APPALACHIAN BAIL FUNDS

if you can, please take the time to donate to these bail funds in appalachia, or at least reblog. appalachia is a deeply impoverished part of this country and these people could use all the help you can give. this post includes links for cities that may not be in appalachia but another part of the state is. this is by no means comprehensive. if you have any links to funds from these states feel free to reply with a link, especially if they are for virginia, west virginia, or maryland. please do not hesitate to tell me if any of these are fake.

ALABAMA:

• montgomery bail out
• local organizer star robb (tweets from birmingham DSA confirming this) is bailing people out in hoover and birmingham, venmo: @/starrobb, cashapp: $StarRobb
• etowah county’s freedom fund (twitter link) paypal is here
• huntsville paypal

GEORGIA:

• atlanta solidarity fund
• support #justiceforgeorgefloyd protestors in atlanta
• messiah young and taniyah pilgrim bail money, goes toward two black people who were attacked by police in their car
• athens freedom fund

KENTUCKY:

• louisville community
• lexington bail

MARYLAND:

• baltimore action legal team

MISSISSIPI:

• mississippi bail fund collective
• bail fund for zach borenstein, a man who was arrested during protests in mississippi on may 30th (excess funds will be going to the mississippi bail fund collective)

NEW YORK:

• emergency release fund: new york city, which is specifically focused on trans people
• OAR of tompkins county
• brooklyn community bail–as of 5/30/2020 they are asking people to direct their donations elsewhere
• the bronx freedom fund
• may 2020 buffalo
• liberty fund
• rochester cashapp: $BLMRoc

NORTH CAROLINA:

• take action chapel hill
• NC community bail fund of durham
• charlotte uprising
• alamance county
• forsyth county
• asheville
• fayetteville
• greensboro

OHIO:

• columbus freedom fund’s (twitter link) paypal is here
• canton/akron
• BLM cleveland (twitter link) paypal is here
• cincinnati bail–for this one, you need to click the amount you want to donate and then pick “cincinnati bail fund”

PENNSYLVANIA:

• lancaster bail fund for #blacklivesmatter–as of 6/2/2020 lancaster has met their goal and is no longer asking for donations
• bukit bail fund of pittsburgh
• dauphin county
• philadelphia community bail
• philadelphia bail fund–as of 6/2/2020 they have met their goal and are asking people to donate elsewhere
• pittsburgh aftercare jail support

SOUTH CAROLINA:

• columbia bail (twitter link), cashapp: $SodaCityBail; they also have a separate cashapp for money that goes toward supplies: $PSLColumbiaSC
• charleston, SC protestor fund

TENNESSEE:

• nashville bail
• mid-south peace and justice center (memphis), cashapp: $OfficialBLMMemphis
• just city memphis
• hamilton county
• knoxville venmo: @/endthemoneybail-knoxville, memo: “BLM”

VIRGINIA:

• richmond community bail
• roanoke bail

WEST VIRGINIA:

• BLM west virginia

OTHERS:

• appalachian feminist coalition bail fund, although they are encouraging donations to the aforementioned group in knoxville, tennessee
• the bail project also operates in numerous states across the country, including those that are in appalachia

please pay attention to what is going on in these states, especially the smaller ones. do not let it slip by just because it isn’t happening in a bigger city. again, if people find more i will be adding to this post.

In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.

It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.

Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.

Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.

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y’all, Bookshop is amazing. i got an email about them from my local indie store, and they’re so excited about it. please oh please use this place instead of Amazon!!

with every purchase, they tell you how much you’re putting toward independent booksellers, which is fun and cute:

it’s also amazing for authors! i’ve been asked a couple times about the best way to support my books. this site is now the answer. it reports sales figures to the NYT and Bookscan, a type of tracking that helps authors hit bestseller lists. and even better, authors can set up affiliate pages, and if you buy through those pages, we get an additional 10 percent of each sale on top of royalties. this is a massive deal!!!

for reference, many royalty rates are in the 6-8 percent range. so if you buy through Bookshop author affiliate pages, authors get more than twice as much from sales of their books, with no additional cost to you.

the site is still in beta, but it also has a fun interface where you can make book lists for favorites or recommendations, sort of like goodreads (except better, because goodreads is owned by amazon).

this is my Bookshop page. if you ever buy one of my books, i pray u will do it from this site! (or from your local indie :D)

@thebibliosphere @vampireapologist @glumshoe

Independent bookseller here. We fucking love Bookshop right now. They’ve increased the percentage we get from sales through affiliate links during the COVID-19 crisis, which is a really big deal for the stores that can’t or don’t run their own online shops – which, with most stores shut down, is a lot. Even those of us trying to operate remotely could really use the extra boost.

Plus you can get both eBooks and DRM-free audiobooks through Bookshop, too! They’re powered by Hummingbird (the American Bookseller Association’s new e-reader program) and Libro-dot-FM (for legal, ethical, DRM-free aubiobooks.)

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with everything that’s going on with bon apetit, i thought i’d just share some of my favorite recipe-based youtube channels run by people of color

• just one cookbook - a super wide variety of japanese recipes. easy step-by-steps and all the recipes i’ve tried have been delicious
• souped up recipes -  chinese recipes - very informative videos and tasty food - i love her personality too
• maangchi - who doesn’t love maangchi. delicious korean recipes and a fabulous personality
• get curried - a huge variety of recipes from various regions of india 
• simply mama cooks - my fav for tejano food. i believe she’s a mexicana married into a korean family, and draws a lot from that
• immaculate bites - mostly quick ‘tasty’ style video recipes focusing on southern us, african, and carribean foods. easy and delicious stuff!
• stove top kisses - fun and delicious recipes and the videos are super fun to watch - mostly american food
• j kenji lopez alt - author of the book ‘the food lab’ - he’s maybe my favorite recipe developer out there. all kinds of food and hes super knowledgeable

Here are some vegan channels run by people of color, as well!

• gourmet vegetarian kitchen - super creative projects. i personally find them very inspiring since she does things like make vegan cheese or ferment soy beans over the course of months
  
• peaceful cuisine - he makes asmr & recipe versions of videos. everything is vegan. lots of desserts and traditional japanese cuisine
  
• rachel ama - vegan food with a frequent caribbean twist! I love her! She has her own cookbook
  
• cheap lazy vegan - her channel has an angle of vegan food intended for low budgets. she creates a lot of simple recipes. she has a recipe ebook as well as a free newsletter
  

Also re: psychiatric care... The concept of consent as being integral to ethical mental health care is a nice one, but in practice RIGHT NOW consent is meaningless in a system where "being noncompliant" in and of itself is medicalized and ""care providers"" do things like tell you if you refuse to sign on your intake form that it is a consensual hospitalization, or refuse to take the antipsychotic they try to force on you, they will simply take you to court & have you declared mentally incompetent.

Both of these things happened to me during my last hospitalization.

So you will have to forgive psychiatric abuse victims for not instantly agreeing that your improved community care program ideas where social workers or whomever are the ones responding to calls about people "behaving erratically" are great bc you say "everything will be consensual, of course".

My medical records list almost all of my medical abuse as consensual.

#this is like know your rights the cops cant do x y z! #like... oh worm. who is gonna stop them.

I was handcuffed and marched across campus by a cop because a school psychiatrist decided I was suicidal when I told her I didn’t want to see her anymore. At the hospital I became more angry and erratic than I have ever been in my life because I wasn’t allowed to even pee without being watched. Even if you take cops out of this equation, it was tied to my school experience and in the hospital I was stripped of autonomy in a way that made me begin to act out abnormally just to have control over my environment. The entire time I couldn’t stop thinking about how much worse that experience would be if I weren’t white. The whole thing basically rests on treating patients as if they don’t have the ability to consent.

god its 10 pm whats next 11 pm

well guess what just fucking happened

developing story relating to the protests, i’m still digging through twitter trying to figure this stuff out as i go

okay so there was some buzz about “armed black panthers” showing up at the protests-

naturally, i was hoping this was members of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (maoist) and not the New Black Panther Party (reactionary) (yes there are two different politically opposite revivals of the Black Panther Party and yes this does get confusing)

later i learned that the buzz was that the panthers in question were not affiliated with the NABPP and thus were probably associated with the NBPP. further bad news came in the form of this photo:

this photo of course inspired condemnation of the NBPP, and was pointed to as a demonstration that reactionary nationalism fails to be liberatory- which is true, but then there was buzz from the NBPP-supporting side of twitter that they don’t know who this is and don’t co-sign her actions. furthermore, the patches used by this group:

don’t match those used by the NABPP or the NBPP.

so there are a lot of questions still remaining, but it seems that either there is yet another group reviving the BPP name, or, more likely, this entire scenario is a psy-op staged by the police themselves.

someone tracked down their instagrams and found out that they’re all actors and models, but i still don’t have confirmation of this yet.

This isn't my idea/design but it's so gorgeous and overdue

who are the Gorillaz?

June is Black Music Month!

so I wanted to highlight who has made the Gorillaz what they really are…

these are not the Gorillaz:

I would argue that even Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn are not the Gorillaz.

from their very inception, the Gorillaz have been made possible by those who Albarn and Hewlett collaborate with. their unique and interesting sound is the result of a multitude of musicians working together.

approximately two thirds of their collaborators have been black musicians

THESE are the Gorillaz that we love so dearly:

so Gorillaz fans, let’s spend some time this month listening to what else these artists have created!

below the cut I list all of these artists and the songs they’re featured in, find your favorite songs and give these collaborators a listen!

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If I see anyone I know falling for this naked, brazen, bullshit stunt, I will scream

Wasn't it like? A month ago? When they fired a Black man (Chris Smalls) for standing up for worker rights? And then when they realized it looked bad they decided to do a smear campaign calling him "not smart" and "inarticulate" and accusing him of all kinds of nonsense? Remember that transparent ass racist bullshit? All these companies want the credit without doing the work, but especially Amazon.