The Creation

It’s hard to describe what it feels like to lose everything. To wake up and realize your entire life has been erased.

But here we are—$1,580 raised so far.

It’s a small step in a long journey, but it proves that there are still people who care. That hope isn’t completely gone.

💙 Please, if you can, help us move forward. Every share, every donation, every kind word helps us hold on.

🙏 If this post reaches you at the wrong time or feels intrusive, I sincerely apologize please ignore it .

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Correct use of a condom means

Using the right size, because if it's too big it can slide off or leak and if it's too small it can break or come off. Condoms usually come in 5 sizes, I'm sure you could find others outside of that as well but in ten years of sex work I found they covered everyone

Using lube, even if you think you don't need it. With the exception of oral sex, condoms should always be used with lube, 100% of the time. Most important lube should be applied to the outside but a drop in the tip of the condom before putting it in is also a good idea

Being mindful that latex is prone to wearing out, being damaged by heat etc. Condoms should be kept somewhere cool, not folded in wallets or sat on in back pockets and should be changed between activities and after about 15 minutes of any vigorous activity. Ask me how I know (a condom snapped on my leg when a client was pulling out, because I didn't change it when I should have)

The penetrative partner should hold the base of the condom when they pull out, and should do so immediately after they ejaculate so the condom doesn't leak or come off as the penis gets flaccid

Bonus: a lot of people think hand stuff can't transmit STIs. Wrong! If you give your partner a handjob and then touch yourself you can get HPV, herpes (low risk), and infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea

This isn't meant to be stressful, and the most common STIs are the most treatable - and often curable - but getting gonorrhea in your eyes after a facial still extremely sucks and yet no one talks about the fact that any mucous membrane can be effected, not just your genitals (yes this includes your mouth and throat)

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Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)

A Kiss on the Forehead by Marina Tsvetaeva

Love by Joseph Brodsky

Your Unripe Love by Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Love poem by Tishani Doshi 

Maybe Under Some Other Sky by Willie Perdomo

Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Our Story by William Stafford

You are the light of the world by Husik Ara

If you're leaving… by Paruyr Sevak

You by Paruyr Sevak

One of Those Kisses by Viggo Mortensen

Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore

and Love said... by Husik Ara

Love by Paruyr Sevak

Impossible by Mher Arshakyan

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On Loving by Forough Farrokhzad

Time of love by Claribel Alegria

There is an ongoing literacy crisis. Teach kids how to read phonetically (other methods produce poor literacy) and introduce them to fun books, both fiction and educational non-fiction.

Teach kids about critical thinking and the scientific method.

You can also introduce kids to edutainment like Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, The Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Beakman's World, etc.

Help kids develop media literacy skills by asking them literary analysis questions about the media they engage with. Even very young children can begin learning literary analysis if the questions are phrased in words they can understand.

Learn and help other people learn information literacy, ie, how to locate and evaluate information.

Learn the red flags of pseudoscience, and educate other people about them.

Educate people and share media on real science and real history, because fascist narratives are full of pseudoscience and pseudohistory. (Miniminuteman, Gutsick Gibbon and Bart D. Ehrman's YouTube channel are great, by the way!)

Terf stands for "trans exclusionary radical feminist"

In short they're transphobes who are attempting to pass off puritan and conservative talking points as "feminist." They're also a political cult.

Honestly calling them feminist is antithetical to what they're preaching because a lot of their politics are based on misogyny and rigid traditional gender roles. Terfs will tell you that all women are defined by their ability to have children. They'll tell you all men are violent rapists, that men are naturally stronger and smarter than women. They'll tell you that no woman actually enjoys sex or kink, and that all sex workers are being raped, and if they're not being rated they're whores that deserve to be raped. They'll tell you that trans women are the reason no one takes women seriously, and trans men have been brainwashed by the patriarchy to hate women so much they want to be men.

Hi, I started this fundraiser, Pay for boarding and later rehome them., on GoFundMe and it would mean a lot to me if you’d be able to share or donate to it.

https://gofund.me/740536d3

Trump ordered federal agencies to stop spending money that Congress passed laws to spend.

HE DOESN'T HAVE THE POWER TO DO THAT. Presidents are required by law to spend the money Congress approves. And Congress is the only branch allowed to approve spending.

THE AGENCIES ARE LISTENING ANYWAY. Possibly because no one is telling them that they don't have to. Possibly because no Democrats have decided to lead on this issue.

Trump wants this to go to court so SCOTUS can claim he has this power because they don't like the Constitution either.

This is a legit, actual Constitutional Crisis. If he can just do this, there's not really a point to having a Congress.

Dems are going to workshop their carefully worded reply to death rather than be pissed about it.

BE PISSED ABOUT THIS!

Call your congresspeople! Call you governor! The money being frozen was promised to your state!