Gun Violence Tw - Tumblr Posts
link to a thread of gofundmes/etc for the uvalde elementary school shooting
rip eddie sterling you would've loved healthy relationships and not being shot to death on the street
(link to the twitter thread and link to the article)
Let's repeat that number: 94% of the people who murdered their families since 2020 were men. A gun was used 86% of the time. This is why men are so firmly anti-gun control, because they want to terrorize and kill their families with ease. These stories are not divorced from the wider epidemic of gun violence just because they're in the home--the personal is political. Domestic violence is gun violence's best friend.
And this is why violent men are hoping the far-right Supreme Court decides that domestic abusers have a "right" to firearms. (And this is also why, ladies, if you're dating a guy who isn't anti-gun: run.)
the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american.
if you can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly network, and swan vancouver, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.
If your OC has a prominent scar or scars, how did they get them? How many people know this story? How do people react to it?
the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american.
if you can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly network, and swan vancouver, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.
a gunman in georgia just went on a shooting spree targeting asian owned business in a hate crime involving 8 deaths of people with varying nationalities (6 asian, with 1 white woman and 1 white man) last night. (click on photos to enlarge, credits to @frogvk on twitter for the graphics)