Reblog If You Wish That 2016 Is A Safe Year For Trans Women

Updates about the Paris attacks

- Multiple shootings and explosions in central Paris (X/XI arrondissement)

- At least 18 people, possibly 26, killed, numbers raising by the hour

- Many injured

- 60 people are being taken hostages at Bataclan Concert Hall 

PLEASE STAY SAFE

Cannot believe this just happened. The conservative kingmaker who regularly hosts major GOP presidential candidates just asked—100% seriously—"What’s wrong with slavery?“

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”

NOT JIF,

GIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

On thursday (october 22nd, 2015) the worst terrorist attack in Sweden since 1940 occurred. A right-wing extremist armed with a sword and knives marched into a school and systematically attacked people of color. A student and a teacher died, and another student and a teacher are currently in intensive care.

The terrorist was open about his extremist right-wing views. He was racist, islamophobic and inspired by the anti-immigration discourse that is currently happening nationwide in Sweden. The terrorist was shot by police during the attack and died. I will not say his name, nor upload his picture. He does not deserve the attention. However, I will say that there’s been two severe terrorist attacks in scandinavia in the past few years (this one, in Trollhättan, and then the one in Norway that was carried out in 2011), and they have both been perpetrated by right-wing extremist white men.

Teacher Lavin Eskandar was one of the victims of the terrorist. He attempted to stop the attacker in order to protect the students that were in his care. Lavin was 20 years old, had recently graduated and aspired to work with media. Had he not reacted as quickly as he did, it is likely that more students would’ve gotten injured or had been killed.

I lack words to talk about this properly. Whenever news updates appear, I start crying all over again. This is what hate breeds. There is no such thing as “hate in moderation” or “it’s just words”. When a hateful and racist rethoric is spread online and in media it will inspire people to do horrible things. It will inspire hateful actions. It will inspire terrorism. Children and teachers are dead because the politicians and the media couldn’t get their shit together and stand up to the extremist right-wing discourse that is sweeping the nation. It should never have come to this.

Despite my sorrow, I try to write about this anyway. It’s important that people in other countries know what happened.

for more info: link 1 / link 2

The Devastation of a Super Typhoon

This is Saipan, a tiny but beautiful U.S. territory out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This is where I was born and raised. This is my home.

On Aug. 2, 2015, it was hit directly by Earth’s most powerful storm this year: Super Typhoon Soudelor. It was the worst typhoon our island has seen in a decade, and it was devastating. It is now in a state of emergency and flagged a “disaster area.”

Damaged cars, telephone poles, roofs, fallen trees amongst other debris now dominates this once beautiful island. These pictures are just a tiny fraction of all the damage taken from Super Typhoon Soudelor.

The airports and seaports were shut down. Emergency relief planes could not land for a time, because debris had to be removed from the airstrips.

The first plane to fly in held people from FEMA.

Entire homes have been claimed, leaving over 350 families homeless and living in makeshift shelters at various schools around the island, shelters which have been maxed out.

Amongst these people are my friends and family who have lost almost everything. (My own mom and sister had to take shelter in a neighbor’s home after a portion of our roof ripped off. They were nearly trapped in there, unable to open the door because the pressure in the house was too strong. I have several other family members and friends who have had their homes damaged.)

After the storm, a total of two Shell gas stations were up and operational. The lines for gas at each station were at least two miles long. Because of a 500 gallon leakage in the storage tanks into the port of Saipan, residents are only allowed $20 worth of gas each to help conserve the dwindling supply.

Only small sections of the island have running water, and the only power that is available is that through generators.

Fortunately, no casualties have been reported, and relief efforts are underway. Saipan is going to be only one of many victims of the strongest storm of the year.

The hardest thing for me about this situation is that I’m not there, and I can’t help them recover from this. Spreading the word is literally the only thing I can do that is within my power, and I’m asking for you to do the same.

Please donate to this cause to help save Saipan and the CNMI.

http://www.gofundme.com/savethecnmi

I understand if you can’t (hell, I’m not able to donate either), but please help get the word out and reblog this. This is my first time reaching out to the Tumblr community for help on such a serious matter, and I’m hoping it will be the last.

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Reblog if you've ever smelled a book. My mom thinks I'm crazy.

Huh? I thought everyone did that?

People who bind:

For those of you who don’t already know, there is a petition going around to actually stock binders in stores (like Walmart/Kmart/Target etc.)!!!

Please reblog if:

•your anxiety has made it difficult for you to voice your opinion

•your anxiety has made it difficult to dress the way you want

•your anxiety has made it difficult to ask for help

•your anxiety has made you constantly worry if you are being annoying and wonder if your friends and family are valid relationships or if they just put up with you because they have to

And please know that you are not fighting this battle alone. You are worth more than your anxiety says. You matter and so does your opinion and your say. You are awesome