phasing out of existence as we speak

here is a list of 10 of the people who have reached out to ask me to share or donate to their campaigns! (additions via reblog will also be in sets of 5 or 10) all of these are vetted and i've included links to the verifications, so don't hesitate to reach out!

i've donated to three of these funds, and strongly encourage anyone who sees this to pick three funds of their own to give to! a lot of these are very low on support, and i can't fund them all alone! please join me in helping these wonderful people survive and take care of their families.

hussein and rehab shamia • post link • campaign link • #46 on gaza vetters • 37k/40k (almost to goal, keep pushing!!)

tasheen alkhazendar • post link • campaign link • verified by northgazaupdates • 13k/25k

eslam and rasmi • post link • campaign link • #308 on the vetted fundraisers list • 10k/50k

eman khader • post link • campaign link • verified in post link • 2k/40k (very low!!)

fidaa • post link • campaign link • verified in post link • 36k/70k

hazem shawish • post link • campaign link • #75 on gaza vetters • 9k/50k

ahmed khalil • post link • campaign link • #77 on gaza vetters • 3k/50k (very low!!)

najah al haila • post link • campaign link • #49 on gaza vetters • 3k/80k (very low!!)

shaima and ibrahim • post link • campaign link • #62 on gaza vetters • 3k/50k (very low!!)

ismail almughanni • post link • campaign link • reblogged by 90-ghost • 780/20k (UNDER 1K!!)

maryam: post link • campaign link • unvetted but protected and quick/brief ris is clean • 2k/20k (!!)

ahmed alanqar: post link • campaign link • #264 on the vetted fundraisers list • 63k/75k

aya almajdoub: post link • campaign link • unvetted but protected and clean ris • 2k/55k (!!)

asil: post link • campaign link • verified by 90-ghost • 40k/50k

Measles, mumps, rubella, and the seasonal--SEASONAL--plagues of water-bourne diseases (polio, cholera, dysentery) that diarrhea you to death killed thousands of children every year. Every fucking year. Vaccines can prevent the first three, can prevent chicken pox/shingles, can prevent, these days, even hepatitis. But there is no vaccine for dysentery, for typhoid, for a surprising number of the Old Plagues, because we eliminated them using a completely different method: Public Health and Sanitation, which kills them at the source.

In 1949, the government actually commissioned Warner Bros' animation department to put together a video explaining to people the importance of paying tax to fund the public health system--and it still explains the basics pretty well:

On the other side of the pond, there's a reason London celebrated Joseph Bazalgette's design and building of the first sanitary sewer. He saved lives.

Sometimes I think Present-Day America's utter squeamishness; and inability to talk seriously about things that have to do with bodies and bodily functions, is actually what is costing us critical health infrastructure. We already cannot get public toilets off the ground in this country bc the minute you mention 'toilet' people lose their fucking minds, and are so uncomfortable with the fact that Everyone Poops that they can't stop babbling jokes, and nothing can get done. But public toilets are a public health issue. People need to piss and shit, and if you don't give them enough places to do it in a safe sanitary way, they will still need to do it and will go and do it in an alley or on a building or what-have-you, and that's a public health issue!

Public Health is so often derided, indeed it's even dismantled because people don't like to acknowledge its worth or just plain never learn about it as anything but a joke. Oregon doesn't have fluoridated water anymore, did you know that? They literally rolled back a public health measure for not goddamn reason other than an acute breakout of hysterical ignorance. If you're out and about in just about any city in this country—and even in Canada and the UK as well—you're still on a Bladder Leash, because there are just about ZERO bathrooms accessible to the public. That's a public health issue!

If you live in NYC, you get the importance of sanitation workers shoved up your nose every time you go outside. They used to have metal trashcans, but that was rolled back and now the bags just pile up on the sidewalks. That's a public health issue!

My small town has inadequate waste collection, meaning trash that doesn't fit the exacting rules and tiny single trash bin piles up in our home. There is no government sanitation, it's outsourced to a private company based out of state. That's ludicrous, and I imagine we aren't the only small town with this public health issue!

Children and adults aren't required to be vaccinated before going to school and work, where they could spread or start epidemics. Children and adults aren't required to mask in public places anymore, even when showing signs of communicable disease. Children an adults aren't required to stay home if showing signs of illness. That's also a fucking public health issue!

Eating out, swimming in public pools, going to water parks, concerts, conventions, parties, theme/amusement parks, theatres, rallies, and parades are all possible to do safely because of public health departments and public health measures. The fact that so many have been dismantled, made voluntary rather than mandated, and generally gutted is genuinely worrying. We have the technology to live without diseases, and to eradicate new ones within months, and the Western world just doesn't, because we fed so many generations the lie that we aren't part of a larger community and have no responsibility to other people.

Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

Using slime molds as a calculator.

We know that there are people who treat paying for sex as something that entitles them to anything they want, that view the people who's services they purchase as the commodity. But to pretend this is inherent to purchasing sex, that this is the relationship that every client has to the transaction, and to using the services of a sex worker, is frankly ignorant. This misconception feeds into the idea that paying for sex can ever be eradicated if we end oppression and ensure no one needs to work to survive, but the reality is there will always be people who want to give something in exchange for sex.

For many it is simply convenience. People want to have sex, paying streamlines things. For plenty paying is an act of submission, that one is *very* common. For some it elevates the person they are having sex with, for someone to be so attractive that you've got to bid for their attention. Some are at a point where they *only* want sex, and paying a proffesional eliminates the risk of the social difficulties and emotional distress that can arise from trying to meet someone for sex in other contexts, a sex worker won't catch feelings. Some people have a great amount of anxiety around sex and feel more comfortable with a proffesional. Some just simply have not been successful seeking sexual relationships. Many ND clients find that the transaction and associated negotiation eliminates the barriers to sex that their nerodivergence poses, social interaction can be very difficult. Some just like offering something extra, paying is to casual sex as cooking a meal is to sex in a relationship, it's nice to do something extra for someone. Some people have specific sexual interests that they struggle to explore otherwise. Some have sexual difficulties that need someone more experienced and knowledgeable to handle. Some *cant* meet people otherwise due to disability that keeps them at home. Some are treated with such contempt by civs that they can't face trying with them anymore. Some feel trapped in unloving and contemptuous, even abusive relationships and just want to feel cared for. Almost all just want some connection.

I remember watching a program about youth hospice care with my mum. There was a 17 year old with cancer and very little time left. His dying wish was to lose his virginity, but he had been too busy dying to get a girlfriend and was too ill to go out and meet someone. So the hospice staff hired a sex worker for him.

And just. How can you see sex work as inherently bad, when cases like that exist? For those who are sexually motivated, sex is deeply fucking important. We can aknowledge that joy in other contexts is important to lead a fulfilled life, sex is no different for those who value it.

anarchists are going to tacitly agree that anarchism could theoretically be reached from a different kind of state better than it could under the current ones;

like Iranian anarchists worked w Official Communist Marxists & then they were all murdered for it as soon as the theofascist clerics asked the Marxists to do that in exchange for some power. Marxists complied because the Soviets ordered them to do that, seeing an opportunity to advance their political aims.

then the Marxists got purged once the clerics cemented power because the clerics didn't have the power, resources, or support to attack the actual far left early on until the Marxists did the dirty work for them.

and it's happened like that many times in many places because statists only care about power

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

Donate if you can, share if you will not! Go Fund Mes have been linked for more information!

It's been a YEAR of genocide, yall. These folks have been going through a year of suffering we can't even comprehend. I don't know where I was going, I just... If you don't donate any other day, at least today.

@nooralanqar - €23,417 raised, €40,000 goal

@aymanbasil2 - €3,433 raised, €15,000 goal

@hazemsuhail - €11,374 raised, €50,000 goal

@shadyfamily - €1,271 raised, €50,000 goal

@motazmohammed - €3,253 raised, €50,000 goal

@ahmedomar3 - €5,812 raised, €50,000 goal

@mohammedayyads-blog - €3,838 raised, €35,000 goal

@ahed-family2 - $4,120 raised, $40,000 goal

@shamraed - €1,528 raised, €35,000 goal

@eman-kha - $3,287 raised, $40,000 goal

@akramaldwaik18 - 0/$25,000 goal ‼️‼️‼️

@olaferwana1 - €9,552 raised, €35,000 goal

@nader-alanqar3333 - €4,693 raised, €50,000 goal

@mahrahpalestine - $19,615 raised, $50,000 goal

A year ago today, on October 7th, 2023, the world finally turned their eyes towards Palestine. And on that day, I wrote a song called City Of Gold. It’s a song about my frustrations with trans people like me feeling like we have no place in the world and a song of solidarity with the people of Palestine as their lives and homes were taken from them.

I’m releasing this song and committing to giving 100% of all of the funds raised with this song to the people of Palestine from now until forever. And a big part of why I am doing this is because of my dear friend, Raja.

When Raja and I first connected, we were strangers with nothing in common - Raja, a Muslim woman in need of help and I, a queer trans woman fortunate enough to be able to. But over the last six months we have shared our lives, our experiences, our grief, and also love, comfort, and tears. She has become my sister and I her's.

Along with donating all of the money made on this song, I am also organizing a Gofundme on her behalf to help her raise enough money to start to rebuild her life.

Raja is an award winning director and filmmaker, and also a wife and mother of two young children. She escaped from Gaza with her family and is now in Cairo thanks to the fundraiser we were able to successfully complete earlier this year. And now, a full year later, we are trying to raise money for Raja and her family to rebuild her life and tell her story.

With over a year of ongoing genocide, her voice and her story are of the utmost importance, now more than ever. And even though she has escaped with her life, she still has not escaped genocide. She still does not have freedom.

None of us are free until all of us are free. Please stand with us, the rejects of heaven. Help us build our place in the world.

Fundraiser for Raja

City of Gold:

Bandcamp and Soundcloud are available today, all other streaming platforms will release on October 14th.

she said her kids DO actually read books all the way through, including classics like the Odyssey, and the reporter just cherry-picked her words to focus on the books the class reads as excerpts only

if i hadn't started looking into being trans, i would have never found out about the intersex community. if i hadn't listened to trans intersex people, i would have not known where to go when it comes to people who were born outside of the biological sex binary. not even my own perisex doctors helped me learn about the terminology and what my conditions meant for my health, safety and well being

if it werent for a community that's regularly looking into and taking hormones for their health, safety and well being, i would've been totally left in the dark. and especially when it comes to how i feel about gender, and how i've had to transition into the concept of gender itself. i never got a chance to establish a gender or figure out what mine actually was as a kid, due to my intersex experience. everyone guessed and gendered me for me

i was a boy one moment, a girl another and a thing, or an "it" the next. i was a bulldyke. i was a tranny. i was a faggot. i was a butch. they tried to "fix" me by forcing me to buy "girl clothes". i was everything but what i wanted to be, or what i felt i was. it was always established by someone else, and i felt powerless to do anything about it, until i found the trans community. here i found a group of people who were also desperately trying to take their identity into their own hands and define it for themselves

it not only informed me of the name of one experience i was having, but it also told me that it was okay that i stopped the estrogen HRT that i was forced to take, and that i wanted to start testosterone instead so i could continue to grow out my beard and experience masculine changes in my body. i found a community of people who also felt disconnected from their voices, their faces, their bodies. i instantly felt like i was among peers

even if i couldn't figure out my gender at first. to me, my body was what needed changing, and that finally lead me to the intersex community. but it was only through the trans community that i personally found this, and found the encouragement to even talk to other intersex people at all. of course there are perisex trans people who have horrible opinions, and will be shitty toward intersex people, but it was imperative for me to discover the trans community as well as the intersex community