Robin St. Clare

Donate to Help Olson Middle School Families, organized by jake virden The Olson Middle School community in North Minneapolis is coming together to raise funds… jake virden needs your support for Help Olson Middle School Families

okay here’s a big one. this minneapolis middle school in an underserved area needs some real love to the tune of $27K. every little bit helps families pay march rent. can we put a dent in this?

www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Olson...

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

I am going to link again to LGBTQ KS. While I do not know them myself, my friends vouch for them. LGBTQ KS are raising money to help fund the cost of replacement driver's licenses and birth certificates. They are coordinating rides to the DMV and connecting people with resources. lgbtqks.org

Certainly feels like spring over here! 💐

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Happy last day of the month!

I have quite a few rent needs and not enough donors, so if you have a couple bucks to drop in the rent pool, you can venmo me @ziibiing

If you can give $500 or more message me on signal at asiniiwiikwe.72

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Orange and white tabby lying splayed across a couch cushion, his head turned so he's looking at the room upside down with a mischievous expression

I don't know what to say. It's one horror after another. Here is a photo of a silly cat, if that sort of thing brings you a moment of peace.

this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

a screencap of the top of our linktree, showing that we have printed 1,015,299 whistles now

While I was doing my taxes, they passed 1,000,000 whistles shipped! I am just so proud of this group of internet strangers who decided to Just Do a Thing as hard as they could, and so grateful to all of you who helped us do it!

We're still shipping whistles! >>> whistlecoven.com

Lily Meade Ongoing Support For Homeless Family (2026) Be the first to donate

(Additional ways to support at the bottom if you prefer other platforms instead of GFM.) In April 2024, I made a fundraiser called "Preparing to Become Homeless Again." After three years of trying to survive a rent increase of $500 to $2000 and then $2400 a month, we ran out of income and into debt covering basic utilities. The purpose of the fundraiser was to help cover the rent through the summer/early fall and to best position ourselves for long-term homelessness. In addition to the last few months of rent, with the donations from that campaign, we were able to purchase a 40-year-old camper and get it towed to a shop, repaired, replace the tires, and the roof sealed to make it more livable in the cold and rainy Washington winter. After we moved out of our home in early October 2024, remaining funds were put towards trying to prepare the RV for long-term survival.

In February 2025, I made a new fundraiser for supporting the ongoing costs of surviving homelessness. This fundraiser is the 2026 edition of that need. My mother and I have our camper and a small shed parked on the property of her summer fruit stand boss (who lives out of state when the selling season is over). We're allowed to stay here for the monthly cost of power and a portapotty because having someone here over the winter prevents theft of the expensive vehicles and tools they leave here. There is no running water for food or hygiene and we can't keep much cold food because the multiple storms of last fall broke our outdoor freezer. I spent much of last year promoting and the launching my Scooby Doo IP novel, THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN. Aside from that, I had a short story published in a horror anthology and signed and submitted two other stories to upcoming anthologies.

Throughout all those projects, I also spent a lot of time revising my second book with the publisher of my debut novel (THE SHADOW SISTER). However, early this year my publisher and I mutually agreed to part ways on this contract after a long development process made it clear we had different visions for this book. A few days ago, the cancellation letter was officially finalized. This was an extremely difficult decision for me as I am not really in a good position to turn down guaranteed income. It is very scary to add even more uncertainty to my future. I believe in myself and my writing, but being a novelist is a difficult career to afford even when you have "normal" resources available to you like proper shelter and healthcare. I don't have healthcare at the moment, because my income was $200 over the limit last year with my tax return. Fortunately-or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it-with no

I have made a new fundraiser for a fresh start in our ongoing journey of surviving homelessness. If you would be willing, I’d deeply appreciate any shares or even just kind words of support. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/ongoing-su...

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

I'm ok that he won now

Digesting the season finale of the Traitors because oh, girl.

@printrunpodcast.bsky.social slash @headwaterlit.bsky.social (aka me and Erik) are doing a query drive to raise money for Open Market's shelter-in-place program, located at Zion Community Commons in STP. They're in the middle of an urgent fundraiser for $43K to just stay open. We want them to grow.

Print Run episode coming in hot to save my Friday

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

For sure because that's unacceptable

Uh, what? That's sketchy af

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Transgender Chicago man hospitalized after saving baby from drowning in Lake Michigan “I wasn’t going to let that baby die,” Lio Cundiff said.

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water.

He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him.

www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

Skyline @meelajay.blacksky.app photography is being featured in an art show this weekend, but the printer botched the job and she's short what's needed for reprints. Please help if you can/buy a print. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Currently tearing my hair out because I adopted an urgent rent need for a family that needs to pay $3050 RIGHT MEOW to stay out of eviction court and then I got an urgent request from another rent fund and there’s $320 left in my Venmo account. So much need and I wish I could be everywhere at once 😭

Lol are you me??

Me: it's so dark and gloomy out, how can I be expected to work in these conditions

Also me: it's such a beautiful sunny day, how can I be expected to work in these conditions

they’re only looking for $15k for 21 families in this mobile home park. families who are already precarious.

it’s half funded already.

can we do the thing??

The requests we get for utility debt support are sky high. People on fixed incomes cannot afford the hikes in utility bills.

Did you know if you have a utility shutoff you can be considered out of compliance with your lease & be evicted?

In just an hour and a quarter, we've already raised over $2500 for red state and national queer orgs! We can do this!

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.