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June 22, 2021: Queer Bones by Queer Bones
Because it’s Pride Month:
To learn more about queer history, check out Queer As Fact and Making Queer History! They are also both on Tumblr here (QAF) and here (MQH). I’m not tagging them directly because I don’t want to bother them by spamming their notifications for the rest of June, but definitely give them a follow!
Here’s some additional queer history from around the world, not just the United States.
Help this person leave their homophobic and transphobic country.
Here are some LGBTQIA+ GoFundMe campaigns: Rent Fund For Black LGBT Family, Help Roze get somewhere safe (Non-Binary LGBTQ), Survival and Gender Affirming Needs for Black Enby, College Fund for a Black Trans Woman, Tito’s top surgery and recovery fund, Omi’s Transition Fund: Health, Housing, & Security, Help Emmett Pay for Emergency Surgery
If you’d like to get involved with stopping the atrocities against Palestine, here’s where you can start (text in bold for readability):
DONATE: here and here
PETITIONS AND ACTIONS: petition (UK only), petition (UK only), petition, actions to take/reading list
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION: overview of the conflict (video 1 and video 2), Decolonize Palestine’s FAQ, the conflation of Jewish identity with the modern Israeli state, the Nakba, the history of the Israeli settlements in Palestine, miscellaneous podcast episodes about some specific issues with the narrative around Palestine, and a list of various resources for information
PRESENT DAY: the crisis as it currently exists, U.S. foreign aid to Israel, Palestine-United States relations, Israel-United States relations, perspectives from on the ground in Gaza, a bunch of videos about the crisis (recommendations: “Life Inside Gaza After Nearly 2 Weeks of Bombings”, “Israel Is Vaccinating ‘Everyone’ – Besides 5 Million Palestinians”, and “Why Evangelical Christians Love Israel”), the gentrification of East Jerusalem
Black lives matter and here are some ways you can get involved in the fight against racism, specifically anti-black racism (text in bold for readability):
This Linktree and this Carrd are full of ways to confront and fight against anti-black racism: places to donate, advice for protesting, educational resources.
Donate to: Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, the Racial Justice Network, Communities United Against Police Brutality, the Bail Project, the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Okra Project, the Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, For The Gworls, G.L.I.T.S., the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective.
Here is a post with a list of GoFundMe campaigns that have yet to reach their goals.
Additional GoFundMe campaigns: Justice for Breonna Taylor, In Memory of Jamarion Robinson, Rent Fund For Black LGBT Family, Esperanza Spalding’s BIPOC Artist Sanctuary, Survival and Gender Affirming Needs for Black Enby, Jaya and Dylan’s Move out Fund, Janet and David’s apartment burned down, Help Revay get to medical school, Help Dai Parker Get Back into College Fund, Help Send Howard to Berklee College of Music, A Home for Harriett’s Bookshop
