AJ

they/them. jewish, queer, and neurodivergent.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

Feelings are complicated, especially when you're trans & autistic and your special interest became an empire of transphobia. I wrote this song to reclaim the joys I once took in Harry Potter, and I hope it helps some other trans autistic folks do the same. https://t.co/QBKQ5KGQ9l

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

channeling my inner @mindtheclam to write a desperately needed and time sensitive WLE, wish me luck all (and dm if you have advice bc boy howdy is this one a big deal for my future)

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

had an amazing time last night watching @usahockey win at the #WomensWorlds but unfortunately it was a bittersweet night for me due to the event's poor accessibility, and the next day I am still quite upset about it.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

women's hockey world championship, angry disabled person edition: we drove around downtown utica for nearly 15 minutes looking for the accessible parking because there was NO signage and there was nobody outside the venue who was available to help.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

and now i'm in ridiculous amounts of pain and discomfort from all the walking. still. two full periods into the game. and there's nowhere to store my crutches, so people keep tripping on them. but hey, the announcer just told us all @IIHFHockey is inclusive, so all good, right?

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

women's hockey world championship, angry disabled person edition: we drove around downtown utica for nearly 15 minutes looking for the accessible parking because there was NO signage and there was nobody outside the venue who was available to help.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

even though our seats are closer to an entrance we weren't allowed to use WHICH WAS ALSO WHERE THE ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPOTS WERE. when we finally made it around to the front there was a parking lot with open accessible spots right in front of the door that was barricaded shut .

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! You can support the queer bookstore my spouse has worked so hard to open AND support Camp Lilac at the same time!

[Lavender Lit @LavLitBooks]

you can celebrate #transdayofvisibility with us by placing an order this weekend! we will be donating half of all proceeds to @camplilacohio, a nonprofit summer camp creating unforgettable summer memories for trans kids 🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov

[shoshana || שושנה @TheTonightSho]

i’m sorry your teachers sucked but we learned all of this

[🏳️‍🌈❤️Kit🖤🏳️‍⚧️ @ePluribusAnus69]

“Israel turned the star of david into a hate symbol” no, they’re TRYING to, but they won’t. Don’t let them. And don’t fucking harass Jewish people for wearing/using symbolism that represents them!! The Star of David has been misused by Isnotreal but that doesn’t mean it’s Zionist

[sage 🜃 comms on hold! @SWlRLYEYES]

i encourage my fellow jews to take back our symbol. let the magen david represent our continued existence and our fight against further genocide. dont let israel take this beautiful symbol of our faith and our community. the magen david will never represent israel.

[myheroin @myheroin1]

This needs to be withdrawn. So many deaf kids already face forced oralism/language deprivation as is. Did they not consult NAD? Delaware school for the Deaf before pursuing this?

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

@CLAUDIAPOSTING no matter what you won't be doing it alone.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

@johngreen ooh this is called aphantasia, and i have it too!! it also extends to all five senses for me, so I can't imagine sounds etc either. it makes being a visual artist very hard, but learning that other people experience things differently made it easier for me to give myself grace.

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

If you can help out by donating whatever you are able and/or sharing Maddy’s story, I would appreciate it tremendously! Thank you 💛💜 (5/5) https://t.co/AgFizrwt94

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

Unfortunately, as much as I'd be willing to move heaven and earth for them, I am not able to hit pause on capitalism, so our friends put together a fundraiser to help us with our financial situation while they’re unable to work. (4/5)

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

In all the time we've known each other this is the first time I've seen them truly put healing first. A big part of the reason they could never do that is finances — money is a big point of stress for them thanks to credit card debt accrued during periods of poor health. (3/5)

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

They recently made the difficult decision to step back from their obligations and seek more serious treatment for their PTSD through a partial hospitalization program, and I am SO proud of them (and so are everyone else who loves them). (2/5)

[AJ @SoloButNotHan]

Maddy (@mjironfield), my wonderful spouse, has been really struggling for as long as I’ve known them. A lifetime of chronic pain, serious medical procedures, and a whole host of other traumatic personal factors has taken a huge toll on their physical and mental health. (1/5)

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Some Money Talk...

Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can generate a little extra income. It's 5% for six months so a meaningful amount...maybe $25,000.

The thing is, you can look at that and say, "Oh, why not just do that? Why not take all of the money the P4A has ever raised and, instead of donating it, you could earn 5% on it and then donate the 5% forever?"

This is what endowments are and that's how they work. If we did this (WHICH WE WOULD NOT (which i'll get into)) then there would be like $15M in that account and we'd be donating $750,000 per year...theoretically forever. That sounds amazing!

There are a lot of people who are very compelled by endowments like this, because the main nugget of money never goes away and is always throwing off more good into the world.

This misses something very important. It imagines that donations are one-time goods while capital throwing off money in an endowment is a forever good.

But that's not the reality. The reality is, when you donate money, the good that money does does not vanish the moment the money is spent, it continues to do good forever, you just can't see it anymore.

If you help a mother not die in childbirth, then that doesn't just do good that one time, it does good for her and her community and her children for the rest of her life...longer than the rest of her life! Her children will have the support of that person who otherwise would have died. They will continue to live healthier and better lives because they did not lose their mother as children. They will be better prepared to serve their own community and their own children. Those returns continue /forever/.

There is economic return on donations, they are just returns that you can't see as a number in your bank account. And those returns are MUCH BIGGER than 5% per year.

If you are a person with money and you have a charitable giving account and you can see that there is currently more money in that account than you have ever donated...I'm sorry but you are doing it wrong. The money needs to get out and do good now. There isn't some future time when it will be more capable of doing more good because it has grown.

It needs to get into the world. It can be doing so much good. And if you don't know what to do with it, just send us an email at [email protected]. We've got you.