Wallflower Writing

A lot of the lists on tumblr have been circulating all week and some of the organizations have taken in as much as they can use with the size/scope of their mission. I signed up to the excellent Reclaim the Block and they just posted this list on their facebook.

Black Table Arts -  Gathering Black communities through the arts, towards better black futures.

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha - CTUL is a worker-led organization where workers organize, educate and empower each other to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities.

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund - Du Nord Craft Spirits is a Black-owned distillery with a building that was damaged. They’ve “received a tidal wave of love and support from across the nation and many have asked how they can help… Therefore, Du Nord is establishing this fund to support black and brown companies affected by the riots.”

Little Earth Residents Association - Food and safety needs for residents of Little Earth of United Tribes.

Migizi Communications - MIGIZI Communications advances a message of success, well-being and justice for the American Indian community. Support them rebuilding after fire.

Minnesota Healing Justice Network - We provide a supportive professional community and mutual aid network for wellness and healing justice practitioners who also identify as IBPOC (indigenous, black, or people of color).

Northside business support - support businesses on Minneapolis’s Northside that have been impacted by recent demonstrations.

Pimento Relief Fund - We’re partnering with Pimento to provide black business without insurance relief after white supremacists set them on fire during the protests. 

Powwow Grounds - send via paypal to [email protected] - Native-run cafe, currently providing meals to elders, protectors and community, purchasing medical supplies, fire supplies, cooking supplies. 

Southside Harm Reduction- Southside Harm Reduction Services works within a harm reduction framework to promote the human rights to health, safety, autonomy, and agency among people who use substances. 

Spiral Collective - A volunteer full-spectrum reproductive options and support group comprised of doulas, birth-workers, and passionate reproductive justice advocates. based in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, occupied Dakhóta territories.

Women for Political Change - Holistically investing in the leadership and political power of young women and trans & non-binary individuals throughout Minnesota.

Helping a friend again! She needs $250 for her phone bill!

Cash.app/$ccthmas

Credit @/furbyrose on Twitter

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

Cash.me/$yahyascholfield

PayPal.me/marsinaries

Very nervous about making this post. This has been a long time coming, but to actually have it happen feels rlly scary. "feel the fear and do it anyway" I suppose?

One of my best friends is organising this fundraiser for me. The details can be found in the link but the gist is:

My name’s River, I'm a muslim lesbian in the middle east, I'm physically disabled, parents are extremely abusive+controlling, and I'm being made to marry a man later this year. I don't have money, nor can I make any, and I need to escape this household and country before then so that I can start a safer, better life insha'allah.

Please donate and reblog this post, and thank you to everyone that chooses to help💖

Thank you so so much for helping me reach the prev goal. We've updated the goal and I'm pasting the updated info from gfm below:

We’re stunned and so incredibly thankful for helping us reach the goal we set in such a short amount of time. Thank you so much for your kindness!

River didn’t expect his post to gain this kind of traction and has now updated the goal to better reflect the reality of living while disabled. While it truthfully won’t be enough in the long run, it will definitely be lifesaving.

We’re so grateful for your help and hope for your continued support. Thank you ♡

Please donate and share this post. Thank you so much to everyone again ❤️

We live in a hyper-sexual culture bombared by objectifying pictures of women everywhere. It affects us all in ways we might not even have noticed.

It's good to take your time to think about other options and what your own true feelings are.

Reminders that:

You can want only meaningful sex.

You are not obligated to make your boundaries "fun" for anyone.

People who call you a prude are people who want to pressure and manipulate you; they are the last people you should listen or trust.

Sex is never an obligation, a right or a performance.

Sex should't hurt, feel like a duty, or leave you feeling dirty, used or humiliated.

You can always say no to sex for any reason, or for no reason at all.

Homosexual desire and love are good. Not only harmless, but good. Our lived lives, our relationships, our love, and our families throughout history are proof of that.

Female homosexuality is not caused by trauma; a Lesbian doesn't need to justify her existence. Lesbian existence is not a fault or tragedy.

Romantic love between people of same sex is natural. It's fulfilling, deep, committed and worthwhile.

Sexual love between people of same sex is natural. It's healthy, normal and fulfilling.

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.

Wait, actually, yes DO send me some money. 10/9 I'm my family's sole provider, so when I get money from here nearly all of it goes to my parents/rent/bills, the works. I'm a nonbinary Black lesbian living in the south, I'm disabled, and I'd really like some help. Or, better yet, I'd like to be paid for all the things I do on Tumblr, the playlists and moodboards and the writing I post, as well as my educational posts.

Thanks if you can give!

Paypal.me/marsinaries

Venmo.com/fluoresensitive

If you want to help please donate to me at at Paypal.me/MS821 so i can send money to their dad to help with things

Ken was an amazing partner and friend and a beautiful traditional ojibwe artist their art is still up if you want to look at it on their blog

harold, they’re lesbians

people are gay, steven 

i’m a lesbian, carl 

don’t be a transphobe, chad 

we support the gays, david