netapanaw:

since yall give money to just any shitty person now how about instead you help me, a nb indigenous lesbian out!

i have to make rent (its only $250) and im waiting to hear back from a job. my family is poor and my account just went in the negatives because of payments i needed to make for school and on my credit card. i do have commissions open, but im backed up on them because im dealing with a lot right now in life. so with this post, im asking for donations to get back on my feet.

my goals are to be able to afford rent this month ($250), food, as well as splints for my condition (i have ehlers danlos syndrome, and the splints i found are $100).

my link to my paypal.me (which i also use for commissions) is here: http://paypal.me/ambosart

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the-genderman:

Me: Why do we have the phrase “bone dry” when bones spend most of their time being very wet?

Roommate: Hmm, maybe because when you touch a bone it feels really dry? Bones are porous, so they actively suck the moisture out of your fingers.

Me: That’s so much more unsettling than my original question, thank you.

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yesstrongwomen:

Lozen

Lozen (approx. 1840-1889) was a Chihenne Apache warrior, medicine woman, and - according to legend - clairvoyant. A native of the region that is present-day New Mexico, we don’t know much about Lozen; not even her real name. Lozen is a nickname given to a person who is adept at stealing horses, something she evidently did during her life. 

The little we know about Lozen is interesting: she showed disdain for anything domestic, instead choosing to become a warrior alongside her brother, who was the community’s leader. She fought alongside him, helping strategize attacks by knowing - allegedly through spiritual aid - the exact location of the approaching enemies. This otherworldly knowledge was unfortunately not enough, however, to evade the European colonizers; we can all guess what happened next. Lozen and company were forced to live on a reservation, and though they did make an escape, they ended up on another reservation in present-day Alabama. It is there that this mystical warrior died of tuberculosis, and is said to have been buried in an unmarked grave. 

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Though we know little about her, we do know that Lozen was an inspiration for her people, and we should preserve the little information we have. It’s just a shame that her life couldn’t have been documented more fully. Know of a woman who’s been all but lost to history? Send a message or ask to @yesstrongwomen!

Pictured above: “Lozen - Warrior Woman” by Susan Kliewer.

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date-a-jew-suggestions:

prismatic-bell:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

Very good very important addition

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