Vetted Gazan fundraisers that have reached out to me for help

Compiling these into one post so it's easier for people to keep track, but each fundraiser has lots more info in the linked posts and you can share those as well. Please don't hesitate to donate! Everything helps.

I know link-heavy posts can be overwhelming, but please help spread these around.

today is the first day of what will hopefully be a better year than last year.

last year my friend cass, who is disabled and transfem and thus unemployable to the small business hitlers around here (which the disability office cannot comprehend), got kicked out twice by roommates: the first was by a polycule that grew one member too large, the second was by one of her hosts who decided that both cass and the other host should be made homeless because he was jealous of them being friends.

since then, cass has been living in a low income apartment complex so at least her housing is covered. but she still needs money for things that arent covered by food stamps such as toiletries.

if you have the means, consider giving her a few bucks.

her c-shapp is $saccharinesunrise

Noted RPG author and racist Gary Gygax on the other hand, would think that it's a great thing to do. Probably a Lawful Good thing even. As long as it's the right babies

Yeah as long as the babies are chaotic evil, which is a thing babies can be born as in the imagination of Gary Gygax.

I’m shaking from the cold as I write this. The storms won’t stop, and our tent protects us from nothing. My family is freezing, my mother is in pain, and there is no warmth or safety.

$10 from 20 people could save us from this deadly cold. Please help us. If you can’t donate, please share and don’t scroll past in silence.

🔗 Donate here 💳 PayPal ✅ Verified fundraiser

DO NOT CALL THE REGULAR POLICE.

they are not on your side.

Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!

If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.

And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.

by the way guys, this deployment of ice to minnesota is largest ever. more agents than chicago. we are a much less dense state. we are being inundated.

It is the largest Department of Homeland Security operation in history. And yet Minnesota’s Somali population (this operation’s primary target) is upwards of 90% naturalized American citizens. It’s even more of a manufactured crisis than most DHS operations. Genuinely living in Minnesota now feels like we’re a small country on the brink of invasion.

in fucked amounts of medical related debt while also trying to keep people I love from winding up back with abusive family or out on the street. can’t sugar coat things. not doing great but we could be doing better with more help and support. i badly need to pull us out of all this. the people in my found family are trans, autistic, disabled. most of society deems us unworthy of survival. please help if you can.

Important tip! Sometimes we should let posts about Black people... Stay about Black people.

I understand that it's often from a place of attempted sympathy and good intent! Nonetheless.

there are nonbinary people who are willing to go to the "women and nonbinary" spaces, nonbinary people who are not willing to go, nonbinary people who know they would never be welcome in them, and women who know they would never be welcome in them.

if you're nonbinary but not transfeminized, your choices are to go and tolerate constant regendering pressure and implicit reproduction of transmisogyny as the cost of admission, or to say "fuck that."

if you're transfeminized you get no choice at all.

yes, the experience of transphobia for tme nonbinary people in these spaces is deeply unpleasant, but we should all be able to understand that it's not really a sympathetic position we're in here. like we do need to read the room.

we experience this form of transphobia as the toll to get proximity to cis women's gendered power via signing on to the transmisogynistic structuring of social space.

in blunt terms, that's what's happening. we all know damn well cis women in these spaces will only help us out on the condition that we let them act like "nonbinary" means nothing more than "cis woman who uses Pronouns(TM)." we do need to name that this is an issue of power and selling out transfeminized people in order to get access to some residual cis privilege.

like we can talk about it as a phenomenon, but not without naming the transmisogyny that defines the entire social reality the phenomenon emerges within.

I am dying from anemia while my family is starving and freezing. This is not words. This is our life right now.

I woke up after days of losing consciousness to a body that is failing and a family still without shelter or food. Every hour I weaken, they sink deeper into suffering.

I am begging you. Donate if you can. Speak about us. Do not let my family face this nightmare alone.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

Please, stand with Aboud!! Help share his verified campaign, donate whatever you can to him and his family. They are going through unimaginable pain and suffering, and you can help change that. Make a difference in the lives of a real family experiencing a genocide! 🫂💞

I bring sort of a 'peasants of the past were not as debased,uneducated and dirty as a lot of pesudo-medieval fiction makes them out to be but this new wave of attempting to sweep the very real indentured servitude, corporal ownership, poverty and lack of basic human rights under the rug isn't achieving what you think it's achieving' vibe to the party that people don't really like

My mother, Filipina, was the only Asian woman in a many-mile radius in 90's backwoods Tennessee, and she was only there because she'd been strongarmed* into a teen marriage with a white husband who was even younger than her—

*I am not yet enough at peace with my memories to use a stronger word for it. I hope it comes soon.

—and he didn't want the marriage either but that didn't stop him from raping her (conceiving me!). Her English was terrible, she couldn't drive and there was nothing you could walk to through those woods, all she had was a couple white-woman friends at church to keep her going. And they called her Lingling.

And... I derive sexual enjoyment from doing housework for white partners. But I do not enjoy reciting all that ^ damage for them. I do not bear the moral responsibility to educate an endless train of bitches.

So I need them to come to the negotiation already understanding the titanic weight, the millions of deaths, of why a Filipina woman might want to do their housework. Of why she's going to start crying partway through, and why that's part of what she wants out of it.

Being inadequately critical of your desires makes you at best tedious to the people who might want to play with you, but more likely it will make you dangerous. I could have made this point better but I'm mad.

Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.

Stay safe, friends.

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

It’s a hot topic rn I know but the thing is I really don’t feel like I experienced misogyny the way women and girls do as a trans man, even before I was aware I was a man and even before I was out or passing. The way I internalized the misogyny that was directed towards me was very much “this feels bad because it isn’t supposed to happen to me.” I didn’t like being treated like a woman because I didn’t want to be seen as a woman. There was always the hope / intention that one day it no longer would. It still took actually speaking to women to, like, conceptualize the inescapable oppressiveness of misogyny for women. Women may wish for misogyny to stop but not because someday they will Stop Being Women you know. And like, even when experiencing things that were quite awful that psychological distancing did a lot to make my experience with misogyny significantly different from the women I know

I hate the frequency of rhetoric in the transmasc community right now that suggests trans men have functionally identical experiences and relationships to misogyny and womanhood as cis women (and almost always in tandem with the belief that they have closer, more genuine, “realer” relationships to these things than trans women) because it just denies the ability for being a trans man to actually mean anything on a level deeper than like… using different pronouns. That the sex I was assigned at birth, the gender that was forced upon me, leaves me identical in my relationship to the world around me and my experiences as cis women… The idea that my being a man could have an impact on how I navigate the world and could even cause my relationship to power structure in the world to be closer to other men’s than women’s is completely lost. Like “Oh sure you’re a he/him but you’re still the same as a cis woman in every other way.” It’s the same issue I have with all “gendered socialization” discussions. I’ve stood by this my whole life, firstly I don’t really believe in gendered socialization as it’s most often discussed, but, secondly, if it comes down to it I don’t feel like I was socialized as a woman—I feel like I was socialized as a transgender man. I don’t feel like I had almost anything in common with women or girls growing up. I didn’t really have friends that were girls, I didn’t feel like I fit in amongst girls, I didn’t relate to girls, nor did I want to. It doesn’t just matter how people treated me, it’s how I was interpreting and internalized that treatment.

And what’s also annoying to me is the inverse of this statement, “trans men and cis men are fundamentally different because trans men face misogyny.” Cuz it’s like… cis men do face misogyny. So much homophobia towards cis gay men overlaps with misogyny. A ton of the dehumanization men of color face overlaps with misogyny. Hell cishet white guys who get a little fruity with it often experience misogyny lmao. Like misogyny is a power structure that impacts all of society from the top down it’s a tool of controlling people in a patriarchal system. The fact that trans men encounter misogyny in our lives in certain contexts does not make us Fundamentally Different From Cis Men and it is completely detached to use this as some argument against trans men asserting our similarities to cis men and our shared manhood with fellow men... Obviously trans men often face certain specific experiences and forms of oppression that our non-trans counterparts do not, but that can be said for any marginalized subgroup within a larger group, right?

Like I think the bottom line is that “it sucks that this is happening to me (being treated like a woman) because I’m not being seen as my true self (a man)” is significantly different than “it sucks that this is happening to me (being treated like a woman) because I am inherently seen as less human on account of a fundamental aspect of who I am (a woman)” and it really frustrates me that these things are so frequently conflated as equal. And it’s very annoying that many trans men see this discussion and interpret it as people downplaying the multitude of traumatic experiences and very material struggles that trans men can and do face. Absolutely not. I just think the language used to discuss these things and the larger way it’s framed as some AFAB Experience Of Misogyny really sucks. I don’t want to be told that I’m more similar to women than men, especially on some entirely immaterial level regarding my own relationship to my body and lived experiences, just because I was born with a vagina!! That was the whole point of being trans for me!!

Like just the other day I saw a transmasc talking down to a trans woman about the misogyny she experiences and basically telling her that his experience with misogyny as “an AFAB” was deeper than hers. Sounding literally identical to a TERF, the main “example” he gave was “trans women will never know the complex emotions of getting their first periods.”

Now this is just very silly (<- understatement ofc, I understand it is also barefaced transmisogynistic) for a plethora of reasons before even getting into what I’m talking about. To posit some inherent universal shared experience amongst all first-period-havers is silly as it is, and one could also easily point out that there are plenty of “AFABs” who never get a period. Many of them being trans men! Any trans man whose parents were supportive enough to allow him access to puberty blockers (which have been used as gender affirming care for like 40 years) has much more likely than not never experienced a period, and that’s to say nothing of cis women, often intersex ones, who never do either. This is just a transmisogynistic gotcha to deny trans women access to womanhood while denying the lived experience of transitioning men and isolating a great deal of other women in the process.

But within the context of this particular post what struck me was like… Why is this person assuming that MY relationship to MY first period as a trans man is the same as a cisgender woman’s?? Why would it be?? You’re going to imply one of the biggest cultural hallmarks of “female puberty” is something a trans man and a cis woman would feel the exact same way about?? How can we fight for trans liberation when we can’t even acknowledge the possibility that being trans could give us a different relationship to such a personal, sensitive, stigmatized, even traumatic life event?? Thats what I mean when I say this mindset makes the very concept of being trans completely meaningless. It feels crazy to view yourself as an activist for trans men (at the expense of trans women) and yet not be able to imagine that transgender men navigate their pre-transition bodies, experiences, and social situations differently than a cisgender woman would. It feels at minimum like soft misgendering and I can’t believe they don’t realize how actually transphobic it is. “Trans men were assigned female at birth so their relationship to womanhood is identical to a cis woman” like omg. That’s just transphobia. Thinking trans men and cis women are the same is transphobia.