Quick Reminder For Yall That Today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Celebrates The Auschwitz

quick reminder for y’all that today, international holocaust remembrance day, celebrates the auschwitz liberation and is different from yom hashoah (holocaust memorial day)

Let’s celebrate black beauty on YA covers.

It’s Black History Month here in the United States, and what better time to celebrate black beauty? Let’s take a peek at some of the YA covers that feature their amazing black leads.

There still is a lot of work to be done in terms of inclusive YA - there’s not nearly enough black leads, and queer black leads, and disabled black leads, or any combination of them, and not nearly enough represented on covers. But for today, we can admire the beauty we’ve been given so far - and remind publishing that hey, these books are great, and representation is important. More, please! View the full post - with YA covers in all their glory! - on YA Interrobang.

tw : execution, mention of murder

take action for dustin higgs

i have only seen a few petitions for dustin higgs but i’m linking them below. if you know of anymore; PLEASE LINK THEM.

DUSTIN HIGGS IS NOT GUILTY OF THE CRIMES HE IS BEING EXECUTED FOR. PLEASE, TAKE A FEW SECONDS AND SIGN TO HELP SAVE HIM. TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

do not sign any white house petitions if you are not a united states citizen. do not bother using fake zip codes on those petitions. one false signature and the whole thing could be seen as invalid.

action network

change.org

change.org ii

white house ( US CITIZENS ONLY )

and if you have the means, here is the link of a paypal run by a member of his family

again, if you have more please link them. sign, share, discuss and spread awareness. don't wait until it's too late.

To everyone who sees this:

My home country, Myanmar (Burma) is in a serious situation.

On the first of February 2021. the military seized power. They had detained government officials, including our State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and our president, U Win Myint.

Every form of connection, both wifi and mobile data, all was cut off this morning. We did not know what was happening for the whole of the morning, until 5 in my house when the internet was back on.

They had cut all news channel, we do not know what really is happening inside our country other than their power seizure, and we do not know what is happening in the world right now. Every news channel except the military owned are now cut.

There are now curfews to stay at home after 8pm in Yangon, whether the same law apply to other cities are unknown.

There is not much we can do as citizens other than hope that our little voices reach the world. The best we can hope for is.

I am in the dark and cannot shed much light on the situation. You might have heard and know better by now. The 8888 uprising is one that had happened in the past, we hope this is not another one. Some think that the worst may result in our country disappearing off the face of the Earth, but I can only hope for the best.

The internet and electricity may be cut off again at 12 in the night, Myanmar Time, but some said this is a rumour. I do not know yet.

Spreading awareness on this situation is extremely important to us, we are no strangers to being left in the dark corner for a long time.

Speaking from my heart, I hope that we can stand as a union of humanity, rather than divided by any borders or nationalities. The military oppression will not only affect our country, our children, our lives to the biggest extent, it can tear the centuries our country had survived into nothingness. In the 88 uprising, countless bodies had been buried alive, the streets had been covered with blood, and tears drown the country. We can only hope this is not 88 again. 

To every bystander, to help us, spreading awareness is important. It’s extremely important to research as well and get to the bottom ( and avoid circular reporting), and I will try to explain as much as possible if there is time. 

There was another announcement that all travel to outside the country will be shut down till April 30.

This is a petition you can sign:

https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-we-would-like-to-report-about-the-military-coup-in-myanmar-burma

israel is currently bombing damascus, syria in the middle of the night while the world is focused on the situation in the united states. please take the time to read through the carrd linked on this thread to spread awareness and help the syrian people in anyway you can

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience.

This day is an incredibly important day for the trans community. Today, we must take the time to mourn our trans and nonbinary siblings who were lost to anti-trans violence and suicide. We must remember how beautiful, strong, and amazing they were. We must remember the struggles they endured and the sacrifices they made to make things better for our community. We must remember everything they suffered through and everything they did and give our thanks to them.

And in mourning of these incredible individuals, we are reminded why we continue to fight. We fight not only for those of us who we’ve lost but also for those of us who are still here. We must fight against our internal struggles, transphobia, anti-trans legislation, people who seek to harm us, and more to work towards a better future for ourselves, the future our late siblings dreamed of seeing. We will create a better, brighter future for ourselves and our community!!!!!

But to do this, we have to work together. We need to uplift each other, give each other love, and offer acceptance and understanding to one another. We need to support each other as much as we can, or we will not make it. We have to stick together. We must be united to win this fight, to stop violence against us, and to do our trans and nonbinary siblings justice.

And let us not forget that, just like our trans ancestors, we are strong, too! We are resilient, too! We can make it through this fight and come out on top! Even at our weakest, we continue to fight for ourselves and for each other! And even when we can’t fight anymore, we still have thousands of trans and nonbinary siblings next to us and fighting for us! Because our community is full of neverending strength and bravery. Our community is full of remarkable individuals who never give up, who REFUSE to give up! Never forget that.

Never forget those who fought for us. And never forget the reasons why we continue to fight ♡♡♡♡♡