Reminder That Mermaids Cooperate With Cops, Are Run Primarily By Cis People, Only Support Kids, And Are

reminder that mermaids cooperate with cops, are run primarily by cis people, only support kids, and are just generally Kinda Not Great. if you wanna donate to some uk trans orgs:

if you’re in the uk google your city / county + trans & see what comes up! any grassroots org both needs ur money more and will do better things with it

gendered intelligence are based in england

transgenderNI are in northern ireland

scottish trans are in scotland

books beyond bars send books to incarcerated LGBT+ people in the uk

alternatively, search 'trans' + 'donate', 'paypal', 'gofundme' on twitter & give directly to trans people

and set up recurring donations if you can! we need money even when transphobes aren’t trending!

not liking men makes things so lonely especially because I go to lan all girl’s school like even though I have friends who are also queer I’m not comfortable in my own queerness so I don’t even want to discuss things like that

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Quick rant about African homophobia but the fact that white people will really say "ooh X country hates gay people, they're so backward and barbaric" is incredibly insulting.

As far as Africa is concerned, homophobia can't be disconnected from Christian colonizers. The erasure of queer history can be tied to them and has led to some of the most radical shifts toward homosexuality I've ever seen.

Take Uganda, everyone's favourite homphobic punching bag. Few would believe that Uganda had a gay king. If you've only heard of Kabaka Mwanga through European writings you would believe that he was gay (which the Europeans claimed he gained from the barbaric Arabs) However, some modern Ugandan scholars believe he was bi as he slept with his wives and male pages. The missionaries used this narrative to claim he was possessed by demons leading him to burn Christian martyrs.

While the killing of the martyrs was obviously wrong, the British used his sexuality to undermine his power and colonize Uganda. ( This was around the same time Oscar Wilde was put on trial ) This is just one example of the British weaponising homophobia as they spread it throughout Uganda.

Other examples include the erasure of lesbian marriage in certain tribes and the condemning of male wives and female husbands (given my lack of resources on them, I can't say they were trans but they certainly didn't fit the mold that colonialism forced on them) The fact is that modern homophobia in Africa can be traced back to colonialism and Christianity.

While this does not mean Africa was a woke™ haven, it does show how insidious remarks about it's homophobia can be. With the knowledge that these attitudes have been stoked throughout the past two centuries, it becomes easier to divorce African identity and homophobia. This goes against the stereotype that non-white communities are socially regressive, often having sexist/homophobic structures.

This doesn't absolve any Africans of their homophobia but rather seeks to explain some of it and add nuance to the discussion of LGBT rights in Africa.

TLDR: Colonization erased queer history in Africa. this doesn't absolve Africa of its homophobia but it's necessary to understand the role of colonization in it

you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?

Urgently need funds to eat and survive

[image description: two black trans people are sitting on a bed in a somewhat dark room with pink lighting. the one on the left has short, curky brown hair with bleached ends and is wearing a black top with white dots and lemons, and has a lesbian flag draped over his lap. the person on the right has short, curly brown hair with the top dyed green and is wearing a gray Deadpool shirt and is leaning on the person on the left's shoulder. end image description.]

hey all, im remaking this post since (yet again) my last one has accrued a lot of notes but donations have all but stopped. my wife and i are dirt broke. neither of us have any income. i am technically employed but do not start work until the 24th, which means i cannot get UI and have no way to get income until I start work. my wife is unemployed (theyve been applying but nowhere has gotten back to them). They qualified for PUA, but we are still waiting for their proof of state residency documents to be verified in order for them to receive their benefits. we have exhausted pretty much every option available to us to get some form of income, but we are still broke and in desperate need of funds. my wife's venmo balance is in the negatives by about $70, and our $110 phone bill is going to be due the 23rd, one day before i start working. on top of that, we dont have any food in our house, and until we are able to go grocery shopping, we have been needing to rely on ordering take out to feed ourselves (which we havent been able to do because we have no money). my health is starting to take a turn for the worse because of stress due to our financial situation. any donations people can soare so we can try and get our bills paid off and feed ourselves until either my wife's PUA benefits arrive or i start work would help us so so so much. donations can be sent to my cashapp ($paladinbutch), venmo (@paladinbutch) or my paypal, thank you in advance!