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He was a Jew who fled nazi germany, who coudn’t get a damn job anywhere near his field bc of being Jewish, but people are shocked he was against racism. of course he was. he lived being a victim of it.
I am going to print this out and plaster it everywhere I go
my heart just broke
Not gonna lie; I’m on the verge of tears right now. Because this is what I see every night when I come into work. I work at a Jewish-run elder care non-profit. Even in the memory care unit, we’re seeing a rise in the residents’ anxiety levels, to the point where they’ve had to stop turning on the TV news stations (and these residents still love the news). Multiple residents are direct survivors of the Shoah; some barely escaped, and almost all of them lost family members in death camps. One resident was one of the children saved by the Kindertransport. Many other residents tell me stories of when they were kids, how their neighborhoods were destroyed and relocated and of the siblings and parents they no longer have. One newer resident was finally starting to settle in when Charlottesville happened. Even though we immediately changed the channel, she was shaken. She was inconsolable for hours. When I left for the night, she was still crying and refused to leave her room. Even now, weeks after the direct event, she still is wary to come to programs, fearing that if she is away from her room too long that her possessions and place will be stolen from her like they were in 1938. Even with dementia, even with Alzheimers, these residents remember what happened. They cannot forget their lost loved ones. They cannot forget the things stolen from them. They cannot forget, period. Because this fight against Neo-Nazis isn’t just a theoretical thing. These groups know that people are forgetting about Shoah; they take great strength knowing that people from that generation are dying. When they regard WWII as a “dark cloud” hanging over the heads of this generation, it is not with a solemn regard, with they knowledge that we must not forget lest we repeat our mistakes. These White supremacists, these White Neo-Nazis, see Shoah remembrance as something they will gladly eradicate. When people gladly throw out the Nazi salute, chant the 14 words, or march under the banner of “hail victory,” they are two things and two things only – Nazi apologists and Nazi supporters. Shoah survivors are not gone. They are still here. We need to stop ignoring that this normalization of Nazis marching in the street harms real people. It’s not just ideas. It’s not just “free speech”. We cannot forget. We cannot forget. We cannot forget.
In addition to @radfemtori and @spookyterf , @transcultracistreceipts @transrapeculturemisogynyreceipts
harumisaylasayaka are all abusive, hate speech propagating lesbophobic TERFs, please take a moment to join me in reporting them to @staff for
targeted
harassment and hate speech and blocking them so that we can make this site a little safer.
“Trans women are male” is one of the most well-worn attacks leveled
against trans women – a straightforward assertion that gender-variant
identity itself is not possible, and by extension neither are we. It is
delivered with the self-assured smugness that this truth is so obvious
as to need no explanation, grounded as it is in the particulars of sexed
anatomy, X and Y chromosomes, or some simplified folk notion of
“biology”.
i am led to understand that the backstory behind trump’s trans military ban is this:
so congress is hashing out their military spending bill, and there was a divide between conservative/moderate republicans over whether the pentagon should fund trans surgeries. in an effort to render the issue moot and help the bill along, house republicans asked trump to simply issue an executive order on the topic. the idea being, if there’s an EO about funding trans surgeries, then congress doesn’t need to bother debating or writing it into the bill one way or the other and they can finally move on to other matters
but trump fucked up; instead of putting an order restricting the military funding of trans surgeries, he declared he was completely banning trans people from service. this is not what congress asked for and it has turned the whole situation into a boondoggle. one republican aide has likened it to trump being asked to light a candle and setting the table on fire instead. this move may in fact endanger the military budget bill, and mire it in further debate on whether to overturn trump’s overreaching EO. add in the fact that trump does not like being told he fucked up, and will certainly dig his heels in, raising tensions between him and congress
so while it’s absolutely a malicious move that will endanger trans service members and will certainly further poison public discourse about trans people in general, there’s at least the silver lining that the order has been administered so incompetently that it’s going to throw a wrench into the republican agenda
Oh my god, this really is what happened. At least according to Politico’s sources. Oh my god these people are so stupid and so evil.
I just found a back stitch alphabet where tiny cats in various poses make up the letters and I don’t think I’m ever going to use another font for the rest of my life.
Well… thats about it! Of course there’s a whole bunch of useful resources which I just couldn’t include in this post because it was getting too long.
Even if you yourself aren’t trans and wouldn’t find this content useful, please reblog because it may be of great help to some of your followers.
And if you ever have any trans-related questions or need some advice or support, feel free to message me at my main blog here or at my personal/transition blog here.
Re-posting this because of all the BATHROOM FUCKERY going on!
To all the conservatives out there using any convenient enough excuse to bully, harass, and oppress people you think are different - I dedicate this song to you.
When God of Vengeance first premiered in English on Broadway in
1923, the entire cast was brought to court on charges of indecency for
featuring a lesbian kiss—a Broadway first. The prolific Polish-Jewish
writer Sholem Asch,
who wrote the play, defended his art by insisting that the question
wasn’t whether the play was moral, but whether it was any good. And good
it was. And still is.
anyway, lgbt jews and lgbt muslims will continue to have the most accurate and nuanced understandings of how our cultures and religions affect us and criticisms of our communities. we’ve been having these conversations for a lot longer than your white ex-christian atheism has given you your false sense of superior rationality and objectivity literally nothing you have to say will ever be new or helpful or revelatory. you’re just interrupting.
The first 24 hours of the Bionic Project went amazing, cracking the $1000 mark!!!
So a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that has donated so far!
But we REALLY need to keep the momentum going if we want to see the Bionic become a reality, as the subsequent 24 hours have seen donations peter out to juuuust a smidge under $200.
As I’m sure many of you, who have already donated are also realising, it’s really tough to get others to part with their hard earned cash, even when it’s a project they believe in and would love to see become a reality. It’s hard! We’re not exactly a cashed up community.
So please, share your unique links in your Facebook groups, Reddit forums, Tumblr posts and Twitter feeds! Let’s keep the momentum going!! And if every one of you that reads this post gave just $10, we’d have this fundraiser licked!!
* After you donate, you will be issued a unique link to share in your social circle. Anyone who donates through your unique link will count towards your total fundraising tally.
So I’m sure you guys are wondering
“Mom what is this thing, why’d you reblog it, how does it pertain to me”
Great question.
This is a prosthetic penis. Not a packer. Not a dildo. Not bottom surgery. If it really does come to fruition, this will be a prosthetic that’s a penis, and is much cheaper than bottom surgery, and actually WORKS. You could pee from it, get erections (something bottom surgery doesn’t provide).
And the fact that this post only has 58 notes is a CRIME. This is a trans run business, and while the person in charge words things very very awkwardly (they seem to be a rather awkward person in general), this thing could save so much money and alleviate so much dysphoria. Please @ people with this, any big trans blogs you can think of.
