help a Black queer grad student and educator go back to school!
hiiii if you can spare a few bucks, would you consider helping my friend? Felix is a great person; he's been improving the lives of kids in our community as a teacher, and he's hoping to come back even better. i've known him since we were kids, and i'd love to see him reach his goals. it would mean a lot if you could donate and share!
in their words:
"Hi! I'm Felix (he/they), a Black queer graduate student pursuing a masters degree in design and technology in education at Peabody College (Vanderbilt). I was a teacher for the past two years, but due to struggling with mental health and burnout, I decided to take a step back from teaching until I finish my masters' program, hopefully in spring 2027. I need about $700 to pay off last semester's tuition so I can register for classes, and I am actively applying and interviewing for jobs, but I have not been able to get a job yet and I have no money for bills, food, tuition, or medication. My partner is thankfully working, but he cannot pay all of our bills alone. I'm hopeful I'll be employed by August/September, but I do need help until then. Thank you for reading, and please donate and share if you can!"
https://gofund.me/432590267
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help a Black queer grad student and educator go back to school!
hiiii if you can spare a few bucks, would you consider helping my friend? Felix is a great person; he's been improving the lives of kids in our community as a teacher, and he's hoping to come back even better. i've known him since we were kids, and i'd love to see him reach his goals. it would mean a lot if you could donate and share!
in their words:
"Hi! I'm Felix (he/they), a Black queer graduate student pursuing a masters degree in design and technology in education at Peabody College (Vanderbilt). I was a teacher for the past two years, but due to struggling with mental health and burnout, I decided to take a step back from teaching until I finish my masters' program, hopefully in spring 2027. I need about $700 to pay off last semester's tuition so I can register for classes, and I am actively applying and interviewing for jobs, but I have not been able to get a job yet and I have no money for bills, food, tuition, or medication. My partner is thankfully working, but he cannot pay all of our bills alone. I'm hopeful I'll be employed by August/September, but I do need help until then. Thank you for reading, and please donate and share if you can!"
https://gofund.me/432590267
please reblog even if you can't donate, in case someone else can help out!!! thank you!!!
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.
This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.
This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.
So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.
Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.
As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.
THE BURN LINE by @jonnywaistcoat is out in the UK in TWO DAYS.
West End Lane Books are offering signed editions (with international shipping, if North America can't wait the six addition weeks for your banging edition)
Not to bang my drum, but did you know buying a book on launch day/pre-ordering it, can massively help publishers to support authors? If you think you might want it eventually, make eventually NOW! I'm giving you permission in case anyone asks. I told you to do it.
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here's all the fingerloop braids i made today! i've made several others but i was really happy with today's results. they are all bracelet length, with loops on one side and two long fish-tail braided tails on the other, so they can be tied for a variety of wrist sizes :~)
top to bottom:
five strand flat braid in browns & greens
seven strand flat braid in rainbow
seven strand flat braid in shades of blue
seven strand flat braid in a slightly different rainbow
eight strand bend/twist, one "side" in two shades of red and the other in two shades of blue
seven strand flat braid in an attempt at the lesbian flag colors (will go for darker pinks next time!)
another blue seven strand flat braid
six strand bend/twist, one "side" in black and the other in rainbow (this effect was achieved by making each colorful loop out of two colors)
i learned about fingerloop braiding and had my first try on saturday, it's tuesday now. i have become a little obsessed. i've learned a lot today about starting order of colors, how to tension better, and tricks for getting more colors than strands!
i encourage everyone looking for a fun, inexpensive, satisfying hobby to pick this up. all it takes is at least five strands of thread, an anchor (safety pin works), and your hands! it's very repetitive, once you get the pattern and rhythm down it FLIES. for me it's like stimming, very relaxing.
please try something new, like fingerloop braiding!!! you can make a whole bracelet in like 30 minutes!!!!!!
Hello my brothers Please, if your blog is strong and you have followers, share and write something Note please
They bombed the place in front of us, one of my relatives was injured and two others were martyred, please Help me out before something happens to me.
I do all kinds of things to help my family, even days when I deprive myself of food to save it for others How do you feel when you are hungry How do you feel
Please put yourself in my shoes what would you have done I feel stuck I can't do anything and I'm sad about the people who used to talk to me but left me why why did I do something wrong please tell me
Please can you focus on my campaign a little bit please you are our only hope I swear to you that I escape death miraculously every day
Hey my friends Or even my brothers, consider me like your little brother, consider me part of your family. Please, if you need my help, send me a message on this account
This is Ibrahim's campaign that I have highlighted before. He needs more people to bring attention to his gofundme because the traction does not match the amount of notes that the posts get!
Please share the link above to your socials and consider sending at least 5 euro.
curious about other people's families - specifically the age differences of siblings! if you have one sibling, answer accounting for their age. if you have multiple siblings, answer based on the one that is most different in age to you. (ie, if you have a brother two years older than you, but a sister four years younger, choose four years.)
what's the age difference between you and your sibling?
While most of the arguments attacking the legitimacy of palestinian gfms and the people who verify them seem to boil down to the plain racism and the discomfort with having to think of palestinians as anything other than faceless statistics on your phone or tv screens instead of real living people who want to talk to us, there is a strain of of it that i find more aggravating than anything else.
[image i.d.: senatortedcruz, 6d ago: Friends I will be honest I don't think real life Gazans are taking time out of their day to make brand new tumblr blogs then send asks to big bloggers asking for money.]
This makes my blood boil for a couple of reasons:
FIRSTLY, there is the assumption that palestinians were somehow never on the internet before. The smear campaign against shahed began literally after some users found it impossible to believe that she was a real person who loves photography and to talk to me about her art and how important it was to her. This was IN SPITE of me linking her Instagram that has existed long before October 7th 2023 and has over 6k followers specifically there for her art, which they would have found easily if they had cared to actually read my posts about her.
This is nothing new, because it has always been the general assumption from users in the imperial core that you don't think we from the global south can exist on the internet and see all the shit you say and have opinions about it– but it never stops being shocking to me how thoroughly you are ready to pretend we aren't real people every time. We are directly seeing the results of that wilful ignorance manifest itself cruelly against palestinians in their time of need today.
And then SECONDLY comes the fact that they aren't entirely wrong– reaching out to us on the internet in the middle of a genocide IS insanely hard. There are constant network outages due to the incessant bombing, people have lost their homes and livelihoods, they have lost so much of their friends and families, they are sick and injured, they are struggling just to find any food or any clean water. A lot of people either lost their cellphones while fleeing violence or probably had to sell them and pick cutting themselves off from the world and each other over starving. They are experiencing atrocities beyond our comprehension. A lot of people have given up, especially in the face of the apathy they see from the rest of the world to what they are going through. But that doesn't mean everyone has and that they aren't reaching out to us anyway, often at great cost to themselves, because it is a matter of survival.
Shahed has told me that she has had to struggle a lot to reach out to us. Finding places where there is internet connection is very hard, and she often has to risk going by active combat zones to get a good enough reception to talk to me and others here she has befriended. The danger is even more so at night, and she has told me about how afraid she is at those times because of the presence of iof quadcopters in the area. Sometimes she is able to come by internet connection at night from someone with some solar cells nearby her tent now that running electricity has become so hard to come by in gaza, but she has to pay a high fee to get it from them, dipping into the meagre funds her family has saved for food and water instead.
Every single message that reaches us from gaza comes with a sacrifice we can't even begin to understand.
The cost she has to pay both literally and in terms of the dangers to her life to reach out to us are extremely high, but she still does it all because she is the sole provider for her family of seventeen right now– especially her little siblings Rafif and Masa, who are suffering from severe hepatitis right now and urgently need to get out of gaza so that they can seek treatment in egypt; and her months old nephew who was born just weeks before the genocide began and has no access to baby food or diapers right now.
It GALLS me to see people try to call her a liar for being able to have an internet connection at ALL when i know just how hard she had to fight to get it.
Just because YOU are unable to imagine yourself in that situation when you are in your comfortable homes with an easily available connection, DOESN'T mean there aren't people who are willing to fight to be heard and get the help they deserve. And of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the struggle that comes with crowdfunding when you are in gaza.
Your “cynicism” comes from a place of privilege and doesn't help anyone. You are only insulting all the palestinians who work so hard every day to reach out to us, all so some truly heartless people can call them bots or scams for being able to reach out to anyone at all.
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. SHAHED HAS TO REACH 80K WITHIN THIS WEEK TO EVACUATE HER WHOLE FAMILY.
WE HAVE ONLY JUST CRACKED 68K/80K, AND THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO.
Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H
Please donate to and share Shahed's fundraiser as widely as possible. Take it to your whatsapp groups, to your discord servers, your instagram stories. Repost her story and her photography, repost the link to the raffle at @journalsforpalestine wherever you have reach because there is only so much i can do with the deadline looming so close to us.
This CANNOT wait. You've gotten her this far, let's get her through this last stretch too.
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[Image ID: Screenshot from GoFundMe with a title that reads "Help My Congolese Family Flee genocide". Attached to it is a picture of a black woman with long hair, with a tree and a building behind her. Enya-Zura Citeya-Kanjinga is organizing this campaign and it has gathered $9,305 CAD from its $20,000 goal as of the making of this post, June 20th, 2024. /End ID]
This GFM was shared by youtubers Tirrrb and Elliot Sang and I would like to bring more attention to it. Please help escape a congolese family from genocide and reunite them with their family members. Donate if possible and share ❤️🇨🇩
Link:
I'm a Congolese dyke refugee. My mom, dad and siblings and myself fle… Enya-Zura Citeya-Kanjinga needs your support for Help My Congolese Fa
yayyyy juneteenth pride month crossover!!!! i'm a black gay bitch and an artist with no consistent income due to disability and burnout, and i've been waiting to receive my disability ALJ hearing decision for 4 months. if anyone who has the means wants to toss a few bucks my way today it'd mean a lot to me, my phone bill's gonna be due soon!
all pay links are @ confettikai , also my new portfolio URL is kairobinsonart.crrd.co ! thanks in advance!!
help a mixed Black trans person stay afloat this pride month!
ill keep my ting brief:
i have moderate ME/CFS, but was forced to transition back into hourly wage labor to at least Try and cover some of our expenses so we dont have to ebeg as much. unfortunately i dont get paid for a while and need help staying fed+covering essentials. folks can chip in via one of these three links, my wife and i's shared links, or by getting something off our registry.
if you can't chip in, reblogging is VERY much appreciated, but please dont tag this with "signal boost"/"donation" or anything of the sort. any attempts at doing so or condescending to me about this very basic thing i am asking in the reblogs or tags WILL result in a block.
$70/$200 for groceries/pain management! im on my period (which causes all of my chronic illness symptoms to flare), so its kind of Really important that i get this $ asap so i can afford food+meds to keep me from an emergency room trip i cant afford lol. please chip in if u can.
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My name is Noor, a mother of three from Gaza. We were forced to flee south due to the war, and my husband was injured in his shoulder. We have moved several times seeking safety. I have started a fundraising campaign to protect my children and family. We need your support to provide safety and basic needs.
Every donation, no matter how small, makes a significant difference. If you cannot donate, please help by sharing our story so it reaches those who can assist،.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart🌷.
https://gofund.me/7c5e98b0
(Verified fundraiser)
Hello Noor!
Everyone, please help this family, they've literally only received one donation so far! Their goal is to raise €40K. Please donate if you can and share their fundraiser around.
Hello,
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