اسمع منيح

This blog is run by a part arabi, part ajnabi woman who is violently opposed to capitalists, colonizers, and liberal sympathizers thereof

[madlori]

Male student, your unwanted advances and creepy staring are distracting the female students. Go home until you can get yourself together and have some self-control.

said no one, ever (via madlori)

[iwontallowit]

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me on tumblr.com

[dawsvaws]

Somebody, or many bodies have probably said this exact thing before but before we say “consent is sexy” we should remember how much pressure girls and women are under to be sexy.

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The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary ground of their exploitation and resistance, as the female body has been appropriated by the state and men and forced to function as a means for the reproduction and accumulation of labor.

Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (via owl-priestess)

[heartteyez]

Iraqi man cries bitterly at the British Museum when he sees his country’s stolen cultural heritage on display.

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Gifset text reads:

“The current pornography industry really is rooted in the 60s. Initially, pornography was seen to be a vehicle of liberation simply because it violated laws and the laws were associated with the repressive adult generation and anything they tried to stop us from doing we did and pornography was part of that.

The notion was that what would emerge would be this free loving and again equal kind of sexuality. Women in the counter-culture were incredibly idealistic. I think women really for the first time began to see men as equals and the problem was that men did not reciprocate.

The pornography industry grew and grew and grew, these people got rich, they made a lot of money and suddenly they weren’t so anti-capitalist anymore. Most of the guys [pornographers] you can trace their histories back to the 60s.

They were in some way or another part of the 60s counterculture scene. What they [pornographers] did was to take the sexual freedom that we had been fighting for and they turned it into a profit making, product oriented, woman hating industry.

At some point we began to notice and it was the kind of disappointment  that either forces you to cave in or forces you to rebel. A lot of women did cave in but a lot of women rebelled and those who rebelled became feminists.”

- Pornography: Andrea Dworkin (1991)

[lehaaz]

Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of “sovereignty” of the nation, where “sovereignty” denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (via lehaaz)

[lehaaz]

Edward Said, Interview with Timothy Appleby, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 1986

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And, of course, I am afraid– you can hear it in my voice– because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation and that always seems fraught with danger.

Audre Lorde, ‘The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action’ (via virgodura)

[o-toto]

Safwan Dahoul

[freedomfunnies]

There’s Nothing “Normal” About It: Dialogue, Normalization, and Palestine On Campus

The complete contents of the zine I made about normalization with Tanya Keilani (2012) follow.

Keep reading

[zenpencils]

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive’. The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes.” - Sophie Scholl  

Sophie Scholl was a German activist who spoke out against the Nazi regime and was a member of a protest group called The White Rose. The group mainly consisted of students in their early twenties who were fed up with the totalitarian rule of the government and distributed leaflets urging their fellow Germans to oppose the regime through non-violent resistance. On 22nd February 1943, after the release of the sixth White Rose leaflet, Sophie was arrested by the Gestapo, convicted of treason and executed that same day by guillotine. She was 21 years old. 

Celebrating International Women’s Day (Mar 8th) this week #iwd2016

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The Damascus Gate 1900-1920 by Benbouzid

[palestinianliberator]

In Jerusalem, Palestine

[wordsnquotes]

My whole life I’ve been telling myself, ‘don’t be afraid’. And it is only now that I’m realizing how stupid that is. Don’t be afraid. Like saying, ‘don’t move out of the way when someone tries to punch you’ or ‘don’t flinch at the heat of fire’ or ‘don’t blink’. Don’t be human. I’m afraid and you’re afraid and we’re all always going to be afraid, because that’s the point. What I should be telling myself is ‘be afraid, but do it anyway’. Live anyway.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[alichaaban]

LEAVE.

[walterwhitemediocrity]

two worlds colliding

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i am yelling

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Beautiful #Ramadan tradition in the old city of #jerusalem. The callers who go from house to house in the early hours of the morning waking up each family by name for Qiyam and s7oor. They do so in a poetic form. Imagine being woken up daily in this beautiful way. This tradition has continued from generation to generation. Bless them #palestine

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This bring back memories❤️

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Palestinians who were living in Algeria I forgot which city did the exact same thing it was on the news last year and omg I fell in love

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Man I miss this 💔