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he’s so precious 😩😩

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Abortion pills by mail in every state.

please share this even if you don’t need them, because it could find its way to people who do!

I’d also like to say that what abortion is, is health care and basic human rights for those who want it for reasons that aren’t nobody’s business but their own

what abortion isn’t, is a man’s business. so you may keep your opinions away from my body. thank you

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♡ PRAISE ABORT ♡

my body, my fucking choice. always and forever

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Pahanhautoja / Hatching (2022) | dir. Hanna Bergholm

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Title: The Trappistine

Artist: Alphonse Mucha

Date: 1897

Style: Art Nouveau

Genre: Portrait

✨ Feel free to check out our community for more art! ✨

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i'm full of love but i also have the hater's curse and once a day i gotta say some bitchy shit or i'll explode

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Ways you can volunteer when you have social anxiety

Hi, I know some of you feel motivated to organize and volunteer with the recent everything but as someone with an anxiety disorder I know the struggle. I’ve been volunteering sporadically since I was a teen and not all of it requires face to face to contact with the public. Here’s some ideas to get you started.

Cooking in kitchens and food pantries/volunteering to cook at places that have daily or weekly free or reduced cost meals like food not bombs, soup kitchens, summer or winter food trucks for low income k-12 students, religious community kitchens like at church gatherings or a Sikh langar.

Making clothing or blankets. Domestic violence shelters are often in need of these for both adults and kids. Organizations that work with foster kids are often also in need of clothing and blankets.

Contacting vendors: If you’re bad at talking to people but good at writing emails a lot of groups are in need of supplies.

Unloading trucks at stuff like food pantries and clothing drives. If possible you can request to be put in the back room or work on setup.

Just show up at the protest. Sometimes you can just stand there and be another body in the back of the crowd. That’s what I’ve done at every protest I’ve ever been in. Wear a face mask and a hat if you don’t want to be recognized. You’re sending a message just by being there.

House repair and garden planting. A lot of organizations that do this stuff will train you.

Write letters to prisoners. There’s a lot of organizations that let you do this but they’re usually specific to a local area. When I lived in Texas there was an organization that connected some classmates and I to a group of people in the local men’s prison who wanted to do a book club so we did a long distance book club with them for a few months.

After school tutoring, babysitting, religious or other types of classes for kids, etc. Some folks feel less anxious around kids and there’s plenty of opportunities to volunteer in both secular and religious capacities. You can tutor, babysit, help run classes, stuff like that. There’s also a lot of opportunities to work with foster kids without being a foster parent if that’s something you’re passionate about.

Counting money. Organizations get donations and those donations often come in the form of cash. This is the primary form of volunteer work my grandmother does for her church and some local charities. It’s a good choice if you’re someone who can’t stand for long periods of time and you’re good at basic math.

Donate blood. Yes this counts as volunteer work.

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The US Democratic party repeatedly communicates a call to action that shifts agency (and blame) entirely onto voters for their decisions.

You can see it in things like Michelle Obama's speech that was made not too long ago. Note in how she frames critique toward Harris as nitpicking, as perfectionist behavior, how she links it to misogynoir, and never directly names what the critique is, instead saying it's just ignoring the threat at hand to "prove a point."

You can't piece out or go halfway on imperialism and colonialism. Democrats are not fighting for women or queer rights in any meaningful way, and the idea that they are lesser oversimplifies what women and queer rights actually mean, especially for Black trans and intersex people.

How many of these talks about reproductive rights, abortion access or women's rights from democrats saying these things are at stake bring up the fact that there's still an ongoing pandemic and democrats are included in those trying to criminalize masking?

How does medical access look when your doctor refuses to even protect you from long term disability or death in an ongoing mass disabling event?

Democrats in the last few years alone have also openly supported and pushed for mask bans to further criminalize people taking protective action in an ongoing pandemic. There's been more than ample studies about the ways that the pandemic has disproportionately affected marginalized people, Black and queer people in particular.

Kamala Harris specifically abdicated responsibility with the delta variant of covid. Biden called for reinforcing a police state by diverting funds from covid protections to police spending.

Both the police state and the lack of public health have been a devastating combination toward all of the communities the democrats will supposedly rescue from the clutches of republicans.

The question of where that funding comes from in the first place also needs to be asked too.

(the answer is the ongoing genocides the US supports).

Climate change as we're seeing with the likes of hurricane Helene right now is an issue of imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy.

Incarcerating people represents the chance to remove and exploit those people:

Black, queer, disabled people being murdered and harassed by police and being medicalized for it also directly ties to the same ongoing genocide we're seeing.

The best democrats could do was post #BLM and #Blackexcellence a few times but still support that very same system of policing.

Policing and prison is modern legal slavery.

"You're voting in your enemy you organize against" except we've already been organizing against both parties before the election even started. Michigan, one of the key swing states and notable for having one of the largest Arab populations in the US had uncommitted voters for this very reason. Note the date:

Biden and Harris and their administration made their choice loud and clear.

Democrats called someone an asshole and told them to shut up and expected them to fall in line. Take a look at why they called this individual an asshole.

Michigan's Democratic delegates "overwhelmingly voted" to endorse Harris on Tuesday, the Michigan Democratic Party said. More than 100 delegates met on a Zoom call, with only one voting "present" and two Arab American delegates voting "no," a party official said. There was some controversy during the meeting that illustrated the frustrations some Arab Americans in Michigan feel toward the Biden administration's policies on Gaza. Abbas Alawieh, one of the two delegates who voted against endorsing Harris, said on X that while he was speaking about Gaza, someone else shouted out: "Shut up, a------. (source in next link)

Harris herself decided to call Palestinian protestors Trump supporters and completely dismissed them for speaking up about Palestine:

Not only is it incredibly dishonest, dismissive, and ignorant to reduce the ongoing genocide and occupation of Palestine to just a "single issue" or to act like we're just proving a point because of how it connects to every other issue the democratic party is also complicit in, it also makes the communication very clear.

A lot of communication around this topic breaks down because too many of y'all don't have any compassion or make any effort to understand other marginalized people and instead hold the threat of Trump's violence over our heads like we deserve it for not falling in line.

The still ongoing pandemic has disproportionately killed non-white people and especially older Black and disabled people. It's continuing to disable people now. There's an organization point right there when we need to talk about accessibility and public health safety. But I remember the last two years now disabled people get called "paranoid" "wokescolders" and "psyops" for daring to ask people to as much as put on a mask. Many of the older people who make up a lot of the election pool have died.

Multiple hurricanes hit the south and have killed and displaced numerous people. Poor, disabled, queer, Black and other non-white people are included in that too. Was that taken into consideration with any of this analysis?

What about incarcerated people as we see a continued push for more and more of a police state? More criminalization and medicalization?

More than anything, directing your anger at whatever marginalized person it is you're yelling at and not the democratic party is horrific and communicates so much deep cruelty.

You cannot engage in left wing politics without a heart of love for other oppressed people. You cannot do this with threats and fear. You have to be willing to understand where others are coming from, what they're feeling, and what reality looks like for them. (note, I am not at all talking about compassion for Trump supporters or conservatives here. You are not welcome if you in any way)

I did organizing for police and prison abolition a few years back and when a bunch of people joined on in 2020, it wasn't uncommon to hear people use that "well, you'll get what's coming to you" as a threat because they didn't like what I or others felt or said when they were slighted. Don't trust people who fantasize about violence toward you for a second.

One of the most effective things you can do is to take meaningful action to listen and understand other marginalized people with love and grace. It will carry you so far. Direct your anger in the right place.

Insisting that people deserve the violence that is not oncoming but frankly has already been here for years if you've been paying attention is not it.

If you fantasize about the violence of oppressed people you feel should have fallen in line you're not as progressive as you think you are.

Some of y'all don't love the oppressed, you only hate an oppressor.

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The call of the stars, a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend, 1919

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCDx6pinhn0/

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two 1966 Japanese stamps depicting a Japanese eel and a chum salmon, from a series on fishery products

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To the men who voted for Donald Trump today:

When your girlfriend gets pregnant, and you’re not ready to become a father, and you’re forced into a position that cripples you emotionally, financially and irreversibly, remember: you did this.

When your sister’s pregnancy turns out to be ectopic, and she can’t get the life-saving medical care she needs and dies a completely pointless, preventable death, remember: you did this.

When your 12-year-old daughter is raped by her soccer coach — after he’s legally allowed to strip off her pants and peep at her genitals, because the existence of trans kids terrifies you — and she steals your shotgun and kills herself in your garage, remember, first and foremost: you did this.

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die because of the decision you made today.

You did that.

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Anyway American trans friends, now's the time to put "be gay do crime" into practice and the first step is to get onto secure communication channels so you're not discussing details of what you're doing and how on the public internet.