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actually, growing up is feeling like i turned sixteen two days ago. i’ve been eighteen for years. fifteen year olds seem so young. wasn’t i fifteen just a few weeks ago? all my friends and i are still twelve. i’m closer to thirty than to being a baby. i never got to be a kid. i never grew past eight. i can’t talk to my mom. i want to sit in her lap forever. i want to decide everything for myself. i need someone to tell me exactly what to do. the week is going by so slow. an entire year has passed.
As Malaysia is still undergoing MCO, we see more news of Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia and the Indigenous people of Sarawak and Sabah losing their homes due to projects related to deforestation, logging, development and the like.
So, I decided to highlight a few organization/movement that would appreciate your swift support:
1.SAVE POS LANAI —a coalition pushing for the government to STOP the rare earth mining project that would not only harm our environment but also be stealing Orang Asli’s land. The forests and rivers of Pos Lanai are a life source for the Semai Orang Asli community, but over the years the forests and rivers have been repeatedly abused by agricultural activities in Cameron Highlands, Pahang. Now, the Semai Orang Asli are headed into a legal battle with the Pahang State Government. They are fighting for gazettement of their forests and home so that they have permanent protection.
… 2. Kampung Berengoi vs The YP Olio Sdn Bhd Plantation Project—When the Orang Asli of Kampung Berengoi in Malaysia signed a contract to receive new homes, what the illiterate villagers didn’t realise they were consenting to was a major logging project that would see hectares of forest on land they claim as indigenous chopped down. If the villagers were able to read the letter, they would have seen it stated that they “have no objection to development project on YP Olio’s land”, the nature of which was left unspecified. This showed how the Pahang government took advantage of the community’s illiteracy. Concerned groups are criticising the project for destroying habitats of endangered wildlife and displacing indigenous people. At least eight Orang Asli families, including Omar’s, live in two villages on the site.
3. Penang fishermen and marine biodiversity vs Penang South Reclamation project (PSR)— PSR is a massive reclamation project to create three islands off the southern coast of Penang island. This project would threaten a nesting ground of vulnerable Olive Ridley turtles and a marine biodiversity hotspot. This marine biodiversity hotspot would be destroyed by the PSR project to create three artificial islands for the development of condominiums. The project would also endanger the livelihoods of fishermen who have been fishing sustainably for generations. The project is expected to generate 3.2 million tons of carbon emissions annually.
this site definitely doesn’t allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.
I was watching Shrek 2 and my wife and I were reflecting on how much transmisogyny was in it as jokes (e.g. “gender confused wolf” “ugly step sister” “women’s underwear” etc.) and it’s so extremely ridiculous to me the transphobes’ line that having positive representations of trans people (esp trans women) in children’s media would be “too confusing” for kids—because they are literally already making references to trans women in children’s media, they’re just doing it in the most offensive ways possible. Taking away all the empty cis rationalization of it, really they’re not arguing for kids to not see trans characters, they’re arguing that kids should see trans characters as demonized, fetishized, objects of ridicule and disgust. Like that’s literally the subtext in these “how do I explain this to my kids” conversations. They really mean “let me continue to explain this in ways that groom kids into hating trans people and themselves if they are trans”
Remaking this post but i need help getting back and forth to work today and tomorrow i get paid Thursday and ive done like shit tons of ot so im hoping i dont have to keep making these posts but i still need help
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Im at work now! I just need some help for tomorrow
So last month I was accepted into my dream school with a scholarship in creative writing!! Unfortunately, I owe past due tuition at another school that I attended for literally one day years ago. With this debt unpaid, I am not able to receive my transcripts proving my withdrawal from that school which I need in order to register for classes this Fall. On top of that my account has been placed with the Attorney General’s Office of my state.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve raised 300 dollars and I am so grateful. Please keep reblogging and boosting and donate if you can! Every little penny counts! 💕💕
it’s pride and it’s almost juneteenth babyyyyyy and i wanna get my hair braided to be closer to the motherland and my royal roots or whatever them hoteps be saying so um!
okay so it is definitely not juneteenth anymore but unfortunately i might need some help lol, as some of you know, due to health reasons my mom can’t work so aside from a monthly check for her, i’m the sole provider for the house and i don’t get paid much
both this friday and next friday t-mobile will be taking $192 from me and I also have to give my mom money outside of that, if y’all could help me out a little it would mean a lot💖
hey so um… that next friday was yesterday and i have like $20 lol so hopefully this’ll be the last time i have to ask y’all for some help for a long long time lol but again, help wold be greatly appreciated 🥺💖
so we find ourselves here again. i have a heart and lung condition and i recently moved to the united states by myself and ran out of the medicines i had brought from india and found out my insurance doesn’t actually cover the meds i need so if someone could send me some money until I figure out how to apply for cost reduction i would really appreciate it. dm for proof.
each pill is $10 and I need 2 pills in a day so I’d really appreciate it if I could get enough to cover the next month or at least a few weeks.
“Ugly girls are only seen by other ugly girls. Here they are, dragging their heavy luggage up a flight of stairs as a sea of men pass by, without even thinking to stop and help. Here they are, sitting in bars trying to hide their despair behind their book. Their ugliness can be an objective beauty, flashing eyes and strong noses and swanny necks. But if it’s not subjective, if the desired gender doesn’t respond, if the parents don’t respond to it, if it’s complicated and grown-into, if it doesn’t attract, then it settles on the girl like ugliness. Christine Chubbuck was striking. But I can’t tell if I can see that only because I’m a fellow ugly girl, of the long untouched variety, the men will call me their kindred souls and then marry someone prettier and softer variety. Because in her posture and manner is the weight of the undesired.”
