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Time for a repost.

theyre FRIENDS

Feel free to put in the tags what you pick and what your fav is :)

Would you mind if I sat down next to you? Please! I’m begging you don’t look away, I need help! Please reblog

The city says 132 out of the 216 people who died were residents of homeless shelters.

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN ANY AMOUNT WILL HELP Please If anyone can spare just a couple dollars so I can go inside a coffee shop and warm up at night !PLEASE HELP ME! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you see this please REBLOG it, I am desperate. I’m relying on the REBLOG’S spreading the word to get a donation each day to survive.

A total of 216 people experiencing homelessness died in Toronto last year, according to new data from the city.

Figures released on Friday by Toronto Public Health (TPH) indicate that there was an average of 4.2 deaths per week of unhoused people last year.

The city says the number of deaths in 2021 rose significantly from 2020. Seventy-two more people died last year than in the previous year, when 144 unhoused people died. The number of deaths has more than doubled since 2017 — the first year that the city collected such statistics — when 101 people died.

Reblog this. That’s not a request.

My home country is under attack.

Afghanistan is under attack and the Taliban has taken full control of Kabul, Afghanistan’s Capital.

The United States has been at war with Afghanistan for twenty (20) years, subsequently killing hundreds of thousands of innocents, including children.

The US withdrew from war with no peace agreement to stop the fighting in Afghanistan, and now Afghanistan can and most likely will become a Taliban-run country. And no one is saving the innocents.

I don’t really think people understand what this devastation has to do with them, so please read this. (Credit: @.criticalanalysisuk on IG)

Please #SaveAfghanistan. The world is staying silent to this genocide of innocents. Spread the word, reboot, and please donate.

Send letters to your local government officials, try to help my country before it becomes a thing of the past.

Afghanistan is a beautiful country, rich in natural minerals. It was so innocent, and does not deserve this.

Help us. Help the people in #Afghanistan be heard when they do not have a voice. #SaveAfghanistan

(unrelated tags in the tag section are for reach. i don’t care if i disturb your meme fest, this is important)

you guys i’m so fucking scared

the pandemic is absolutely thriving in south asia. i’m not kidding. you might think the US is bad, but the situation in countries like india (which literally surpassed the US for the world’d highest single-day increase in cases) and nepal (which has seen a huge spike in cases recently) is genuinely reached horrible new highs. i have most of my extended family living in nepal, and they can’t go to the hospital for non-covid related issues. there’s barely any social distancing, around 250,000 people are homeless and have no access to proper sanitary resources, and everyone is terrified due to multiple conspiracies about the disease that are spreading like wildfire. the government is incompetent and has barely done anything to help people, and desperation is spreading. india is a bigger country with more resources, and is also suffering, but people in nepal, particularly the ones who live in slums or villages, are prime targets for the virus and will receive absolutely nothing from the government. if you are able, please donate to this fund to support children, particularly orphans, who have been left vulnerable by the effects of the pandemic in nepal. they need your help.

Here is a list of more fundraisers supporting India’s most vulnerable during the pandemic

(I am currently looking for fundraisers in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and other places in South Asia and will update when I find them)

You can donate care packages to Rohingya Refugees, as well as Pakistan, India, Yemen, Palestine, Somalia and Sri Lanka’s most vulnerable here, through the Canada-based non-profit the IDRF.

Donations towards emergency food, PPE and medical supplies as well as support for Bangledeshi farmers can be directed here, through the non-profit Give2Asia.

Here is a minor relief fund organized by the Nepal-based organization the FCSN on GoFundMe: they’re looking for funds to feed migrant workers looking for a meal, and haven’t yet met their goal.

I’m gonna start a blog where I post nothing but this every hour of every day.

I’ll never not reblog this

Just spreading the news

Okay but….

They’re not wrong…

-fae

the french senate has voted so that no girl below the age of 18 can wear hijab or niqab in public and that no hijab-wearing muslim mothers can accompany children on school field trips. furthermore, the french government is moving to ban halal slaughter of poultry by july 2021 on the grounds this method of slaughter has been deemed “less humane” than standard french practice.

primarily white “feminists” who otherwise advocate for the bodily autonomy have either been silent or explicitly supported the first piece of legislation. here is a change.org petition created to oppose the hijab/niqab ban. as a reminder, when you go to sign, do not select the option to donate: none of the funds go to the cause. when you’re signing, use numbers from 75001 to 75021 (french zip codes) because international/fake zip codes will invalidate your signature (via zhongsliang on twitter).

i’ll be adding more information/links as i get them so please check the original post for the latest updates!

edit 1:  if you’re using one of the above zipcodes, enter paris when prompted for your city (via varonasdarling on twitter).

tumblr radicals are so fucking detrimental to actual feminism honestly

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MY WHOLE LIFE

….don’t hate me for reblogging this…

There is no lie here.  

And if anyone hates you for reblogging this, it just means it’s right.

I have no issue with dropping people who can’t grasp this

Feminism is really good but super radical tumblr feminism is gross, counterproductive, and hateful

Ya gotta love everyone guys, just love everyone equally and you’re doing it right

I hit the reblog button pretty fast.

feminism: yeah!

super radical feminism: unyeah

Feminism: Women deserve to be on the same level as men because we are all human beings and should be treated as such

Radical Feminism: All men should die, cis people are bad, white people are evil, and women are better than men.

Me: So real feminism? Amazing. Radical feminism? FUCK NO

feminism : SUPER COOL

radical feminism : 

Boutta say smthn mean but afabs makin posts about how they don’t read theory or literature or engage with reading complex topics cuz “it’s all just common sense to care about people” is absolutely tied directly to the way that they then get indoctrinated by TERFs by like. hatereading 1 fucking radfem blog for too long. because TERFs have done their research and have their sources and statistics and their journals and their historic documents on hand (partly because trans people are an entire category of humans simply living our lives while TERFs are a specific culty fascist political hate group with a specific set of goals and beliefs, so you might follow 20 trans people and see very little in the way of loud trans rights activism because we simply don’t devote our entire life to fighting for our rights whereas a TERF blog is going to be devoted fulltime to the political stances of trans exclusionary radical feminism, and even cryptos will have the dog whistles EVERYWHERE if you are educated enough to catch them), and it’s all hateful skewed bullshit meant to manipulate people into furthering the marginalization of a vulnerable oppressed group, but it’s unironically the first actual theory on privilege and oppression that 75% of these people have read and they have not actually put tangible thought into the oppression that trans people face so suddenly that radfem article about The Scientific Proof Of Sex Based Oppression, Medical Transition As A Tool For Misogyny, And How Trans Women Are Behind It All sounds real impressive.

The reality is that a lot of people end up in this area of the internet where being a leftist is like, the default and they have this weird mindset that’s like “I don’t need to engage in in-depth conversations or critically analyze myself or research statistics or read about experiences that arent my own because of COURSE I support minorities!” but the thing is, when a group of people are actively being marginalized and oppressed supporting them is not some easy neutral default. There is going to be opposition from every side and the scary thing with TERFs in particular is that, unlike the open cruelty of conservative republican types that make it EASY to disagree with them, most TERFs also wrap up their language in leftist rhetoric so they are very good at breaking down walls you’ve built by using the same rhetoric as you and finding “common ground“ with you. And quite frankly if you are not directly impacted by TERFs and have not actually spent the time building up empathy and understanding and actual knowledge about trans people and WHY their opposition is so vile and evil then you are going to be susceptible to falling for their sweet talk.

Also it is not to be ignored and is in fact very relevant that I have seen a million times over trans women (especially TWOC) get ignored or yelled at for speaking up on social media because the same exact type of afabs that would eventually get indoctrinated by 1 eloquent radfem with half a dozen skewed statistics bitched at them for being “too wordy” and not dumbing down what they were saying to make it more accessible or for wording things “nicer” in their posts lol.

I’m just sooo pissed off at how often I see people (always tme people) go “hmm actually I used to hate TERFs but now I see they make good points” when those same people spent years going “lol punch TERFs they’re smelly! Of course transphobia is bad!!” but you can just fucking tell that these people have not critically engaged with ANYTHING regarding trans rights or transmisogyny or why TERFs are actually damaging. They treated supporting trans people as a default that they didn’t have to be critical or thoughtful about and the second it was questioned by people with more power than any trans person they buckled. And TERF rhetoric is soooo good at convincing cis girls and to some extent really all afabs that they should care more about their own victim complex than other marginalized people (namely trans women, especially nonwhite trans women), and it feels really good to feel sorry for yourself while punching down at people with less than you. It’s much easier and more immediately gratifying than actually making an effort to care about other people.

“The police don’t target black people,” says the white person.

“LGBTQ+ people have plenty of protection,” says the straight, cisgender person.

“Women don’t feel harassed at work,” says the man. 

“Poor people don’t need more government help,” says the rich person. 

“Immigrants feel welcome here,” says the natural-born citizen. 

Please stop invalidating the concerns of people who have problems that you’re not experiencing. Instead, listen to them, and learn what you can do to help. 

AND THAT INCLUDES TRANS BLACK WOMEN 👏

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anyway as long as we’re talking abt this I just wanna share a tweet thread that resonated w/ me today 

[image description: a series of tweets from twitter user @ sofftestpunk, reading as follows:

like I literally don’t care if you’re gay, are you QUEER?

I’m specifically part of the queer community and NOT the LGBT+ community. ive never felt like part of the LGBT+ community. I am QUEER. and my community is QUEER. and if you’re not queer then cool I’m sure you have your own communities n shit but I’m looking for my peers in mine

the key distinction for me is that the queer community is browner and Blacker, the LGBT community has always appeared painfully white and uncomfortable for me to personally be involved with. the queer community is also more radical, practicing radical unlearning of concepts like

family, love, gender, sex etc and reframing and rebuilding these things. the LGBT community has never, in my experience with it, been as driven about breaking down these systems and more often aim to be able to live safely within them

for me, the lgbt+ community is white, skinny, cis, abled etc. it’s the LGBT society at my uni; a room of sex segregated white people with very strict expectations of sexuality, expression, bodies etc. self professed queer spaces are the messier underbelly, the mixing

the fuzzy boundaries and the fuck the boundaries, the ugly and unattractive, the new and different, the too loud and too weird. that’s my family

muted the thread btw because people don’t know what “personally” or “in my experience” mean :^)

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noticing some of y’all get real angry about people feeling unwelcome in LGBT spaces because of racism/ableism/cissexism/fatphobia. maybe try channeling that anger towards the racism/ableism/cissexism/fatphobia instead of the people drawing attention to it, yeah?

AND THAT INCLUDES TRANS BLACK WOMEN 👏

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hey all! i just found out the sonoma county black coalition has a gofundme right that’s been open since october with a goal of $5000 but they’ve only raised $55 so far. where i live in sonoma county resources for our black community are abysmal and overlooked, especially seeing as we have one of the largest communities of unhoused people in the country whose population is largely bipoc. i wanted to share their fundraiser for self sufficiency and mutual aid! they also have ANOTHER gofundme that raises money for things like scholarships, transportation, attorney fees, food etc & donations have been stalled for months! our mutual aid network never gets the exposure it needs so please if you can donate or share!!

Saturday, April 17th, 2021 ACAB

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS

The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.

It’s so much worse than “just a disease”. 

Measles does WHAT

Holy fuck

What the fuck what the fuck what the fUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

antivaxxers also sabotaged the human lyme disease vaccine. they literally conspired online in usenet boards to go out and participate in the vaccine trials, and they all proceeded to complain of arthritis, the only symptom of lyme disease they were apparently aware of. this caused media hysteria about the vaccine. if you remember the flu vaccine hysteria around the swine flu epidemic, it was kind of like that. despite double-blind trials being unable to support their claims and instead displaying that the vaccine was safe and effective, the damage was done, and the vaccine was shelved in the USA. you can get a lyme disease vaccine in Europe, but Europe has a different strain of the bacteria that causes lyme disease.

Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.

This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine bc this happened the same year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

these people are fucking dangerous beyond compare

Anti-vaxxers are a plague upon humanity. I work at a daycare, and we are REQUIRED by LAW to have those kids vaccinated, but somehow some parents find ways around these requirements and end up giving these preventable diseases to everyone else. I was given the mumps by one of these kids whose parents either didn’t care enough to get the kid vaccinated or fell for that Jenny McCarthy bullshit. The mumps is a miserable illness and I am damn lucky that it was a fairly minor case. But minor or not it is still beyond painful to swallow and my entire right cheek swelled up to double it’s size. It was awful. I had to go to the ER on fucking Thanksgiving Day because some parents decided they knew better than every doctor practicing medicine who urges people to vaccinate their kids. VACCINATE. YOUR. KIDS.

Anti-vaxxers would rather have dead children than vaccinate them because they believe lies. That’s what it comes down to: dead children.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Reminder: Antivaxxers would rather have dead children than autistic children.

This whole thing started with a fear of their kids turning out… like us.

Please stop erasing us from this narrative.

It is a combination of ableism, ignorance, and misinformation. Pls vaccinate your children, and do your own mother fucking research. Also a reminder: Your children’s doctors have gone to college for year’s and years to know about this shit, and they are more likely to find out about new things faster than you. Please listen to them.

They/them pronouns are correct grammar.

They/them pronouns sound pleasant and friendly.

They/them pronouns are polite and kind to use with strangers.

YES

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