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Contribute to or at bare minimum share Black/BIPOC mutual aid. It is the literal least you can do to make a tangible difference especially for small bills/needs. Sometimes you can keep a Black person housed, sometimes you feed us, sometimes you let us have clean clothes or get to work.

It is literally the BARE MINIMUM you can to do pass it on so that if you don’t toss like $5, $20, more their way, someone following you might and it can literally save a life.

Last year two of the most prominent cis Black disability activists died bc they couldn’t crowdfund money - one for a rideshare hospital trip when they knew an ambulance might bankrupt them, the other for cancer treatment.

If well-known/loved cis Black disabled people can’t survive from crowdfunding, imagine the hopes of Black trans disabled people for example.

If you can’t FUND US then at least fucking reblog our shit! That’s how you use your privilege!

Example: my friend @harumscarumcos had their power cut off and they only need another like $100 to get it back on and be able to work again. If you can, toss a bit their way and share! https://www.tumblr.com/harumscarumcos/788718438281625600/8450-14183

Huh. Sending this to a Black transfemme is honestly pretty funny (ignorant, goofy as hell) given we experience the highest rate of violence out of trans folks (about 4 out of 5 murdered trans women are Black, 78%) and the majority of nonviolent deaths (which suicide is technically counted as nonviolent) are still transfemmes.

I’ll admit these exact numbers vary by study and year because the deaths of trans people are notoriously hard to archive/record between deaths recorded in deadname, closeted trans folks, non-supportive family, poor local reporting, etc. but like.

I don’t hate trans men/transmascs, I hate misogynists/transmisogynists. Plenty of transmascs go through life day to day recognizing how bad shit is for their transfemme sisters AND being able to talk about the transphobia they experience, without transforming into raging misogynists who can’t let women speak about their issues and suffering without shoehorning their way in on some trans-flavored “all lives matter” headassery.

talking about hOw HiGh the suicide rates for men are (and conveniently forget to mention that the suicide rates for women are significantly higher

Iunno how they react is just funny to me because outside the far-right I can think of at least three different groups of whites that talk about wanting to lynch me, specifically, by name. It’s just amazing how different the scope of our problems and what we’re expected to survive through are - trans men DO have their own fucking problems that harm them, and they’re not “the Black tranny on tumblr gets angry about transmisogynoir” unless they’re the one doing it.

baby, they want to rip you apart

THE GIRLS!!!!

More than 50% of Indigenous communities in reserve areas in Canada are at high risk of pipeline spills. When there is a spill, reserves are disproportionately impacted.

The National Energy Board and Supreme Court of Canada has a history of declaring the "public interest and economic interests outweigh Indigenous and treaty rights." Basically, Indigenous peoples don't count enough as "public" to matter.

Pipelines are built without proper consent from the Indigenous Nations they choose to occupy. Keep in mind I say choose, because this is the case even when alternative pipeline routes are suggested that could avoid reserve land. This is a direct, constant, and often violent threat to Indigenous sovereignty.

The MMIW crisis is funded by the oil industry through the creation of worker's "man camps" near reserve land. These "man camps" are nothing but pits of sexual violence and human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls. I am not exaggerating; this is well studied and well documented.

Resources & Sources:

To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights (START HERE!)

Indigenous Resistance to Alberta Oil and Gas Development Report

When the environment is destroyed, you're destroyed: Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities

Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius

The colonial playbook never ended, Canada’s pipeline deal proves it