So I FINALLY made a ‪gofundme so I can continue my transition. Please help if u can and if you can’t donate please reblog! Raising even a fraction of my goal would be completely life-changing. Black trans women NEED your support and love while we are still here!

alternatives ways to donate if you can’t use GFM for whatever reason

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/rrenee

Venmo: https://venmo.com/rashidababy

Cashapp: https://cash.me/$rreneeward

Thank you 💕

Interrupting my hiatus to let you guys know that Rashida has been an inspiration and a role model for me since 2014. She’s the sweetest girl, the greatest fashion archivist and has been putting the bitches on FOR YEARS. Just to see her hard work stolen without any credits on the daily basis. Because she’s a darkskin trans woman.

Society constantly failing black women so it’s time for each one of us to open our purse and help our trans sisters while they are still alive. PLEASE BOOST!!!! She deserves everything this year the girls all deserve it ❤️

here is a petition to reopen Sandra Bland’s case 

black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

Breonna Taylor’s birthday is this Friday, June 5th. There are still no arrests or charges for her murder and little attention paid to her case. On Friday, here are a list of actions you can do: https://msha.ke/30flirtyfilm/

Please celebrate her and continue seeking justice for her.

I hate the white supremacy pyramid; I hate that it’s suddenly an article of faith though similar versions have circulated before, and that I have to see it in every story on IG right now. It misapprehends what’s happening and what has been happening. First, white supremacy isn’t the only thing to be concerned with here, because we also have antiblackness as an arguably preceding and encompassing problem. And the separation of “overt” and “covert” or “socially acceptable” and “socially unacceptable” does scant helpful work. What appears as “socially acceptable” - lets just call it “normalcy” - only concerns the maintenance of liberal life. But the illusion of normalcy is just that and does little, if anything, to stand in the way of black people being ritually killed. In other words, antiblackness works over and against what is considered within civil society as normal or abnormal, acceptable or unacceptable, overt or covert. Those terms have no actual meaning.

it doesn’t make sense to spend any of your valuable time trying to convince people that riots in response to state-sanctioned violence are just. enslaved africans who were trafficked to the west, as well as their descendants, had to engage in war to gain concessions. from raids on slaveowners in the u.s., to black muslim uprisings against the police in brazil, to the severed heads of the french in haiti. we have always engaged in war to loosen our chains. this is not the first time black americans destroyed property for this purpose and will not be the last. if our resistance is palatable enough for apologists of the state to support it, then that resistance probably isn’t disrupting any kind of social order. i take their distaste as confirmation that the tactic being used is inconvenient and disruptive, as it should be. my hope is that we can become organized enough to transform spontaneous violence to material gains and engage in more protracted struggles where we can defend ourselves and force them to heed our demands.

pride month starts tomorrow, but don’t let that distract from continuing to protest and donate in support of black lives matter. here are some black lgbt funds to donate to if you are able:

also, i know many pride events have been cancelled due to covid-19, but if you are going in public to protest or to another event, please be careful and wear a mask. covid is still going on through all this

if you want to help bail out protesters but don’t know where to send your money — act blue put together a secure page that will split your donation between 30+ bail funds across the US

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