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her family’s gofundme!!

GFM unjustly terminated Fidaa's @fidaa-family2 campaign and she lost all of the funds she'd raised so far to help evacuate her family. She has to start all over with a new campaign.

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The bombing, death, hunger, and displacement do not stop for a single moment. What has actually stopped is the world's interest, questions, and follow-up. We do not know if they have grown tired of us and become accustomed to our tragedy, or if the media has deceived them and contributed to misleading them!

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I am trying so hard not to fall apart, but I am scared. Truly scared. In just 4 days, we need to raise $658 for the medication my mother and father depend on. Every night I lie awake thinking about them, wondering what will happen if we cannot get the treatment they need in time.💔

My parents are growing older, and their health is fragile. When I look at them, I don’t see numbers or fundraising goals . I see the two people who gave me everything they had. The people who stayed awake when I was sick, who sacrificed their comfort for mine, who loved me unconditionally every day of my life. Now they need help, and I feel helpless watching them wait for medication that I cannot afford.😔💔

I am not asking for luxury, comfort, or anything extra. I am only asking for a chance to protect my mother and father. A chance to keep them safe. A chance to hear their voices, see their smiles, and have more time with them.

Please, if you can spare even a few dollars, help us. If enough people give a little, we can reach this goal together. We have only 4 days left, and every donation could make a real difference in my parents’ lives. From a child who is terrified of losing the people they love most, thank you for reading, sharing, and caring.🙏😔

Current process: USD 16,407 / $17,065

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it being introduced alongside botox and fillers and multiple of their clinics suddenly saying that they won't perform abortions on anyone above a certain BMI even though it's against their own internal standards

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

because we use the word "gender" to discuss both "intrinsic gender" as I termed it above, and subconscious sex, there's been a certain strain of argument from some trans people that says that medical transition reaffirms societal gender norms about bodies, and that bodily dysphoria must only result from externally imposed norms about what kind of body corresponds to what gender, and thus it would just go away if the gendered associations were unlearned

I'm strongly of the opinion, though, that our bodies are not like clothes! gender dysphoria related to clothing would generally have to do with one's intrinsic gender clashing with the gendered norms of their culture surrounding clothes, but I believe "gender" dysphoria related to the body itself is really, in large part, subconscious sex dysphoria, and this component cannot be alleviated by changing norms or associations. I strongly believe I would still seek HRT and bottom surgery if I lived my whole life in a cultureless vacuum

“Performativity has to do with repetition, very often the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.” - Kotz, Liz;Butler, Judith, “The Body You Want: Liz Kotz Interviews Judith Butler”, in: Artforum 31/3, 1992, p. 82 - 89, p. 84.

your romantic partner has needs that need to be met and will sometimes need you to do things they cant, this is not wrong or weird and it doesn't automatically make them an Evil Manipulative Abuser or whatever. I feel like the culture I was raised in treats willingly caring for people you care about as dangerously codependent or infantilizing or shameful/embarrassing