From @love2foster: “Nine days old today. The kittens are eating well, sleeping lots, and finding their voices. They are learning to sing the song of their people while waiting for a turn on the bottle.” #catsofinstagram [source: https://ift.tt/2BUFdua ]
If you view being racist as integral to white childhood and being asked + taught to critically engage with how you view people of color as someone destroying innocence or forcing a child to grow up, you are indisputably implying children of color should be silent victims.
if you don’t teach children to be racist in the first place (and this includes weird homogenous raising of children so that they think anything non-white is super weird and react as such) surprisingly you don’t get children with much to unlearn personally all they gotta do is adapt and understand the systemic shit
“The left, as we have known it, as important as it has been, cannot remain the same force until it adequately counters these developments. Therefore it is important for the left to recognise that the constitution of the global working classes is very different now. In many ways the left is still dealing with this notion of the working classes as male, or white male, as in the case of the US. I think feminism, radical feminism, radical anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism helps us to do the reconceptualisation that is necessary in order to produce a left that is more in line with the vast changes that have occurred in the era of global capitalism, recognising the feminisation of the working class, the structural shifts in the global economy, of the fact that some industries are largely populated by women, industries that rely on reproductive labour, of care industries, domestic service, health care, etc. It seems to me that in many ways, unions around the world are not willing to recognise those changes. To organise the unorganised, at this moment, is to organise women.”
The last month and a half have been rough for me for a *good* reason. I’ve been doing a CPAP trial run after a sleep study came back with news that I have Sleep Apnea, that is one cause for my growing energy problems.
So far, it seems to he helping. I’ve managed to do quite a bit this last month, including *getting* to the checkup appointments, hanging out with friends and doing art/prep for commissions and games over on @midgardia.
But I’m down to the last leg of the trial and to continue using CPAP to improve my QOL I need to… pay for the equipment. I’m getting 80% of the price covered by insurance, but that still leaves 20%.
I have 2 weeks to get $500 to afford
buying the equipment that will help my energy lvls so I can make ends
meet. I need all the help I can get. Due to the aformentioned lack of energy, it’s been very hard to make money in the last few months, and my bank account is running on Empty.
As it stands, I can’t afford the CPAP machine at all. I need help funding that 20% so I can rely on this machine to help me actually be able to work on art and other projects to make a living.
Thanks to @enecoo this got reblogged 200 times more than I expected it to. I am up to $200 and I am likely getting my hands on another $50 from art commissions this week. But I know I’ll need more help to reach the $500 I need by Tuesday next week, so if you can help out, even if it’s just $1, please do! If you can’t, then reblogging helps get the word out. Every little bit helps!
The treatment has been having noticeable effects on my sleep patterns and ability to wake up with energy. I’ll be able to do SO much more with the energy provided by just this one piece of equipment that is letting me get actual, restful sleep for the first time in *years*. Please help me afford keeping this machine!
Hi… I had some cash but it went to few unseen expenses (I’m already worn out and sick so it really took a blow to my self and damn bank account) anyways I was originally gonna use that to buy groceries for myself. If you’d like to help to eat for the next week or two, my cash me is $valentinesdean
I also have to pay for this fee to get my birth control transferred (which basically regulates my period and is kind of essential to me not like dying or having to go to the hospital again) so if you could donate anything even a dollar would help me rn.
Oh boy. For a client, I found myself looking over a variety of “save money/spend less” tips and some of them… Here’s some gems I found:
1. Put half of your paycheck into savings. Hahahahahaha! How many of my followers could pay for food and rent on half of their paycheck?
2. Don’t buy something unnecessary for 30 days. Because we should only buy what’s necessary, at all times.
3. Line dry your clothes. Hands up apartment dwellers? Hands up people who’s HOAs say “Don’t line dry, it’s unsightly.”
4. Take cold showers. Personal hahahaha from the person with a thyroid condition who finds cold showers literal agony.
5. Buy quality stuff. Because we can all afford to spend more right now. (I do try to do this, but I know…)
6. Compare electric rates. Okay. WHO has more than one electric company to choose from? Nobody I know.
7. Always put one item back when you go shopping. So, which essential would that be? (I suppose if you have an actual problem buying stuff on impulse…) Make a list and stick to it is a much better piece of advice here.
8. From a list of tips to save money on healthcare: Stay healthy. Uh. Yeah. Right. Like we have the choice.
9. See your doctor regularly. Because everyone reading this has health insurance.
Just…okay, there’s a lot of sensible suggestions out there like buying in bulk when you can, etc. But…some of them assume you’re actually pretty rich or just…don’t seem to see reality.
I knew a woman who had rich in-laws while she was struggling financially. Once while visiting her mother in law pulled her aside to say that she’d heard the woman had trouble paying her bills on time, and just wanted to offer the friendly tip that she should just sit down once a month and write the checks, just a set day each month. The rich woman could not conceive that her daughter in law wasn’t paying bills on time because she did not have the money.
My unfavorite remains the one about how you’re apparently supposed to deny yourself all “unnecessary” indulgences.
Like… yeah, ok, there’s such a thing as taking Treat Yo Self to an unhealthy extreme, but most of us who are struggling financially aren’t going to have a huge difference made by whether or not we go on a friend-date to Starbucks once or twice a month, or if we get a chocolate bar or bathbomb once in a while, or spend $10 on a meal occasionally. it’s worth trying to squeeze the most enjoyment you can out of your Treat Yo Self fund for the least money, sure, considering whether that $10 of Treat Yo Self money going toward sushi would bring you more or less joy than spending it on a face mask and a new bottle of nail polish instead of jumping on every whim is reasonable, but everyone needs at least a little bit of a Treat Yo Self fund to stay sane.
If you have an actual problem with impulse buying, then imposing a wait period or whatever is a good idea, so you don’t end up buying stuff you only think you want.
I found another doozie, which is basically “You’re not allowed anything that isn’t essential unless you can put the same money into savings.” That’s another way to say “If you’re poor, you should never have a treat.”
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