Next on #FundingSunday it’s Mol’s top surgery fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mols-top-surgery

Donate if you can, share if you can’t.

It’s #FundingSunday and first up we have Huld’s surgery fundraiser:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-hulds-transition

Donate if you can, share if you can’t.

From a #LGBTQi+ human rights Justice working in a #Kenian refugee camp where ppl are starving.
I bet as a direct consequence of #tRump's demolition of #USAID. Keep your donation receipts to make him account for potential genocide in future.
#press #BlackMastodon #BreakingNews #ICC

They need to raise 600$ to assist.please spare anything #mutualaid
gofund.me/268781bd
https://bsky.app/profile/lwere.bsky.social/post/3ljemufa3vk25

Remember the old BBC computers? Dr Sophie Wilson, one half of the duo that designed the BBC Microcomputer, is a trans women. As part of this work, she developed ARM microprocessors, without which we wouldn't have laptops, iPads, mobile phones, smart watches, etc etc.

Find out more about Sophie and her route into STEM:
https://www.pcgamer.com/computing-pioneer-dr-sophie-wilson-and-how-her-work-inspired-raspberry-pi/

This International Women's Day, we have another pioneering woman in STEM: Clara Barker is a physicist that does clever stuff with very very thin materials. She's also an advocate for LGBTQ+ people in STEM.

This article from Clara was written a couple of years ago, but is still incredibly relevant:
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/11/clara-barker-trans-awareness/

Another fantastic women in STEM to celebrate this International Women's Day: Dr Izzy Jayasinghe is an award winning scientist whose research is into super-resolution microscopy.

You can read an interview with Izzy at: https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/articles/international-day-of-lgbtqia-people-in-stem-2022-an-interview-with-dr-izzy-jayasinghe-367705

Happy International Women's Day everyone. We're going to be featuring some amazing women and their contributions to science and technology today, but first some reading to get the day started.

A piece that outlines how the attack on trans people's bodily autonomy is an attack on cis women's bodily autonomy too:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-lgbtq-trans-abortion-executive-order-dangerous/

#Medieval records reveal that transgender people existed long before modern medicine or assumptions about gender. An English literature scholar has been diving into 14th-century archives: By Sarah Barringer, University of Iowa @histodons #Histodons #LGBTQI https://theconversation.com/trans-people-affirmed-their-gender-without-medical-help-in-medieval-europe-history-shows-how-identity-transcends-medicine-and-law-248559

Living in a country where 'gender' is a forbidden word? Lost some of the Web? Make that content findable again and help us develop the #queer instance of our #decentralized #Web #search engine. Head over to https://queer-pears.org/indexer/suggest and suggest content you want to preserve. #Archive links welcome.

PeARS is a #curated search engine. Each instance is dedicated to a particular topic and we encourage human-vetted content. https://queer-pears.org is focused on informing the #LGBTQI+ community.

Heute Demo: Wähl Liebe - Kreuze setzen statt Grenzen!

Münchens LGBTIQ*-Community versammelt sich am 15. Februar um 5 vor 12 Uhr am Gärtnerplatz, um für Zusammenhalt, Demokratie und gleiche Rechte zu demonstrieren.

Heute, Samstag um 5 vor 12
München, Gärtnerplatz

https://www.csdmuenchen.de/de/news-details/waehl-liebe-die-kundgebung-zur-wahl.html

Ist #Italien in Sachen Einschränkung von #LGBTQI+ - Rechten ein Vorreiter im europäischen Vergleich? Darüber und über mehr spricht Journalistin @sarahulrich.bsky.social im Interview mit Politikwissenschaftler @massimoprearo.

https://www.boell.de/de/2025/01/23/massimo-prearo-italien-zeigt-wie-lgbtqi-rechte-abgebaut-werden

Message for Americans:

Times are tough for many now, especially for migrants, #LGBTQI+ people, and people losing jobs. My thoughts are with you
#USpol #USpolitics

Maybe a song on this #JukeboxFridayNight #playlist from 3 January of #HelpingPeople will bring comfort?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZe9K6g9lwnSM2obWuPG_QU-ONrQxlMwF

HT @stevenixon who's pulled these #playlists together for JFN community.
https://www.youtube.com/@SteveNixon/playlists

TIL that for some the "I" in LGBTQI stands for "I know shit about it".

https://outrightinternational.org/insights/pride-intersex-people-too

There is no English equivalent to telling that, if you think that way, nchiaccati.

How far in the land of idiocy can humanity get? Fucking hell humans disgust me more day by day.

Why I am so adamant in copying and saving research about #Trans, #Queer, #LGBTQI, #NonBinary etc.:
The destruction of research not fitting into fascist agenda has historical precedence.

"The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the institute. After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades [...]."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1136956

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Did you know that over half of trans people avoid medical visits when unwell? Healthcare professionals can help reduce these inequalities. In the UK, TransActual offers expertise to support trans patients. Learn about our training and consultancy at: https://buff.ly/3tsTKIu or visit our bio, healthcare section. Know a healthcare professional? Tag them below! #HealthInequality #TransHealth #LGBTQI

And last up for this week's #FundingSunday, we have Parker's top surgery fund.

Donate if you can, share if you can't: https://buff.ly/3Zvqb5y

UK based trans people - we need your help (if you're over 18, sorry under 18s)! The Trans Lives Survey 2021 is very much due for an update. More than 700 of you helped us last time, we need at least that many people again to complete our survey for the 2024/25 version.

Take the survey: https://tinyurl.com/TransLives24

This #FundingSunday, we're featuring Brock's HRT fundraiser. To help Brock get started on HRT, donate if you can and share if you can't.

https://buff.ly/4grI4ZW

It's #FundingSunday and first today we're featuring Farah's housing fundraiser. She's fundraising so that she can move to a safer accommodation option.

Donate if you can, share if you can't.
https://buff.ly/49LiHQJ