📸 Original Photograph By Nikolas Gannon On Unsplash.

What can I do to make you care about our Black brothers and sisters? There are many times where they have asked for our help, but we only pay attention when it is too late. Look at what has transpired over the past couple of months.

There is LaKeith Smith who has been wrongfully sentenced for killing a police officer. The coldblooded murder of Sonya Massey. The cruel ruling of Brenda Taylor's boyfriend. The unjust execution of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams. The Haitian community has been targeted by Donald as well as the US-backed paramilitary terrorizes Haiti.

Then we go to the other side of the planet. The migrant workers are locked in wealthy Lebanese houses. There are genocides in Australia, DR Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and West Papua. Black lives are everyday, every hour, every second. We turn a blind eye every time!

Enough is enough! Please stop looking away and show your support. One way to help is donating and sharing this fundraiser. It belongs to Eman Abdelrahman (#213 in the Spreadsheet). @emiiii980 has been fundraising since January this year to rebuild her home after the RSF has bombed it and killed her younger brother. Then she has no choice but to evacuate when the RSF closes in her location. Unfortunately, the funds haven't been raised in time. The Sudanese pound has been inflated. It is too expensive to evacuate. So she and her family have decided to stay back and rebuild their home in Khartoum. So she increases the goal to 50K to purchase building materials ASAP!

You can match me! I've given 5 CHF and $5 SGD! There is also a book raffle hosted by @/magnus-rhymes-with-swagness if you show your proof of donation!

Please keep in mind with the currency exchange. It is in Swiss Franc! $10 USD = 8 CHF. There is also a fundraiser for her extended family. Please show your support to them, as well. Again, keep in mind with the currency exchange! It is in Singaporean Dollars. $10 USD = $13 SGD.

Donate Here! / Donate to her Extended Family!

People really like to default into things that sound like "remember our fandom is made of a lot of victims of ___ thing that will make them view this thing differently than how it actually is!"

Nah. Come on now. You're not polling people before you make this claim. It's assumption because of age and, I assume, trying to give people the benefit of the doubt.

This fandom is young, but I promise you the problems it has with characters with mental illness is pretty universal across mediums. Fandom likes pretty victims and graceful spirals. Fandom struggles with depictions of mental illness that can't be categorized into some trope or cliché. Fandom, throughout Tumblr's history, has a poor history with mental illness.

Trust me, the people projecting their negative relationships with parents onto Wilbur are the ones giving Fundy the worst daddy issues I've ever seen. It's not the people who are romanticizing one person's villain arc and writing Wilbur off as "aggressive" or "insane" or "manipulative" and in the same category as Dream (all things I saw today on twitter btw).

It's about empathy. A lot of the people I've seen romanticizing Tubbo's actions today have turned it into him grieving or lashing out or snapping after being the victim for so long. He's not a villain, even if he uttered the same words as Wilbur, because you can justify it with things other than "he's ill."

There's a reason the mentally ill man, the one you can't divorce from being called mentally ill with pretty justifications, is commonly drawn as a monster. Fandom doesn't think mental illness is pretty.

So. 

I know we’re all terrified and devastated; I’ve seen this both on and off Tumblr. Please believe me when I say I understand completely, that so many of my friends and I have been feeling that same terror and devastation all day. Many of us on this website, myself included, are university students: we have all worked so hard to be admitted, and we have worked so hard for our qualifications and/or degrees. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I have made so many leaps and bounds towards being fully out as a trans person while I’ve been here at university. We all had so many dreams and hopes for our futures, visions of the lives we wanted to lead, and the feeling of watching them disintegrate in the blink of an eye is indescribable. I understand, I really do.

But even in the midst of all this, I know we are lucky — privileged, even — to be American: nobody is frantically writing think-pieces on why our pain is acceptable or why it should simply be considered collateral damage; nobody is forcing us to humanize ourselves in a language we are unfamiliar with and declaring us robots or scammers if we fail to live up to their standards; the world gives us sympathy by default. 

My friend Basma (@basmaalghoul) does not have this privilege. Like me, she worked hard in university and majored in business administration; she even earned international certificates! Before the accelerated genocide, she had begun working as a makeup artist and hoped to open a large salon for women. But her dreams, too, have been stolen — along with those of her children: Toleen (8), Malak (7) and Kamal (4).

On top of the pain of having her dreams destroyed, Basma and her family have had to survive more than a year of bombing, starvation, disease and famine; she’s recently told me that there are no vegetables or cheese available on the market, and her children are all suffering from malnutrition as every child in Ghazzah is. To make matters worse, she’s also told me that Israel has banned supplies necessary for children, which has artificially driven the prices of these items to absurd heights: she’s told me that the price of Pampers is now $100.

This fundraiser is now her family's only lifeline. Winter is rapidly approaching; please help her keep her children warm. 

$4,693 USD / $5,065 USD [short-term goal] | (kr50,967 SEK / kr55,000 SEK [short-term goal])

Let’s get her to $4,696 USD (kr51,000 SEK) by the end of today!

verified by nabulsi

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Donate to My family, our dreams need your help., organized by mohammed aljzawi

1000kr =100$ We have lost everything, literally. Our losses are countless,… mohammed aljzawi needs your support for My family, our dream

Everyone here on Tumblr you know that the war in Gaza is over but for me the war is not over because when you see yourself living in a tent that does not protect you from the rain and cold or you see yourself unable to provide food for yourself and your family and you see your memories become a dream and you cannot do anything and you are confused this is the real war your donation makes a difference in my life

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you twittypets abandoned us when karpstar betrayed us.... and now you come crawling back to tumblrclan now that muskstar is ruling over... this clan isnt fond of you twittypets.

If 173 people donated 5€ to Mahmoud then he would reach his goal. Please consider participating if you can afford.

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I am Nevin Al-Sir, I live in Gaza, I am 27 years old, I used to work as an accountant in an accounting firm, I am married and have a child, I was also pregnant during the war, the war on Gaza, and when the evacuation order came from our area in Gaza, we fled through the corridor that the occupation lied to us about and the safe corridor was a disaster. We walked on foot, the longest distance I have ever walked in my life. I was displaced to a tent with the rest of my family, and it was very difficult, tiring and exhausting. Every time there was an evacuation in the southern areas, I was forced to evacuate again to a worse tent. Then I gave birth to my child in a field hospital because the hospitals were out of service. I gave birth to my son in the winter, the cold and the war together, which did not destroy my house and my tent. Now we live in a tent, me, my mother, my father, my husband, my brothers, my sisters and their children, and I need your support to try to survive.

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Donate to Help Nevin alserr family escape the war, organized by Niven Alser

I am Nevin Al-Sir living in Gaza trying to help myself, my family and my child … Niven Alser needs your support for Help Nevin alserr fam

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