sorry for having a huge cock and correct opinions on everything. as if it’s my fault.

donate smth to cancer research instead of discussing and posting gifsets 

cc alliance /  duke cancer institute / aacr / fight crc / msk cancer center

if you haven’t already, please sign this petition to shut down pornhub and hold its executives accountable for aiding trafficking!!

this facebook post has information on the matter at hand. (warning: rape, pedophilia, human trafficking)

hey a family friend is in an ICE detention center about to be deported and he really needs money for a lawyer! i’m going to reblog with a link to donate because i hear tumblr fucks with posts with links

https://www.facebook.com/donate/653597825364515/

please please reblog!!!

to clarify, his parents came to the states when he was a small child so he doesn’t have any contacts if he gets deported, all of his friends and family are in the united states. i know everyone is really short on money but if you have something to spare, anything helps! everyone is worried for him, he’s stuck in a detention center during a pandemic, if you can’t donate i totally understand, please don’t put yourself in a bad situation, but sharing this would be really appreciated!

look i really don’t feel like it’s my place to share darion’s entire life story here but since it matters apparently, his mother and father are both dead and his only living blood relative is his little brother (who was born on american soil, so he’s a citizen but not darion)

hi I’m 21 years old black, trans and need to escape my abuser. Been having s*x for housing and just need a place for me and my cat to stay for a bit. I’d sleep in my car but it’s usually 110 degrees out here.

PayPal

cashapp: $bugabooluv

oh to be a bear … get fat, go to sleep n wake up in spring

i did my research and donated. this is the easiest way to donate to the lebanese red cross.

the Lebanese red cross is a charity that many Lebanese citizens endorse and are asking for others to donate to. As of right now (11:30 EST on the fifth), it’s the most up-to-date info I can find. If you don’t know what’s up, Beirut suffered a chemical explosion the size of a small nuke (which is still fucking huge.) They have a host of other serious and deadly crises (humanitarian/political/social) going on right now, too, and the explosion destroyed their main port, where a lot of their trade and necessary supplies (such as medical supplies) come in. Please, if you can, help Lebanon recover from this blow and tackle the rest of their problems. They need help.

Anyways donate to the red cross in Beirut to help the wounded from that aweful explosion. Lebanon has a corrupt government and any strange donation links could just be handing money to the goverment. The red cross is safe and is a guaranteed way of helping those affected by the explosion.

this is so upsetting, PLEASE rb to spread awareness

ok youtube just said “fuck you if youre deaf or hard of hearing or just want to watch a video in a different language”

https://twitter.com/LiamODellUK/status/1288869766980042752

and you know what the fucking bullshit is  they’re replacing it with a ~6 months free of a subscription to a third party captions provider~ which of course you’d have to pay for after those 6 months are up and you KNOW random youtuber #9039 isn’t going to bother to keep paying for that either because they won’t have the money or they just won’t care. and youtube’s going to act like that’s a perfectly fine alternative that won’t result in the majority of the site suddenly going from “more or less accessible” to “Fuck You If You’re Disabled” 

“citing low usage” are you fucking kidding me nearly every worthwhile video i watch uses community captions. sometimes they’re kind of janky cuz they were made by some 14 year old who thought it’d be funny to put their own irrelevant jokes and commentary in there but that wasn’t a reason to ditch the feature entirely when its so useful and important

i’m not even hard of hearing and i rely on them to watch videos in other languages…this is literally how people have been making english subs for japanese songs and the like for years and it was great because you didn’t have to reupload the videos yourself and take away views from the original creators. many creators don’t allow reprints of their work whatsoever so if they go through with this (which unfortunately they seem pretty deadset on because lololol moneyyyyyy) it’s entirely likely that there just won’t be a way to watch that content with captions

there’s a petition to keep community captions…i don’t know if it’ll really do anything since they’re already going ~oh but we have Paid Alternatives!~ but don’t just let this pass by this should be a huge deal but i’ve barely seen anyone talking about it (not that i expect people to talk about things of any particular importance on tumblr but it’s not even getting attention on twitter beyond that one thread and like 2 other posts)

so like. sign this and shit don’t let youtube just actively get rid of accessibility features without anyone caring (though i’d say probably use twitter if you want to actually get their attention i don’t think they’d look here) http://chng.it/LN9HRNmnkg

This is also going to have a negative affect on people who watch videos in a foreign language since a lot of the subtitles in a language different from the video are community done captions too. Imagine how much harder it’ll be to watch most videos on youtube if you stuggle with English and now none of them are going to have subtitles for you.

full offense but hozier did not release several songs saying “fuck cops, fuck capitalism, fuck fascism, fuck settler colonialism, white liberalism is useless, and also FUCK COPS” to be reduced to colonial cottagecore aesthetic by white women and be compared someone who uses tepid high school metaphors to talk about the Democrats like jfc

the problem here isn’t a white woman releasing a cottagecore album and being compared to hozier, it’s how hozier’s previous work and political messages that were specifically written to be about non-white and/or non-Western communities are ignored in favour of what white audiences can consume. Jackboot Jump was about state violence, and it specifically draws attention to non-American events when most artists would refuse to even acknowledge it. Foreigners God and Run are about Irish colonialism by the English. Be is about inhumane immigration conditions. Nina Cried Power was a long tribute to historical activists and Black artists. these are absolutely definitive as part of that canon of work, but they are ultimately ignored in favour of songs that can be pitch-shifted to create a ~wlw love song~

this is obviously a larger issue than swift vs hozier, but it is emblematic of how white audiences consume and, in turn, ignore media that makes them uncomfortable or challenges their paradigms of systemic privilege. the problem is that when creators of colour make political narratives about ourselves, we are ignored; when white creators take time to include radical political narratives about BIPOC, they are are cherry-picked or overlooked for messages that are more palatable. artists that take inspiration from radically progressive politics and use them in their works are constantly watered down when they make white liberal audiences uncomfortable. 

hozier’s music is reduced to “forest king fae wizard” because it’s more comfortable to consume and reckon with and relate to, and because it’s easier to draw similarities to another conventional white artist singing about conventional white middle-class womanhood than accept the revolutionary messages and acknowledge the sheer depth of influence that Black artists and activists have had

a 15 year old black girl with ADHD was incarcerated by a judge in michigan because she didn’t complete her homework.

grace was put on probation because of charges of assault and theft for “biting her mother’s finger and pulling her hair” and stealing another student’s mobile phone which she later returned. she expressed remorse at her actions multiple times afterwards and participated in therapy sessions and completely stayed out of trouble, her mother and teacher said that she was doing well at school despite the switch to online classes which caused her to become distracted due to her ADHD. she couldn’t keep up with her homework and her caseworker filed a violation of probabtion against her without bothering to learn about her disabilty or academic performance. the judge ellen brennan called her a “threat to the community”. all because she didn’t complete her fucking homework. she’s been in the juvenile detention centre for over a month now.

There is a petition to free her, please sign it and if anyone can find any other resources to help her please add them here

UPDATE:

Grace’s case has been dissmissed and her next one is not until SEPTEMBER!!!! THIS IS NOT OKAY! She is a 15 year old girl!

Her family has opened up a gofundme to pay for legal expenses! Please considering donating and/or signal boosting this! Please still sign the petition and check the resources at the bottom of the change.org page on who to contact to help her case!

#JUSTICE4GRACE

#FREEGRACE

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