illnessfaker

[illnessfaker]

Hey ny'all, I hate how this is becoming a monthly thing, but you all know what libertarianism does when it actually holds power, imagine that town where they got eaten by bears but it's a whole country. I am a disabled trans woman and thus underemployed (and i'm lucky for that), I live with a cancer patient and we can't afford to buy meds, like at all, much less my half of hrt that is in shortage, and we have a bunch of legal fees to pay after my dad's passing that there's no way we could cover normally. If you can spare anything I would love you forever, and I'm sorry for putting this on your plate, I know things are hard for everynyan.

paypal: https://www.paypal.me/V3nusP

kofi: https://ko-fi.com/S6S6IC6X

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my 1st exposure to what was going on in palestine was a video someone posted on here of an israeli settler pushing two girls (presumably palestinian, maybe also muslim, my memory here isn't the best) who did absolutely nothing to her into a cage(?) and calling them "whores" moments after talking abt how much she liked living in israel or something, which i saw back when i was still in HS, so it was like 2014-2017 that was shared on here

and that was all i really needed to see

#op #zionism

[illnessfaker]

Maybe this is just me but I am really surprised that 2023 was the first time a lot of people heard about Palestine because 2021 was when settlers tried expelling Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah - this then escalated to the IOF attacking Palestinians in Al Aqsa and throughout the country (almost 300 Palestinians in Gaza were killed and thousands were injured) - there were massive protests all over the world in response. 2021 really laid the foundations for everything that is happening now but it surprises me how little people actually mention the uprising then or were even aware it was happening.

#zionism

[illnessfaker]

i hate this fucking country w/ a burning passion

#absolutely nothing good abt being usamerican #op

[illnessfaker]

american thing happens in america: what are we some sort of asians

#zionism

[illnessfaker]

World Central Kitchen announced that it will resume operations in Gaza on Monday, almost one month after seven of its aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the enclave. The U.S.-based nonprofit group, founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, suspended operations in Gaza for four weeks after the workers were killed on April 1, according to a statement. The organization identified the aid workers as Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a 25-year-old Palestinian; Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian; Damian Soból, a 35-year-old from Poland; Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada; Security team members John Chapman, 57, James (Jim) Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, all from the United Kingdom, were also killed in the attack.

Before halting operations, the organization had distributed more than 43 million meals in Gaza “and accounted for 62% of all international NGO aid,” WCK said in a statement. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire,” said Erin Gore, the nonprofit’s chief executive officer. “We are restarting our operation with the same energy, dignity, and focus on feeding as many people as possible.” WCK has 276 trucks carrying almost 8 million meals that are ready to cross into Gaza via Rafah, and will send trucks into the enclave via Jordan too, it said in a statement. The organization is also continuing to explore delivering food with the help of Open Arms, a Spanish humanitarian organization, and the United Arab Emirates.

#zionism

[illnessfaker]

fairuzfan :(

#op #evil website.

[illnessfaker]

This is going to be short bc i already have a post up explaining this situation, but I started having seizures, which led to medical costs I couldn't handle bc I have an autoimmune disorder that's been going untreated for years. I got the appts covered bc of an extremely generous friend on here, and had some additional medication costs which I thankfully had enough for. I've been applying to at least 10 jobs a day and had tons of interviews. I'm going through interviews and assessments for several jobs (got more scheduled for tomorrow) Then my card got stolen, and now I am screwed as far as rent goes, even if one of these jobs comes through like today we will still fall short because rent is due on the 1st and we don't get a grace period. I am trying to get the money that was taken when my card was stolen back, but I have been told to wait to hear back after submitting all the details, and have yet to hear back.

Dm me for proof or more details. I will do art for anyone who helps with this and you can commission me at my art blog @theartistrans I just desperately need to get rent. My roommates and I have a huge food garden planted and are working towards self-sufficiency, which we have no hope of if we can't pay rent.

PP -- $C -- V -- kofi

$45/$650

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[illnessfaker]

"We see simultaneously both the fortification of normative heterosexual coupling and the propagation of sexualities that mimic, parallel, contradict, or resist this normativity. These proliferating sexualities, and their explicit and implicit relationships to nationalism, complicate the dichotomous implications of casting the nation as only supportive and productive of heteronormativity and always repressive and disallowing of homosexuality. I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the terrorist is one discursive tactic that disaggregates U.S. national gays and queers from racial and sexual others, foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay and queer subjects themselves: homonationalism. For contemporary forms of U.S. nationalism and patriotism, the production of gay and queer bodies is crucial to the deployment of nationalism, insofar as these perverse bodies reiterate heterosexuality as the norm but also because certain domesticated homosexual bodies provide ammunition to reinforce nationalist projects."

Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

#KINK?! WHA- #quotes #reading list #homonationalism #colonialism #imperialism #sexuality #lgbtq

[illnessfaker]

yes, there are that many really disabled people on the internet actually

When I was less sick I used to think, "It seems like such a large portion of people on the internet are disabled, it can't possibly be that large of a percentage of the population" and then let my ableism demons tell me it was because they were faking (the same ones that told me I was faking, until I made myself really ill.)

But now that I'm sicker and wiser I realize I was logically just wrong because

The internet is disabled people's lifeline. There are more disabled people on the internet because OF COURSE. People who aren't disabled can be less chronically online because they don't have to be. This is textbook selection bias!

But actually also I was almost right, because there are way more disabled people in society than you would think! They're just systematically hidden and excluded from public spaces for abled peoples' convenience! 🙃

Anyway maybe this will help you understand and/or explain to abled friends and family.

#ableism

[illnessfaker]

somehow the poor cops who we were told are simply too understaffed and underpaid because of Woke to deal with 'rampant rising crime' have found the strength to beat the shit out of college students across the whole country for peacefully saying "divest from the country killing innocent palestinians in the tens of thousands"

#zionism #police brutality

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

#zionism

[illnessfaker]

the problems really start coming and they don't stop coming

pictured is the water heater in our basement, the gas won't light and it's sprung a leak. we currently don't have any hot water and are dealing with some mild flooding. I will be updated my family's gofundme to account for the price of the furnace as well as getting a new heater installed. in the mean time, we could use some help getting these to clear out the wetness in the basement.

$0/246

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[illnessfaker]

Could we stop reblogging things from this dude, it's Brendanicus' new account and he's an anti-black racist and all around jackass.

#antiblackness #this on top of the takes on gentrification...

[illnessfaker]

☝️nazi alert

#police brutality #oh. my god.

[illnessfaker]

i know that tattoos and piercings largely have their origins in nonwhite ethnic groups but i wonder how much the present stigma against them is intertwined w/ racism bc of that, i mean there are some obvious cases but i wonder if there are any writings or anything that unpack how that stigma is part of/influenced by white supremacy. idk it's not a subject matter i see discussed a whole lot on here.

#op #racism #beauty

[illnessfaker]

hi just gotta say Very glad to see someone else talking about the recent surge in 'pro para' content in mental illness circles. it's a problem especially in aspd circles for some reason (along with the weird trend of people calling people with intrusive thoughts "paraphiles" to justify being pro para. if you have intrusive thoughts of beastiality you're not a zoophile i thought we all figured this out years ago) and it drives me nutsssss

considering how many PD circles online seem to have convinced themselves that PDs are basically incurable disease entities, that kind of shallow understanding of what psychiatric diagnoses are and how they work rly doesn't surprise me

#asks #Anonymous