Hate Crime - Tumblr Posts
Nex Benedict, a nonbinary student who attended Owasso High School was brutally murdered by three older girls in the female bathroom. The three murderers remain anonymous and its infuriating. I want them to be doxxed i want their full names, home addresses, phone numbers, everything leaked. They dont deserve to walk away scott free. Plz reblog to spread awareness.
Just saw a post about Nex Benedict and someone commented "womp womp".
Really goes to show that transphobes/racists do not give a fuck about your kids. Nex was 16 when they died. You may say "oh that commenters just kidding!" Nex is dead because they dared to be themselves. You have no motherfucking right to joke about that.
The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.
What the actual fuck
What's happening to AO3 right now?
As you may have noticed already, Archive of Our Own is currently down. This is temporary, but unfortunately.. we now know that this is much deeper than we thought.
AO3 is currently the victim of a DDOS attack orchestrated by "Anonymous Sudan"
Why? Because AO3 is home to thousands of LGBTQIA+ content and lots of NSFW content. They're doing this as an Anti-LGBTQ+ attack. If they're doing this for or from America specifically, we're not sure. But this is what AO3 is facing at this time.
What can we do?
Spread the word. Spread the fucking word. I'll be providing updates to my Tumblr page directly from the r/AO3 subreddit. I know that not everyone here is comfortable using Reddit, so I'm taking the blow for you. I cannot access Twitter though.
And please, whatever you do...
Stop using the Archive of Our Own website at this time.
The moderators, showrunners, and service providers all need to repair the damage done by this group. The amount of data flooding in from people trying to log in will cause more problems. Keep yourselves off of the website.
Edit:
Confirmation for those who need it:
DO NOT GO TO AO3 RIGHT NOW!!
I really mean it. Apparently Anonymous Sudan is getting desperate because this isn't the out come they're hoping for and are trying to do a DNS attack! Which means they will try and redirect you to a malicious website to obtain private information!!!! SO DO NOT GO ONTO AO3 AT ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY!!!!!!!! FOR YOUR SAFTEY DELETE ALL AO3 TABS NOW!
More about Nex
“Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Ms Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”
This is a gut punch to read. I've seen "old folks" go through that journey of gaining understanding. Ideally it wouldn't need to be a whole journey but there's something loving in people willing to grow.
But not knowing just how at risk they might be ... from this kind of violence.
what could have been.
Nex was a really good student apparently. Had strait As. So a nerd. Another gut punch. They just remind me of more than one person I know and care deeply about.
These FUCKERS destroy everything beautiful.
America has a regrettable and longstanding history of violence.
This is disgusting. This is wrong. Why are these hate crimes allowed in my country. These are not just protests. You cannot recite the mantra of a terrorist organization and call yourself innocent. Stupid, yes; innocent no.
This isn’t OK
There hasn’t been nearly enough awareness on this, but there has been a huge spike in hate crimes against the Asian community during the pandemic, and that’s seriously messed up. Never under any circumstance is it alright to hate someone for their race, and Asians are NOT responsible for the pandemic.
Even if one of the conspiracy theories somehow came out to be true and the pandemic was somehow purposefully engineered, that would be the fault of those few select persons- definitely not their entire race. We’re all suffering through this pandemic TOGETHER, and we need to support one another, NOT go around looking for someone to point a finger at. It’s horrific that anyone could reason that these kinds of acts are in any way justifiable, and it’s not okay that this has been going on.
Lot’s of love to any of you folks reading this. Stay strong and keep trooping, you amazing humans!
https://www.change.org/p/governor-andrew-cuomo-end-hate-crimes-against-asian-americans
https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-raising-awareness-ending-hate-crimes-towards-the-asian-community-9ff875eb-03c4-4c95-a000-52d71e54abcb
https://www.change.org/p/the-sun-pakistan-didn-t-cause-the-pandemic-racist-british-reports-will-increase-hate-crime
https://www.change.org/p/we-stand-against-all-covid19-related-racism-and-hate-crimes-towards-other-people-living-studying-and-working-in-britain
https://www.change.org/p/danielle-m-outlaw-ppd-classify-attack-against-asian-american-pregnant-woman-and-her-daughter-a-hate-crime-cd6e1aa2-512e-4433-830f-f9891988720e/psf/promote_or_share
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-london-breed-justice-for-84-year-old-man-murdered-in-san-francisco
Pixar has also released two of their short films on YouTube to show support, and I’d definitely recommend checking them out if you haven’t seen them(maybe bring a few tissues, though)! If anyone’s curious, their titles are “Float” and “Wind”.
Nex Benedict is dead. Their death came probably as the result of slow brain bleed after a HS bathroom assault.
This hate crime should be a national scandal.
They were 16. They were enby. They were bullied. They were Native. They were from Oklahoma.
Say their name. Amplify their murder.
#nexbenedict
Seriously. It's like no government cares. They're happy for us to be killed and they won't bat an eyelid at the murder of PEOPLE in an environment they are FORCED to be in that is supposed to be SAFE!
This is not okay.
SHOUT IT
SAY THEIR NAME: Nex Benedict, another 16 YEAR OLD was murdered in Oklahoma, news channels are deadnaming and misgendering them, just like with Brianna Ghey here in the UK. But I urge you to not let your grief drive you to despair. GET ANGRY. Do not become apathetic, do not let grief numb you. Stand united as a community, lean on each other, have each others back. Reach out to any trans individuals of any age and make sure they have support in some capacity. Speak with your family, your political representatives, your school, anywhere, with anyone, that may be able to make some change, whether big or small. Everything builds, that is the power of a movement, of solidarity. If you make life a bit safer for one trans youth once, then you may have saved their life that day. And that kid might then show some other kid that there is hope, and so they live as well. And it grows.
Fly high Nex.