Reporter: Anas Al-Sharif

Reporter: Mohammed Qreiqah

Cameraman: Ibrahim Zaher

Cameraman: Mo’men Alwiyeh

Well I was turned away from every single one in the area because I was a non Christian trans person. Not that there were many I could make the walk to, to be fair.

"if someone is homeless, they can just forage for food! Probably eating healthier than we are har har har!"

I was homeless in winter. And yeah, sure, I knew how to use pine needles to make tea and boil bark but. Come on. You think every homeless person has that fucking knowledge or resources? And I was homeless on a mountain. What about people who are homeless in cities? What are they going to forage? Gravel? And what about areas where foraging is illegal? You want them to get arrested? In a police state like this?

"well as long as they don't get into trouble, there won't be trouble!"

You make laws criminalizing their existence. The "trouble" they make is surviving. I got the cops called on me because I went for a walk. I had a stick I was using to help me walk because I have a limp and couldn't afford a cane. A fucking white couple saw me and called the cops and told them I was walking "with a rifle" and was "very threatening". I got DAMNED lucky that a Light horseman found me first and told me what happened. Laughed a little. Told me not to worry about it, he'd call it in as bogus, and have a talk with the couple. But again. I was lucky. If that had been a state cop and not a rez one, I could have been fucking shot. For walking.

The original rainbow flags flying at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco on Gay Freedom Day, 1978 | ph: Mark Rennie

These 40’ x 60’ flags were created by the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day decoration committee in 1978, for that year’s parade.

The project had a budget of $1000 in leftover funds, and took place on the roof of the gay community center, where the large strips of fabric were dyed with rock salt and hot water in trash cans. The dyeing process was lead by rainbow artist Lynn Segerblom (at the time going by the legal name Faerie Argyle Rainbow) and aided by many other members of the local LGBT community who stopped by in shifts, as the fabrics required constant agitation. The pieces were then rushed over to a nearby laundromat before being ironed and handed over to lead seamster James McNamara, who sewed both flags by hand, again with the help of other committee and community members such as Segerblom, Gilbert Baker, butch lesbian documentarian and historian Glenne McElhinney, Joe Duran, and McNamara’s partner Paul Langlotz.

The flag exploded in popularity after it’s unveiling in 1978, and a 7 stripe variation began being produced by Paramount Flag Company, Gilbert Baker’s employer, and Baker himself — though both omitted the hot pink fabric due to a lack of availability. In 1979, the flag was adapted into a six stripe variant by Baker, replacing indigo with the more readily available blue fabric and dropping turquoise in order to retain symmetry, and to look better when hung across the lamp posts of San Francisco’s Market Street that year.

btw i’m not pushing like “boycotting the lilo and stitch is the greatest act of activism you can do in today’s climate”

i’m just like “not watching this movie is literally the bare minimum you can do to help not push an imperialistic tourist agenda that’s destroying native Hawai‘i. just don’t.” and im already pre-irritated bc i know like thirty people are gonna be like i knowww but. i just wanna.

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Nader ( @abdalsalam2000 ) is a Palestinian teenager trying to raise money for his family of seven (parents, brothers, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew) to escape the genocide in Gaza.

He's been active on tumblr for a long while now, and was one of the first to have their campaigns vetted: #4 on the gazavetters list! His goal is €50,000 which would enable his family to travel to safety.

Nader has worked extremely hard to raise these funds--tirelessly initiating conversations with strangers on tumblr, building social relationships, and promoting his campaign. He's raised €46,122 so far.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to have worked so hard, for so long, under such brutal conditions. To be so close to raising the total funds you need (92% of the way there!) but because you are just €3,878 short, your family is still trapped.

Please help him raise the remaining 8%. After all of this, let it not be in vain.