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Mutual aid asks

I am a crippled adult who lives off of my disability insurance.

If everything goes well I can afford to give a small amount to the first few people who send me a mutual aide ask after I get my check (3rd day of Gregorian month). If you are in severe need please plan you asks accordingly.

Due to my poor energy, I generally delete mutual aid asks if I can’t contribute.

I don’t generally reblog asks for donations unless I already know the requester.

About me

If you need to place those with whom you converse on an exact line for least to most privileged, please just block me instead.

I usually block at least one account per usage session, generally for mildly annoying me but occasionally for something that is actually morally questionable. If I end up blocking you it is probably due to the former and not the latter.

I have fairly bad brain damage; if what I struggle to understand you it is probably due to this, not purposeful ignorance.

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just serious historian things

My girl the PhD-d military historian made me a Taylor Swift friendship bracelet that says "Girl Bandits."

I'm gonna wear it while accepting my Pulitzer.

(Context for new followers, my first book, The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto is coming out Fall 2025)

optionalcausality

Note to self:

Scheduling a reblog of this for Oct 2025. If it's not yet out, a pre-order can be done at that point -- this is close enough to one of Dad's old special interests that it would probably make a good gift for him.

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asjadnjnfjrivrtb you're gonna make me cry this is so lovely

hellyeahscarleteen

We could use your help!

If you support the groundbreaking, inclusive, affirming, feminist, comprehensive, young-people-centered, queer sex ed for all we've provided for 25+ years to over 90 million people, please help us raise the $15K we need to pay our bills in 2024, or become one of 250 new donors we need for 2025! You can do that at Scarleteen.com/contribute or by heading to our site and clicking ‘Pitch-In ’. 🎉 If you’re already donating (thank you!) please consider increasing your monthly amount, if you can, even a little bit. We’ll count any increases we get towards our two goals! You can do that by clicking 'Manage Your Donation' in your latest donation receipt. If you can’t donate yourself, can you tell your friends, family and followers who we are, why you value our work and ask them if they’d be willing to donate? You can share this post and the link above, but using your own words is the most effective! Despite leading the way in SRE online from the 1990s on, and always making sure young people have access to good information even when it is suppressed elsewhere in their lives, we remain underfunded, including funding to pay our staff a fair, living wage. We need to meet this $15K goal to fund our most basic needs and our tightest budget. If you can help us do that, we can focus on providing awesome SRE, growing, improving and kicking-ass, and finding more funding for 2025. Thank you! ❤️

- The Scarleteam

Contribute to everything we do by participating in our community, sharing our work, volunteering with us or donating to keep us going.

hellyeahscarleteen

Thanks for donating, sharing and yelling about our fundraiser! You’ve been awesome, but we are not in the clear yet! We still need significant help to raise at least the $5K remaining and sign up 140 new recurring donors to bridge our current funding gap. Also thanks for the many many kind words! Our mentions are full of folks who we've helped, returning the favor by promoting this fundraiser and donating. Please consider joining them in supporting us here: scarleteen.com/contribute

bemusedlybespectacled

I donated $5/mo, which is not a whole lot but I REALLY relied on Scarleteen a LOT in high school and college, so I'm chipping in what I can.

garinthalis

I was today years old when i found out that i was allowed time off to vote. Something no boss has ever told me.

dappled-depths-deactivated20220

Reblogging now but I'm also scheduling this to post again at the end of October, when folks may need a reminder that they may have right to time off work to vote.

amusementofaprincess

Make sure you schedule that time in advance- don’t wait til Election Day to be like oh i completely forgot i need to vote. Your coworkers will thank you.

hellyeahscarleteen

We could use your help!

If you support the groundbreaking, inclusive, affirming, feminist, comprehensive, young-people-centered, queer sex ed for all we've provided for 25+ years to over 90 million people, please help us raise the $15K we need to pay our bills in 2024, or become one of 250 new donors we need for 2025! You can do that at Scarleteen.com/contribute or by heading to our site and clicking ‘Pitch-In ’. 🎉 If you’re already donating (thank you!) please consider increasing your monthly amount, if you can, even a little bit. We’ll count any increases we get towards our two goals! You can do that by clicking 'Manage Your Donation' in your latest donation receipt. If you can’t donate yourself, can you tell your friends, family and followers who we are, why you value our work and ask them if they’d be willing to donate? You can share this post and the link above, but using your own words is the most effective! Despite leading the way in SRE online from the 1990s on, and always making sure young people have access to good information even when it is suppressed elsewhere in their lives, we remain underfunded, including funding to pay our staff a fair, living wage. We need to meet this $15K goal to fund our most basic needs and our tightest budget. If you can help us do that, we can focus on providing awesome SRE, growing, improving and kicking-ass, and finding more funding for 2025. Thank you! ❤️

- The Scarleteam

Contribute to everything we do by participating in our community, sharing our work, volunteering with us or donating to keep us going.

hellyeahscarleteen

Another update! We’re still 171 new recurring donors and 5K short of 15K we need to pay our most basic bills through the end of 2024 to help us avoid cuts to our staffing and services in 2025. Over 200 of you wonderful folks have made a donation or become a recurring donor since we started, but we are still short of our goal! We'll likely need about 200 more to close the gaps we're up against, and help from people who value what we do to close them. Thank you for keeping us trucking, especially to those of you who have donated now or in the past, and those of you loudly banging this drum for us out here!

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Scarleteen has been one of my favorite online resources since 2018 or so (oh god that's a long time) and I really hope they get the funding they need <3

#don’t have spare funds when I queque this #reminder to give later

queerdo-mcjewface

I hope George W. Bush and Barack Obama live long enough to make Teshuvah to the Iraqi and Afghan people

queerdo-mcjewface

I hope George W. Bush and Barack Obama live long enough to make Teshuvah to the Iraqi and Afghan people

queerdo-mcjewface

Help low income students at my SIL’s school

My SIL works at a low-income school as a therapist and that is a photo of her dog to cheer people up!

https://www.walmart.com/registry/TR/02fac75c-3ee2-4a2a-a503-84bc47285a47

If you have the means, her students would love to have toys from her registry to play with. If you don’t have money to spare reblogging helps too.

queerdo-mcjewface

Looking for books in English about the USSR “Night Witches”, especially ones that mention anti-semitism

Reblogging helps a lot! Will try to go in person to big library too

@historicity-was-already-taken

@didyoumeanxianity

historicity-was-already-taken

This is a great question! I’ve been wanting to read up on these women for years! Anyone got any recommendations?

rosees3ray

reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

catboybiologist

I am 0% qualified to talk about this so please don't treat this as anything more than a passing thought/ramble- I would, however, love to be directed to more resources on the subject.

It seems like I've heard some variation of "this indigenous culture has this archaic, old time, superstitious set of beliefs where they think disease is caused by [perfect description of germ theory but with the word "pathogen" replaced with "evil spirit " or similar]"

And the related "this indigenous culture has this superstition wherein they must treat this disease by doing a ritual where they [exact steps required to extract a medicinal compound from a local plant]"

And to me it just seems like such a blatant artifact of A, the fact that germ theory was not well established to Europeans when many of these cultures were first contacted, and B, plain old racism carrying these tired mantras into the modern day.

This is far from an original thought on my part, I've seen it called out a couple times by indigenous people and ethnobotanists (often people who are both).

But, to be totally fair on my part, I am extremely unqualified to comment on this. I'm a white American studying STEM. I don't have a good sense of how widespread the thing I'm noticing actually is, how extensive the response to it is, and also where the actual borders between spirituality and scientific inquiry actually are in many cultures (oftentimes a blurry or nonexistent line). It's something I've noticed anecdotally as someone studying biology that occasionally runs across studies about old medicinal practices.

But again, I'd love to hear more perspectives or resources on this.

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway

So. When I first got drawn into this conversation, the response I got to these questions looked a little bit like "it can be really, GENUINELY important to make sure that you are not treating scientific language/terminology like it's objectively neutral while exploring/expanding your understanding of A Cultural Phenomenon"

The point sort of being that while it is critical to talk about the ways that two versions of A Cultural Phenomenon overlap, it can actually be surprisingly erasive to do this by simply saying things like "[insert indigenous community] created medicines by extracting medicinal compounds from plants" because. Well. Yes? But also no.

Essentially, the idea was that such phrasings superimposed an objectivism on scientific language by cross-applying it in places where those concepts may or may not have actually had any overlap in terms of how they were considered/experienced despite overlap in how they were conducted.

That said, this is a really constant conversation! And there have been responses-to-the-response since that contributed to our understanding of how hegemonic structures can/do use the language of cultural relativism to reify oppressive inter-cultural systems and institutions.

I think a big part of the question is really founded in the question "are we really capable of understanding a culture we're not a part of or are we only capable of understanding it **through our own cultural lens**" which is very much like. The nature-nurture debate of socio-political discourse as a whole imo.

Personally, I have found the conversation itself really helpful in recognizing places I still perceive something as Objective TM in a way that is out of alignment with my desired relationship to knowledge (no idea if that phrase makes sense but my head is in a weird place anyway lol)

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Online financial redistribution efforts are often treated like favors, but I continue to think that they should be treated like investing in the good the world is putting out. Don't spend money at a fundraiser "because it's a good cause", that only sets us up to establish hierarchies of what is and is not deserving of funding, and nothing useful comes from that space.

Spend money on fundraisers because we want to live in a world where people who need money can ask society for it and trust that they will receive it. Spend money on fundraisers because you know that empowerment to meet your own needs is ALWAYS beneficial to the whole community, even if your needs are different from others'. Spend money on fundraisers because you have money to spend and cash redistribution is the universal economic constant that everyone, anarchists, socialists, capitalists, communities, etc, find the most useful for improving the quality of life of their constituents under the current social infrastructure. Because cash redistribution is simply a functional part of our economic relationships with each other.

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If you want to redistribute your cash to a specific cause or group, try these.

Doctors without Borders

Funding a group of indigenous health/environmentalism/social policy advocates work around nuclear radiation exposure from military testing sites

Demand Indigenous Radiation Survivors are heard in D.C.

Crips for esims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

Wildfire disaster relief

About the fund Wildfires that strike quickly and burn out of control have become increasingly commo… GoFundMe.org needs your support for Wi

Community Kitchen serving people in crisis in Sudan

The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khart

If your preference lies with giving directly to others, consider going to sites that crowdfund for campaigns [e.g. chuffed, gofundme, etc] and sorting their vetted campaigns by either newest to oldest or most to least money raised, as this will help you prioritize campaigns that are brand new and nearly complete, two areas that tend to see frequent and punishing stagnation during campaigns.

You can also work together with vetters, existing organizations/groups, and organizing networks to pool funds and distribute them to specific campaigns [e.g. bail funds, food fridge programs, disaster relief response, etc] on a regular basis. Some existing networks for this:

Frequently Asked Questions What is Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City? Defend the Forest & Stop Cop City is a grassroots movement of many group

The Water Protector Legal Collective is an Indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for Indigenous peoples and Orig

Direct Relief is a nonprofit organization deploying urgently needed medical aid to Ukraine and to help Ukrainians fleeing war. Learn more ab

In the wake of conflict and destruction, your mercy today can make a meaningful and lasting difference by helping to restore the lands, live

Announcing Phase 2 of Operation Olive Branch’s Direct Aid Initiative: Because of yo… Operation Olive Branch needs your support for Oper

There is a self-policing in waiting and letting opportunities to support others come to us, rather than taking the time to really learn how to do this.

I have watched "how should we respond to online calls to action around fundraising" become a debate so heated it would turn the Great Lakes to steam, rather than people simply taking the time to understanding how fundraising work happens, what access points to it we all have as individuals, and how we can set boundaries with ourselves about what we are and are not legitimately able to offer others by way of support.

I am *deeply* tired of watching people panic themselves about how to spend their cash on fundraisers "right". I am deeply exhausted by the idea that it is somehow the easiest thing in the world to just defraud people en masse through gofundme, rather than a failure of intense security systems and policies that are much more likely to remove legitimate funds for lacking state validated identification than to actually stop fraud in the first place. I am overwhelmed with confusion as to how people came to the conclusion that online fundraising is a chaotic lawless swindle-fest, and it's better to let this paralyze us into inaction than to risk someone we didn't intend to give to receiving our money.

If you're genuinely anxious enough about "donating to the wrong person" than either bow out of the system entirely and find other ways to contribute to making a world you want to see, or TEACH YOURSELF THE REALITY of giving effectively. Connect with existing mutual aid and bail funds and ask them if you can learn from them. Find a friend you trust to handle your donation budget in keeping with your morals and have THEM tell you where to donate or even donate in your name and pay them back or whatever works for you.

But please, everybody. Take a step back from the idea that fundraising is hard or confusing or too vulnerable to fraud and just. Remember what the point of giving money to people actually is. It's about empowering them to meet their own needs how they see fit by supporting them in obtaining the resources they tell you they need. That's all.

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My current donation budget is [one] allotment(s) of $5 per paycheck (biweekly) distributed monthly on the 29th. If you are seeking donations, feel free to contact me with links to your funds, and I will add them to my spreadsheet [will publish on my pinned post] to get to when I'm able. I will not be able to donate to all fundraisers and will use a combination of allotments each month to ensure new, nearly finished, and stagnating campaigns are all regularly included for consideration.

I do not vet fundraisers. I will not engage in the scrutiny of the vulnerable as they seek to survive. Any fundraisers I share or link to should be considered unvetted. I will not entertain arguments about the appropriateness of sharing or donating to unvetted fundraisers.

I continue to do individual and community work of my own, and am always happy to accept donations to my allotment fund from people looking to delegate their decision making process, but will only consider specific requests (e.g. please donate this money to a campaign for a child, or to a campaign for [named person/family]" vs "only give this to a vetted campaign") or no-strings donations. Any donations made with requests I cannot meet for you will be returned to you by the method of payment.

I also continue to accept [non-invasive] donations to my personal financial support. I do not ever need financial support desperately, as I have fairly reliable access to subsistance resources and regularly cash infusion. That said, environmental restoration, mutual aid organization, and health care for my stress management/autoimmune disorder aren't cheap, and it has often been the generosity of others that has allowed me to invest in myself and my work enough to make big steps forward.

Just a weird little treehugging academic

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Downloa

If you send a donation, please specify if it is for my personal fund or my allotment fund.

queerdo-mcjewface

Help low income students at my SIL’s school

My SIL works at a low-income school as a therapist and that is a photo of her dog to cheer people up!

https://www.walmart.com/registry/TR/02fac75c-3ee2-4a2a-a503-84bc47285a47

If you have the means, her students would love to have toys from her registry to play with. If you don’t have money to spare reblogging helps too.

tpwrtrmnky

hindsight

[ID: A two-panel comic with crudely drawn stick figures.

Panel 1: The lime green person is talking to the leaf green person and the moss green person.

Lime: "I... have a confession to make."

Leaf: "Go ahead."

Lime: "I want to rewatch the Wizard Child movies."

Leaf: "Didn't the wizard author get incredibly chromophobic?"

Lime: "Yeah I just... It's nostalgia you know? They meant a lot to me when I was a kid."

Panel 2: The three are on the couch.

Lime: "All right, let's go."

Leaf: "It's so weird how the wizard author just turned chromophobic though. Like I remember this series being pretty good for its time. It'll be weird seeing their work contrasting with their views now."

Moss: "I'm just glad we got the movies for free through normal and legal means. Heh."

End ID.]

[ID 2: Scenes from three Wizard Child movies.

Wizard Child and the Simplistic Morality: A slightly round child with a propeller hat is talking to a child with no hat.

Round child: "I am so fucking fat and greedy I am textually shown to be fat because I am greedy and also evil."

Hatless child: "You are to infer my moral purity from juxtaposition with this fat child. Woe is me for our shared parent has deprived me of a propeller hat."

Wizard Child and the Goodness of Wealth: An adult wizard is talking to the child, who now has a wizard hat.

Wizard Adult: "Wizard child you are secretly extremely rich."

Wizard Child: "I will form biases regarding the bankers all being triangular for some reason!"

Wizard Adult: "Your wealth is deserved because your true parent was Good and therefore you are also Good."

Wizard Child: "Now we should acquire consumer goods. Buy consumer goods!"

Wizard Child and the Dark Family History: A blue-grey horse person is talking to the wizard child.

Blue-grey: "No, wizard child. You don't understand. I am one of the good ones, because unlike the bad ones I don't try to spread my curse that makes you a blue-grey horselike creature to others!"

Wizard child: "Wow uncle blue-grey you are one of the good ones! I forgive you for being a horse because I am so good I would even forgive horses. I sure hope you don't conspicuously get killed off later in this movie!"

End ID 2.]

[ID 3: Oh hell no there are even more of these.

Wizard Youth and the Tokenistic Relationship Dynamics: A square headed wizard youth is talking to the former wizard child, now a wizard youth.

Square Wizard Youth: "Wizard child, as the only person with a square head in this entire series it is my duty to inform you that you are the savior of all people with square heads, too. Let us build a one-sided relationship that only furthers your character development, after which I will immediately lose all plot relevance."

Wizard Youth: "I will do this because I am a maturing wizard youth and need disposable relationships that don't threaten the endgame!"

Wizard Youth and the Escalation of Stakes: The Dark Wizard, a sort of grey-green person with a cloak, is pointing at Wizard Youth.

Dark Wizard: "Wizard Youth, I have returned!"

Wizard Youth: "Dark Wizard! Why are you green now?"

Dark Wizard: "Evil magic made me green! I am green with envy towards all who are good!"

Wizard Youth: "I will not engage with how you are clearly based on fascist ideologies and yet this narrative plays into fascist aesthetic sensibilities!"

Wizard Youth and the Post-Hoc Revelations: The Wizard Youth is leaning over their Wizard Mentor, who is laying in a pool of blood.

Wizard Youth: "Wizard Mentor no! You can't die!"

Wizard Mentor: "It is fine, wizard youth. My death will further your character development into a wizard adult. Also, I was secretly a very very dark purple this entire time. I never brought it up so I could retain narrative approval.

End ID 3.]

[ID 4: Wizard Adult and the Overdue Conclusion. Three panels. I am sorry.

Panel 1: The dark wizard is dueling the Wizard Adult with magic beams.

Dark Wizard: "Evil green beam!"

Wizard Adult: "Good red beam! Despite the enormous variety of magic in this series this is what our final battle looks like!"

Panel 2: Wizard Adult stands victorious over the dark wizard, who is dying on the ground.

Wizard Adult: "In the end, dark wizard, you were defeated because I am morally superior to you."

Dark Wizard: "I was a product of systemic failures. There will be someone like me again someday!"

Panel 3: Zoom in on wizard adult, who says:

"Not if I can help it. Because I am going to be a wizard cop now. The moral of this story is that all systemic issues can be solved by finding a bad guy to beat."

End ID 4.]

[ID 5: Four panels.

Panel 1: Return to the green trio on their couch, watching the TV say "The End." All are are silent.

Panel 2: They are sitting on the couch. Moss is looking at their phone.

Lime: "Yeah so there were maybe a few signs we missed because we were children."

Leaf: "Yeah. A few. Some."

Panel 3: Continue conversation.

Lime: "So what did you think, Moss?"

Panel 4: Zoom in on Moss, who says: "I've been zoned out on my phone since the second movie. They lost me at the magic stuff. Wizards aren't real."

End ID 5.]

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tpwrtrmnky

Bonus panel!

[ID: Wizard Child and the Bizarre Condonement of Slavery: The Wizard Adult is showing the Wizard Child a small Elf Creature.

Wizard Adult: "Your parent owned a slave by the way, here they are."

Wizard Child: "Wait, are we okay with having slaves?"

Wizard Adult: "Yeah we're okay with having slaves. But we're not okay with having slaves if you are Bad."

Elf Creature: "I will be okay with this arrangement as long as you are Good, wizard child"

Wizard Child: "Wow it sure is convenient that I can participate in this system because I am Good."

End ID.]

kushblazer666

sorry but can we please accept that human beings are not particularly sexually dimorphic or do i have to live in the culture war until i fucking die

notthegrouch

notable examples of sexual dimorphism among animals include: different skin/fur/feather colors and patterns, different body shapes and sizes, and body functions being so drastically different that for hundreds of years scientists had the impression they were different species.

Meanwhile in humans, neither skin nor hair color is different among sexes, body size difference has a relatively huge overlap making the averages barely distinguishable and body functions practically only differ in relation to child bearing and care. Any differences outside of that is either negligable or more influenced by local culture than people think.

so, yeah, let's get rid of gender essentialism based on outdated conceptualizations of sexual dimorphic species, please.

vulpineamethyst

also worth noting that every time scientists think they've found a gendered difference in brain function in humans, studies with larger sample populations find that it was actually just a fluke and the 'difference' is just statistical noise.

queerdo-mcjewface

I am glad so many perisex people are reblogging this!

kushblazer666

sorry but can we please accept that human beings are not particularly sexually dimorphic or do i have to live in the culture war until i fucking die

notthegrouch

notable examples of sexual dimorphism among animals include: different skin/fur/feather colors and patterns, different body shapes and sizes, and body functions being so drastically different that for hundreds of years scientists had the impression they were different species.

Meanwhile in humans, neither skin nor hair color is different among sexes, body size difference has a relatively huge overlap making the averages barely distinguishable and body functions practically only differ in relation to child bearing and care. Any differences outside of that is either negligable or more influenced by local culture than people think.

so, yeah, let's get rid of gender essentialism based on outdated conceptualizations of sexual dimorphic species, please.

vulpineamethyst

also worth noting that every time scientists think they've found a gendered difference in brain function in humans, studies with larger sample populations find that it was actually just a fluke and the 'difference' is just statistical noise.

sweatermuppet

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