Question for y'all: what would you do if you had $10,000 to make things better for LGBTQ+ youth in your community or school?

If you can dream it up, we want to help you make it happen.

Since 2022, we've awarded over $1.3 million in funding to 142 youth-led projects across the U.S., including things like gender-affirming clothing closets, regional LGBTQ+ youth conferences, student wellness programs and safe spaces, and inclusive arts and education projects.

And yup, we're doing it again.

With It Gets Better: Changemakers, we want to help you create a lasting impact at your school, your library, your local LGBTQ+ center, or wherever it’s needed most in your own local community. A downtown Pride mural? Education sessions at your local LGBTQ+ center? A Queer Prom? Let's do it!

You can apply now for a grant of up to $10,000 through May 5, 2025 at itgetsbetter.org/changemakers.

P.S.: Look out for upcoming live info sessions where we'll answer all your FAQs about the application and funding process. Can't wait to see your ideas. 💜

Here is a very cool thing—It Gets Better: Changemakers! 🎉

🏳️‍🌈 Apply now to get $10,000 for your school! 🏳️‍⚧️

Over the past 2 years, we've granted over $1 million to students across the U.S. through our 50 States, 50 Grants, 5,000 voices initiative to help make their schools more welcoming for LGBTQ+ students.

And yup - we're doing it again.

Do you have an idea that would help make your school better for LGBTQ+ students? Maybe like building...

🟣 A gender-affirming closet

🟣 Your school's first Pride parade

🟣 An LGBTQ+ mural on campus

🟣 A safe space or community garden, or

🟣 Resources for your GSA club?

See some past projects from other students here for inspo.

We know that students know what they need most at their own schools - so middle and high school students across the U.S., DC, and territories can apply now through April 1 for one of our school grants to win up to $10,000 to actually make your project a reality!

The application, FAQs, and more are all available at 50states50grants.org.

Apply now through April 1 - can't wait to see what you all come up with.

We are so proud to be supporting @itgetsbetterproject's 50 States 50 Grants initiative this year—an initiative that seeks to uplift and empower LGBTQIA+ youth in high schools and middle schools in the US, Washington DC, and US territories. If that's you, you can apply now!

Join the 50 States 50 Grants newsletter for info on webinars they're running to help with the application process!

Winter is coming…and all the holiday to-do’s have entered the chat! ❄️🎁☕

Comment below how YOU plan to spread some holiday cheer this month (besides checking your voter registration at weall.vote/check of course 😉)

Today is a great day for democracy in Michigan! 🎉 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a series of election bills into law expanding and protecting access to the ballot box.

These new laws: 🗳 Allow 16 year olds to pre-register to vote 🙌 Expand voter registration ❌ Criminalize poll worker intimidation 📅 Vote up to 9 days early ✅ Automatically register returning citizens (Making Michigan the first state to do so!)

Motivation for today and everyday.

GOOD NEWS: Alabama’s new congressional map now includes two Black-opportunity districts.

Previously, Alabama’s congressional map was struck down for violating the Voting Rights Act diluting the voting power of Black Alabamians. Despite Black Alabamians making up 27% of the state’s population, only one of the state’s seven congressional seats regularly went to a candidate preferred by Black voters.

ATENTION EVERYONE IN THE US

Tomorrow October 4th 2023, a nationwide alert will go off on EVERY PHONE! If you have a hidden phone you need to SHUT IT OFF COMPLETELY!

The FEMA alert will go off at approximately 1:20pm CST, and will both buzz and have sound.

If you are unaware, many people in abusive households have hidden phones they use to help them get out. If their phone is discovered they may be beaten, starved, etc. It is VERY important that everyone who needs a hidden phone can turn it off in time.

Source

September 30th is the end of the fiscal year and the last day for Congress to fund the federal government. If funding isn’t passed, the government shuts down.

To date, the federal government has shut down 21 times, four times in the past 10 years. What does a government shutdown mean? Who’s impacted? What’s currently happening in Congress? Swipe through and remember, government shutdowns are impacted by your vote. 

Check your voter registration at weall.vote/check and remind a friend to do the same.

From the site: All images courtesy Carol Rossetti and used with permission. You can find more illustrations, as well as more languages, on her Facebook page.

Oooh. I reblogged a partial version of this recently but I didn’t know how many more there were! I LOVE these!

OK SO THERE ARE TONS MORE OF THESE OF THE ARTISTS FB PAGE. GUYS THESE ARE AWESOME.

LOOK

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LETS APPLAUD CAROL ROSSETTI EVERYONE

  LOOK

Um, these are like the best thing ever.

I wish i got nice things like that. Everyone is always judging me based on my choices.

Everyone needs to see this! Spread this post!!!

A few of these I absolutely needed to save to remember at times

I’ll send it again because this is wonderful

My favorite thing about this is how there’s diversity in the women even when it isn’t relevant. There are more fat women than just the illustrations regarding body image. There are multiple women in wheelchairs even when the text isn’t focusing on it. there are so many different races and ethnicity even when that’s not what the words are focusing on. One of them doesn’t have a left arm and it isn’t the focus. It’s beautiful, showing the overlap between all these things.

I already reblogged this, but reblogging it again, because it makes me so happy.

Automattic Presents: Under Pressure with Ana Teresa Fernández 

For Climate Week NYC, we’re hosting a panel discussion on September 20 in our Noho Space. Artist and activist Ana Teresa Fernández will be joined by Cristina Gnecco (Co-Founder of HOPE Hydration) and Whitney McGuire, Esq. (Director of Sustainability at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) in exploring how art and innovation can catalyze positive change, inspiring us to take newfound insights into the world and encourage collective action.

The panel will be held against the backdrop of Ana Teresa Fernández’s provocative series, Under Pressure—a multi-disciplinary work comprising video, photography, paintings, and sculpture that engages with questions of responsibility and response in relation to the climate emergency and rising sea levels.  Tune in to the livestream of the Under Pressure panel discussion on September 20 at 6:45 PM ET! Right here on Tumblr.com.

When we all work together, we can make our voices heard — so let’s get out and make our voices heard. ✊🏾

Join us, BET, the National Urban League, and over 50 organizations nationwide in celebrating National Black Voter Day today! Here’s how YOU can celebrate #NationalBlackVoterDay in 5 minutes: Register to vote or check your registration status at https://weall.vote/bet.

Text 3 members of your #VotingSquad asking them to also check their voter registration status too! 📲

The police have been refusing to release information about the murderer but the victim’s family updated everyone with her name and pic.

Forgot to add the GoFundMe link that is being used for funeral arrangements and the care of AJ’s children.

The video of her arrest: https://www.instagram.com/p/CtMLnPAOyye/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 Today the Supreme Court allowed the Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district. This decision a win for our democracy and Black voters in Louisiana, who were facing a congressional map that diluted their power and forced them into one district. Today’s ruling comes on the heels of Allen v. Milligan, in which SCOTUS upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and ordered Alabama officials to redraw the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district.

Can you imagine the U.S. without prisons? Without immigration detention? Or gun-toting cops? Well, it might not be too hard to imagine – because it actually existed not too long ago! Wait, really? #PushBlack #BlackHistory –––– We all know schools aren’t teaching Black history correctly. That’s why PushBlack is so important! Will you support truthful, accurate, empowering Black history content with a donation?

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According to npr.org, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D, Missouri) has introduced new legislation calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans, in an effort to see the federal government atone and attempt to compensate for the practice of chattel slavery for over 250 years and the generations of racist policies that have followed.