Leo K. | 22 | He/Them | Genderfluid Probably | Commissions are Open! | Used to be the-ford-twin | I'm here, I'm queer, | I like Gravity Falls, Speed Racer, and D&D | icon by @gljtchy
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
The result of their week of frantic research is Torn Apart / Separados, an interactive web site
that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the
US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed. The name
is meant to evoke not only the families who have been separated, but
the way in which this sundering rips the social fabric of our country.
“It
shows that ICE is everywhere,” Gil says. “We ourselves were shocked
even though we study this. A lot of America thinks this phenomenon is
happening in this limited geographical space along the border. This map
is telling a different story: The border is everywhere.”
so today was my first day back at camp and this years basically my first year where im like being a full on girl at camp and so like i was with my group today which is mostly kids whove known me for like 3 years at this point and one kid who knows me less well and like this kids 9 right so he asks me if im a boy or a girl like right off the bat cuz well, hes 9. I tell him im a girl and one of the other kids is like What!? no youre not. and im like i sure am. Another kid asks “then why were you a boy last year?” im like getting ready to figure out how the hell im gonna explain this to a kid in like 4 seconds. and then another kid asks “omg was you pretending to be a boy just an elaborate joke you and the other counselors were playing on us?!??” i just kinda stand there and im like………………………… yes. they all get cracked up because they think me pretending to be a boy was like, the funniest, most long term prank that has ever been committed to them and like i gotta say, i wholeheartedly agree that being amab is just a fucking joke.
another kid was like “but wait? you had a girlfriend last year?” as if she thinks shes just seen through me by asking that simple question and i just say “sometimes girls have girlfriends” and she just nods like i just said the wisest fucking thing anyone has ever fucking said
Me: Oh boy, I just got the Wayfaring Strangers zine, all about Stanley and Stanford Pines and their travels through the world(s)! I can’t wait to geek out about–
Me: Wait. Jheselbraum’s in this.
Me: Twice.
Me: Anyways I love this Jheselbraum fanzine don’t you guys just love Jheselbraum? Jheselbraum’s great I’m so glad she was in this fanzine twice isn’t that neat! Twice!
Some of y'all don’t want fandom to be fun at all you want it to be like some kind of gd AP Lit class where all we do is have pointed debates over the most Correct interpretation of media like NO get fucked I will project onto my favorite character and write whatever shitty nonsense fic for whatever illogical pairing I want die mad about it
Hey as y'all know I’ve been living in a bad home, with two roommates who treat me Iike shit and one who physically threatens me. The home is infested with roaches and absolutely disgusting, not to mention a health hazard. I finally found a new place to live and it’s a good one but there’s a catch.
I have to move in by the 1st of July (Sunday) and I won’t get paid till the Tuesday after that (I talked to my boss and she agreed to pay me early but it still has to be on a Tuesday). If I can’t move in and pay the landlord on that Sunday I don’t get the place which means I’ll be homeless.
I’m have $450 right now and I need $675 to move in. So I only need $225! However I also have to pay a moving company to move my stuff and that could be anywhere from $150-$200. So I really need all the help I can get! Even $5!
If anyone wants to commission me, please send me a message! If anyone is willing to donate, myPayPalis: paypal.me/amalily
I know y'all have helped me out so much already and it means the world. Life keeps kicking me in the gut but I keep getting back up. Thank you all for the support, I hope I can make it through this too.
-Lily
And just so nobody thinks I’m full of shit, this is what I have in my account.
It might seem like a lot but it’s not. I’ll use another $100 this week to get to work which I forgot to put in my earlier post.
This is part of my webcomic Postcards in Braille, which you can read on ComicFury or Tapastic. Updates on Mondays!
This comic/guide works well enough on its own, so I thought it’d be nice to post it here as well :D Braille is really cool and you don’t need to be blind or visually impaired to learn it - and spreading the use of Braille can help us build a more inclusive society! everyone wins!
Bonus fun fact: Braille is originally based on Night writing (or sonography), a tactile reading/writing system created for soldiers to communicate silently at night. Louis Braille adapted it into easier to read cells, creating the Braille system. Good to know it evolved into something so useful!
we talk a lot about how cis lesbians dont wanna date trans girls but why dont we unpack how yall cis gays wouldnt even be caught in a mile radius near a trans dude
lets revisit this ladies
yes, let’s talk about this because i’m sick of cis gay dudes asking my boyfriend if he minds or say he’s only okay with it cause he’s bi. i’m sick of them saying shit like “i’d never be able to do that to myself” and “even if he’s a boy he has, you know…girl parts…” or whatever. not to mention the amount of gay dudes who hit on me when i was passing only to find out i’m trans and laugh it off like they were joking or, worse, react with utter disgust. cis gays are just as capable of being transphobic as cis lesbians and the fact that people are only calling out women is kind of telling. a lot of gay men won’t even entertain the possibility of dating a trans man and their “reasons” are just excuses wrapped up in transphobia and, at times, misogyny. the community gives cis gay men a lot of free passes for their bigotry and i’m sick of it. we should really talk about this.
