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i'm really upset about how a Black trans femme who deals with an abusive home environment and barely scrapes by in terms of survival is so chronically ignored. she barely eats. i think that people not giving a shit whether she lives or dies is pretty horrifying. she didnt make her goal last month. despite all this, she's about to graduate. can you please boost this so she has a chance at living the life she deserves?

donation links:
ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g
donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32Q

$10/1005

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About the contrasts.

I feel a need to address this because often people DM me or say nasty things about me because they can't comprehend the contrasts of my life are real.

And also, I just like to write so let's dive in, a TW, I am brutally honest about traumas and joys. TW sexual trauma general mentioning, disability, bullying and gender.

In this photo I am in Bermuda, a breath taking tropical island I lived in for 3 months as my fiance is Bermudian. He's also a well known influencer and we work together a lot (I do his merch, strategy, co-writing and a lot more). I have two fiancés I'm absolutely happy and completely, helplessly in love with. I have a successful small business which allows me to save a bit and travel (though I still can't def afford a music degree in the US which I was accepted to). I had a lot of great worldwide press for my music and film work. My family is very supportive and I have a few good friends who stuck with me. I'm studying sound and music composition for films and games in Israel now which is wonderful. I'm 25 soon and many people tell me often I've achieved so much but I'm only getting started.

And also

I have 9 disabilities (NVLD, ADHD, DPDR, GAD, severe OCD, Clinical Depression, cPTSD, IBD ulcerative colitis and as diagnosed just a few days ago, a psychosomatic disorder). I was raped and psychologically abused by two past relationships in my youth. I've been sexually assaulted a few times after that. I have PCOS which means I'm female but on the intersex spectrum, and I am genderless mentally, I came out as genderless way before I ever knew being nonbinary even existed as a concept, when I was 17 and for me it also comes with me having had lots of body and gender related struggles which I can comment on in a separate post (but I'm happy with my body today). I've been extremely bullied in my entire childhood and teenhood years, I still have nightmares about that. My parents also survived October 7th and I had been traumatized by this to the point of an over 6 months long psychiatric emergency which in combination with antisemitism and a wave of hate to all things Israel by my last friends, led to me losing almost all of my friends, getting completely mentally scarred and leaving London where I lived and worked part time.

My point is this - I can be strong capable and happy in some ways and a victim or suffering and disabled in others.

And both are real, being one doesn't take away from being the other, they are all true, (and are way too detailed here because of my truth-severe-OCD).

We all have contrasts like this, it's just called being human, but maybe in my case it is more extreme, to both directions, than what many people are used to.

That's ok, I'm just done with people lying about me or to my face, or being abusive to me, by saying I shouldn't be speaking about my family surviving the massacre or my hostage relative because I also got to visit Bermuda or make a lot of sales of my handmade art to hundreds of happy customers.

How the hell, do those counter each other?

Contrasts do not cancel each other in my life. They exist together. I heal wherever I can. I hurt and I shine.

That's my life and if it's not for you, don't DM me, just unfollow me or something I don't care I won't even notice.

But if you choose to stay, let's respect each other, believe each other and support each other. Because we all got our own shit to deal with, and me being who I am for better or worse doesn't't take away anything from you being who you are.

Love,
Emmanuelle

please help octo! she is a trans, plural student struggling with parental abuse to stay housed. she did really well in school this semester and needs all the support she can get before graduation. she needs help covering monthly bills, she didnt make her goal last month. anything helps!

10/1005

donation links:
ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g
donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32Q

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Oof... 😬

"One time, this girl told me that the reason why I try so hard to make others feel so loved & important is because I don't feel that way about myself & seeing others realize their worth makes me feel better because I can't realize my own.

And that hit me like a fucking train."

wie Seeles Reha-News_Tag_2:

1. Wache erste Nacht. (Ich werde mich um die Genehmigung einer Zwischenmahlzeit bemühen. Mein #Medikinet wirkt noch um 17:30
Ich kanm nicht so viel Essen, dass ich ohne Magenknurren durch die Nacht komme.)
2. Anstatt zu schlafen habe ich gelesen und mich um ein Weihnachtsgeschenk bemüht.

3. Mit halbem Auge, Blick aufs Handy, 07:30 😱 FUUUCK!
4.Zum verspäteten Frühstück in ruhigen Nachbarraum geschlichen 😎 viel besser.

#notjustsad
#adhs
#mentalhealth

Mental Illness Gets One Killed in the U.S.A.

"People are fed up with the way our society fails to address mental illness and places that duty on an average citizen, which is what Penny was when he found himself confronted with Neely on that subway car. It’s a societal problem that Penny was forced to deal with, without society’s resources." -- Adanté Pointer, Civil Rights Attorney

My questions for Pointer: Did anyone really place that duty on Daniel Penny? Was Daniel Penny really forced to deal with a situation by physically confronting the late victim? Is it really a failure of our society, or a failure by us, who cheapen the lives of persons with no-fault serious mental illnesses by our attitudes?

PBS reports elsewhere that the late "Jordan Neely was unarmed, with nothing but a muffin in his pocket, and didn't touch any passengers on the train." He did not hurt anyone. He did not touch anyone. He is the only one who got hurt. So with the knowledge that Penny was killing Jordan Neely, would jurors have thought it justified self-defense if Neely had fought back and killed Penny for initiating the physical confrontation? Doubtful.

Some of my fellow citizens are willing to donate $3 million to Daniel Penny for what they must think of as heroic service in snuffing out the life of a homeless person afflicted with schizophrenia. Are they really fed up with the way we fail to address mental illness? Or would they just rather pay for vigilantism than for better mental health services?

abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny

#MentalIllness
#MentalHealth
#Schizophrenia
#Homelessness
#Justice
#Law
#NYC

ABC News · Daniel Penny trial spotlighted issues of homelessness, mental illness: ExpertsBy Kiara Alfonseca