While there are countries that gave its people new and unprecedented rights. here in Australia we have our rights taken from us, with same sex marriage still not being legalized, increased surveillance, threats of loss of citizenship, religious persecutions, censorship of public owned media, deportation and offshore detention of refugees, financial persecution of university students, de-funding of schools and hospitals and disclosure of aboriginal communities.
don’t forget labor’s
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some essays i’ve got from school, most of the books and some essays r from beautiful people on the internet
to be updated as often as i get more shit. which is fairly often~
new categories r:
categories r growing + changing as i put more time into organizing these files and receive more stuff to add. also a lot of the new stuff i’ve received from other ppl i havent had time to look thru properly so i know i’ve miscategorised some stuff but w/e ill get to that in the summer.
if u have anything u’d like to add to this drive, please email me @ tevyefegeleh@gmail.com
i was 14 and i was walking through a mall by myself at 12am after my shift at coldstone creamery lol and a bunch of men started whistling and meowing and getting really close to me and they kept asking me questions and i kept not answering until i didn’t know what else to do so i said “i’m only 14” and almost in unison they said “we don’t care” i was so fucking scared i didn’t know what to do and they kept talking about how i looked and how my body looked and what they would do i was on the verge of tears i was all alone in a huge mall i knew i couldn’t outrun them all i felt totally hopeless until a maintenance worker came up to all of us with a huge industrial broom in her hand, i thought she was going to yell at all of us for being in the mall after hours bc she probably thought we were all friends but instead she cursed all of them out in spanish, threatened to press a panic button on her belt and then proceeded to walk me to the basement garage and waited with me until my mom got there to pick me up she had a death grip on her cart the whole time and a face of steel she looked so strong and i just kept saying thank you and she kept saying not to thank her because she had to stop them.
that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to, she didn’t even know me, we couldn’t even communicate that well because of the language barrier, she could have lost her job for waiting with me in the parking lot but she looked out for me when she didn’t have to, she had nothing to gain from it, i’m 21 now and i tell everyone this story even though it happened 7 years ago, what she did that night helped me form and shape lot of my beliefs early on.
i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away.
And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second.
my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm.
“that guy behind us is following you,” she said. “he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up.”
i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.
another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”
protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.
Hi, I’m not really understanding the anon thing that’s happening, why are we turning off anon over New Year’s Eve?
So basically what’s happening is that over the past few days an anon hate attack has been targeting certain blogs run by people who are depressed/anxious/suicidal etc. The anons first attacked the Supernatural fandom (queen-of-the-rising-demons is an example of this) we’ve already lost 5 people to suicide because of the attack as of today. In the early hours of today the group of anon haters started spreading and targeting other fandoms such as:
Doctor Who,
Sherlock,
Superwholock
Phandom,
Troyler fandom,
American Horror Story,
Hetalia,
Homestuck,
Attack on Titan,
Harry Potter,
and many more.
Now there’s rumour of a full on hate attack, on as many people as they can, regardless of mental conditions mentioned in previous posts. There’s rumours that this attack will happen on New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. Pleasepleaseplease spread the word and warn people to either; turn off their askboxes if they don’t want to be affected by the attack, or leave their askboxes open and prepare for the fact that they may be targeted.
We can survive this, fandoms are family, and family don’t end with blood.
I urge my followers to signal boost the shit out of this. The initial raid was bad enough. Please for the sake of your well being, turn off anon. I made the wrong decision when I was attacked and I don’t want anyone else making the same mistake. Please, if not from anyone else, hear it from me. Turn your anon off.
[DECEMBER 4, 2014] Police were investigating the death of a 21-year-old transgender woman who was gunned down while pounding on the front door of a Compton home seeking help.
Deshawnda Sanchez was shot around 4 a.m. Wednesday on the porch of a home near Wilton Place and 62nd Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“She was definitely at that door pounding on that door seeking help,” LAPD Detective Christopher Barling said.
The occupant of the home came outside after hearing multiple gunshots but it was too late.
A neighbor’s surveillance camera captured part of the incident. Police were not releasing the video which apparently showed someone pulling up to the house in a vehicle, getting out and running up to the porch. The figure could then be seen running back to the vehicle and driving away, police said.
“The footage, it was heartbreaking,” said Diana Williams, the victim’s sister
Detectives believe Sanchez was running away from a robber when she was shot, but said they were not ruling anything out.
“Deshawnda is a transgender female. At this point we cannot say it’s a hate crime but we have not ruled out that as being a possibility,” Barling said. [source]
This is so tragic. My heart goes out to her and those she loved. I hope Deshawnda gets the justice she deserves. #TransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter
this hits close … i have two friends who were friends of hers … another bright light extinguished for no reason
Let me explain to you something.
Ray used a slur. He said a slur for trans people.
Here’s the thing about that though.
Ryan said the exact same slur in the Grand Heist and that is a VERY POPULAR video, yet no one has breathed a fucking word about that.
Ryan, Michael, Geoff, Gavin. These are the golden boys. No one comments on their nasty comments or behavior, and if they do, the complaints die down in a few days.
Now there’s people pitching against Ray, “Don’t let this pass. Don’t forget this.” Trying to bully him into apologizing, but you know what I’m seeing?
I’m seeing a lot of people bitching about him using the slur.
I’ve yet to see anyone try and [calmly, calmly] explain to him why that is a slur.
Let’s be fucking honest. Not everyone in the world knows what is or is not offensive. What’s going on here is you attacking the only POC on the AH main talent for something he probably doesn’t even fucking know it’s a slur, and if he does, I can almost assure you he doesn’t know why. If it was explained to him why it is a slur, why it falls along with racial slurs and is abusive to a group of people, maybe he’d actually fucking listen to you.
Because you know what? Ray fucking listens, reads, interacts with fans. He does see.
You know who doesn’t do that, even remotely? Gavin motherfucking Free.
Gavin doesn’t give a shit about you. Not even a lick. He doesn’t care, read, or interact with fans online at all. He doesn’t see the nonexistent complaints.
Ray reads and interacts with his fans. Ray isn’t perfect, none of them are, so why are you attacking him exactly? Why is it that Ray says it and it deserves a fucking “Don’t forget this, don’t let him forget this”, but Ryan can say it [in a far more popular video] and no one says a thing?
Yes, Ray said a slur. YES, that slur is fucking wrong.
Go fucking tell him why like a goddamn adult instead of shrieking like a bunch of whiny pissbabies about it. You’re just white fucking noise. Why should he listen to you if you are only screaming at him about using a slur but don’t bother being fucking mature about it.
Stop. Attacking. Ray.
If it matters that fucking much to you then let’s not forget
-The ongoing Rape joke in grand heist, started by Geoff.
-The continually racist, sexist, [which btw RAY has called him out on], transphobic, homophobic, classist, ableist Gavin
-The dismissive, ableist, triggering Ryan
-The transphobic/anti-labels Jack
-The rape jokes made by Lindsay
-The 9/11 joke made by Kdin
-Michael constantly casually bringing up Ferguson, trivializing it
No one is fucking perfect. No one.
Stop centering on Ray, don’t think I don’t see you there. I know what this is fucking about. Fucking stop. They all do horrible things. Stop acting like Ray is the worst.
A WHITE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR VIOLENTLY RAPED A GIRL, FILMED IT, AND PUT IT ONLINE BUT HE SHOULDN’T GET PUNISHED.
A BLACK KID CARRYING SKITTLES GETS SHOT AND WAS A THUG.
A WHITE KID SHOOTS UP A UNIVERSITY BUT HE WAS SUCH A GOOD KID.
AN UNARMED BLACK KID GETS SHOT 6 TIMES AND DESERVED TO DIE.
A WHITE GUY RAPES HIS THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BUT DOESN’T GO TO PRISON.
A BLACK KID WITH A BB GUN IS SHOT AND KILLED ON SITE.
Something is wrong.