#please please pleaaase donate and reblog

[elliesbelle]

emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

[raiii-bee]

Would you be more likely to donate to Palestinian fundraisers if I gave anyone with proof of a $5 or more donation a traditionally drawn icon/small box drawing of their choice?

This is just testing to see if this would actually help. Details are to be sorted out but the drawings could look something like this in concept for fully colored options.

*This is just a concept in size/style made in less than an hour. The ones I make for donors will likely be a bit cleaner and more planned.*

I can only afford to donate so much, so I'm hoping this could be another way for me to contribute and get involved.

Please reblog this so it gets around to more people.

[larsnicklas]

when you think oilers fans can't get worse now I saw one of the people that were acting like they were being oppressed for liking hyman reblogging one (1) pro palestine post after being silent during all these months and right after celebrating his goal and sad about him possibly being injured. how they can be so perverse even after everything that happened yesterday. it disgusts me.

yeah like. as i've kind of said previously, i don't think this is an o.ilers fan-specific problem at all, but there is certainly some cognitive dissonance going on with anyone who is celebrating h.yman while reblogging pro-palestinian rhetoric!

but at the same time, it's kind of like.... i just do not care about zach h.yman and what he thinks. what he thinks is objectively morally reprehensible and it's upsetting if not surprising that he's staunchly pro-israel, and at this point, he is not someone i support or spend time thinking about beyond that. i'll re-evaluate if he ever takes the steps to deconstruct his beliefs. when it comes to fans celebrating him for his hockey... idk it's like, your mileage may vary but i have to operate in good faith here. maybe this person and others just genuinely don't know that h.yman has spoken out in support of israel. if i asked a random o.ilers fan on the street i honestly doubt they'd know anything about his stance on this. i don't mean to make excuses for people who are deliberately looking away from the heinous things being done to palestinians by israel but cheering for some hockey player with terrible opinions isn't quite the same as that, either.

if you spend any time working in mutual aid/activism/etc., one of the things you learn is that while it often feels good momentarily to sit on a high horse and feel righteous, the more important thing to do is to bring people into the fold. call in, not call out. one of these is more fun and feels better in the moment, but one of these does FAR more for the given group of people you are trying to assist.

this got very long so i am dropping the rest under a cut but pleaaase check out these links, and especially operation olive branch, which is FULL of resources, info, and ways for you to make a difference!!

operation olive branch / world central kitchen / 5 calls (for usamericans!)

my brain is soup so i don't think i am articulating this well, but at the end of the day it's not super productive to watch people on the internet to see whether or not they are virtue signalling or being hypocritical or whatever. this does not help the families being systematically massacred and driven from their homes, and it's also soul draining. you will feel miserable and hopeless and fruitlessly angry the more you do this. i know because i also fall into this trap despite my best efforts! and it gets genuinely paralyzing because you start feeling like nothing you or others can do can possibly stack up to the callousness of the world. this is not a sustainable way to live.

i'm by no means an expert on any of this, but i have some small experience working in mutual aid and have close friends who do a lot of activism work, and here are some things i have picked up and am trying to do in my own life.

i know it's hard but try to call people in and not call them out like i mentioned earlier. berating them and getting preachy or accusatory usually results in defensiveness on the part of the other party, and even if it feels unfair that you have to cater to THEIR feelings, planting any doubt in their minds about the way they think will help. chip away at them. it won't happen in a single conversation. keep trying anyway.

many times people do care, but don't know how to help. give them direct, actionable items if you can. even better, give them a framework, like: "if you have ten free minutes at any point in your day, please contact your representative using this website/at this number" or "if you have [X amount of dollars] in your checking account right now, please donate $1/$5/$10 to [specific g.ofundme or organization]"

take time to celebrate the wins, even the small ones. it really keeps you going lol. i'm serious. the work is NEVER finished, ever. there's no way to keep it up without taking time to acknowledge the good that has been accomplished, bit by bit

stop and listen. in this particular case and often many others, community leaders of the marginalized and persecuted group get spoken over by louder (and often white) voices, even when those voices are well-meaning. of course no group is a monolith, and there are going to be conflicting opinions and courses and ideas, but it is CRUCIAL to be able to have an open ears and an open mind. i think a good example of this happening is people boycotting random businesses instead of focusing on the bds targets that were strategically selected by organizers for the most impact lol

social media can be a force for good! but it is not the be all, end all. make your posts, call for awareness, spread the word about what you need to. and then go out in the real world, too, whether that's putting your money where your mouth is literally by donating, or offering your time/labor phone banking/buying esims/etc.

[issamahmoudgaza]

My daughters wish is to be in a safe environment during her next birthday‼️‼️🇵🇸🇵🇸

She was here when my mother was killed😪🕊 she was here when her friends were killed‼️‼️

She is scared‼️ she is sick and tired of the genocide by the zionists‼️‼️

Her only hope is a safe environment away from the bombs and killings‼️‼️

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT MY FAMILY RELOCATE,WHATEVER ELSE I RAISE WILL GO TO HELPING OTHER MEMBERS IN KHAN YUNIS,

DONATE&REBLOG,TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE PLEAAASE‼️‼️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[delightfullyshamelessdinosaur]

Hey! I was hoping that maybe you could help me raise some money to escape my toxic house. If you're fortunate enough, please consider donating some money [head on to my blog and i have pinned it for your convinience] You can read more about why i need the money in the post. I'd be really grateful and it'd help me so much. Please do consider.

I hope you have a nice day (Of course i wont ask you to donate if you're in a tight situation yourself. But please reblog the post to your blog(s) so that somebody who is capable can donate) Thank you 💜

Pleaaase dont aend asks about this just tag me ill still do ut dw but please hsut tag me next time

[slimegalaxies]

Please read this regarding the Instagram account glitter.slimes

Hey okay so guys I just saw a slime video on a blog I really like by glitter.slimes on Instagram and id just like to point out that she and her boyfriend are both racist liars and horrible people. Her boyfriend beat a young black boy to the point that he had to go to the hospital and then they both lied about it saying he was cornered by him and his friends who then supposedly “made a Twitter account pretending to be him saying racist stuff” that was proven to have originated from his phone and posted pictures of him that were unavailable anywhere else. She also ran an illegal raffle (allowing children to enter, running it without a gambling license) insisting it was legal the whole time and when caught in her greed (she already overprices her slime and makes a LOT of money) said that she’d donate the money to charity. She never did, UNTIL PEOPLE WERE REPEATEDLY CALLING HER OUT FOR NOT DOING SO. Even then she lied and said that she had donated it earlier despite the fact that the date was blacked out in the “proof” she showed.

Pleaaase reblog this, and maybe even mention accounts you’ve noticed repost her videos on this post!!! I know her videos are stimmy But please, please consider the type of person Nicolette is and try not to give her any more popularity than she already has.

Edit: Here are some records from someone who dedicates her account to calling out stuff like this because she was a state fraud investigator! This post is the most important regarding racism, it includes screenshots where she says it's hypocritical that having a "white history month" would be racist and tries to defend her "right" to say the n slur: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVXKo6xBgbj/ These provide some background on the situation and explain her lies: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVOKRnWhvD8/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVOiqI6B6MM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP6bmGBeCs/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVQSUsahDX5/ She also got this account taken down by getting her followers to report it because of "slander" and threatened to sue her for posting the truth. However, Slimegiveawaysinfo had enough proof that she got her account back.