Are you the hero I’ve been looking for?
I WANT TO CREATE A REAL-LIFE HERO NETWORK. I’m sick of online activists just shouting from the sidelines. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and do something yourself rather than waiting like a damsel in distress for some government, corporation, or charity to solve the problem, I’m now taking applications for actual “do the work” hero projects. I’m shouting out (or funding) those who live the RLSF ethos and do uncommon good no one else does, moving from the “is this possible” to “how can we make this possible” way of thinking–from the “there’s a problem HALP” to “here are specific ideas for smart solutions.” Sometimes we don’t need capes, just brains.
So join my hunt for real heroes and hero tips, as I send out IRL #SUPERHEROALERTS 
…powered and funded by the scifi and fantasy stories that get me visualizing my becoming in the first place. Click “READ MORE” to check out some of these hero projects we’re working on, or scroll down to read some #superheroalerts:
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As a physician and women’s health equality advocate, I am deeply disturbed that GoFundMe withheld $2,700 in support from a mother in Zimbabwe during Choice42’s fundraising campaign. 
I recently got an e-mail about emergency funds for writers.
SUPERHEROALERT: Women’s Rights without Frontiers saves women and children from forced abortion in China caused by the policy that limits the number of babies women are allowed to have. As you know, girls are disproportionately abandoned or aborted because of this policy–but you may not know that some women are forcibly held down and tied to a medical table as physicians rip their fetuses out of them against their will. The policy targets poor women, who cannot afford the government fees to buy the right to have a child; it also targets women in “undesirable” minority populations like Tibetan and Uyghur people groups. 
Several squads of brave men and women put themselves in harm’s way by pretending to be underage children online–and then catching the sexual predators who respond to the bait. And you can join them.
Good Mythical Morning, the popular YouTube channel hosted by 
Regardless of what you consider healthy, this National Pork Board alliance also suffers from the ethical challenge of its factory farm roots. Just last year 
The following true story is used with permission, by an old friend, who runs a business helping the elderly while she mothers her 32-year-old daughter. Her daughter, who we will call Lucy for protection, is generally nonverbal, and walks with some difficulty. She needs help eating and wiping her face, and requires much of the other care that a toddler does. I remember thinking, when I was little, that Lucy’s parents had sad, patient eyes, full of a love that knows suffering.
Guest post by Joan Y Edwards
Thought that was pretty cute, huh? Buttersafe’s cool, you should check them out.
I have a lovely treat for you Superpeeps today! Wanna become a superhero? This is kind of an interview/guest post by superhero film actor @RickyDaVision: what can we learn about heroes by pretending to be them?
You remember those moments? The ones where a superhero makes you hold your breath. When Barry Allen, in Flashpoint, gets up and starts running even though there’s a huge spike jammed through his quads. When Peter Parker, at the end of the Ultimate Spiderman comic series, bows down before the spectres of all the enemies he’s ever faced, and gets up to keep fighting. Those moments when everything is broken, but the hero doesn’t give up.
