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If you’re celebrating Biden’s win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.
Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.
To add some more:
Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police
The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation
Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.
And of course it’s always a good day to venmo, paypal, or cashapp black, indigenous and other POC in your community, or donate to your community mutual aid fund.
For clarification, paying people out of the blue isn’t the way to go here—oftentimes on social media you’ll see people requesting funds, identifying individuals to direct funds to, or requesting to be paid for the work they do running educational or activist social media accounts. Mutual aid groups are often the places doing this, so pay attention to ones that are active in your community and direct your funding that way.
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I gotta say, there is something uniquely funny about watching liberal TERFs get really excited about Biden’s inauguration and celebrating finally being able to sleep easy or whatever only for Biden to ban certain kinds of discrimination against trans people with one of his first executive orders and immediately piss them all off
like gee Becky, if Orange Man so Bad why do you agree with his take on trans people? Why is it that the politicians you think are good think you’re a transphobe but the politicians you think are bad think you’re just a reasonable woman expressing some Concerns? Have you ever stopped to consider that if you’re sharing a stance on social issues with borderline, if not full on fascists, you might be on the wrong side of this issue?
This is why the brushing aside of colonization because “well that was my ancestors not me” doesn’t work. You still benefit from it. You still perpetuate the effects of it. If white people weren’t like their ancestors? They would give these people their land back and let them decide how to move forward.
Denying them housing on their own land? Being in a position to do that? Is certainly as colonizer as it gets. You are living your ancestors dreams.
It’s weird how like, when this pandemic started there was all this talk about a vaccine and it taking so much time to produce, test, and manufacture once it had been approved. but then the medical community worldwide worked like never before develop a vaccine to a new, never before seen virus, and people are refusing to take it because they think it was rushed, despite hundreds upon hundreds of clinical trials with a very, very minuscule amount of people suffering from side effects of the vaccine. Most of the people worried about that vaccine have never had a negative experience with the vaccine before in their lives, yet there’s so much doubt around the vaccine and trust in it that it’s going to be harmful when there’s like, no evidence to support any of that.
All of this!!! I’m in med school right now, as a result I know many many people who were directly involved with every step of the covid vaccine creation process. All of them, literally all of them, keep saying how the only reason we were able to get a vaccine so soon was because of the unbelievably high amount of funding and media attention they were getting. The reason the vaccines seem to have come out “too early,” isn’t because the science was rushed, it’s because there were unprecedented numbers of people working 24/7 on this. The trials finished so quickly because unprecedented numbers of people signed up for the trials, do you know how hard it is to even get funding for trials?????? Let alone how hard it normally is to get people to sign up for them???? The size of the subject pools for these studies were astronomical, the kind where in class your professor would say “...but you’d never find that many people willing to join your study within the time constraints you’d have.” There will always be people who react badly to a substance, hell there are people who are allergic to sunlight, that doesn’t automatically make appropriate doses of the substance dangerous for the vast majority of people.
i want to be WOOED!!! i want to be ADORED!!! fuck anyone who says it’s “cheesy” or “a cliche” i want to be ROMANCED!!!
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As someone who’s doing precisely that, yes
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