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Colt. 25. Queer. Trans Masc. He/him/his or they/them pronouns. I have BPD, depression, and anxiety. Very open about being trans and having mental illness. Love to help others. Please be kind.

[dudepositivity]

religious queer men? radical. amazing. loved. perfect. valid. 10/10

[recoversuggestions]

who you are is enough. repeat it again and again. you are enough.

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

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[silversarcasm]

if you had to drop out of a class you are not a failure

if you had to take time off school you are not a failure

if you had to leave school for good you are not a failure

your worth is not determined by academia and this goes doubly so for disabled people and others for whom school is set against them

[queeranarchism]

When a comrade gets arrested

If you’re new to actions with an arrest risk and you don’t have experienced protestors with you, there’s stuff you can find online about having a legal team, writing the name of a lawyer on your body, saying NOTHING to the cops except the name of your lawyer, etc. That’s all good advice.

But let me give you a bit of advice that is just as essential as all that:

If one of your comrades gets arrested, and you know they can be held for 6, 9, 12 hours, depending on where you are, you get a group of people together and you wait outside the police station.

You may be tired, you may be stressed, it may be freezing, you may need to take turns, but you take whoever can still physically and mentally bear it and you go to that police station and you wait for your comrade. You can spend the time taking care of each other, drinking hot drinks, doing whatever gets you through, but you wait.

And when your comrade gets out, you make sure they do not walk home alone in the dark thinking about the fucked up experience they just had, you make sure there’s a big fucking crowd of their comrades there to greet them with hugs and hot drinks and a cigarette if they smoke.

And whether the arrested comrade that just got out is happy or sad or pissed off, you take that for what it is and give that space and you support that. And you get them a hot meal and you hang out with them and you offer to let them stay at your place or you stay with them so they don’t have to spend that night alone with their thoughts.

You do this every damn time, regardless of whether you really like that comrade and regardless of how you feel about the thing your comrade got arrested for, regardless of how often they’ve been arrested. Because you never know how shitty their experience is going to be in there this time. 

Trust me. This is absolutely essential. Once you’ve been arrested and have felt the difference between walking home alone or having your friends waiting for you, you’ll understand.

[property-is-theft-deactivated20]

Be good comrades

[demetriochavez]

I can’t stress how important this is. When my father and I were arrested in Seattle some years back for agitating for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, we were greeted outside the jail by the event’s organisers. They cheered us, had cokes and munchies for us. They drove us to our car and, during the drive, asked if we wanted to stay the night in Seattle with one of the organisers, they filled us in on what had happened after our arrests, they asked about and listened intently to what we experienced from arrest to release. They did so much so well that when another call went out for potential arrestees, we were amongst the first to raise our proverbial hands.  Read the post. Re-read the post. Remember it. And, when the chance comes, do it.

[glompcat]

When I was arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest a few years ago, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice were doing Jail Support when I was finally let out of One Police Plaza at around 6am. 

They had gotten a klezmer band to stand along the hill you have to go up to leave the jail, and as I walked to where the volunteer lawyers were waiting (they were there to make sure all 200+ people who were arrested that night would be represented at their later hearings. They also were surrounded by volunteers who had food, phone chargers, directions to all the nearby subway stops, and one of them let me borrow her phone to call my mom when I got frustrated with how slowly my phone was charging) the band played music, cheered and applauded. 

Honestly? That band playing klezmer for me as I left jail, cheering me on and making me laugh… it’s a memory I really treasure. 

It’s also one of my mother’s favorite stories. Before I told her about that band, she got so upset and agitated whenever anything reminded her of my arrest. She’d freak out, cry, start fussing over me, and so forth. After I told her about the klezmer band though? It became something she’d tell her friends about, over and over again, laughing each time. She stopped calling me to beg me not to go and protest every time she knew a big one was happening, and instead would call to make a joke about how if I want to listen to klezmer she has some CDs I can borrow.

When I think about that night, rather than any of the many many terrible things that happened from the moment the cops grabbed me onward, the first thing I remember is the klezmer, and how it made me laugh, and the popcorn someone gave me as I gave the lawyers my name and info, and the kindness of strangers.

After the dehumanization of even a few hours in police custody, those volunteers made me smile, and gave the night a new fun and funny angle to be remembered from. I actually laugh when I think about that night, thanks to them.

Jail Support is a beyond vital part of protesting. It really really is. 

[alexsdump-deactivated20221020]

reblog if you would support your friend if they wanted to be a stripper

[daisiesmakingchains]

my favorite thing that’s ever come out of those dumb “gender reveal” parties, you know the ones, is that people make cakes and other baked goods for them right?

and since everything in this hellscape has to be gendered including colors, they gotta use both pink and blue frosting when they decorate to keep the prospective parents guessing before they cut the cake open and reveal how they’re gonna color-code their babies, but that also means:

people are out here making blue and white and pink baby cakes and just, unintentionally throwing the trans flag all over their pointless “gender” celebration and i think that’s just superb

[daisiesmakingchains]

[newtgeiszler]

someone make me this cake when i get top surgery to celebrate

[the-barista-district]

What if the trans community…stole gender reveal parties?

[mishellfishbeach]

I hope the trans community steals gender reveal parties

[celebrity-pharmacist]

I’m willing to lead an initiative to steal gender reveal parties

[anarchohellenism]

I’m going to steal gender reveal parties

[pastelbrachypelma]

Actually, petite and I are doing this for his birthday!

[eligantly]

teachers need mental health training. not to help students solve their complex health issues by any means, but to notice that missing a day of school is the least of our worries. to notice that an A+ doesn’t matter when your entire world is falling apart. teachers need to be trained to notice the unique cry for help instead of criticising it. telling a student that they’re failing and putting their future at risk does not cause progression.

[weavemama]

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

[jackharknessday]

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

[gayfeatherfiend]

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

[belowthy]

[tswift]

ah what we’re NOT going to do tonight is shame people for not having sex. you should have sex when you’re ready, regardless of how old you are. some of us are ready earlier than others, some of us haven’t found the right person, some of us aren’t interested in sex at all. let’s let people fuck who they want but also choose to NOT fuck if they don’t want to :-) thx for coming to my ted talk

[novelconcepts]

Repeat after me, kids: your significant other liking multiple genders does nothing to invalidate the fact that they like you best.

[int0themidnightsun]

It simply means that they could have chosen literally anyone on earth, regardless of gender, and yet they still picked you.

[jaxgreen]

This is really important.

[candycorn-dreams]

Reblog if you support squishy bellies, have a squishy belly, or have the desire to summon satan

[candylandbabygirl]

D. All of the above

[depresseddisneyprincess]

you are not broken because you are sad

you are not broken because you are anxious

you are not broken because you hallucinate 

you are not broken because you  hear things

you are not broken because you can’t focus

you are not broken because you are compulsive

you are not broken because you have tics

you are not broken because you have intrusive thoughts

you are not broken because of your mental illness

you are not broken

[epiphanies]

It’s not easy being my color in this industry, it’s really not, and these conversations are really hard. I don’t talk about a lot of this stuff.

Tan France on being a gay Muslim

[tkkatherineblog]

[endangeredbodiesnyc]