#2, Brute?
I made the ugliest noise.
It’s not even March. It’s literally more than 6 months till the ides of March. Why.
TODAY
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the five doctors!
River & Amy | Doctor Who 6x01
something a little different from my usual text posts 😌
You want me to introduce myself? The thing that almost killed Odysseus?
SAY THEIR NAME: Nex Benedict, another 16 YEAR OLD was murdered in Oklahoma, news channels are deadnaming and misgendering them, just like with Brianna Ghey here in the UK. But I urge you to not let your grief drive you to despair. GET ANGRY. Do not become apathetic, do not let grief numb you. Stand united as a community, lean on each other, have each others back. Reach out to any trans individuals of any age and make sure they have support in some capacity. Speak with your family, your political representatives, your school, anywhere, with anyone, that may be able to make some change, whether big or small. Everything builds, that is the power of a movement, of solidarity. If you make life a bit safer for one trans youth once, then you may have saved their life that day. And that kid might then show some other kid that there is hope, and so they live as well. And it grows.
Fly high Nex.
Of all places, I didn’t expect to see this on tumblr, but since I now have the opportunity; I live near Owasso, the town where Nex lived. There are not many news stations that have highlighted this story and it is incredibly infuriating. As a student who takes a criminology class, I brought it up today as a topic of discussion. Thankfully, I have classmates who are quite open minded and who were also upset by this news.
Owasso is notorious for being a “daddy’s money” school and unfortunately a lot gets swept under the rug because of that. I want to point out immediately the huge mistakes that both the school staff, police and the hospital made. I will preface that a lot of information is being withheld, so please recognize this as my own interpretation and much may not be completely accurate.
Firstly, I’ll start off with what has been shared. Allegedly, the altercation was deescalated by a teacher who found the three older girls brutally assaulting Nex in the Owasso High School bathroom. A statement from Nex’s mother described Nex as “Having their head repeatedly thrashed across the bathroom floor.” Despite this, the teacher failed to accompany Nex, who could hardly walk by themself, to the nurse. The school failed to contact any sort of school resource officer or get any kind of medical treatment for Nex.
Nex was taken to the hospital after school where they were treated and then for some, unfathomable reason, was discharged. The next day, Nex returned to the hospital where they then died. Medical reports have not been released and neither has the cause of death. However, police are attempting to push the agenda that Nex may have had a medical condition or that they died of natural causes.
The identities of the girls who did this to Nex have not been shared and it is hard to determine wether they will be tried as adults, if they are tried at all, because as I previously mentioned, Owasso is notorious for trying to cover up anything that may “damage their reputation”. We don’t even know if this will be charged as a hate crime, as hate crimes are highly difficult to prove and be convicted for. But it is unmistakable that there was intention to cause harm to Nex, and whether the assailants show remorse or not will have an effect in any court hearing.
I will end here, but if anyone would like to speak about it with me, or even receive updates (as my own school’s resource officer is going to be contacting the Owasso department, which will then be shared back with my criminology class) please feel free to DM me.
DO NOT LET NEX BE ANOTHER STATISTIC
And it just happened—Nasser Hospital, the main hospital in southern Gaza, is completely out of service. Only 4 staff are left taking care of the patients, of whom there are hundreds. This leaves Palestinians curled up on the floor in agony waiting for medical help—only there aren’t even enough medical supplies to tend to them even with healthcare workers on hand.
Israel actually did it. They have blatantly targeted a hospital, abducted its healthcare workers, and left it entirely out of function. And nobody stopped them.
As we’re speaking btw, Israel is actively targeting al-Amal Hospital with artillery fire. This is literally the only other healthcare facility in Khan Younis that’s still standing. What do you think will happen to the endless amounts of Gazans wounded once Israel inevitably blows it up? What do you think will happen?
watching the flux & they made a wwtdd joke (what would the doctor do) so obviously. i made a wwtdd bracelet
A nonbinary child was murdered recently and I’ve been reporting multiple transphobic comments misgendering them, mocking their death, and deadnaming them. But they stay up. Tumblr won’t do anything about it. But they drop everything to permanently ban a trans women.
Really shows their priorities.
I’m not seeing many people post about this and it’s very disappointing.
Nex Benedict, a 16 year old nonbinary student at Owasso high school in Oklahoma, was murdered on February 8th. They were beaten to death by 3 cisgender girls in the girls bathroom.
Nex was brutally beaten to death and was denied care. Teachers refused to call an ambulance for them.
The news is deadnaming them, describing their death as ‘unexpected’, as a ‘physical altercation’, and saying it was ‘a fight’. The news is erasing Nex’s identity and trying to erase the fact this is a targeted hate crime.
Please don’t let another trans murder be ignored.
They’re also Native American. It’s not being said in most news articles, but this was also a racially motivated hate crime (along with the transphobia).
Oh it was also Libs of Tiktok
nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed
#me when my brother thought the panic at the disco cover of bohemian rhapsody was the og#and i had to sit him down and be like never tell that to anyone ever again if you want to live ok via @theblackparadeisdead
this is the most heinous one everyone else go home
