hey, killer.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

I haven't been able to find full time work and it's super hard to advertise Only Friends when literally every outlet (including here) censors us constantly.

Not to mention they signed me up for a bunch of spam lists so I’ve been getting nonstop emails for the last 3-4mos since it happened. It’s genuinely crazy what y’all will rationalize because you think your other marginalizations absolve you from the ability to be anti-Black freaks.

And tumblr just won't respond to my emails! Wild.

anyways if you'd like to support a Black, bisexual, nonbinary, poor sex working bitch, please consider donating, reblogging my ads, or subscribing to my adult content.

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my name is luciana, and i’m a 21 yr old qalipu lesbian who needs help getting the funds to get out of my home and to my fiancé. i’ve been jobless for almost two months now after my supervisor set me up to be fired, and after problem after problem since being fired all the while still struggling with recovery from an eating disorders and trying to get other diagnoses, i’m really at my wit’s end and staying in this house with my parents is absolutely detrimental to my recovery. my donations and commissions posts keep dying and it’s rendering me absolutely hopeless.

i do writing commissions if you’re interested, please dm me either here or on discord (OERBA#2000). please reblog this, i would hugely appreciate it.

For those of us in Australia, it’s easy to support the Black Lives Matter movement from afar, and ignore the violent problems that run rampant in our own back yard. This amazing document was shared by a friend of mine on Facebook and is an amazing guide to better educate yourself on racism in Australia and how to be a proactive and supportive ally in the wider community. 

There are links to funds and relief support for Indigenous Australians, for funds and individuals, if you’re able to donate. There are links to petitions concerning police brutaliaty, land rights, health inequality, and Invasion Day, as well as a reading list, helplines, and links to Indigenous-owned businesses and arts organisations. 

If you’re in Australia (or would like to learn about how Black Lives Matter can be supported in Australia) please take the time to give this a read.

  “I CAN’T BREATHE”: CHARGES MUST BE LAID FOR THE DEATH OF DAVID DUNGAY JNR

PREVENT ANOTHER ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY 

Sydney Protest Pepper Spray - Calling for the immediate investigation of Police 

Clean out prisons, free our people - before it’s too late

End Aboriginal Deaths In Custody - Abolish the offence of public drunkenness

Prevent deaths in custody caused by improper restraint.

AUSTRALIA: STOP LOCKING UP 10-YEAR-OLDS IN PRISON

Demand action on Indigenous Incarceration

Take a Stand Against Deaths In Custody

Hold Rio Tinto to account

Protect sacred Djab Wurrung birthing trees from expansion of the Western Hwy by Vicroads.

Victorian Aboriginal lives matter - demand funding for First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing

Tear down the Captain Cook statue in Cairns!

Tell the Truth - Invasion Day 

Survival Day and a New National Holiday

Sign the Joint Statement in support of a First People Voice in Parliament

Close the Gap Petition 2019

Calling upon The Hills Shire Council to Acknowledge Traditional Custodians

Change the licensing agreement around the Aboriginal Flag #PrideNotProfit

@BlakBusiness - Links for Actions

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne

Indigenous Social Justice Association - SYDNEY

Email templates:

Email templates re Aboriginal deaths in Custody and ongoing incidents of police brutality

Donations:

Justice for Yuendumu: Inquiry on Police Shooting

Day Family Fundraiser

Justice for David Dungay Junior - Facebook

Fundraiser for First Nations water protector facing court

Free Her - Sisters Inside 

Indigenous Deaths in Custody

Donate to Stop Black Deaths In Custody

Support for Djap Wurrung Embassy

National Justice Project 

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

Pay the Rent

Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

Djirra - Supporting Aboriginal women’s safety and wellbeing

CHANGE THE RECORD 

BUILD COMMUNITIES, NOT PRISONS #JustReinvest

Sisters Inside

Deadly Connections

VACCA - Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency

Full Stop Foundation

Bushfire Fund coordinated by peak Aboriginal health body, VACCHO to support the Aboriginal communities across Victoria

COVID-19 Victorian First Nations Mutual Aid Fund

Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners are fighting to defend our lands from Adani

Black Rainbow - LGBQTI

BlaQ - LGBTQI

Gunawirra

Healing Foundation

Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation - Indigenous Stolen Generations Support

First Nations Workers Alliance

AIME Mentoring

Yalari - Educating Indigenous Children

Yirra Yaakin Solidarity Projects Series - Keep artists creating and/or up-skilling during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance (NATSIWA)

African Communities Foundation Australia 

Pay the rent:

Pay the Rent

Indigenous owned businesses:

Supply Nation

🏳️‍🌈  means there is queer rep

Out Already: 

- the poppy war series (extremely popular. fantasy based off the Song Dynasty, amoral/morally grey brown asian girl protagonist. i haven’t read this yet but all of my poc mutuals have this as their favorite book of all time. pls read tw warnings. no romance only faint subtext)

- jade city series (another favorite of the poc that i haven’t read. no romance) 

- the bone shard daughter trilogy 🏳️‍🌈  (set on a strand of fantasy islands based on imperial china but has a healthy mix of various asian representation - south asian, southeast asian. queernormative and no patriarchy. main lesbians. one of my favs)

- these violent delights duology  🏳️‍🌈 (a side mlm couple, 1920s gangster shanghai, romeo and juliet retelling. one of my favs)

- warcross duology 🏳️‍🌈 (set in futuristic tokyo. ft. a side mlm couple, sci fi. one of my favs)

- not your sidekick triology 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic superheroes and sidekicks. vietnamese bisexual protag, sci fi)

- girls of paper and fire triology 🏳️‍🌈 (extremely popular, chinese lesbian protag but other asian rep as well, fantasy) 

- parachutes 🏳️‍🌈 (side sapphic couple, read tw warnings, contemporary).

- huntress 🏳️‍🌈 (east asian sapphics)

- last night at the telegraph club 🏳️‍🌈 (chinese lesbian protag. 1900s fiction)

- forest of a thousand laterns (morally grey angry chinese female protag)

- the space between worlds 🏳️‍🌈 (main southeast asian and east asian sapphics, sci fi dystopian. read tw)

- everything i never told you 🏳️‍🌈 (mlm rep. 1900s biracial family deals with the death of their daughter)

- the gilded wolves 🏳️‍🌈 (be gay do crime, indian love interest. historical fantasy)

- the weight of our sky (set in 1960s malaysia. historical fiction)

- spin the dawn (fantasy)

- descendant of the crane (fantasy)

Out In 2021: 

-  she who became the sun 🏳️‍🌈 (one of my most anticipated releases. genderqueer sapphic protag with a sapphic love interest, mlm main characters. set in the ming dynasty of china. the official advertisement is the song of achilles meets the untamed meets mulan)

- jade fire and gold 🏳️‍🌈 (the pitch was “what if katara was the dark avatar and zuko was chasing her down?” main sapphics) 

- the ones we’re meant to find (i literally don’t know what this is about but the cover is gorgeous)

- counting down with you 🏳️‍🌈 (fake dating romcom b/w a south asian brown girl and the bad boy who is a himbo. ft. diverse girl gang so im interpreting that as lgbtq)

- the jasmine throne 🏳️‍🌈 (morally grey lesbians tearing an emperor from his throne/washing each other’s hair/holding sharp-edged knives to each other’s ribs. set in india) 

- gearbreakers 🏳️‍🌈 (cyberpunk japanese sapphics. there is a tender tattooing scene) 

- six crimson cranes (fantasy)

- black water sister 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic malaysian protag, fantasy/sci-fi)

- how we fall apart (dark academia murder mystery thriller but make it asian american)

- you’ve reached sam (contemporary)

- love and other natural disasters 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic fake dating b/w japanese girls)

- the chosen and the beautiful 🏳️‍🌈 (queer sapphic retelling of the great gatsby)

- hani and ishu’s guide to fake dating 🏳️‍🌈 (south asian sapphics)

In the Vanishers’ Palace 🏳️‍🌈 by Aliette de Bodard (sapphic beauty and the beast retelling)

The Tensorite series by Neon Yang  🏳️‍🌈 (fantasy novellas, lots of queer rep)

The Devourers by Indra Das (speculative fiction / dark fantasy)