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• 28 ✦ chinese ✦ living in aotearoa ✦ trans lesbian •
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PLEASE HELP BISAN!! 🇵🇸 ‼️

DONATE TO BISAN HERE

BIG LIST OF GFMS HERE 🇵🇸

Hello everyone, by now you've probably seen me sharing Bisan's campaign many times on my blog. I wanted to make an official post of my own highlighting her fundraiser.

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Bisan reached out to me a few months ago, and we have become good friends. She is a very kind and caring person, even checking in on me when I have been unwell while she is in the middle of a genocide.

Bisan needs to raise £16,000 for her and her family, to cover the extremely high costs of food, medicine, and winter supplies. Bisan was able to get a new tent for her family, but with the cold of winter upon them, it does very little to keep them warm at night. Food and medicine are catastrophically expensive, and there is never enough to find or go around. Bisan has been trying to find flour for days to no avail, and she cannot find all of the medicine that her Father needs. Bisan herself has gotten sick multiple times over the past few months.

There is also the constant threat of bombings and gunfire around them at all times from the IDF. Bisan tells me that the shooting never stops, and it makes me worry for the safety of her and her family. Every day I message Bisan, to make sure her and her family are still okay. I worry constantly for my friend and her loved ones, but despite the horrific situation Bisan is in, she is an extremely kind and compassionate person with endless love in her heart for those around her.

So, if you have any money to spare, please consider donating it to Bisan's fundraiser. I understand money is very tight for a lot of us, and there are many campaigns that need our attention. But even the smallest donations will add up if enough people keep donating, so please do what you can. Donate whatever you're able to, share this to your blog, to your friends/family, to your other social media, anything you can do will help greatly. Please do not ignore my friend.

Bisan's campaign has been slowing down a lot recently, with barely any donations in DAYS. So far we have gotten her campaign to £13,819 / £16,000 which is amazing, and we are slowly nearing £14,000. I know we can make it to this number.

So, as an added encentive, for every $5 or more you donate to Bisan's campaign (with proof of donation), I will draw you something, with higher donations getting better quality work. I know I haven't posted any of my art in ages, it honestly hasn't felt right to post my own art with everything going on, but if you want an extra bonus for helping my friend then I will draw you something for donating. But even if you can only donate $1, it will still go a long way, so please do not hesitate to donate if that's all you can give. And please give more if you're in a position to do so! $5 is just the minimum amount to get a drawing, but PLEASE give more if you're able!

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AS A DISCLAIMER: My health is not in the best place currently, as I have developed multiple chronic conditions this past year that seriously effect my energy. Please understand that it may take me a while to get your drawing done depending on how detailed it is and how well I am feeling each day, as my health is rather unpredictable. Below are some examples of my artwork, and above has what I will and will not draw. Please DM me with your proof of donation and what you want me to draw (the more detail the better so I know what you want!) I hope you will consider donating to Bisan's campaign, and please share this post.

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Thank you for listening. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea ❤ 🇵🇸 🌷

DONATE TO BISAN HERE

BIG LIST OF GFMS HERE 🇵🇸

£15,320 / £16,000

We are getting closer to Bisan's fundraiser goal being met! Thank you to everyone who has donated and shared! ❤❤❤

We got to the previous short-term goal, so I know we can reach £16,000 for Bisan and her family! Please donate and share Bisan's campaign, any little bit helps. As an added encentive, I will draw you something if you send me proof of your donation, which you can also see above. Please donate whatever you can and share this to as many people as possible! 🇵🇸 ❤

Tags under the cut for reach (let me know if you'd like to be removed)

NO DONATIONS IN 5 DAYS!!!

We are getting very close to Bisan's fundraiser goal being met, it is 96% funded! Please continue to donate and share her campaign so Bisan can support herself and her family!!

Donation commissions are still open for those who donate to Bisan's campaign and DM me proof of their donation. Below is an example of what a $20 (or more!) donation can get you. Thank you to @fiendishfifi for giving me permission to post this, and for donating to Bisan's campaign 🙏❤❤

Please keep donating to Bisan, and sharing her campaign if you truly can't. Please don't ignore my friend

WE ARE STILL AT £15,380 / £16,000

Please keep donating to Bisan, donation commissions are still open for those who DM me proof of their donation!

3/18

$0/1100

Back again folks! finally finished with our payment plan, so we need less money this month! would really like to be able to pay on time (4/1/25) this time, so please help us or share this around if you can't!

as always DON'T TAG THIS POST please!

4/3

$845.83/1100

atp, it feels like ppl just dont give a shit if im homeless! im begging yall to help us close the gap, i know theres folks out there who can lend a fucking hand so please. I dont want to be homeless!!! we have $254.17 left until we make rent, so lets make rent for the love of g-d

I swear to God, if someone were to trap 2 million animals, deprive them of food and water, and kill 50,000 of them, the world would be shaken by this catastrophe and brutality.

What's happening is unbelievable, illogical. We are human beings... human beings!!

If we do not die from the occupation's bombing, we will die in the air Please help us and donate to our families here.

We call upon you from under the insane bombardment. We swear to you that we are burning now. Speak for us, perhaps this will intercede for you.

Gaza has no bread, no gas, no flour. Water is scarce, and massacres abound.

guys this is so crazy to me i feel like we're regressing if we, despite the history of this country droning and bombing civilians and covering it up to, are still led to believe at face value that the people killed were "justified targets this time around!" And now that trump is in charge well the guy and his fascist crew certainly believe who theyre bombing are all guilty, right?

In 2009, the Obama administration conducted "the first known U.S. cruise missile strike in southern Yemen . . . That strike, which killed 14 alleged "militants," also killed at least 41 civilians, including 21 children and nine women, five of whom were pregnant at the time."

The Obama administration would continue to claim that their drone strikes were "exceptionally surgical and precise" and "do not put… innocent men, women and children in danger" but we know then and now there was mass civilian casualties.

In 2013, the administration launched four Hellfire missiles in a counterterrorism operation in Yemen. The Obama administration claimed all killed were militants and terrorists, witnesses said the administration killed a wedding procession

We know that the Obama administration would define militant as any "military aged male" to drastically lower the "non-combatant" death

Biden continued this policy. In 2021 there was footage showing a drone strike killing civilians, seven of the ten those killed children. In fact civilian deaths are so rampant that this "mistake" continues to happen. In Syria, the biden admin claimed to kill an al-Qaeda leader then find out they killed a father of ten children

Now, with the lack of accountability, may we ask why the hell we should believe that this airstrike the TRUMP administration sent killed only the "bad guys". He killed civilians in Yemen before

Whats even more just disappointing is that people not only believing at face value what the administration will say who they target, but the complete pivot from "progressive" people being against droning to just not caring. I was in class this semester and my professor thought it would be a fun learning exercise to ask the class how many civilian deaths would they be alright with if it killed so and so top dictators and people kept their hand up for 100+ civilians. I had to disrupt that shit and say "so would any of you would have raised your hand if it was you and your family at risk of being killed because canada claimed they needed to bomb your town to eliminate a terrorist group and they cant help but kill civilians because its just war?" and surprise i was met with silence.

Can we bring back being against droning? can we make that a mainstream belief again wth.

Gaza Does Not Die… But We Are Bleeding ✊

I am Musab Ahmed. I once had a home, I once had a life… but now, everything I knew is nothing but rubble. My house was completely destroyed by the relentless bombing that took away even our memories.

My body did not escape this war—I was injured in my shoulder, underwent surgery, but I still need another operation to regain my full mobility. Yet, the greatest pain is not mine… it’s the pain of my daughter Lama, whose little hand could not withstand the bombing. She was injured and had to have a metal plate implanted in her hand, and we are still struggling to get her the treatment she needs.

All we ask for is a chance to live… A life that was stolen from us under the bombs and destruction. We need your support to continue our treatment and to try and rebuild what’s left of us.

Help us stay strong—Gaza is bleeding.

help keep a queer mixes student housed 🥲

hi everyone again 🫀

im still only working 30hrs and i go to school ft live by myself and my only support system are my friends scattered across the country

im short on rent by $279 this month after i paid my v past due electric and i have until April 5th to get it together

bcuz of yall i was able to get house items keep bathbomb fedddd but if u have a couple bucks to spare id appreciate it my baby boy will also deeply appreciate staying secure if u cant please boost then 🫀

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no movement in 24+ hrs

back and hip hurts so bad i cant work today please help 🥲 im like alone and idk how i can get thru medical issues alone

nothing for 3 days this is needed by the 5th please help

update 3/31 rent is due tomorrow(4/1)

still at $20/279

still no movement for 5 days idk what to say or ask i cant get help anywhere please..

25/279

3 days left

help a Black autistic trans couple survive:

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making a new ebegging post for april, aka autism awareness month! my wife and i r two autistic (and otherwise neurodivergent and disabled) Black trans folks living in Texas, unable to maintain gainful employment due to our disabilities. as a result, we are reliant on mutual aid and community support for our living expenses. any help folks can send to my main apps (or our shared ones) or by getting an item from our registry goes a long way, and means more than you could ever imagine. thanks so much for reading n rbing! (PLEASE DO NOT TAG THIS POST UNLESS FOR ACCESSIBILITY PURPOSES)

3/18

$0/1100

Back again folks! finally finished with our payment plan, so we need less money this month! would really like to be able to pay on time (4/1/25) this time, so please help us or share this around if you can't!

as always DON'T TAG THIS POST please!

3/31

$817.48/1100

hey y'all, made some progress, but i need folks to stop thinking we don't need anymore help. our rent is due TOMORROW and i don't want to just hope someone is going to come swoop in and help us at the last second. Trans Day of Visibility might almost be over, but i need folks to put their money where their mouth is and help us out! We have $282.52 left until we have our rent, please keep sharing this so two black trans folks don't end up on the street

4/2

$830.83/1100

I don't know what else to say. our rent is a day past due. we literally cannot solve this any other way. there is $269.17 left to go. please help us

My cheque I've been waiting a few months for and was supposedly delivered one week ago is now beyond a doubt either stolen or missing. (:

It's also my birth month, and my birthday is in less that 3 weeks, so any help or financial assistance would be extremely helpful and also cool especially if I can like splurge and indulge in something nice for once instead of always being on survival mode and the brink of ruination.

This lost cheque is a huge blow so we desperately need any help we can get in the mean while as I try and get this resolved.

Thank you very much 😭💖

This crisis is alarming for several reasons:

1. High Child Mortality – Nearly half of the victims in Gaza are children, making this one of the deadliest conflicts for young lives.
2. Destruction of Families – Parents are left grieving, and many children are orphaned, with no one to care for them.
3. Long-Term Trauma – The surviving children face severe psychological scars, growing up in fear, pain, and deep emotional distress.

The international community must do more to stop this catastrophe. Immediate action is needed to end the violence, provide urgent humanitarian aid, and protect innocent lives. My baby, Qais, was just playing near our tent during Eid when an Israeli airstrike hit, leaving him injured. As his mother, I am devastated and helpless. I have no money to get him the medical treatment he desperately needs. Please, if you can, donate to help save his life and give him a chance to heal.

Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #64 )🍉🇵🇸

I am a weak and oppressed woman living in Gaza, struggling every day while everyone ignores my suffering. I have no income, no food, and no clothing. Please, I am desperate and willing to clean your shoes or do any work in exchange for any help you can offer. I just need to survive😭💔.

🚨 Urgent Help Needed 🚨

Hello friend 🍉🇵🇸,

I’m Esraa Mounes Al-Kafarna, a mother from Gaza. My youngest needs milk, and my other child requires treatment for a skin disease. The conflict has made survival extremely difficult 💔.

Your support can save their lives. Any donation, big or small, makes a difference.

Thank you for your kindness.

Esraa Al-Kafarna

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@libraryposting

I was at the liberty museum in Philadelphia and saw this next to a stairwell

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Official ominous sign

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Ive been to this art installation when it was in Seattle it was made by an indigenous artist if I remember correctly it has small patches of astroturf in front of a black and white American flag with a sign that invites people “kneel and join in the screams of the American national anthem”

Please tag me if you can find it!

This piece is called Neon American Anthem bu indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin “to mourn the loss of lives, freedoms, and safety for people and lands subjected to American violence, and to protest continuing oppression.”

Text below the line to make it easier to read!

(remaking because my post lost r/traction)

Okay so my roommate has now threatened multiple times to stop paying rent and tell the landlord there's people living here who aren't on the lease as well as several other behaviours that have made her increasingly impossible to live with she's the only one who's actually on the lease and I think it's time for me to gtfo. Trying to get rent paid and help the remaining people trying to live there keep the lights on. I dont really know where I can go but I'm crashing at a friend's place rn. Asking for $600 to help remaining roommates out and square away bills and whatnot. Anything helps.

Cashapp: lilove99

Venmo: thelmaelizabeth99

PayPal: thelmaelizabeth99

($70/600)

($90/600)

Please help if you can I've started moving my stuff into a friend's attic because my current roommates have started being really agro to me and really want me to move out because they've found someone they want to take my room to but I still haven't found a place. The situation is really bad, I don't know these people very well but they've been acting really fucking weird and going in my room. I'm pretty convinced one of them ruined my PC too

($90/600)

Tbh I just really need to buy cigarettes today. I'm so exhausted, couch surfing is really getting to me and I just want to go smoke. Please like that would honestly make so much of a difference

($300/600) thank you so much

I've officially been forced out of the best home I've ever known, the new roommates out all my stuff outside without telling me even tho the plan was to stay another month. Had to have a pretty heated confrontation between my friends and them. I'm staying in a friend's attic now. Would still appreciate any help

Rent was due yesterday and with the added late fees we’re back to $1,614

Every bit helps so please consider donating before the eviction process starts!

$1,604 needed to cover late rent

$40/$1,604

$54/$1,604

$129/$1,604

$588/1,604

Please consider donating if possible! We are currently $1,016 away from covering rent

$804/$1,604

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