As you may know, my dad passed away recently. Please help my mom get legal guardianship of my brother. He's unable to care for himself and is currently a ward of the state.
A friend helped set up this project in Gaza to buy and set up solar panels (already in Gaza, not being used) to help young Palestinian Writers. For each $1k comes in they can buy equipment to transfer to a household.
Since October, Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza has destroyed over 50% of all infrastructure, rooftop solar and power stations. Fuel supplies have been cut and residents lack consistent access to food, water or electricity.
Families must walk long distances and wait in line, often for hours, for limited supplies of food and water or to charge a mobile phone (typically their only source of light at night, as well as connection to the outside world).
But a group of young Palestinian writers are fiercely determined to get their stories about Israel's genocide out to the world and are working to Repower Gaza, one light at a time.
We Are Not Numbers (WANN) has located the equipment and technicians inside Gaza necessary to produce a limited amount of solar power kits, enough to immediately restore power to the team of storytellers and their extended families (an estimated 50 households and around 1,000 people). Each kit will generate enough power to light five rooms and power up to 20 mobile phones daily. If more resources become available later, WANN will extend the effort to their broader communities. It will cost US$40,000 to purchase and install the kits.
Donate now and help provide light to Gaza.
The mission of We Are Not Numbers is to train and support a new generation of Palestinian writers, and share their powerful narratives and bring wider understanding to the Palestinian liberation cause.
Please support Repower Gaza and share this grassroots effort to give light, hope and voice to Palestinians resisting genocide with your network.
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This project is an initiative of We Are Not Numbers, supported by the Middle East Children's Alliance, a registered US nonprofit organization. All funds raised will go directly to the purchase of solar kit componentry inside Gaza, to be deployed by trained solar technicians.
Please keep donating because the crisis is beyond high, the needs are many & we need to show our global humanity over cruel geopolitics & BS power games by government asshats.
It's my 49th birthday today. Not recovered from PTSD crash to celebrate; just seeing 2 friends for brief moments later. I'll enjoy belated celebrations when feeling better👍
I’m waiting to interview next week and praying the job comes through, but my reserves and benefits are nearly gone. Any job is better than none, but PT won’t be enough to get out of this hole. I’m doing what I can, hoping my meds hold out, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do in the all-too-near future. Every day is existential pain; I’m scared, demoralized, beat down.
It’s much deeper than my dusty billfold, but being able to handle life’s basics lessens the fear and panic, even as a temporary bandaid. If you can help financially that’s amazing and thank you for your kindness to a stranger.
I would love remote job leads/mentorship here or Jabber at semartin@disroot.com. My passions are front-end, graphic & UX/UI design. I’m great with computers, love to learn on the fly, Creative Cloud, Figma, GIT, JavaScript, and adore disgruntled customers.
#OurFlagMeansDeath is a show about queer pirates and finding community as societal outcasts. It's arguably one of the most important pieces of queer media to have been released over the last number of years.
So, of course it was axed.
I've tried watching it 3 times now, and personally am not a fan - but I see how important shows like this are. My housemate (who is also queer) LOVES it. We often talk about the support and home the fans of this show have found - fans who are primarily young queer and trans people, a lot of whom don't have a home elsewhere.
Please sign this petition because the fandom of #OFMD are trying to get it renewed for a 3rd season.
Can I please have some Nintendo Switch cozy game recommendations?
PleaseAndThankYou
Games I have and love:
Bear and Breakfast
Stardew Valley
Two Point Hospital
Two Point Campus
A Little to the Left
Dicey Dungeons
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
The Last Campfire
Strange Horticulture
Animal Crossing
Cozy Grove
I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).
After moving house a few months ago (the first time in 10 years), I didn't get rent assistance because of a centrelink mistake. That mistake combined with the moving costs has left me almost $3000 in debt.
I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to cover my portion of the rent at the moment, let alone pay for bills, medical costs, and food.
Please if you could consider helping, I'd be super grateful.
I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).
After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.
Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.
I didn't get rent assistance for the first 6 weeks of living here because they lost my lease copy and they're refusing to backpay it. So I started the first 6 weeks here adding over $180 a fortnight to that debt as well.
I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.
I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.
I won't stop fighting back. I refuse to be silent. I yelled at covid spreading ppl today & those party ppl called cops on me. Cops had to leave because I wasn't breaking no laws. Fuck cops & fuck weakass white bullies too 👊
I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).
After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.
Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.
I didn't get rent assistance for the first 6 weeks of living here because they lost my lease copy and they're refusing to backpay it. So I started the first 6 weeks here adding over $180 a fortnight to that debt as well.
I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.
I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.
"Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.
The book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology’s creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology’s often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system’s research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.
Abolish Criminology serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition."
Greetings everyone
Am Swabulah a queer leader from Kakuma refugee's camp.
Today was been a proud day of being you're self.
As we are passing through the homophobic situation and challenges in this place of Kakuma, this won't stop me from being proud of my self,Am a very proud lesbian and a proud human defender, it's goes to everyone,
BE PROUD OF YOUR SELF, no matter the situation. #lesbian#Blackfedi#blackMastodon#lgbt https://fundrazr.com/LGBTKakuma
Love and solidarity 🤟🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Be proud.
I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).
After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.
Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.
Because of moving, my JobSeeker payments have been decreased by over $100 a fortnight until Centrelink approves my lease paperwork and I can get rent assistance again.
I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.
I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.
Woke up to see my day is off to a GREAT start! I need just 25 streams a day from new listeners (i.e. people who don't already own my albums) to hit my goal for June, and I'm more than halfway there already today. Want to put me over the edge?
I am once again asking for your funny book recommendations. I’ve got Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett well covered. My last favorite series was the Space Team books.
Normally I'd use the social security to pay it, but that's already redirected from "food" to "storage unit for Kidlet's dad's estate" when it hits tomorrow because THAT is about to be lost totally and late ex's family has completely ghosted me on helping with it.
EDIT 5/10 - midday: $710/$1200. I'm afraid to hope. (THANK YOU) $490 to go...
(seriously if anyone is wary of actual money use I am more than happy to give the accounts/bill portals over Signal for direct. I'll even say how to access them through a link I don't provide.)
EDIT: Ideally I can find a job so I don't need rescuing after this because I hate needing rescue but there's no way a paycheck would hit fast enough right now -- so I need rescue. AND a job please. Need full remote, and have a lovely home office for it.
I'm spending three days #experimenting with a heavy-duty #antiviral to see if boosts my energy for the rest of the month.
The grogginess it causes is too reminiscent of my worst sick years (which makes me feel panicky).
What would help: If you would please reply with silly memes, absurd jokes, interesting stories, everyday magic, and goofiness, it would do wonders for keeping my mind off my mind.