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Homeless People Read Mean Tweets About Themselves To End Stereotypes
When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it’s funny. When homeless people do it, it’s heartbreaking.
In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets written about those living without stable shelter. See all of the emotional reactions here.
Watch the full video here.
College Student Blues
You know the feein’ of being on a tight budget. After the 5th meal of Scooty Loops you are ready to hurl.
robrogers:
Class Warfare - 22 Sep 2011
I like taking pictures of shop signs in which I can’t even afford to enter because I’m poor af
I don't know who needs to read this, or hear this, but here we go:
Radical Feminism don't work!
RadFem is literally misandry, transphobia and the decrease of, mainly cis women, to their genitalia.
It's not inclusive to black, trans, disabled, poor or religious women and divided, almost destroyed, the lesbian community in the 70s and the 80s.
It's a white, cishet, abled, anti-religious and bourgeois kind of movement.
Instead of following this kind of feminism, I'd recommend following Marxist feminism or Anarcho feminism. Trust me.
This Bothered Me So I’m Fixing It
In media, I’ve noticed that characters that grew up poor don’t seem to act like people that actually grew up poor. This is because they’re largely written by people that grew up middle class, or even more wealthy than that, and have no concept of how growing up poor fucks your mental health. The poor characters are usually angry, jealous, a bit self-serving, and while he’s this can happen it’s been over represented as how poor people act.
I grew up poor. And I mean some of the stuff I had to sacrifice because of this didn’t bother me because I thought it was very normal. Not getting a birthday party every year, having to use the same uniform three years in a row, just ripping out old pages and continuing to use my old school book, finger foods night, bodgie night, never being able to get super into video games. Being poor affects more than just the types of items you own and how often you can get groceries. And this is something other people can’t understand and struggle to write.
Poor people have a very strange concept of what is privilege and what they can expect when they go to someone else’s house. The house has stairs? That’s so fancy! The house has a kitchen island? A bar? A pool? That’s all fancy shit. And when a poor person comes to your house, even if they know you’ve got a pool, they’re probably not going to bring bathers. Upkeep of the pool is expensive isn’t it? Why would I expect to swim in the pool and cost you money? (Doesn’t know how pools work). They’ll try to eat as minimal food as possible and drink as little water as possible at your house because it costs money that they’re not used to having.
I have decided that this reality of growing up poor, or worse, growing up in poverty, needs to be shown more realistically. I’m writing a bildungsroman-fantasy book series, and you can find out more about its genre by clicking on the tags. I’ve made multiple posts about it already. But our protagonist, Draco Vitterbyrn, is a character that has grown up in poverty. He lives in a house that is falling apart, his family can’t afford groceries, he has to wear an old school uniform that doesn’t fit right, he doesn’t get proper birthday or Yule gifts from his family, he can’t afford to go out with his friends, he’s never made a big deal about his birthday, he feels like he only ever takes from people that show him kindness.
The Damned Trilogy, as it is called, tackles a lot of systemic issues such as classism, ableism, racism, xenophobia etc., and all through the systemic oppression of vampires within this magical society. Vampires cannot access food to survive, they cannot access housing, they cannot access jobs, they cannot access most of the things we need to survive within capitalist society.
If this kind of story sounds like it might interest you, please comment or reblog. If enough people want to see this story published I may start a venmo or gofundme to actually get it published. Also, look through the #the damned trilogy if you want to learn more about what I’ve included in this story.
when you are dirty poor and ppl around you treats you so well. you know and feel so wrong to be loved. because you can't give the same energy to them. and it hurts me so bad because you would give them the world but I CAN'T. and ppl say poor ppl keep holding back their friends so if that the case... they should leave me because i don't want to be one who is the cause of anything bad.
I wanna have uggs but i am broke lol. Ig that i will buy some fake ones from vinted or some cheap stores. I just woke up. I am going to study maths. I like maths but not the teacher. She ruins everything. I also bought some glasses so i can watch tv without blurry vision. They look cute but i wanted some office siren ones. Sadly they didnt have them:((
i think genshin should invent phones so ninguangg can send me 200k mora aventurine style . i have no resin and less than 10 thousand rn my kinich is stuck at level 45 with unleveled artifacts
Wish some gold hearted #millionaire would gift me some $$$ so I can afford my first house and some retirement money for my parents.
I’m deadass down to sell feet pics for $10 a pop HMU I’m poor
Reflection on Matthew 25 by Mia Carella
Quote about the modern transformation of Jesus by Rin Wilson.
please support me by buying yourself a yummy treat!
my school's music program completed an annual fundraiser per student where said student sells goodies. the money received goes into an account that will be used for that student and that student only. my parents cannot afford this year's trip so i will not be going, but i hope you can help me out just a bit for other activities within the program!
