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IMPORTANT UPDATE: WE HAVE BEEN RAISING FUNDS FOR A TRANS SEX WORKER OF COLOR WHO IS AT RISK OF LOSING CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN. THEIR TRIAL DATE HAS SINCE BEEN RESCHEDULED TO THE SPRING. WHILE THEIR LAWYERS REMAIN CONFIDENT THAT THEY CAN WIN THIS DISCRIMINATORY CASE, FUNDS ARE NOW NEEDED BY JUNE 2026. PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS INCREDIBLE PILLAR OF OUR COMMUNITY! GOAL: $50,000 GOFUNDME GOFUND.ME/HELP-KEEP-FAMILY-TOGETHER-URGENT VENMO CARTA-MONIR CASHAPP $CARTAMONIR SEND DONATIONS WITH A HEART EMOJI TO ENSURE FUNDS ARE REDIRECTED TO THIS SWER

WE ARE RAISING FUNDS FOR A BELOVED COMMUNITY MEMBER; A TRANS SEX WORKER OF COLOR WHO IS AT RISK OF LOSING CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN. FOR THEIR SAFETY AND PRIVACY THEY MUST REMAIN ANONYMOUS, BUT THIS IS A PILLAR OF OUR COMMUNITY, LOVED AND VERIFIED BY THOSE OF US RUNNING THIS FUNDRAISER. OUR FRIEND IS FACING A TRIAL IN JUNE REGARDING THE CUSTODY OF THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. THE CASE AGAINST THEM IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEIR PRIMARY FORM OF INCOME IS SEX WORK. NOTABLY, THE JUDGE OF THE INITIAL CUSTODY ARRANGEMENT RULED THAT THEIR JOB WAS NOT REASON ENOUGH TO RESTRICT THEIR PARENTING TIME YEARS AGO. BECAUSE OF THIS PRECEDENT, THEIR LAWYER FEELS VERY CONFIDENT THEY WILL WIN THEIR UPCOMING CASE.

TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS TO PARENT THEIR OWN CHILDREN, OUR FRIEND NEEDS TO RAISE $75,000 BY JUNE 2026. THIS STAGGERING AMOUNT OF MONEY REQUIRED BY THE COURT TO COVER THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH A TWO DAY TRIAL (LAWYERS FEES, EXPERT WITNESSES, THE COURT REPORTER, DEPOSITIONS, CREATION OF TRIAL BINDERS, THE LIST GOES ON). IF THEY CANNOT SECURE THESE FUNDS BY THE JUNE DEADLINE, THEY WILL BE FORCED TO SETTLE, RESULTING IN SEVERELY REDUCED INTERACTION WITH THEIR CHILDREN. WE OBVIOUSLY DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN. OUR FRIEND HAS PROVIDED FOR THEMSELF AND THEIR CHILDREN FOR YEARS, FIGHTING THEIR CUSTODY BATTLE IN PRIVATE WHILE CONTINUING TO BE AN INCREDIBLE PARENT, FRIEND, AND EDUCATOR. THEY CAN NO LONGER FACE THIS BY THEMSELVES, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

IN OUR CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE, WE KNOW THAT OUR FRIEND'S SITUATION IS ESPECIALLY PRECARIOUS. THIS IS A CRUCIAL MOMENT TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH A COMMUNITY MEMBER WHO NEEDS IT MORE THAN EVER.

I am still fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

UPDATE - WE NOW HAVE UNTIL JUNE 1ST

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Donate to Support Sheri's Ranch Workers Terminated for Unionizing!, organized by Molly Wylder Welcome to the GoFundMe for the United Brothel Workers (UBW) (A … Molly Wylder needs your support for Support Sheri's Ranch Workers Terminated for Unionizing!

Sheri’s Ranch responded to the petition for union recognition by firing workers Jupiter Jetson, Molly Wylder, Paloma Karr, Adalind Gray, Genevieve Dahl, and Gwen Bunny.

The union will be fighting their unlawful terminations, but for now, they need our support: www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes!

ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word!

(art here by the great @trungles.com)

Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...

HELLO, FRIENDS!

The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this.

www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

United Brothel Workers | CWA Local 9413 A historic fight is underway at Sheri's Ranch. Courtesans are standing together to demand safety, better working conditions, and control over their own futures.

Sign the petition to support these workers as they fight back against union-busting and relation! unitedbrothelworkers.org

Text: SUPPORT THE STRIKERS The Free Alabama Movement has announced a work strike, set to begin on Sunday, February 8. Incarcerated people across Alabama are answering the call and refusing to participate in their exploitation and oppression. "This nonviolent comes in response to decades of unconstitutional sentencing practices, forced prison labor, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis throughout Alabama's prison system," FAM leaders said in a statement. Read the list of demands below and stand in solidarity with the strikers of the Free Alabama Movement. DEMANDS 1. REPEAL ALABAMA'S HABITUAL FELONY OFFENDER ACT (HOA) 2. MAKE THE PRESUMPTIVE SENTENCING GUIDELINES RETROACTIVE 3. MAKE HJR 575 RETROACTIVE (DRIVE-BY-SHOOTING STATUE REFORM) 4. FIRST-TIME OFFENDER/CAPITAL MURDER REFORM BILL 5. PAROLE BOARD REFORM AND CRITERIA 6. MEDICAL FURLOUGH/COMPASSIONATE RELEASE EXPANSION 7. STATEWIDE CONVICTION REVIEW UNIT 8. ABOLISH FORCED PRISON LABOR 9. STRENGTHENING FAMILIES ACT (INCLUDING CONJUGAL VISITS)

🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨

Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
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Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

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Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.

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Guess who is still trying to get to $15,000 for our Black Zine Fair Fundraiser? gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Just volunteered with them for the first time today after seeing you post about them - lovely bunch of people doing great work 🖤

A photo of Keith Porter and his 2 daughters. Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE agent on 12/31/25. Link for GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/c2aea3587

You have heard of Renee Good, but may not have heard of Keith Porter, who was shot & killed by an off duty ICE agent an NYE. Our hearts are with his family & anyone impacted by ICE. Below is a GoFundMe for Keith’s daughters so please donate/share around. ICE needs to go

Link: gofund.me/c2aea3587

We're in the final month of this fundraiser and desperately need more donations! Please donate, please share! This is a terrifying and horrible situation that's unfortunately not uncommon. Trans people deserve families! People who do sex work or have done sex work in the past deserve families!

and/or they can't see that the natural progression of depressionTM can often be suicide unless it's spelled out plainly

as someone with unipolar depression, i've noticed a lot of non-depressed people think of "i'm depressed/in a depressive episode" as "i'm a lil sad" unless they've seen it in close loved ones. but the word "suicide" in any context will often scare them because that's Very Obviously Bad

We're trying to get to 50% of our goal for Black Zine Fair by tomorrow at midnight. Donations are tax deductible. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

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Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW! We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support. Goal: $50,000 https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent Venmo: carta-monir Cashapp: $cartamonir Send donations with a red heart emoji to ensure funds are redirected to this SWER

We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser. Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case.

To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen. Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support.

In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.

I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

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Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Also you have so many little fantastic details, I need to re-read and take my time to see what I missed when I was frenetically devouring it earlier

I was going to read slowly and pace myself but failed (whoops)

So many amazing things in this book in terms of friendship, love, queerness, mental illness (esp psychosis/paranoia) that brought up so many emotions and made me feel seen and it and your afterword made me sob. Thank you for this ❤️