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Why do I keep losing things? Aka Nothing good has ever come from trying to "just not forget"

(I whipped up a quick comic cause I had a joke on my mind, but I'll be doing a whole graphic on coping with memory issues!)

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.

Help me get home, please! $1,729/10,000 《《 high priority

Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,670/3,500

Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,085/29,000

Shane’s Top Surgery $2,101/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting

Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,372/2,500 《《 needs more contributions

Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $2,986/38,000

Nyne’s top surgery $2,943/8,000

Help Grayson start transition $1,201/2,000 《《 keep this going!

Skyler’s Transition Fund €458/3,000 《《 needs more contributions

Londynn’s New Life $8,828/15,000

NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,770/37,000

Zoeys transition fund £4,224/10,000

Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $16,397/100,000

Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,817/11,000 《《 this one needs a boost

Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $3,430/15,000

Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $1,987/35,744 《《 needs more contributions

Help Create Corbyn $1,943/4,000

Flora’s Transition Fund $800/5,000 《《 needs more contributions

Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,437/5,000

Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,070/7,500

Atticus’ homeless fund $5,598/10,000

HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $7,553/60,000

Ahren’s Top Surgery $3,961/7,500

Malakai’s Top Surgery $1,119/10,000 《《 needs more contributions

Top Surgery $7,675/8,000 《《 so close; let’s close the gap!

Phoenix gotta move! $987/45,000 《《 needs more contributions

Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,140/35,000

Jacobs top surgery $6,870/8,000

Skye’s Top Surgery $2,037/8,500

Hunter’s Top Surgery $4,805/12,000 《《 time sensitive, get this funded before September!

Alexandria’s Transition fund $3,562/40,000

Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,980/8,450

Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $4,469/9,000

help koo start a new life $1,154/25,000 《《 needs more contributions

Landon’s Top Surgery! $950/2,000 《《 it’s a small goal, but so vital to covering what insurance doesn’t

Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $1,992/6,000

Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $14,588/15,000 《《 so close! Let’s close the final gap

Travis’ Transition Fund $15,435/30,000

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $2,672/8,500 《《 NEEDS FUNDING BEFORE AUGUST 4TH

Tyler’s Transition Fund $13,285/30,000

Clarabelle’s Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,637/20,000

help deluca get top surgery ! $4,907/7,000

Help Black Trans Woman Transition $18,495/20,700

Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $8,642/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled

Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $21,826/25,000 《《 keep the momentum going

Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,676/20,000

Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,069/15,000

Malikais Top Surgery $4,097/7,500

Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,960/7,000

Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,514/25,000

Transition Funds for Dallas $6,790/15,000

Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $6,606/8,000 《《 let’s get this goal met asap

Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,329/40,000

Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $11,155/13,000

Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $14,859/20,000 《《 more than halfway; keep it going

SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $4,520/25,000

Cody’s Top Surgery $2,628/7,000

Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,820/6,000

Help Erika Begin Her Transition $4,433/10,000

I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.

Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.

This one has an urgent deadline, August 4th ⬇️

https://gf.me/u/x8y8ak

My point wasn’t that Boyboss would be hot, or empowering, or a himbo. Like, I’m sure he would be, but that’s not the takeaway I’m going for here. My point was that it’s disturbing and bad how many FEMALE characters are written this way. FEMALE objectification. I’m sick of seeing my action movies—a personal favorite genre of mine—represent my entire gender as sexy, badass, and nothing else. Here’s what Joss Whedon said during Black Widow’s introductory scene in The Avengers:

“This is my entire career in one scene: Look, she’s helpless! No, she’s kicking their asses!”

SF Loves Tango:  You co-host an annual Women’s Tango Retreat. Can you discuss your motivation for creating events for women only?

Sharna: Looking back, I think it was my very early experiences with social tango that set the stage for my work with women. I was only 22 years old when I started, and I had that familiar experience that gets discussed a lot now on tango blogs, where the young beginner gals get asked to dance constantly by all the men while the more skilled and more mature women sit and watch. The community was quite small in 1997, so I felt this phenomenon very acutely, and I saw that it isolated me from the other women, and the whole situation really bothered me. I also was not at all comfortable with the attention I was getting simply for being young and female, but I didn’t know what to do about it. All I remember, now, is that it was extremely stressful to navigate that territory, and it was interfering with my creative enjoyment of the dancing.

I might have dropped out, eventually, but then I had the great fortune to study with a series of teachers who advocated the dancing of both roles (Daniel Trenner, Brigitta Winkler, Nil Disco and Esse Dijks). In particular, seeing women dance together was mind-altering for me. I had studied contemporary dance in college and so, in that moment, it just sort of clicked in my head that tango was another form of Dance, with a capital D, and suddenly it seemed like the most natural thing in the world for me to learn both parts and to be able to dance with anyone, just as a contemporary dancer can perform a duet with anyone, change position, or learn someone else’s part.

This re-orientation toward tango roles immediately connected me with other women in the community, because I could dance with them, and my doing that diminished a lot of the competitiveness that had been there before. That, I actually found kind of revelatory, and the women that I practiced leading with became my closest friends.

button-ups, high-waisted jeans, and Docs. You literally can’t go wrong.

it’s perfect. you can dress it up or down. it’s flattering on any body type. it’s the perfect amount of androgynous, and it even has Femme and Masc variants:

My point wasn’t that Boyboss would be hot, or empowering, or a himbo. Like, I’m sure he would be, but that’s not the takeaway I’m going for here. My point was that it’s disturbing and bad how many FEMALE characters are written this way. FEMALE objectification. I’m sick of seeing my action movies—a personal favorite genre of mine—represent my entire gender as sexy, badass, and nothing else. Here’s what Joss Whedon said during Black Widow’s introductory scene in The Avengers:

“This is my entire career in one scene: Look, she’s helpless! No, she’s kicking their asses!”

redraw! 

💫 make me choose! 🦋