#good cause

Any help would be appreciated.

Even just spreading the word.

Tumblr, do your thing to help out a good person please.

Just wondered if you'd respond to this ask, to share a little fundraising event i'm taking part in.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/6ymdQqGn>

this is to raise money for Sheffield Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, and Rowan's top surgery fund

we're doing a 24 hour suspension marathon, at least one person suspended in the air by rope for 24 hours straight.

it's starting this Friday 15th

and there is a livestream! the link will be shared in that crowdfunder link

https://www.instagram.com/rope_a_thon?igsh=anFkNW5xODY0dGJn

Sounds delightful AND exciting!

Crowdfunder for Rope-a-thon

Instagram for Rope-a-thon

Sheffield Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre

Rowan's top surgery fund

The event to RSVP on Fetlife (you will have to be known to the organisers or have a reference of someone already attending)

Do you want to own a one-of-a-kind, signed copy of @neil-gaiman's Coraline? Do you also want to help people? (The proceeds go to various things, such as food banks and giving coats to kids in need.)

Well, @linda-from-the-bird-site is having a raffle! Tickets are the price of a fancy coffee, and the edition of Coraline is beautiful--and there is a gorgeous pen to boot!

Check it out!

It’s time to get the brands we support to turn up for people like you and me. With your help, on an ongoing basis, I’ll be reaching out to brands of your choice challenging them to take certain actions for the benefit of us (you, me, others). 

CHALLENGE 1: FEED THE HUNGRY 🍎

Things are tight for a lot of people right now. Join me and share this initiative so that we can activate the power of the crowd to get brands to help people cover their food bill.

The Challenge: I’d like to get food brands to work with registered charities to provide some families with free groceries or meals for at least a month. I’d also like to get my Tumblr community discount codes from these merchants to help lessen your own financial pressures right now. These two things will be mandatory, but brands who participate can also choose to offer some optional perks (see below).

Drop your suggestions: Which food/grocery brands would you like me to reach out to? Which hunger-relief charities or food banks need a win right now?

Leave your brands and charities in the comments. I’ll get to work reaching out to these brands and report back on who steps up. As I challenge these brands, help me succeed by putting the power of the crowd behind me by following and sharing this.

Keep reading to see more details on how this works.

Lord help us I'm back on my bullswim. Fam! It's almost here: the swim that god does NOT want me to swim. I have successfully participated through hurricanes, sharks, covid, and last year frigid temperatures that gave me a case of good old fashioned pneumonia and guess what? I'm still swimming because this event is amazing and every cash dollar goes toward sustaining and maintaining the vibrant queer enclave of Provincetown. "PTown" is the home away from home for tens of thousands of queers each year, and the full-time home of many. Life out there on the tip is hard, but love is powerful, and this swim? Is love.

Here's a tease of the story I wrote & the accompanying gorgeous art by Adrienne Jimenez! My story takes place between the end of XmenTAS & Xmen97. There's a little spice in this one! 🌶

So you might not know this but Cambodia has been through Hell in our/your parents' lifetimes. Around the time of the Vietnam war Cambodia was going through a brutal genocide that killed about 2 million people, 25% of the population. Most surviving Cambodians were and are impoverished. Cambodia has an astonishing amount of orphans and orphanages. Everyone has family members that were murdered.

I went to Cambodia as part of a school history trip to learn about the Khmer Rouge genocide (and the neighboring Vietnam War, which also left Cambodia riddled with American bombs which disabled many Cambodians) and saw the mass graves and the schools that were turned into torture prisons.

But we also saw a lot of hopeful, marvelous work being done, not least of all by Phare Creative Studio, which is a non-profit that teaches Cambodians struggling to find work skills in various art industries and gives them jobs to earn a living. Most well known is their circus, but they also run an animation studio, which mostly makes short films and government health PSAs. It's a beautiful, wonderful cause, especially since the genocide targeted educated people and artists, so skilled workers and Cambodian cultural practices were nearly wiped out. Speaking with their staff and circus performers filled me with so much hope.

They're working on their first feature film and their kickstarter ends in just 4 days! They still need a lot of help to get there, I wish I'd realised they were running the campaign sooner. If you want to create a real difference in the lives of people recovering from genocide, I highly recommend pledging to their campaign. Even a few dollars will help them gain more traction (and for Westerners, because of exchange rates your money in particular will go a long way).

It's a rough time globally and it can be hard to know where to donate your time, money, energy, but I promise you donating to this cause will do marvelous good for people who really need the help.