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We are seeking submissions for our latest project, “SEX WERK”, an educational zine working to erase stigmas about sex workers and the sex industry.
We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, visual art, rants, raves, anything so long as it in some way relates to your experience as a sex...
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I’m Joe, I’m a AMAB Trans femme person, who is permanently physically disabled and has mental health issues relating to anxiety.
I am currently on the UKs student loan system, this gives me enough to live off of per month if I stick to a very strict budget.
Due to several things arising…
I get ones about Michael daily and it's really rough having to remind people he's passed on
We are seeking submissions for our latest project, "SEX WERK", an educational zine working to erase stigmas about sex workers and the sex industry. We are looking for poetry, essays, short stories, visual art, rants, raves, anything so long as it in some way relates to your experience as a sex worker. We encourage POC, Queer people, Non-binary/gender non conforming people, disabled people, and people of all body types to submit! You are welcome to remain completely anonymous in your submissions. Please send them to grrrlssmashpatriarchy@gmail.com
And here it is! Our first ever Fatgrltalk Discussion video!
The video and audio are a bit off in the beginning, but it fixes itself.
Again, thank you all for your interest, and please share your experiences and fill out the application to be in our upcoming videos!
Janis
Friends, this is a new project that I am so proud to be a part of! FatGrlTalk is a regularly varied panel of six fat women from different backgrounds discussing issues that fat women face in today's society.
One of the things I love most about it is the emphasis on representation! In this video there are people of color, people of different age groups, a queer person and a mom! How radical!
Please take the time to watch our first video, comment, subscribe and follow the tumblr page, where you can fill out an application to be in our next panel!!
And here it is! Our first ever Fatgrltalk Discussion video!
The video and audio are a bit off in the beginning, but it fixes itself.
Again, thank you all for your interest, and please share your experiences and fill out the application to be in our upcoming videos!
Janis
Friends, this is a new project that I am so proud to be a part of! FatGrlTalk is a regularly varied panel of six fat women from different backgrounds discussing issues that fat women face in today's society.
One of the things I love most about it is the emphasis on representation! In this video there are people of color, people of different age groups, a queer person and a mom! How radical!
Please take the time to watch our first video, comment, subscribe and follow the tumblr page, where you can fill out an application to be in our next panel!!
So the indiegogo for a new social network that I’m helping create launched yesterday (Halloween)! So far we’ve had some very generous funders but we have a LONG way to go for our $100k goal!
Why do we need to make a new social network you ask? Good question! So far all social networks are created by rich, cishet white men. They have no grasp on the safety and privacy needed for marginalized people. Due to this it is harder to stay safe and get people banned during harassment campaigns such as gerbergate.
Not only that but social network sites like Facebook are requiring you to put in your “real name” if they deem it not “real” enough. This puts marginalized people even more at risk. Trans people and sex workers do not go by our government aliases for many valid reasons. If someone is being stalked they may use an alias so that their stalker can not find them as easily.
These things are a serious flaw within the social network sites that we have available to us. That is because of who it is run by.
Quirell, on the other hand, is managed by collectqt which is a Queer/Trans collective. The founder of Quirell herself is a QTWoC and also has sex workers on the project (myself).
We aren’t trying to replace twitter or tumblr. We’re trying to give people a safer space to run to when they have been triggered, harassed, or any reason for them to need to escape but still want to talk to their friends.
Funding for Quirell is needed. As of now, the Quirell team is working around the clock for basically no pay. All of us are already marginalized people and thus have the financial issues that most marginalized people face but we are still working for free to get Quirell up for everyone.
The $100,000 will allow us to be paid for our job, give us money for server costs, let us hire outside contractors that we need to make Quirell even better, and allow us to have PAID moderators!
So please donate. If you can’t, boost Quirell. Talk about it. Share the indiegogo with your friends and family who can donate. Get our name out there.
Our IGG has made it past our first goal of $10k which we couldn’t have done without ya’ll but we still have a LONG way to go to our main goal of $100k and with not much time left! SO PLEASE DONATE!
There will be other ways to donate after the IGG is up but please please please help us out so we can make a social network that everyone can feel safe in!
Signal Boost. This is so so important.
men don’t get to decide what is misogynistic
straight people don’t get to decide what it homophobic
cis people don’t get to decide what is transphobic
white people don’t get to decide what is racist
people in positions of power
don’t get to decide what is considered oppression
that’s how we move backwards, not forwards
Inez Jasper talking about issues facing indigenous women is everything you need to see today. Watch the full episode of Rebel Music: Native America here.
daddy issues = not funny
being traumatized by a father figure to the point where you can’t trust any man = not funny
getting scared of men raising their voices = not funny
living your whole life wondering why your dad abused you/left with no explanation = not funny
literally stop using the phrase daddy issues
His thoughts on Ferguson are always on point.
Damn Family Guy may be stupid sometimes…but this shit is on. Point.
That last comment!
I'm going to see Sleater Kinney in February!
This is 12 year old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Cleveland for holding a toy gun.
Know his story. Remember his name.
My brother is Tamir’s age and ironically enough we are from a major city in Ohio. A few months ago he wanted to meet up with some friends at a high school football game. He didn’t really coordinate as well as he should have with his friends though because when my mom pulled up with him to drop him off he wasn’t sure where his friends were in a crowd of roughly 100+ people.
There were only white people in the crowd and my mom ended up telling him he couldn’t stay because he didn’t know where his friends were. She told me she didn’t want to run the risk of him being in this crowd without his friends and someone misinterpreting something he does as a threat.
My parents have to reiterate constantly when we go somewhere that he simply can’t be a goofy kid. Because the world doesn’t see black little boys the same. And sadly anything seems to be getting them killed nowadays.
COMPLIMENT =/= CATCALL // r.i.d (via inkskinned)
Almost in tears. This was fucking beautiful.
(via nastynadz)
