#unfortunately i cant donate but i hope some people here can

[awildkelkinnie]

Hello, I hope you and your family are well. Can you please help me recycle the post on my account? 🌺 And help rescue my family from the war in Gaza? 🙏 Thank you.

https://gofund.me/bc721399

Im sorry i really cant donate :( i genuinely hope people can find this post and donate!

[angelicmothz]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

DONATE ! IF YOU CANT THEN SHARE

I'm so sorry for what's happening, I really hope you're able to continue providing health services for everyone 🩷

FREE GAZA 🇵🇸🍉🫒🩷

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🍉🫒🩷

STAND WITH GAZA 🇵🇸🍉🫒🩷

STAND WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸🍉🫒🩷

[royall-ass]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

can’t donate!!! pls support ahmed ❤️❤️ if u cant donate then reblog!!

[mariska]

hello tumblr friends who live in my phone i just wanted to pop in real quick and let everyone know that I Am (somehow) Still Alive since i mentioned being very sick last month and did not want anyone 2 think i had finally Expired. wish i could say i'm doing better this month but while im definitely nowhere near as miserable as i was in April, i've been spending this month trying to deal with Sickness Aftershocks that have been making all of my long term autoimmune diseases/health issues in general flare up randomly really bad at pretty much completely random times and i also have a whole new fun set of similar feeling but definitely different and 100x worse physical health problems and its been extremely difficult to try and power through all of it like i'm used to doing for the 26 years i have been alive 😔 but i'm still hangin in there. idk how at this point lmao. subconscious fight or flight survival mode i guess. i'm like 99% sure i somehow caught one of the new covid mutations in April unfortunately despite the lifelong Agoraphobia and 3+ years of effort i've done to do literally everything in my ability to stay protected against it but. thats life i guess, u leave the house one or two times masked up hand sanitizer ready to go sweating from being overheated wearing clothes that cover as much of ur skin as u can stand and other people just Dont. so. i knew it would probably happen to me eventually i just was really hoping it would not! but. i will continue surviving as best i can because i dont have any other option or choice. but that is why i've unintentionally been distant here and online in general. it was already extremely difficult getting myself out of bed and taling showers and changing clothes and brushing my teeth and remembering to eat food and drink water before but now its reached a difficulty that i literally can't have any control over most of the time and its a lot of physical/mental/emotional effort to even tap reblog on a post online or respond to a text more so than it was previously. which again was already. very difficult to power through.

anyways! uh! yeah. life update i guess. i hope you guys are genuinely doing much better than i am this year and i hope you're all able to stay safe and as relatively healthy as you can. and please please please please at the very least wear some form of a face mask in public even if you're outside and not in a tiny building. i dont say that to shame anyone here i just feel like there are a lot of well meaning good people who arent fully aware that in the US at least the pandemic is very much not over and people like myself are suffering and dying because of that and we cant be the only group of people that are still doing our best to stay protected when we have to leave the house. if you're able to get some i highly recommend N95 type face masks because supposedly they offer one of the best chances of protection as long as you're wearing it correctly and it fits your face well; there's a really great non-profit organization called Project N95 that has an official website and a huge list of various face masks in a bunch of different sizes and types to order if you don't know where to find some high quality ones and they also have a form you can fill out and submit to request an order of free masks if you can't afford to buy them; their money donation pool goes towards providing masks (and some air purifiers i think?) to low income people/organizations/work places that doesn't have the funds or resources to constantly buy expensive batches of masks and their website is super detailed and well organized and has a long list of visual and written resources and information about different mask types, ways you can help keep yourself/your community safe, etc. so i highly recommend them if you are like me and are very stressed and anxious and confused about all of that information all the time. their site should be the at the top of the search results if you google N95 Project, it has a dot org site url so thats another way you can tell its the official site.

[voltrixz]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

Cant donate but I can share

Unvtted but seems legit. Still very low on funds so donate if you can

[cat-eclipse-m]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

cant donate, will share

im sorry :(

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

I cant donate myself but I’m definitely signal boosting as best as I can, stay safe out there-

[sunflower-key]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

You know the drill followers

Donate if you can

Reblog if you cant

[bugnoirelahiffe]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

cant confirm if this one was verified by anyone but pleasw at least share to spread the word

[sacrificalamp]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

i unfortunately cant donate but anyone who can, please do!

[noorthestar]

Hello !!🍉🍉

I am Ahmed from Gaza. I used to have a pharmacy in the north of the Strip, but unfortunately, I lost it due to the bombing. Under difficult circumstances, I had to move with my family from the north to the south, and we settled in Deir al-Balah.

Despite the challenges, I tried to rebuild my life, so I opened a simple pharmacy in a tent. This pharmacy contains some basic medicines, but it is far from meeting the needs of the people here.

I am now in dire need of support to secure my needs and the needs of my children. My first goal is to raise $1,000 to continue providing health services in these difficult circumstances.

I hope that everyone will donate and contribute to supporting this humanitarian project. Every support, no matter how small, will have a great impact in improving the lives of my family and providing health care to the community here.

You can donate through this link 🇵🇸🇵🇸: https://gofund.me/2a408c6f

Thank you very much🙏🏻❤️❤️

i cant donate , but ill rb your post !

[transtalk]

“Here’s some stuff I’ve learned in my ~12 years since I started transitioning”

*Posted with permission from a Redditor who chooses to remain anonymous.  I am over 10yrs into my transition and agree with most of these points.  Thought this was a great share to help our younger transmen.

I’m 26 and I started transitioning at 14. I recently passed my 10yrs on T recently and I figured I’d pass on some random knowledge I’ve accumulated in my experience.

Physical stuff:

-Be prepared to outgrow any clothes you buy in the first 5ish years on T. You might think you’re in the clear after a couple years, you’re not. That includes shoes.

-Looking at your father and brothers for an idea of what you might look like on T isn’t always accurate. My dad and brother don’t have much body hair, I’m a damn werewolf. On the other hand, they have full heads or hair. My hair has decided to migrate from my head to, well, everywhere else.

-Mature hairlines are a thing, doesn’t necessarily mean receding. My dad has the former, I have the latter.

-Not all hair follicles grow at the same time. Your beard after not shaving for 2 weeks is not the same as your beard after not shaving 2 months and then trimming it to that same length. Ive had a thick, full beard since I was 20. I had to shave for a neck surgery and for the first month I was back to my patchy teenage beard. Right now, wearing a mask is a great opportunity if you want to try growing it out without looking ridiculous.

-Still train all of your body if you’re trying to get a more masculine physique. You may worry about having a bigger butt or thighs but trust me, it’s still important. Also, it’s not all about shoulders, chest, and arms. The lats and traps are often overlooked.

-Penises sit lower than you think and are smaller than you think. Take that into account when packing. I haven’t been in the market for many years but I pray that there are more options now that aren’t 5+”.

-If you get a hysto, hold a pillow over your belly when you cough. Trust me.

-If you have surgery in general, you’re probably going to be thirsty when you wake up. Go slow when they finally let you have water. I’ve puked on a few nurses… sorry guys.

-If you have bottom surgery with urethral lengthening, you might have extra drops of pee that get stuck. The way your urethra is situated has a different angle so more pee gets trapped in there. Press up on the gooch to get it out. Some cis guys have to do it too, it’s called the taint tap.

-Athletic fit pants are great for big booty bros.

Social/emotional stuff:

-It can be hard to see it sometimes, but plenty of cis guys have the same features you’re dysphoric about. Baby face? I’ve got male coworkers older than me that look like teenagers. Wide hips? Some dudes are bottom heavy. Short? If you pay attention, there’s short guys everywhere. The average guy doesn’t look like Channing Tatum.

-There’s a thin line between dysphoria and dysmorphia. What you see in the mirror could be totally different from what people see when they look at you.

-It’s fine to pee in the stall. Standing or sitting. Nobody gives a fuck. Even after phallo I pretty much exclusively pee in stalls. Less splashback, privacy, and pee time is me time.

-There’s another step to transitioning you might not realize: becoming confident in yourself as a man. It’s easier said than done and it can be a pretty long process. You are a manly fuckin man (or a feminine man, but you’re still a Fuckin man) and you are no less of a man than any other. You will be much happier once you can say that to yourself and truly believe it.

-You don’t owe anything to the trans community. There’s no denying there can be negativity. If it’s taking a toll on your mental health or causing more dysphoria, it’s ok to step back. You’re not obligated to involve yourself just because others in the community have helped you. You owe yourself happiness. It took me way to long to learn that. I pop in online once or twice a year in places like this sub where it typically is a civil environment but I limit it to that.

-Along the same lines, it’s ok to be stealth. You are more than your gender and it’s ok if you don’t want others to define you by that. Again, you don’t owe anybody anything. You can support the trans community without disclosing. Vote in support of trans rights, call people out on their bigotry, donate to charities, etc. And unfortunate as it is, your voice is sometimes more heard as an ally than as a trans person.

-Even if you finished the required therapy to get hormones/surgery it’s good to stick with it if you can. I know it’s not possible financially or time wise for everyone, but if you can, you should. All of your struggles don’t magically disappear when you medically transition. It’s good to have a professional help you process everything. I honestly think most people in general can benefit a lot from therapy.

-You could still have some dysphoria even when you have fully transitioned (whatever you define that as for yourself). Many don’t but it’s not a guarantee. I’m sorry to break that to anyone who is just starting their transition but it’s important to realize. If you recognize it, you can learn to cope. I still feel some dysphoria occasionally about the things I cant change. Mainly that I can’t be the biological father to my children. I have to remember that it’s not genetics that makes a father, it’s love and care.

My experience obviously isn’t going to be the same as everyone else’s but I hope this can help someone a little bit.

[neonacity]

I'm so glad to say it because we definitely have times where we NEED to hear these things to keep us going 🙏

It can get super draining being hectic with work and then having to find time to write as well, i really hope things ease and get even better for you 🥺 you deserve to do your favourite hobby which is to write!

Discouragement unfortunately happens a lot here with the lack of views/likes or comments. Its okay to feel that way too. Granted some works will do better here than others but there's readers out there for all! Including your works! I was lucky to be one of those same readers (bc I really wanted something bit more dark and unique?) And HERE I AM, also lucky to have made a friend within this too 🥺🥺

OMG 😲 I CANT WITH HAECHAN AGSHSJSNSNJS THIS HAIR THIS STYLE FIT THE WHOLE LOT ITS EVERYTHING!!! That's literally how he looks without the mask 🤭😏 his expressions.. Lord I'd commit crimes 😭 thank you for sharing such a sight to see! You know me well 😏

You're very welcome babes! I hope you always stay happy and the donation helps those cute stray cats 😇💞

Thank you sweetie. You're a creator here too, so I know that you also experience the same dips in mood and feelings of uncertainty sometimes. Though I do hope that you don't get them often because I for one really really enjoy your works too. Isn't it obvious with how rent-free robber masked Haechan lives in my mind?? I seriously wish it can have multiple parts sometimes. 🥲

Your words helped me a lot though. Right now, I am definitely feeling a little bit more encouraged to write again regardless of the noise my works create. I am aware that my stories sometimes sit on very specific niches and I'm just glad to have found people who can enjoy them here, you included. 🤗🫂 please feel free to always approach me too whenever you feel like just talking to someone okay. Making new friends is always amazing. 🥺

[waxydoll]

I think im going to permanently give up my tumblr. And really all my social medias tbh.

Ever since i started becoming an active participant of social media around 6 or 7 years ago my life had gone steadily down hill and ive been nothing but miserable. Ive had some really fun times on social medias like this too but at this point the bad heavily outweights the good.

Why cant i enjoy things anymore? I dont draw comics anymore, i dont draw in general honestly. I dont pkay video games i dont go outside i cant watch any shows i like, every time i do i feel like im doing something wrong or that im missing out on something and i just go for my phone. Im absolutely adicted.

Not only that, while i was here i was exposed to hyper sensitive people, anz i became a hyper sensitive person. I couldnt handle critisim i couldnt make phone calls i barely left my house, it was awful. I got past it though and im closer to a normal functioning human person again. But im now being exposed to constant hyper vigilant purity culture. You cant enjoy this because its bad and if you do your bad. You cant think this because its bad and if you do your bad. If you dont care about every awful thing happening un the world your bad and you should feel bad. Its exhausting, it leads to so much self hatred and burn out i cant stand it. Its just not worth it. Im unfortunately incredibly easy to manipulate, and i know that so the best thing for me is to stay away from crowds like this.

Beyond even that, lately im having issues where i slur my words together, i stutter, or my words come out in the wrong order, and i cannot for the life of me hold a conversation. Ive also been unable to read properly, its like ive suddenly developed dyslexia and my letters and numbers get all jumbled and mixed up. Im not saying thats social medias fault, im not sure whats causing it, but i figure if i do things that are more mentally stimulating, like playing video games, reading a fucking book for once, or going outside and interacting with people beyond going to work, maybe it will help.

Basically social media is poison, i see the term doom scrolling alot in refrence to the barrage of bad news weve been getting for the past few years and i agree. I never really noticed how bad it was until i made the conscious decision to look for it. Its litterally every other post, even the posts that say "hey this is a good thing!" Or "hey donate to this good cause!" Are usually in response to something bad. It really does reck your mental health.

Honestly i really hope alot of people decide to eventaullh distance themselves from social media too, especially younger people. I didnt join until i was 16 or so and honestly that was too early, ans seeing my little sister whos been on it since she was 12 struggling with the same problems im having, and she dosnt even know it, has been really saddening.

At the very least breaks are good. I think my break will be more permanent, but everyone, and i mean *everyone* should step away every once in awhile.

Thats all sorry for the stupid life story rant, im just kinda hoping i can impart some amount of wisdom on someone before i go

Bye all stay safe dont get too wrapped up in internet culture

[w-e-r-e-wolves]

Hey guys

So, I would like to start thanking everyone who’s been reblogging my art and my commissions post, it really means a lot and warms my heart, thank you all very much.

Now I need to tell you whats been going on with me in hopes of getting help.TW: I will be talking about suicide.

 So in the start of 2020 I was living in another state and I had a job after many years of being unemployed, after a couple months the pandemic hitted and the factory closed for a week and a half (other countries closed for months and my partner stayed at home for a month and then worked only part time) I was terrifiyed, both because I was affraid of the virus and also because the majority of the people I was working with either didnt care or belivied in it (the very owner of the place refused to wear her mask over her nose), we were forced back to work after that, i developed severe anxiety because I was working in these conditions, I was tired all the time, didnt sleep and was always crying, I had anxiety attacks while working and couldnt stop what I was doing, I was in the middle of a factory floor crying, feeling like I was going to pass out from 8am to 6pm, it felt like hell, so I talked to my partner and I quitted, but the damage had been done and I’ve never been the same anymore, the anxiety still here along with depression, I can’t go anywere without somebody with me cause I have anxiety attacks and still (with someone acompaning me) I get extremily nervous, I had to exit stores multiple times because I feel like I will passout. I came back to my home state a few months ago and things have not been good, we came back jobless with few savings and me in need of treatmeant. Since I’ve been here i’ve attempted suicide two times, the most recent attempt was a couple days before the commissions post, my partner of almost 10 years left and i’ve been really lost since. He was helping me with my treatmeant and accompanying me to doctors appointments and he was all the financial support I had. After he left, I got really desperate, like I said, I have 5 dogs and 3 cats, luckily I dont pay rent, but I have utillities to pay for and a mom that i need to support (she’s almost 60), so I opened commissions despite being something I said I would never do, drawing to me was a hobbie and I didnt want to make it something like a “”job”” to feel pressured and to be judged by, and as much as it makes me really happy that you reblogged and liked my art unfortunally its been like a week and I have no requests and my situation is getting direr, so if you didnt like my art but maybe you can help please, I will take any donation at this point, a dollar comes a long way in Brasil, so if you can help please message me so we can figure out how to do it, for some reason I dont have a paypal.me link or cant figure out how to make one, so maybe I can send you a invoice, if I there is no commission requests I will be selling my computer (I already listed my phone for sell) I need to be able to hold things off until I get a job and right now I am pennyless. If you read til here thank you, please consider reblogging and boosting if you can.

[anonymouslyworded]

#BLM POST, IF YOU DONT AGREE READ ANYWAY. THANK YOU.

I do not regularly address my followers directly, post often or get much response.

That's fine. I dont stress with that much. This is a blog for my personal expression.

What I am currently stressing is what is happening within our world. I feel the need to address this. I feel the need to express this.

Some of us as a human race have failed our fellow human. This is not okay. This is not a drill .

I will not address one name. I will acknowledge every single individual and their families. The people who love them and the people that they were.

NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOUR DEATHS HAS BEEN JUSTIFIED AND I CAN ONLY HOPE WITH EVERYTHING YOU CAN ALL REST PEACEFULLY.

"They" are not just black people. We are all human and we ALL deserve the respect as such.

Different skin colors, different genders, immigrants, women, LGBTQA.

Everyone who is human. Aka all of us. (But right now, our fellow human with more beautiful melanin then us need all our voices)

I could get in to this and go on all day, and if you want me to be completely honest, no I don't think the riots and the destruction are okay.

Unfortunately and understandable so somewhat, these un-peaceful protests are what is gaining the attention by the media. They are the main thing putting the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement on our TV and phone screens.

This is also NOT OKAY and NOT RIGHT. Not when there are SO MANY beautiful, peaceful and moving protests taking place.

The peaceful protests are where this movement started currently, this is where our attention should be. This is where the news cameras should be pointed.

THE NEWS IS WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION, THE OLDER PEOPLE WHO GREW UP NOT BEING TAUGHT ANY DIFFERENT, THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE WATCHING.

EDUCATION IS KEY TO FINDING SUCCESS IN CHANGE. EDUCATE THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW NO BETTER.

Start the conversations that are awkward and uncomfortable for some. One day they shouldn't be.

Tragic things have happened and we as the people have come together to correct the wrong. Together.

- VOTE VOTE VOTE -

Get the people in office who are allowing these things to slide under the rug OUT. We are the only people who can change our government leaders and the first step to doing that is stepping up to the vote in your area. Find the dates for your state. (Or if youre not in the USA, im not sure how other place work totally BUT GET YOU COUNTRY LEADERS ATTENTION)

-CONTINUE PEACEFUL PROTEST-

STOP storming the streets of your fellow neighbor trying to do good with you.

STOP destroying small businesses that KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES RUNNING!!!! These people are the heart of our cities and towns, they have a large sway with their following. If they don't agree with your values, don't shop there or find a way to help educate.

Bring this to our CAPITOLS our MAYORS OFFICES our LOCAL COURT HOUSES. These are the people who can do something.

BE SAFE WHILE PROTESTING!!!

Wear protective clothing, nothing loose that can be grabbed, no contacts for multiple reasons!!! Lots of water for drinking, staying cool as weather is getting warmer and good face rinse. Comfy sneakers, FACE MASKS!!! (We're still in a pandemic too)

If youre in an area where protests are becoming riots, cardboard under clothes helps take the blow of people and rubber bullets, goggles for tear gas and contacts hold on to the chemicals in them.

I can only hope and pray and plead this safety information will be useless to all of you.

ALSO do your research on this. As someone who has never been to a protest personally, find all the ways you can to stay safe, these are just some of the things I've seen.

-DONATE-

If you can of course, you can type just about anything to do with donating to the Black Loves Matter movement and good resources will pop up for you.

-RECORD RECORD RECORD-

This is a good way to have proof of things and to keep yourself safe. Be mindful when recording as to not get anything identifiable of yourself or anyone and if you can post under an anonymous name so it cant be tracked back.

To be honest as someone who is not near protests, has no cable or internet besides a cell phone, I have no clue what's going on out there to some extant and in research recording protests IS controversial. BUT I can follow the news all i want but I have no clue what to believe there so i find a lot of videos from the actual people on the front lines of this. I find these are more informative, unfiltered and true in showing the sides and stories of the people (protesters and uniformed) who are right on the front lines of this.

Sadly the news has a way of showing you what they want. I want truth. The good, bad and ugly. The things that need to be in history books.

I have witnessed that bad bunch of people in the protest start rioting.

I have seen police initiate the rioting.

I have seen police get pulled of their patrol cars and half beaten to death.

I have seen police charge on 100% peaceful protests.

As someone who is not sure how to speak out or be the right voice (as well as someone who has had officers within immediate family, as someone who has a friend who's like family in jail who wouldn't be there if he was white) this has been difficult to navigate and advocate.

My difficulties are different than half of our population. I am a young white women. I am learning my privilege and how to use it to help others.

I stand with my fellow man and i stand with the officers that want things to be better. The officers that get in the way of injustice and the peaceful protesters who wont stop being peaceful until we get our way.

Thank you to both groups of you. We see you, your movement is beautiful and you are beautiful.

And to the officers who believe in this violence, go find a job where someone else can put their knee to your neck until you cant breath to see how you like it. Go stand in the corner, damn you, get a new job cause youre shit.

And to the officers who are standing and kneeling with us with no photo-op, we appreciate you. Thank you, its a new found respect both ways.

To the people rioting, get out. Youre not at all here for the right reasons, youre making the peaceful protests look bad. Really not the point here.

To the peaceful protesters, thank you. Youre beautiful and youre doing a great job. Keep it up. We're closer then we've ever been before even if it is only a couple steps at a time.

If I have anything wrong or that needs to be added, or that I need to be educated on tell me. Inform me. Us who aren't totally sure how to help, help us make your voice louder.

We are the change we wish to see and i would love to see it before this whole world just goes to shit. Thank you.