Fare ye well, hope; I scarcely knew thee.

Here are some places to donate to:

-The American Indian College Fund: https://collegefund.org/

-Association on American Indian Affairs: https://www.indian-affairs.org/

-Native American Heritage Association: https://www.naha-inc.org/

-Native American Rights Fund: https://www.narf.org/

-National Indian Child Care Association: https://www.nicca.us/

-Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA: https://mmiwusa.org/

-Partnership With Native Americans: http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer…

-Indigenous Literacy Foundation: https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/

-Indian Law Resource Center: https://indianlaw.org/

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

WE DON'T HAVE SMOG DAYS IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE UNLESS THERE'S A FIRE AND IT'S BECAUSE OF CARB STANDARDS.

LITERALLY MILLIONS OF FUCKING PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY IN 2020 AND YOU CAN SAY "NOTHING HAPPENED" ALL YOU WANT BUT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT NOW IS FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN THEY DID AFTER RODNEY KING AND NOW PEOPLE WILL STOP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GOING 'NOT MY BUSINESS'

The other night I was watching whatever random thing on YouTube, and I got yet more of the constant ads that irritate the fuck out of me. But this one was for an HIV maintenance medication. It was a long ad, probably 60 seconds, and so help me, I watched the whole thing. It talked about this drug (forgive me, I can’t remember the name) that would let you live a happy and fulfilling life (while mentioning that of course safe sex is important). And it showed queer couples, straight couples (to break the stereotype), people who looked single and happy, different races and genders and presentations and body sizes, going out to lunch or cuddling on a couch or going out for a date, whatever it was the scene was implying. Bright colors, soothing optimistic music and voiceover, physical affection including kissing—you couldn’t even tell who among the actor couples was or wasn’t portraying an HIV patient. It blew my fucking mind to just see a whole minute of this between ads for Pizza Hut and car insurance. I’m not even sure anyone would have shown a gay couple kissing, full stop, on TV in 1990. And this ad was just out here like, if you’ve contracted this illness, there’s help for it, and you can live a good happy life among your loved ones. But also, you deserve to have that happiness, out in the open, and there will be people who love you, unafraid. Even if, and especially if, you’re gay. This is a world where this is possible. Like I’m honestly tearing up right now. I could not have imagined this in 1990. I could not.

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Hey so listen, I've been using WiFi and apps to text/call since like 2020 when I stopped being able to work because, as mentioned, I'm disabled and me and my gf are already struggling.

BUT recently found an Incredibly cheap way to get me a phone line that we could probably squeeze into our budget HOWEVER, switching to the service would cost exactly $119.

This would allow me to use Signal, the end to end encrypted messaging app since it requires a phone number to use it

And Signal is about to become Very Important for me to have as a leftist queer native who's privacy and actions are about to be hyper surveilled under Trump even in a blue state.

Pls help me get a phone line ~~