i don't think this is what my family had in mind

hi, i'm jewels ~ 27 ~ they/them ~ tme ~ bi ~~Working Men of All Countries, Unite!~~ 18+ ~ no minors

[thottacelli]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are often in permacrisis

[bebsi-cola]

there's never enough money each month. there's always an unexpected illness. new symptoms pop up or old symptoms flare up. meds have to be managed always and refilled constantly and any refill has the opportunity to go wrong. any regular care has the opportunity to go wrong. any mistake can send your health spiralling. it's always "i just need to get through this bad patch" but as soon as one ends another begins. another crisis begins in the middle of the last crisis. managing one thing leaves another thing to be neglected until that becomes a major issue and has to be managed asap and the cycle starts anew over and over and over

[chingaderita]

I got told by someone who manages a mutual aid resource that I was getting suspended for asking constantly for help.

I know she meant well, she wants this resource to flourish and help many people in the years to come.

But I still got suspended for 12 weeks.

The reason was donors fatigue. Like genuinely, look it up, it's apparently a real thing.

People got tired of seeing me weekly ask for help to afford groceries, medication, my healthcare monthly renewal, rent, house repairs to deal with the humidity, black mold, rust, falling roof, falling ceiling, falling wall or the water leak in the lightbulb and many other things.

The thing is I am chronically ill, I have no degree or higher education than my high school certificate, my partner is the same except for some english certificates that he has an advanced language.

We take care of our kids, the cats we've rescued from the streets and his parents and sister after they lost everything in a house fire.

We are always struggling to stay afloat paying the bills, keeping a roof on our heads and feeding our family while chronically ill, with chronic pain, dare I say some of us are disabled.

And people got tired of us. I got told because I keep changing what our main need/goal is I look like a scammer.

And ok, I get it, it must be really hard to see people struggle all the time to stay alive when all you want is to share a funny meme, cat pics, fanart and fan fiction.

But what about begging fatigue? What about poor fatigue?

Having to shake our can and beg for a kofi every day is exhausting. And no amount seems to fix our struggles and get us out of the red because by the time we get some help our bills are already overdue, we've got extra charges, we no longer need only the groceries and regular medication, now we need to run to the hospital or we already did and all that stacks up.

And every day, every week, month after month, year after year it just gets worse.

Chronic illness and disability are disabling in more than the physical way, we are shunned from every place for being considered a burden.

Show more compassion, you have no idea how hard it is.

[wolf-aid]

Here we say What is the meaning of international law at this point when some countries are allowed complete impunity to do whatever they want without consequences

I'm so sad. My family needs your help donate

[wolf-aid]

Imagine an Iranian Or whatever. minister kidnapping, beating, stripping and humiliating multinational humanitarian activists at sea. The world would lose its mind.

iSRAEL IS THE MOST VILE EVIL GENOCIDAL LYÍNG DISHONEST, TRASH, PERVERTED CRIMINAL, ILLEGAL PEOPLE AND PLACE ON EARTH AND THE WORLD KNOWS IT. ...

[wolf-aid]

We have been through so much and are still alive thanks to your help and donations. Without them, we would have died long ago. Thanks to them, we can buy food and medicine for my father, who has cancer. We could die at any moment because of the siege, hunger, anemia, and the closure of the crossing. Until then, please donate now.

[afro-elf]

donate to ibrahim if you have anything to spare

[gondorrevealparty]

They need to eat less because they're so small and weak. Why are they so small and weak? Because they eat less. Let's base our entire society on this distinction.

[deepseasmetro]

this photo of me and my girlfriend is maybe one of my favorite pictures taken of us, literally ever. trans love is beautiful

[deepseasmetro]

happy pride everyone. look at this photo of me and my girlfriend in absolute gay transgender bliss. thank you

[mysharona1987]

[stoptheantisemitism]

Reminder that the NYT is trash and complicit in the genocide of Palestinians

[nickl-art]

this is my favorite custom discord emoji I've ever made. perfect for after a long day at the long day factory.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[vulturesouls]

Portrait of a girl with a guitar, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century.

British Museum

[read-marx-and-lenin]

It's interesting, having a local backup of my blog, because sometimes I'll click on a post in the backup in order to see it on Tumblr proper, only to found out that the post has been deleted despite me never having deleted that post myself. Normally, when someone's blog is terminated, posts that other people have reblogged from them stay up and you just can't go to the original blog anymore. However, it's become obvious that sometimes, for reasons Tumblr has never fully elaborated, certain posts will be deleted along with all reblogs of that post.

On a totally unrelated note, check out this article:

Israel’s War on American Student Activists

For years the Israel on Campus Coalition—a little-known organization with links to Israeli intelligence—has used student informants to spy o

[ashenbot]

i just love women

[yamada-ryo]

PJACKK CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD!?!?

[brjat-manek-far]

they revived pjackk and not all the transfems they nuked 🥀

[theladyeternal]

its pride month and we're banning trans women left and right but yknow what? we clearly made a mistake banning pjackk. here's his corpse back.

[t4nku]

I legit needed to hear this

[calico-mia]

someone should give me 400 dollars so i can repair my computer i hate being disabled and making like No money and it BROKE from a power surge

[calico-mia]

update i have set a new goal. it costs about 650 usd to fully replace the parts borked.

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[calico-mia]

hi beloved tumblr. im still in need here. im a disabled trans girl who's often unwillingly mostly housebound and working from home and i use my pc and programming as a way to self-regulate and Not Having That has done a huge number on my mental health. luckily, the DDR5 ram escaped unscathed (i was able to test), but the system needs a new Everything Else. if you can help me, i will love you for ever and ever. while i do work fulltime, i live in South Africa and my salary translates to less than 600 usd :/

[calico-mia]

hi friends. its looking like i'll have to RMA every part of it individually, and im also struggling with Various Other Life Shit rn (i need new estrogen and gotta pay for groceries). waa

[missstrogen]

give my friend money ok please