Click here to support Batwa Indigenous Orphan Children organized by Chiara Jacobson

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Click here to support Batwa Indigenous Orphan Children organized by Chiara Jacobson

This June of 2018 a Mutwa* woman was the victim of a horrific hate crime, she put on fire and suffered serious injuries. Us at the Batwa Indigenous Development Organisation (BIDO) have done our best to organize to help her, and with the help of our friends and donors abroad, we have paid for her...

afronerdism:

allukazaoldyeck:

Arinaitwe Gerald, an Batwa indigenous organizer I talk to regularly who lives in southwestern Uganda, is currently having trouble providing for orphaned children he and his wife have taken in in addition to their own children after their mother passed away a bit over a month ago.

One of the children, a 12 year old girl named Immaculate, is in serious pain due to having a cyst caused by goiter. She had been recommended for surgery all the way back in October, but because $700 is nowhere near an amount her late mother or Gerald and his wife can afford, she has still not gotten the treatment she needs and they are even having difficulty getting the $85 needed for an injection that would potentially help decrease the pain and size of the cyst temporarily.

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Please spread this fundraiser and donate if possible! Immaculate and her siblings, as well as the Batwa people at large need all the help they can get, and no 12 year old should have to go through all that she is currently dealing with.

They’re still like $400 away from their goal. Like if you wanna donate donate to this

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gonna keep remaking this post

glassvillage:

glassvillage:

hi im an 18 year old disabled gay trans man living with my abusive parents in an unsafe conservative town. 

ive applied to over a dozen jobs and have yet to hear back from any of them. applying for disability isnt an option bc i have no access to my own medical records. the most money im able to make is $5-$10 a week from performing in drag.

consider sparing some money and helping me escape a home and town where im in danger every day of my life.

https://www.paypal.me/leokerrigan (please ignore my deadname)

i have gotten exactly one donation so far and i needed most of it to get home from my drag show last night.

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positive-lesbian-vibes:

It’s okay if you don’t want your orientation to be a “radical” statement. Who you are does not have to be revolutionary, even if society thinks it is. It’s fine for you to not want to have your existence be politicized. Nothing about you is inherently revolutionary if you don’t want it to be, the way you are is perfectly normal and good and healthy.

This goes for all lesbians who don’t want to be seen as “radical separatists,” who just want to live normal and peaceful lives but aren’t given the choice to have their existence not be taken as a political statement

This goes for all the trans lesbians who have to deal with transmisogyny and homophobia, who just want to settle down with a nice girl but who are constantly compared to “straight men” and villainized from all sides.

This goes for all the nb lesbians who don’t want to have to explain their identity and their existence, who are tired of being asked how they can be a lesbian and nb, who aren’t trying to make a political statement by taking up space.

You don’t have to be a political statement if you don’t want to. It’s not fair that you were born into a society that politicizes your existence, and it’s not fair for you to have to shoulder that responsibility without asking to. It’s okay for you to blend in. It is not your responsibility to singlehandedly change the world. There’s no “right” way for you to exist in this world.

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simsmidgen:

sims3hasstoppedworking:

MY MOM HAS CANCER. I’M BEGGING FOR HELP

Hello everyone, my name is Ewa, I’m from Poland. My mom was diagnosed with CERVICAL CANCER stage 3B G2 back in June (SQUAMUS CELL CARCINOMA G2; Carcinoma planoepitheliale G2, invasio carcinomatosa vasorum). Since then she had only FIVE RADIATIONS (20 Gy in total) and that’s all - NO PLANS FOR CHEMO OR SURGERY. She may receive a few more radiations next year only if she’s still alive til that time and there’s an extensive bleeding. Otherwise no.

Her health problems began in February, since then she had JJ tubes put in both ureters which later were replaced with nephrostomy tubes in both kidneys. She had a massive Enterococcus faecium infection treated with Vancomycin. Lately she had another massive infection when docs put a nephrostomy tube in her left kidney. It was treated with Linezolid.

SHE DOESN’T EAT ANYMORE, SHE CAN’T GET UP, SHE CAN’T TAKE A SHOWER, SHE CAN’T DO ANYTHING ANYMORE.

Her oncologist didn’t give her a referral to a hospice nor a palliative care specialist. I had to beg my mom’s GP to receive them. We were left alone. We don’t have any family, there’s only she and I. I’m disabled person with several chronic conditions. I have to have a knee surgery but I can’t go to a hospital right now, I have to be with my mom all the time and take care of her.

I’M BEGGING FOR HELP TO BUY A WHEELCHAIR, ANTI PRESSURE ULCERS MATTRESS, NUTRICIA DRINKS, URINE COLLECTION BAGS, ANTIBIOTICS AND PROBIOTICS IF NEEDED, SUPPLEMENTS LIKE POTASSIUM, CRP HOME TESTS AND CBD OIL.

I can’t afford all that due to a very small income.

Please, I’m begging you, help me and my mom. I can provide all medical documents if requested but I have them only in Polish.

It’s only a brief description of what has been happening in the last few months. If you’re interested I can tell whole story from the beginning.

Thank you, Ewa.

https://paypal.me/pools/c/85skVufOG5

Here’s the link to Polish crowd funding site

https://zrzutka.pl/vjebjx

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I’m absolutely devastated for my good friend Eve and her Mother.  Women in Poland face struggles every day and the health system does not provide for people like it should. Not all people have a comfortable life with good health care systems and support with pain management. Eve has her own health struggles to contend with also.

Eve has been with the community for years now and her Failure Family has been a great source of laughs for me, and many of you I know.  Never one to cause drama, a kind, intelligent and caring person, one we need more of!  Eve has been through a lot over the past couple of years, help her out if you can, please.

Every girl deserves to be with her Mum as long as possible.

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usschoolsuck:

la-volpe-bianca:

tilthat:

TIL that a mob from a nearby county threatened to lynch Black newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. for writing an editorial condemning a lynching. Armed with two pistols, he then traveled to that same county to report on the lynching on-site.

via ift.tt

“Mitchell himself was threatened with hanging at the hands of a Charlotte County mob angered by his reporting of the lynching, there, of Richard Walker in May of 1886. Mitchell was sent a rope with a note attached, warning him that he would be lynched himself if he ever set foot in the county. In reply, and borrowing a line from Shakespeare, Mitchell had this to say: “There are no terrors, Cassius, in your threats, for I am so strong in honesty that they pass by me like the idle wind, which I respect not.” Then, armed with two Smith & Wesson pistols, he boarded a train for Smithville and undeterred, walked the five miles from the station to the site of the hanging. He went unmolested.“

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SALUTE TO A REAL ONE

We need a statue to this man.

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hundondestiny:

blackpromqueen:

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We also need to stop saying she’s “free”. She isn’t. She still has 10yrs probation, mandatory community service hours, and requirements for maintaining a job in order to remain unincarcerated. She’s been released from a physical prison only to enter the open air prison so many people in the carceral state are confined to.

This shouldn’t be over. She should be fully pardoned. It’s unconscionable that they can choose to incarcerate her again for any minor infractions they deem in violation of her probation. This release shouldn’t be conditional, and right now it is.

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You bored, or feeling artsy but don’t have any inspiration…? *updated!*

ladyevel:

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

Character Development:

Need an Appearance idea?

Diversity

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Villains

Relationships

ARCHETYPES

NAMES

APPEARANCE

DETAILS

Need Item names?

Other stuffs!

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theconcealedweapon:

Allowing transgender people to use restrooms is not about protecting their feelings. It’s about protecting their safety.

Requiring transgender people to use the restroom matching their birth gender would mean requiring transgender people to out themselves as transgender every time they use the restroom, which could cause them to be violently attacked if a bigot happens to see them.

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