Before January 2025:

If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!

Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.

Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.

For those of us who aren’t lawyers or well-versed in law generally, can someone clarify what kind of document, by name, people should be drafting with their lawyers? Is it a type of letter, or is there a name for this classification of document? I’m aware that it probably varies by US state, but a lot of people are likely feeling extremely lost right now and don’t know where to start on this. I definitely don’t. I live in a state that isn’t likely to nullify existing marriages or prevent new ones from taking place, but who knows what they’re going to try at the national level and enforce from the top down.

Power of Attorney should cover most partners and spouses to ensure that they will be making each other's health care decisions in cases of serious illness. LGBTQ+ spouses and domestic partners must execute proper Health Care Power of Attorney documents listing each other as the highest priority agents for making each other's health care decisions in case of incapacity.

Here's a resource from GLAD.

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national suicide prevention

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

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list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

My name is Lubna Alajrami, and I am a devoted mother from Gaza. At 30 years old, I cherish my three beautiful children: Eline, aged 7, Kinda, 2, and my precious son, Nasser, who is 4 years old.

Amidst this dire situation, my heart aches for my son, Nasser, who at 4 years old, grapples with a thyroid condition and stunted growth. We lack the means to provide him with medical treatment and the most basic necessities, such as diapers and milk. Urgent medical attention is imperative, but our current circumstances are beyond our reach. We need to travel to Egypt to seek medical treatment for Nasser; however, the fees required from the Egyptian side to cross the borders are very high, £ 4000 for adults and £2000 for kids.

My family, including my husband, three kids, and I once led a content and joyous life in the North of Gaza. However, the onset of war-shattered our dreams, our home, and our means of sustenance. Today, we find ourselves with nothing but the fragments of what was once our life.

During the war on Gaza, we lost our business and our source of livelihood

Allow me to share with you the stark reality we face. With the outbreak of conflict, we sought refuge in the south, settling in Deer Albalah, clinging to the hope of safety until the storm of war abated. Yet, our reality is now a tent in a refugee camp devoid of basic amenities. Our living space is confined, lacking toilets, kitchens, and even access to clean water and electricity. For six gruelling months, we've endured the harshness of our circumstances, battling not only the physical challenges but also the pervasive illnesses that haunt the refugee camp. All these conditions directly affected my son Nasser's health for the worst. It breaks my heart to see my child suffering and needing medical aid while I have nothing I can do.

Hence, I implore your kindness and generosity in support of our case. This fundraiser aims to secure medical treatments for Nasser. Therefore, we need to travel to Egypt to seek medical treatment for him. However, I can't leave my other children; we must travel together. This fund will support our evacuation from Gaza to have medical treatment for my son, covering travel expenses, the necessary entry fees into Egypt, temporary shelter, and essential provisions for our survival until we can rebuild our lives.

Our goal is ambitious but essential: £16,000. This sum will provide us with fees for medical treatment for Nasser, £2000, and £14,000 to pay the Egyptian side for arranging our leave to Egypt for five persons: me, my husband, and our three kids.

Your assistance can make a tangible difference in our lives. Here's how you can help:

Donate whatever amount you can afford to support our cause.

Share our fundraiser with your network, spreading awareness of our plight.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate these trying times.

No matter how small, every contribution is a beacon of hope for us. Your kindness and compassion will serve as a lifeline, guiding us towards a brighter tomorrow.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Lubna Alajrami

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Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #191 )

✅ verified.

#191 on the Gaza Vetters list, and vetted by multiple accounts. Be kind to donate or re-blog please!

@a-shade-of-blue here.

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Please, don't skip it, just watch all the posts and share them to support our campaign🙏🙏🙏🙏

As of 02:44 GMT on 27 October 2024, Lubna's vetted campaign (GazaVetters, line 191) is at only £952 of her £16,000 goal.

She has received just one new donation in 24 hours.

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I trust your humanity, please help me reach $50,000. My family needs it. My brother's wife needs daily injections. Please help us. Asking for help is not easy.

My dear,

My other account is suspended. Sister Samar Down syndrome patient needs you.

don't let me down, please. We deserve life and we deserve your generosity and compassion towards us. You are our lifeline, and with your generosity you give us life, even if it is a little, but you relieve us of injustice and cursed war. You are hope and life again. Be side by side, hand in hand. We will make a big difference. With faith, strength, will and determination, we will reach the goal. We are very close. I hope you will participate and contribute if you can.💜🇵🇸🍉🍉💐💐

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For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shout the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

“The people’s blood will not stain our hands.”

Union dockworkers and protesters in Greece rallied to block a large ammunition shipment headed for Israel – and won.

The world stands with Palestine and Lebanon 🇵🇸🇱🇧

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!! DONT SKIP !! donations urgently needed They are only at €5,561 out of €50,000 goal

I was contacted by Nader to draw pictures for and help spread his brother Abdulsalam Al-Anqar’s fundraiser to save their family. Nader is a 17 year old boy who lives in Gaza with his family: parents Ahmed (54) and mother Iman (49), brothers Abdulsalam (26), Mohammed (14), and Omar (21) and Abdulsalam’s wife and their one year old daughter Iman. Imagine it was your sibling, your friend, your son, who should be in school or with his friends, who instead has to hide from bombs and ask for help online to save his family. His family have suffered through one year of genocide. All of you are their hope to get to safety.

This fundraiser is vetted by @gazavetters, number four on the spreadsheet here

Abdulsalams daughter Iman is only one year old and has lived most her life in a war zone. She is suffering from malnutrition. It’s every fathers worst nightmare to see their child starve and not be able to feed her. Please help him feed his daughter and get her to safety. No child should grow up hearing the sound of bombs. Every child has the right to food and safety. You can help give Iman the childhood she should have, where she can sleep in a safe bed at night with a full stomach.

Their father Ahmed has cancer and needs surgery and medication. It is not possible to get the treatment he needs in Gaza. every day his illness is left untreated, the cancer will continue to spread through his body, so he very urgently needs money for treatment and travel. If you help them get to their goal, you are saving their fathers life. Don’t let this family who have already lost so much lose their father, husband, and grandfather

Nader has showed me pictures of this explosion close to them, thankfully they were able to get away. Every day they stay in Gaza their lives are at risk from israeli bombs. Every day and hour counts. I know there are compassionate and kind people who are willing to help. every euro helps, YOUR donation will bring them one moment closer to safety. With love and hope I’m asking you to give what you can, I believe in the kind people of the world and I beg you to not let them die. If you can’t donate, please share so it may reach people who can.

Never forget that palestinians are not numbers on a list of deaths. Please think of each of them, think of their names and faces and know that you can help them. I think of them every day. I think of the hopes and dreams they should achieve, I think of their education, their future, and the love they show when they work hard every day to get help. You may feel powerless to stop this genocide, but you have the power to save Abdulsalam and his family. I dream that the day will come soon where they may use their days to rest and recover from what they’ve been through, where they can share a meal and laugh and the children will play, instead of having to use their time to beg the world to listen and help them. We can make this possible.

50 000 euros is a lot of money for one person to give, but for all of us together, it can be done. Please don’t look away.

(drawing above by @neechees)

Thank you for reading their story. Please don’t keep scrolling without sharing

here is the link again to their fundraiser

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if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

ok i need to make this clearer: if you do not reblog posts and only like them you are contributing to this site actively getting worse and becoming like all the apps you hate. keep likes to things you just wanna keep off your blog. reblog everything else. ESPECIALLY fanart, which always needs a reblog.

and FYI: what i’m saying here is backed up by tumblr themselves. they admit this publicly.

if you want a good RECENT (as of the end of February 2022) overview of what is going on behind the scenes at tumblr, it is basically what i’ve been saying for years: the core staff is tiny, constantly not being listened to when they advocate for us, the community, and working there is a nightmare:

Reblogging to encourage people instead of only liking is really not that fucking hard if you dont want people to be discouraged cuz their stuff get zero interactions and 99% useless likes and be driven off the Platform.

Thank yall for this! I thought reblogging wasnt good because that it just puts stuff out there that is already out there, but now i am going to reblog bc I learned and stuff ig. IDK what i was going to say

ig thanks bc now im not scared to reblog out of fear of hate

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

Countries that have joined or declared their intention to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ are:

• Nicaragua

• Belgium

• Colombia

• Turkey

• Libya

• Egypt

• Maldives

• Mexico

• Ireland

• Palestine

• Spain

• Chile

Source: AlJazeera

Hello:

I am Muhammad Shehab from Gaza🍉. I support a family of 6 people. My sick mother and father, my wife Hiyam, and my sons (Zain and Yahya). I have a gofundme campaign that I created to treat my mother and father, protect my family, and get them out of the danger of the war on Gaza🍉. We live in very difficult circumstances Help me we are still very far from the goal. I hope everyone will donate even a little. I am confident that you will stand with me and support me until I achieve my goal and save my family from the danger of war. Share my story. Pin my story to your page. Everything helps. Can you share some of my posts from time to time? Maybe the internet will be cut off in my area. Thank you

This family has only received €425!! If you are able, please donate! And if you are unable to donate, share this campaign to your social media! Every little help makes a difference.

€1,012 out of €25,000! This family still needs your help, donate if you can, share to your social media!!

Everyone who sees us or hears about us in Gaza, I hope that you will be with us, support us and help us. Share our story with us, write it down, and don’t forget us in your prayers.

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you know i think i’ve come to the conclusion that the answer to “but what if a cis woman is traumatized by men/male presenting people/whatever?” irt safe spaces is this: if you can’t be in the same room with someone you assume to be male or a man without feeling triggered, it probably means you have a lot more solo therapy and healing to do before relying on group therapy or other communal healing.

because how do you decide who gets to stay and who gets kicked out based on a cis woman’s trauma response? is it based on appearance? should intersex women with facial hair not be allowed because beards are triggering? should butches and studs not be allowed because masculinity is triggering? should talk broad shouldered trans women who don’t want to voice train not be allowed because low voices are triggering? is it based on identity? should a pre transition trans man who came out two days ago not be allowed because he’s a man? is a nonbinary person with a full beard and deep voice allowed because they are not a man?

because if you base your entire set of rules for who’s not allowed in the safe space on what makes cis women uncomfortable or triggers them, you’ve just made that space unsafe for trans people. and you need to decide if you’re ready to own that.

guys this is the faggot tranny blog why is this a hot take.

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The thing about the bad faith focus on "but what about cis women who find men traumatizing and don't want them in their safe spaces" as an argument is that it frames trans people as the sole instigators of an otherwise non-existent conflict: as though, if we didn't exist, then there'd be no issue in the first place. When actually, the insistence on female-only spaces has real, tangible consequences beyond trans people: namely, to pick the most pressing example, the question of what happens to the sons of women fleeing domestic violence - because many women's shelters don't accept teenage boys. And this is a real and very heartbreaking consequence of the rigid insistence on female-only spaces: that mothers seeking safety with their children - many of whom are also victims of violence - cannot assume that their sons will be as welcome as their daughters. Though many shelters have rules around teenage occupants regardless of gender, others have gender-specific age caps: no boys over the age of 12, say, or 14, or 16. And shelters, as we all know, are frequently overcrowded; sometimes, you're lucky to find a space at all. Imagine you are a mother of two, a 13yo son and an 11yo daughter, fleeing a spouse who has been violent to all three of you, and the only shelter available is one with a strict no men policy. Having mustered up the courage to leave at all, you are now confronted with a terrible choice: unless you turn around and go home, your only options are to either abandon your son to the care of the abusive parent or to have him put into the foster system. Or perhaps the shelter's age cap for boys is set at 14 - meaning, you have until your son's next birthday to get back on your feet, even if that's only weeks away, and the whole time, he will know that his gender, and his gender alone, is the reason for the deadline.

This is, objectively, appalling - and yet it is precisely where the fixation on women only spaces lands us. So while it's absolutely correct to point out that triggers and trauma around the presence of men are very much the responsibility of individuals to manage, it's also important to acknowledge that the issue doesn't only exist because of trans people; that there would still be real questions to answer even if we weren't in the picture, because binary gender exclusion is a shit policy.

A young Israeli man of conscience, refusing to be enlisted, choosing to rather go to jail than fight his fascist government’s genocidal war. He already stands on the right side of history.

an American citizen - not even thirty years old - protesting for peace in the West Bank was sniped by the IOF and the New York times can't even name them as the ones that pulled the trigger.

free palestine. from the river to the sea. fuck the IOF and the apartheid regime. rest in power Aysenur Ezgi.

Don't lose hope!!!!!