blackaudacity:

Hey tumblr fam, I never thought I would be a person who was down bad enough to have to ask for help, but here I am. Yall know I rarely ever talk about my person life on this blog. But I need you guys now and I’m praying you can find it in your hearts to help me. 

As a lot of yall know and congratulated me on, I was accepted back to Howard this year. I found out earlier today that they’ve pretty much lost all the paperwork I submitted in an attempt to get more aid. I now have a $1600 balance that must be paid if I want to register next semester. If you know how financial aid works, than you know this means I will also have to pay that amount again next semester if I want to attend Howard during 2016-2017 or transfer my credits. 

I set up a gofundme, because I figured it couldn’t hurt. I have researched scholarships that have an October deadline (link here in case anyone needs that information) and I’m trying my best to get those. I have researched nonprofits that help single mothers, Black women, etc, but I’m not yielding much thats helpful. To be completely honest tho…I don’t have any support besides my dad’s ex, who allows me to live with her while I try to get on my feet. She loves me, but she is up to her ears in debt and barely managing to pay ALL the bills in expensive ass Montgomery County. I have no friends that aren’t still depending on their parents and me and my daughter have always been irrelevant to the very few family members I have that are actually in a position to help. I don’t really see any way I’ll be able to pay this balance off without outside help.

I have tried to include as much information as possible, to show that my need is genuine. I don’t have much to offer in return for monetary help except editing or paper writing services, which I am more than willing to provide if anyone needs or wants them. 

So here is the link again. If you can’t help, I understand and would be immensely grateful if you could reblog and put the information out there. 

http://www.gofundme.com/4645zzes

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4mysquad:
“ Brooklyn Woman Says Cop Called Her Homophobic Slurs And Choked Her  Stephanie Dorceant, a 29-year-old barista and aspiring filmmaker, was walking home early on Saturday morning with her girlfriend, Nandi Allman, when a man bumped into...

4mysquad:

Brooklyn Woman Says Cop Called Her Homophobic Slurs And Choked Her

Stephanie Dorceant, a 29-year-old barista and aspiring filmmaker, was walking home early on Saturday morning with her girlfriend, Nandi Allman, when a man bumped into her. It was around 2 a.m. and a cab had just dropped them off a few blocks from the apartment they share in Flatlands, following an Afro Punk Festival battle of the bands in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Dorceant said she asked the man, 6 feet tall, 200-pounds, if he was okay, and he responded, “mind your own business, you fucking dyke.

He continued to curse Dorceant; she told him not to talk to her that way; and he proceeded to beat and choke her, according to her account. “Call the cops! Call the cops!” he yelled out to the cab driver, who was still at the curb, frozen in place. He then slammed Dorceant to the ground and placed his hands around her neck, as Allman desperately tried to pull her away, according to the couple…                   /read full story here/

“The crazy thing is my friends and I have talked about police brutality, hate crimes, and I never thought for one second that would be me,” she said. “This whole ordeal has been really surreal for me. I feel like one day I’m going to just wake up.”

Being black and gay, you’re in great danger facing a cop. Those bastards, perhaps the most intolerant people in America. Not only have they got a great power to do anything they want, so they also have the assurance that nobody can punish them. Our law enforcement system is a bullshit, a mockery of justice. I dunno how to act in such a situation. In fact, Stephanie was totally defenseless in front of that motherfucker …

#NYPD #PoliceBrutality #Cops #StayWoke

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