An Apartment Building Burned Down Recently And I Got A Few Pictures Of All The Smoke In The Sky While

so in case you’re about to watch a cw television show based in the southwest that’s featuring an episode based on some supposed reservation – or you’ve read anything about the situation on the navajo nation recently – i wanted to share some ways that we all can help the diné (navajo) community beyond kind-of depicting them on television. 

today the navajo nation surpassed new york state and new jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the country. that’s 2,304 cases per 100,000 people. 173,600 people live on the navajo nation, roughly. below are a number of organizations & community groups raising money & resources. it would mean so much to me if you’d consider supporting these communities right now - & continue to think about how you can support the indigenous communities near you, & understand the indigenous land you might currently occupy. 

the navajo water project helps bring running water to navajo families without, and also helps families pay their water & electricity bills 

the adopt an elder project helps feed navajo elders during the pandemic

the navajo health command operations center is the navajo nation’s only official fundraising and donation effort

rez rising is a database of native american small businesses across the southwest

the kinlani mutual aid group is a flagstaff, az based volunteer group collecting supplies

the native american relief fund operated by the native american community foundation provides emergency grants to communities for supplies & more

and a number of community-run fundraising efforts:

northern diné covid relief effort

navajo & hopi families relief fund

native student emergency fund

bluff area mutual aid - supply delivery in utah

navajo nation relief project

if you’re aware of any other legitimate fundraising efforts to help these communities, or the indigenous communities near you, please add them. 

“The American South” by Anthony Blasko

I don’t know if someone has said this before, but if you live in a non-Muslim and non-English speaking country then one of the best thing you can do is to share what’s going on in Palestine in your own native language.

Palestinians/Palestinian’s activists have been sharing what’s going on in English to such a wide extent now and so are people in Muslim majority countries who were already sharing information in their country’s language/s since day one.

The next step we need to take is extend this to countries where the average person isn’t knowledgeable on the violence and crimes committed by Israel or whose local media haven’t been doing the best job reporting on what’s currently happening, if that applies to your country then please try your best to translate what’s already have been said by Palestinians/Palestinian’s activists in your native language and share it as much as possible, because right now social media is more important to the cause than any media outlet.

Update:

They think I have late stage Addison’s disease.

I have more testing I have to do.

I’m without words. This is terrifying.

I can’t even let myself grieve or relax because I don’t even have enough money to be diagnosed properly OR treated.

So please, please. If you have anything to spare.. I need it now more than ever ..

I appreciate any and ALL HELP!!!

If you’d like to immediately help me my PayPal is

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

I don’t want to die because I can’t afford to get treatment. I’ve come this far.. I’m desperate. I need my community now more than ever. Please don’t let me be forgotten

BOOST THIS

Please save what's left of my family

Hello dear

I am from the Baalousha family from Gaza.. 🇵🇸🍉

I hope you are well .

I write to you with a heart full of hope and faith, and I ask for your urgent help. My family is in great danger due to the war, and I am running a fundraising campaign to save them. My father and mother suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure. Help me secure them

Please, can you reblog my campaign post on my account? Every contribution can make a difference in my family's life and any donation, even a small one, makes a difference.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any help you can provide. 🇵🇸🇵🇸

The campaign was documented by @90-ghost 🍉🍉..

a charming photo of young john mulaney, seemingly celebrating the kennedy assasination 

Took this while walking with my friends

Fluff ball #2. I try to post pictures that look like they were taken with a real camera and not my phone, but posting these pictures is important to me right now. This is Oscar, my little sunshine. We had to put him down recently because he had feline leukemia and was in a lot of pain. I wanted to make a small tribute post for him. He was a stray and we didn’t have him long, but he touched our hearts and I hope we gave him the happy, loving home he deserved. Love and miss you, Oscar.