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Google Removed Pride Month From Its Calendar App, and Stonewall National Monument's "LGBTQ" status was changed to "LGB" on the government website. This is the beginning of the erasure of queer history, not the end. I don't know what the future of the United States looks like, as someone who studies queer history and has done so for many years, I want to share some tools with you.

Now is a good time to prioritize local queer history, Making Gay History is a great project, so is the Digital Transgender Archive, but also check your city and see what resources there are.

Read and buy books about queer history. I have an affiliate list with some of the books I personally recommend.

If you use Google Calendar, repopulate that resource with so much queer history with a free queer history calendar plug-in, it has names from queer history that you can also learn more about for free when they come up. As the author of these articles, feel free to save them, print them off, whatever makes them freely accessible as suppression get's worse.

Use your local library. Email the board about book bans, request banned books, request queer books, and make your voice heard.

Make queer art. Share queer art. Protect queer art. Here is some public-domain queer art to use as you wish.

Keep up with queer news, THEM is a great resource.

if you have the money to donate, please consider sending some their way

Hey, Ohio! Vote NO on Issue 1 August 8th if you believe 1 person = 1 vote. Y'know, the way democracy works.

The deadline to be registered to vote this election is July 10th -- 5 days!!!

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Knight of Swords.

Because it IS social media because content is spread through a “like” system, writing is created and hosted for the soul purpose of other people viewing it for entertainment purposes, and it provides no real informative knowledge.

Like I’ve said it and I’ll say it time and time again there is an ACTUAL FUCKING ARCHIVE IN NEED OF HELP! SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT AO3 FOREVER!!!

The Internet Archive hosts millions of research papers and the Wayback Machine which allows us to access millions of websites that straight up don’t exist anymore. Thousands of textbooks! Classic literature! Biographies! Films! Records! All through this one resource!

Keep the Internet Archive alive and free!! It’s an invaluable resource we can’t afford to lose!

The HaperColins Union had almost an unanimous vote (99.5%) to go on strike for better wages and protects.

They will be going on strike Wesnday July 20th.

They have asked us to:

-NOT harass any offical Hapercolins social media

- NOT to boycott Haper books. The point is for HaperColins to feel the strikers absence.

- Donate to their strike fund to cover the wages of those striking. (As of writting this post the fund isn't available)

Here's the HaperColins unions offical Twitter account for more info:

https://twitter.com/hcpunion?t=TxHooV_RkaHeisvU78jJhQ&s=09

If you think Stonewall was only trans women and transmascs/butches/trans men weren't arrested during the leadup to the riot, you need to read up on who was there, who was arrested, and why.

The raid did not go as planned. Standard procedure was to line up the patrons, check their identification and have female police officers take customers dressed as women to the bathroom to verify their sex, upon which any people appearing to be physically male and dressed as women would be arrested. Those dressed as women that night refused to go with the officers. Men in line began to refuse to produce their identification. The police decided to take everyone present to the police station, after separating those suspected of cross-dressing in a room in the back of the bar. Both patrons and police recalled that a sense of discomfort spread very quickly, spurred by police who began to assault some of the lesbians by "feeling some of them up inappropriately" while frisking them.

Literally you need to defend men in dresses to fight against transphobia, period. The hate comes from the same root.

Attacking drag is attacking the right to present how you chose. And legislation against it will be weaponized against everyone, Cis, Trans, and otherwise.

Drag is a product of queer culture, and includes many many trans people in addition to GNC cis people.

Yes, you need to include Bianca Del Rio wearing a dress and makeup as part of her comedy, yes, you need to include a cis man who cross-dresses because it turns him on. As soon as you make it okay to go after one single group for wearing clothing that "doesn't match" their assigned sex or perceived gender, its open season to attack everyone for their presentation.

Yes, there are transphobic and misogynist drag performers. The whole category of art is not, and tons and tons of trans people participate in drag and drag is what cracked their egg.

For those of you who are asking "what drag pushback," I have some unfortunate news for you:

https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1533880471670493184?t=TOWZrCOK2l8dryy97UTumg&s=19

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1534942795860959234?t=TFlmzCzY8htOGUPPERWLnw&s=19

This is utterly unconscionable, and there's a reason this is all getting pushed during Pride. If things like this start to come back, it leads back into the old bad "three articles of clothing from the "correct" gender" days.

All of this is coming out in response to a drag show that was part of family pride in Dallas. This event had self-described "Christian fascist" protesters outside, who were encouraging the police to act violently. Alt-right scum Andy Ngô posted about the drag show to his one million followers.

It is great that we are all prepared to fight anti-drag and anti-trans legislation, but we also need to be ready to fight everyday people who try to harm our comrades. Here are some things you can do as an ally...

Make yourself known as an ally to transgender/GNC people and crossdressers in person. Keep an eye out on their behalf as you share a space. Be prepared to step in to either diffuse the situation or physically defend the targeted person. Take self-defense courses and consider arming yourself*.

TL;DR: Keep fighting the legislative attacks on transgender people, but also be ready to defend our comrades from everyday people on the street!

When I scheduled the consult, I made sure they understood that I needed to discuss costs. I just hope they listen.

I need to be able to prepare for my inevitable financial ruin.

Super simple procedure. They yeet a laser into one eye at a time. No special requirements from me, i'm awake for the whole thing. Downtime is about 2hrs per eye, and it's just blurry. It's a permanent fix, so I won't have to do it again.

Insurance is EXPECTED to cover it entirely but it may not. They're supposed to have a financial/insurance specialist reach out a couple of weeks before the surgeries to discuss that information and options.

Looking over my insurance it's very likely I'm on the hook for 30% of the costs because this isn't listed as one of their 100% covered preventative procedures.

Context: The insides of my eyes are too small, and the fluid can't move around properly. This could result in an acute glaucoma episode if the fluid became trapped, and I could suddenly go blind for life. This is called angle closure glaucoma, and the procedures in question are referred to as LPIs.

so I just got The Call from their finance specialist. Insurance does cover the procedure(s).

It DOES NOT cover the doctor's fee and facility fee. Now, an important piece of context: as it stands, this surgeon does one eye at a time to reduce patient stress and impact. Cause for most people, not being able to see for two hours means you aren't driving. I don't drive, so this is a nonissue.

Per eye, the Dr's fee is $312.55. This fee is due at the time of final confirmation of the surgery, which is typically a week before the procedure.

Also per eye, the facility fee is $250, due at time of operation.

This totals out to $1,125.10. I am scheduled for surgery on June 7th and 9th.

I have enough money to pay my bills and feed myself for the next 2, possibly 3 weeks. I have a work event at the end of the month in which I will be feeding myself via takeout and whatever Free Food I can get my hands on because I will be a state away from home. And then I have surgery.

That amount up there is worst case scenario.

Best case scenario, I get approved to do both eyes at once. This is at the surgeon's discretion, and this adjustment has been requested already, but there's no guarantee.

In this event, I pay for the cost of one and a half eyeballs, or approximately $842. $850 if we want to make it a nice round number.

That's still more than I can actually afford in *any* month.

$468.83 would be due at the time of final confirmation. $375 at time of service.

With how fast this is all happening, I actually can't wait on crowdfunding services like gofundme because their processing times are simply too long for what I have to do. If anyone knows of any with short turn arounds (we're talking like 1-2 business days), please DM me - I want to try to do this in a more organized way if possible. Until then, here we go:

I have to do this, but I need help to afford it. I have the following: Paypal: @SpaceKingChana Venmo: @Space-King-Chanallama Cashapp: $SpaceKingChana

If you're able to help, thank you for guaranteeing my continued sight. But please don't donate beyond your means.

Can't donate? That's okay. Please share this post - get more eyes on it. Something. Anything. Hell, even just tossing me a nice message or a picture of your cat or other best animalian friend would be really cool.

Have other ideas for support? Come talk with me.

Anything over the $1125.10 mentioned above will be put to paying off debt or feeding myself at that work event, assuming I get that far. These usually don't, but I can hope.

If I'm approved for the double eye surgery and the lower amount, I'll be sure to update this post.