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trans women donation masterlist

aka for every transphobe i had to interact with i found a link to help donate to trans women. you can definitely send me more because i bet im gonna need more.

  1. trans women of color collective
  2. black trans woman transition fund (23k of 50k)
  3. help a trans woman escape yemen (3k of 12k)
  4. save the gully queens of jamaica (45k of 100k)
  5. memorial fund for bree black (3k of 10k)
  6. trans woman of color seeking housing (nearly there)
  7. memorial fund for chyna gibson (4k of 15k donated)
  8. black trans woman gender affirmation fund (20k of 45k)
  9. transition fund (2k of 15k)
  10. medical funds (tw: r*pe) (11k of 20k)
  11. poc trans woman transition fund (5k of 35k)
  12. transition fund (6k of 10k)
  13. support trans asylum seekers (usage of queer) (19k of 25k)
  14. major surgery transitional fund (2k of 95k)
  15. medical support (diabetic coma) (13k of 15k)
  16. transitional funds (10k of 25k)
  17. trans pride march (920 of 1.8k)
  18. hrt fundraiser (445 of 3.6k)
  19. reentry fund (help with housing, clothing, etc) (2k of 4k)
  20. transitional surgery (990 of 5k)
  21. transition fund (2k of 50k)
  22. memorial fund for lisa bryk (tw s*icide mention in description) (7k of 20k)
  23. transitional fund (3k of 20k)
  24. bottom surgery fund (2.5k of 5k)
  25. help two trans women get on their feet (160 of 5k)
  26. supports trans women of color in legal system (and reentry) 
  27. help a trans woman escape a bad household (4.5k of 10k)
  28. support a trans woman after being attacked (810 of 2k)
  29. help for medical treatments + better living (545 of 3.5k)
  30. help trans woman pay for car repairs (19.7k of 25k)
  31. trans woman of color transition fund (3.8k of 20k)
  32. incarcerated trans woman college fund (12k of 20k)
  33. donation to flee an ab*sive house before becoming homeless (1.3k of 6k)
  34. vocal surgery fundraiser (1k of 5k)
  35. support to keep a trans woman off the streets (immediately 150 but anything past that helps as well)
  36. gender conformation surgery donation (77.5k of 100k)
  37. help two trans women get conceal and carry permits (50 of 1.5k)
  38. help a black trans woman fight cancer (3.4k of 5k)
  39. the okra project (donates home cooked meals to black trans people) *
  40. help a trans couple pay rent (available until oct 1st)
  41. need help to fix their car so they can go to doctors
  42. general trans woman assistance donation hub
  43. trans woman assistance funds (targeted mainly for supporting sw trans women)
  44. marsha p. johnson institution
  45. black trans donation hub (including supporting black trans femmes in the arts)
  46. the tgip fund
  47. the transgender law center*
  48. help the fight to end violence against all women of color

LAST UPDATED: 10/21

* not trans woman/transfem specific

please tell me if any of these links need updated/replaced/removed/etc

new update!

please reblog this version and tell me if any links need to be fixed. i am happy to edit through these as needed! (and please submit donations if you have them. i update as i get asks + for the spite)

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

theres bad spells that no wizard should ever cast like 'mass tummy ache' and 'inflict ibs' and 'heartburn' and youre absolutely fucked if they take that last one too literally

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Reblog if you're comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone 9n Crab Day (July 29th).
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It’s already happening. Like guys I cannot emphasize this enough the studios are going to make content creators the deal of a lifetime because they have a void to fill and those content creators will then be on the do not work list for the rest of their professional lives.

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There's going to be a LOT of attempts to get people to scab.

...People who scab during a strike don't get to join the union. Ever.

Studios are going to try to claim "hey here's your chance to get a start on this career." They lie. This is a chance to end this career. Sure, they can get a few weeks or months work during the strike. Maybe even have a contract for a year or two, if they're savvy.

And then their career in Hollywood is over. No more work, ever, because they can't join the union and the studios can't hire outside of the union.

Oh, and they'll have trouble getting jobs anywhere else in the entertainment industry, because unions remember who the scabs were.

Girl what the fuck is going on in tumblr offices right now to let the decisions they just dropped be made

To the executive who made the decision and the RND staff that told said exec to make that decision: the only reason you’re winning the race right now is because you’re the tortoise. Don’t be the fucking hare.

“Valley what the fuck are you talking about”

Today, tumblr staff posted a very long announcement on their blog, which you can find here.

It’s a long post that’s pretty hard to read, mostly because the entire thing reads like the writer was held at gunpoint by the zuck himself. (To the poor staff member who had to write this shitshow, I’m so sorry, may you get a raise for your efforts) Here are some of the main points:

  • Tumblr (the company) is concerned about gaining more users from outside sources, such as other social media sites
  • They’re planning on doing this by updating their advertising practices to the industry standard (basically, advertising tumblr the way Meta advertises Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, or the way Twitter advertises itself)
  • They want to change how tumblr looks when you’re not logged in so that more people are convinced to sign up (they didn’t say how, exactly) but that’s not fully fleshed out yet
  • Gave a very interesting statistic that the average tumblr user scrolls though 25 posts a day and did not specify wether or not this is good or bad (most likely because it’s fucking wrong)
  • Plan to improve their “algorithmic ranking capabilities on all feeds” (which I don’t understand fully, but it sure fucking sounds like data mining)
  • Plan to change thread mechanics again, but this time they’re collapsible
  • Plan on putting new creators in the forefront by boosting their visibility on all dashes, and “improving the feedback loop for creators” (which once again I don’t understand fully)
  • Plan on implementing spam filters when posts make rounds
  • There’s a lot more RND on their end about to happen, regarding notifications, emails and staff-to-user communications
  • Want to make emails more personal per creator (??????????)
  • Backend stuff regarding site stability and performance on mobile

TL;DR: Tumblr is attempting to catch up with other social medias by becoming more like Twitter, even though the whole reason they had a massive influx of users recently was because of their lack of invasive, intrusive and vile business practices to sell themself.

Needless to say, people are fucking pissed. A lot of this is the exact opposite of what tumblr users want, and feels like the thing that’ll make this site finally crash and burn alongside the others. Which is terrifying!

So if staff are reading this, I’m gonna repeat my statement: the singular reason your site ended up being refuge in this time of dying socials is because the bar is in hell, and you barely jumped it by not having the bells and whistles that everyone’s tired of. Don’t trip while you’re still ahead.

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This is not at all what they're doing and spreading this panicked information is not helping.

Tumblr is making their dashboard controls open source so that the community has full control over how their dash is curated and can develop tools to customize it how they want. This was announced DAYS ago, but has been getting zero attention compared to people who only want to read everything as bad faith as possible.

Twitter would *never* make a move like this in a million years because keeping their model proprietary is too important to them to the point that they're suing Meta over Threads.

Tumblr are also extremely against data mining and their stance against it has cost them money they could have been making in order to make up for the deficit this site costs Automattic annually. Tumblr Live doesn't even "data mine" like the popular rumor states, because if you check what they collect it's username, age, and IP. The only identifying bit of this is IP, and if you use a VPN it will render that part moot.

I have a longer post about all this that includes my sources if you check the Tumblr Live tag on my blog. Look, I want Tumblr to improve too but the misinformation needs to be dealt with or we are never ever going to be able to give a scrap of useful feedback. Because asking them to stop doing something they're already not doing is flooding out all the actually useful critique.

further points:

  • changing how tumblr looks when you’re not logged in is almost certainly about removing the “oooooops you’re not cleared to see that teehee! better sign up first!” they explicitly mention wanting people to actually see what tumblr is like before deciding to sign up. this is a good thing.
  • the statistic is 25 posts per SESSION not per DAY which is completely normal and expected. i don’t see more than 25 posts most times i open tumblr (unless i’ve been gone for a while) because i don’t get that much new content on my dash OR because i don’t have time for more than that. they did not say it was good or bad that 25 is number, just that the first 25 posts should be good because that’s mostly what people see when they open their dash. and when half of it is your own posts or your mutual all reblogging the same post that makes it not an awesome experience. which is what they’re trying to fix.
  • “algorithmic ranking” just means how well their algorithm uses the data it already has. you interact with x tag a lot so you would probably like more of x tag. tumblr is notoriously horrible about this rn because if you reblog one thing about that and then hop over to the for you tab it’s nothing but that thing. if they were going to mine more data they would be talking about gathering data. “algorithmic ranking” is literally just moving around cells in a spreadsheet of data they already have, there’s no conversation about gathering more data.
  • improving the feedback loop for creators means getting them more reblogs/comment when they post original art/writing/content so they feel like it’s worth it to post to tumblr. which is what creators want.

“tldr”ing this as “tumblr is trying to become like twitter!” is ragebait nonsense. nothing about these changes make it “more like twitter” and i don’t know where you got half the stuff in this post except by willful misreading. i get that the language isn’t familiar to you and that you don’t understand it, which yeah is not great messaging on tumblr’s part and i wondered at them posting it (though super appreciate the EXTREMELY TRANSPARENCY which no other social media site is doing). but please don’t try and speak authoritatively on something you don’t understand, and especially don’t put a tldr that is a completely inaccurate summary of what’s going on.

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seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3

me: *covered in scratch marks* i am still a powerful and respectable wizard, you know

my imp krongus: *doubtfully* yes, my lord

me: i did eventually kill the mouse with a needle for a sword

krongus: it’s just that it was so close, my lord

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Krongus believes that perhaps transforming into your beast form was not the best course of action against this very small mouse

If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing

I need you all to know that I'm thinking about this post on a daily basis. How many people discover their own graves? How many stares at their own mummies? Visit monuments without remembering they built them?

Maybe our souls are meant to forget so we can discover the world one more time, find beauty again in the little things we had become familiar with, learn again how to love the people we knew for years, find peace and inspiration in the things we did in a different life and were once ashamed of.