Donate to a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical treatment, daily necessities or more. Site run by Palestinians, all GFMs verified (full list here). Spotlights 1 stagnant GFM at a time. (*If you can't decide who/where to donate, just go to gazafunds.com & donate to the 1 GFM they show you!)

masterlist of 200+ verified Palestinian families' GFMs: Operation Olive Branch

Help provide tents:

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents & transport for families in Rafah who urgently need to evacuate to Deir Al Balah. Has a team on the ground in Gaza who have supplied tents to 1% of the displaced population in Rafah. Run by Palestinians. (paypal) (gfm)

@helpgazachildren: Currently helping Palestinians in a refugee camp in Rafah flee the Rafah invasion to Khan Younis. Funds go directly to Hussam, a Palestinian in Rafah who hosts a refugee camp. Funds will cover the cost of tents & transport fuel. Managed by a Palestinian @.fairuzfan. (gfm)

Food:

Care for Gaza: Palestinian charity on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their Twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

We Feed Gaza: Team of Palestinian volunteers in the heart of Gaza distributing food & water to 344+ families. More details & proof in their gfm. Vetted & promoted by LetsTalkPalestine on IG. (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: A Palestinian activist on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash & other essential supplies to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

Water (*urgent and crucial!)

Gaza Municipality: The official Municipality of Gaza is doing vital, life-saving work to rebuild the water pipes in Gaza City to restore access to clean water & waste management services for the people of Gaza.

eSIMs (highly needed):

guide to buy & send esims to gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza: donate any amount to this team of volunteers who pool funds to buy & maintain gaza esims regularly (see their financial accountability document).

Medical Aid:

Gaza Wound Care (urgent): Palestinian doctors in central Gaza treating injured/sick children & mothers in neglected displacement camps far from hospitals. Facing a severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and medical supplies. Currently raising funds to support their efforts to battle infectious diseases in refugee camps. (gfm) (paypal) (gogetfunding)

international charities: Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians

How to help if you can't donate:

Share & amplify Palestinian fundraisers in your irl & online circles

Organize or help to run an online/irl event to raise funds for Palestine

Boycott

Get involved with a protest/strike/direct action in your area

Contact your reps

Educate yourself & others both irl & online

Daily clicks on Arab.org

(you can even adopt 1 fundraiser campaign to regularly boost it & make materials promoting it online, or print posters/flyers about Palestinian fundraisers to encourage others to donate. (poster/graphic about gazafunds.com: here, flyers about esims: here, flyers about gazafamilyfunds: here)

(longer masterpost of all ways you can help)

Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!

Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]

Y'all have seen this post, right?

I suffered from depression and suicidal ideation from the age of eight. The few times I brought myself to ask my parents for help, they deflected, insisting that I was just sensitive, shy, a deep thinker. I did well in school and I obeyed my parents, so they didn't think it was a problem. At my worst points, I couldn't be alone with my thoughts at all. Hundreds of times I day, I thought about how much of a worthless burden I was, that I and everyone in my life would be better off if I was dead and gone.

As an adult, I tried numerous medications and treatment plans, some of which alleviated the depression briefly, but it wasn't until I sought out a psychologist that could do ketamine therapy/electroconvulsive therapy as last resort options, that she recognized/diagnosed me with ADHD. It's commonly overlooked in women and girls and often manifests as long-term, treatment resistant depression. I now take a combination of Vyvanse and Auvelity and my suicidal ideation is almost non-existent. Weeks and even months go by without me thinking about dying/killing myself.

The state of the world, especially for women and girls, is harrowing, but giving up on finding the right medication/treatments for a nineteen year old is unbelievably cruel. If my parents or any of the professionals I'd seen over the years had said, "Yes, you're right. It would be for the best if you were dead, and here's how to do it," I would not be alive now.

At age 28 I switched psychiatrists, and after another suicidal crisis was put on Adderall. I don't have suicidal thoughts anymore. It took 15 years to get to the root of the problem - I don't regret living any of them, horrible as they could sometimes be, and now I have so many more to look forward to.