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URGENT :boost_request: please help my trans friend survive under U.S. fascism.

25/$400 needed ASAP

Wren is a graphic designer that finally escaped the transphobic town they were trapped in thanks to your help. their housing voucher from their last place hasn't transferred yet, so they borrowed money from a friend to cover rent this month but need to pay them back. please help!

CashApp: $yungbbyHATE
PayPal: mightymeatymech@gmail.com
BTC: bc1qp9tuq8te4ezzgj5z3zvwdun06500fk90suymtg
GFM: gofund.me/196cbc0e

⭐ you can get handmade art, a short story collection or an email with file storage space for donating to them here:
- writing.exchange/@riveraerica/
- mismo.jagtalon.net/@jag/status
- weirder.earth/@june/1138898143
- terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/11
- flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11

@mutualaid @blackfedi #BlackMutualAid #transMutualAid #TransCrowdFund #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #queerMutualAid #QueerCrowdfund #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queer #trans #transgender #fascism #handmade #art #cats #catsOfMastodon #TDOV

Those in Boorloo (Perth) Western Australia, please come along to our film screening this Saturday at 7pm of Desire Lines.

"An Iranian-American transman, Ahmad, searching for his place in history, finds more than a just link to the past in the archives. Drawing from first-person accounts, as well as fictionalized segments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam explores the lines of desire as they intersect with identity for many transmen.
Join us for a screening of Desire Lines. Followed Q&A featuring Nova Sobieralski senate candidate with the socialist alliance."

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cultural-dissent-screening-desire-lines

Trybooking:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1372174

#boorloo #perth #westernAustralia #trans #TDOV #filmScreening

octo got nothing on #TransDayOfVisibility but a report on her first mutual aid post she managed to make in an entire month. it's clear how badly people would rather her dead. octo is in debt from not meeting the last 3 months goals. she can't afford to eat & is battling suicidal ideation. she wants to live & escape abuse. there's nothing wrong with needing support in a society that murders people like her. please give her the flowers she deserves.

$1590/2743 OVERDUE

- ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g
- donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32Q

⭐ you can get handmade art, a short story collection or an email with file storage space for donating to her here:
- writing.exchange/@riveraerica/
- terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/11
- flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11
- weirder.earth/@june/1138898143
- mismo.jagtalon.net/@jag/status

@mutualaid @blackfedi #mutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transMutualAid #transCrowdfund #trans #queer #nonBinary #BlackMutualAid #transgender #gay #LGBTQIA #actuallyAutistic #bills #LGBTQ #poverty #pets #cats #catsOfMastodon #queerMutualAid #QueerCrowdfund #TDOV

A closing thought for #TDoV / #TransDayOfVisibility, on the less joyful side

Even among the people who love us, sometimes it feels like we can only exist in one of two states:

  • highly fetishized dehumanized sexual objects
  • sexless, sexuality-less, romanceless entities from beyond

and that sucks

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Some other trans reminders:

It's alright to decide not to change your pronouns, or to change it anytime.

It's alright to try names/pronouns to see which ones fit for you. I totally encourage this.

It's alright no matter when you discovered you were trans. As a child, in your 60s...

It's alright to be unsure, and if you need time.

You're trans enough. Nobody can take your identity away from you or know better than you do. :heart_trans:

Sobbing happy tears this evening, in the wake of seeing all my fellow trans folks showing up as their beautiful selves, seeing so many cis allies speaking up today, having driven past multiple pro-trans signs on the way to the airport earlier, and having just wrapped up an evening of interviews of @petalumapride.org board candidates.

We are beautiful and I am full of hope for our collective future :sparkles_transgender:

transitioning is both the hardest thing i’ve ever done and the most worthwhile, but i never even would have started if it wasn’t for all the beautiful transfems i saw online being the badass girls i wished that i could be

there’s lots of different kinds of visibility and lots of different ways to be seen, and i guess i just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came before me and could never really know who they were helping and how

you saved lives by living your own to the fullest

and i’ll do my best to keep the fires burning for whoever’s coming next, because i owe everything to this :trans_fire: