UPDATE: Jeremy purchased black hair dye from Amazon before leaving home, but no one knows if he had the chance to use it before leaving, or even if he used it after. But it’s the only new clue so far since Saturday. Please continue to share if you’re able. Thanks.
Hey tumblr, we need your help finding a queer youth.
Jeremy Star Negrelli is 17 years old, and lives in Highland Heights, Ohio. Jeremy is about 5’5, 100 lbs., and was last seen late Saturday night, May 5, 2018, after getting home from work.
Jeremy left home with his phone, laptop, and tortoise shell cat in the photos above. There has been no activity on Jeremy’s phone or bank account since Saturday.
Jeremy may be trying to get to Canada to meet a man he has been in contact with. Police and Jeremy’s family have absolutely no information on this person.
Queer youth are among the highest risk groups for homelessness, runaways, and exploitation from traffickers.
If you have any information that could bring Jeremy to safety, please contact Highland Heights detectives at 440-442-1221, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678, or 911.
Please share. Thank you.
hey everyone. can y’all share this please. this is a friend of a friend and they still haven’t heard from him. it’ll be a week on sat since he disappeared, so the more eyes on this the better. you might not live in ohio or canada, but someone who follows you might, and may be able to help.
Signal boost. Please reblog.
It’s 2009 and I’m 14 and I’m crying not really sure where I am but I’m holding the hand of my best friend Sam in the waiting room of a Planned Parenthood. The air is sterile and clean, and the walls are that not gray, but green and the lights are so bright they could burn a hole through the seam of my jeans. My phone is buzzing in the pocket, my mom is asking me if I remembered my keys ‘cause she’s closing the door and she needs to lock it. But I can’t tell my mom where I’ve gone. I can’t tell anyone at all. You see, my best friend Sam was raped by a man that we knew ‘cause he worked in the after-school program and he held her down with her textbook beside her, and he covered her mouth and he came inside her. So now I’m with Sam, at the place with a plan, waiting for the results of a medical exam and she’s praying she doesn’t need an abortion, she couldn’t afford it and her parents would, like, totally kill her. It’s 2002 and my family just moved and the only people I know are my mom’s friends, too, and her son. He’s got a case of Matchbox cars and he says that he’ll teach me to play the guitar if I just keep quiet and the stairwell beside apartment 1245 will haunt me in my sleep for as long as I am alive and I’m too young to know why it aches in my thighs, but I must lie, I must lie. It’s 2012 and I’m dating a guy and I sleep in his bed and I just learned how to drive and he’s older than me and he drinks whiskey neat and he’s paying for everything. This adult thing is not cheap. We’ve been fighting a lot, almost 10 times a week and he wants to have sex, and I just want to sleep, he says I can’t say no to him this much I owe to him. He buys my dinner, so I have to blow him, he’s taken to forcing me down on my knees and I’m confused 'cause he’s hurting me while he says please and he’s only a man, and these things he just needs. He’s my boyfriend, so why am I filled with unease? It’s 2017 and I live like a queen and I’ve followed damn near every one of my dreams. I’m invincible and I’m so f***ing naïve. I believe I’m protected 'cause I live on a screen nobody would dare act that way around me. I’ve earned my protection, eternally clean until a man that I trust gets his hands in my pants but I don’t want none of that, I just wanted to dance and I wake up the next morning like I’m in a trance and there’s blood. Is that my blood? Hold on a minute you see I’ve worked every day since I was 18. I’ve toured everywhere from Japan to Mar-a-Lago, I even went on stage that night in Chicago, when I was having a miscarriage. I mean, I pied the piper, I put on a diaper and sang out my spleen to a room full of teens. What do you mean this happened to me? You can’t put your hands on me. You don’t know what my body has been through. I’m supposed to be safe now, I earned it. It’s 2018 and I’ve realized nobody is safe, long as she is alive and every friend that I know has a story like mine and the world tells me we should take it as a compliment but then heroes like Ashley and Simone and Gabby, McKayla and Gaga, Rosario, Aly. Remind me This is the beginning, It is not the finale and that’s why we’re here and that’s why we rally. It’s Olympians and a medical resident and not one f***ing word from the man who is President. It’s about closed doors and secrets and legs and stilettos from the Hollywood hills to the projects in ghettos. When babies are ripped from the arms of teen mothers and child brides cry globally under the covers who don’t have a voice on the magazine covers. They tell us take cover but we are not free until all of us are free. So love your neighbor, please treat her kindly ask her story and then shut up and listen. Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian. Listen, listen and then yell at the top of your lungs be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues for the people who had to grow up way too young. There is work to be done. There are songs to be sung. Lord knows there’s a war to be won.
I love this and hate how it rings true. Too much.
Anonymous asked:
This is going to sound like a stupid question, but it seems like most of your campsites are literally just in the middle of no where, not like at a legit camping ground. Is that necessarily legal? Asking because I'm real inspired to try something like this myself
This is not a dumb question at all - and perfectly relevant to our current fight to protect our public lands. I can legally camp in the middle of nowhere because I do so on public lands - lands owned by all American Citizens. This is land set aside for public use - be it camping, hunting, fishing, biking, climbing, hiking, etc… Public Lands are owned and supported by tax payers and also sometimes referred to as Federal Land(most research shows public land costs about $4 dollars per tax payer a year). Restrictions depend on the agency that manages the area - most BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land has very few restrictions and allows for camping almost anywhere (without the need for a campground). However, I strongly encourage Leave No Trace ethics when camping in wilderness and if you are going to camp on our public lands please go to the following link and read the 7 Leave No Trace Principles:
I prefer to camp in the wild - to leave the city behind and experience the outdoors as a refuge from human impact - and in order to continue to experience it as such we need to keep it looking as if we were never there. I am a climber, a hunter, a mountaineer, a fisher, a hiker, a biker, and most importantly I was lucky enough to be born in the USA which gives me access to public wilderness as if I had the money to own a cabin in the mountains. However, I don’t have the money to own a cabin and so when the weekend rolls around I throw a few things in the back of the Land Cruiser and head for public lands… I find a spot that is my own, that feels as if I am one of the few lucky enough to sit on this rock and watch the sun go down - and I am lucky.
Watch the video link below: 4 minute bipartisan history of how the USA came to have so much public federal land, specifically in the west. This video educated me on how almost all federal land has always been federal land - and is not land that was taken from the states:
It is my opinion that there is falsehood in state legislator’s desire to want public lands to be taken from the federal government and given to the state for the resident’s interests and stats seem to support this. Federal land is held in a trust for the use of the American people - and that’s it, that’s all, it is there for our future generations - so that I can teach my kid to ethically hunt and camp in the mountains just as my grandfather and father taught me. Some states do a great job with land they manage for public access, but the problem is that the land is no longer explicitly a trust and if the wrong individuals become elected, or are already are elected, that land can now be sold to private entities and will no longer be accessible to the public. In FACT 156 MILLION acres of Federal Public Land has been transferred to states and of that land 70% has been sold to private entities - that is 110 MILLION acres that we don’t have shared access to use anymore. I would rather not risk the possibility of my land being sold off so that I can not use it. Historically this has occurred when a state’s budget isn’t balanced because it is pretty easy to sell of a chunk of land to compensate for debt.
Please read the Field and Stream article in the Link below it is easy and incredibly informative:
Please vote to protect our public lands!
Public lands for our use and what agency manages them can be seen in the map below:
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This answer deserves a REPOST b/c of its importance.
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With the ill advised reduction of two beloved Utah Monuments by Trump in my own backyard I repost this again… hopefully someday I can stop reposting this because people finally get it. Federally protected public land KEEPS access for people who love and recreate in the outdoors - it does NOT eliminate or reduce access. The land was NEVER stolen from the states… it has ALWAYS been federal land. Federal Land and Public Land are the SAME thing.
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The next time someone tries to argue with you about “disrespecting the flag/troops by kneeling” show them this.
