chappellroan: 1 year of The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess
my life has been changed forever 🫶 this has been amazing and hard and beautiful and eye opening and empowering and transformative and every emotion ever. Thank you thank you thank you for everything. Thank you for showing up for this project and believing in me.
Ps this is not just me making this happen, This is a team of people working their asses off day and night to keep this afloat. I am so lucky and feel so loved 💐
"The seasons are changing, but the situation in Gaza is not changing, and if it is changing it's changing for the worse. People are still in so much need for esims, we have a shortage of esims right now, we need NOMAD, we need Simly. I know this has been going on for a long time now, but please donate an esim. If you can't donate an esim please share this video and share it with your friends so someone else can donate an esim. And if you're still wondering about the importance and impact of esims you can check the pinned posts on the @connectinghumanity account or my personal account. Esims are helping a LOT of people and they are saving lives. So please donate an esim to Connecting Gaza."
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Video by IG @MIRNA_ELHELBAWRI
Screenshot of WhatsApp message saying "Mirna, I need Simly esims. Urgently."
This happened in my state, a "trans refuge" state. Because Savannah Williams was a trans woman of color, this man killed her. No other reason. We ARE living in a time of increased, fatal violence towards trans women. EVERYWHERE. in blue states. In states with protective laws. In every single country on earth.
The hypervisibility and hyperviolence trans women receive is not a coincidence. Moving away from the "masculine centric" is punished. Being a woman is punished. Being queer is punished. Trans women exist in a very specific intersection of these issues, that not many other queer people can experience.
Besides the specific avenues of oppression trans women face, more and more transphobes are feeling emboldened to hate action. Powerful "talking heads" spew transphobic rhetoric on social media with no repercussions. People with audiences inoculate their viewers to casual transmisogyny. Trans women's existence specifically is being branded as dangerous, violent, something that can't be tolerated in public.
We MUST believe our sisters when they tell us what they experience. We MUST fight and strive to do everything we can to make the world safe for trans women. WE MUST ENSURE QUEER SPACES ARE FREE FROM TRANSMISOGYNY. Anything less is unacceptable.