...and things have only gotten worse. Just imagine what 10 years of scientific socialism could have done with this information.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5453008

Hey comrades 💙,We were attacked here in the camp for being trans, and our shelters were burned. My sisters were hurt escaping, but thanks to your support, we covered their hospital bills .. you truly saved them.

Now we’re stuck in an unsafe spot with nowhere permanent to go. We’re trying to raise $700–850 to move into a small, safe apartment here in Juba so we can finally heal without fear. Here’s what we need help with: Transport: $100–150, Rent + deposit: $250–350 ,Bedding, food, meds: $200

Some hopeful news: Malaika was able to get her bandages changed, and Pretty’s swelling is going down. We’ve raised $102 so far, with $698 still needed. Every donation or share brings us closer to safety ..it means the world to us right now. Thank you so much for reading and considering helping us. Your kindness truly means the world. Mutual aid link is in my profile. Just tap my name.

Hello, my name is Aya, and this is my family.💗🫂 We are sharing with you moments from our life during the war. For over a week now, we have had no bread at home, no food of any kind. We don’t know how much longer we can endure this.💔

And today, after all the suffering we’ve already been through, we were ordered once again— for the millionth time— to leave our home. We have nothing with us. We don’t know where to go, there’s no transportation, and prices are beyond our reach. Just today, the price of a single bag of flour has reached over $500!

I humbly ask for your help in any way possible. You are my only hope after God.🙏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mohameds-family-to-reach-safety-outside-gaza

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5433240

We survived the hospital. Now we’re fighting to find a safe home.

Hey comrades 💙

I’m reaching out again because my sisters and I really need your help right now. Thanks to your incredible support before, my sisters were able to get the emergency medical care they needed .. you truly saved their lives. Now we’re facing the next big challenge: finding a safe place to stay.

Right now, we’re stuck in a temporary spot that’s not safe or permanent. We could be asked to leave any time, and with things getting worse for LGBTQ+ people here, it’s terrifying not knowing what could happen next.

We can’t go back to the Gorom camp .. the host community doesn’t want us there anymore. UNHCR told us to stay in Juba while they keep working on our resettlement, but they’re out of donations due to the global crisis. They asked us to try to “blend in” here for now, but that’s almost impossible without a safe place. There are over 300 LGBTQ+ refugees here from Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Congo in the same struggle after camp attack and no safe house is big enough for everyone.

So we’re trying to get a small, affordable apartment here in Juba that can fit the four of us together. Somewhere we can finally feel safe and breathe again.

So far, I’ve raised $66 through my GoFundMe, but it’s not nearly enough yet. Here’s our budget for this move:

🚐 Transport to Juba for 4 people = $100–150 🏠 Initial rent + deposit (1–2 months) =$250–350 🛏 Bedding and essentials (mattresses, blankets, cooking items) = $150 🍲 Food & basics for the first month = $200 🏥 Follow-up checkups and meds =$50

📌 Estimated total needed: $700–850

This would cover getting us to Juba safely, securing a small apartment, and making sure we have food and the meds my sisters still need.

Any support donations, shares, or advice on safe places would mean everything to us right now. Every dollar brings us closer to safety and keeps us off the streets. 💜

The mutual aid link is in my profile just tap my name. Thank you so much for standing with us.

Hey loves,

I just had to come here and share this amazing update with you all: we did it! We got the full amount to cover my sisters’ hospital bills. Thanks to your support, donations, shares, and kind words, they’re safe in the hospital now and getting the care they need.

I can’t even explain how much this means. It was such a scary time, and you all showed up for us in ways I’ll never forget. Your love and solidarity honestly saved lives, and I’m so, so grateful for this community. 🙏🏿

Right now we’re focusing on helping them heal and trying to find somewhere safer to move so we can start to feel okay again without living in fear.

If you still want to support, my mutual aid link is in my profile but today I just wanted to celebrate this big step forward with you and say thank you from the bottom of my heart. 💜

Seriously, thank you, thank you, thank you.

I ain't doing all this spy bs. The more I think about it, the more avenues there for things to go wrong. Plus, I'm also going to have to visit Taiwan for important business, and I am not risking taking my hormones there because they have the death penalty and what not for "drug trafficking".

The whole logistics of hiding around my hormones then using them in secret just makes me think it's better for me to not even try. Plus, unlike what I thought at firsr, I am definitely getting mood swings from my schedule. If I want to avoid them, I need to speed up my schedule, increasing the risks of being caught.

So yeah, I will be off HRT for a while. Maybe I shouldn't be making this decision while drunk and on the tail end of my last hormone shot (been 10 days), but I don't feel like being sober right now. My dysphoria is at a high point so I really just prefer to drink instead of thinking.

Anyway............. the latest chapter of kagurabachi was a banger as usual.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5415667

https://gofund.me/a1174ab9

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5404751

Hey loves,

First, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has shared, donated, and sent love so far. Your support means more than words right now.

But things have gotten worse. We were attacked by people from the host community because of who we are. They burned our shelters, and two of my sisters were badly hurt as we ran for our lives. We got them to the only private hospital that would treat us, and thanks to you, we’ve been able to pay half the hospital bill.

We’re still struggling to cover the rest and find a safe place to recover. Here’s what we need urgently:

1.Hospital bills: $900 total / $675 raised / $225 still needed 2. Relocation somewhere safer: $350 3. Food, medicine, and basics to heal: $250 Total goal: $1,500 — still need $825 to reach safety.

Every share, kind word, or donation helps keep us alive. If you can, please share or donate .. it really makes a difference.

The mutual aid link is in my profile just tap my name.

Your love and support are holding us up. Thank you so much for being with us through this. I love you all. 💜🙏🏿

Last night, members of The Dyke Project – a collective of cis, trans and nonbinary lesbians – unleashed a series of surreal disruptions at a trans-exclusionary lecture

You would expect to see clowns at any trans-exclusionary event, on and off the stage, but a panel discussion at UCL took a surreal turn last night when members of The Dyke Project unleashed a wave of disruptions.

Titled ‘What does the Supreme Court judgement mean for lesbians?’, the event was focused on a recent legal ruling on the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act. All of the speakers, including author and journalist Julie Bindel, are vocal and avowed “gender-critical” feminists, and several have previously argued that trans people pose a threat to their identity as lesbians.

The Dyke Project, a cis, trans and nonbinary dyke collective, was formed in opposition to this narrative. “Trans people are an integral part of our community and always have been,” Lindsay Lorde, a spokesperson for the group, tells Dazed, adding that lesbians are more supportive of trans rights than any other demographic whenever the issue is polled. “The real threat is the people, like those on the panel, who are using the banners of feminism and lesbianism to promote conservative values and align themselves with the far-right.”

The Dyke Project had given Dazed a head up beforehand, so I went down to UCL see it unravel and take some photos. The event took place in a sweltering lecture room, so stuffy that people were fanning themselves with phones and hats. It was, to me anyway, pretty easy to guess who was a Dyke Project member and who was a regular attendee, simply because they looked much younger and cooler (this was to cause problems later on.) The disruption unfolded in four waves: not long after the talk began, someone stood up and started shouting a short speech, followed by their fellow activists unveiling a banner which read “Lesbians against the EHRC”. The room erupted into a chorus of groans and jeers. One woman ripped away their banner and, veins bulging in fury, screamed “get out!!! Get out!!!” As the activists were escorted out, a former member of parliament heckled, “your boyfriends are waiting for you outside!”

After ten minutes, the clowns arrived. Bearing juggling balls, clown noses and kazoos, they cavorted and pranced around the room, chanting, “you’re not feminists, you’re all clowns!” The reaction was even more hostile this time, and it would be safe to say that most of the attendees didn’t find it funny: one of them screamed “you’re a pathetic removed!” at a clown.

As this subsided, the speaker onstage quipped, “is that what you call a second wave? Hopefully there isn’t a third wave!” Unfortunately for her, there was! After waiting long enough to lull the room into a false sense of security, activists clad in sportswear started running around, blowing whistles and throwing out red cards. This stunt was intended to highlight the exclusionary effect the Supreme Court judgement is already having on trans people in sport, such as the FA’s decision to ban trans women from participating in women’s football.

The atmosphere in the room had by now descended into a fog of paranoia. Who could be trusted? One gender-critical woman suggested that everyone in the audience turn to the person next to them, ask what they were doing there and, if they weren’t satisfied with the answer, demand they leave. Another tried to preemptively chuck someone out because they looked suspicious (I thought this was because they were young, which would have been funny, but a Dyke Project member later told me it was because they looked like they might be trans, which is less so.) A lone voice of reason in the audience cried out, “we’re not going to do an age-based witch hunt!”

The lecture proceeded uninterrupted for another ten minutes, and I was forced to listen to a very dry, very legalistic account of why people should be allowed to exclude trans people “[using] the evidence of their eyes alone.” When the fourth wave of disruptions finally came, I gave up trying to be subtle and stood up to photograph the last banner, which read “Trans Liberation = Women’s Liberation.” Once again, the room erupted into chaos: one of the attendees began following an activist around and waving a brown coat in front of her, in an apparent effort to shield her from view and silence her message.

Loads of gender-critical people in the room were snapping away and filming the events as they unfolded, but one woman got up in my face and started shouting at me to stop taking photos of her, despite the fact my camera wasn’t pointing in her direction and, as an organiser later confirmed to me, there was no policy against photography at the event. A security guard pushed me outside and wouldn’t even let me back into get my bag, simply because I was doing my job and exercising my democratic rights as a member of the press (spluttering “I’m a journalist!!!” is so goated when getting thrown out of an evil event is the vibe.)

“This is more than just a panel discussion for us,” says Lorde, explaining why the Dyke Project chose to target this particular event. “We want to disrupt it because it’s a symbol of the threat which these people in power have: their biological essentalist values and gender rigidity will roll back hard-won feminist victories, from abortion acess to queer rights.” One of the scheduled speakers for tonight’s discussion, although she dropped out at the last minute, was Akua Reindorf, a barrister and a commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission – the public body which recently proposed new statutory guidance which would effectively exclude trans people from all “single-sex spaces”, from specialist services to public bathrooms and changing rooms. “The idea that the EHRC is neutral is a fallacy and I think this event proves that,” she adds.

The Dyke Project was set up in 2023 in direct response to the Lesbian Project, a trans-exclusive organisation co-founded by Julie Bindel. When the Lesbian Project hosted its inaugural conference, the group gathered outside the venue and staged a party, holding placards and dancing in the streets. Last year, it co-organised a protest with Transgender Action Bloc, targeting a conference promoting conversion therapy at the Royal College of GPs. While it was founded in reaction to trans-exclusionary feminism, its political vision is far more expansive: its manifesto calls for “a world without prisons, psych wards, borders or police”, “a world without gender clinic waiting lists and gatekeeper”, “a world without capitalism and the afterlives of slavery”, “a world where Palestine is free”, and a world “where we can fuck, dance, transition, move rest however we want to”. It recently replaced hundreds of adverts all over London with stories from queer Palestinians, which had been shared on the online project Queering the Map, and took part in a campaign demanding an end to LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s ties with the arms trade.

Tonight’s protest was intended to be campy and fun, which Lorde sees as being in keeping with a proud tradition of queer activism, including groups like Lavender Menace, ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers, who in 1988 abseiled into the Houses of Parliament to protest Section 28. “We’re proud that we’re doing something which speaks to that history and stands on the shoulders of all of the queer people before us who have pushed back against right wing agendas,” says Lorde. But it’s not all fun and games. “We also can't underestimate the severity of this: trans people are facing more and more violence every day; they are being excluded from society and pushed further into the margins as a matter of policy.”

She expects the women appearing on today’s panel will complain about being silenced, but she rejects this narrative. “The reality is they have immense power and influence, and in contrast, not a single trans person was consulted in the Supreme Court judgment – they only heard from exclusionary groups,” she says. “We refuse that exclusionary narrative. This action is about showing who lesbians really are.”

Uh, so as the title says, I want to use cotton fabric rolls as a way to compress down my breasts as a way to hide their growths from my parents (whom i have to visit soon). I tried buying binders made for transmascs, however, I didn't find an option that fit my ribcage (which I am finding out is actually really large). Then, with the wrap, I can wear 2 layers of shirt (I'll claim it's a fashion thing) on top of that. I'm not quite sure how well it will work.

Alternatively, I also now have 4 sports bras with removal pads. The problem with the sports bras is that while I can easily explain bringing along rolls of Bandages, bringing along bras would wierd them out a lot and raise questions. Idk how to hide any bras I bring along, since my mom always goes through my stuff.

I'm also really not sure how I am supposed to hide my hormone supplies. What I've come up with so far is to pre-prepare supplies, put them in a padded metal box. Then once I get to my parents, I bury them in the ground somewhere in whatever woods they have nearby. I can then go there whenever I want, do the hormones in secret. The only problem I can think of is how to handle transporting the injections. Should I bring along the vial, or should I pre-prepare shots?

The more I type shit out, the more I'm thinking to myself what kind of spy bullshit am I even trying to do. Instead of coming out the closet, I'm doing this nonsense.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5362463

Hello comrades,

We were attacked by the host community after repeated warnings about our identities. Our shelters were burned, and two of my sisters were seriously injured while escaping.

We rushed to the nearest private hospital the only one that would help us and all three of us are still recovering there. So far, we’ve raised $433 out of the $1500 we urgently need.

The doctor has given us only 3 days to pay, or he’ll call the police on us. Here’s how the $1500 will help us survive:

1.$900 to cover hospital bills for all three of us

2.$350 to help us relocate to a safer place after discharge

3. $250 for food, medicine, and basic recovery supplies

Malaika is still in pain, and Pretty can barely walk but we’re holding on.

If you're able to donate, boost, or share, it would truly mean the world to us. Every act of care brings us closer to safety.

The mutual aid link is in my profile just tap my name.

We have until thursday to pay before the hospital involves the police.

We believe we’ll get through this with your help. Thank you for standing with us 🙏🏿💜

Thank you for enjoying the Frida Kahlo mega

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”

The Wounded Deer, 1946

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5340336

Hello comrades,

Thank you to everyone who showed us love after the attack in Gorom Camp. Your solidarity has been a lifeline.

After our shelters were burned and we fled for safety, we rushed to a private hospital it was the only place that would treat us quickly. Two of my sisters, Malaika and Pretty, suffered deep, serious injuries during the chaos. One was burned, and the other wounded while trying to escape.

Right now, we’re still in the hospital . The doctors are doing what they can ..but they’ve warned that if we can’t pay, we could be handed over to the police. That’s a terrifying risk for trans refugees like us.

We set a mutual aid goal of $1,500 to:

Pay the hospital bills and medication

Get food and healing supplies

Relocate to a safer place where we can recover

So far, kind comrades have helped us raise $248, and we’re so grateful.

If even 20 people gave $20 today, we could cover what’s needed and finally get to safety. Every donation, share, or boost brings us closer.

We’re keeping careful track of how every dollar is used, and will continue sharing updates because we believe in radical care and accountability. Thank you again for being here with us in this painful time

ACLU Press Release

Article from Journalist Erin Reed

Article from Advocate.com

Basically, if you got a misgendered passport as a result of the executive order in January you can now get it changed. Additionally, if you need to get a new passport, update a currently held passport, replace a lost/stolen passport or renew a passport that will expire in less than one year you are allowed to receive one that reflects your gender identity.

This is an evolving situation and it may change in the near future. From the Erin Reed article:

"whether transgender people should submit a passport update request immediately depends on their risk tolerance and individual circumstances"

However this is from the ACLU's press release:

"We encourage all class members impacted by this policy to take advantage of this injunctive relief"

It is at times like this I am reminded of the advice given to me by a man at the passport helpline some time ago:

"We have no idea what is going to happen. Trust your gut and do what you think is right."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5316405

Hello comrades,

Four months ago, I joined this space in search of hope and many of you truly changed our lives. When I first posted about the danger we faced as trans refugees in Gorom Camp, you responded with kindness, care, and solidarity.

But today, on World Refugee Day, that hope was violently shaken.

This morning, the host community and others launched a serious attack. Our shelters were burned down. We fled with nothing. Two of my sisters were injured in the chaos.

We are now in hiding. We’re exhausted. We’re terrified. But we’re still here.

I'm sharing video footage of what happened today not to shock, but because we need you to see our reality.

We need urgent mutual aid to help us relocate to a safer place.

Our mutual aid link will be in the comments.

Thank you for any support donation, share, or boost. 💙🏳️‍⚧️

I’m Ayah from Gaza. Please help me and my family ، don’t leave us alone https://gofund.me/1222af19

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5275850

Another book request cause I'm building my library lmao (I appreciate all the requests in the last post, I'm slowly getting to them, thank you!!)

I want some books with healthy depictions of queer relationships whilst being realistic, genre can be anything, just thought it would be nice to have that in my queer literature side as I barely have anything right now (also would be nice and comfy for once to have). I dont think much literature does relationships justice especially queer ones so wanted to compensate.

Thanks y'all I love the recs

I finally got around to seeing "I Saw The TV Glow", and it definitely lived up to the hype.

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