We'll probably be attending the council meeting on Tuesday, please come along and help show Orange Council that queer rights are human rights, and that queerphobia isn't acceptable.
You don't have to live in Orange to attend and support - we don't.
Taken from the Facebook post of David Mallard - Green's Councillor for Orange, NSW:
"Friends, I’m disgusted that Councillor Kevin Duffy is moving to cancel the upcoming Orange Rainbow Festival.
His bringing this motion and the ensuing public debate will cause harm within the local LGBTQIA+ community, and it will also damage Orange’s public reputation and perception by potential visitors. This motion is politically opportunistic and follows a coordinated campaign of misinformation and hate that has targeted Orange City Councillors during the past few months.
We need to meet the misinformation and fear with positivity, pride and allyship. The opponents of the Orange Rainbow Festival are trying to turn reality on its head and misrepresent this event as one based on ideology, when it’s actually about providing the inclusion, acceptance and affirmation that we know is needed to prevent the homophobia and transphobia that leads to discrimination, stigmatisation, harassment, bullying and other harms to LGBTQIA+ people.
To defeat this awful motion, we need the community to come together and show our support for the Rainbow Festival and for an inclusive community.
We need as many supporters and allies as possible to come to Tuesday evening’s Council meeting, which starts at 6:30pm on Tuesday, 5th March in the Council chamber on Byng Street.
We need you to bring positivity, pride, a rainbow of colours, and most of all love for our entire community. Unfortunately it likely there will be opponents of the festival and of the wellbeing of the LGBTQIA+ community in attendance as well. Come ready to withstand their hostility and intolerance, and prepared to overwhelm that with our pride, acceptance and love.
Please share this news and the opportunity to lend support to the LGBTQIA+ community with anyone who might be willing to support our efforts. Get in touch if you have any questions or thoughts.
Orange is better than this, and we can begin to make that clear as we respond to Councillor Duffy’s motion in the coming days."
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.
Hello! I’m on an exciting quest to find a part-time role that allows me to merge my passion and expertise in NLP-Media Bias/Conflict Forecasting re Cyber Conflcit and Computational Social Science. With a rich background in these dynamic fields, I’m eager to contribute to research or teaching projects that aim to uncover insights and foster knowledge. Feel free to reach out directly or share this post within your network. Together, we can explore the power of data and technology to understand and shape our world.
#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 filed it under "I need help with a Hootsuite feature" and "Other Feature".
Here is what I wrote:
I have been using Mastodon for a year now. I have also discovered other Open Social Web platforms based on ActivityPub like Fediverse and Lemmy. I would like to recommend that my friends and colleagues use then but one big barrier is support from apps like yours.
I am asking you to please add support for Mastodon and these other services. They are growing quickly but with support from multi-platform apps like Hootsuite, they could reach new levels.
Please support the emergence of these open standards and communications platforms.
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'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."
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.
It is 7 days until my vaginoplasty. I am excited and terrified! If you want to support me for surgery, please consider sharing or donating to my GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/6ec1cbaa
Here's a (mildly outdated, but still useful) spreadsheet of most known Mastodon apps for mobile with a very comprehensive list of features and functionality, from free to paid, for Android and iOS!
So please SHARE with anyone who may benefit from it! 😁
[ *NOTE: I am not the creator of this list. It was sent to me by a friend, who got it from someone else, etc etc. It's not up to date, but hopefully it will be soon. It can be found at https://hueyy.github.io/awesome-mastodon/ and the creator has been sent info on updates. * ]
There is a Google doc that lists gynaecologists who will perform tubal ligation (tie tubes) without asking if you have kids/your partners permission/are married etc. as long as you're old enough to consent to surgery.
It's sorted by alphabetical order by state.
If your city isn't listed, keep checking because it's constantly being updated.
So far there are entries for USA, Canada, and Australia. Europe will hopefully soon be added.
Aunty has been safety relocated in another jurisdiction. Now we are working around the clock to secure palliative care and permanent safe affordable housing near a hospital.
Safe affordable housing is at a crisis in this country so we won’t be able to secure housing for Aunty quickly. Because of this we need to continue to raise funds to pay for private rental which is expensive. So please keep donating and sharing.
As I said goodbye to Aunty to travel back to Meanjin she said surprisingly that she wanted to live. 🥲 This broke my heart 💔 and made me smile as we cried together. It was hard to say goodbye.
Aunty has many people around her now who are caring for her and advocating for her medical needs and housing. We also have to return to her home and pack up her personal items and engage a removalist to transport to a storage shed. We will need to pay for this from the fund raiser as well.
Please share and donate if you can
Much love to you all who are donating to support Aunty.