Their original campaign was so so close to reaching its goal, but sadly GFM has decided to freeze their funds and they haven’t been able to withdraw a single euro since December.
They’re having to start all over again for 50% of their campaign. Please, please help my friend.
hi all im helping out a friend housesitting for the next 3 days, is there any chance i can get some money for food / weed / nicotine while im staying here?
hi again, i also just scored an interview for a much better paying kitchen job tomorrow, and im gonna need funds to get there and back, pls help a broke trans girl in the ass end of texas?
i need maybe like $50 all things considered?
$25/50 thank y'all v much
hi hi, im asking still for the other 25 to cover my way to the interview and maybe something to eat afterwards please?
Please don’t ignore my story💔🇵🇸🥹🙏
I hope you are all well, I am Hanan from Gaza, I am in dire need of donations please, we live in tents, the rain water is leaking and it is very cold, my house was bombed and we narrowly escaped death and my children were hit by shrapnel, I am a mother of two children, Dana, 3 years old and Adam, 2 months old, Adam was born during the war, I went out from the hospital to the tent, we cannot buy food because of the high prices, there are no winter clothes for my children, the situation is very difficult, I am in dire need of saving my children’s lives from death, I want you to support my campaign for me to protect my children from the dangers of the war we are living between death, destruction and the smell of blood, please help me for my children, I hope with your humanity, kindness and doing good for my children, they die every day, I cannot see my children suffering greatly, suffering and displacement, we have been displaced several times, our tent was destroyed due to displacement, I cannot provide the minimum needs for my children. Please do not let me down. I need your support and donations so that I can collect and secure travel expenses and survive from death. Please help me, I will be very grateful🇵🇸🙏🥹.
Despite the agreement on a ceasefire, the Israeli occupation has targeted 3 citizens in Rafah now, and a number of targets are being targeted daily.
Please guys we need every donation and every help from you so please donate we don’t have much left to reach our short goal of 5 thousand only 2 thousand euros left please donate
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IF YOU ARE A TRANS FEMME GET YOUR THYROID CHECKED, ESPECIALLY IF YOUVE NOTICED A DROP IN LIBIDO OR AN INABILITY TO MAINTAIN A STABLE WEIGHT
It isn’t a big deal if you have hypothyroidism, you just need to take an artificial thyroid hormone called Levothyroxine…but don’t let it go untreated!!! It’s super fucked up doctors don’t regularly check our thyroid when we start HRT
Specifically get your thyroid-binding globulin levels, since according to these articles your thyroid hormone levels might appear normal despite this occurring
I really wish I saw this a few days ago, I was just at the endocrinologist. I’ll bring it up with the PCP and see if he’s willing to run that specific test or if I need to trudge back over for it.
Re-reblogging to add: Out of the 48 trans patients with thyroid diagnoses, 26 were taking estrogen and 21 were taking testosterone. One is unspecified in the article.
43 of this thyroid dx/hrt group had hypothyroidism! That’s 8.7% of the population taking hrt (total sample of 554), while 3-5% is the rate in the non-hrt population.
In other words: this applies to ALL folks taking hrt. This study found that hypothyroidism is somewhat more common with estrogen hrt, but the rate is still elevated with testosterone hrt vs people not taking any at all.
If you’re on hrt and show signs of thyroid issues, talk to your care provider! It’s common in general, and more common in us.
Because a lot of endocrinologists are weird fatphobic transphobic assholes here is what to do to get your levels checked: ask them to run full thyroid work up including TBG and F14, F13 levels. If they refuse, claiming that your TSH levels are normal, remind them that TSH is a pituitary hormone and can take many years before matching actual thyroid hormone levels. Tell them that the prevalence of hypothyroidism in trans people is approximately 8.7%, much higher than the estimates of 3-5% in the general population, and that estrogen can overstress a trans person’s thyroid causing hypothyroidism. If they still refuse, report them to whatever body governs their behaviour and find a new doctor.
homeless trans woman living in an unsanitary nightmare :(
hi everyone im pretty well known around here. i’ve been homeless for about a year and two months now, and i’m working on it really hard.
i am currently working with an NGO towards recognition of my refugee status, which will give me healthcare access and other important human rights which i have not had in nearly a decade.
unfortunately, to access this NGO, i have to live in a gross inner city food desert. i live in the cheapest hotel available and eat one meal a day. the floor is sticky with unsealed paint, the nearest toilet has been clogged with human shit for two days, and i’m “not allowed” to have alcohol because the owner is an evangelical, so my beer cans are piling up because i have to dispose of them stealthily in the dead of night
although this is the right step overall and i’m excited to have legal status, i’m very depressed because of my disgusting living conditions. the room smells like dead rats and so do i even though i shower three times a day.
can people donate me money so i can afford to move into a real apartment once i have status?
ko-fi link – this link takes paypal, visa, and mastercard.
42/700$ raised in March
last month tumblr staff shadow banned my account. due to this, last month’s donations were below what i needed. so please support me by following, signal boosting, and donating.
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congratulations to my hotel on the installation of a hand-written sign on the main bathroom acknowledging that the main toilet has been clogged with human shit for 55 hours.
yeah, people have pointed out how ironic it is that for all Musk’s stupid invocations of The Matrix, Vivian is the one whose life story has played out like Neo
It’s very common for former “designer babies” to have trauma from not just the fact that they were basically a product sold to their parents as superior healthy optimized children, but also because biology doesn’t work like that & the science is overhyped so many parents become resentful & abusive when the perfect kid they paid a lot of money for ends up just being a regular imperfect human being.
The first “designer babies” are already fully grown adults & many of them are speaking out about how messed up it is.
I’ve worn steel-boned tight-lacing appropriate corsetry, I own corsets made to my measurements, I’ve worn cheap off-the-rack plastic-boned corsetry (fun fact: current plastic-boning is much closer in stiffness and thickness to the boning that most 19th century corsetry used than anything else we tend to use rn), and extremely flimsy lingerie “corsetry”.
Any time I wear any of my overbust corsets it’s a relief compared to wearing any sort of bra.
The number of times I’ve been very painfully stabbed by my bras through the years should warrant a lawsuit against whoever came up with that shit.
It’s nearly impossible for me to find a bra that actually fits me because I have a very short torso (thank you, Marfanoid Habitus), meanwhile even the corsets I have whose fitting on me is affected by my torso being short still hold me up and in far better, and much more stably than all my bras except for one, and all my corsets are BY ABYSMALLY FAR much more comfortable than the one bra I have that fits like a glove and does what a bra is supposed to do.
19th century women would pity us.
Only other option I can think of for tit support (since I Breast Boobily too much to go without any) that is more comfortable than a mildly decent overbust corset, is boob tape. Aka pretending my tits are just naturally unaffected by gravity.
I’ve worn steel-boned tight-lacing appropriate corsetry, I own corsets made to my measurements, I’ve worn cheap off-the-rack plastic-boned corsetry (fun fact: current plastic-boning is much closer in stiffness and thickness to the boning that most 19th century corsetry used than anything else we tend to use rn), and extremely flimsy lingerie “corsetry”.
Any time I wear any of my overbust corsets it’s a relief compared to wearing any sort of bra.
The number of times I’ve been very painfully stabbed by my bras through the years should warrant a lawsuit against whoever came up with that shit.
It’s nearly impossible for me to find a bra that actually fits me because I have a very short torso (thank you, Marfanoid Habitus), meanwhile even the corsets I have whose fitting on me is affected by my torso being short still hold me up and in far better, and much more stably than all my bras except for one, and all my corsets are BY ABYSMALLY FAR much more comfortable than the one bra I have that fits like a glove and does what a bra is supposed to do.
I like (good) video essays and I like video essays about beauty and fashion especially surrounding the politics involved but there’s no faster way to make me think you’re too stupid to be making a video essay on anything when you’re spewing easily disproven fashion history misinformation/lies one after the other non-stop.
“Corsets were death traps that disfigured women’s bodies”
Stop believing the fashion history tidbits you learned from Pirates of the Caribbean and the few drawings from Victorian physicians who didn’t wash their hands, had never fucked in any other way than in the dark in missionary position, thought women were barely capable of thought, and still believed the womb moved around, depicting what they IMAGINED happened to women’s bodies with corsetry. Good god.
They were basically just bras. Only the fashionista socialites tight-laced, corsets helped carry the weight of heavy skirts, they helped correct posture, most weren’t steel-boned (some weren’t even boned at all), working-class and farmer women wore them to work, and the effect of teeny-tiny waists was more achieved through padding the hips and bust and the volume of the skirts rather than by tightening the waist. And they were pretty comfortable for the most part.
If anything the standards for women’s bodies are much crueler now because using padding is seen as pathetic and shameful, you barely have base layers of clothing to help you achieve the most desired figure which means that unless you won the genetic lottery, you either put your body through awful diets and obsessive exercise or you get dangerous surgery.
Also back then the standards for the body were more forgiving too in the sense that while a body leaning thinner was still preferred, what with consumption chic and all, the real goal was achieving a certain set of proportions.
Sure, there shouldn’t BE a body standard like that either, or any other, but if you ask me which I’d choose to have to deal with…
I like (good) video essays and I like video essays about beauty and fashion especially surrounding the politics involved but there’s no faster way to make me think you’re too stupid to be making a video essay on anything when you’re spewing easily disproven fashion history misinformation/lies one after the other non-stop.
i always forget that the vast majority of people on here don’t know that hinduism is a uniquely oppressive religion and view it vaguely like some exotic and beautiful brown people spirituality.
no other religion unpersons such a vast swathe of purported adherents textually, maintains practices that make them objects of ritual abjection that are excluded from society thru untouchability, exploits their labour thru customary labour obligations and restrictions on land ownership that increase their material subjection and attempts to deny them even understanding of their own position and the right to organise by making literacy itself an upper caste privilege. and this is all before the hindu fascists even burned down the first mosque and started pogroms and initiatied the process of stripping muslims from citizenship. just because hinduism doesn’t have global hegemony never meant that stopped it from violently exercising its hegemony on the subcontinent.
