Space Princess

Last post gone a little stagnant so I'm makin' a new one and I'm doing it right this time instead of slapping some links on a vent post. Long story short I'm a trans woman in the ignorant, provincial backwater known as Oklahoma and every second I spend here is a living nightmare of persecution, poverty, and desperation.

I am incredibly depressed and traumatized by my experiences since coming out and I've been stripped of my HRT, my career, and my dignity. My lowkey financially abusive parents* are too busy getting a messy divorce to help me get out of dodge and up towards the PNW.

*they forced me to quit my job last year and ive been without income since even though they knew i was saving up for this eventuality. long fucking story but ive been suffering for it believe you and me. turns out just being supportive of your gender identity doesnt necessarily mean your parents wont fuck you over for other, more esoteric reasons.

As a consequence of that messy divorce, I won't have a place to stay soon and the house is a total minefield of heightened emotion. So that's really made things extra stressful and unstable for me and I'd quite like to leave now :)

I've got a car and a few different options of places that have been offered to me around Seattle and Tacoma. Ain't my first time moving cross-continent either so I'm prepared for the reality of things; I'm talking to an org right now about getting help with gas n getting a job n all that messy logistical stuff.

Regardless I still need a little cash for misc expenses (getting new glasses so I can drive safely, paying for medication copays, a haircut so i can do job interviews, rice&beans while i apply for SNAP, etc) so I'm trying to raise a modest sum of $2000 to start out- if you'd help out with a donation or a share I'd super appreciate it.

Hell, link this to your mother, your drag friends, your dry cleaner, your imam! Just please, help me get a leg up? I'm a nice gal and I've been having a rough time of it lately. I deserve some stability for once and with your help I can find that for myself, I think. Once I'm settled, I'm thinking about shooting a film about the trans internal displacement crisis here in the US so if that interests you... well, anyways... stand and deliver, traveller. (Thanks for reading all this shit. Love ya.)

$614/$2000

$fishewife - cshap

@ meurbabe - pypl

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So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils

I'm disabled and unable to work, so I could use some help, if you have any to spare. I never want anybody's last dollar, but sharing this helps more than you know.

Also, you can sign up for monthly recurring donations, if you'd like! I'm up to almost 200 dollars in monthly donations!

ETA: the monthly donations don't come in at a specific time, they drip in over the course of the month.

Ko-fi link

Ibrahim is one of the Palestinians that I've known since the beginning of the genocide along with Nader. His father is currently in a grave situation as his cancer keeps spreading. With the murderous Zionists still keeping the borders close, it makes it all the more difficult for this young boy to help his father evacuate. But with the US regime now making significant changes in its political attitude towards the genocide, even putting the Settler state in a state of anxiety, there is still hope that Ibrahim can prepare to evacuate his father as soon as the border crossing opens.

Please donate to Ibrahim if you get the chance.

€2,404/€50.000 raised

Ibrahim's fundraiser is #25 on @/gazavetters' list!

Boston was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

Anyway, I don't have a roommate anymore, and I'm trying to put my bills together for September, so if you have a few bucks you can pass along my way, that'd be super helpful.

My ko-fi is here

It's my birthday this month, so it'd be really cool if we can make my goal early!

i legitimately forgot i had this on my os requirements when i sent it for steam approval anyways wishlist it now??? ( unofficial launch until i make a trailer) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3044100

i think that consistently, one thing that good stories in that genre do is make parallels between the violence that the minority, the mutant is capable of, and the fact that the rest of humanity is in fact capable of the same amounts of violence, but that this violence (gun violence, often) is considered by the state to be righteous, a means of defense, by the majority.

because minority defending themselves is always scary, and it's always different from how the opressor does it, and therefore scary, bad, dangerous.

its, you know, when people say "yeah but if sucking dick made me a wizard i'd understand if people were scared" and i think that like, when this kind of story is well made (like when x men is good), it gives two really good answers to that:

for all intents and purposes bigots already believe this to be true

the majority has ressources and the law on their side, they hold the actual power, not the marginalised.

everyone can kill, but only the minority's power to kill is considered innate and dangerous, because the violence of the establishment, while just as innate as a mutant's abilities, is normal.