get down, make love

Been getting a lot of people throwing up Indigenous folks at me like shields to excuse antiblackness and it's like. Knock it off. We both out here going through shit and should be allies. And you- likely not an Indigenous person yourself- are throwing them up as if to say I can't talk about anything because "well what about" yes well you see numerous things happen all at once in this so called life.

I hate it when people do this, and its so disingenuous because like. There's racism towards every ethnicity within every ethnicity. There's a LOT of antiblackness in Native communities, and there's Native targeted racism within Black communities. Neither is acceptable. Some (SOME!) Black people being racist towards Indigenous people doesn't suddenly make antiblackness okay. You cannot base your anti racist ideology on "well I can/should be able to do THIS because there's racism targeting x people in that community" because that's not antiracism and if you do this, you don't actually care about racism. And people using Indigenous people as some kind of "gotcha" do not care about racism. Indigenous people can fucking see what you're doing, and we can tell you don't actually give a shit about us, so don't pretend like you do. And outside of that, Black Americans are Indigenous too!

just as a reminder to all, the real Quileute tribe was not consulted whatsoever on the twilight series and had a lot of their culture just fully lied about & made up, which is not a remotely harmless act. you should donate to fund their cultural preservation and moving of vital centers out of tsunami zones! i try to throw in a few bucks any time i watch any twilight related media.

I wish I could stop asking for help, but after my brother died of starvation, I found my life miserable and I'm living through the worst period of my life. I have no one but you, my friends, to save my sister.

please share and donate!!!

Why am I not receiving any donations to save my sister? Please, everyone, help her.

heartwarming: transfem named mary sue and transmasc named gary stu have had a beautiful nonbinary baby named donut steel

Kinda wild how most people generally recognize that the "too sick to go to school, too sick to watch tv/play games" mindset our parents had was bullshit but still impose essentially the exact same rules on disabled adults and scrutinize them for enjoying low-energy hobbies while being too fatigued or in pain to work a full time job (or any job at all)

pick up that non-fiction book

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

More and more community kitchens in Gaza had to close down because of the relentless bombings by Israel. Please consider increasing your donation to The Sameer Project so they can expand their operation

it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.

this pride month we need to start being kinder to trans people who don’t pass. no matter what the reason is.

sometimes someone is only out online. sometimes someone is newly out. sometimes someone can’t access medical transition. sometimes medical transition isn’t a magical perfect transformation. sometimes the ambiguity of someone’s presentation is the point. many many other reasons why someone might not perfectly pass. respect is deserved regardless

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We often think about genocide on the level of populations, but I want you to understand genocide through the lens of a single person. The occupation has been bombing refugee camps all week and these attacks have been so close to Fadel that debris from shelling have fallen on his family's tent. Imagine your worst trauma repeating over and over and over. This is his life, always at risk of bombing.

Fadel's body is breaking down from lack of adequate treatment and prolonged malnutrition. He is in extreme pain all the time, and experiences constant dizziness and nausea. @fadell-aldany has been fainting from severe anemia. All of these things are the direct result of the occupation: the destruction of food and water systems, the blockade on medicine and sterile surgical equipment, and the attacks on doctors and hospitals. Please help him survive.

My friends, there is no ceasefire (they lied to you and to us). They are constantly bombing us. We miraculously escaped death today because the occupation forces bombed a tent next to ours. Please understand our situation, please h@lp us and d0nate. Our situation is dire

The worse, I am injured and my health is rapidly deteriorating because I cannot afford my surgery. I suffer from frequent fainting spells and cannot afford my medication. Please stand by me and h@lp me buuy my medicine. Please don't ignore me. Please look at what is happening to us.