Musings Of A Poet

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

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I am Mohammed from Gaza, 28 years old, and I live with my father and brothers. We all used to live a peaceful life together in our home. As you can see, this was our home before it was completely destroyed. It was our home, but now it is in ruins.

We worked 24/7 to rebuild our home, but now, after all these years of hard work, we have lost everything and have become homeless and displaced.

As for our work and our business, my brother and I had a university cafeteria, and we had a dream of being able to provide the best food to the students in our city.

At Al-Aqsa University, we worked together hand in hand to make this possible, and just as it was starting to happen, a war broke out and shattered all our dreams. We woke up to the nightmare of war, seeing the university destroyed. At that moment, we were desperate, helpless, and lost.

Not just our home and our workplace. But can you imagine the moment you see the last thing you owned destroyed, ruined, and shattered? So, for God's sake, you are the only ones who can help us rebuild our shattered lives. I would be very grateful for your kindness and support.

Check it out- Goths in Hannibal, MO lettin' their flag fly. Hannibal is Mark Twain's home and has a low cost of living. This 1870 Victorian is for sale for only $150k. (The winters in Hannibal, are harsh, though.) 3bds & 1ba, but you can't beat this price and the house is so nice. Take a look.

See? They have snow, already.

Those particular moments are usually emotion-fueled, filled with the urge to 'do something' but a profound lack of clear easy answers on preventing sexual abuse and making the world safer for kids.

In the US in particular, conservative lobby groups have gotten VERY good at taking this emotion-fueled wave and funneling it into passing 'victim protection laws' that are just tough-on-crime bullshit:

Less rights for defendants. Minimum sentencing. Crack downs on online privacy and the ability of sex workers to sell their services online. Limiting the ability of children to form connections outside their nuclear family. 'Parental rights' bullshit. This makes everything worse.

We must recognize this, call it out, resist it, organize against it. I know it's tempting to focus on the evil people that got away with terrible things, but we must reject a punitive-focused narrative.

Friends, Mutuals, esteemed followers and late night ao3 readers I come you in my hour of need! As some of you are aware my father passed recently and I am now the sole care taker for my disabled mother. She is unable to fly due to stroke risk (she has a TIA micro stroke condition, this means she has tia attacks frequently!) and the only way for her to travel cross country is by train! This campaign aims to raise enough funds for her to travel comfortably and ship her personal belongings...before it snows and she is alone and inaccessible to emergency services on a long rural dirt road and I do mean dirt road.