reposting my pride month art

PLEASE HELP ME GET TOP SURGERY!

Ok never in a million years did I expect to make one of these posts but I've seen success in others so I'm reaching out to the community for help.

My name is David, I'm living with my found family after leaving the deep south into the diet south (midwest) and I've been able to smoothly transition FtM. I've been extremely happy and my mental health has improved a lot!

I've been able to save up 7k for my surgery all on my own pretty much (proof below), but I just had a consultation with the amazing surgeon that I've picked out to do my top surgery, Dr. Whitehead. He personally spoke with me and estimated my surgery, all bells and whistles included, total 100% cost out of pocket, would be 10k.

I am SO CLOSE to being done with my personal transition. Socially and hormonally I've transitioned, all I have left is my legal name (in progress) and top surgery.

Please PLEASE, if you have anything to spare, every penny counts. I'm currently out of work since my previous job was extremely taxing and caused my chronic pain to rise and my previously injured knee to worsen. I hope to get back to work but the more help I have, the sooner I can go through with my surgery. I'm so desperate to have top surgery, it would help so much in finding jobs, working longer hours without the danger of binding, and earning more money to support myself.

All reblogs, likes, tags, any sort of signal boosting helps! I know everyone is struggling right now so please don't feel bad if you can't donate, just a reblog or sending it to a friend who can also RB would help me immensely and might put this on the dash of someone who can donate.

Thank you so much!! Pictures of me and my saved up funds are below.

Cashapp: $CorruptedCanine

Paypal: https://paypal.me/CorruptCanineCreates?locale.x=en_US

Oh and here's my cat for the road! thanks for reading <3

to the white readers:

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

period.

ways to help protestors if you are unable to protest

everybody has to do their part. as a reference, this was posted on 1 june 2020. if any links are broken or direct to a place they should not, please feel free to add on with corrections. if there is new information with better knowledge, please feel free to share. thank you.

1. donate

BAIL FUNDS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST)

MORE PLACES TO DONATE

2. educate yourself

it isn’t enough to sign petitions and reblog/retweet/etc. nonblack people, including people of color, owe it to black people to educate themselves and correct themselves and the people around them on anti-blackness.

3. give out supplies to protestors

people need supplies to protest safely, and even if they bring supplies with them, they can often run out. if you’re able, stock up and hand them out to people protesting. for more supplies to donate, see the “george floyd action” google docs link in section 5.

IMPORTANT: KNOWING FIRST AID

tear gas: if you’re hit, get out as fast and as soon as you can. take anyone you can with you. the longer you’re in the gas, the harder it will be for you to see, and it can irritate your airways, making it hard to breathe. if you’re hit, don’t run; it’ll only make things worse on your lungs. when you leave the area, take a cold shower. don’t use hot water (it will only reactivate the agent); don’t bathe (it will only spread the CS around). (source 1) (source 2) (cdc fact sheet on tear gas)

bullet wounds: the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. be sure to check for an exit wound and cover that as well. treat both wounds, but treat the worse one first.

miscellaneous

4. be a source of information

be responsible with this. people’s lives are at stake. that being said, the media is a fucking joke and the best way to get accurate information in a grassroots rebellion is amongst ourselves. record everything, but if you are going to share any information at all, be sure to blur people’s faces.

NUMBERS TO CALL FOR ARRESTED PROTESTORS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; SOURCES LINKED TO THE NUMBER)

remember to keep phones OFF unless absolutely necessary. cell phone towers, stingrays, location notifs can all be used to track you and other protestors. don’t fuck around. if your phone must be on, keep it on airplane mode as often as possible and only communicate using encrypted methods. no, snapchat doesn’t count. (a twitter thread on stingrays, for those interested)

5. miscellaneous links and links for protestors

I saw this tweet the other day but it reminded me of something my favorite professor once said in a class I took on rape culture, she was talking about how when someone “forgives” someone else’s abuser/rapist whether that be someone you know or a public figure you are invalidating the survivor. If the victim is not ready or willing to forgive and yet you decide to give that to the perpetrator you are putting your wants/needs/opinions over that of the survivor.

In the case of public figures I think it’s better to just move on from supporting that person, you don’t know them so you are DEFINITELY not in a position to “forgive” them.

“Imagine a world without hate”. #Love it!

Did this post just provide us with a glimpse of an alternate timeline because damn

Oh look it’s the Good Timeline

This made me tear up. Goddamn.

I hope GoodTimeline!me is doing great

I feel sad knowing how close we were to this timeline

if only america

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL NON-BINARY PEOPLE´S DAY!!!

(July 14, 2020)

here are some petitions to sign:

stop mark zuckerberg from colonizing kauai

hold the u.s. army accountable: justice for vanessa guillen

junk the anti - terrorism bill and uphold human rights

support the equality act

change the kkk status into terrorist organization

justice for julian m. solis

target, stop filling the world with plastic bags

ICE made a decision to order all international students whose universities are online to leave the country or risk facing immigration consequences and getting deported which essentially means that students will have to decide between leaving the US or risk their health. many countries don’t even have their borders open and some people may not even have places to go so please sign this petition which requests that international students get the option to finish their degrees and remain in the USA

Sucks that we need this advice, but great that it’s being shared. 

I’m reposting for my black love ones out here!

My tummy doesn’t have to be cute. It holds my internal organs. My thighs don’t have to “crush men’s skulls”. I use them to carry myself. My stretch marks don’t have to be tiger stripes I earned. They came when I grew.

Stop.

feeling this

This!

I feel like even body positivity is too focused on, like, the appearance of the body. I know I became a whole lot happier with my body when I started thinking of it less in terms of how it looked (to me or anyone else) and realized, that, like…

When I feel cool breeze on my skin on a really hot day, my body did that for me.

When I step into a bath after a hike, and my muscles ache, but in a good way, and the steam all around me makes me feel like a flower blooming, my body did that for me.

And the hike before it, and standing on a large rock breathing the raw winter air seeing the power of the half-frozen river. That too.

When I’ve had a plate of pasta puttanesca, and I chopped and sauteed the ingredients and now I’m full-but-not-uncomfortable, and warm all over, and perfectly content, my body did that for me.

My body doesn’t have to look awesome to be awesome. It’s awesome because it’s where I live.

Best comment.

“[My body is] awesome because it’s where I live.”

Words. To. Live. By.

Finally, some real body positivity

Friendly reminder to check your breasts while you’re just sitting there scrolling the internet, then reblog so your followers do the same. Two people I know were just diagnosed within the same week.

these are the things that need spread. not fucking ribbons and the words “breast cancer awareness.” we know it exists. just knowing it exists isn’t going to help much.

for everyone who has breasts or is rather busty in the chest area (because men can get it too and not everyone who has breasts is a woman)

Quick reminder for my followers with boobs! I checked mine and I’m all clear.

Also amab people as well! While it is rare, people who are amab can develop breast cancer too, because even though it’s thin [in some cases] you still have breast tissue, just not mammary glands, which is what produces milk :-O

Holy shit i am SO PLEASED TO SEE THIS TWEET ON MY FEED. My mum is one of the people that’s been helping the Djapwurrung people protect these trees for the last two years (the fight to save the sites has been going on for way longer; two years ago was just when works were about to begin, and attempts to stop the destruction moved from council/legal offices to people literally sitting in front of the trees to block access by large machinery), so it’s an issue I’ve been watching from up close, and and it’s one that hasn’t seen mainstream attention, even though it should have.

There is a core group of individuals who have been on site for TWO YEARS. Other volunteers come in and out to help and live onsite for anywhere between a few days to a few months at a time, but there’s a few individuals who have been on country for TWO YEARS, without pause. They have been camping, unceasingly, on the land to protect these sites (several trees with varying types of cultural importance, including an 800 year old birthing tree which has been the site of over 10,000 Djapwurrung babies being born) for two years. The sites haven’t been left unmanned even for a few hours since this all started.

One of these indigenous protectors has:

That’s just a snippet of what this one person has gone through. That doesn’t cover the constant abuse faced by all of them, the attempts at property destruction, the attitude they get by locals whenever they go into town for supplies, the constant red alerts because someone’s heard that the machinery is being mobilised and that they’re moving to start works tomorrow. There were several occasions where police were called to disperse the protectors so that works could begin, and it’s only because there were more protectors than cops that everyone wasn’t arrested and dragged off.

I could literally go on for days with details about this. An archeologist came out to the site and was absolutely staggered by the stuff that was there – in addition to the trees themselves, there was more archeological evidence of the local indigenous tribe that had lived there, sitting untouched on the surface of the earth than this archeologist has seen at any other site throughout Australia. A detailed report was sent to the supposed Minister for the Environment, who summarily ignored it and gave her stamp of approval for the works to commence without reading any of the reports. The protectors went to court over this and it was found that yeah, the Environment Minister hasn’t done her job at all, and a full review has been ordered —- but the works haven’t been cancelled altogether.

All this for a road that will shave a few minutes of travel off the road that currently already exists. All this for a road that’s got a speed limit of 80 that they want to boost to 110. All this for a road that could go a different route. There’s another route available that the protectors have been pitching for since the start, but VicRoads refuses to consider it for reasons they won’t specify.

This route that they’re insistent on not only cuts directly through several indigenous sites (some of the only ones left in Victoriaof this kind) it also costs around $630 million more. This route is full of hills and valleys that need to be flattened, and it’s twisty and turny. The Northern Route - the one protectors have been wanting since the beginning - is flat and straight, will be literal hundreds of millions of dollars less expensive, will take less time to complete, and doesn’t cut through any indigenous sites.

If you could sign this petition, that would be awesome. Here is another petition.

Here is a copy of an academic petition sent by RMIT to the Victorian government, signed by over 150 academics.

Here is an article written by an indigenous woman (which I am not, by the way; I’m just a white woman who is outraged by what my government is trying to do to these people) on the topic that has some more information.

And thank you, @whitepeopletwitter , for sharing this.

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This is one of the most adorable Pride posts I’ve ever seen

What I love about the imagery of the turtle is that it’s sending the message that they are protecting themselves by being in their shell. It’s not about deceiving straight people (like we are often told), but about the turtle’s own safety. They’ll come out when the time is right and they feel comfortable. 💕🏳️‍🌈

This is one of the most important messages, in my opinion, for LGBT+ youth. It is okay to wait until you are safe, secure, and comfortable - it is good to wait until coming out will be safe and comfortable for you. You do not owe anyone your coming out - not the people around you, not the LGBT+ community, not anyone. You are owed safety, security, and comfort. If the “be true to yourself” mantra makes you feel pressured, remember that you don’t owe anyone that. Remember that you’re allowed to put your own safety and comfort first.

More media suppression of journalists. So now when journalists tweet or write articles (as this journalist did both) about police that the cops don’t like, police departments are trying to find ways to arrest for journalists some other type of “crime.”

😬😬😬👀 freedom of speech is only free until you speak against the wrong group of people that have too much authority

dystopian as fuck. "You're free to say what you want unless it's something against us." -the U.S. government

Imagine that the police comes to your house to say "I'm here to arrest you because I read your tweets and I don't like them"