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i’m super embarrassed and ashamed to have to ask for money again. my gf and i really thought we’d be all set by now, and at bare minimum i figured if i had to ask again i could sell zines. but i’m not done with the zines and i need money asap, so here i am.

we need $200 to make up for my gf having to go to the doctor and take some blood tests for headaches and dizziness that have been getting worse and worse.

tbqh, we need as much money as we can get, all of my gf’s lab results came back negative and now she needs to see a neurologist. she’s been applying for work and going to interviews (that i’ve been driving her to), but nothing’s set yet and neither of us have insurance. please help us out if you can. paypal.me/mariazipporahalacran

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thank you all so much for boosting this and for donating! <3 i seriously appreciate it, and i know my gf does too. <3

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12/05/19

Bangladesh at front lines of climate crisis

The South Asian nation of 160 million has endured 70 storms between 1990 and 2018, making it one of the worst affected regions by tropical storm.

According to an April UNICEF report, 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk owing to climate change disasters such as floods and cyclones.

Rural households across Bangladesh are spending a staggering 158 billion taka ($2bn) a year on repairing the damages caused by climate change and on preventive measures, according to a new report.

butchfemmecloset

Help me afford food and utilities this winter.

Posted: December 2, 2019 Hi, everyone. I really really don’t want to do this but I don’t really have another choice at this point.

I know most people following this blog are working class wlw, or minors. But I can’t work, my girlfriend’s work is coming slow, so we’re kind of stuck right now. I have about 80 cents in my bank account right now, and my girlfriend can’t afford to pay for everything normally, but especially now with slow work.

We have a lot of expenses right now that we’re struggling to pay. We need to get our propane tank filled (cost about $180 last time), we have an electric bill of almost $75, we don’t have a working oven, and our car is up for inspection this month but has so much rust (our car guy said its bad enough that it isn’t worth repairing) it probably won’t pass, so we’ll need to buy a new(to us) car.

I don’t know how much propane will be yet, but my goal right now is $250 for the next two months. We’re hoping to go to the school’s food pantry over the next few months, but our schedules are opposite theirs and they often don’t have much we can eat.

I’ll answer asks on any of this as well, but I’m also hoping to replace at least one of the locks on my front door (both broken), as well as the chain for my sliding lock (also broken, it’s an old place). Please donate to my Ko-fi, if you have a spare dollar or two.

butchfemmecloset

I misunderstood what Ko-Fi was, please donate directly to my PayPal, ignore my name!

or donate to my girlfriend’s CashApp

I’m so grateful to the people who donated through Ko-Fi, if you’d rather donate directly to me lmk, I’ll cancel the payments

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art by Cocorrina Co ( my edits )

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this is so heartbreaking

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One of my favorite installations

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The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres is some of the most pointed and intimate about gay male love and experience during the years of/following the AIDS crisis. It still haunts me when I think about it.

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Anne with an E’s cancellation is damaging to Indigenous viewers

These reactions from Non-Native fans are proof of the effectiveness of the writing and acting, in teaching through storytelling. But here is the thing: Indigenous fans are watching, too. And in the age of politicians throwing around the words Truth and Reconciliation while continuing to walk the same paths their colonial forefathers did, we do not need another story about Indigenous pain and suffering. We need a story about Indigenous resilience and convalescence.

Hi everyone, even if you have never seen the show Anne with an E, I would really appreciate anyone willing to take a few minutes to read why this is not just a matter of cancelling a beloved period drama, but a matter of white corporations making a profit off of Indigenous suffering, without giving Indigenous healing in a betrayal of responsibility.

#SaveAnnWithAnE #RenewAnneWithAnE

(Sincere apologies for the double-post, but as everyone knows, link post types don’t always show up in Tumblr tag searches, so this version is for that.)

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FUNDRAISER CREATED BY FANS (it wasn’t mentioned in the article): https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/inspired-by-the-canadian-show-anne-with-an-e/

@greengablesedits @annesoftheisland @dailyawae @incorrect-annewithane-quotes @annewithanesource @luztapiaart @anneshirleywasmychildhood @anne-of-our-hearts

Hopefully the tags work now & help get the word out - sorry!

wtfisgoingonews

A 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Australia's Northern Territory is believed to be the youngest to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

All states and territories in Australia have laws that allow the incarceration of 10-year-old children.

…

Of the nearly 600 children incarcerated in Australia each year, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids are over-represented. Close to 100 percent of the youths in jail in the Northern Territory are Indigenous Australians.

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Writing With Color – General Topics

A collection of WWC posts that deal with more general writing advice, character creation and diversity topics applicable to most marginalized people, particularly People of Color and some ethnic and religious groups.

Writing Characters of Color: The Generals

On “Overthinking” Writing Characters of Color

On White Authors “Getting it Right”

On White Writers Writing Characters of Color (I, II, III)

Researching PoC + Supporting Writers of Color

So You Want To Save The World From Bad Representation

Writing POC with Little Experience

Writing Authentically From Your Own Experiences

Useful Non-WWC Posts

Diversity Exists in the Real World by shiraglassman

How to Write WOC and MOC if you are White by kaylapocalypse

“I feel pressured to be inclusive in my writing!” by nimblesnotebook

On White Fear & Creating Diverse Transformative Works by saathi1013

Diversity/Representation Topics

Diversity vs. Exploiting Cultures

Diversifying a Predominately-White Cast

On “Diversity Quotas”

On Excluding Diversity Out of Fear

Different Heritage POV’s in a Story

Including Realistic Diversity Naturally

“Normalizing” Protagonists of Color

Villains of Color

White-Dominant Rural Areas and Diversity

White Privilege, Publishing, and Diversity Quotas

Writing: Making Efforts in Diversity

Character Creation

Character Creation: Culture or Character first?

Character Design and Assigning Race and Ethnicity

Characters’ Races Added Last During Development

Determining your Characters’ Race and/or Ethnicity

More on Assigning Race after Writing

Characters of Color & Culture

A Discussion on Culture and Erasure

“Culturing” Culturally-disengaged PoC

Characters of Color with “No Culture”

Mixed Race + Disconnect from Culture

Stereotyped vs Nuanced & Audience Perception

Tradition and Culture vs. Stereotype

Western Neutral Characters

‘Whitewashed’ Character of Color?

Fantasy & Coding

Defining Coding (& Islam-coded Fantasy)

Denoting Race in Fantasy Setting

Fantasy Races Based off of People of Color

Naming People and Places, Avoiding Explicit Coding

Racially-coding Aliens

Real Religions in a Fantasy World

Religion in Fiction & Fantasy

South Asian-Coded Fantasy Caste System

Whitewashing in a Fantasy Setting

Including Racism in Fantasy

World-building: A Fantasy World without Racism

Writing Sensitive and Controversial Topics

Do I Need Permission to Write About Marginalized People?

Writing a Genocide to which you have No Personal Connection

On Outsider-Written Stories About Issues Of Another Group

Outsider-Written Stories, Issues of other Groups, Speculative Situation

Writing about Prejudice between People of Color

Reclaiming negative, dehumanizing stereotypes outside the group

Representing yourself when “yourself” isn’t white

Racism and Micro-Aggressions

Everyday Racism, Friendship and White Allies

Incorporating Micro-Aggressions in Writing

Racist Characters + Including Racism in Stories Not “About” Racism

The Pitfalls of Racist Character Redemption Arcs

PoC Educating White Privileged Friend (Context: Black Characters)

–WWC

politicalsci

“Always, racist tropes about people of color are ones that are used to keep the white working class from siding with other people in the working class and looking more toward ideas that the ruling class has as being of their own, which explains poor white people siding with Trump. The racist ideas have a utility. That’s the reason why they exist. They have a utility under this system, and that utility allows a large group of working-class folks to feel more allied with rich white people than poor people of other ethnicities.” - Boots Riley

klaw

please take the time to remember every member of our community who was lost from aids. our government did nothing to save them. our schools do nothing to remember them. an entire generation of lgbt culture and history has been lost, the generation just before our own. remember them when people ask why theres suddenly so many lgbt kids in this generation. we’ve always been here. we cant be stomped out. we will remember our roots and by doing so we can keep those we have lost alive.

profeminist

“They shouldn’t feel like they’re being punished for being a girl.”

“Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D. ― Dominique Amiotte, 17, always makes sure to keep a few extra tampons in her locker. It’s not much, but it’s enough to encourage at least some of her struggling friends to come to school when they have their periods.

About half of Amiotte’s girlfriends can’t afford tampons or sanitary pads. As a result, when they menstruate, they’ll skip school for as long as a week. This can lead them to fall behind in class, contributing to the already abysmal graduation rates on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There are no official records on how many of the young women at the reservation’s 13 schools have felt the consequences of this issue, but individuals we spoke to say it’s an inescapable part of everyday life.

“It makes me angry,” Amiotte told HuffPost unflinchingly while seated in an empty classroom at the Crazy Horse School, where there are 70 girls enrolled in middle or high school classes.”

Read the full piece here

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If you want to donate, these are the organizations mentioned in the piece:

Distributing Dignity

Lakota Kidz

Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation

delilahmidnight

Come to think of it, I'm sick and tired of "racially diverse" casts thinking they can throw in a few black characters and a lesbian and claim they're "woke". Where are my Muslim characters? Where are my middle eastern characters? Where are my characters from southeast asia, who are allowed to acknowledge how different they are from other east asians? Where are my explicitly Jewish characters? Where are my characters with disabilities and chronic illnesses, trying to go about their daily lives and occasionally swearing and crying because their conditions derailed their plans for the day? We all exist, and some of us are multiple of these, and no we're not simple, 2d cardboard cutouts you can exchange with white characters to score points. We deserve full, rich, complex, magnificent stories, as full, rich, complex, and magnificent as we all are.

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this but the way you started it sound like your throwing two marginal groups under the bus when both their 'representation' is piss poor and filled with so much offensive material.

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As a librarian that focused part of my research on prison libraries, I know how hard it can to get reading material into them—especially for LGBTQIA+ prisoners. This Giving Tuesday, consider donating to this org or a similar one.