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If you've ever appreciated my posts about LGBTQ issues, this Pride month, as a favor to me, please do something to help my friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ).

Fadel is multiply disabled.

A very serious accident left his leg paralyzed for a long time, and now he walks with great difficulty. He also has thalassemia, a blood disorder, which leaves him incredibly fatigued. The medication he needs costs €400 every month. He needs to buy medication as soon as possible, because he has not been able to afford it so far this month. He suffers from dizziness and nausea all the time because he has not been able to buy his medication yet.

Fadel needs urgent surgery

Over 550 days ago, Fadel's family home was bombed and he was left with iron shrapnel embedded in his body. The medical infrastructure in Gaza has been decimated and he URGENTLY needs to get to a better-resourced hospital to get this shrapnel surgically removed safely.

Fadel's family is starving

Israel has created and maintained famine in Gaza as a genocidal tactic. Not only do they prevent food aid from entering, but they target crowds of Palestinians waiting for the distribution of aid.

Fadel and his brothers recently traveled together to an aid site, hungry and desperate for food, only to be met with Israeli snipers.

He recounted, "I saw many martyrs die in front of my eyes. Unfortunately we fled and were not able to take any food or anything. Now we have nothing to eat. A bag of flour costs 800 euros, a kilo of sugar costs 100 euros, a kilo of tomatoes costs 50 euros, and a liter of milk costs 80 euros. What's worse is that my medication is about to run out. I don't know what to do. Should I spend my surgery money to buy medicine and food to eat, or what?"

He told me today that for the last two days his family has been rationing their remaining supplies so that they have only been able to eat once a day. They are always hungry.

Fadel's campaign is vetted

His campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost.

Earlier this year he raised nearly 50% of his goal, but on April 25th, 2025, GoFundMe cruelly deleted his fundraiser with no warning or explanation (something this company has done to many Palestinians trying to survive genocide) and he was forced to start over with a new campaign.

Despite GoFundMe's deletion of his first campaign automatically returning all donations to the donors, most people who previously donated have not taken the time to send that money back to him.

Today as I write this (June 22, 2025), he has has raised 39% of his goal, still over €3,000 below the amount he had raised back in April.

He has escaped death so many times, and he needs our help to survive long enough to get to a hospital who can treat his injuries.

What you can do:

Donate any amount you can to his campaign

Make a post about Fadel to share his story and encourage others to donate

Share this post with your followers

Send him a kind message at @fadel-dani and offer your friendship

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continually astounded to learn that someone around me is actually for real christian. like. aren't you supposed to grow out of that

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It's crazy to me that a bunch of people think "transfem" means "trans and feminine" and not "an umbrella term for the spectrum of camab trans identities." Like I'm not the biggest fan of the term either but come on.

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Black Button-Up Boots

c. 1910-1919

by Harris Shoe Store - Dover, N.J.

HCC Fashion Archive

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post: Stop framing everything in the context of Christianity. can we just stop talking about everything in the context of Christianity? can you stop using Christianity as your arguments please? can we talk about this in a way that doesn't bring up Christianity? Can we finally move on from arguing everything within the cultural reference point of Christianity?

comments: Yeah i agree, the problem is that not enough Christians read the bible. the problem is that Christianity isn't what it used to be. We can all agree that jesus was a cool guy but he shouldn't matter today. The problem is that conservatives don't actually follow what jesus said.

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Illustration from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Joseph Noel Paton (1863)

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hey y'all - been meaning to post this for a friend for awhile but got kinda overwhelmed by the current Sepsis Debacle. a good friend of mine and her girlfriend are in need of some assistance so i offered to try n help crowdfund for them. they're both transfem, disabled, and low income and samantha is black as well. here is a statement written by samantha:

"Hey tumblr. My name is Samantha. I'm a disabled black trans woman, and I need your help. I've been struggling to find work the past few months, not to mention the racism even when I do get hired. I spent most of my twenties homeless. This is the first time I've had stable housing in forever. I'm trying not to panic as I fall further behind on rent. Meeting this goal would save me SO much stress, keep me housed and on track at this early stage in my gender transition. Please help any way you can.

-hrt ($100)

-new glasses, old ones broke months ago ($200)

-underwear, socks ($40)

-phone bill ($79)

-rent ($700)

TOTAL: $1,119

cshapp: $sampat1337

pypal (@/1337149)"

please help my friends if you can - sam's girlfriend has been a close friend of mine for several years at this point and always puts in the effort to try and help support me whenever is capable and i would really like to do that in return 🫶🏽

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Shel Silverstein predicting ChatGPT in 1981

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The end is nigh(t).

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Not for nothing, but when I encountered trans people in public as a child the most traumatizing thing about the experience was the shit my dad said about them, not anything the trans people did. if two trannies had been having sex in public and literally fallen on me when i was a child it would have done a fraction of the psychological damage that one sentence from my dad about the trans woman using the library computer ten feet away did.

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There was something a trans woman said to us long before we came to realize ourselves. I think this was back in 2008 or so, I can hardly be sure of the time or site, and those specifics aren't important. We had exchanged DMs on most days for a while, and I asked her how she was doing. She replied, "I looked in the mirror and there was a pretty woman with stubble staring back at me."

I recall asking her whether this was a good thing or not, and she affirmed it was. Her body felt like hers, and she could only see herself as a girl, regardless of such things. She had simply admired her reflection for what it is, shaved, and moved happily on.

I think why it stuck with us for so long, was that it was the first time I had heard a trans woman talk about herself in such a way. I was in a few lgbt groups at the time, identifying as a gay man, and had interacted with them a number of times, finding them good company and relatable for reasons that needed another few years to come out. They had always couched such things in disappointment, as though any incongruence with femininity had snatched all the joy it brought them.

This was the first time it occurred to me, that you could learn to see yourself as inalienably feminine. That your body is a woman's body, if you want it to be, and nothing can take from you.

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Is she a “binary trans woman” or is she a transfem who would go by she/they if it didn’t mean exclusively being referred to with they/them

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unattended boys will be given wolf estrogen

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dogy

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