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I'm Troppy & I need your help!

Time's been tough, I recently moved to Seattle from the East Coast after a house fire & car crash as well as getting caught in a housing scam. All the while dealing with some of the worst depressive spirals I've had in a while While i managed to claw my way out of homelessness I still struggle to afford rent groceries, meds and basic necessities Rent ($1000) is obviouly the biggest need, but my phone bill ($50) and food i need help too!!

Things might look up come later down the road but I need your help getting there!!

Please anything you can contribute goes a long way to helping me have a fresh start here and a 2nd chance at a happier life

vnmo: redloop

PPal: tropscream

Ca$$h App: $TropScream

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I am an unemployed, disabled queer woman of color, and I'm trying to get a job so I don't have to beg on here all the fucking time, can I get like $100 for a nice interview outfit? Fat girl clothes are fucking expensive

Payp@l: mythologicalnerd@gmail.com

V3nmo: otterpopd

$0/100

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I FOUND A PLACE BUT I STILL NEED HELP

For those who don't know I moved to Seattle from Maine after (in the span of a single week) my apartment burned down+was in a car crash+got laid off at my job as well as 5+ years of community abuse from an incredibly cruel & fatphobic lgbt community. And then proceeded to get caught in a long-con housing scam that left me stranded and homless in Seattle!

Butn I want to thank everyone for their support. Through the help of random strangers, the absolute saint & angel that is @dogesterone , as well as dumb luck i managed to find an apartment so im.no longer homeless!!!!

However my crisis is still not over!!

I NEED $1000 PER MONTH TO AFFORD THE APARTMENT I'M IIN!!

AS WELL AS OTHER FEES AND BILLS!

Im gonne be looking for a job non stop but i need the rent money as well stuff like changing my address and other daily supplies & nesaccesits!!

Please anything you can contribute goes a long way to helping me have a freah start here and a 2nd chance at a better life!!

v**nmo: redloop

P-Pal: tropscream

Ca$$$h App: $TropScream

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Hi I'm Trop & I'm moving to Seattle by September 1st bc I have nothing left

For those that dont know the past months have been horrible. I lost my apartment in a electrical fire, got into a car crash, alot of friendships ended & getting laid of from my job

The current place om staying at isn't renewing the lease in September so i will be homeless then

In addition to all that for the past 5+ years i have been subjected to almost non stop fatphobic/ableist/transmedicalist harassment, insults, and horribly cruel treatment bt my local LGBT (specifically trans fem) communities

My life here has been utter hell one way or the other and im done. I have a friend in Seattle whose gonna help me look for a place and look for work .

In the meantime I need as much financial help as I can get. Its $2000 to start at a place I'm looking at. And expenses of plane tickets+luggage fees+ mailing fees as well.

anything and everything helps and goes to me finding a new and (hopefully) better life

please anything & everything helps as well as sharing this post

v**nmo: Redloop

ca$$hap: $TropScream

pay--pal: tropscream

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hey can someone throw me some lunch money paypal mythologicalnerd@gmail.com venmo otterpopd

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I've been trying to reblog this post several times, and the tumblr app keeps telling me that there's an issue with my connection, and doesn't reblog it. There is no fucking issue with my internet because i tried on two different wifi networks AND on my phone data. Fuck you staff.

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update: Help your local transfem milf move!

starting a new post as the old one has kinda died and goals have shifted.

I've got an opportunity to improve my situation massively and could really use some help making it happen. I've gotten offered a job in Seattle with a pretty decent pay increase that will be a huge improvement to my financial situation, mental health, and life overall! I just need some help to make it happen, please. my car got broken into by attempted thieves and i have had to spend some of the money i had on solving that issue. i have downsized what i am taking with me and eliminated the need for a uhaul and some other expenses. I still have to come up with the moving in costs for a new place up there. i currently still need about $2.5k. if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated as this job and move would be a massive life improvement for me. would be great if we could reach the goal by the 17th as that's when i am supposed to start work.

pypl: labgrowngirl@gmail.com cshapp: $spacedyke venmo: @supportpaladin

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what's so striking to me about younger queer generations rn isn't the lack of knowledge about queer history, but the complete unwillingness to engage with it, when confronted with an identity or history they haven't heard of before they react with disgust rather than curiosity. (for example) instead of asking where the leather pride flag came from and what the leather community is and represents they immediately question the need for something like that to exist, not even willing to listen and learn from both elders and peers. this is also more broadly a problem in leftist spaces in general, being reactionary is somehow the default now, and anything that's different or unknown must be an attack and bad. really hoping y'all manage to grow out of this deeply conservative way of interacting with the world.

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New Post because situation has changes for the worse:

I've more or less been knocked off EBT SNAP Foodstamps, I've been rejected for every single job I've applied for if various skill sets & experiences

I owe roughly $15,000 in loan & medical debt

My rent is $980 per month

My Internet is $150,

Phone $50,

Groceries are usually $250 a month,

And various supplies/laundry/weed

Anything y'all can spare is amazing you're all saints for the help you've continued to give

Venmo: Redloop

Cashapp: $TropScream

Paypal: tropscream

Please share this as well

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i finally got invited back on the it could happen here podcast, this time actually with robert around as well!!

a cool 30 minute primer on stalkerware and what we can do against it!

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i'm sorry but you can't prematurely dissolve the meaning of language around gender before you dissolve the underlying power structures. acting like "trans" and "cis" don't "really mean anything" in terms of social locators isn't helpful or accurate let alone revolutionary when trans people remain an oppressed category of people and those who put that system in place/primarily lord that power over us are, doubtlessly, cis.

it's the same as "male" and "female" as gender locators - yes, there is no essential, inherent difference between men, women, and people who are both or neither of those things. no, that fact doesn't mean that patriarchy doesn't exist and that women aren't an oppressed social category.

also, it is utterly bonkers to me how many people are infinitely more willing to buy into the idea of "binary trans privilege" but somehow think "TME" is completely bunk or ill-defined - the difference there though is obviously transmisogyny!

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In contrast with professional drag queens, who were only playing at being women onstage, [Esther] Newton learned that the very bottom of the gay social hierarchy was the province of street queens. In almost total contrast to professional queens, street queens were "the underclass of the gay world." Although they embraced effeminacy, too, they did so in the wrong place and for the wrong reason: in public and outside of professional work. As a result, Newton explained, the street queens "are never off stage. Their way of life is collective, illegal, and immediate." Because they didn't get paid to be feminine and were locked out of even the most menial of nightlife jobs, Newton observed that their lives were perceived to revolve around "confrontation, prostitution, and drug 'highs'." Even in a gay underworld where everyone was marked as deviant, it was the sincere street queens who tried to live as women who were punished most for what was celebrated-and paid-as an act onstage. When stage queens lost their jobs, they were often socially excluded like trans women. Newton explained that when she returned to Kansas City one night during her fieldwork, she learned that two poor queens she had met had recently lost their jobs as impersonators. Since then, they had become "indistinguishable from street fairies," growing out their hair long and wearing makeup in public-even "passing" as girls in certain situations," in addition to earning a reputation for taking pills. They were now treated harshly by everyone in the local scene. Most people wouldn't even speak to them in public. Professional drag queens who didn't live as women still had to avoid being seen as too "transy" in their style and demeanor. One professional queen that Newton interviewed explained why: it was dangerous to be transy because it reinforced the stigma of effeminacy without the safety of being onstage. "I think what you do in your bed is your business," he told Newton, echoing a middle-class understanding of gay privacy, "[but] what you do on the street is everybody's business."

The first street queen who appears in Mother Camp is named Lola, a young Black trans girl who is "becoming a woman,' as they say'." Newton met Lola at her dingy Kansas City apartment, where she lived with Tiger, a young gay man, and Godiva, a somewhat more respectable queen. What made Godiva more respectable than Lola wasn't just a lack of hormonal transition. It was that Godiva could work as a female impersonator because she wasn't trying to sincerely live as a woman. Lola, on the other hand, was permanently out of work because being Black and trans made her unhireable, including in female impersonation. When Newton entered their apartment, which had virtually no furniture, she found Lola lying on "a rumpled-up mattress on the floor" and entertaining three "very rough-looking young men." These kinds of apartments, wrote Newton, "are not 'homes.' They are places to come in off the street." The extremely poor trans women who lived as street queens, like Lola, "literally live outside the law," Newton explained. Violence and assault were their everyday experiences, drugs were omnipresent, and sex work was about the only work they could do. Even if they didn't have "homes," street queens "do live in the police system."

As a result of being policed and ostracized by their own gay peers, Newton felt that street queens were "dedicated to "staying out of it" as a way of life. "From their perspective, all of respectable society seems square, distant, and hypocritical. From their 'place' at the very bottom of the moral and status structure, they are in a strategic position to experience the numerous discrepancies between the ideals of American culture and the realities." Yet, however withdrawn or strung out they were perceived to be, the street queens were hardly afraid to act. On the contrary, they were regarded by many as the bravest and most combative in the gay world. In the summer of 1966, street queens in San Francisco fought back at Compton's Cafeteria, an all-night venue popular with sex workers and other poor gay people. After management had called the police on a table that was hanging out for hours ordering nothing but coffee, an officer grabbed the arm of one street queen. As the historian Susan Stryker recounts, that queen threw her coffee in the police officer's face, "and a melee erupted." As the queens led the patrons in throwing everything on their tables at the cops-who called for backup-a full-blown riot erupted onto the street. The queens beat the police with their purses "and kicked them with their high-heeled shoes." A similar incident was documented in 1959, when drag queens fought back against the police at Cooper's Donuts in Los Angeles by throwing donuts-and punches. How many more, unrecorded, times street queens fought back is anyone's guess. The most famous event came in 1969, when street queens led the Stonewall rebellion in New York City. Newton shares in Mother Camp that she wasn't surprised to learn it was the street queens who carried Stonewall. "Street fairies," she wrote, "have nothing to lose."

Jules Gill-Peterson, A Short History of Trans Misogyny

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New Post because situation has changes for the worse:

I've more or less been knocked off EBT SNAP Foodstamps, I've been rejected for every single job I've applied for if various skill sets & experiences

I owe roughly $15,000 in loan & medical debt

My rent is $980 per month

My Internet is $150,

Phone $50,

Groceries are usually $250 a month,

And various supplies/laundry/weed

Anything y'all can spare is amazing you're all saints for the help you've continued to give

Venmo: Redloop

Cashapp: $TropScream

Paypal: tropscream

Please share this as well