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ok so i made the mistake of standing on the beach in the dark and listen…….. listen. there is nothing that cares about you less than the ocean in the dead of night. it is tangible. you can’t fuckin see a thing. there is no horizon. it’s a ceaseless void and she cares for no one and loves nothing. you have to respect her bcs she clearly has no fuckin love for you and if she wanted she could take you and NO ONE WOULD KNOW
Another transgender woman made history in today’s election!
Andrea Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council. She’s the first trans person elected to a major city’s governing body and the first trans woman of color elected to office in the United States.
Jenkins won in the city’s Eighth Ward, where she had been a policy aide to departing Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune had endorsed her, saying she was highly qualified and well prepared for the office. She bested three other candidates. Jenkins is a Democrat; the race is officially nonpartisan, but candidates can identify with a party label. She had the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota, and of Victory Fund.
As an aide to Glidden and previous Eighth Ward council member Robert Lilligren, Jenkins worked to revitalize the neighborhood with small businesses and arts venues, and helped organize a Trans* Equity Summit. She emphasized, however, that revitalization must not come at the expense of poor people.
During the campaign, she said her priorities include developing affordable housing, raising the minimum wage, addressing youth violence as a matter of public health, and supporting minority artists. She is a historian with the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota as well as a poet, prose author, and performance artist who has received numerous grants for her work.
The other transgender woman who won in this election is Danica Roem in Virginia. Change is coming, y’all, and this is what it looks like. Congrats, ladies.
my dad passed away this morning (october 11th), and me and my family are in total shock and absolutely heartbroken. we don’t know how to process anything right now, and i’m worried about my mom. they were married for 32 years, she’s spent almost her entire adult life with my dad, and she’s not the best at really grieving and processing her emotions.
i started a youcaring to help pay for my dad’s funeral and burial services. we have enough to deal with right now without having to worry about how we can afford to bury my dad with the dignity and love he deserves.
if you can help at all, we’d be immensely grateful. if you can’t donate, please signal boost this so others can see it.
thank you in advance for your kindness and generosity.
edit: the cost of burial is outrageously high, and there’s no way we can afford it, even with everyone’s amazing generosity. we’ve decided to go with direct cremation, which is less expensive, but does still cost over $2000. plus, without a service for my dad, we want to have a reception at home for all of his friends and family, and we need money to make sure everyone is provided for and my dad is given the celebration his life deserves.
please keep donating and signal boosting, and keep me and my family in your thoughts. if you’d like to send flowers, here’s a link to his obituary on the funeral home’s website:
edit: because my mom is under 60 and not disabled herself, she most likely won’t quality to keep receiving my dad’s disability checks, so even after all of this is done we’ll be in pretty dire straits.
please keep signal boosting and donating! and thank you to those who’ve helped so far ♡
update: my brother’s 401k money arrived and will cover the cost of direct cremation, which is a huge relief, considering we weren’t sure what we would do or how we’d be able to give my dad the love and care and dignity he deserves.
but that means that anything we had planned with that money (bills, groceries, service to my brother’s car) isn’t going to happen. please, please keep signal boosting and donating, my family is hurting and scared and we just want to focus on honoring my dad right now.
Thank you so much to those that have donated and signal boosted so far. Your support means the world to me and my family. ❤
Update: we’ve reached about 30% of our goal, but we still need help. Please keep boosting and donating if you can.
Update: Still hovering around the same amount as the last time I updated. My family is still hurting and without much security in the way of income atm. Any help is appreciated.
Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.
If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne'er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.
stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.
