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[verysadpaper]

the selfish mortal:

[bulbasauryeee]

happy pride month! an arab trans woman needs your (yes YOUR 🫵) help!!

(i know i’m late shhh)

the beginning is on the horizon

my dearest friend gwen is trying to escape her dangerously queerphobic country and family to move to canada, where she can go to college as well finally transition and live her life! however, she needs financial help!

it’s been over 2 months since she started her fundraiser and we’re still not a third of the way there. any amount helps! why not chip in a lil something?

here is where you can support her fundraiser directly as well as read her story:

Donate to Help an Arab Transfem Get to Safety, organized by Joseph McClung

Gwendolyne is an Arab autistic lesbian trans woman who unfortunately struggles with… Joseph McClung needs your support for Help an Arab Tran

alternatively, you can commission me. by doing so, your donation will be rewarded with an art piece of your choice! i offer some cool things give em a look. prices as low as 4 USD

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if you can’t donate, reblogging & sharing still goes a long long way!!

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[sadclowncentral]

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

[sumverendus]

[sandpancakecat]

[nerdygaymormon]

[dunkthebiscuit]

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[mosabahmad1]

Urgent Appeal

My daughter Lama is only 4 years old, yet she is carrying a pain no child should ever bear.

She was severely injured in her hand and desperately needs immediate medical treatment to save her.

My daughters—and so many children like them—are in grave danger because of the relentless war around us.

In , bombs fall without mercy, hunger gnaws at our bones, and safety feels like a distant dream.

There is no medicine, no functioning hospitals—only the crushing silence of a world that looks away.

Please, your share could be the voice that breaks this silence.

Your donation could be the lifeline that saves a child’s life.

Help us hold on to hope.

Donat Link

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[vagathathegreat]

Always remember who started to fight back first. Intersectionalty is so important!

[mousidy]

some of you have gotten way too comfortable calling trans women "faggots" as if that's not literally a slur meant to refer to men

some trans women reclaiming the slur because it's been used against them does not make it carte blanche to call any trans woman a faggot, this much should be really fucking obvious

[verysadpaper]

that’s why you’re looking for them, aren’t you?

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

[closet-keys]

when thinking about how oppression works, on a structural level, my guiding principle is that I must spend at least as much time looking down as I do looking up.

what do I mean by this? here's an example. when my surgery is delayed multiple times, I spend a little time looking up (there is only one surgeon in the entire area who will perform this surgery on trans people, so every trans person's surgical timeline is bottle-necked and delayed by months every time he goes to a conference or takes a vacation or experiences an injury. in other words, if I was cis, I would not encounter this difficulty in accessing surgery). and then I spend time looking down (due to nonstop harassment and legal threats, this practice now only treats adults and will no longer perform surgeries on minors. in other words, my access to surgery is predicated on adult privilege I have at the direct expense of trans youth's lack of access).

if you do not build a habit around thinking in this way, you will become the person Audre Lorde describes as "so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face." If we are seeking to dismantle structures of oppression, rather than to simply use and climb them, then we absolutely must make a practice of looking in both directions, especially when we feel like we're on the bottom.

[helpmotasem5]

I write these words to you with a heart filled with pain and loss.

Here in the heart of the Gaza Strip, from the heart of suffering, pain, hunger, and a severe siege.

I lost my mother, who meant life and hope to me.

I lost the eldest who was my support in this life.

Now I am alone in this life. My family is suffering and going through very difficult circumstances. I have a young child and a wife who is three months pregnant. We are exhausted from hunger due to the lack of food and medicine.

My baby won't stop crying because he's hungry and wants baby milk. My wife needs healthy food, vitamins, and protein for her unborn child's health.

Because of the war, I lost my job and everything I owned, and I can't provide them with even the most basic necessities.

I ask for your help with a broken heart, a heart wracked with pain and loss.

We urgently need 500 euros to save my family from hunger and the dire need for medicine. We ask nothing of you but your help to save us and keep us alive.

Please Save My Family

Donate here ..

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[helpmotasem5]

My eyes won't stop crying, why is everyone here ignoring me?

Because I am asking you for help to save my family from death.

Two days and my family is dying of hunger due to lack of food and medicine.

Two days without donations means two days without life.

Donate even a small amount, no matter how small, your donations save us from death.

Don't leave us alone . 💔😭

Please Donate Now Now Now ..

[z1ish]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[isuggestlandback]

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Source: Lainey Molnar

[verysadpaper]

*THE DRAGON

[monidoll]

you ever notice how "male crossdresser" and "femboy" are substantially more common in art than canonical trans women? even though in real life its the opposite and many of these "femboys" are just closeted trans women? notice how to certain audiences the crossdresser is still infinitely more palatable than an actual trans woman? notice how basically the only audience to whom a trans woman is "palatable" are trans woman?