities. margins helps mothers struggling to pay rent or buy food and other necessities for themselves and their kids.

[starkastically]

Not marvel related or anything but PLEASE LISTEN.

i am fucking shaking right now because it has been confirmed that the Anti Terror Bill is now a law. if you are accused of violating this law and are being arrested for this accusation, PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME TO READ THIS.

the anti terror bill essentially takes away our rights to speak and any thing you post on the internet can and will be taken out of context if it hints that you sound like a terrorist.

it is possible for you to be sent to jail for 14-30 days and your captors are given the rights to torture you even though you have done nothing wrong against the Philippines.

here are tips in case you get captured

[anarchopuppy]

Most of the “keep up the work after the protests have ended!”-type posts I’ve seen are mostly focused on like, reading Black authors and listening to Black voices and unlearning racism, and obviously all of that is absolutely vital - but no amount of individual self-reflection will be able to dismantle institutional systems of oppression. So I wanted to put together some resources for continuing to build a culture of noncompliance and resistance to the police and prison system even after things have calmed down

But first, be aware that the protests aren’t over. It’s June 29th and there are still events and actions being planned regularly across the nation, and they still need your participation and support. If you’re able, please keep your focus there; this list is for what can be done long-term outside of the protests

Know your rights. Giving the police any more information than you absolutely have to will never and can never benefit you or anyone else - positive evidence given to the police is regularly thrown out in court, whereas negative evidence will be used against you. Know what to say and what you have the right to refuse. You don’t have to answer any questions without a lawyer present, you don’t have to give the police access to your house or car unless they have a current warrant signed by a judge. They will try to intimidate you - learn your rights and don’t let up, don’t ever cooperate with the police

Don’t snitch. If you see someone breaking the law in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody, keep your mouth shut. If cops knock on your door asking you questions about your neighbors or anyone you know, don’t answer

Don’t call the cops. If you can solve the problem in a different way, do it. Cops have on multiple occasions murdered the people they were called to help (or bystanders) without provocation. Don’t be complicit in that. Learn how to handle situations as a community or with the help of qualified experts

When you see an interaction with the police happening, stop and observe. If necessary, film the interaction. Organize and work with groups such as Copwatch to observe the police and hold them accountable

Use proper opsec, especially if you’re involved with anything that might make you a target for the cops. Downloading Signal is a great simple place to start

Learn about jury nullification, and spread the word. When serving in a jury, you have the right to vote not guilty on a defendant that you believe did commit the crime but doesn’t deserve punishment for it. Don’t be complicit in unjust punishment

Refuse to do work for the police or prison system. Workers keep the world running and the state relies on our compliance to keep our neighbors under their thumb. We can shut it down

Continue to support bail funds, even for non-protesters. Cash bail is unjust, and people shouldn’t be in jail just because they can’t pay

Continue to support legal defense funds as well, such as that of the National Lawyers Guild

Write to prisoners, either by yourself or with groups such as the Anarchist Black Cross or Black And Pink, and organize/support books to prisons programs, commissary funds, reentry programs, and other forms of prisoner support

Organize and support community-run crisis response organizations like the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Oregon or the Birmingham Peacemakers in my hometown

Here are some other organizations to join that are doing good work in this area:

Black Lives Matter is obviously a huge voice in racial justice right now. The list of “official” chapters on their website is very incomplete, though, so you may have better luck doing a web search for “[your area] black lives matter” (beware of fakes though)

Showing Up for Racial Justice is another very active and widespread racial justice network

Critical Resistance is a grassroots prison abolitionist organization founded by Angela Davis

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is another active prison abolitionist organization

The IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee works with prisoners to organize strikes, phone zaps, and other actions combating injustice in prisons

Again, the Anarchist Black Cross does great work supporting political prisoners through letter-writing and more. The link I’ve been including is to an unofficial federation of ABC groups, though - there may be a group in your area that’s not part of that federation, so a web search for “[your area] black cross” may be better

Black And Pink is a prison abolitionist organization focused on queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS

Antifascism is of course an important aspect of racial justice and community safety. See @antifainternational‘s guide to getting connected to your local antifascists - though, again, beware of fakes (the “antifa checker” accounts on fedbook and twitter can help)

The police state and prison industrial complex rely on the complicity and cooperation of all of us to function and be effective. By building a culture of noncompliance and active resistance, we can drastically reduce the state’s ability to oppress communities of color. Don’t let the struggle be forgotten with the changing of the news cycle - keep up the struggle until all are free!

Boosts and additional resources are very much appreciated!

[t5t]

international blm sites & resources, reposting from this tweet

general eng: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

🇨🇦: justice for regis korchinski-paquet (google doc)

🇰🇷: blmkorea.carrd.co

🇯🇵: blmjp.carrd.co

🇨🇳: chineseforblm.carrd.co

🇲🇫: blacklivesmatters-french.carrd.co

🇪🇸: lasvidasnegrasimportan.carrd.co

🇩🇪: blacklivesmatters-german.carrd.co

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🇵🇹: asvidasnegrasimportam.carrd.co

🇧🇷: blmbr.carrd.co

🇫🇮: finnblm.carrd.co

🇵🇬: weneedtotalkaboutpapua.carrd.co

🇮🇩: indonesianblm.carrd.co

🇵🇱: blm-pl.carrd.co

🇹🇭: blmthai.carrd.co

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arabic: blm-arab.carrd.co

[rodrickheffeley]

cards about things happening around the world right now which need attention

blm

lgbtq+ in poland

yemen crisis

trans rights

stand with hongkong

free palestine

aid for indian migrant workers and transgender people

we need to talk about papua

junk terror bill in philippines

Save The World

Resources about current world events

signal boost. if there are other cards which need attention dm me.

[yijinheedo-deactivated20220316]

(x)

[charcubed]

We’re all having “hard conversations” about racism, police brutality, and #BlackLivesMatter I hope. 

You’ve probably noticed that detractors often use the same “racist talking points” in response. Here’s a researched and sourced guide to help you answer, for the times you may get stuck.

Feel free to save these images and share them!

Originally posted on Twitter

[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

[hundondestiny]

[link to tweet]

if you are a Black trans woman seeking HRT or other treatment in the US and your doctor isn't listening to you, i will help write letters to your providers for you at no cost. this offer does not expire. @erykahonmain on twitter / eryloveserybody on IG ❣ please RT for visibility

(not pictured) i do offer services to all trans / lgbt people at large. i always work with people's budgets and give free labor when i can afford to, so please don't let cost be a factor in reaching out to me if you need help!

you can also msg me here on tumblr @hundondestiny 💕

[blackwoolncrown]

I want all nonblack people to watch this video, especially white people.

This is the best video IMO that displays the depth of what it feels like to be Black in the midst of white supremacy.

This is the rage that burns in so many Black people and eats at us when it is not sufficiently soothed by our self restraint and years of learning to cope with and sit with us. This is the pain that shortens Black people’s very lives, that we smother each day. This is the justified yet unjustly ignored anger we have learned to hold and to aim and to deal with without breaking (too much).

This is the fire that those of you who are just showing up on the scene are learning to sit beside.

When you ask us ‘how we’re doing’, understand that this is the real core of it, every single day, and we have had to learn to laugh, to sing, to dance, to work, to grieve, to heal around heavy, heavy pain. I don’t get the feeling that y’all are expecting nor could you handle if we answered you like this. But I do feel like you should already know how we’re doing: we’re Black.

So y’all, sit with this video for a hot minute.

Kimberly Jones, you are a warrior. I feel every moment of this, every diaphragm flex, every tenuously tempered shout. And I hope that you are taking a break, and experiencing a moment of peace, because you deserve it.

[homeplanets]

video transcription (since subtitles are autogenerated):

“So, I’ve been seeing a lot of things talking of the people making commentary, um - interestingly enough, the ones I’ve noticed that have been making the commentary are wealthy Black people, making the commentary about, we should not be, um, rioting, we should not be looting, we should not be tearing up our own communities. And then there’s been an argument of the other side of: we should be hitting them in the pocket, we should be focusing on the blackout days where we don’t spend money, um, but y’know I feel like we should do both and I feel like I support both and I’ll tell you why I support both.

I support both because there- when you have a civil unrest like this there are three type of people in the streets: there are the protesters, there are the rioters, and there are the looters. The protesters are there because they actually care about what is happening in the community, they want to raise their voices and they are there strictly to protest. You have the rioters who are angry, who are anarchists, who really just want to fuck shit up and that’s what they’re gonna do regardless.

And then you have the looters. And the looters almost exclusively are just there to do that, to loot. Now, people are like, what did you gain, well, what did you get from looting? I think that as long as we’re focusing on the “what” we’re not focusing on the “why”, and that’s my issue with that. As long as we’re focusing on what they’re doing we’re not focusing on why they’re doing. And some people are like, well those aren’t people who are legitimately angry about what’s happening, those are people who just wanna get stuff.

Okay, well then, let’s go with that, let’s say that’s what it is. Let’s ask ourselves why in this country in 2020 the financial gap between poor Blacks and the rest of the world is at such a distance that people feel like their only hope and their only opportunity to get some of the things that we flaunt and flash in front of them all the time is to walk through a broken glass window and get it. That they are so hopeless that getting that necklace, getting that TV, getting that change, getting that bed, getting that phone, whatever it is they’re gonna get is that in that moment when the riots happen and they present an opportunity of looting, that’s their only opportunity to get it.

We need to be questioning that “why”: why are people that poor, why are people that broke, why are people that - that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, they are shooting their shot, by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need.

And then people wanna talk about, well, there’s plenty of people who pull themselves up by their bootstraps and got it by their own - why can’t they do that? Well let me explain to you something about economics in America. And I’m so glad that as a child I got an opportunity to spend time at PUSH where they taught me this, is that we must never forget that economics was the reason that Black people were brought to this country, we came to do the agricultural work in the South and the textile work in the North. Do you understand that? That’s what we came to do. We came to do the agricultural work in the South and the textile work in the North.

Now, if I right now, if I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly I didn’t allow you to have any money, I didn’t allow you to have anything on the board, I didn’t allow for you to have anything, and then we play another fifty rounds and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you; that was Tulsa, that was Rosewood. Those are places where we built economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground. So that’s 450 years - so for 400 rounds of Monopoly you don’t get to play at all, not only do you not get to play, you have to play on the behalf of the person you’re playing against! You have to play and make money and earn wealth for them and then you have to turn it over to them. So then for 50 years you finally get a little bit and you’re allowed to play, and every time that they don’t like the way that you’re playing, or that you’re catching up, or that you’re doing something to be self sufficient they burn your game. They burn your cards. They burn your Monopoly money. And then finally at the release and the onset of that they allow you to play, and they say, okay now you catch up. At this point the only way you’re gonna catch up with the game is if the person shares the wealth, correct? But what if every time you share the wealth there’s psychological warfare against you to say, oh, you’re an equal opportunity hire.

So if I play 400 years of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made and then for 50 years every time that I played if you didn’t like what I did you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood - how can you win? How can you win? You can’t win. The game is fixed. So: when they say, why do you burn down the community, why do you burn down your own neighbourhood: it’s not ours! We don’t own anything. We don’t own anything.

There is - Trevor Noah said it so beautifully last night - there’s a social contract that we all have that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person that is the authority comes in and fixes the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us! So the social construct is broken! And if the social contract is broken, what the fuck do I give a shit about burning the fucking football hall of fame, about burning a fucking Target? You broke the contract! When you killed us in the streets and didn’t give a fuck! You broke the contract when for 400 years we played your game and built your wealth! You broke the contract when we built our wealth again on our own, on our bootstraps in Tulsa and you dropped bombs on us! When we built it in Rosewood and you came and you slaughtered us!

You broke the contract! So fuck your Target! Fuck your hall of fame! Far as I’m concerned they can burn this bitch to the ground and it still wouldn’t be enough! And they are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality, and not revenge.”

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I heard a very similar story from a 19-year-old white trans guy. He and 700 other peaceful protesters were surrounded and tear-gassed by police while walking away from the main protest area. Some of the cops laughed at and took video of some of the protesters who were crying. When the 19-year-old was detained, the officers debated amongst themselves about whether he was a man or woman. They said “You never know these days. Maybe he’s an alien.” He was then searched by a female officer and placed on the bus for women. His zip ties were so tight his had turned blue. He spent 2 hours with them on and asked 5 officers to help him before a 6th officer took the zip ties off and got him medical attention. His hand was numb until the next morning.

There was no reason for this to happen. He’s lucky he is white.

Believe black people when they tell you the abuse they have suffered at the hands of police. And then take action to make sure it never happens again.

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[id: Twitter thread by @ juliacdupuis on June 4 2020. It reads: “I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: “Do you think it’s a female? Are you sure?”

They then proceeded to start patting me down - touching my breasts and my front/ back pockets, still laughing. Finally, one of them admitted,“ We shouldn’t be doing this.” Then they called over a female officer to search me. Their names are Officer Cho and Codilla of the LAPD.

I was not the only gender non conforming protestor to be called “it.” There were trans/non-binary protestors divided into the ‘male’ and ‘female’ buses and deliberately misgendered. I was also not the only protestor to be sexually harassed or made uncomfortable.

After being held for over 4 hours - with protestors vomiting, fainting, forced to pee in their seats, losing circulation in their bruised wrists/arms - many began to advocate. We demanded access to bathrooms, water, and medical attention. We held them accountable to the law.

The only response was an officer telling us to “stop acting like high school girls.” We were held even longer, watching other buses with prisoners being processed and released. When I got off the bus, an officer said, “Now that you’re acting reasonable, we let you off the bus.”

We spoke up about LAPD abuse and were punished for it. They heard us begging and screaming for medical attention and chose to keep us there for 5 ½ hours to silence us.

After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: “Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice - I can make this much worse for you.” In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: “You have no rights here.”

This is what protestors are facing. This is the violence and harassment police have been using to silence us, wear us down, and force us off the streets. Even without rubber bullets, tear gas, and batons, they have other means of physical and emotional violence.

This is just a taste of the brutality that black and brown people experience with police. It is a privilege to be shocked by this. It is a privilege to be violated and humiliated for the first time. And I’m sure that my whiteness protected me in custody as it did on the street.“ End id.]