sam. nineteen. bad at adjectives.
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Just Detention International, a non-profit fighting to end prison rape, provide resources to survivors, and improve human rights conditions in American prisons and globally.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a New York-based collective that provides resources and legal advocacy to transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color or of low income. SRLP has been fighting to end the abusive use of ‘protective’ administrative segregation of transgender prisoners - the practice Sophia Bursett was a victim of in the show.
JusticeNow, a California-based non-profit which fights for the rights of female prisoners in California to receive adequate medical care. Recently, JusticeNow was key to the outlawing of forcibly sterilizing female prisoners in California.
Transgender, Gender Non-Confirming & Intersex Justice Project provides resources in California to LGBTQ people in poverty, including providing transitional housing for incarcerated people reentering society.
Prison Law Office, a law firm in California that fights against inhumane conditions of confinement. PLO was key in the lawsuit against California keeping their prisons at 200% population capacity – overcrowding similar to and worse than what we saw in S4 of OITNB.
Black & Pink, an organization that provides pen pals to LGBTQ+ prisoners. Pen palling is a low-cost way to support prisoners who may not have LGBTQ+ supportive people in their lives, or who have limited access to safe conversation.
I’ve linked to the donation pages for these organizations, but there are many ways to get involved that don’t require spending money. Don’t just get mad – get motivated. These are real lives we’re talking about.
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I’m violently opposed to the idea of the shooter being a “secret gay” the very idea infuriates me
If he was indeed on grinder and went to the club it’s because he was scoping the place out, he was plotting, he had a fucking plan
Especially when there have already been several cases of men getting grindrs and then assaulting the men they find, because it’s easy to get someone alone in their home under the guise of a date, it seems pretty awful to assume this isn’t just another case of that.
I’m glad I’m not the only one pissed the media is trying to spin it that fucking way.
If he was at the bar, if he was on Grindr it was because he wanted to hurt people there.
But they’re gonna try to twist it.(via symbioticlifeform)
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all my lgbt latinxs.. you are all beautiful and i love you. keep fighting. keep being you
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The Art of John Salminen
John T. Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning American watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes. His work was described as “compelling street scenes packed with detail” by Watercolor Magic magazine’s senior editor, Loraine Crouch.
Salminen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives in a self-built log cabin surrounded by 40 acres (160,000 m2) of pine forest in Duluth, Minnesota. For nearly 34 years, Salminen was a high school art teacher. Although he started college as a music major, Salminen became enchanted by the art studio during his high school years. He painted while teaching high school students.
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