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so here it is the official flag for QPOC that i designed. please share this lets flood the internet with this. the mainstream LGBTQIA+ media know that we are Queer People of Color and we demand visibility. we demand the right to control our own narratives we aren’t just here to fulfill your racial quota so that you can feel good about your selves. we are sick of being marginalized and trivialized. We are sick of your rampant racism. we are sick of your constant white washing. we are sick of being silenced.. we are more than just some kinky thing that you can try once. we are more than “thugs” your “latin papis” your “spicy latinas” or any of the other shit you want us to be. we are sick of being oversexualized we are more than your “exotic little play things”. the QPOC design show cases all the skin tones of Queer people of color from the lightest (north Asians and biracial people not white people) to the darkest it also show cases the power fist used in both the Black Power and Chicano Power movements this is symbolic of the unity we all have as Queer people of Color throughout the LGBTQIA+ community. please share this throughout your social media. contact me if you want the original high res file. @puto-loco @kingsleyyy @kh2rac @softwhorecore @bearsofcolor @blackgaysexycouple @theapatheticstag @ibarelyknow @foxtial

I drew/made characters based off of chess pieces

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full picture of the pawns:

being charged thousands (or sometimes even millions) of dollars for non-optional (life saving) medical procedures, then sued into oblivion because you wouldn’t be able to pay the bill even if you paid every cent you made (and I mean EVERY cent) for years to come

children dying of cancer because their parents can’t afford treatment for them

children dying of TREATABLE diseases because their parents can’t afford treatment for them

(those same parents only being able to afford treatment because many other working class people pooled what little they had in an act of altruism that wouldn’t be necessary in a just or equitable society)

being called a freeloading leech because you were born disabled and can’t live without help, or because you worked as hard as you could for as long as you could to make something of yourself, but ended up disabled

society actively searching for reasons that you’re to blame for lifelong chronic pain or disability in an effort to justify treating you like trash, even if the theoretically avoidable circumstances that led to said disability were not avoidable for you because of your pre-existing inability to afford treatment/ eat or live better/ etc.

being born into poverty and automatically segregated via highly corrupt zoning laws into the worst schools with the least resources and the highest rates of prejudice and abuse

being unable to escape highly impoverished areas for greener/safer pastures because the cost of moving is unaffordably high

homelessness being classified as a punishable crime throughout much of the united states

assisting homeless people by providing them with food or basic necessities also being a punishable crime

being the descendant of black americans still struggling with poverty because their ancestors have only had basic civil rights for ~50 years and still make less than whites even in identical jobs with identical accomplishments, who before that were actively required by law to live in worse neighborhoods, go to worse schools, have worse jobs and make less money, and before that were only allowed to perform the same jobs they would have had as slaves, and before that to be slaves

being a non-white american whose experiences and difficulties are discounted because literally any single member of your race (or a similar-looking race from a white POV) has ever accomplished anything, ever

wealthiness and accomplishment automatically being assumed the result of hard work, while poverty and failure are automatically assumed to be laziness and worthlessness

having unearned wealthiness and accomplishment dismissed as anecdotal, but “earned” poverty or failure held up as the absolute majority of all cases

an unrealistic and inhumane poverty line that says if you make more than about 12,000 dollars a year– that’s a thousand dollars a month– you aren’t poor, with the amount you’re allowed to make falling dramatically per each adult in the household, until eight adults with two children can only make 43,000 dollars a year total, or 597 dollars a month per adult if you assume the two children are included in the eight person total.

being told that poverty is a choice and that if you were worth anything you wouldn’t be working minimum wage despite the fact that millions of qualified professionals work for min. wage including government employees providing essential services for society that benefit everyone

having the highest effective tax rates and penalties levied against the people with the least to their names

being expected to work with no vacations, no paid days off, no sick leave, no paid maternity leave and (more than likely) no retirement

knowing that if you aren’t a salaried or full-time hourly employee of a large company, you may have to miss the birth of any children in your family and funerals or hospitalization of loved ones because if you take time off you may be laid off or fired for “poor work attendance” and that even if you are protected by federal law, you can’t take more than a short time for fear of ending up unemployed

I mean, say you’ve got an okay car to get to your job. Something in it is going to break some day, whether or not you’re wealthy enough to keep it perfectly maintained. If you’ve lived paycheck to paycheck like most Americans, then you won’t have the savings to make adequate repairs and you’re just fucked. You might just lose that job entirely if you don’t have a friend to drive you or live where public transportation is in walking distance. One little thing broken in your vehicle can wreck your whole life.

To keep that from happening, you’re probably going to have to go without something else, maybe even skip out on a bill and put yourself in more debt later. Either way, you’ll have to settle for the cheapest solution. Even knowing the car will break down again much sooner this time, it’s a choice between being ruined then or being ruined tomorrow. So you’re forced to pay what little you have for poorer service, and then it’s going to break again faster than you can build those savings back up, which means an even cheaper, shoddier solution the next time….and the next time and the next time. Now apply that whole story to every other thing in your life. Your refrigerator, your clothes, your plumbing, your water heater, your diet, your shoes, your teeth, any illness you have or might contract and any injury you might sustain. Every one of these things is just a ticking time bomb waiting to put you deeper in the hole until you finally either die or you lose everything and then die. People who don’t experience this just flat-out cannot seem to comprehend it. They think if they had no trouble getting a great job, then that’s what the world is like for everyone else. They just can’t wrap their heads around why another person can’t do exactly what they did, even though every opportunity is critically dependent on location, time, existing money, how well you can afford to present yourself at an interview, who you’re competing against, how potential employers privately judge you and whether or not any existing problems or responsibilities are putting more pressure on you. It’s a lot like aging. It only ever gets worse unless you’re privileged enough to take exceptional care of yourself. There is no simple “trying harder” to reverse it.