*uwus aggressively*

Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s open letter pleading for aid for the Afghan community shortly before the Taliban took control of Kabul.

Karimi has continued to plead for international aid as she tries to flee the country. She has been posting periodic updates on Twitter.

imagine having to LEARN how to spot racism 😭

that’s still so funny to me you’ll call a white person out for saying the most blatantly obvious racist thing and they go “i’m still listening and learning” girl learning WHAT?? common sense???

“there are many children in afghanistan, but little childhood.” 

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(National and international aid + direct aid)

This article was posted on the 10th August 2021.

Heres a link to the crowd funding page for Rukhsana Media.

when disabled people say that being disabled is expensive, i think that able-bodied people don't quite understand HOW expensive it is. so i'm doing my costs to illustrate, which are on top of regular expenses like rent.

SSI maximum payout: $780/mo

the SSI restoration act increases SSI maximum pay to the federal poverty level (a 31% increase--yes disabled people on SSI are 31% or more below federal poverty level). even though it's still not nearly enough, please call or email your local gov to at least get disabled people up to the federal poverty level

house bill H.R.3824 | senate bill S.2065

Hi, adding on to add that that $2000-$4000 for a wheelchair is CHEAP, like for an off-the-show-floor model. If you require any special fitting, it can easily skyrocket above that amount.

this is very true! as long as i can maneuver a manual wheelchair, i will deal with any discomfort to avoid cost increases. custom chairs, power chairs, manual chairs with power assist, all those cost much more than $2-4k, more like $10-15+k. speaking of which, the maintenance costs are also cheap because i go to a bicycle shop, as many wheelchair users do, to avoid the high cost and long wait times of official maintenance/repair.

anime_irl

women in chinese hanfu and armor by 谢泽泽泽泽

(observes you)

(you behave like a particle)

(behaves like a wave while you’re not looking)

The good plot twists aren’t the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they’re the ones that make all the other little things that didn’t quite add up before suddenly click

it shouldnt be “i didnt see that coming!”

it should be “i SHOULD have seen that coming!”

Person who's on the same side of the argument as you, but also has the worst takes about it you've ever seen in your life

#yes yes we've all been on tumblr (via @mylordshesacactus​)

Concrete, 100% effective way to tell if someone doesn’t belong in a LGBT+/queer space:

They openly and actively hate/ want to hurt the people in that space

Controversial opinion here, I know, but just because you’re in a safe LGBT+/Queer space doesn’t mean you have to disclose their identity to everyone there. And people are allowed to bring their partners, regardless of their orientation, to those same spaces. 

Obviously there are certain spaces that are for specific people, but at the same time, y’all are so obsessed with micromanaging queer spaces. The only thing that should be a litmus for entry into those spaces is: “does this person want to hurt someone else in this space and I know that? Yes? Then they aren’t fucken welcome. Regardless of identity.”

I volunteered in ine of the biggest queer youth clubs as an educator / guide (there isnt a word in english for these stuff).

We had so many queer kids that brought cishet friends and some of them didnt come out later, some of them really were cishet and that is fine.

They did no harm to the queer atmosphere and when someone new joined for the first time we gave them a little tour of the club and invited them to a one on one talk with one of the volunteers.

Ive had many of these conversations with teens at the ages of 12-19 and everyone calmed down when we told them there is no criteria to being there that this is a safe space and after a short explanation and some questions where many of them just blurted out their stories.

The non queer identifying people came for years either because they just met some friends from different places along the country and it was their usual hangout or because they really needed a safe space with no judgment in their lives.

Cishet people also need safe spaces where there are no gendered expectations of them and they can play with makeup and dresses and just be calm and learn about safe sexuality and consent.

Why in the world would you kick people who need safe spaces and benefit from them out???

Queer people seeing cishet people in queer spaces not acting weird and for once seeing the atmosphere is queer and the cis person has to adapt does marvels to one’s sense of how real it feels, how you could bring this safe space outside and this culture to other friends.

Introduce some of the stuff you learned to your friends and family maybe to some willing coworker idk.

The point is that our way to smash the patriarchy, gender roles, rape culture and more shit is too bring it outside and allow allies to be there cus why the fuck not

Thanks for sharing! This really highlights a collection of reasons why it’s important to not create these arbitrary rules to who can and can’t come in. 

Also?

When I was in college, I had a cishet friend who was Christian and quietly felt homosexuality was a sin. I never heard her say so out loud….

…..which is why it STUNNED me when last year, she admitted she felt that way in college. But, she said, spending time with me in what we called the LGBTQIA+ group, to support me through a time when I was on and off suicidal, she discovered that queer people were, well….people. Who just wanted to be allowed to live. That might sound like “wow, the bar was belowground and she was doing the limbo with Satan,” but you must understand: this was 2006 in a very tiny town. Our senator had just compared homosexuality to both bestiality and pedophilia and there was a concerted push going on to write “one man, one woman” into the Constitution. Allison’s position (“I feel a certain kind of way but I’m not going to say it aloud”) was actually KINDER than most of the people around me.

And just spending time in our spaces, being around queer people, she realized “hey, what I have been told my whole life is a lie. These people are just people. Telling terrible jokes, having cookouts, fighting for basic human dignity, arguing over whether or not face painting is an appropriate college activity. There is no difference between them and me.”

Without a welcome into queer spaces, Allison might still be part of a homophobic church. Instead she helped organize her town’s first Pride parade in 2019.

“The queer kids, whether they’re gay or straight, need to stick together.” — Tim Miller, gay performance artist

Gatekeeping kills. STOP THAT.

the one experience that unites all 90s and early 2000s kids is experiencing at least one work of fiction with a deceptively adorable illustration of cute animals on the cover who live in societies with an established political system, hierarchy of leadership and culture and are driven from their homes by human activity and/or engage in violent conflicts with other animals in similar communities that lead to many of the characters’ brutal deaths, which are described in graphic detail and which left you briefly emotionally traumatized by being confronted with the concept of your own fragile mortality before you were 10

the 4 horsemen

it has been brought to my attention that this was an ENTIRE GENRE of children’s fiction for some reason

You forgot An American Tail

Expectation: “Yay, cute talking animals going on fun adventures and learning about friendship!”

Reality: “These cute talking animals are going through a lot of traumatic shit. The world they live in is dangerous, the stakes are super high and these small critters deal with war, death, betrayal, and oppression. Have fun reading, kids!”

And then if you read Animorphs, you know