okay so this is really important to me. but if you don’t know, there’s a tv show on nbc called rise. this was and could be it’s first and only season. it’s so imparitive that people watch this episode live today because nbc is checking rating to see if it’ll get. a season 2. THIS SHOW HAS SO MUCH REP. A CANON TRANS CHARACTER. GAY CHARACTERS WHO ARENT EXTRAVAGANT GAYS. LEAD POCS. AND SO MUCH MORE REP! PLEASE WATCH TODAYS EPISODE. PELASE PLEASE PLEASE.
we all know hypothetically about the horrors of living in trumps america. we’ve all seen the same stories, we know how dangerous it is to be brown, that your whole life can fall down in an instant. we know this. I thought I knew this more than most, with my boyfriend being mexican. in the back of my mind I’ve had this anxiety for months, knowing what could happen - and today it did.
we were stopped by what looked to be a cop car in what I thought was an ordinary police stop (scary enough already) but it turned out to be anything but. behind the car were three black vehicles with tinted windows, literally like you see in the movies. me and my boyfriend are both fresh out of teenager years, and there was just two of us against several armed government officers.
this was literally the single most terrifying experience of my life. they told
us to put our hands up and all I could think was that they’re gonna tell him to
step out of the car, they’re gonna kill him in front of me, and I’m gonna have
to call his family and tell them that I saw their son die and that he’s never
coming home.
they laughed in my boyfriend’s face, asking several times for his name and
jiggling the door handle and held us for what felt, to me, like a small and
hellish eternity. I’m sure most people can understand what a traffic stop can
be like as a brown person in america - i feel like i don’t need to say much
more here and honestly just trying to describe everything that happens makes me
want to throw up so I’m not going to.
eventually they let us go and somehow it only gets worse from there.
we found out that my boyfriend’s father had been picked up by ICE. we believe
at present that the point of the stop was to stop me and my boyfriend from
driving past the daycare down the road (where his father was dropping off his 3
yr old son at) so that we wouldn’t be able to see what they were doing to his
dad. the fact that they know our schedules so well means they must have been
following us and watching us for a while. i would say that i’m paranoid except
that honestly, this is entirely justified.
currently, his dad is being held by ICE. because it’s immigration court, not criminal court, he is not entitled to free legal representation. we need at least $5000 for lawyer, not even including the bond. my boyfriend and I both work but there is no way for us to be able to raise this kind of money on such short notice. my boyfriend is basically in shock right now, as I think is very reasonable, and this entire situation feels beyond hopeless. the only chance we have of keeping his family together is through this lawyer, and through asking for help from others.
i know you are all tired from everything you see on the news. i know that there are many stories like ours. but please, this is ours. this is the man I love. this is his father. this is our future together. I never thought this would actually happen and it honestly still feels like a surreal nightmare but it has happened, and we cannot get out of it ourselves.
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i foun d my old wallet in the drawer next to my bed and it had $400 in it im having a heart attack
reblog the aquabats! wallet of good fortune & you’ll b blessed w/ good fortune
HOLY SHIT I REBLOGGED THIS TWO DAYS AGO AND I JUST GOT A REFUND CHECK IN THE MAIL FOR 217.52!!!!
Why not lol
In actually broke so why not?
songs that are either explicitly about being trans or just really feel like they are
Y'all, I’m barely 13. I’m barely 13 and my mom kicked me out. My dad can’t come get me till july and I have nowhere to go. I can’t take my cat, or even most of my belongings. Please, somebody donate to my paypal to help the transgender 13 year old so they can survive.
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