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Have you been coveting a spider teapot? Well now you can get your own AND help a good cause this Thanksgiving.
This week the country watched as unarmed water protectors in North Dakota were attacked with rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in freezing conditions. Today we celebrate a holiday that represents the beginning of the genocide of our nation’s indigenous people.
The actions of the militarized police force in North Dakota are shameful and completely unacceptable. The Dakota Access Pipeline has the potential to have an immense environmental impact on sacred land, as well as the Standing Rock Reservation’s water supply.
This week I will be auctioning off one of my spider teapots to help raise funds for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to assist in their fight agains the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The auction will be live from Thursday, Nov. 24th until Saturday, Dec. 3rd and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Sioux Tribe DAPL Fund.
I will also be donating 10% of all sales on my Etsy (www.sarahduyer.etsy.com) and website (www.sarahduyer.com/shop) from Friday (11/25) through Monday (11/28) to the Standing Rock cause.
Sarah is auctioning off this sick ass teapot to benefit Standing Rock. They’re also donating a portion of their normal sales as well! All links above.
This is a *really good* article that both handles anatomy concerns and presumes zero background makeup knowledge. Well done.
It’s amazing that the cover photo is showing both older women and people of color, something that the media consistently ignores regarding the trans community.
In this post-election hate-crime spike, self defense is more important than ever. Practice this move until it becomes muscle memory and teach your body to react before thinking.
Delete Yourself From Web Services With JustDelete.me
JustDelete.me is a directory that allows you to permanently remove yourself from different web services such as Facebook, PayPal, Amazon, etc.
Why can’t you just go to the listed sites on your own and delete yourself that way, you ask? It’s not that easy.
A lot of sites have dark patterns — interfaces created to trick users into agreeing to terms they otherwise wouldn’t — and JustDelete.me is designed to work around those patterns.
For example, Facebook’s Account Settings menu only offers people the option to deactivate their accounts, so many think that it’s not possible to completely delete themselves from the site; the “Delete Account” button can only be found if you hunt it down. With JustDelete.me, you can click the Facebook link and be taken directly to the “Delete Account” page without all the hassle.
JustDelete.me even color codes web services by how difficult it is to delete yourself from each site, with green being the easiest, and black being impossible. (Good luck deleting yourself from Craigslist.)
Trump supporters are now starting to organize and create their own version of what looks like a “watered down” Gestapo.
They’re calling themselves the “Lions of Trump.
They are recruiting White individuals in states and cities that are presumed to be Republican leaning.
Please be careful. If you or anyone you know will be going to protests or are planning a protest, PLEASE FIND MORE SECURE WAYS TO SPREAD INFORMATION.
It scares me that I am advising you to organize in secret because this is EXACTLY what happened in Nazi Germany 60 years ago.
Please, please be careful. We don’t know the extent that these people will go to to try and uphold their skewed understanding of democracy and nationalism.
I’m seeing a lot of stupid ass Trump supporters reblog this saying “oh you libs and dems have nothing to worry about” blah blah
ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN WHO PAID ATTENTION IN CLASS KNOWS THAT THEIR MOTTO “lion for a day….” WAS USED BY GUESS WHAT BITCHES A FUCKING FACIST IN BENITO MUSSOLINO WHO DING DING DING WAS ONE OF HITLER’S ALLIES DURING WORLD WAR II. EARLIEST USAGE OF THE QUOTE FROM WHICH MUSSOLINI SUPPOSEDLY GOT INSPIRATION FROM WAS BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT WHO SURPRISE SURPRISE BECAME FAMOUS FOR ALL OF HIS CONQUESTS CONQUERING ANCIENT LANDS.
BUT also: the group’s Twitter is ACTIVE. They’re telling their followers to REPORT ALL PROTESTERS TO THE FBI/LOCAL POLICE.
Check Twitter and do some digging. THEY ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO GET ANTI TRUMP PROTESTERS ARRESTED.
THEY ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO DENY PROTESTERS THEIR RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY BECAUSE THE PROTESTERS ARE GOING AGAINST TRUMP.
Organizations are democratic sure. Go the fuck ahead make a club about every darndest thing you can fucking think of. BUT YOU’RE FUCKING RIGHT TO ORGANIZE STOPS WHEN YOUR SOLE PURPOSE IS TO DENY OTHER CITIZENS OF THEIR FUCKIN CIVIL RIGHTS.
This is much worse than the Gestapo in fact, it bears a stronger resemblance to the STURMABTEILUNG/SCHUTZSTAFFELN or the Italian MVSN (also known as the Blackshirts). The Gestapo already exists in the form of the official authorities. These groups are civilian-organized and driven by non-police, non-military entities in order to instill fear in their political enemies. It is textbook fascism and do not listen to the conciliatory fools who believe otherwise.
Fyi everyone that Trans Law Help thing that’s been going around is actually a scam. It’s bring run by the same scammers who cheated loads of young lgbtq tumblr users out of thousands of dollars with a bogus video game called The Arkh Project a few years back.
NOTE: there are legit people using the #translawhelp hashtag, but do NOT give them any money until they’ve proved they’re a licensed and legitimate lawyer.
ALSO: TLDEF AKA THE TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND (TLDEF.ORG) is an actual nonprofit transgender law firm based in NYC and I have physically been there and they were able to help me afford my name change (free and donation based) a few years ago, and they also help connect people with attorneys for civil rights cases & anything they can handle and help you with, they’ve helped me immensely via email & you can call them too it’s a small organization and the people there are trans and LGBTQIA people and hopefully they can help you. You can donate to them every time you use amazon if you use the smile.amazon link:
Translawhelp is a hashtag to help people find Pro Bono kegal advice from volunteer lawyers and gather information and resource links into one place. There is at least one scammer using the tag, but people in the tag have been warning that might happen from the beginning, and have been trying to counteract it. Anyone using it should proceed with caution, and verify everything they read, but it’s a group effort, not a unified organization. Unless you are talking about the website only, in which case it’s better to be specific.
Last I checked, it seems that someone is also spamming the tag with fashion articles, but I don’t know what that’s about. It’s annoying though.
Your suggestions are sound, but it’s not helpful to scare people away entirely with partial information.
Hey, friendos. We know the world is scary right now (maybe it’s been scary for you for a long time. Maybe forever. Maybe the scariness is new. Either way, hi) and that you might be looking for solutions.
We want to remind you of one here in Washington: Take Charge.
Take Charge is a program run through Planned Parenthood that offers free (YEAH REALLY) birth control and annual exams to folks who are low-income, regardless of gender.
If you’re a single person who makes up to $2,452 monthly, you may qualify.
Go get a damn IUD. Get yourself tested. Get a check-up. Get Take Charge because it will be there for you even if the ACA gets gutted.
I’m posting this to warn people in North Carolina, Muslims and
Jewish peeps (Muslims and Jews of colour especially), all people of colour and queer people (lesbian, trans, gay, non binary, agender, asexual, all of you) to please be safe wherever you are on that date.
If you do not feel safe, please stay at home or with friends. Do not attempt to engage them or incite them to violence for your and your friends and families safety, please. Do not give them a reason.
If you want to organise a counter protest, that is fine too but please, always be safe. Organise the protest on secure channels where it is safer and away from potential fascist infiltration.
We have no idea what Trump/Pence will do to roll back protections for transgender people. So lawyers are helping while they can.
If you need help with a name change, gender marker change, or other transition-related legal services before Trump officially takes office and potentially destroys access to those things, lawyers are volunteering their services pro bono. Search the hashtag #TransLawHelp on Twitter to find them.
For those who don’t need or cannot offer legal help, there’s a fundraiser running to help trans people with the costs of updating identification. Donate if you can.
Looks like people offering legal services are flooded with responses already, but help will come. We’re in this together. We will make it.
Hi tumblr…so. I wanted to provide you with an update on something I’ve been dealing with alone and in silence because I’m tired of feeling silenced and I need people to know what I’m dealing with and help support me through it.
I’m an undergraduate student at UNCW who happens to be queer as well as a muslim immigrant, and I have spent the last two years of my life being harassed relentlessly by a tenured professor who insists on comparing me to ISIS, sending his students and supporters after me to make death threats, writing blog posts about me claiming it’s not possible for me to be queer and muslim, slandering me in his classes, and ultimately doing everything he can to use his power, privileges, and platforms over me to make my life hell to try and stop me from speaking out against injustice. The university has been letting him do this since my freshman year and it’s only gotten worse these past few months.
This professor (who is 30+ years older than me, by the way) wrote an article about me called ‘A ‘Queer Muslim’ Jihad?’ outing me, comparing me to militant Islamic groups, attacking my intelligence, diagnosing me with mental illnesses I don’t have, and just being the most despicable kind of person you could be.
And if the article ITSELF wasn’t bad enough the comments are even better! :)
Not to mention that, because he used my full name, his supporters have been blowing up my Facebook with horrible comments and really despicable threats. Almost all of these people being 40+ year old white men doing this to a 19 year old girl.
I tried to talk to my university about this and let them know that I was tired of having to defend myself, my name, my sexuality, my religion, my EVERYTHING from a professor who is in a higher position of power over me and they told me they couldn’t do anything because he’d just sue the university.
And I’m just tired. I’m really, really tired. And I want all of you to see what the fuck I’ve been having to deal with and know why I legitimately do not want to continue my education somewhere where I continuously have to be called a jihadist. I don’t want to be threatened anymore. I don’t want to be demeaned. I don’t want to be stuck in an environment that deems this sort of behavior as okay. And I don’t know what to do.
Read it and see the things I’ve been forced to hear about me and my religion and my sexuality all for the sake of getting an education. Read it and see all the hatred that people of color are forced to combat just to be able to get a degree. Read it and see how fucking hard it is for black women to succeed anywhere because people like this will say/do anything to bring us down. Read it and understand that if a professor wrote about a white student this way it would have never been acceptable, but he knows he can get away with it because nobody cares about harassment against black students. Read it and understand how fucked up society is. And please help me figure out what to do, because I legitimately feel like I’m drowning.
BOOSTING THIS
I don’t know how to help, but someone out there does.
Wish I could offer some real advice here. If the article is inaccurate enough you may be able to sue him for libel and have the article removed, but you would have to talk to a lawyer about that. Regardless, you shouldn’t have to resort to getting a lawyer to deal with a professor who has left such a blatant trail, the school should take action.
Mike S. Adams, professor of criminology at UNC-Wilmington. His profile says he’s been a high-profile conservative/Republican for a lot of years and won a major “free speech” court case against the UNCW in 2011 so the university may be reluctant to take action against him for those reasons?
Doesn’t give many details other than it was ruled the university can’t “discriminate on the basis of the professor’s viewpoint” in his published columns and speeches when he applied for tenure, etc., but it may have something to do with this
I have to reshape this because I am downright disgusted. I’ve been following this account for a couple months but I had no idea what this woman was actually going through. Whatever you believe this straight up antagonism this grown man has for this woman is rooted so deeply in prejudice and is so vile I can’t believe this man is in a position of power. I am at a loss for words. I want so badly to help her but I don’t even know what to do.
I wanted to give you guys some people you can e-mail. I don’t know if it’ll make much of a difference, but if you want to reach out to my university administration and let them know you feel like this is unacceptable I’d really appreciate it.
Thank you guys for the support. I love you very much
not to say sending emails isn’t gonna help but post this up on twitter with the uni’s hashtags as well, on facebook, and whatever other sm accounts they have; don’t let them fucking ignore this make it as public as possible and don’t let them escape y'all
