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Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

1. that’s not even pride themed those are just like. colors.

This is the format I'm using to boost fundraisers when demand is high, everyone's information is linked and sorted by vetter. The entries highlighted in blue are people I've personally been in contact with and who's campaigns I've have been trying to boost

Vetted by @/90-ghost and others with links:

@shareeffamily's fundraiser here, ~€1.4k/50k or ~2% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@nesmagaza2's fundraiser here, ~$2.2k/60k or ~4% raised, vetted by @/90-ghost here

@fahedshehab-new's current fundraiser here, ~ $14.6k/50k or ~29% raised, old fundraiser vetted by @/el-shab-hussein here and more fundraiser information on Fahed's blog

@noor508's fundraiser here (paypal link), vetted by @/90-ghost here and vetting is detailed more here and here

@rehamyasirrr's fundraiser here, ~ AUD $12.7k/30k or ~42% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@marwa-888's fundraiser here, ~£4.2k/20k or ~22% raised, vetted by @/bilal-salah0 here and reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@abodgaza's fundraiser here (paused), ~€14.4k/28k or ~52% raised, his original (deactivated) GFM is #81 on the Operation Olive Branch vetted list and that is detailed on this post

@suhailaalwan3's fundraiser here, ~$24.8k/26k or ~96% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@reeem22's fundraiser here, ~€2.9k/4k or ~75% raised, vetting by association proof detailed here

@moamengaza's fundraiser here, ~€1.2k/50k or ~3% raised, listed at #714 on The Butterfly Effect Project's vetting list

@dodofamilysblog's fundraiser here, ~$25.1k/50k or ~51% raised, vetting by association detailed here

@nader2033's fundraiser here, ~$10.5k/50k or ~21% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here, and verified by @/el-shab-hussein here

@aboudgaza's fundraiser here, ~€1.7k/39k or ~5% raised, vetting by association detailed here

@suppirtadamfil's fundraiser here (paused), ~$7.2k/20k or ~37% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@supportmykids's fundraiser here, ~$12.7k/60k or ~22% raised, listed at #355 on The Butterfly Effect Project's vetting list

@rewaa-family87's fundraiser here, ~$1.5k/50k or ~3% raised, vetting by association detailed here

@amalfamilya1's fundraiser here, ~€14.8k/125k or ~12% raised, vetted by association by @/hayanahed here (Haya was vetted by Project Olive Branch and reached her campaign goals and is now trying to boost Amal's campaign)

@scentedduckcoffee's fundraiser here, ~ CAD $18.3k/50k or ~37% raised, vetting by association detailed here

@weamfanona's fundraiser here, ~£1.6k/30k or ~6% raised, vetted by @/90-ghost here

@eileendiab8's fundraiser here (currently paused), ~€1.8k/50k or ~4%, vetted by @/90-ghost here

@nasserakar9's campaign here, ~$3.9k/30k or ~13%, vetted by association here

@amall2212's fundraiser here, ~£8k/50k or ~16% raised, shared by @/el-shab-hussein here and the family's old campaign was listed at #475 on The Butterfly Effect Project's vetting list

@mychildrenneedhelp's fundraiser here, ~£7.8k/40k or ~20% raised, shared by @/90-ghost here and shared by Bilal Salah here

@ayyadfamily's fundraiser here, ~€21.4k/55k or ~40% raised, vetted by 90-ghost here

@help-family3's fundraiser here, ~$352/50k or ~0% raised, vetting by association detailed here *EXTREMELY LOW FUNDS*

@hind3en's fundraiser here, ~$4.2k/40k or ~11% raised, vetting by association detailed here

@imtethal-93's fundraiser here, ~€27k/50k or ~55% raised, reblogged by @/90-ghost here

@eman1sblog's fundraiser here, ~€28.2k/82k or ~35% raised, shared by @/90-ghost here and by @/bilal-salah7 here

Please support these campaigns, the funds they raise will go towards helping families evacuate, rebuild their lives, and/or contribute to their survival/medical expenses.

"The future they want for you"

-dont go to the emergency room with dental problems. go to the dentist

-bagged greens are cheaper than pre-made salads

-taco bell is NOT worth the money anymore. 1/4 cup mayo, 1/4 cup sour cream, 3 tblspoons pickled jalapenos+2tblspoons of the jar liquid, 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder salt+pepper. all in your blender. creamy jalapeno sauce

-dont quit your job unless you have a bunch of job interviews lined up immediately after

-use resources. food bank, unemployment, housing assistance, financial aid, etc. yes there will be paperwork. but Do It

-dont stay awake longer than 20 hours. you Will start to become impulsive and cranky. resting for 20 minutes is better than trying to stay awake

-for every 2 hours you spend looking up close at screens, spend 20 minutes looking at something far away from you. stretch your wrists a lot

-dont do that yoga stretch where you roll your head around your shoulders. youre grinding down the joints in your neck

-be nice to your friends, bullying them as a joke gets old. if you need a ride somewhere at least offer them gas money

-brush your teeth at any time of the day but especially before you sleep. dont snack in bed if you can help it. make your bed the Clean Teeth Zone. keep floss picks by your bed

-dont tell your boss youre adhd/autism/depression/suicidal. dont trust your coworkers with that. you NEVER know how people will take it and its none of their business

-train your pets to go to the front door when they hear a fire alarm

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.