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Passing: Profiling the Lives of Young Trans Men of Color (2015).

[ID: Excerpts from interviews with two trans men. The first, Lucah Rosenberg Lee, has a shaved head and a trimmed beard. The second, Victor Thomas, has curly black hair and a trimmed beard, and is heavier-set.

Lucah, talking about gender dysphoria prior to transitioning, says, “I was in a heterosexual relationship. I was female. I would question this all the time. Am I attracted to these men, or do I just want to be them? That was a big turning point in my own self-discovery.”

Victor, talking about the transphobia he’s endured as a trans man of color, says, “You’re subjected to something because they don’t understand you. And you have to watch the way you react, because you’re a man now. People take you as a threat.”

Lucah, in another scene, discusses feeling erased as a trans man, and racism in trans communities. He says, “Being so invisible within the LGBT community can actually feel so isolating. When people don’t know my history as a trans person, I feel sometimes that I’m viewed as more of an enemy.” END ID.]

Trans men of color deserved to be loved and appreciated, and made safe. Trans men deserve access to our own spaces, no matter how masculine and cis-passing we are. We deserve credit and recognition for the contributions that we have made to trans history, most of which are erased nowadays.

Being a man is not dangerous or wrong. Being masculine is not dangerous or wrong. Being a black man is not dangerous or wrong.

Please support trans men of color.

Please support trans men.

Please support men.

Men belong in trans spaces. Men of color belong in LGBT+ spaces. Straight trans men belong at Pride. Men do not have to be feminine to be queer.

Help my family to get out and search for what is left of life. The war is devastating. Death is approaching every person and destruction is everywhere. We hope that there is hope before it is too late.

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Donate to Save Gaza Family: Urgent Evacuation Fund, organized by MOHAMMED Hilles

Your support is a lifeline of hope. A few days ago, the area where my family… MOHAMMED Hilles needs your support for Save Gaza Family: Urge

Your support is a lifeline of hope. A few days ago, the area where my family's tents were was bombed, and the situation was very dangerous now. There is no water for thirst everywhere, and there is no food. Food is very expensive. If they want to eat, for example, a simple meal, they need a hundred euros, consisting of vegetables and simple things. If they want fruit, which is not available, the fruits they have not seen for months, and if they find their prices are exorbitant, they live now. I hope you support them and help them get out.

Mohammed Hilles @hmzamahamed3 / fundraiser / #176 on the Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List / €26,859/€37,000

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The urge to scream on a quiet bus is too strong.

Please take a moment to help the Al-Saidi family.

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Donate to Save our lives to survive the war on Gaza, organized by Ahmed Al-Saidi

*Hi My name is Ahmed AlSaidi, I currently live in Gaza Strip under this horri… Ahmed Al-Saidi needs your support for Save our lives to survi

Since last October, Ahmed and his family have faced constant displacement and hardship.

They have lost their income and currently live surrounded by extreme temperatures, scarcity, and disease. Hepatitis B and various skin diseases ravage their health, and any sort of sanitary products are almost impossible to come by.

Ahmed's parents are also both severely ill; they are both suffering from cardiac diseases which desperately need treatment.

In order to secure basic resources and help the sick members of the family receive treatment, they need to raise £30,000. So far, they've only raised £2,922; they've only had 2 donations in the last 2 days.

Please help them however you can; donate if you're able and share their campaign. Everything helps.

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IN JUST 1 WEEK IT WILL HAVE BEEN A FULL YEAR OF GENOCIDE. A FULL YEAR OF BOMBING, DISPLACEMENT, AND SUFFERING.

Why is this allowed to happen ?! Why have we not stopped it yet ??

Israel is expanding their colonial project into Lebanon, Syria, and the entire SWANA region.

Are you not outraged ??? Do something !! Help this family SURVIVE A GENOCIDE ! PLEASE.

Iyad and Ruba's families have gone through SO MUCH. Losing 38K in total because of GFM's shit, Iyad having to live with unmedicated diabetes, Ruba sustaining a horrible stomach injury while being displaced, their tents flooding with 5 young children to look after, and Ruba's entire family including her several younger siblings being sick with a respiratory infection.

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Help Eman Abushaban reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.

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They've lost so much. Let's try to get them to at least 13K before the 1 year mark.

$10,010 / $13,000 USD

Hi 👋 my 🍉 dear ⚘supporters ❤

I am a Palestinian youngman of 26 yrs , from the besieged Gaza, seeking to find safety and peace for my eight_member family 👪 that has been in very harsh and tough situations for almost a year. Since the outbreak of the war, we have been forcibly displaced to the south of Gaza, in the hope of finding a safer place, but the fact is that there is no safe place in Gaza. After we had lost all our possessions and belongings like our house and our livelihood_ source business were destroyed and damaged 💔 due to the annihilation of our neighborhood.

This photo was taken to the remains and ruins of our house. Nothing has been left for my family to live in nor a source to live on. Now we are living in small tents ⛺ in streets lacking all means of a house.

We re leading unbelievably difficult circumstances due to this injust war on Gaza. Also, We are painfully suffering from the bad living conditions because we lack all necessities and essentials of our daily life. Food, clean drink water, medicine 💊, health care , and other necessities have become scarce and unattainable and this adds to our sufferings and hardship.

a photo taken to show how harsh and tough our life is. hours of waiting in queue to get some gallons of water for the daily use. This is driving us crazy and insane .

What adds to our tragedy is that we wait long hours just to get a little water that can't meet our daily use.

It is also sad to have a sister suffering from chronic diseases such as bone atrophy , yet no health care exists.

so I am asking you my dear donors to help us get out of this painful tragedy and hardship. You can help my family by donating whatever you can or by sharing 🙏 my messages so that my goal can be reached sooner. Your help is essential for people in dire needs and awkward situations.

yours

Me re-watching the handmaid's tale&taking notes on how to escape the US before the supreme court passes another law that will affect me:

Fr hope you get out soon I see the shit happening over there

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