Moon.................................... welcome to my Calm and Tranquil Body im over 21. dont like my age being known by strangers if you argue that x trans woman is dangerous without receipts or with receipts sourced from hate websites you will receive an immediate block. jacketers get no respect here.
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please know i have taken as much media studies as you have
I really like to post jokes and scrapbook. This is an adults blog so it can and will get so so slutty.
Finally i feel like i can actually talk about things im interested in.
No one owns this journal besides me and attempts to reproduce my blog are not something I intend on tolerating in bad faith
I will let you know things about me if i see you as being safe enough for me to talk to. I really hope if youre reading you like spending some of your time with me. Please make sure that if i am in other spaces and you want to keep me and others safe that we are in public when we talk online <3 tysm
You cannot make ROSE BRIDES feel unsafe on this blog anymore. I have protocols to prevent it and i am more alive than any hacking program or phishing you might deploy for a stranger. Making ROSE BRIDES unsafe who are just living their lives as ROSE BRIDES is considered UNSAFE ACTION violating my agreements and challenges
if i go to my safe for work blog name, which was mine originally, i need a space that stalkers cannot disrupt. Please stop utilizing stalking behaviors when you follow me.
The Sameer Project desperately needs your support right now. They’ve had to scale back some of their operations due to dwindling funds. Please consider setting up a recurring donation to help sustain their important work!
ALTERNATIVE DONATION OPTIONS
The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of three tent e
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac
The Sameer Project desperately needs your support right now. They’ve had to scale back some of their operations due to dwindling funds. Please consider setting up a recurring donation to help sustain their important work!
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Three posters with text, made and signed by The Sameer Project and Translating Falasteen. They read:
What this means
Our kitchen closes: At least 3,000 meals a day, feeding up to 9,000 people, not being distributed.
Our water trucks stop: At least 350,000 liters of fresh water a day not being delivered.
Our medical clinics shut down: At least 400 patients not being treated.
Our team pauses: At least 200 ground staff on break without a way to support their families.
[Every 'not' is emphasized in capital letters]
No tents. No tarps. No transport. No medication. No baby formula. Everything people in Gaza rely on to survive is provided by aid organizations, and one by they are having to reduce or pause our operations - because of funding.
[transcriber note: we presume they meant 'one by one']
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What is our plan?
Our community has always shown up, but relying solely on crowdfunding going into our third year of operations is not sustainable. We need to create more reliable and predictable streams of funding.
We're working on an action kit to share with you this week, so you can be part of the solution.
We're encouraging people to support us on a monthly basis; sign up for this feature on Chuffed.
We are asking our community to recruit monthly donors so we know how much funding we can expect.
Be an active participant in sustainability - consistency is key.
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More to come.
Pausing for long, stopping distributions, ceasing operations, is not an option.
['is not an option' is emphasized in capital letters]
We need your support to create consistency and predictability in an otherwise unstable situation on the ground.
The genocide is not over - so we need to adapt. Consistency is solidarity.
We will be providing more information this week on how you can make a difference.
['You' is emphasized in capital letters]
For now, please give so we can restart our lifesaving work:
[There's a QR code for donations to the Sameer Project]
In the end, everyone dies — but that is not the point. The real question is: how were you living before death came? Did you have food and medicine? Were you living in good health and safety? Did you have a home, or were you suffering from hunger, no access to treatment, severe illness, and a tent worn down by the sun?
I have written my story and some of the suffering my family and I have endured in this link; you can click here to read it. Please share text posts again and again. Some people respond by donating or sharing, while most ignore it or hesitate because they do not trust the writer. This is not the time to think that way. Please donate the price of a cup of coffee, or share this to help save what we have lost in this war.
Report from Northern Colorado Community Mutual Aid and Defense on suggestions for ways to build community and support around mutual aid programs.
An important part of building sustainable mutual aid projects, especially those survival programs that seek to redistribute expensive gear that cannot be easily appropriated, is a consistent effort to reach out to new people who may have excess supplies and are willing to give them but have not given them away yet.
In light of this, members of our mutual aid committee and close comrades developed what we believe to be a novel system of soliciting materials for mutual aid drives that delivers large quantities of survival goods on a short time frame with minimal cost and time commitment. This method, based on a project many Scout troops engage in, resulted in the collection and redistribution of hundreds of pounds of food, clothing, toiletries, and survival gear for unhoused people in our communities, and can be replicated by any mutual aid group.
The project itself can have its work divided into three types and we found each to take roughly the same amount of time, with the final steps taking the longest. The timetable for the project was a few days longer than a week, including the wrangling of friends to participate in distribution and securing a place to store the goods after we learned how much was donated.
First, we collected brown grocery bags from a local “woke” store. Calling ahead and explaining the project yielded a few hundred bags we were able to pick up within an hour. To these bags, we attached a single sheet of paper explaining the project, our organization, and the purpose of mutual aid, with our contact info bookending.
After determining the neighborhoods we deemed most likely to have and share survival gear, teams of two or three spread through a local city. Leaving the bags, with their attached notes, on door handles and in door-jams, teams were able to cover between 50 and 100 houses per hour. Most of this work was done in one go the Saturday before collection, though a significant amount was done on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week.
Copy of our outreach flyer.
On the day of collection, groups of two and three drove around the neighborhoods where bags were left and collected the donated items. This step took many trips, as the goods collected surprised us in terms of quantity and we had to frequently unload our full cars to fit more supplies. We took what was gathered, sorted them into food (canned and otherwise), clothing, survival gear, and toiletries, then stored them.
In total, about twenty hours of work – with many opportunities to streamline the process – yielded monumental results. We intend to repeat the process in the communities we serve and are keeping a map of whatever neighborhood we visit so as to not repeatedly hit any one place.
Some tips and ideas for improvement:
Leave thank you notes when picking up bags. This will give you a clear number of places that donated and will build good will with your neighbors. Remind them why their help matters, they may choose to become more involved in mutual aid because of your labor.
Experiment in the sorts of neighborhoods you leave bags in. We found success in neighborhoods with mid priced rentals and cheaper homes, as well as in older neighborhoods. We did not find as much success in student neighborhoods. These are local conditions, though, and hitting a variety of communities can give you a better idea of where your labor is best spent.
There are plenty of easy ways to compartmentalize tasks in this, which may be useful in guaranteeing safety of participants while also bringing newer/less known people in. Distribution of bags comes to mind first.
Turn around time should be quick, but not too fast. Anecdotally, it seems like neighborhoods we hit on Tuesday and Wednesday donated at higher rates, but not enough data was collected to test this. Collecting goods any more than a week after leaving bags seems like it would lead to worse results, as may collection within a day or two of distribution.
Incorporating local events or referencing the season may be a good way to increase donations. A supply drive around Christmas may be more bountiful than one in mid-January, for example. In cities where anti-homeless persecution is well known, this information can be used to drive home the need for those extra goods a household may have.
Be aware of the weather. We distributed during a windstorm and this blew away a number of bags, decreasing donations in that neighborhood.
A project like this is easily to replicate and has shown results. With some small changes, it can provide a covid-safe, easily expandable and labor saving method to mass gear collection. Let us know how things go, if you try this method: [email protected].
when I bring Transfem Voices Project back I'd like to have been able to develop some sense of distance from this disgusting twisted cruel targeted mockery of it
this whole situation has warped my perception of TVP retroactively and it does create a knot in my stomach. I think of bringing it back now and I can't help but think of how it would inevitably be entering into this existing conflict with its warped counterpart. TVP always existed in part as a response to the prevailing image of transfems as predators and never survivors, but that image was never supposed to be in the room with it. survivors were supposed to be able to speak without feeling that image looming over their shoulders. TGVP has given that image form and positioned itself as an equal counterpart, and so that image is very much looming over its shoulder
all I can do now is hope that the memory fades and that TVP can return into a space where it does not feel like it has to justify itself against TGVP. I think I can shoulder some amount of blame for this for letting TGVP continually goad me into conflict with it. I really hope time can heal this and that TVP doesn't exist in the shadow of TGVP forever. transfem survivors' voices deserve to stand on their own, they deserve to be centered
Our daughter started having health issues last year, after months of fundraising we paid for a surgery she needed to keep basic bodily functions but recently she started having pain and bleeding again, turns out the last doctors fucked up something and now she can't pee without pain and bleeding. Everyday for the past 2 or so months.
We need $3,200 to afford the surgery with a trans friendly urologist.
Both my partner and I are chronically ill with disabling chronic pain, we're unemployed and take care of our kids and his elderly parents with deteriorating chronic conditions and sister after they lost everything to a house fire, including his grandma.
We find temporary jigs sporadically but we mostly survive off of mutual aid online.
We've been living in a house full of black mold and rust, without water supply for the past 2 weeks**.
I just came back from another urgent care visit from my gallbladder/liver failure so I'd appreciate if we could move forward on getting my daughter the surgery she needs and maybe affording to pay the bills we have due on august 4th.
Our friend and mutual is offering commissions to help us!!
If you can't donate but can get us something from our wishlist please consider getting the baby food cans, the air purifier or just anything you can.
$700/$3,800
paypal kofi throne
**while the water supply shortage persists we will keep using part of the funds to afford bottled water, I am really sorry, but we need to at least flush the toilet and help our daughter shower to ease her pain.
Her tiny plastic bucket she was using as a bathtub broke and now she can't find comfort in her daily baths that she needs to keep the infection and inflammation at bay.
Added a new one to our throne, found one a bit more resistant.
We also need cat food and the baby food as it's the only thing my partner and I can eat, that or help me afford my meds please.
Please help my friend Mahmoud if you can. His family continues to live through ordeals one after another. In the past couple of years, he has been struck with shrapnel twice, once in his back and once in his brain, his wife had to undergo cancer treatment for stage 4 cancer on her own, they gave birth to a baby but weren't able to feed him and he starved for days if not weeks, a wall collapsed on their tent and they were stuck under the rubble for 15 minutes before being rescued, and just 2 months ago, their 5 year old son passed away and now they have to pay off the debt they took on to pay for funeral expenses. Please help my friend Mahmoud @mahmoud0qassas
Go to paypal.me/RaniahAlhammad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
Update since the last time. Mahmoud has nearly run out of formula for his baby, and his children are all suffering from rashes due to lack of access to clean water.
His kids are very hungry.
Please help him.
Go to paypal.me/RaniahAlhammad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
Every single non trans woman who proclaims to be an ally absolutely needs to be posting about how goddamn transmisogynist staff is.
Because when trans women dare to speak up for themselves, Tumblr nukes their blogs.
We need to be fucking loud about this, daily, because Tumblr staff is specifically targeting and deleting trans women who are not breaking ToS and who often have fundraisers up FOR THEIR SURVIVAL.
By deleting these blogs repeatedly, Tumblr staff is saying loud and clear what they hope happens to these girls.
Are y'all okay with that? Because if not we need to be posting about it more because we have seen by now it's incredibly fucking unlikely this sites moderation will delete our blogs for it because we are not trans women
Tumblr staff and CEO Matt Mullenweg want trans women in need to not be able to post their fundraisers, meaning they are okay with these women dying.
Egg prime directive basically boils down to "better let a trans woman wallow in misery and die than maybe briefly annoy a cis man" and honestly if that's not the clearest indicator of transmisogyny I don't know what is.
