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Géraldine Gonzalez

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can anyone pls help me pay my mortgage? i just need $200 to cover what i can't. it's due in 5 days. i'm sorry for the crunch but i just need the help if anyone can. thank you so much ♥️ im so sorry

Esraa @ssave-baby-life is frightened at the prospect of something happening to her baby Qais, who needs specialised treatment, and she has had to contend with this agony every single day as a mother in Gaza. The doctors have said she could lose him in less than 12 hours and hospital administration has warned of expulsion as Esraa has been struggling to cover the medical costs even with fundraising. Donations have completely stopped.

The constant fear of losing your child is not something anyone should have to experience. Any money you send will help Esraa keep Qais on the life machines that he needs to survive.

Trans women are the exact same gender as cis women.

Trans men are the exact same gender as cis men.

When someone mentions women, it applies to trans women as well, because they are women.

When someone mentions men, it applies to trans men as well, because they are men.

Trans women's attraction is the same as cis women. A lesbian or straight trans woman is the same kind of lesbian or straight as a cis woman.

Trans men's attraction is the same as cis men. A gay or straight trans man is the same kind of gay or straight as a cis man.

A trans woman is a woman in a patriarchal society.

A trans man is a man in a patriarchal society.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life