[traumasurvivors]

I support survivors who forgive their abusers and I support those who cannot forgive or do not want to. 

I support survivors who are sex-repulsed and I support survivors who are hypersexual or even both. 

I support survivors who came out kind and use their experience to help others. And I support survivors who came out angry and hardened. I also support survivors who cry hysterically on their bathroom floor. 

I support survivors who go do everything they can to heal whether that means therapy or otherwise. And I support survivors who cannot acknowledge their trauma and push it down to bury it. 

I support survivors who struggle with addiction or who self-sabotage and end up in terrible situations over and over again. 

Supporting survivors is not just about supporting those who survive in ways you agree with. It means supporting survivors. Period. 

I support survivors. 

[gilliflowersmaybe]

Hey! It’s your local Jew here with a friendly reminder that you don’t need to fast if it interferes with your health! And yes, this does include:

Jews recovering from an eating disorder

Jews recovering from an addiction

Jews recovering from surgery

Jews with chronic fatigue and/or illness

Disabled Jews

Pregnant Jews

Jews who are too young to fast

Any other Jew with a health issue that stops them from fasting

And whether you’re fasting or not, I hope you all have a good Yom Kippur <333

[magz-archive]

A bunch of Google Drive links are about to be broken

Lots of publically accessible Google Drive links are going to be broken and inaccessible in the near future, read why here.

A lot of publicly accessible Google Drive links will no longer be accessible later this year unless their owners opt out of new security enhancements. These enhancements are being brought to Google Drive on September 23rd, 2021, the company announced in a blog post today.

Once this change goes live, Google says that users will need a “resource key” to access a publicly shared link. However, users won’t need an updated link with said resource key appended if they’ve already accessed that file before in the past. As a result of this change, we can imagine that lots of Google Drive links shared online on forums and other sites will no longer work as their owners neglect to update them, leaving them only accessible to the people that have already clicked the links before. This comes after Google also announced similar changes to YouTube’s unlisted videos earlier today.

According to the post made on the Google Workspace blog, this won’t affect all files. Users who have shared a file that is affected by this change will get an email from Google informing them of this change and how to opt out of needing those files from being updated. These emails will be sent out to users starting on July 26th. Google shared a copy of a sample email to show end-users what the message they’ll get will look like. The company doesn’t recommend opting out all files and says that only the files that you want publicly accessible should be opted out. Users have until September 13th to decide if they want the update applied, so if you have no files that are publicly accessible, then you won’t need to do anything.

[jezebelgoldstone]

Please signal boost this. I have seen so many posts in just the last year with links to google drives filled with info on BLM, community resources, anti-bigotry education, Anarchism, activism, community organization, all KINDS of things - potentially losing access to those resources is IMPORTANT

[elierlick]

Anti-trans pundits keep accusing me of “redefining womanhood” so I’m going to roll with it. However, I still believe in justice for both real women and cis women. Just because a cis woman didn’t spend years thinking about her gender doesn’t mean she’s not as valid as trans women. Cis women are only being their authentic selves and deserve support too. They even sometimes go through their own gender journeys with fashion, media, and experimentation. I see no reason why we can’t support our female cisters, who are just like us despite being assigned female at birth by a doctor. Feminism means respecting all women: actual women and cis women alike.

[imadethisblogat2am-deactivated2]

the pure energy of this post is too much

[elierlick]

Reblog to support your cisters!

[thepunmaster]

[image description: a trans woman with long, dark brown hair, the left side of her head is shaved but the remaining hair is longer than her shoulder. she is wearing a short-sleeved white shirt with yellow sleeves and dark blue jeans. in all caps, black text on the shirt reads “i support women and cis women”. she is leaning against a wooden ladder and has a somewhat smug expression on her face. end id.]

[crawfordapologist]

I love when baby gays are clearly still unlearning a lot of biases and like every couple of months try to find a progressive reason to explain why men wearing dresses makes them uncomfortable. Like obviously transmisogynistic caricatures are Bad but if it's just a guy irl who wants to do drag or something that's literally fine. This has been a thing longer than you've been alive

[crawfordapologist]

Also like I need you all to understand that historically the line between gnc & trans people has always been way less distinctly defined than you want it to be. And for a lot of people that's kind of the point. Drag in particular is about radical self expression it's about taking gender performance and turning it into a literal show and it rules

[sapphic-sprite]

asexual sapphics? ethereal!

aceflux sapphics? spectacular!

grey ace sapphics? great!

demisexual sapphics? phenomenal!

acespike sapphics? brilliant!

fraysexual sapphics? astonishing!

lithosexual sapphics? marvelous!

reciprosexual sapphics? awesome!

cupiosexual sapphics? wonderful!

all acespec sapphics? amazing!

[trix-witch]

Hot take but sign language should be taught in schools as a language option and all cinemas should provide subtitles on all their movie screenings

[punxrat]

💕PEOPLE WITH BPD DESERVE LOVE💕

💕PEOPLE WITH BPD DESERVE TO BE 💕HAPPY💞

💕PEOPLE WITH BPD CAN DATE💕

💕PEOPLE WITH BPD CAN BE IN A HEALTHY💕 RELATIONSHIP💕

💕HAVING A PERSONALITY DISORDER DOSENT MEAN YOU CANT BE LOVED💕

💕HAVING BPD DOSENT MEAN YOU CANT FIND LOVE💕

💕PLEASE REBLOG💕

[holyholyholey]

Hey, if you're against using the R-slur you should also be against using "delusional" "psychotic" and "schizo" as insults. Care about us too. Respect those of us with psychosis.

[gunpowderpercy]

So like… what do gatekeepers… DO in the real world? Like if they’re at an LGBT+ event and a bi woman is like “Hi I’m Emily and this is my boyfriend,” do they like… confront her? When a person at a support group says “I’m asexual” do they just sit silently and stew in their own rage? Like how do you people function in the real world??

[untitled41636]

An enormous amount of gatekeepers don’t interact with local queer groups and communities at all. The younger ones don’t have access, and the older ones got black listed a long time ago for being vile.

That lack of access, for the younger ones, is why they are so easily targeted by older radfem types, and is why the age of gatekeepers is so skewed towards young people, btw. They have no way to experience actual queer communities, so they get sucked into this awful, dangerous parody of it.

[gunpowderpercy]

That was a rhetorical question but this is a damn good answer

[catgirltiefling]

transfems with facial or body hair, transfems who are fat, transfems who dont go on hrt, transfems with flat chests, transfems who don't pass, all of you, I love you so much and you're valid and I hope you have an amazing pride

[catgirltiefling]

important additions I forgot: transfems who arent white, transfems who use he/him and transfems who still like being masculine!

[gogogy-deactivated20221021]

oh my god. it wasn’t just me

medibang just stabbed everyone in the back and forced all cloud projects onto one finished layer if you aren’t paying premium. they didn’t even give you the option to pay premium BEFORE merging the layers

every single art piece i have saved on my cloud has been merged and is completely useless to me now. what the fuck. they didn’t even tell us

now you can’t save to cloud anymore (aka keep your art layers separate and editable) without premium. and it’s too late anyway. it’s all gone

zin if you’re seeing this please check your cloud saves jesus fuck

[chronicallyghastly]

Hate how ableds are like “u have a colourful cane, u must be faking it cause ur drawing attention to urself”

Like I’m disabled for the rest of my life, like hell am I gonna be walking around with the boring grey crutches & sticks the NHS gives out.

I will go out in my bright purple Halloween cane all the time because it looks good and I didn’t pay £30 for no one to notice the fact that it does

Normalise having bright & bold mobility aids, it makes ableds mad & I also get to look good doing it

[kamlo]

anyone can do tarot but i think non-roma people should not be getting paid for it. especially with the white habit of undercharging and making it harder for romani people to get paid for their culture and skills (that no white person will ever have, sorry).

romani people have been using tarot as a main source of income for centuries and now white people are making it harder than ever by taking our craft and undercharging for it. anyone can do tarot, but why should you get paid for our culture?

[kamlo]

this post can be reblogged but i want absolute silence from non-roma.

[normal-horoscopes]

Hyper-conservative christians will be like “let’s create an idealogical system where submission to the husbands will must be completely unquestioned and women are brood mares for the army of god” and terfs will be like “these are my political allies”

[normal-horoscopes]

Haha remember how Josh Duggar, one of the most vocally anti-trans media personalities in america tried to run for office on a platform of “keeping women and children safe from those nasty pedophiles” and then got arrested for having a computer full of child porn.

[possumae]

Being a trans woman can be so irritating when it comes to how people talk (in english at least) like people calling you “dude” or “bro” and referring to groups you’re in as “guys.” It’s something cis women have taken issue with at times, but I think it’s undeniable how directly it affects trans women. Either we’re the bitch who has to ruin everybody’s fun and ask not to be referred to with these words or we say nothing and wonder if we’re being viewed as men, or if they really are one of those people who “just call everybody dude” because often times we aren’t able to verify that.  Then you’ll have people who will undermine you when you choose to be that bitch, who will suggest you let it go, that you make the favorable assumption every time. You already took a risk in standing up for yourself and now they’re making you seem wrong for it. It hurts. It hurts even more when it comes from someone you considered an ally, or even another trans woman. Just, if you’re one of those people who talk that way, or have/have wanted to tell us to let it go, consider what experience(s) we’ve been through that has led us to not be able to let it go.

[geekwiththegoggles]

I try my best but I am very guilty of calling people “dude” or “bruh” (if I know them and I am trying to be funny). If at any point this bothers you or makes you uncomfortable, you are NOT that Bitch to say so! Tell me and I will gladly course correct.

[thejoeyestjojo]

SAME I DO THAT tell me if I call you the wrong thing!!

[possumae]

See the problem here is you are still putting the trans woman in the situation where they do have to be That Bitch. The reason I said to consider why we do this was in hopes of people understanding the situation using those words puts us in (one where we are taking a risk and often feel like a bitch, even if you don’t think so) and understanding why some of us feel we need to stand up for ourselves in that situation despite that. If you really want to make a change, stop referring to women with these words. Some trans women may not mind but continuing to treat these words as gender neutral negatively affects the rest who then get put in these situations by you. Find alternatives to use instead.

[cabriolet-e46]

Agreed. We should be phasing out masculinized slang in general. It’s honestly the height of stupidity that trans women have to put up with arguments that, “I consider those words gender neutral,” when those words are unambiguously gendered by definition no matter how much the person has deluded themself into thinking otherwise. The fact we have to implore people to grasp that “guys” and “dude” and “bro” are male words… it’s frankly enough to make me want to slap people. The obtuseness is astounding.

“Feel free to correct me, I do that too.” With all due respect, maybe just stop casually misgendering people.  

[chucksrus84]

These tweets are from Dara Kass. She's an MD. Please take her advice on how to deal with this current situation. Read. Take notes. Memorize it. And protect yourselves.

All of you.

[oorevitcejda]

[Image ID: Twitter threas from @/darakass, Dara Kass MD

"I spent last night thinking of medical work arounds for this horrific law, until it is rectified in the courts.

So, this is what I would tell my daughter and her friends if they were in Texas.

[I know this isn't enough, but as a mom, and doctor, I am sharing my thoughts].

Get on Birth Control.

Now.

Any form that is reliable.

Oral Contraceptives, Nuva Ring, Norplant, IUD.

Something.

Now.

Use condoms.

With the Birth Control.

Every Single Time.

No exceptions.

[This is a good practice for STI prevention anyway]

If you find out you are pregnant and do not want to be pregnant, you have very little time to do it.

Do not shut down.

This will be hard, but you can't delay.

Call me, we will figure this out, together.

Understand how to seek a medical abortion.

There are ways to safely seek care privately even if you need to leave the state to do it.

Share this information with your friends."

/attached is the cropped photo of a light-up billboard reading "Pass the [abortion health care-]"

"Be a resource to ANYONE who needs it.

A lot of people will be afraid.

This is a horrific time.

And we are sorry we let this happen.

We will continue to fight, but we also need to be prepared starting today.

Take a pregnancy test every 4.5-5* weeks.

Buy a bunch now.

Get them in bulk and get comfortable taking them.

This may feel redundant if you are on birth control but time is of the ESSENCE with this law.

Knowledge is your only power.

PS I am aware this leaves out many circumstances leading to abortion care (non-consentual intercourse, fetal abnormality, health of the pregnant person) but given the broad scope of this law and its applicability to early elective termination, I am focusing on that here." /end ID]

*Four and a half to five weeks