Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Hey ya’ll, I’ve got an infected tooth that needs removed, but I don’t have dental insurance. The operation will cost around 350$ and I could use some help. If you don’t mind donating you can do so here: paypal.me/bethalex
and I just want to remind yall you can die from an infected tooth,
this is not a trivial issue, if left to fester this can seriously harm or even kill the person in need of this money,
so please consider this when you’re deciding whether or not you want to donate.
Not the best all-over body day so far, but at least I did make it up the street shopping a little while ago. Both the cats and I should be good for very low spoons food until tomorrow, if not Saturday.
I should probably try to get a grocery delivery set up for over the weekend, for items I can’t get without a bus trip otherwise. But, I really don’t have the spoons for even that right at the moment. (Which is part of how it keeps not happening, but hey 😑)
One benefit of being on my own, though: not feeling many qualms about piling up and resting if I need to. No responsibilities to anybody but the animals for the time being, and nobody else’s scheduling needs to try and work around.
It is of course frustrating again that trying to stay fed, etc., on my own for a couple of weeks is even a challenge. But, I really am trying here. Also frustrating to keep needing to tell yourself that, but again doing my best.
i wasn’t born i climbed out of a melting glacier in greenland as a result of climate change. there may be more of me. you have no idea what has been unleashed
laws about minimum wage should apply to disabled people
laws about minimum wage should apply to incarcerated people
everyone deserves a fair living wage for their labor
wait, they don’t???
Not even close. Disabled folks can be paid as little as $1 an hour in some cases at whats called “subminimum wage.” Prisoners are sometimes forced to work without pay at all.
Hi, I am an attorney in the disability field. Many disabled folks make well under $1 an hour in what are called “sheltered workshops”. There are only three states right now that require people with disabilities to be paid at least minimum wage, and they are Alaska, New Hampshire, and Maryland. Goodwill is a major offender, but there are many, many others.
Goodwill is evil. Dont shop at their thrift stores.
SSI benefits, for people who have never been able to work, are very low, less than half, sometimes not even 1/3 of the measly SSDI payments a disabled worker can draw. $750 a month/$9,000 a year max. That is well below the poverty line. People so ill they have never been able to work are considered completely disposable by the US government and are given hardly any support.
This directly contributes to abuse, as many disabled people must stay with family or a spouse who makes enough to live on. If those people are abusive, well, fuck you I guess.
Alternately, disabled people may have to forego getting married if their potential spouse does not bring in enough to support them both, as being married reduces the amount you can receive.
All disabled people deserve to be paid a living wage, even those who cannot work at all.
They have no basis in science, they’re purely political. People say this as a joke, but they really did start on this site. It started as a way for millenials who grew up with their parents telling them they’re special. Now this need to be special has leaked into their adult lives. We have child adults identifying as these abstract genders as a way to be unique. It’s also harmful to REAL trans people. Ones who actually have gender dysphoria, got diagnosed by a doctor, uprooted their entire lives to transition. It makes it seem like all that is just a fashion statement, a trend. If you want to identify as one of these abstract genders, by all means, do so. Just don’t expect people to take you seriously, and don’t call yourself trans.
Also dont lie to your doctor about being non binary so you can get on HRT there is a reason its harder to get on it if your not trans bc funnily enought it isnt essential to u its cosmetic, SO STOP LYING TO UR DOCTORS N PRETENDING TO JUSY BE FTMS TO GEY ON T THE SYSTEM IS TRANSPHOBIC UR JUST A TWAT THAT WANTS TO BE SPECIAL N ITS TRYING TO PROTECT U FEOM FUCKING URSELF UP
Uh NBs lie because we NEED hormones but won’t get them unless we lie, why the fuck are you mad at us for that?
OP needs to read up on the colonial origins of the modern gender binary so maybe his bigoted historical revisionism can be a bit less racist next time, and kiss my actual, diagnosed, on-HRT-and-fundraising-for-surgery, uprooted-my-entire-life-to-transition genderfuck ass.
OP needs to fuck off to hell, but if we’re suggesting reading material for the trip, these utter walnuts might enjoy:
– Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
the fucking SEMINAL piece that genderqueer activist Les Feinberg published in goddamn 1992, which was what made the word transgender popular for the first time. AS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT INCLUDED BOTH BINARY AND NONBINARY PEOPLE.
WHICH IS WHAT IT STILL MEANS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DEFINITION GIVEN ON LITERALLY ANY TRANS ORGANIZATION’S WEBSITE.
They could read all kinds of trans history and activist works by Feinberg. They could read anything by Kate Bornstein, the NONBINARY trans activist who has been writing and educating people about this stuff since the 90s too.
They could read anything by Riki Anne Wilchins, a genderqueer activist who transitioned 40 years ago, started the Transexual Menace activist group around 25 years ago – which they definitely haven’t heard about – and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, which might have been the first intersex activist group? – and founded GenderPAC, one of the strongest trans nonprofits, and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century. Oh yeah, AND started Camp Trans, the camp that protested outside of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for years.
(Honestly, almost all the progress we’ve had politically in the US probably stems from the work of nonbinary trans people. I can’t think of a good counterexample, other than maybe now Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, who are both really strong advocates for nonbinary trans people?)
They could read literally any anthology of trans writing from the last 20 years, all of which will have authors identifying as genderqueer.
Fucking hell, I started a listserv (it was like a yahoo group before there were yahoo groups) for genderqueer people 20 years ago. I know somebody who still has the archives of it, if these yahoos would like to read that.
Even The Advocate, which was still doing things like polling cis gay folks about whether trans people should be included in the movement, was talking about genderqueer people in 1999. There were movies about and by us in queer film festivals like Frameline. There was an anthology specifically of genderqueer writing in 2002. This post has a LOT more examples: http://genderqueerid.com/gqhistory
Maybe they mean the word “nonbinary” itself, the you-can-say-it-in-front-of-your-mom version of “genderqueer,” was invented on Tumblr?
I can’t find anything on who coined it in a quick Google search, but i also don’t fucking care, so there’s that.
“Gender nonbinary people are as authentic in their gender status as transgender people who present with more binary gender identities or expressions…. As with people who have binary transgender identities, the process of gender affirmation and transition for those who are nonbinary is for some limited to an internal or purely social process; for others the process may involve a variety of gender affirming medical and/or surgical interventions.” (Which they go on to describe in detail.)
– They could talk to anybody at the queer youth clinic where my openly genderqueer ass (and a LOT of others) transitioned in fucking 1998. Here, enjoy: http://www.dimensionsclinic.org
Nonbinary people are trans. The only people who DON’T know this are the few trans people who are ignorant enough to not have EVEN READ THE STANDARDS OF CARE FFS.
(Obviously, anyone that ignorant is going to support cis people running the show for decades via the outdated and heterosexist SOC in the first place.
Obviously, it’s fucking fantastic and not at all transmisogynistic for them to be upholding what medical gatekeepers say as the end-all, be-all of Who Is Really Trans. Given that the history there, which isn’t even history in a lot of doctor’s offices, is one of forcing trans women in particular to pretend to be straight and high femme before they were even allowed hormones.
But hey, if that’s what doctors want, obviously they’re right, and trans lesbians and bi/pan women, and butch trans women, and queer trans men too, aren’t really trans either. Because that’s what cis doctors used to agree on!
Sure, that’s not what they say now. But they also don’t say that nonbinary people aren’t trans or shouldn’t transition anymore, so who knows what decade these fools’ sources are from!!)
I actually just heard about this on the radio; the Michael Berry Show on WRNO 99.5. The hospital was trying to harvest his organs, and declared him dead. His father barricaded the door, and held an entire swat team at bay, until his son squeezed his hand, awake from a forced coma.
It gets better…
The swat team brought their own doctors who, after finally securing the room, started to check the kid. Turns out, the kid was fine, after waking up from the coma.
It gets better…
After the swat team doctors checked out the kid, there was a nurse who came in to “check” on the kid. The swat doctors asked to see her orders. Turns out she didn’t have any. What she did have was a 50cc syringe in her pocket, full of a powerful sedative. 5cc’s were enough to put someone in a deep coma. There were 50cc’s in the syringe, more than enough to euthanize the kid.
It gets better…
Swat doctors took her into custody. She refused to talk. They got a warrant and started checking into the deaths happening at the hospital. Turns out, there were a great many “quick decisions” made by hospital staff, for patients to be put into medically induced comas, from which they never woke up. All of which were finalized with organ transplants. Organ transplants which the families of the deceased did not know about.
TL:DR The hospital was euthanizing patients after illegally putting them into medical comas, then harvesting their organs.
3. Also: you can google the hospital from the OP news story. You’d think that a crazy organ-stealing conspiracy would be the first thing that comes up when you google that hospital. Nothing like that comes up. Also, if you listen to the radio show the second poster keeps citing: nothing about it comes up either. (Quelle surprise.)
4. Fear-mongering about organ transplants, and just hospitals in general, is a classic ultra-right-wing scare tactic. Which would make sense, considering that Tumblr user doubletap-centermass is…
a virulent anti-Semite and homophobe. It feels extra weird to see LGBT and Jewish tumblrs sharing this right and left.
5. There have been scandals about hospitals being pressured to declare unconscious patients brain-dead so that they could harvest organs… such as this scandal from 2012, in New York state, which involved precisely four cases and also is totally unrelated to the article shared by OP, from Texas in 2015. And again, just because I can’t get over this: the part about deliberately putting patients into comas to steal their organs is literally the plot of 1978 film Coma.
6. If you’ve reblogged this and you’re like “Shit!!” and wish you hadn’t: I guess maybe considering deleting the reblog from your tumblr? Or even reblog this instead. I mean, getting the correct information out would be a good way to fix this bizarro thing. Hell, even if you haven’t reblogged the weirdo post but you’re seeing this on your dashboard instead: consider sharing it just to get the correct info out there.
Please feel free to add to this post if you find concrete actual evidence of anything I missed. I am human and fallible.
P.S. I will also add, just for the principle of the thing: somebody saying “I heard it on the radio” is about as reliable a source as “I overheard some man on a bus telling it to his neighbor”. (Especially since so much radio, these days, is about as reliable a source of accurate information as any random conspiracy theorist’s podcast.)
Also adding that Coma was a 1977 novel by Robin Cook before it got a film adaptation. (“The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre–the medical thriller”)
I’ve been kinda impressed at how commonly that basic plot does get snagged as an urban legend-turned-conspiracy theory. It may be an older work by now,, but it’s hardly obscure.
Something that is interesting about this to me is like… it’s not like we don’t have a somewhat similar issue only it is just “patient is forced into dangerous treatment without consent?
Like no one steals organs but if you are say, a child who has been taken by cps (a “ward of the state”) hospitals can use them for drug trials. If you are institutionalized in prison or a psych hospital you will usually not get any say in your treatment similarly.
Also you know that article that came out recently with the company intentionally not trying to cure things due to profits.
Like there are plenty of valid dystopian health care things going on WITHOUT this bullshit you could focus on actually preventing from happening in the future but go off I guess.
Similar with all the willfully clueless far right stories about the NHS. (And probably other systems; I just have firsthand experience with it, and right wing cranks in the US do seem pretty fixated on that example.)
It could work a lot better for more of the population. There are loads of very real systemic problems which urgently need fixed to ensure equal access to good quality care. Rather different ones from what these folks prefer to imagine, though.
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