Happy #BiVisibilityDay

reblog if you wish that 2016 is a safe year for trans women

Damn man…

first grader killed by the police

didn’t look like an accident. More like execution. 5 shots in the head and chest.

I am currently taking commissions because i need to raise money and get a laptop since my bro is going to be taking his with him to college soon I need to get at $200 Can Be nsfw/sfw Fanart to OC’s 

Prices Sketches (Simple drawing) $7

Doodles (A page of small sketches you decide) $5

It could also be a sketch and some random doodles of your choice [$10]

Full drawing $10 (Per extra character $2)

Digital (uncolored) $10 (Color is an extra $2) 

I can also make character designs if anyone wanted help with that for $5

If anyone is interested please let me know via email or ask I really need the help

Email me Kevinravenel14@gmail.com

reblog if you’d rather have a golden retriever be president than donald trump

Okay seriously. Reblog if you're OLDER than 11.

trans boys are so important if youre a trans boy and reading this ur so great ur a prince or a king or whatever u prefer… keep being a gr8 guy

400+ Animals Found Dead, State Pulls Shelter Licenses

The NC Department of Agriculture has pulled the animal shelter licenses in Davidson and Guilford Co after finding what it calls a "Systemic failure to care for animals.

chemicalsinpants:

SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS!!! 

2 county shelters around my area have had their licenses revoked due to a “Systemic failure to care for animals.” In one, over 400 animals have been found dead this year. More than 90 in two different months, and over 30 animals have been found dead so far in August. As an animal lover and zoology major dedicating my life to help animals in need, this tears me apart. To have this happen just over an hour from me is sickening.

What’s more distressing than all of the animals that have already died is that the future of the survivors is up in the air. The shelters will remain open while its decided what to do, but no one is sure. All of the rescues are full and pulled thin as it is. I hope that they will be able to pull some, but there are just so many that need help.

So, please share this link and get the word out! If this goes viral, then the spotlight will make them more accountable for the future of these poor animals.

UPDATE:

I’ve found the letters revoking licenses. They describe horrific and sickening conditions. In Guilford, animals with severe and extremely painful injuries like ruptured eyeballs, twisted spines, broken pelvises, and gunshot wounds were not given any veterinary treatment or pain medication. For DAYS, until they were euthanized. Some animals suffered without treatment for 11 or 12 days. In Davidson, a massively lethal and contagious disease swept through the shelter, especially among the cats. No vet was called or consulted with to try to fix this. In a span of 12 days in August, 38 animals were found dead.

Local rescues are actively trying to pull animals from these places, but there are so many animals that the communities cannot help them alone. 

PLEASE signal boost this so that people know that these atrocious conditions will not be ignored!

Read the Guilford County report here. 

Read the Davidson County report here.

WARNING: Above links contain details of gross animal abuse and neglect.

The Guilford County Animal Shelter Facebook Page

The Davidson County Animal Shelter Facebook Page

The NC Dept. of Agriculture Website

‘I Don’t Want To Die In Your Cell,’ Woman Told Police Shortly Before Dying In Jail

A recently released video shows Ralkina Jones discussing her multiple health issues with police.

Find out exactly what transpired here. 

“Defensive architecture” aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

I encourage everyone to go read this very smart and very sad essay from Alex Andreuo at The Guardian. It’s a condemnation of defensive architecture, a euphemism for strategies that make the urban landscape inhospitable to the homeless.

They include benches with dividers that make it impossible to lie down, spikes and protrusions on window ledges and in front of store windows, forests of pointed cement structures under bridges and freeways, emissions of high pitched sounds, and sprinklers that intermittently go off on sidewalks to prevent camping overnight. There is also perpetually sticky anti-climb paint and corner urination guards, plus “viewing gardens” that take up space that might be attractive to homeless people:

The examples above and below are from a collection at Dismal Garden. Here’s a picture of anti-encampment spikes featured at The Guardian:

This is to discourage urination:

This is to take up space so people can’t camp on the sidewalk:

Andreuo writes of the psychological effect of these structures. They tell homeless people quite clearly that they are not wanted and that others not only don’t care, but are actively antagonistic to their comfort and well being. He says:

Defensive architecture is revealing on a number of levels, because it is not the product of accident or thoughtlessness, but a thought process. It is a sort of unkindness that is considered, designed, approved, funded and made real with the explicit motive to exclude and harass. It reveals how corporate hygiene has overridden human considerations…

If the corporations have turned to aggressive tactics, governments seem to simply be in denial. They offer few resources to homeless people and the ones they do offer are insufficient to serve everyone. Andreuo continues:

We curse the destitute for urinating in public spaces with no thought about how far the nearest free public toilet might be. We blame them for their poor hygiene without questioning the lack of public facilities for washing… Free shelters, unless one belongs to a particularly vulnerable group, are actually extremely rare.

He then connects the dots. “Fundamental misunderstanding of destitution,” he argues, “is designed to exonerate the rest from responsibility and insulate them from perceiving risk.” If homeless people are just failing to do right by themselves or take the help available to them, then only they are to blame for their situation. And, if only they are to blame, we don’t have to worry that, given just the right turn of events, it could happen to us.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.