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Americans, get your passport as soon as you can.

notyourexrotic:

Even if you’re not planning to go anywhere anytime soon.

Passports can be lifesavers – I know they have been for me. They’re internationally recognised ID and can be your ticket out if you need to escape quickly. Most countries in the world allow visa-free travel for American citizens, so you could just drop by whenever.

It usually takes 4-5 weeks, or 2-3 weeks expedited. It may be possible to get it in 5 business days depending on need. They cost $110 (or $80 for those under 16) plus an execution fee of $25 for first-timers. There’s also the cheaper passport card that’s only valid for Canada and Mexico ($30) but if you’re able to I’d recommend getting the passport book because that’s valid in more places. There’s extra fees for expedited passports and priority mail.

The National Centre for Transgender Equality has some resources for trans people applying for passports:

Under the current policy, you can obtain a full ten-year passport with an updated gender marker if you have had clinical treatment determined by your doctor to be appropriate in your case to facilitate gender transition. No specific details are required about what type of treatment is appropriate for you.

Under the current policy, a physician certification is required if the documents you submit with your application, which may include a prior passport, driver’s license, birth certificate, or other documents, do not all reflect the correct gender. If all the documents you submit with your application reflect the correct gender, you may not need to submit a physician certification. See the application instructions below for more details.

(There’s a lot more in the link as well as the link above)

You’d want to get your passport as soon as possible before any policy changes that can affect your ability to get ID.

Americans, get your passport as soon as you can.

scullyseviltwin:

Go out tomorrow, find a cause. NARAL, ASPCA, Planned Parenthood, A New Way Forward, The Innocence Project, Oxfam, Greenpeace… find out about programs and groups that deal with human trafficking, with racism, with sexism, with women’s health, LGBTQA rights, with what you want to fucking change! Sign up, and fucking fight.

Intern at your local congressional office! Stuff envelops! Listen to citizen complaints! Help dig us out of this shitstorm!

Donate money! Donate time! Be a Big Brother or a Big Sister. Reach out and find what your community needs! Join a litter collecting squad or write cards for people at an elderly community or buy a family in need groceries.

There is. So. Much. You. Can. Still. Do.

Online activism is all well and good, but these groups need feet on the fucking pavement. Don’t confuse shouting at people online as activism! So put up, and let’s shut this racist, classist, misogynistic, rape apologist down.

strawberreli:

stubborn-string-bones:

ofhouseadama:

you can throw all the blame on thirty party voters, or you can also factor in that this is the first election in FIFTY YEARS without the voting rights act protections making sure people of color and other marginalized groups can get to the polls 

ok i didn’t know anything about this so

Left to their own devices by the Supreme Court, some states and counties
appear to be testing how far they can go with voter suppression. North
Carolina is a case in point. Following the court’s decision in Shelby
County, the Republican-led Legislature passed a law stuffed with voting
restrictions, including voter ID requirements and reductions in early
voting. Last summer, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit struck down
most of the law, finding that it targeted Democratic African-American
voters “with almost surgical precision.” Justifying a plan to end Sunday
voting, the state said that counties allowing it in 2014 were
“disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.” The
appeals court judges correctly called this “as close to a smoking gun
as we are likely to see in modern times.” The Republicans running the
state wanted to change a voting practice out of concern that
“African-Americans, who had overwhelmingly voted for Democrats, had too
much access to the franchise.”

and

Overall, [the Supreme Court] decision [gutting
the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder] means more than 860 fewer polling stations in places with a history of disenfranchisement. State governments in Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina are ignoring federal court orders to provide proper voting facilities.

caramel-apple-mituna:

ra8it:

emperor-of-matzah:

kanaya:

schizzar:

hugeselenatorswiftie:

If you voted for Trump tonight, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latina/o, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

If you voted Third Party tonight, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latinx, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

If you deliberately chose to not vote, make sure to explain to your gay, trans, female, black, Latinx, and Muslim friends why they don’t matter to you.

and Jewish friends

And Asian, and Native American friends.

Also disabled friends.

v1als:

severus-snape-is-a-butt-trumpet:

what do we do tho? like, honestly? what happens if he’s elected? what do we honest to god do?

Coming from the UK after our own catastrophe: you make his life hell. You make his government’s life hell. Anything and everything shitty that they want to do, you protest, you campaign, you petition, you lobby. You tie the whole thing up in so much red tape that Mr I’ve-Never-Had-Anyone-Say-No-To-Me starts loathing his job.

You create private safe zones, you look out for one another, you let your now validated racist, homophobic, transphobic neighbours know that their bigotry will not be tolerated through any means you feel it’s safe to do so. You join forces. Despite everything, you thrive out of spite, out of survival, out of a need to protect your own.

All of these communities have faced untold amounts of hell before and we’re all still here. It’s in our history to survive – in our genetic makeup. There will be losses and there will be casualties but in four years you’ll still be here and you’ll vote him out and the time to grieve will be then. For now, fight. In any way you can, even if all you can do is get through each day at a time. Fight him every step of the way.

boobvoid:

Never in the history of the struggle against oppression in all its forms have we relied on the benevolence of the state. We have always, always relied on one another. We are still here, and we are never going away. Look out for your Black friends, your Brown friends, your Native friends your Muslim friends, your female friends, your gay friends, your trans friends. Stand in solidarity with one another. Show love for one another. Keep one another safe. This is going to be painful, but it’s going to be okay.

Calming masterpost:

shelbys-advice-blog:

crisis/urgent support lines and sites

relaxation/anxiety relief

the quiet place project

music and sounds

comfort food

advice and tips

videos and movies

distractions etc

extras

Calming songs, playlists and instrumentals:

Calming/distracting Websites

Crafts and activities, easy and fun DYI projects

What to do when:

Meditation and breathing

Simple things

Make Something!

Other Nice Things

Calming/Relaxing Music:

  • Soft Piano: x, x, x, x, x
  • The Sound of Waves: x
  • The Sound of a Storm + Waves: x