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(tl;dr please donate to this gofundme to help pay for a gay and disabled jewish transsexual to get bottom surgery and reblog if you can’t)

Hi! I’m Sami.

I’m scheduled for my first stage of bottom surgery on September 5th, 2018 with Dr. O’Brien-Coon at JHU.

I’ve waited for this for so, so long—not gonna break out the oft-repeated diatribe on all my waiting and wanting and wishing—but this will be the final piece to fall into place. I’m coming up on six years into my medical transition, and other things in my life are pretty great: I have a boyfriend I want to spend the rest of my life with, a job I really like, a fantastic dog I co-parent, a community garden I help run, and incredible friends, family, and housemates.

If you know me, you’re well aware that a very good portion of the past half-decade of my life has been spent near-obsessively (as a maybe unhealthy coping mechanism for my dysphoria!) researching and planning transition-related surgeries, largely in leading up to genital reconstruction surgery. I don’t know that I’ll have another opportunity to do this—things in my life right now are lined up in such a way to allow it to happen, and I’m damn worried that Trump will have put healthcare-related protections for trans people to bed by next year.

I’ve put so much of my life on hold for this, and it’s time to close this chapter of my life and move on to the rest of it and, for the first time in my life, be truly at home in my own body.

If my advice has ever helped you, if you’ve ever swooned over (or jerked off to!) a selfie of me, or if you just wanna do a great mitzvah–I’m asking you to donate. Any extra/leftover funds will go towards Morris Home (Philly), Home for Hope (Philly), Casa Ruby (D.C.), Trans Lifeline, or any other organization of your choosing providing services to trans people.

I’m imagining a life for myself post-op, post-transition, and dysphoria free, and it’s almost more than I could ever hope for. You can help make it happen. 💕

xoxo, sami

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The hilarious thing about watching people talk about their experiences with pokemon go is that I just keep remembering all the edgy ‘realistic’ pokemon reinterpretations that used to go around, and how ‘no the pokemon world would be SO DARK you guys’.

And now there are people going around IRL catching pokemon and they’re just like ‘I WENT OUT AND MADE TWENTY NEW FRIENDS AND FOUND AN EEVEE AND EEVEE IS ALSO MY FRIEND!!!’

So it seems the pokemon setting actually was pretty damn accurate.

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UPDATES ON AMAZON PRIME STRIKE AND PRIME DAY!

The basics:

Thousands of workers all over the world have been striking leading up to and on Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sale, calling for better working conditions, pay and health benefits.

Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers (96% of the workers at the San Fernando warehouse) in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company’s biggest sales day of the year

Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the sale in six warehouses.

 Amazon’s website and mobile app crashed for about 45 minutes, due to a computer glitch – the most widespread to date, costing Amazon millions of dollars

In the US, advocacy groups are planning several consumer rallies outside Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, Confederate and white nationalist merchandise through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. 

Amazon is still expected to profit more this year than last year. Let’s hope we can keep spreading the word about the boycott and prove them wrong. Spain’s strike is supposed to last through the 18th, so keep boycotting

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Rockstar Cookie is one of my favorites

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i love     found family

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Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

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Audio On

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me showing the doctor where to amputate my leg as i ready the tourniquet 

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i’m 21 years old, i’ve been playing kingdom hearts for 15 years… i should be able to beat birth by sleep on critical

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Some facts you need to know about the greatest anime character of all time!

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Things you shouldn’t cringe at: A thirteen-year-old posting their first fanart or fanfic in a fandom when they’re new to art or writing.

Things you should totally cringe at: Fully grown adults acting like five year olds when someone doesn’t ship their OTP.

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Me: I love Smash! It’s such a fun PARTY game! :)

Competitive Smash Player Still Using a Gamecube Controller in 2018:

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i was playing overclown earlier and there were like 2 jesters guarding the jokepoint and we had three fucking booboos on our team that wouldnt switch to something useful like a bozo or a bongo and right as we were capturing the first point this goddamn kookoo used his clown car ultimate and won them the match. terrible game