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Cathy Brennan, radical “feminist” terrorist, has set her sights on a young black activist in Baltimore County, MD. Phylicia Sampson is being taken to court by Brennan, a notorious harasser of trans women and their supporters. Sampson is a recent college grad with few resources, no car and no way to fight back without your help.
As a community, we’ve suffered Brennan’s assaults for a long time—her blog is the best known for outing trans women’s personal information. She believes trans women are men who are infiltrating the feminist community and expends her resources fighting them. The idea that she is now taking her harassment to a legal venue is horrifying. That she has selected a young black woman with few resources to fight back is repugnant.
We can’t let Cathy Brennan get away with this! Share Phylicia’s campaign on Facebook, twitter, tumblr and instagram. Here are some things you can do TODAY to help:
- Tell your friends why it is important that they donate to this campaign.
- Donate what you can.
- Write to your favorite feminist blog and ask them to cover this campaign
as someone who has dealt (in a pretty unserious way) with cathy brennan (she’s the one who called me a nightmare woman (hence my tumblr title) please donate whatever you can.
she is legitimately the worst
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Hello, My name is Rosa Ariely Martinez. I’m a 20 year old Trans* woman of Color currently living in Texas. A month ago, I discovered my parents had withdrawn money from my bank account without my knowledge, and tried to gaslight me into believing i had made the withdrawal…
my mom owes her attorney $14,000 by the end of june or else the attorney is going to stop representing my mom in the divorce of an abusive marriage
i’m going to cry ugh
idk if you wanna help my mom out and donate there’s a button on my page or use my email smauric@asu.edu that’d be great but i’m just going to go cry in a corner over how stressed out i am suddenly
EDIT: So I got an update, and if we don’t pay in full then the attorney will apparently set a debt collector on us. Which is great, isn’t it?
Which pretty much means that we can actually get kicked out of home, or…who even fucking knows debt collectors are fucking nasty as hell.
My current goal to help mom out is to reach $2850 to help out my mom - combined with my college tuition savings and my own personal savings that should be enough to pay off the attorney. I know it’s a lot of money, but even a dollar or two will go a long way.
Update: I’ve reached $430/$2850! :) Thank you to everyone who’s helped out. I’m really, really hoping that we’ll be able to reach my full goal. I’ve got a link HERE for donations so you don’t have to go to my page or enter in my email.
Update (6/10/13) Hi ok so I’ve reached around $435 and I’ve got like, three weeks left to come up with some money. I’ve put in enough hours that I can add some more in myself, so I’m going to lower my goal. If I could even reach $900 it’d be a great help. So please help me and continue to reblog and donate if you can! <3
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I’m remarkably calm for someone losing everything.
Last night our internet was cut off, simply because we can’t afford to keep paying for it, I’m currently writing this from a shitty internet cafe about a mile away from where I live.
The other donation page is still up, but has so little traffic I’m kind of only leaving it up as a reminder by this point.
I have kept back a few points that illustrate daily just how dire the situation my Mother and I are in, simply because it’s personal. but I think I really have to illustrate the point now.
My Mother and I shower once a month. We wash our hair once a fortnight. This is because, thanks to the situation the Government has put us in, we can barely afford water. It has been this way since November last year.
Also since November last year, we have not once used the Heating, regardless of the fact that this meant we had to go through the coldest Winter Britain has had in recorded history with no heating whatsoever.
We’re looking for places to move to, but nowhere in our price bracket will accept people on Benefits, they say this phrase: ‘No DDR’, which means they do not want people on Benefits.
I usually save aside £10 a month for luxuries, just so Mother and I can continue to feel Human rather than depressed grey blobs, we barely even have that anymore.
Work is non-existent for someone with my qualifications, and believe me when I say that, while I do not regret taking six years out of education to help care for my Grandmother, I begin to resent it a little when I’m told I’m under-qualified.
I don’t expect to raise the full amount I;m asking for, simply because it’s a lot. But it’s there to illustrate just how seriously we’re backed into a corner.
Mother is depressed, and her PTSD is acting up in reaction to the constant stress we are under. I, myself, am only kept on the straight and narrow due to the presence of my friends, and now with the internet cut off, I won’t even have that.
It isn’t hard to reblog this, please.
Tweet it, share it on Facebook, Reblog it, I don’t care, please just spread it around.
You’ll also see I have little reward things up, I still stand by the fact that I’m not good enough to charge for my work, but I can give it away. For examples, it’s best to check my SWTOR tag.
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» BEG FOR COMMISSIONS
I would say it would not be lying to say we’re in a financial “situation”. Between my total underemployment (hi, 9 hour weeks I LOVE YOU SO MUCH) and a few things coming out of the bank account that should have drawn from paypal, things are looking unexpectedly tight around here.
So this is me officially opening up the askbox for anyone who would want me to doodle something. I am open to anything (given reference of some kind). I will draw you. I will draw your original character or fantroll. I will draw your cannibal and his puppy owning boyfriend. (I will not promise canonical accuracy on things I’m not in the fandom of but I will draw them.)
I won’t draw gore or non-con though. I mean, good luck to you if you really want me to draw CONSENTUAL porn but I’m up for the challenge.
Prices are negotiable but say, $2 for a single color sketch; $5 or so for a colored one, $10ish for a more detailed one-character piece, $15 or $20 depending on complexity for something more like the one on the bottom that would require pose reference and research. Obviously paid work would be taken very seriously; these examples were just for fun.
Don’t like pictures? I also write (and edit if that’s a thing people still pay for)! This is my AO3 (filled with terribly old fanfic because most of my things are original these days). I’m also open to gifsets , other mediums like Illustrator/vectors, logos, banners, etc.
Yup I think that was pretty good begging. Send me an ask, or an email if you like. I have a week with LITERALLY NO PLANS except working on things for yoooou.
And if you’re broke or simply don’t really like what I’ve got up here, I would super super appreciate a reblog <33
SO MY BFFs JASPER AND JAMES ARE HAVING SOME TROUBLES WITH STUFF EXPLAINED HERE! THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO MOVE BUT SCHOOL AND MONEY HAVE BEEN CONSPIRING AGAINST THEM. JASPER IS TRYING TO GET MONEY TOGETHER TO GO SEE JAMES. I WANT TO HELP. BUT I HAVE NO MONEY.
HERE’S THE DEAL:
DONATE MONEY TO JASPER, AND I WILL DRAW YOU THINGS. ANYTHING. JUST DO IT.
openly sobbing ;_____; lauren is so great
um, my paypal is hawkeyepea@gmail.com
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- Easy and very effective
- Requires nothing but your body
- Includes attack
Very useful to know, pass and share please.
Hopefully nobody will ever have to use any of this, but honestly, I can’t stress enough how important self defense is.
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PLEASE REBOLG THIS! We need this film to happen. Please, watch and spread the word. My daughter and her father’s family are from this reservation. People need to know what really happens on native land.
Wow, social justice ACTUALLY done right!
This seems like a fantastic idea that will raise a lot of awareness. It looks like they’re very close to finishing their goal (they’re at 87% as of typing this) so please, help this movie get made!
PLEASE DONATE. THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO GET THIS FILM SHOWN. THEY HAVE 30 DAYS TO DO IT AND THE DEADLINE IS CLOSING IN.
WATCH THE TRAILER. PLEASE. AND IF YOU CANNOT DONATE, PLEASE REBLOG FOR YOUR FOLLOWERS TO SEE.
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Shit, I guess I should stop playing games naked then.
^^^
SIGNAL BOOST.
Just looked this up guys. It’s legit. *shudders*
((Damn right it’s legit - and legitly frightening. Even more frightening is that Microsoft sees nothing wrong with doing any of this.
Speak with your wallet. Do not buy the Xbox One and support this disgusting behaviour.))
(Source: comradical, via jkrockin)
psa to photosensitive and epileptic folk: if you do not already have a browser extension to stop all gifs by default, now is the time to get it- tumblr and its advertising customers are very fond of flashing gifs and these will now be placed directly on your dashboard on the desktop and not just mobile
Paused! for Chrome (gifs start only when you click on them)
Active Stop Button for Firefox
Toggle Animated GIFs for Firefox
Firefox users can disable all .gifs by default with no extension:
- In the Location bar type ” about:config ” and hit enter (no quotes/spaces)
- Type “animation” into the filter field to find the preference
- Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it from “normal” to “none”
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Yesterday I got the bad news I am pregnant.
I can’t afford an abortion right now, and I have to get one.
If anyone would be willing to donate even a dollar it would help me tremendously.
The cost of the abortion is $580
If you could reblog this I would be forever indebted to you
Reblogging to boost signal. Also, check out abortionassistanceblog- someone in your area may be willing to help with transportation, funds, or moral support.
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OpenDyslexic is a free-to-use font that is designed to help those with dyslexia read better. The text is weighted, having a heavier bottom, which is thought to increase readability for dyslexic people. You can download it for free here.
I don’t have dyslexia myself, but in the event any of my followers do, I thought I’d share. Maybe it will help people.
i wish everything was in this type of text.
What the fuck. It usually takes me a lot longer to read something like that and then I just wooshed through it and it was like ZOOM and I was like ‘I know exactly what the fuck I just read. Holy shit.’
I need to go to bed.
I don’t have dyslexia, but I know at least a few of you guys do. This really helps? If so that is awesome and brb I’m going to go throw it at everyone I know.
Hmmm. I wonder if there’s work being done on this typefacing for mathematical symbols/language. *goes off to poke*
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This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you.
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG!PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?
- Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it
- He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass
- He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together
- Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy
He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this
Will keep an eye out for him and signal boosting for others in the area.
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p.s. maleficent shirt
i find it weird that I do this same thing I slow-mo punch people for no reason.
if fat is being classified as a disease, can we call in sick to work/ school because we’re feeling fat or…
Before I go, please let me just say this:
perfection.
Brad Pitt photographed by Max Vadukul for Esquire, June/July 2013
I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for...
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath.
Lydia After Dark is the greatest thing.
This is the greatest story ever.