Iโm reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepinโ this olโ goat girl goinโ so long
(Also hi, Iโm still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soonโฆ)
Do you know what itโs like to watch your family starve? I do.
Myโฆ Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian
Do you know what itโs like to watch your family starve? I do.
Myโฆ Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian
The US-backed terrorist state of Israel killed Palestinian chef and co-founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, Mahmoud al-Madhoun.
Mahmoud was able to feed over 3,000 Palestinian civilians a day through the genocide.
Let's keep giving it all we've got for the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Israel has repeatedly targeted and killed those who have given service to the Gaza community.
Donate as much as you can or if you're unable to, share this post so it reaches more people! Any amount, even a dollar, can help the heroes of the Gaza Soup Kitchen to feed the people of Gaza.
"there is no evidence trans users were disproportionately... impacted" but by our count, since we are the only ones who care enough to count, of the ~200 blogs termed wednesday literally only one wasnt transfem
@staff why did you ban estrogenesis-eeveeangelion right after she brought attention to how you disproportionately ban trans women and nuke their accounts for bringing attention to this?
The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?
not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????
(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
๐ฉตImmigrant support
Immigrant Defense Networkย โย coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MNย โย free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPALย โย advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC)ย โ education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigrationย โย advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MNย โย training and phone hotline.
Unidos MNย โ education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Tortureย โย advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesotaย โย refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesotaย โย offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
๐ฉตFood support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
๐ฉตMutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) isย towing cars back to familiesย if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
๐ฉตMore links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktreeย โย well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktreeย โย many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazineย โย see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesotaย โย extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
๐ฉตDonate blood
Memorial Blood Centerย declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
๐ฉตDonate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazineย โย see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
๐ฉตMutual aid
Reach out to your neighborsย โย especially if you know they are staying home right now โย and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.
Connect with any of the orgs aboveย and see if they are looking for volunteers.
Connect with a church or mosque in your area.ย Fromย u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."
Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA.ย It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.
๐ฉตActivism
Find an official protestย or other event viaย Indivisible,ย 50501,ย FREE AMERICA, orย MIRAC. Students at many high schools areย staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.
Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICEย by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info:ย SHUT DOWN HILTON
Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICEย and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.
At minimum, read theย COPAL Handbookย before you go out to observe.ย The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).
When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.
If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!
Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.
If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active,ย reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
ICE has profiled and detained at least 5 Native people in Minneapolis in the past 2 weeks. One man has been identified and released, but the other four were unhoused and have yet to be located.
Homeless people who have been trying to survive the winter in tents said that ICE apparently detained four Oglala Sioux men without looking
there is an initiative to ensure tribal members have ID:
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
Iโm writing this with tears in my eyes. I canโt carry this anymore. I am completely exhausted because of my sisterโs severe anemia and malnutrition.
If this family's desperation makes you uncomfortable, please think about how they must feel. They are desperate for any hope. Any support is better to them than silence; a small donation, a share, some kind words. Please do what you can ๐
Dear friends, don't say that you can't do anything. If you can't donate, you can participate, it brings goodness. It's the right time to help Zeina and her family, in Gaza indicates the opening of the Rafah crossing in the coming days. Please participate and donate now
We're not living... we're barely surviving. In a tattered tent amidst the bitter cold, we're struggling to stay alive. The rain has shown us no mercy, seeping into our tent from every side, flooding the ground, soaking our bedding, and drenching everything we own. We have no dry place, no warm blanket, not even a single moment of rest.
Two weeks ago, a fierce wind tore away a large part of our tent, leaving us exposed to the elements, at the mercy of the wind and rain. We shiver from the cold, trying to appear strong, but the truth is we're on the verge of collapse because the cold and illnesses are relentless.
My name is Ahmad Dany. I am writing to you from the heart of the daily suffering we โฆ Ahmad dany needs your support for Help Ahmed And His F
We need your help, friends. Please donate so we can live a safe and warm life, buy blankets and medicine, and repair our tent. Please help us by donating and don't leave us to suffer. Please donate to us.
Please have compassion for my dear friend Ahmed. He is only a teenager, and his life has been stolen from him. His education, his community, his health, his future.
To rebuild his future, he must first survive the present moment. He needs warmth, shelter, medicine, and healthcare. Please donate what you can to help him survive this brutal winter.
we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist
female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.
briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.
In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.
I was in a coma for five days and that is why I disappeared. I woke up to the shock of my mother being in intensive care. Please donate, speak about us, and donโt leave me alone.
"From my ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ body, ๐ฏ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ shall grow and I am in them, and that is ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐ช " -E.M
by the way, ik everyone is paying attention to politicians' sex scandals, but you should know there was a collapse at one of the copper/cobalt mining operations in the drc with at least 32 deaths. here is an al jazeera link to the story. if you are reading this from a mobile phone or laptop, or if you use a vape, you should be paying attention. these are the people who have suffered for you to have those things. it is suspected that 200,000 people or more have been exploited into these illegal and dangerous mining operations. that is greater than the population of ontario, canada.
below are places where you can financially contribute. if you cant, share the news. tell your friends and people you know about it!
Hope and Healing is a humanitarian initiative led by Team Congo, in close collaboration withโฆ Team Congo needs your support for Hope & Heali
Cobalt is a necessary mineral for rechargeable batteries, used from anything from electric vehicles, to laptops and phones, to disposable vapes.
The vast majority of the world's cobalt is obtained from the Congo, something like โ70%. Most of these mines are owned by companies in other countries, China being a major stakeholder.
In the Congo, cobalt is sourced from open-pit mines.
The workers are essentially slaves, doing back-breaking labor for menial pay. Many of them are children. This is illegal, but corrupt government officials turn a blind eye. Foreign powers do the same, knowing that their tech industries and profit margins benefit directly from these human rights violations.
Congolese people work these mines without proper equipment or safety measures, constantly in contact with and breathing toxic materials and particulates. Runoff from the mines also gets into local water sources, making them unhealthy to drink.
Always buy used electronics wherever you can. Avoid tech waste; don't upgrade unnecessarily. If you use disposable vapes, please stop. It isn't worth it.
Spread the word. Free Congo from western exploitation!
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