DIRECTORY OF CRIMINAL SYSTEM BAIL FUNDS

National organizations funding bail across the U.S.

Local organizations funding bail for immigrants

Arizona Tucson Second Chance Bail Fund Colorado Colorado Freedom Fund California Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund Immigrant Families Defense Fund The Orange County Justice Fund Connecticut Connecticut Bail Fund Immigrant Bail Fund Florida LGBTQ Freedom Fund Hawaii Hawaii Community Bail Fund Illinois Champaign County Bailout Coalition Chicago Community Bond Fund Iowa Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project Kentucky Louisville Community Bail Fund Louisiana New Orleans Safety & Freedom Fund YWCA Greater Baton Rouge Community Bail Fund Massachusetts Massachusetts Bail Fund Minnesota Minnesota Freedom Fund Nebraska Omaha Freedom Fund Nevada Vegas Freedom Fund New York City Bronx Freedom Fund Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Lorena Borjas Community Fund WSLS Bail Fund New York State Columbia County Bail Fund EOC of Suffolk Inc. Charitable Bail Fund OAR of Tompkins County Bail Fund Syracuse Jail Ministry North Carolina Southern Coalition for Social Justice Bail Fund Alamance County Community Bail Fund North Carolina Community Bail Fund of Durham Oregon Portland Freedom Fund Pennsylvania Dauphin County Bail Fund Philadelphia Community Bail Fund Philadelphia Bail Fund Tennessee Hamilton County Community Bail Fund Memphis Community Bail Fund Nashville Community Bail Fund Texas Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee Fianza Fund Community Bail Fund of North Texas Virginia Richmond Community Bail Fund Roanoke Community Bail Fund Charlottesville Community Resilience Fund Washington Northwest Community Bail Fund Wisconsin Free the 350 Bail Fund

DIRECTORY OF IMMIGRATION BOND FUNDS National organizations across the U.S.

Arizona Pima Monthly Meeting Immigration Bond Fund California Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund Immigrant Families Defense Fund Orange County Justice Fund San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium – Borderlands Get Free Fund Colorado Immigrant Freedom Fund of Colorado Connecticut Immigrant Bail Fund Iowa Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project Massachusetts Beyond Bail & Legal Defense Fund Michigan Kent County Immigration Bond for Our Neighbor’s Defense Fund Minnesota Minnesota Freedom Fund New Hampshire NH Conference UCC Immigrant and Refugee Support Group New York LIFE Bond Fund (New Sanctuary Coalition)New York Immigrant Freedom Fund Ohio (includes Northern Kentucky) 3R Fund for Immigrants Texas Fronterizo Fianza Fund Hutto Community Deportation Defense & Bond Fund RAICES Texas Bond Fund Vermont Vermont Freedom Bail Fund  Virginia Cville Immigrant Bond Fund Washington Fair Fight Immigrant Bond Fund

david jay, the cishet gentleman who made the asexual pride flag is a homophobe and pervert but i don’t see anybody leaving yall out of pride. hes never apologized for his actions, whereas miss emily gwen (creator of the lesbian flag) is literally not even involved in ace discourse. i understand that you all hate dykes but yall could stand to be a bit less blatant about it

Cishet ace/aro worries: What if I go to Pride and someone says I don’t belong? Why can’t I call myself queer? Why didn’t the Supreme Court mention aces and aros in their queer employment case even though aces/aros don’t face employment discrimination?

Actual LGBT worries: Can I prove my job reduced my hours because I’m trans? Did that apartment reject our application because we’re a gay couple? Will I be harassed traveling to another country because my passport still has my sex assigned at birth? If I hold hands with my partner in public will we be assaulted or have slurs yelled at us? Will people accuse me of making them uncomfortable just by using the same changing room as them? Will my healthcare needs be covered?

asexual positivity post

asexuality is a valid identity ✔️

asexuals aren’t broken or incapable of love ✔️

asexuality should be more widely represented in media and education ✔️

lots of asexual people find comfort in finding a label that fits them and that means they aren’t alone in their experiences ✔️

nobody should ever be pressured to have sex ✔️

asexuals face a lot of difficulties ✔️

all of this somehow makes asexuals LGBT ❌

honestly realizing im a lesbian did wonders to my self esteem??? like. ive always liked Girls, and ive always known that, but coming to terms w/ the fact that i like girls exclusively took off so much of the pressure that i had on myself? when i was like “hey its ok to be a lesbian” it was like a switch went off and a billion things felt right and fell into place and i suddenly like myself a whole lot more than i did before

listening to girl in red with headphones as loud as you can in the middle of the night, feeling content inside, that you’ve found who you are

that’s a good feeling

can we kiss,,, and have the whole world melt away,,,, just us alone

I want to make it clear: I am not a person of color, so please, if I am in anyway being insensitive or unhelpful in my support, please feel free to educate and correct me. and that’s all I’ll say on that, bc this is not abt me.

then you hug me and i hug you and you hug me tighter and i hug you tighter and i’m just thinking i never want to let go

the idea that anyone who approaches sex in an unconventional way (asexuals, kinky people) is LGBT is a direct product of the perception of gay sex as deviant and strange

reblog with your zodiac sign and if you love thunderstorms or not

sagittarius, yes

full offense but cis people dont get to call us shemales and trannies and femboys and traps and “its”, and campaign to “drop the T” in LGBT and deprive trans people of resources and beat the shit out of us in bathrooms and make fun of us for having “baby faces” and strip us of our rights and murder us for being trans and joke about how we “identify as an apache attack helicopter”, only to turn around and call themselves “allies” when they police OUR identities, just because they call themselves “cis transmeds”! i cant!! im not fucking allowing it!!!

cis people i implore you to rb this

Cis people better reblog this

*therapist voice* you are stupid and gay

sirens wouldn’t work on lesbians bc they’d be serenading us and we’d be like ‘oh she just means it as a friend! she’s being nice :)’

y’all remember being 15? That was fucked up

I think if someone said “I adore you” to me I’d enter another plane of existence

http://chng.it/2TrMRPgFjS

We need to do more than sign a petition. Don't shut up about this.

I would argue that we are at “organize and occupy your local ICE detention center” and “demand that the companies supplying this chemical immediately cease to do so” level. We cannot let this progress any further.

not that my input really matters, but i don’t know much of lgbt history other than bits and pieces of stonewall, a little bit of the aids crisis, and the legalization of gay marriage; i’m an actual child and nobody here (kentucky) educates anyone/gets educated on it

how about instead of shaming people—especially young people—for not knowing our history, we provide them with credible resources?

here’s a long list of LGBT+ historical events worth googling and learning about. i’m not sure if all the dates and details are spot on, but, again, this is really just a guide for what to research on your own. to warn you, a lot of this history is ugly, including things like the conflation of pedophilia and LGBT+ people, genital mutilation, homophobia, transphobia, nazis, and wide scale persecution.

Free Resources:

an interactive timeline of LGBT+ world history

The 1950s and the Roots of LGBT Politics (American-centric)

Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (warning: this documentary was made in the 80s and is dated in a lot of respects as a result; it also features quotes from Allen Ginsberg, who we now know was a pedophile, but it’s still very informative in terms of history)

a brief history of the bisexual movement from the 1960s-early 2000s (American-centric)

Bisexual.org has a TON of resources on bi (and often pan) history, historical figures, research, and media

“Here’s A History Of Bisexuality, From Ancient Egypt To Stonewall”

a brief timeline of trans history, beginning in the 1890s (European and American-centric)

“Gender Variance Around the World Over Time”

Some Purchasable Resources:

(most of these can be bought used online for pretty cheap and some can be found in libraries)

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context by Vern L Bullough (it’s a bit dated, but still informative)

A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by R. Parkinson

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections) by Leila J. Rupp

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) by A.B. Christa Schwarz

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal Ortiz

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill