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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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find pride in protecting your community in the midst of the pandemic that never went away. pride not being accessible to disabled and marginalized people isn’t new. one simple step you can take this year to change that is to wear a mask. trans and queer folks are disproportionately affected by long covid—the folks you share spaces with every day. so put “we keep us safe” into action and find free masks and tests near you at covidactionmap.org or maskbloc.org! . . Photo ID: A doodled 2-panel comic. The top panel has four different shape characters, all smiling big. A square is holding a pink and blue sign with text that reads “We keep us safe”. A triangle is holding up a rainbow. An octagon and trapezoid are both holding a long colorful sign with text that reads “Protect trans & queer youth.” The bottom panel is filled in with gray. In the background are the four shapes from the top panel, but they are now silhouettes in the distance. A circle character stands in the foreground, looking towards the other shapes with a blank expression. They’re wearing a face mask and are holding a tiny pride flag that’s lowered to the ground.

Comic, caption, and image description via @/doodlesbycharlie_ on instagram.

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Idk why so many people have stopped supporting Palestine...

I just want to let you know that my twin brothers, who are my only asset in this life, are sleeping next to tanks trying to get American aid.Yes, danger has become their bedside companion, cuz we have no other choice.

People are being killed every day just trying to get a bag of flour or a box of foodPlease don't turn a blind eye...every donation makes a real difference.

Donation link here or paypal here Verification here

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(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

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It’s that time of year! 🌈

Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.) Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.

More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.

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Got released from jail for alleged “criminal mischief” (petty vandalism, graffiti) of a temporary wooden scaffolding covering the front doors of the local ICE facility which had been smashed by a separate group of people a few days before. Can’t be within 100 feet of the ICE building, for now.

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hi everyone, my living situation is getting trickier by the day and idk how much longer I can do this tbh. because of this i’m in need of mutual aid.

my venmo is: miracleoutthere

anything helps, even a reblog

thank you

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It's Juneteenth, I'm a Black Texan, descendant of enslaved Black Texans. Texas is the only state that fought two different wars to protect slavery and chattel slavery ended the last for it. Juneteenth to me is to celebrate that part of overt white supremacy coming to an end, but it was not the end of white supremacy. It did not stop, with the lynching, the police violence, the redlining, the environmental racism, the segregation. Juneteenth represents a good win aganist the fight against white supremacy, but it's not over.

And for this Juneteenth, I ask for help for my friends that are the victims of this same US white supremacy. Not just today, but everyday Gazans deserve any type of help that you can give them. The technology that is used to segregate and attack and police and destroy Palestinians is the same technology that is sold to Texas to be used for the border patrol and to harass and control immigrants and border communities. This is one, connected fight aganist white supremacy and US control and destruction of Black and Brown bodies. So I ask today if you could donate this, or share, to help provide for a mother and her 2 now fatherless children in Gaza, or anyone else in Gaza who needs help. Like this family with a sick baby. Just do something, especially if you got the day off.

[ihavementalillinois]

hi everyone, my living situation is getting trickier by the day and idk how much longer I can do this tbh. because of this i’m in need of mutual aid.

my venmo is: miracleoutthere

anything helps, even a reblog

thank you

[ihavementalillinois]

[ihavementalillinois]

love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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Hello everyone, I am making another one of these posts in case anyone would like to buy a print from me, or subscribe to my patreon, or just send in a tip. My whole life has recently been thrown in a loop. The kind of situation where it's like. "it only takes one medical emergency."

I spent my birthday at the hospital. Some of the darkest days of my life. Ti-rads 4 giant goiter that needed to be removed, awake intubation. Blessedly, my biopsy was benign, and I don't remember anything from the surgery. anesthesiologists said my airways almost collapsed. In some medical debt. But I am so happy I am alive. On a battalion of meds. I only just now started being able to move around as normal. I need all the help I can get from community. I had no income the two months I was sick. My mother is unable to move independently. My father has kidney failure, and my sister is pretty much my kid. She is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. I am the only person in my family who works, and I have three jobs, but all of which are unstable. I need to take thyroid h*rm*ne replacement for the rest of my life as maintenance medicine; as all of the funds I received from my gofundme was poured into surgeon fees. I'm penniless with a calcium deficiency, legit nothing to eat with a family of four to take care of ): please help me recover, help me buy calcium supplements and my thyroid maintenance medicine as I am essentially someone with hypothyroidism, and meds to treat my diabetes (sitaglipin and metformin). I only have around 6 days left of medicine before I run out. I am so grateful to still be alive, and I owe it all to you guys, and I am hoping everyone can still be generous to help me rebuild what is my new life as someone disabled with no support system irl. Thank you so so much.

I have around *412*!! Exclusive drawings on patreon, it's only a dollar a month.

I have plenty of goodies on my inprnt as well, it's 10% off rn

Inprnt takes 15 days to process payment and 15 days to release money, and I get paid by patreon at the end of the month. If you'd like to directly send me tips, If you've ever liked my thoughts, book recs or art, everything you send here either goes to my teet repair which is now emptied because of my thyroid surgery, or my maintenance meds. Thank you so so much;

Direct tipping jar:

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Hey guys! Mahmoud Qassas needs some help urgently for his wife's treatment for lung cancer. She has been transported to Egypt for urgent medical treatment and needs some funds for it. Please don't hesitate to help.

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Such a big, big universe and you only gave yourselves the tools to speak about a tiny portion of it.

happy 10th anniversary to Wolf 359! here's some art I did for this occasion (and waited like two months to post it). this is an illustration of Am I Alone Now?, the first episode I listened to in the distant year 2017. this podcast is very dear to me, please listen to it if you haven't already!

(no text version is under the cut)

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Revival Initiative 🌱

Campaign Objective:

Securing 15 seats for 30 affected university students. Cost of one seat: $100-$150 per month. Providing stationery and notebooks to facilitate the educational process for students.

Don't let their dreams go in vain!

Be part of their story, and give them a chance for a better life. Together, we can turn pain into hope, and tragedy into a success story! Your donation today is an investment in a bright future for Gaza and its future generations.

We need to reach $2000 within two days to pay the rent and start the inflocating students.

Participate on the widest scale

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This is an update, but to summarize what's already been said-- my roommate/fiancé and I need to leave Mississippi. We are intersex and trans, respectively. We have significantly more affordable housing and more consistent work waiting for us in NY (not NYC, upstate), already set up and agreed upon. We can't afford to move. I've set up a GFM to cover the moving costs, and we're trying to get there before it gets too cold to do so, which is a lot earlier in the year than you'd think! We need to get about 3k a month towards this for about three or four months to have any hope of making this possible, hence the goal below. More details below the cut and in the previous post linked above, I'm just trying to keep this short.

🚨Dm me for details or proof of the situation, also vetted by @kyra45-helping-others who does scam busting on here. Anything given through GFM has a portion taken out for their company profits, so I am leaving my links below if you'd prefer to give directly. EVERYTHING will be logged on GFM🚨 (I was slow to do that for a couple of days bc a loved one passed, but I'm back on it I promise)

If you'd prefer to support and get something for it beyond just knowing you've helped two people escape fascism, my art blog is @theartistrans, examples below, and I am trying to get more things on my kofi, although there are tiers as it stands.

PP V $C Kofi GFM

$1,886/$3,000

He is having an increasingly difficult time accessing the medical care he needs, and has already experienced intense medical discrimination here. I have sort of written off transitioning at all, having prioritized our safety and my ability to advocate for him in the eyes of cis medical professionals.

We do not qualify for aid here, and were denied even when we were homeless. What this means in effect is that we are unable to get insurance, unable to afford what medical treatment we can access, etc. We have both lost frightening amounts of weight from poverty, leading to some of his doctors seeming to write him off as a lost cause.