the opposite of war isn't peace, it's CREATION!

[justsomeantifas]

I make these posts every month, until I pay off my debt, this one is for September 2017. If you’d like to see my old posts you can look: here

Basically I had to withdraw from school because my grandparents died while I couldn’t afford my meds to treat my mental illness, which at the time was only diagnosed as depression, I know now I’m schizophrenic, and have BPD, which were impacting my ability to continue my education without me knowing what they were. I was also suffering from a physical illness that nearly killed me.

I’m now medicated and desperately want to go back to school, however I owe my university $7,194.46, and I can’t go back until I pay that off as my transcripts are frozen. My goal is to raise $1028 a month if it’s possible, and maybe be done with my debt march 2018, however I’m willing to wait as long as it takes tbh. So far I’ve went from nearly 14k in debt, to 7k in debt so yall have done quite a lot already to help me.

I just want the option to eventually go back to school I want to complete a math degree. I currently live with my family, who are honestly pretty abusive, I have a friend who lives by my old university has said I could live with them when I pay this off, which would allow me to be away from my family, and go back to school without worrying about housing.

If you think this is a worthy goal my little brother has set up a youcaring and paypal as I’m on SSI so I can’t touch the money without being taken off, so he’s taken it upon himself to help me pay off my debt.

you can donate to youcaring or you can donate to the paypal: here and the paypal email is: [email protected]

Thanks for tolerating this on your dashes, like and reblog if you want to, and maybe consider donating if you want to. don’t feel bad if you can’t donate or reblog, or you can only donate a dollar, it all helps. everything yall do helps.

Currently I’m down to needing $787.11 out of the $1028 for this month

[justsomeantifas]

Down to $750, thank you so much for your help!

[justsomeantifas]

Down to $700 !!!! I’m really excited at the idea of being able to go to school again, thanks yall.

[theshitneyspears]

Me: gonna be so productive! 

Netflix: 27 dicks were spray painted on 27 cars & nobody knows who did it 

Me: you have my full undivided attention.

[mikelwson]

me at the beginning of “American Vandal”:

😂😂😂😂😂😂

me at the end of “American Vandal”:

[champagnepadre]

me: I’m YELLIN me really:

[siriusc]

do you ever get stuck in between “it’s ok not to have everything on track i got time” and “i’ve already wasted my life at the ripe old age of 23”

[exeggutor-deactivated20171218]

pplleeaasse foor. the. loovvee. oof. good heellpp. mme

[daylighteclipsed]

anyone else kinda terrified you’ll never be able to hold a job in the future because of your mental illness

[morganalefays]

y’all: finally the EVIL summer is over!!!!!!!! getting ready for my one true bae fall!!!!!! pumpkin spice and aesthetic here i COME!!!!!!

me, a northener: 

[yukiranine]

me, a southerner:

[cowgirlofficial]

always have a lighter with u just in case u see a confederate flag

[kookerus-speaks-deactivated2016]

thats illegal, you d*mb fuck “always have a gun in case you see a brown person” why is my sentence any worse?

[ebon-flow]

Because one’s a person, and one’s a fucking piece of cloth, you shitkicking assclown.

[onlyblackgirl]

Says a lot about people who support the confederate flag. Also it’s only illegal in 5 states. It ain’t the US flag.

[diskhorsedudes]

Can we all like collectively decide to stop insulting people’s reading comprehension in discourse? So many of us have learning disabilities and/or developmental disabilities and it’s not something that is necessary to do to try to further your argument. All you’re doing when you insult someone’s reading comprehension is making yourself sound borderline ableist and making yourself seem like you’re not very secure in your argument if that’s what you have to resort to saying when challenged and/or misunderstood. It also leads to people getting defensive and when people get defensive, any open mindedness they may have had at the start of the conversation disappears. I just think it’d be better for EVERYONE if we all just stopped insulting people’s reading comprehension and maybe tried to get better at explaining things or letting others know when we are not able for whatever reason to further explain things and leaving it at that.

[damselflier]

Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:

They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to their husbands’ paychecks.)

They turn away gay people from homeless services and other programs.

They fire people for having mental illnesses.

[cassidy-peterson]

This sounds sketchy as heck.

The first claim requires their female pastors to be married to another member of the Salvation Army to even be possible, much less true, and none of the claims are sourced.

I’ve done a quick Google search on all three claims and wasn’t able to find anything I’d consider definite proof of any of these claims. Individual instances of the SA fucking up, yeah, but nothing that makes it seem like any of these claims are actual policy for the organization as a whole, and even a few “oh shit oh shit we’re sorry that’s not how we do things” on their part.

[despicableplankton]

Trans people have actually died because the Salvation Army refused to let them into their shelters.

Gay homeless people have been turned away from their shelters.

Their Australian branch also has a history of child abuse dating back to the 1950′s. Which is really ironic, considering they smear-campaigned a guy and accused him of being a child molester because he… ran a conference on sex-positivity and sex education, and also happened to be into BDSM.

For years they had “MARRIAGE IS FOR STRAIGHTS ONLY” horseshit on their official website, but that’s since been taken down. Whether it was an epiphany of conscience or PR, I can’t say. But they’re still getting caught funding anti-gay stuff all of the time. Sometimes legislation restricting gay rights, sometimes conversion therapy organizations.

They threatened to close all of their soup kitchens in New York if they had to abide by civil rights laws.

And like most cults, if you marry outside of the Salvation Army, they kick you out.

Granted, the original post should have cited its’ sources. But it is no secret that these people are demonstrably monstrous. I don’t understand why Google failed to give you any of this information.

[copperbadge]

The Salvation Army also regularly refuses to release their tax information for purposes of transparency. Religious organizations don’t have to, so they are within their rights by law in the US, but any org that wants me to give them money and then won’t prove where they’re spending it is super suspect.

The US branch still has (or had, six months ago) “gay sex is wrong” sentiments in their bylaws, although they claim they will allow queer people into their shelters and/or organization as long as they remain entirely celibate. In reality that tends to translate to *points up* and also has been read by some Salvation Army officers as an insistence that trans people present as their assigned-at-birth gender in order to be admitted. 

There are so many better local and national charities you can give your money to. Don’t be suckered by the kettles.

Whenever I reblog or post information about the Salvation Army I always get a lot of “THEY’RE DOING GOOD LEAVE THEM ALONE” bullshit, so I’ll just pre-emptively respond: Yes, of course they do some good. For very specific people. Under very specific circumstances. I’m not saying you shouldn’t support charities that help people. But why would you support a charity that won’t help all people, including some of the most vulnerable? Why would you support a charity that won’t tell you what it actually does with your money? (I mean, despite their boasts about the frugality of their officers, we know what they do with some of the larger gifts they receive.)

The options aren’t “Salvation Army or nothing”. Just take the money you’d have given to them and give it to an organization that doesn’t turn away those in need from its door and claim that’s God’s will. This isn’t rocket fuckin’ science. 

[caliphorniaqueen]

I’ve truly had enough of people comparing Beyoncé to these girls that were playing hopscotch on the playground while she was hustling and working with legends. She’s been working for 20 years and ppl have the nerve to compare her to people who were nobodies less than 10 years ago. She never stepped away or took a break, she’s literally been working for 20 years straight (“since 15 in my stilettos”??????). She’s been praised by/or worked with Prince, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, ALL of the legends…and Aretha don’t like nobody!!! Yet she’s still being compared to these teeny boppers and it makes no sense to me. Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Formation all impacted the culture, Red Lobster’s fuckin stock went up after Formation came out…her influence is unmatched. Beyoncé is the physical embodiment of the “work twice as hard…” saying. Except she’s working three and four times as hard and is still having herself and pieces of her diverse catalog compared to the likes of Taylor Swift and her never ending teenage diary. It makes zero sense to me.

[stefonnie]

Fucking preach 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[residentgoodgirl]

[fiercefatfeminist]

READ THIS

[imreallybad-deactivated20150610]

i wish men understood that when women are talking about feminism and rape culture and shit, it’s not just a political conversation. it’s not about being a “social justice warrior” or whatever. it’s about our actual lives being shaped by misogyny since childhood, and the daily reality of living in fear of violence. this isn’t a fucking game or philosophical debate. this is our fucking lives. 

[imreallybad-deactivated20150610]

this post is picking up like 100 notes per minute its outta control 

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“people called us nazis so we became nazis!”

people have called me man-hating, misogynist, homophobic and pro-rape and this did not cause me to be like “well I guess raping people is a-okay”

like “if people call us nazis for anything what do we have to lose by being nazis” why is your entire ethical system based on what will prevent people from yelling at you? why is your only objection to supporting genocide “if I say I support genocide then someone might call me a mean name”

[blackness-by-your-side]

oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin lives of our younger generation AGAIN.

[arirashkae]

source The rule supposedly gies into effect in 2020

[a-taller-tale]

“Under a new plan to prepare them for life after high school, Chicago Public Schools students would have to show an acceptance letter to a university, community college, apprenticeship, trade school, internship, or the armed services.”

So more poor kids will join the military to ensure they get a high school diploma or they’ll be held back. *dystopia instensifies*

[yankeeblue]