Salty Queer

I am not a person who asks for much, but if there is one thing I want to be known for to go viral it is this. The Wise Women's Gathering Place is a known service in Green Bay, that helps with advocacy for many people (who were victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, sex trafficking, and victims of crime) in advocacy, healing and prevention. It's a service of Native cultural understandings to attentive of safety in all aspects. It provides training, support groups, community workshops, facilitation, professional training, helping people to find stable housing and other resources. But back in July, their long time insurance provider dropped coverage. This aforementioned Safe Space Parking helps the hidden homeless population who often sleeps in their cars to a place where they will be watched over, have resources nearby and guaranteed safety. This has left many people who were reliant on this place for shelter and safety in the area looking for other places that are not nearly as safe nor reliable. They have a new insurance provider, but they still need to get at least $30,000 dollars in order to reopen this facility in time for the colder and more brutal months. The lot was donated by the Oneida Nation and costs $12,000 to operate helping many people (45 cars, but it could be more) who live in cars who have no where else to go due to circumstances. It has helped many people in the past and does a lot of good things with immediate help to resources, including providing hot meals, resources of processing trauma, is individualized to each person who needs it's help, and more. If you have any money to spare, whether it only being $10 dollars, it can go a long way to help these people who are otherwise ignored. Please reblog if you can so any help can go this way.

A link to donate is here: https://www.wisewomengp.org/give

I live in Seattle. And in Seattle we have America’s largest physical media store, Scarecrow Video. They are a non-profit that has pretty much any film or tv show you can imagine. Like, everything. So much so that one of our local cinemas does a program with them called “Unstreamable” where they show a film from Scarecrow’a archive that you can’t access anywhere online. It’s a bit overwhelming to go to their store, which is two levels of every program under the sun.

ANYWAY, I bring this up because they recently started a Rent-by-Mail program. It’s pretty similar to what Netflix used to do. You can rent up to six titles (barring their super rare stuff and pornos) and they will ship it to you, then you return it in the included pre-paid envelope.

Why does this rock? Sure, you still have to pay money, BUT you are supporting a non-profit that is dedicated to preserving media instead of some corporation looking for endless profit. They can also expand your palette with their vast selection. And if you have a favorite piece of media, you never have to worry about it disappearing! All their stuff is there in perpetuity.

So this is all to say, now that Scarecrow has expanded their reach beyond the Greater Seattle Area, I implore you to check them out. If you don’t want to rent right now, the could always use donations to keep them afloat.

You can check out their catalogue HERE!