learned about Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society (GLITS) and their apartment building:
In November 2020, she bought a three-storey building in Queens. Within three months, she had received 21 residents for the 12 units. By January 2021, the building was full. Each unit is an affordable one-bedroom apartment for single residents or couples. When a new resident passes the purple door of the GLITS building in the Woodhaven neighbourhood, they don’t have to follow any curfew. One of Doroshow’s guiding principles was to review shelter policies and do the opposite. Doroshow makes every new resident sign “core living arrangements”: no smoking inside, no physical fights, nothing very different from a normal rental.
GLITS remains a lasting success, continuing to provide safe housing for LGBTQ2S+ people, including trans sex workers. Building on this foundation, they are now launching a program to support LGBTQ2S+ inmates transitioning out of Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail.
This is a funny localization error cuz the Japanese original had the name properly written in Katakana. So a translator looked at the name and thought," no the American ears wont hear this, lets take a alittle artistic liscense and do something else."
Japanese localization in the 90s- late aughts was something else.
man idk. I mean I’m not surprised the error happened in the first place really because Gaelic pronunciation is not generally well understood. I guess I’m just surprised they didn’t take the opportunity in Rebirth to like… correct it? lol
nope! specifically talking about Rebirth. in the English dub they say Kate Sith, but in Japanese it’s Ketto Shi (which is much closer to the Gaelic pronunciation) :D
learned about this Philadelphia library built by high school students:
The DreamEscape Library was born a little over a year ago, when the KHSA student government advisers challenged teens to come up with a service project that would positively change their community. The kids mulled over several options, then zeroed in on one that felt perfect.
“We all grew up without a library,” said Akeem Mack, now a KHSA senior. “That had an effect on a lot of kids. Teachers assigned a book, and people wouldn’t read it, because people didn’t like to read.”
The library got started with a $1,000 seed grant from the Philly Service Award, which works with the nonprofit Herb It Forward Foundation and Drexel University to encourage students to improve Philadelphia. There was no money for staff or space, but the students vowed to be the librarians themselves and to start, they pushed a single cart of books around.
“There’s a lot of areas in Philly where they give out free books,” said Angie Medina, a senior. “We used any type of resources that came into our hands.”
The first few volumes came from teachers’ classroom collections. The students gathered more slowly but surely — general fiction, graphic novels, fantasy, romance. Every book had to be stamped by hand, entered into the electronic catalog, and reinforced with tape.
“We started off with our small little genres that we recommended, then we involved a catalog and a website,” said Christian Toro, a sophomore.