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There is almost no food in northern Gaza.

Mahmoud Almadhoun and his family run a soup kitchen that feeds thousands of starving people for free. Acquiring in bulk means they can get more food for less and giving the food away alleviates the control food scalpers have over the market.

Please send them any money you can spare, especially if you have anxiety over picking between individual families that need help. The soup kitchen having more resources means they can feed more families and be bigger competition to food scalpers, driving down food prices over all.

Thank you for donating and sharing.

Help Gaza Soup Kitchen

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what I wish people would understand about fundraising for gaza is that while everyone is desperate and I would never say not to fundraise for or donate to individual families-- I currently fundraise to support multiple friends' families-- the overwhelming narrative I see on Tumblr that the best and most ethical thing you can do is send money to individuals and there is no option for anything else is so so incredibly damaging and inadvertently lends support to the marginalization and distrust of any remaining communal social infrastructure. the sameer project, which you should donate to, talks about this in a recent video they put out. the situation in gaza is unimaginable and everyone is in need of a huge level of support, and yet this fundraising discourse by well-meaning people in the west that donating money to individuals is the only moral way reproduces societal divides wherein resources are directed to people who speak English, who have relationships with people outside of gaza, and who have internet access while hundreds of thousands are left behind.

there ARE non-ngo locally based grassroots initiatives working to meet those needs however they can, and your small donation goes a lot further with them because they are able to buy food/water/supplies in bulk at a reduced price and reach more people with less money. again I'm not saying people shouldn't fundraise for individuals because these initiatives are so limited and many people cannot access them -- but as an example, the group I fundraise with is currently serving people fleeing north gaza who are starving and have nothing, and when we fundraise enough to do cash aid distribution there's so much need that our partners can only distribute 100-200 per large family. and then I go online and see people who have absolutely no understanding of this context at all exclusively working towards raising tens of thousands for just a few people when evacuations haven't been possible for months. it's good to do whatever you can but please consider how this narrative being reproduced among westerners trying to help that there are no other options has the potential to damage groups working towards equity and wider reach however is still possible

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Today is trans remembrance day. For all our fallen trans brothers, sisters, and siblings, we keep going today. Know that you have a place in this world. You belong here because this world is yours just as much as anyone else's. You are wanted, loved, and appreciated, whether it be by your closest friends, or by a stranger online. There is at least one person on this planet who genuinely cares about what happens to you, whether or not you know it. Your life matters, and I'm so proud of you for still being here, despite the countless hardships you've faced. Please, keep going today. I believe in you. I support you. I'm proud of you.

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Without collaborative effort fundraising is impossible. This does not boil down to one person (or a handful of people) we all must partake

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John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

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BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992

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Paweł Goliszek - 006 - Skulona

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This is your friendly reminder that if your parents or grandparents are immigrants, you may want to look into dual citizenship, if you don't already have it. While I'm specifically saying this due to the insanity of the US, this applies to anyone who has parent or grandparent immigrants. It's always a good idea to have a backup plan, should you ever need it.

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I highly recommend that everyone grieving the election results takes some time away from the Internet in these upcoming days. Genuinely, log off, go out into nature if you can, read a book, draw or paint or knit or work out or whatever you can do offline. Even watch a comforting show or movie from childhood. Get offline. Clear your head. Take some deep breaths. It sounds silly, but it might seriously help.

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If I have to see one more “we survived him before we can do it again” post I’m going to scream.

So many people didn’t. So many more people are going to die. Women are going to bleed out in parking lots because doctors are scared to give them the abortion they need. Migrates are going to die in detention centers. Kids are going to have their parents ripped away in mass deportations. Potentially millions of people are going to lose their healthcare.

Yes, we keep fighting, but don’t say we survived before. A lot of people didn’t.

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

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shoutout to the best mendel ever

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It's my birthday.. I'm Rachamim, you might know me for my culturally inspired art of trans men and personal work. I'm disabled and my art is my only livelihood. With social media stuff falling apart everywhere things have gotten pretty rough this year.. For my birthday consider just sharing that I exist and where to find me?

Thank you for the years of kindness to my work, it's been a nice decade sharing my art on Tumblr. I really appreciate y'all. ❤️

+ Patreon + Insta + Bluesky + Ko-fi

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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖞𝖗𝖊 ⦃ 📔 ⦄

In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (Byron’s personal physician) all vacationed together on Lake Geneva, having a legendary ghost story competition that was the impetus for incredible books such as Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). The Vampyre takes inspiration from Byron's unfinished story, published either as The Fragment or The Burial: A Fragment. In his work, Polidori expands and adds on to the Byronic narrative, creating a masterful, tragic, and entertaining story of the monster and the hunted.

𝕻𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰:

⚜ William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Italian woman at the Fountain, 1869 ⚜ William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr. — The Locket, 1911 ⚜ David Roberts — Interior of the Cathedral, Pisa, 1859 ⚜ Eugene Delacroix — The Vampire, 1825

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Yves Pires, the kiss

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if you are a person of color and are struggling to understand or express your own gender because you do not and/or cannot conform to white beauty & gender standards you're not alone and you do not have to warp yourself to suit someone else's narrative- every culture on this planet has their own relationship with biological sex & gender and you do not have to mold yourself to suit gender roles that literally just don't exist in your cultures, or don't make sense to you

you do not have to try to change your face, hair or body to match standards that don't apply to you. you are allowed to approach gender in your own way, in whatever ways make sense to you. it's your life, your gender, your culture, your expression. you don't have to screw yourself over like that. good luck in finding the real you, you'll find them