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why did you leave?

I left because people on here think that a CSA survivor struggling with the affects of their abuse is an ok reason to accuse them of horrible crimes

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Shalom all, I hope you’re doing well. I was at a protest today and unfortunately 3 trans people were unlawfully arrested. I witnessed it happen to one of them, a trans woman, who was arrested. She was a speaker at the protest beforehand, and the police assaulted and wrongfully arrested her. Times like this call for solidarity among marginalized groups, and it is our duty as Jewish people to help all marginalized people. Remember, tzedakah literally translates to justice or righteousness, which we need right now.

Please donate to their bail fund if you can, or at least reblog to boost the post.

http://bit.ly/PLEAforJustice

@trans-mom (tagging you bc if you reblogged this it would be massively helpful)

Edit: goyim can and should reblog/donate, all people’s help is welcome in this situation, thank you all.

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Regina Brave, a survivor of Wounded Knee II in 1973, was released yesterday after being arrested for her actions standing up for treaty rights as police raided Oceti Sakowin. 

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cactus lady's looking sharp

ORANGINA　オランジーナ　

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this exchange is like a microcosm of all internet discourse

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it’s disrespectful as fuck to csa/rape/abuse survivors to compare what they had to go through to shipping two fictional characters shipping is not and never will be as harmful and traumatizing as being a victim of csa/rape/abuse shipping hurt no one until these self-righteous assholes decided that a ship they didn’t like was p-dophilic despite multiple people working on the show telling them otherwise and they want to act like they’re doing good work by constantly harassing people who don’t agree with them “we’re doing this for the victims” bullshit you’re a bully hiding behind a computer screen if you really want to help you’d stop forcing csa victims to talk about what they went through, you’d stop telling them to kill themselves, you’d stop using guilt tripping tactics that abusers commonly use! but it’s not about the victims it’s never been it’s about a ship you don’t like being popular

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Some of you may have already heard about the vandalism and desecration of one of the oldest Midwest Jewish cemeteries.

What I have not heard or seen yet is any links to where you can donate to repair the headstones, and thus, this post, link above.

For further context on why this is especially horrific, see this Twitter thread and you know what, fuckit, I don’t have the energy to find The One Right Site to explain Jewish funerary customs and rites. Y’all have fucking Google you can deal with it. Besides which I’m pretty sure I don’t need to explain to my mutuals why desecration of the beloved dead is UPSETTING.

And that said, please do reblog.

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im starting a gang of gays where we hunt down and knifefight transphobes reblog if u want in we’re getting matching bomber jackets

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An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park

Three churches, a school, and dozens of homes were demolished

^^^^Prominent abolitionist Albro Lyons and Mary Joseph Lyons were residents of Seneca Village. 

The community, called Seneca Village, began in 1825 and eventually spanned from 82nd Street to 89th Street along what is now the western edge of Central Park. By the time it was finally razed in 1857, it had become a refuge for African Americans. Though most were nominally free (the last slave wasn’t emancipated until 1827) life was far from pleasant. The population of African Americans living in New York City tripled between abolition and complete emancipation and the migrants were derided in the press. Mordecai Noah, founder of The New York Enquirer, was especially well-known for his attacks on African Americans, fuming at one point that “the free negroes of this city are a nuisance incomparably greater than a million slaves.”

More than three-fourths of the children who lived in Seneca Village attended Colored School №3 in the church basement. Half of the African Americans who lived there owned their own property, a rate five times higher than the city average. And while the village remained mostly black, immigrant whites had started to live in the area as well. They shared resources ranging from a church (All Angels Episcopal), to a midwife (an Irish immigrant who served the entire town).

But in 1857, it was all torn down.

Even as the church was being built on 86th street, then painstakingly painted white, the original settlers fought for their lands in court. Andrew Williams was paid nearly what his land was worth, after filing an affidavit with the state Supreme Court. Epiphany Davis was not as fortunate, losing hundred of dollars.

By 1871, Seneca Village had largely been forgotten. That year, The New York Herald reported that laborers creating a new entrance to the park at 85th Street and 8th Avenue had discovered a coffin, “enclosing the body of a Negro, decomposed beyond recognition.” The discovery was a mystery, the paper reported, because “these lands were dug up five years ago, when the trees were planted there, and no such coffins were there at the time.” That’s unlikely, as the site was the graveyard of the AME Zion church.

Researchers from Columbia, CUNY, and the New York Historical Society have been working on excavating the site of Seneca Village since the early 2000s. The work has been slow, with excavation starting in 2011.

The only official artifact that remains intact on the site is a commemorative plaque, dedicated in 2001 to the lost village.

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#BlackHistoryMonth

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With the discovery of these new planets and with the way technology and environmental repair is going, we absolutely have the terrifying potential to become the alien species that travels from planet to planet draining each one’s resources, choking out the native life, and leaving a path of destruction in our wake before moving on to the next planet because historically, it’s what has always been done.

What I’m saying is: don’t let rich white men into space.

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2/24/17 Please Boost Palo Alto & EPA be safe

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Reblog if you support self diagnosed autistics

There’s been some negativity in the #actuallyautistic tag recently so I wanted to spread some positivity. Keep in mind that it can be really hard to get an autism diagnosis in adulthood. Plus it could be expensive trying to get a diagnosis. There are a lot of reasons that someone doesn’t have an official diagnosis so don’t judge. Self diagnosed autistics are just as valid!

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Not fully understanding something does not permit you to be awful to people for whom it is very important.  For instance, even though the essential difference has been explained to me, I’m still often unclear on what makes pansexual distinct from bisexual.  Does that mean that, just because I don’t completely understand it, I’m going to be shitty to people who identify as pansexual?  No, of course not.  Basic civility does not require your comprehension.

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A friend of mine was kidnapped and held hostage for the purpose of sex trafficking

She was afraid to call the police, not only because of what the kidnapper might do if she was caught, but also because she was afraid of being arrested

That’s right

A woman was kidnapped for sex trafficking and she was afraid to call the police

It took her 3 days of being held hostage before she finally called, thinking jail was better than her current situation, and guess what? SHE WAS ARRESTED.

The police arrested a victim of sex trafficking, because she called for help

This is what your anti-prostitution laws are doing. This is what you are supporting.

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They left me unattended in a treatment room for like an hour so this happened 😂