"Something Cool"

fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

Trans Aid Cymru - supporting trans people in wales

Queer Emporium - hub of queer businesses and events

And ones who operate in Wales but also across the UK

TIN Wadrobe - supplying clothes for trans and gnc people

Scottish Trans - Trans advocacy, information and social events. Run by the Equality Network, a broader Scottish LGBTQI advocacy group.

LEAP Sports Scotland - Sports charity that advocates for queer inclusion in sports, runs trans sports groups (Trans Active) in at least Glasgow and Edinburgh that I can absolutely recommend.

LGBT Health & Wellbeing - Not trans specific but includes trans specific, trans led and trans inclusive support and social events, and supports a variety of smaller community-run subgroups.

And another couple UK-wide:

Gender Identity Research & Education Society - Trans led charity supporting research on trans matters and education/training on trans inclusion. Does consultancy for public and private sector organisations.

hey all

I wish I didn't have to make this post but my sweet baby bird Opal needs a high-risk surgery to save her life.

She means the world to me and helps keep me alive just by existing so if you enjoy my art you have her to thank. She's even in some ButchBun & TigerDyke planning sketches.

The American government is a genocidal machine built upon the deaths of millions of Black and Brown people, both in America and oversees, but white people on tumblr would rather joke about burning it all to the ground instead of talk to the people whose land it belongs to and actively work on involving them in their activism.

Like, I don’t talk too much about my politics here, but the landback movement is my main point of activism (not just in America, but in every country across the world) and unfortunately, this tankie-led website always gets suspiciously quiet whenever indigenous people in their own country want to talk about restoring their land, because it doesn’t really fit into their (originally white European) idea of destroying everything from the ground up and turning it into some communist utopia.

It doesn’t really fit into their (originally white European) idea of destroying everything from the ground up and turning it into some communist utopia.

A lot of white leftists on this website dream about a revolution to overthrow the American government, but ultimately, they still want the revolution to be led by them. They want a revolution that mimics European revolutions of the past, because those are the revolutions that they have based their activism on.

They want to destroy the land, and build it back up into a system that they have personally designed, or else they joke about America being invaded by countries such as China or Russia so that communism can finally be brought to America.

This is anti-Native, plain and simple. This is not your land to shape or control. This is not your land to replace one genocidal system with another.

These are people who have not decolonised their minds at all, because they show zero respect and care for the land that they are on. They have absolutely no right to say “America should be nuked” when it’s not their fucking land to wish that upon, and they have no right to sit around tweeting about a glorious revolution when indigenous people are still actively being genocided.

What are you doing to stop this genocide? What is your plan, post revolution, to restore the land to its people? Are you willing to rescind your control of this land to the people it belongs to? And, most importantly, how are you going to ensure that indigenous land is not destroyed during the revolution you’re dreaming of?

I know “burn America to the ground” is just a joke. I know “give America to Canada/Denmark/China” is just a joke. But it’s a joke reinforcing ideas. It’s a joke reinforcing colonisation. It’s a joke that proves that America is not your land, because your callousness and nihilism towards it shows that you do not care.

I mentioned this in the replies, and maybe it’s a stretch, but look at how the state of Israel treats Palestine. They destroy it. They burn the trees to ash. They bomb sacred grounds and historical landmarks. They murder the people who have lived there for thousands of years.

Because, no matter what they try to claim, it is not their land. They have absolutely no respect or care for the land that they’re bombing, because they have no genuine connection to it. They are able to say violent things that lead to violent actions because ultimately, its destruction means nothing to them.

My shaylas

Keir Starmer bending at the knee to the US and Israel.

And guess what, the UK military has fuck all people and fuck all ships that can actually operate.