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the lack of recognition of how bathroom bills affect intersex people is intersexism.

this laws are usually pushed under transmisic agenda, and it's fair that trans rights advocacy addresses transmisia in these campains and laws. but these laws also affect intersex people.

some intersex people look visibly sex variant. and they are also seen as a threat to the sex and gender essentionalism. transmisia and intersexism are intertwined and may become inseparable in some parts.

intersex people are also at risk in gendered spaces. we can also be harassed, banned, charged for "violation," face various violence.

it's important to recognize that risk and remember about intersex people in discussions of these laws.

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BABY AYLA HAS BEEN HOSPITALIZED!!

Ayla is in the hospital with severe malnutrition and dehydration due to the IOF’s food blockade. She is in extremely poor health because her mother has not been able to afford all the saline treatments she needs to keep her hydrated. To keep her hospitalized and provide her emergency treatment, her mother URGENTLY needs $800 usd.

Current: $55,657 out of $56,271 usd

Progress: $180 out of $800 usd

Need to raise: $620 usd

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We are a family from Gaza, currently trapped in the street with bombs falling around us. Among us is a young child with a heart condition, injured loved ones, and elderly family members who can barely move.

We are in urgent need of your help. We must escape the danger immediately. We need funds to find shelter, buy medicine, food, and water — the very basics we no longer have access to.

The children are terrified, crying for safety. Please, if you’re reading this, help us survive. Your donation — no matter the amount — can save our lives.

Donate and share to save us now:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4qzqg-help-a-family-from-gaza

@cantsayidont @northgazaupdates2 @northgazaupdatas

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Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:

I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.

Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we're not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don't complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.

Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don't just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. 'Roadman' has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav') with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug'. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people's violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road' means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture'.

But it isn't all doom and gloom. There's so much history and culture here in our spaces. I'd be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I'll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I'll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.

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Do u know what's DISGUSTING? It's when you have to remove insects from the only loaf of bread you're allowed to eat each day, but to make fun of ourselves, we call these insects "free protein." And as the saying goes, when you're hungry, your mind shuts down. Now I cover my nose when eating a loaf of bread so I don't smell it, and I avoid looking at it so I don't see the insects...

But that's not important, there's worse. Malnutrition is starting to affect my 6 y.old sister, as intestinal worms are eating away at her body from the inside out and destroying her health. So, I'm appealing to you all to donate so I can buy a clean bag of flour for $570 and provide treatment for her. She's slowly dying... Or by paypal

My campaign has been verified.

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💢An urgent appeal from the heart of Gaza, a cry of pain that the world does not hear...💢

My name is Khalil. I write to you, bleeding from the pain of a land besieged by hunger and fear.

The situation in Gaza is unbearable. The war is no longer just shelling and explosions; it has turned into a real (hunger) war.

No food, no water, no medicine... famine is silently ravaging us.

Yesterday, my need to feed my family and my younger siblings, who go to bed without food every day, drove me north, toward the crossing, where trucks loaded with flour entered. I was dreaming of just one bag of flour to feed my younger siblings. But instead of flour, I found shells raining down on us.

More than 40 people were martyred in front of me in an instant, and I was just meters away.

I was shot in the leg, and I fell among the dead. I don't know how I survived... I only know that I am no longer able to walk for long, let alone feed my family.

We are in a real hell. My family, my younger siblings, and my ailing father are going to bed without food. Our mothers are crying in grief, and we are unable to even secure a loaf of bread.

(Please, from a broken heart, help us buy a bag of flour.)

Your donation today could save a soul from starvation.

We aren't asking for much... just a little mercy. I beg you. We need a bag of flour. Please help me and provide flour for my family.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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BABY AYLA HAS BEEN HOSPITALIZED!!

Ayla is in the hospital with severe malnutrition and dehydration due to the IOF’s food blockade. She is in extremely poor health because her mother has not been able to afford all the saline treatments she needs to keep her hydrated. To keep her hospitalized and provide her emergency treatment, her mother URGENTLY needs $800 usd.

Current: $55,657 out of $56,271 usd

Progress: $180 out of $800 usd

Need to raise: $620 usd

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EDIT: UPDATED LINK URGENT SUPPORT REQUIRED

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH—UPDATED 31 May 2025

Due to outrageously high processing fees, the family seven-year-old Omar still has not raised enough funds to do Omar’s complete skin graft.

Now, they are trapped near Jabaliya by IOF attack. They need to arrange transportation out of the area NOW to avoid being killed by IOF death squads! They cannot move by foot due to their injuries, they NEED transportation out of the area NOW!!!**

Current: $55 usd

New temporary goal: $1,500 usd

Need to raise: $1,445 usd

More information in this thread (do NOT click link to GFM—only the Chuffed link now goes to the family).

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Seeking help urgently- just trying to live.

(This is an updated version of my original post- I've made CashApp and PayPal accounts on the advice of someone who saw the post and added them as links.)

Hey there, it's Moxie- trans woman, lesbian, and your favorite mutual's fourth favorite mutual. I recently lost my job and have been seeking employment ever since. In the intervening weeks, I've burned through my savings paying for necessities like food, have gone completely off of HRT due to losing my insurance, and my phone bill recently chewed through over half of what I had left.

These are hard posts to make because I'm a stubborn old goat and feel like I'm creating a terrible burden just by asking. But I can't ignore the financial strain any longer, and I need to support my household and uphold my financial responsibilities. That's a pretty serious challenge with no income.

While I continue to file applications and distribute my resume, I need to be able to help with utilities and if possible cover my half of the house. We live in Kansas now, so thankfully the charges aren't as extravagant as they might've been if we still lived in Washington, but they're still impossible to pay with pocket change.

If you're able and it wouldn't be too much trouble for you, I'd be grateful for any help I can get.

https://account.venmo.com/u/robotmoxie https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/moxiegarner https://cash.app/$robotmoxie I'm setting a goal of $500, which accounts for half of utilities and half of the payment on the house for this month. I'll update regularly.

$75/$500

Thank you to those who have already reached out, your help means the world to me.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Hey guys something happened to me that has left me partially disabled for the time being. I dont have access to health care right now to be able to take care of it properly, but being able to take care of basic necessities would help me take the time to figure that out. Its difficult for me to ask, but a necessary step in order for me to survive and take care of my family. I am skipping meals to afford bills right now so Anything helps 💜

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oh also? An absolutely freaky thing I'm seeing yt leftists do?

STOP TRYING TO TRACK DOWN PROTESTORS THAT DO 'BADASS STUFF'. STOP POSTING ABOUT IT ONLINE.

PEOPLE FUCKING DIE.

AND IT'S USUALLY SOMEONE MELANATED.

THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING YOU FUCKING DUMBASS.

y'all are so stuck on egoistic heroism that every time someone does something 'sick' at a protest you wanna turn them in to the next celebrity to have a parasocial relationship with and then they go missing.

Tf is wrong w y'all.

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It seems the Israeli army was deeply inspired by Squid Game — but instead of watching it, they decided to recreate it in real life.

In Gaza, an ordinary civilian stepping out to get humanitarian aid becomes a target.

Those heading to food distribution points often return in body bags.

Same concept:

People dying for a glimpse of hope and survival.

But the difference is — Squid Game was fiction.

In Gaza, the blood is real. The death isn't scripted.

Yesterday morning, my husband and one of our neighbors went to get a bag of flour. They found thousands of people there , then it started . The Israeli army started to shoot them randomly while they were trying to escape. Our neighbor was hurt and now he is in the hospital,we don't know what is going to happen with him 😞

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t just war… it’s a horrifying real-life Squid Game — produced in silence by a watching world

I don't want to lose my husband in one of these Humanitarian aid distribution points so please help us to get out of Gaza as soon as possible

Help us by donating and sharing this post as much as you can

Donation link 👇

7# Verified By @bilal-sala7✅

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I know now is not a good time to post this cuz it won't reach many people but now I was extremely shocked when I realized how SCARY the thing that happened to Dodo was that part of her brain came out of her skull after her house was bombed and not only that but the biggest shock is that they announced her death and in the last moments of saying goodbye to her they heard the sound of her heartbeats yes I swear I am not lying she is my cousin and Al Jazeera documented the massacre that happened to her family her brother and sister died and all of her family members were injured...

Now I want all of you to help me by providing $4000 urgently for her to have a manufactured skull installed or by paypal

Her campaign was verified in sequence from my campaign because she is my cousin

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🚨EXTREMELY URGENT🚨

A heavy IOF assault is under way in Jabaliya. The bombing and shelling are constant and all around them. The explosions are so close that the shockwaves are interfering with Nour’s heartbeat! The family is afraid that even if the bombs don’t kill them, the panic and shockwaves will stop 15-y/o Nour’s weakened heart!

They need to get out of this area ASAP!! They need $2000 usd (about $2,791 cad) to evacuate and pay rent for a safer space.

Current: $60,248 out of $63,039 cad

Need to raise: $2,791 cad (about $2000 usd)

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ahmed's (@ahmedaldani333) asked me to share his campaign, so as a reminder: ahmed is a teenager trying to help support his family in gaza as they face displacement, hunger, and violence, and could use the help. as i'm sure you've heard, prices of basic necessities like flour are extremely high right now, and he and his family need help to afford food to eat.

ahmed's fundraiser is verified by @gazavetters, and is #198 on their spreadsheet.

his campaign hasn't gotten a lot of attention, so i'd appreciate if you could donate, or if you're unable to, please reblog the post. thank you!

here's the link one more time: