Month: August 2017

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gaymoshiach:

hey.

i’m swallowing my pride and making a fundraiser aimed at helping me survive long-term. i’m at the end of my rope. living on under £350 a month (the amount i am getting from ESA) is impossible. even if i applied for PIP right away, it’d be some time before i got it and it’d involve a medical check which is, as you can imagine, i’m not guaranteed to pass due to the state of the benefits system in the UK. 

please help me. i’m desperate. i have no other recourse but to depend on the kindness of strangers to survive. 

i’m profoundly disabled. most days, i can’t leave the house. about a third of the time, i’m bedbound due to pain and fatigue. sensory processing problems from schizoaffective disorder and ADHD mean i can’t do low-wage/low-skill work like transcription or data entry and the pain in my hands prevents me from being an effective typist anyway. cognitive problems from the schizoaffective disorder mean i cannot study right now and have no real hope of qualifying for a job that i could do even with chronic fatigue.

i’m desperate. i live under immense stress every day because i can barely afford to feed myself, never mind buy basic necessities (i don’t have a fucking toothbrush rn). i’ve already exhausted all the avenues along the lines of “asking friends for loans” and i am estranged from my family right now.

frankly, i’m scared for my life. please, help me get out of homelessness and get into a stable situation. please.

Click here to support Help Isak Out of This Hole by Isak Nesvitsky

This is the first time I have spotted Feist going inside that “cat lodge”. Which was actually kind of a surprise before, considering how much she likes hidey holes.

But, she’s been chilling in there for at least 10 minutes, and looks pretty well settled in for a nap now.

This really isn’t a great pic, because I didn’t want to get too close and disturb Little Miss Easily Startled. She didn’t seem to appreciate the scrutiny, as it was 🙀

SNC hasn’t been using it lately that I’ve seen, which may have something to do with her interest now. I’d put off washing the bedding pad for a while, but that may be a plan once she’s out again.

I’m just kind of stunned again, with the reminder that Loving v. Virginia wasn’t even decided until less than 10 years before I was born. (But all the bad stuff happened in the far distant past, right? 😩)

Then there is some of the unfortunately continuing politics behind Mildred Loving’s family being Rappahannock only for official purposes. (Still miscegenation, of course. Besides eugenics targets, within her lifetime.)

Things were and are a little different on our end of the state, but yeah. I get aggravated sometimes, and so did my mother–but, some of our older relatives do have actual reasons which still seem compelling to them for some of their own continuing decisions there. Including flat out lying for public purposes if white people start getting too nosy. And sometimes turning pretty nasty when the younger ones just won’t do that anymore, now that being honest is as safe as it’s ever been in centuries. Some awful ideologies that just won’t die, of course, but putting things into some perspective here.

That obviously doesn’t make throwing other people under the bus OK, and yeah too many are still willing to do that if it comes down to it. Not just in my family either. I almost wish it were.

swagintherain:

Johnny Cash’s first wife was black. Totally erased in the movie.

She may or may not have been. It wouldn’t be that surprising if she were. But:

Leaders of the National States’ Rights Party, a white supremacist group in Alabama, seized on the photo, which, when reproduced in grainy newsprint, made Vivian look dark-skinned and possessed of facial features some considered African American. Whether outraged by the apparent miscegenation or eager to get back at him for his protest stance in the song “Ira Hayes” (Native Americans were also a target of white supremacists), the group reprinted the photo in its newspaper the Thunderbolt and undertook an aggressive campaign against Cash.

The group urged its readers to boycott Cash’s recordings and referred to Cash’s “mongrelized” children.

That’s how popular he was with that type of person in the ‘60s.

(And how safe it could be to publicly admit non-White heritage if you could avoid it at all, when they still wouldn’t have been considered legally married in too much of the country. So, I really wouldn’t be that surprised by much there.)