A message from Xavier Danae Davis

Some of you know me as Danae, Dane, and or Xavier. I am grateful to say you know me, and that you have been among those who have poured inspiration, encouragement, laughter, and support into my life no matter how you called my name at the time.  Over the past 5 years, along with my name, my mind and body have been changing as I take the steps I feel are needed as a Transgendered person to feel fully present and connected to my body and the people around me. In September, my amazing partner Fresh and I will be traveling to Florida for gender confirming top surgery. I am reaching out to you as friends and family to support us in making the last $3,000 we need to cover medical fees, travel, and housing while recovering during the doctor’s required week long stay in FL. 

    As many of you know I have spent the majority of my life working in the nonprofit world often getting paid little to do very important and challenging work that is vital to the  people most of society overlooks and abuses.  My commitment to social justice has led me to do this work on numerous fronts.  I’ve met and worked with many of you at community events, organizing meetings, union halls, along campaign trails, rallies and protests. So you know firsthand how much of a struggle it is to do social justice work, eat, and keep up with bills, let alone save.  In this economy most people are struggling twice as hard to stay above water and get ahead. This is the main reason why it’s taking us so long to save the funds needed for this procedure.

karnythia:

• Watch “The New Jim Crow Museum” Video
  
  
• Online Giving Form for an Expanded Jim Crow Museum

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is a international leader in the fight against racism. The Museum was founded on the idea that everyday racist items can be used to teach visitors how to recognize and confront racism. Thousands of Jim Crow era artifacts that belittle African-Americans are housed in the Museum.

Since 1996, the Museum has been housed in a single small room at Ferris State University. Our goal is to raise $1.2 million to give more people — including school children, scholars and college students — an opportunity to learn about racism through a major expansion of the displays in a new location. The $1.2 million will fund the expansion of floor space in a new location from a mere 500 square feet to 2,100 square feet.

The newly designed and expanded space will allow for larger groups and individual walk-in visits, which currently are not possible. Walk-in hours will make it feasible for faculty members to use the Museum as a teaching resource and open the door for visitors from across Michigan and the Midwest.

The new Museum’s exhibits will tell six important stories:

• Origins of Jim Crow
• Jim Crow and Violence
• Jim Crow and Anti-Black Imagery
• Battling Jim Crow Imagery
• Attacking Jim Crow Segregation
• Moving Beyond Jim Crow

These stories will provide a powerful experience of what it was like to be a Black American under Jim Crow segregation and how racism lingers — subtly and not so subtly — today. The new Museum will feature a learning center, reference materials, and a forum for collaborative work with high schools, universities, government agencies and human right organizations.

How You Can Help

The Jim Crow Museum is the largest publicly accessible collection of racist artifacts in the country. With expanded space and greatly enhanced multi-media displays, the Museum will promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance. You can help us turn that dream into a reality.

• Online Giving Form for an Expanded Jim Crow Museum

buttahlove:

dollface-galactica:

SUPER SIDE-EYE OF THE DAY!!!!

Flipping through a recent campaign and I stumbled across this…Really AVON? I can’t tell the difference! Light, Medium, and DARK..what?! EYES? have a SEAT! _/  >_> smh.. *puts pennies back in coinpurse*

See!!!! This shit right chea…. *smh*

Gag, barf, awful. Eff you, makeup. Really eff you. And an extra, specific eff you to whoever saw this final ad copy and gave it a thumbs-up.

inothernews:

1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget

1981 - 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt.

1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes from congressional Republicans.

1998: U.S. deficit disappears for the first time in three decades. Debt clock is unplugged.

2000: George W. Bush runs for president, promising to maintain a balanced budget.

2001: CBO shows the United States is on track to pay off the entirety of its national debt within a decade.

2001 - 2009: With support from congressional Republicans, Bush runs enormous deficits, adds nearly $5 trillion to the debt.

2002: Dick Cheney declares, “Deficits don’t matter.” Congressional Republicans agree, approving tax cuts, two wars, and Medicare expansion without even trying to pay for them.

2009: Barack Obama inherits $1.3 trillion deficit from Bush; Republicans immediately condemn Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.

2009: Congressional Democrats unveil several domestic policy initiatives — including health care reform, cap and trade, DREAM Act — which would lower the deficit. GOP opposes all of them, while continuing to push for deficit reduction.

September 2010: In Obama’s first fiscal year, the deficit shrinks by $122 billion. Republicans again condemn Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.

2011:  Tea Party, Republicans upset that Tumblr is smearing Ronald Reagan’s good name.

This isn’t a perfect timeline, so pick at it if you must, but LOOK AT IT. JUST LOOK AT IT.

(Source: azspot, via karnythia)

karnythia:

spastasmagoria:

southfarthing:

why are people so talented ugh

This is the craziest best art I’ve like ever seen. 

Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.

dionthesocialist:

That doesn’t mean, “Your argument is automatically invalid because you’re white/male/able-bodied/whatever.”

It means, “There’s an aspect to this argument you are incapable of understand because you are white/male/able-bodied/whatever, and you should accept that and review your argument with that in mind.”

You’re welcome.

THIS.

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alithea:

sand magnified 250 times.

Wow. I want to jump up now and MAKE something.

the-madame-hatter:

murphmanfa:

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just made your night much better.

I’m so glad this happened in my lifetime.

So this is what brings me back to tumblr, eh? So be it.

[Video description: A band conductor in a marching band uniform leads a line of at least 12 Canada geese as they waddle down a pedestrian road of some sort, in some English-speaking place (judging by storefronts). Another uniformed person, with big drums, marches in the rear.  Basically it’s adorable.]

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amaditalks:

nudiemuse:

karnythia:

moniquill:

yoctavias:

opiumdenmother:

dionthesocialist:

dionthesocialist:

This ignores the prep time that goes into meal #2. For someone just getting off a ten hour shift, going through a KFC drive-thru and getting a fully prepared meal is so much more convenient.

Reblobbing again because I totally didn’t notice some of the weirdness in the second list. A gallon of milk for $2? Two pounds of Tyson chicken breast for $2? As one of the comments pointed out, “What the fuck kinda grocery store this nigga shopping at?”

^ This is what I was wondering. Converting, that’s like £1.20 for 2lbs of chicken. There’s no way you could buy chicken that cheap, and there’s even less way you could get organic, free range chicken that cheap.

Umm, I agree with the post. Grocery shopping is much cheaper and much healthier in the long run than eating the poison that those fastfood joints sell people. It may be convient but shit, stop destroying your body. Eat at home. I know its hard to resist the dollar menu’s and crap, but I budget everything I buy because I am bored and you spend SO MUCH MONEY at fastfood places. Its horrible.

More weirdness? That photo above has WAY more than two pounds of chicken, unless that’s the lightest chicken in the world. That also looks like the pound can of oats, As covered above, these are Wal-Mart brands, but I have never seen prices like that at my local Wal-Mart. A gallon of milk is still $3.50 or so, for example, and chicken breasts run about $4/pound.

In general, policing other people’s food choices is bullshit. Mind your own food choices, but don’t preach about it. If someone comes out and asks you, that’s cool, but telling other people what to do with their lives, their time, and their money? Douchewaffle move. Both the diligent ‘eat at home’ cupon-cutting super-healthy-eater who budgets their time so as to have the extra hours needed in thier lives to make that happen and the person who eats off the fast-food dollar menu every day have reasons for making those life choices that are meaningful to them and their lives.

Chicken breasts (especially name brand one) haven’t been less than a $1 a lb in so long, I wonder when this was made. Even on a super great sale it averages at least twice that price. But I’ll be charitable & say it’s $1.75 a lb. 5 lbs of potatoes is just over $3 on average, though I’ve seen it for closer to $4. Corn is running 3 ears for $1. The peaches are closer to $1.50 near me, but let’s say they’re on sale for $1lb.  3 peaches still isn’t going to go very far in terms of feeding a family. Milk hovers between $3 & $4 regularly, with occasional dips down to $2.50. Ground sirloin is $3.98 a lb on sale. That tub of yogurt is $4-$5 though I do see them on sale for $3. Oats are usually closer to $2.25. The frozen peas are $2.50-$3.50, & the beans are closer to $2.  At minimum this is $24 worth of groceries (not including tax) and it doesn’t include spices, butter, or oil. Plus you need a place to store them, a way to cook them, & time and energy to shop and prepare the food. That’s before you get into hidden costs like gas or utilities. And these pithy little macros never talk about how many people purchasing fast food regularly have limited access to full service grocery stores. A substantial chunk of my childhood was spent in unstable situations with a lot of food insecurity, & trust me when I say it’s a lot easier to be the kid getting regular fast food meals than to be the one getting irregular (or no)  meals because there’s no groceries or no way to prepare them. Stop food shaming & start doing something about hunger. Or you could just shut the fuck up. I’ll take that too.

Clearly the person who made this a.) isn’t lactose intolerant and b.)has never been to my neighborhood.

And as Karynthia said, you could shut the fuck up. Go ahead I’ll wait.

Notice that little logo down there in the lower right? Sparkpeople? It’s a weight loss website. This is just more fat-shaming, body-policing, food-policing, “eat this, not that” bullshit, bound up in poverty ignorance and a bunch of outright lies about the cost of food in at least the last five years.

This shit? Needs to go way the hell away. Sparkpeople? STFD and STFU.

[Image description: two panels, one atop the other. In the top, a meal from Kentucky Fried Chicken featuring a bucket container of fried chicken, biscuits and containers of what appear to be coleslaw, mashed potatoes and gravy. A legend in the corner reads: “8-piece KFC meal, 4 biscuits, 2 sides, Total: $19.61.” In the lower panel, a selection of unprepared food, some obviously from a Walmart store (bearing the Great Value brand logo), with the legend along the bottom: “2 pounds of chicken breasts ($1.96), 10 pounds potatoes ($2.97), 8 ears corn ($2), 1 pound peaches (98 cents), 1 gallon skim milk ($2), 1 pound 96% lean ground beef ($2.98), 32-ounce tub of 99% fat free Yoplait yogurt ($2.27), 18-ounce container of oats ($1.18), 2 pounds frozen sweet peas ($1.98), 1 pound of dried kidney beans ($1.22) Total: $19.54”. In the lower right of the lower panel is the logo for the weight-loss website Sparkpeople.com.]

YES to all the commentary on fat-shaming, ignorance of poverty, food deserts and ridiculous macros. One more point? DRIED BEANS. That shit takes forever, compared to opening a can. I can’t even.

(Source: dailyspark.com)

Not a good night, or really a good week, for feeling comfortable (let alone respectable, LET ALONE good) in my own skin. Any ego boost, fat-acceptance-related or not, would be appreciated.

(I hate to pin so much on yoga class tomorrow night but here I go!)