Hey everyone, if you follow my partner @800-dick-pics you would know that we are currently being harassed extorted and stalked by my family on a resolved issue even after we've escaped their anti black and ableist abuse
Their harrassment is very clearly racially motivated almost exclusively singling out my black disabled neurodivergent partner, as evidenced in the screenshot they provided on their post (there's more than this one, but its all too hard to read)
At this point, I want nothing more than for my gf and I to be left alone entirely by my family with no way of contacting us, this is a dire emergency! They will not leave us alone as long as they have a means to terrorize us
At the present we need *at least $500* to afford food, toiletries and new phones with new numbers to be able to cut them off once and for all
We will continue to be harassed if this goal is not met, we will not be able to know peace if we can't cut them off completely so we NEED this ASAP for our collective health
Anything and everything helps
We're hungry and scared and just want to be left alone so we can heal and we can't do that without the support of the community
Hey everyone I have been dealing with a lot of bills piling up as well as helping my mom pay off rent if any of yall could help me with grocery/transportation money I would really appreciate it
Disabled Lesbians of Color needs Food+Legal Support
I havent been online as much to cfund as much as i should have, bc my partner and I still need help while were here.
For those who know n dont know we are a Black and Latine Indigenous Disabled Lesbian couple and we are in the process of getting my girl (dual) citizenship, which is very important to her wrt reconnecting to her land and people. We have been here a little over 2 weeks and we REALLY cant put off some of the things we need.
Since neither of us can drive we have to pay a taxi to go to a city 1.5hrs away this is like $75 usd each time, so we have to do all our errands in one day. We need to get allergen free groceries, place/pickup my meds, meet an immigration lawyer ASAP! and activate our LatAM phones.
We need approx $575, we are prioritizing getting groceries and the meeting with the lawyer both need to happen soon. Please help us if youre able!
Okay so a friend of mine was getting rid of some books and she offered up a book called The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
I had never heard of it, so I looked it up, and discovered that it was a fantasy book written by an Indian author which heavily draws from South Asia for its worldbuilding
Needless to say, as an Indian, my interest was piqued, so I told my friend I would indeed like to have it
When I picked it up from her, she mentioned that it wasn't all that great of a book but that she really liked the worldbuilding, and so I went into it with pretty low expectations
What I didn't consider was that my friend is white.
To be fair, I'm not saying she doesn't have a point. Maybe this isn't the most beautiful prose or most intricate plot I've ever read
To be perfectly honest, I don't really care
You see, to her, the cool worldbuilding that she liked was just that: worldbuilding. (No hate to her whatsoever I adore her)
But this is my culture. I didn't even know how much it meant to me to see my culture in my favorite genre of book until it was right in front of me
I couldn't get enough of it
At every chance I got, I was reading
I was in the middle of a vacation and all I wanted to do was keep reading
And then
This happened (mild spoilers for the book):
And I was like ",,, oh??"
I read it again
Then I kept reading
And then a few pages later, this:
OH??????
I just kind of sat there and I processed what I'd just read
And then I took pictures
And then I read it again
And again
And again and again and again
And now I'm just sitting here
I can't
I can't handle this
I'm just sitting here, in the middle of a hotel room, unable to read another page of this book or look away or do anything at all other than stare in wonder
Because it's GAY
I can't handle this
I don't know what to do
I want to cry
I want to scream
I want to curl up into a ball
I want to track down the author and,,, I don't know? Hug her? Kiss her? Thank her? Ask for her autograph? Stand there grinning like an idiot? Offer her my services as a court jester? Kneel at her feet and swear fealty? Those last two probably go hand in hand tbh
I haven't posted my face on Tumblr in an incredibly long time, but I feel as if I'm able to do it now. I'm not done growing, and I've got a lot of life left to experience. But I made it this far. I'm alive, and I'm still here. By tomorrow, it'll mark 2 weeks exactly since I got breast reduction surgery. Insert more random words that I can't convey properly, but yeah. I'm still here, and I'm not going away anytime soon.
Hey everyone my job has been late paying me my most recent paycheck (11/4) & im down to like $10 until I get paid next week (11/18) if any of yall could help out I would appreciate it
October is Pride Month in South Africa. As a queer artist from South Africa, it is important that we strive to share queer narratives in all art forms.
One of the biggest reasons I wrote this book was because growing up I wanted to see someone who looked like me and was like me. Someone who was a person of colour and queer in a world of magic.