It is a very rare thing for me to disagree so hard with a progressive Black woman, but Therese Patricia Okoumou IS a hero. And she certainly did not let anyone down. Fighting for young children who were being caged and separated from their parents is never ever the wrong thing to do. What she did—resisting Trump and publicly speaking truth to power—required great courage. Okoumou is a hero and an activist. A social justice warrior in the truest sense of the word.
After repeatedly reaching out to the mainstream media and asking them to continue covering her story, she is being ignored by them now. But remember: they were happy to use her when she was the hot story and good for ratings. Now they apparently cannot be bothered to interview her, or call out the injustice of her impending imprisonment. (#WhiteFeminism)
If anyone knows of any lawyer or anyone who might be able to help Therese Patricia Okoumou with her appeals process, please reach out to her on her Twitter account.
he could’ve built it with his own two calloused hands and it would still be grandmas house
The reason it was “grandma’s house” is because grandma took care of the kids/ grandkids, loved on the kids/ grandkids, socialized and got to know the kids/ grandkids. But granddad thought all he needed to do is work and make money and was okay being scarce.
A lot of older men realize (if their wives predecease them) that they have no relationship with their family and that the family was only emotionally held together by his wife/ grandma.
But I think that today – if men take a more active role in parenting and being part of the family – that it will be “grandparents’ house” not grandma’s.
ok so my mom attempted suicide earlier this week and i tried to watch her and take care of her myself but i ended up having to take her to a hospital and that’s where she is now and the doctors are saying she’ll be there for two weeks at the least, because she is not moving or eating. Then, the next day after she went to the hospital, my apartment flooded and for 2 days the water has been uncontrollable and as soon as I clean one room of all the water then another room floods. I can send video if you want it as proof. we have one bathroom and the flooding is stemming from that one bathroom and so it is unusable. we literally don’t have a toilet or water or anywhere to go to use the toilet. we have a new landlord who is dragging his feet and won’t call a plumber and i’ve been begging him everyday to fix it for almost a week now and he still says it won’t be until wednesday before he can get someone to fix it. so like I guess I’m supposed to hold going to the bathroom until then. my mom’s hospital bill is going to be due (it was reduced through a low income program but it’s still a LOT) and I need to buy a wet vacuum to clean up this water and most of my clothes are wet and ruined and we need to stay somewhere with a bathroom and my sister and I still need to eat. I’ve already spent what little money I had on stuff to try to clean up the water but that isn’t working anymore.
I can’t be online and active very much because I’m fighting back water constantly. We very much desperately need help. I can’t even deal with all this going on and I haven’t even been able to eat since yesterday morning. Please please please reblog if you can and if you can help thank you so much.
hi im a 24-year-old trans man living in new jersey. im attempting to legally transition, and i absolutely need to change my name – my HR manager at work is harassing my front end manager for respecting my name and i sense a lot more problems coming. im just barely getting by now so i desperately need to legally change my name. i need about $340 to cover court fees, document fees, and newspaper fees(nj law says you have to advertise name changes in the local paper) my cash.me is here please ignore my deadname
even if you cant donate please reblog, i can’t live like this anymore
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