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Hello sharks. Happy pride sharks. Today I am asking for 200 dollars as a black, housing vulnerable trans person to set up my llc so I can safely campaign poetry sales to stay alive and expand my growth as an artist, by receiving feedback and incentive to keep growing and keep building.

You would recieve: my safety.

My thanks and appreciation.

My continued art output.

And if you would like, a shoutout as a sponsor on my next finished re editing project. (By preferred name.)

Im shitposting this aid request a bit but Im actually super fucking worried about my taxes and need to legitimize for this fuck ass government so they don't crucify me. Im receiving I-99K's that I can't file.

Goal is 200 dollars to help a black trans butch finish setting up her small business!!!

Cash and pay are both agenderdread

V_nmo is deejwalker365

Kofi is forwardalways21

Which means my grandfather's father was a sharecropper, which is within my family's oral history for why the [surname] family property and farm is the way it is and has been in the family for so long.

My grandfather died at 96 years old at the turn of the century.

Sharecropping as we know it today ended sometime in the 1930s-1950s depending on the state. Not only was my grandfather a sharecropper's son- my grandfather was a sharecropper himself during his early adulthood before he left home to join the military and later became a preacher.

My grandfather marched with Martin Luther Kin Jr and educated my father on black politics and activism. My father just turned 71, the same age as Ruby Bridges, the little girl who sparked the mass desegregation of education. She was born in 1954. There exists a photo somewhere of a little boy on a man's shoulders in the crowd at one of MLK's public events. That's my dad.

That's how close this is to the current era.

I said that once as a teenager on a forum. I was mocked and told that I am either way older than I claimed to be or that I am way off in my estimations because slavery was long ago. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Civil Rights movement itself, that is in recent enough memory to be evident in the lives of those who are alive today. My grandfather's grandfather- I'm just 5 generations removed from slavery.

Rabbits

Jade Cicada, Western Han Dynasty, 1st Century. Unearthed from Beizhuang in Dingzhou, Hebei

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

even if she doesn't "try to pass" she still deserves the same basic respect you give everybody else.

even if she's done something bad that doesn't excuse you misgendering her on purpose.

i'm so sick of people treating trans people's pronouns as some kind of reward you get if you've been a good tranny.

this goes for those who use neopronouns too i dont care how "weird" you think it is especially if you're trans yourself.

"Cherokee Words for Body Parts", Cherokee anatomy poster

- Loretta Shade & Hastings Shade, Cherokee Outpatient Center, Tahlequah Oklahoma

For those interested in how Cherokee is phonetically pronounced -

A as in ah or father

E as in eh or cake/fate

I as in ee or bee

O as in oh or no

U as oo or loose

V is a nasalized sound like the "u" in fun.

Ts can be a j or ch sound depending on word.