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i’ve never really made one of these before and i might delete this getting too nervous, but i’m about to start my first year of college and i’ll be moving to another country to do so, which is both really exciting and really nervewracking.

between tuition, moving expenses, supplies, and just generally preparing for such a huge life change, things have been pretty expensive lately. i’m going to be on my own for the first time and i won’t be able to get a job, and while i’ll figure things out, a little extra support would definitely make the transition easier.

it’s also my birthday today, so i thought i’d put this out there: if you’d like to help make my day and support me a little as i start this new chapter of my life, i’d really appreciate it ❤️

if you can donate, thank you so much, and if you can’t, reblogs/shares are always appreciated too. no pressure at all i know everyone has their own things going on.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

many unexpected things happened this month (urgent private healthcare costs, last minute changes to travel plan) and now i'm like -500 in overdraft and i'm not gonna have enough for even my rent and bills let alone my groceries when i get paid

i'm setting the goal to £1000 but i'd be happy if my balance is at 0 at this point, anything will help 🩷

£0/£1000

Did you know that its origins have many roots in various socialist and communist parties?

In 1908, women workers in New York marched through the city’s lower east side protesting the inhumane working conditions and child labor, demanding women’s suffrage. [1]

Theresa Malkei, a vocal advocate for women’s rights who argued that true equality for all people would only come through socialism, later proposed in the following year the first National Women’s Day. [2]

Clara Zetkin was often at odds with the rest of the feminists as she saw that class was the greatest injustice and believed it to be the root cause of their oppression as the emancipation of women could only come with the emancipation of labor from capital. She was a German marxist theorist and a fierce advocate for women’s rights. At the International Socialist Women Conference in Copenhagen 1910, she suggested an international holiday that would recognize the fight for women’s rights. It was agreed upon by the other delegates and over a million people celebrated International Women’s Day for the first time on March 19 1991. [3] [4]

International Women’s Day had no set date for a while but was often celebrated in late February or early March. [5]

1917 was the year that International Women’s Day gained great significance and contributes to how we celebrate it on the 8th of March today. As men took to the battlefield during the First World War, women took more and more roles in the workforce. Close to one million russian women worked in the cities yet were paid substantially less and suffered from poor living conditions. News began to spread of rationing, and soon after it was officially announced, bakeries were sacked and broken into in a panic.

On March 8th on the Gregorian calendar (February 23rd on the Julian calendar used in russia), women textile workers in Petrograd held a mass strike called the “Bread and Peace” strike. They marched down to the men in the metal works, encouraging them to join them. Nearly 100,000 workers went on strike that day. The next day it increased to 150,000. The military grew reluctant to fire upon the crowd and eventually joined in. On March 19th 1917, women in russia gained the right to vote.

5 years later, Vladimir Lenin officially designated March 8th to be women’s day in honor of their role in the revolution. A few years later it was officially declared a national holiday in the Soviet Union. [5] [6] [7]

The holiday was predominantly celebrated by communist countries and movements following the Soviet Union adoption. Following the founding of the People’s Republic of China, March 8th was declared an official holiday with women given a half-day off. [8]

In 1965, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet declared International Women’s Day to be a non-working day in commemoration of their hard-work and outstanding merit. [9]

It was not until 1975 that the United Nations recognized the holiday and its members only officially recognized it in 1977.

What do writers suffer from each spring?

this is a healthy way to live surely :D this new fren will be different, so surely I just gotta lock in and not think about this loop :3

Im fine

cuz like, finding new frens cuz Im alone, will again just repeat the cycle, so should I continue the cycle? should I find new frens again? should I stop and do smth different MID the cycle? should I not start the cycle alone?

it was dumn to move to even think like this on a stressful day since I'm moving

I guess I'm using this as my "diary" even tho it's public (nobody will read this anways)

this is a healthy way to live surely :D this new fren will be different, so surely I just gotta lock in and not think about this loop :3

Im fine

cuz like, finding new frens cuz Im alone, will again just repeat the cycle, so should I continue the cycle? should I find new frens again? should I stop and do smth different MID the cycle? should I not start the cycle alone?