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my biggest issue with happiest season wasn't that they centered the whole storyline around a closeted romance - that's a valid story, and one that I'm sure many can relate to. my biggest issue is them showing harper treating abby with disregard and disrespect over and over and over again, and then expecting us to be happy for them because oh yay, harper finally realized she was about to lose abby. they could've had this whole storyline with them having an actually healthy and supportive relationship, and yet we got this. we deserve better queer romances than that, we deserve better representation than that.

tinaseh

so the minnesota freedom fund turned out to be fraudulent :///

tinaseh

doctorfreak

y’all..........remember 1. most grassroots organizations aren’t prepared or expecting to raise 30+ million dollars in 3 weeks 2. days after they started they said they had enough donations and asked people to direct funds to needier orgs 3. they announced they’ve spent over $200k bailing people out and are working on doing more 4. community organizing done right is hard work with a lot of different factors and limited resources Beyond just money.

hold these organizations accountable and demand transparency. but this original post has such little information and y’all are just circulating it? read the thread from the oakland mask org that started years ago and how intense this work is. it’s been three weeks and these are what looks like less than 12 people who have been given an immense amount of cash in an unbelievably short amount of time. i wouldn’t be so quick to call this a shaun king situation.

anonymusbosch

I follow Fadumo. She's deleted these tweets.

The MN Freedom Fund has existed since 2016. Prior to the George Floyd protests, they were a small bail fund that paid out around $1000 per day. Paying out over $200,000 in 20 days puts them at over 10 times their previous payout rate.

They stopped taking donations very early on because the support overwhelmed their capacity.

Their front page now, as it has been since late May, is almost entirely links to local efforts which need more support - Black Visions Collective, Reclaim the Block, and funds like Rebuild Lake Street and the Northside Business Association.

Meanwhile, The National Lawyers Guild has said that jails are delaying activists from being able to release protestors.

The MNFF should be transparent about how it's using the money, yes. I believe they should also redirect the donations they can't immediately use to other organizations. But they're a 501(c)3 nonprofit, there are restrictions on how they can spend and transfer money. You can check out their nonprofit filing forms on ProPublica - no one at MNFF receives a salary.

Keep orgs accountable, keep pushing for transparency, but please do a little more leg work before accusing an org of fraud.

lilacbreastedroller

all this. you can't just waltz into a courthouse, write a check for $35 million, and call it a day. it would be scandal if the $35 million had been spent frankly.

dingdongyouarewrong

they also can’t ‘redirect the donations they can’t immediately use to other organizations’, because it’s illegal for nonprofits to do so in the state of minnesota

hissandfit

Some more pride patches, this time with rainbow fabric (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYC96QlGBS/?igshid=1rrmb7h9gmwhf

coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230

I did another post on this topic last year, but I thought it could use an update with some more books! And yes, the last post had people repeatedly adding on queer books by white people, so I’m a bit salty about it.

Other queer SFF PowerPoints:

Massive queer SFF rec post

Trans SFF

F/F SFF

Bi and Pan SFF

Ace SFF

I’m not transcribing all the text, but you can find the titles, authors, information on TW, etc beneath the cut.

When possible, I’m linking to my database of queer books. The page for each book includes the synopsis, content warnings under spoiler tags, and links to reviews from queer readers. If it’s not in the queer database at the time of posting (8/24/19), I’ll link to Goodreads instead.

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fandomsandfeminism

This Pride Month we remember to support ANYONE who has to fight for their humanity.

Happy Pride.

BLM.

godisablckwoman-deactivated2019

You’re doing amazing sweetie

jardadalecki

chaoticgouda

avid-windex-consumer

YES SCOTLANDDD

crazyintheeast

Hope they ditch their ugly ass husband Britain soon and live their best singgle

hissandfit

With June being the start of pride month and with the on-going protests regarding police brutality, we wanted to remember that it was Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman, who threw the first brick and fought for hers and the entire lgbt communities’ rights to not be subject to police brutality and harrassment.

That fight continues today, and every day. (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5mldlF_tg/?igshid=1pn698oaw1mal

hissandfit

We finished She-Ra and the Princesses of Power yesterday and had some feeling about it (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnQIFulvW-/?igshid=wt7b7vu87g3w

quakerjoe

dduane

THIS.

sapphicambitions

queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.

hissandfit

Got some new pins listed on Etsy . . . . . #etsy #pins #etsyshop #pingame #etsyseller #pin #pinstagram #lapelpins #pingamestrong #pinsofig #lapelpin #pincollector #pinlife #pincollection #smallbusiness #tarot #tarotcards #tarotreading #tarotreadersofinstagram #badbitch #hissandfit (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1W0zwPlo35/?igshid=9excmf1dz4g9