LGBTQ+ youth are twice as likely to experience homelessness. Here’s how you can help!

LGBTQ+ youth deserve to grow up in a stable and affirming environment. The Montrose Center, Houston’s LGBTQ+ resource center, is still collecting donations to our Housing Our Future campaign, getting LGBTQ+ youth off the streets.

Through September 25, we’ll be collecting donations for our youth rapid rehousing program which helps get Houston LGBTQ+ youth off the streets and into stable housing. We’ll be closing out the campaign with a virtual watch party featuring local drag performers like Reign LaRue, Blackberri, and Regina Thorne-DuBois!

Your efforts can make all the difference! Please donate to my fundraising page and spread the word on social media. All donors will receive a link to our watch party which will air Friday, September 25 at 7pm. Thank you so much!

If anyone can help, please do! Even if it's just a reblog, if we manage to get her story out there, there will be those who can donate! Every little thing counts.

Repost to spread. (Not really humor)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/new-warning-issued-for-all-whatsapp-and-imessage-users-major-threat-to-encryption/

I understand this is a lot of words to read for some of y’all, but the lack of outrage and anger I’m seeing these days breaks my heart. We need to stand up and bring attention to this.

Please help us secure a place to stay. Our housing is full and I have to find a way to keep them from taking my son. If anybody can help out I’d appreciate it so much.Kahlil doesn’t have any more diapers and we have a couple of wipes I’ve been buying him the chocolate ensure drinks but I don’t think that’s going to be enough please help.

https://paypal.me/JWhitman407?locale.x=en_US

I’m begging anybody who can to please just reblog this so we can secure a space to sleep this holiday idc if we’re in another hotel for a week so long as we’re warm.

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There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

Though 10-year-old Vira Rama didn’t understand what his family’s secrets were, he knew that they had to be kept hidden. At first glance, they seemed innocuous enough: a stash of family photos of trips to the beach and Siem Reap, a photo of Rama in a youth scout uniform, all wrapped up in a bag made of cut tarp.

When the Khmer Rouge seized control of the country in April 1975, Rama’s mother, Kim Pean Ky, had insisted on taking this bundle of photos with her as her family was forcibly relocated from their home in the northwestern city of Battambang. She kept them concealed as soldiers marched them into the country on dusty roads congested with people fleeing in three-wheeled tuk-tuks, on ox-driven carts, and even on foot. As soon as the family was resettled in a village called O’ Srarlao, located in what the military regime called Zone 4, Rama watched as his mother dug a hole under their small wooden hut just large enough for the bag of photos. He didn’t ask questions as she hid the traces of their middle-class life under a pile of banana leaves. Though the family would travel to several other zones during the rule of the Khmer Rouge, from 1975 to 1979, Rama’s mother never forgot about the photos. Each time they moved, she quietly and dutifully excavated the bag and then buried again, and again, and again. If the severe, unpredictable, paranoid Khmer Rouge had found it, their lives would be forfeit.

Now, 44 years later, the archive Rama’s mother risked her life to preserve has been published in a book, aptly named Buried. The book is a collaboration between the family and British photographer Charles Fox, who has worked in Cambodia since 2005 running Found Cambodia, an archive of photos of life before, during, and after the reign of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. Of all the photos Fox has encountered in Found Cambodia, he says the Rama’s archive is by far the most complete. “Their story is one of thousands of stories,” he says. “But their collection is unique. Vira tried to record as much of his family history as possible.”

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The Pokemon Toad Set Has Returned

I’m doing a Pokémon toad set. As usual, it is $5 to adopt a toad! You can also pre-adopt any Pokemon of any generations before they’re made for the same price it costs to adopt one, just to make sure you get the toad you want before someone else gets it! If the Pokémon you want has already been adopted, you will be given the option to adopt the shiny version of the Pokémon. If a Pokémon has alternate forms, you can choose which form you get.

If you adopt, you’ll get the full quality versions of the adoptable that aren’t shrunk down to 200x200 pixels and you’ll get a version without glitter too, and the image will be yours to use for whatever you want. 

Here is an example of the first one I made, Bulbasaur:

If a toad you want has been adopted already, I can do you the shiny version instead.

So here is the first one for this post: Wailord (who has already been pre-adopted):

Deino has been adopted!!!

Grubbin has been adopted!!!!

Duskull has been adopted!!!!!!

Shiny Ledyba has been adopted!!!

Galvantula has been adopted!!!

Shiny Mareep has been adopted!!!!!

Tangela has been adopted!!

Thank you for my beautiful child!! ♡♡♡

trivia (x)(x)(x) of Amphibia, new Disney Channel series premiering Monday, June 17th

THE FIRST EPISODE IS UP ONLINE!

and also THIS!!!

Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.

The amount of support that this post has gotten is, quite honestly, incredible. LGBT Muslims are constantly forgotten and ignored because people from both the LGBT community and the Muslim community view our existence as a contradiction or an impossibility. It’s time that people acknowledge us and our experiences with islamophobia and homophobia/transphobia because like I said: we’re not going anywhere. 

My experience with gender dysphoria is kinda like If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.

It’s not that I always have this constant drive to be female, or that it’s just a thing that randomly comes and goes. It’s more like a constant push in the direction of presenting more femininely.

So if I’m clean shaven, I’m gonna want to put together a nice outfit to go with how nice and smooth my face and legs look (and it might as well be a feminine outfit - that’s what nice looks like, yeah?). If you give me a nice outfit, I’ll want to do my nails and put on some makeup. If I’m in nail polish and makeup, I look pretty nice, and almost like a girl - if only my Adam’s apple was gone and I had some breasts, that’d really complete the look. At that point, I also start getting dysphoric about my shoulders. And if I’m going that far, I should really get facial feminization surgery, otherwise my face isn’t gonna fit with the rest of me. (I understand cute outfits and makeup aren’t every girl’s cup of tea, but this is just about my experience)

It isn’t that I always want to have breasts and rearrange my facial features. When I’m presenting 100% male, those things aren’t even on my mind, and honestly I don’t even want them. After all, if I have facial hair to worry about still, breasts aren’t gonna make me look like a girl; they’ll just make my gender presentation look kinda mixed. So gender dysphoria is kind of a sliding scale.

I say all this because I’ve never seen anyone else say anything like it, but I know I’m not the only trans person whose dysphoria gets worse when I get closer to my ideal presentation, and I wish I’d known about that when I was still trying to figure things out. I thought the reason I didn’t feel very dysphoric was because I wasn’t transgender - it turned out that I just hadn’t been allowed to present femininely enough to really feel how strong the dysphoria got as I moved along the sliding scale.

So, I hope this helps someone. Thanks for coming to my essay.

reblog to help a trans follower understand themselves

Deregulation will get you killed. Republican policies make your life worse.

This should be considered criminal and someone needs to account for this because this is RIDICULOUS

When people report on the e. Coli outbreak they need to include this. This stuff isn’t happening out of no where

YO

U.S. Amazon employee here!!!

Do not buy into that bullshit about us getting a “raise”. It’s not a raise. Not when workers who have been there 2+ years who made $13 when they started and now make $14 are only getting that $15 like every other new employee is. We should be getting payed $16 but we aren’t.

They already took away our ability to earn payed days off. Yup that’s right. Thru points earned thru productivity we could earn a payed day off if we had a certain amount of points.

Now they take away our monthly bonuses too that we earned thru attendance and productivity.

AND they took away our stocks because of this so-called “raise”.

All they did was move the money elsewhere. Actually, I haven’t done the calculations yet but I bet we LOST money from our pay.

That “raise” is bullshit. Fuck Jeff Bezos and fuck Amazon.

i’m a paypig

mistress told me to send money to people because i don’t deserve it

ill pick a few people who reblog this post to send 1000€, i’ll post proof later today

this is the money cuck, reblog and money will find you

Update: From Jenny Han’s Opinion piece on New York Times

You get em

If race didn’t “matter”, why were they so quick to wanna change it??????