Please help a disabled Brazilian trans woman survive this month
Hi sorry I fucking hate asking for help online, but as some of you know, I've been in the amazon taking care of my grandma after she had a really delicate surgery And taking care of my baby niece (since my grandma can't take care of her while recovering) this past month.
This means I haven't been able to work except for my remote translation and writing gigs (which I have been doing despite the fact I also have to care for a 4yo child), so money has been really hard to come by lately.
The money I managed to get from commissions has gone to pay for the euthanasia and cremation of my dog Plus the bills of my family in São Paulo, meaning I have no money left for groceries (for my family back home, as I'm still in the Amazon until next week).
We really really really need money right now, especially before the 1st of August, so any help right now is really appreciated.
We're still paying for the euthanasia + burial of my dog. We have extra expenses bc of my sister's college. My mom's HIV medication is free, but the medication for the side effects is not. We are still trying to deal with the leak that made our water bill spike. I still need to buy my meds and hormones in a week.
Eman’s young son Taim is sick with some kind of skin infection affecting his whole body.
He needs to eat consistently and get nutrients in order to heal properly! Please donate! There is food available on the market now but the fresh fruits and vegetables are very expensive!
If we do not survive… please remember us not just as numbers, nor as a passing news story about a family in Gaza. This is terrifying and unjust. We are not a number added to the list of war casualties; we are a real family, with faces, names, tears, children, intertwined hugs, and unfulfilled dreams. This is not just a news story, this is our life, our suffering, and our hearts that we try to protect from death every day. 💔
My children, my wife, and I have not separated since the beginning of the war. Not for a single moment, because we fear leaving one another alone, that a child might die and another remains alone amidst the terror. This fear haunts us every second, in our sleep and wakefulness, like a shadow that never leaves.
Sometimes, when I go out to get food and an explosion happens nearby, all communication is cut off and mobile networks stop working. My children and my wife try to contact me to check if I’m safe, and I immediately know they are crying and terrified for me. I rush back home to reassure them I am alive, and I find them gathered, crying in fear. Once we see each other, we hug and weep together. These scenes have repeated every day for two years in this endless war, and it seems it will not end except with our deaths. 💔
Every day I think, if I go out for food: what if something happens to them? What if they see a rocket kill someone before their eyes? Layan, my eldest daughter, sleeps next to me and refuses to move away; she fears we might die separately, she fears being left alone. This feeling kills my wife and me more than any bombing or famine.
Even going out for aid has become impossible, fearing that I might die like so many others daily at distribution points.My daughter Sarah cries a lot if I talk about my intention to go on a risky journey to get flour. Our lives now are cycles of fear and ongoing death. Friends, relatives, and children die before our eyes every day, and we are just trying to protect ourselves and stay together.
The greatest fear is not just death… it is being left alive after our limbs are cut, our eyes lost, our faces disfigured, or seeing our children with missing arms or legs, or covered in wounds. These images haunt us every moment,How can I imagine my son Adam in their place?, we see them in our dreams and daily life, and we live with them every second. Every day we choose to stay alive in constant fear, but sometimes we prefer death over seeing our children—or ourselves—like this, because the pain is unbearable. 💔
If we die, please do not see us as just numbers, as happened to our people before. Remember us… remember that we loved life, and we loved each other more than anything else.
We have loved you, and from that love we memorized your names and the names of your blogs, and we got used to talking to some of you. You have helped us and tried to do so much for us. You are the best people on this planet, human and kind, and we love you very much, and we will miss you deeply.
We want to die together, alive or dead, so that none of us remains alone in this cruel world. This is our will to you: keep us in your memory, love us, give meaning to our death… do not make it a cold number.❤️
Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh has announced Dreams On A Pillow, a mixture of stealth-adventure and interactive…
Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story
Reported by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell | Nov. 29, 2024
Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh has announced Dreams On A Pillow, a mixture of stealth-adventure and interactive documentary set during the Nakba - Israel's violent displacement and dispossession of Palestinian Arabs in 1948, shortly after Israel's founding. Created by "a global team of veteran game developers", it's the story of a Palestinian woman grappling with the loss of her baby after fleeing a bloody assault on her town.
Here's a description of the game, via press release.
"Dreams on a Pillow is a pseudo-3D Stealth-Adventure game based on the true Palestinian folktale of Omm - a Palestinian mother who fled the massacre of her town with her new-born child. After running for an hour in sheer panic, she realized that she had carried a pillow to safety, instead of her child. Inspired by the story, Dreams on a Pillow explores Omm's life story, showcasing both the history of Palestine before the ethnic cleansing of the lands, and the trauma borne from the violence that was inflicted upon the Palestinian people during the Nakba."
According to the announcement materials, Omm's journey as a refugee takes her through the sites of several atrocities, including concentration camps and attacks on Palestinians near the Lebanese border. Whenever she is able to rest, the game switches into a documentary mode, "reliving a rapidly fading memory of a pre-Zionist Palestine" by means of archive imagery and text.
Omm's principle possession is the pillow, which serves as both a terrible reminder of her lost child and a kind of coping device. When carrying it, she's not able to interact with objects or do things like jump, crawl, throw rocks and climb ladders. Putting the pillow down, however, triggers Omm's guilt and trauma, provoking nightmares that "reveal dangers of the mind, and shroud the dangers of the real world". The immediate practical challenge during the stealth-adventure sections, then, is to complete whatever objectives are at hand and retrieve the pillow before Omm's delusions overwhelm her.
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Support Rasheed's project directly here on LaunchGood:
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
I am now on my fifth day without food… surviving only on water Not because I’m fasting by choice . I do this to save whatever little food I can for my family.
The food we have left wouldn’t last a day if we all ate. So I stay hungry. I drink water to quiet the pain, to stay standing, to keep going. Every bite I don’t eat means one more bite for my kids.
@dawoudi and I speak almost every day. Every day I ask him how he's doing and hope he can tell me he's been able to eat something. He tells me not to worry, but I can't help it, because my heart is breaking.
Please help him by donating to his family's fundraiser, so that they can buy food when it arrives on the market. Thank you. ❤️
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(This is what famine looks like.
We are st… ENASE ZAGOOT needs your support for Support DrDarine and Her Fami
It is #15 on the gazavetters list, and was also shared by @nabulsi here and here.
My father was at the market, as he always is, searching for anything that might ease our hunger. Under the relentless sun and on his seventh day without food, surviving only on water he collapsed from sheer exhaustion.
Thank God, he’s home now, beside me. But he’s terribly weak, as if his body can no longer carry the weight of life. I begged him to eat. I pleaded, just so he could stay with us a little longer. He hasn’t had chicken, or meat, or even fruit. God knows we don’t have those.
He finally took a few bites of dry bread. But watching him struggle to swallow, my throat tightened. The lump wasn’t just in his throat it was in my heart. Scraps of stale bread… which I begged him to eat, just so his heartbeat wouldn’t leave this home.
Because sometimes, hunger "cruel as it is" is easier to bear than eating when your dignity is shattered. When you’re trapped, abandoned, and the world is watching in silence.
We at the @gazavetters team extend our heartfelt wishes for a swift recovery and complete safety to our brother AboAhmed @dawoudi and his honorable family.
We are all going through extremely difficult circumstances, and we pray that this hardship will soon pass, and that peace and security will prevail for everyone.
This is a historic event in every painful sense of the word a brutal war, massive destruction, and a famine devouring lives. Every moment of delay could mean the loss of another life.
I’m deeply thankful to be back home, surrounded by my children. Though my body is tired and frail, my heart still beats with strength, and my will remains unshaken.
These past days have been harsh, but it is dignity and patience that have truly kept me going. Hardship has not broken me and by God’s grace, it never will.
As long as there is breath in me "in all of us" we will stand tall, endure with courage, and keep praying for relief, not only for ourselves but for all who suffer.
Vetted! #15 on @/gazavetters vetted gfm list, promoted by @/gazavetters here, promoted by nabulsi (x, x, x, x).
In what world is it normal for a person to have to go for 7 days without food? Please, please, please support them in this incredibly difficult time!
You can get a postcard after you donate!
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Hello everyone! Want to get some art from a Palestinian artist while also helping Palestine? I'm going to be running a raffle this week for Gaza Soup Kitchen, the winner will get a Tarot card from me! These tarot cards I usually charge upwards of $300 for due to complexity and time, so if you are pulled, you can receive one for as little as a $5 donation!
You can have multiple entries based on your donation. One entry starts at a $5 donation, multiple entries will be at each increment of $5 (ex: $10 = 2 entries, $15 = three entries, $20 = four entries).
A winner will be pulled on August 3!
Link to the form
Gaza Soup Kitchen's website (you can donate either through them or their GFM here. I will accept receipts from either):
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Rules:
You must have proof of your donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen. I will not accept any entries that do not have proof of donation. I have two examples in the Google form of receipts I will accept + please crop out or censor any sensitive info.
I will ony be accepting entries through Google forms - this is how I will keep track of everything and then transfer to sheets for the raffle.
I will only be focusing on donations for Gaza Soup Kitchen. Please only send me your receipts from them and not any other org.
Communication will be through the desired email listed in the form. If you have any questions or concerns, please send me an ask or a message through my art email: [email protected].
I will not draw any hate imagery or sexual content (non-sexual nudity is totally okay).
Mohammed Abu Alwan is trying to keep his three children fed after the murder of their mother by the Israeli military. He is completely reliant on donations to do so, since Israel has wiped out almost all infrastructure in Gaza, and effectively suspended all employment.
You can help through GoFundMe, or else send money directly to me via venmo (@gothhabiba), paypal (paypal.me/Najia) or Cashapp ($NajiaK) so that the money can reach Mohammed faster.
Add note "🍓" or "strawberry" so that I know what it's for!
help me rebuild my life after years of homelessness
also i might have cancer
hi everyone, i'm a refugee living in northern brasil. that is my actual legal status and i have papers about it. my difficulties in accessing public resources have been a major recurring topic on my blog for almost 6 months (thank you USA and bolsonaro)
ive been homeless for years. i just signed off on my first apartment in a long time and for better or for worse, in brasil landlords do not provide furniture. i have no kitchen basics like a refrigerator, gas, or eating utensils. everything is closed on sunday so that third pic is what i'm eating tomorrow. i am hungry most of the time right now
i don't even own the lawn chairs. the landlord's brother will be back for the lawn chairs at some point. i would go buck fucking wild for a cheap desk.
id like to be able to immediately focus on this issue but also i have a weird mole that doctors say I should get biopsied because it is potentially cancer. but the underfunded brasilian public health system can't squeeze me in for another six months (thank you once again to USA for interfering to get Bolsonaro elected) so i have to go private so that's about US $80.
ok morena said i could use her ko-fi as a dono link for now so we're bringing this back. new developments:
-it has been about a month and a half and i am more in the red financially
-i do not have cancer but i did borrow $300 from a fellow tumblrina ebegger to find that out so i would like to pay that back asap
please donate! please! im at the end of my fucking rope!
hi everyone, please please help my good mutual out at this tough time. amon helped spread my fundraisers when i was at a time of need. he regularly and consistently helps other people seeking support. please donate if you can, and sharing the post helps a lot more than you might think!
ghazzah has no food. this is the most important thing you can say today. the israeli occupation has gotten away with starving 1.8 million+ ppl for long enough to where tht ppl are dying everyday from it now.
protests are no longer effective. there must be a loud, consistent, and coordinated response to the continued policy of collective punishment. because 85% of Gazzans are malnourished. these people will die if we don’t take real action NOW.
what is also important is to keep assisting palestinians in gaza via donating to their campaign. the $ is still used in various ways whether that be for sourcing scarce medical supplies, water, future evacuation, etc. support @blackeagleplog’s, my dear friend mohammed who’s become his family’s sole provider at 23 years old, campaign here. he’s been severely weakened by hunger & told me today he’s only ate lentils once.
With every scream from my mother at the sound of the explosions, I almost wish she had stayed in her coma rather than waking to this torture of hunger and fear. Please, speak about us. Do not leave us alone.
We are living the terror of the end of days. Explosive robots are being sent next to the hospital and all I hear is the ringing in my ears as every window shatters. Please donate we are besieged and have nowhere to escape.
To those who have a living conscience and good hearts who feel us despite the distances a… Abeer Sa needs your support for Urgent Aid Needed
Please, Samir's condition is serious. He is in a coma. I beg you. We do not want to delay travel due to slow donations. If everyone contributes $100 or $50, it will help us with urgent treatment. I hope the owners of the big pages will appeal and not stop. We are a broken and desperate family. I do not know what to do with my children who are sleeping in the street, hungry, and with Samir, who is injured and in a serious condition. Please share as much as you can, donate and save my son who is fighting to live life. 🙏🙏🙏🥺
Help a south american trans woman to stay afloat this month
Hi everyone, I'm sorry for showing up on your dashes like this once again. I'm a physically disabled trans woman struggling to make ends meet, especially in the current economic crisis my country is undergoing.
At the best of times my wages only reach 180 usd a month 0,7 usd, with the cost of living being over five times as much in the best of cases, without including housing expenses.
I'm diabetic and I live with my mother who is a cancer patient, and as things stand I constantly have to come here to beg for help just to be able to afford my medication, let alone going to the hospital for checkups for my mom. Anything you can spare, even if it's just sharing this post, helps a lot. Anything you've already done has done so much help towards helping me stay alive and I can't thank you all enough, from the bottom of my heart.
this has a lot of notes and i'm incredibly grateful for all the help you've given me, but i just want to add this on the post because it's the bill for my meds. it's really embarrassing to share this kind of thing, especially after one of my employers straight up denied payment to me
i know we're all in a rough spot so i don't intend to push anybody into anything but any kind of help would go a long way
the power company received a tip that i was hooked on the electric wire clandestinely and came to cut me off, taking my down line with them. please help me get electricity again
3/9/25 | @FilmUpdates: ‘THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB’ received a 22-minute standing ovation at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
The longest of the festival so far.
@samah_fadil: can't help but wonder how many american-funded bombs and bullets ripped through palestinian flesh during those 22 minutes.
@NerdeenKiswani: Hollywood making movies about a genocide that’s still happening is their way of absolving themselves. They profit, pat themselves on the back, and package it as history, while 100+ Palestinians are starved and bombed daily. Their responsibility is to stop it now.
the world and its ghoulish consumerist media are just fossilizing the lack of shame and uselessness in their pathetic attention, two years into an open genocide, so we can pretend they're doing something such as "awareness", achieved a while back thanks to the resistance which is hardly if ever honored as much as journalists and the selective focus of the day which usually involves infantilizing a whole genocide looking for victims to sell to hollywood.
but ffs, awareness isn't low, neither is the awareness of the reality of what must be done to stop the genocide of palestine.
what the world is low on is on bravery and the ability to die for others, so now liberalism shows its ugliest face: easier to make films and movies and continue to be safe and comfortable profiteering from other's suffering but impossible to reproach as hollywood standing for all genocidal "humanity "shields itself in the name of "art" and "memory". and why do these white genocidal useless vultures get to process others' deaths through their entitled lens and money and consumerism? why do they get to approach desperate people and promise them nothing by giving them a space where nobody cares but for the circus they've made of morality and the responsibility we have for each other?
this whole exercise centering hind rajab only serves to obfuscate the selective genocidal infantilizing "empathy" of the west, the same sham of diplomacy meant to make palestinians into palatable victims, it offers nothing while it maintains what israel wanted from the beginning, for palestinians to have nothing, not even their stories as they become the masks of white saviorism for liberal zionists normalizing and making once again historic the suffering of palestine.
it's just horrifying to see how easy it's to make the general population fucking clowns the second there's the possibility of communal patting-in-the-back for OTHER'S PEOPLES GENOCIDE! this is the same as that liberal zionist friedland or whatever tf last week as if it mattered that there's still "conversations" to be had that aren't just circlejerks to coddle jewish people who like everybody else seem unable to cut ties with their zionist mom, dad, and friends and etc. for some godforsake LIBERAL genocidal reason it's easier to make a circus out of that while the meaning of resistance is watered down into nothing and the demonstrations of action made by rachel corrie or aaron bushnell or the BRIGADES THEMSELVES are forgotten for a defanged intifada hellbent on coddling GENOCIDAIRE populations wtf dude.
ffs i hate how nobody is pushing anyone to the "violence" needed for change, violence here being an useless word now because the promise of not complying with a genocidal entity and responding to their acts of aggression is seen as a threat and thus, defined as violence, resistance is violence from the pov of the colonizer so why are we so afraid to just embrace the power needed to change? i am so damn tired of the mutilation of the "intifada" into nothing by the west, what uselessness is there in the water for no one to die for palestine? what will it take?
please donate to these two campaigns if anything today, share and donate as soon as now, the least we owe to palestine is survival, after that we owe them our lives and our children's too probably for a thousand years 🇵🇸
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I donated $25 USD to @sami--onley campaign - please match my donation or donate what you can! I was wrong in jumping to conclusions earlier as I misunderstood the meaning of the spreadsheet — so join me in donating if you originally reblogged from me that one post!
Hey guys! Mahmoud Qassas needs some help urgently for his wife's treatment for lung cancer. She has been transported to Egypt for urgent medical treatment and needs some funds for it. Please don't hesitate to help.
Go to paypal.me/whitehands and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
Despite the high number of reblogs, only 26$ were made from Paypal donations. I thank you very much to those who donated.
However Mahmoud's wife is in great need right now and we need more donations from a greater number of people. To thoss of you who haven't donated but could afford to part with a few dollars, please consider sending them to Mahmoud's family. Thank you all for your continued support of Ghazzawi families in struggle.
Please help us because the doctors asked for a new analysis of my wife to examine lung cells. After taking the first chemical dose of cancer, I got weakened with my wife.
I received only $185 on PayPal, I thank the one who donated with us and contributed, but the cost of the analysis is $900 and the analysis is carried out in a hospital in France, I hope you donate to reach the cost of conducting the analysis for my wife, knowing that the doctors warn me that every delay in the analysis will pose a danger to my wife and the cancer does not reach the heart.
Please stand by my wife in her treatment and donate via PayPal.
I can’t send messages to anyone. They closed my ability to send messages.😭😭😭
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A family consisting of 11 people 3 days without food ‼️
I am Mahmoud Zaatar.
I live in a small tent with my family: my mother, my father, my little sister, my brother Mohammed with his wife and daughter, and my brother Hussein with his wife and three children.
We are ten souls who share the pain of life under a roof of cloth that does not protect us from cold or heat.
I am writing to you now, my heart is burdened with hunger, and my body is exhausted from lack of food.
We haven't eaten anything for three days except water and salt...
Yes, only water and salt.
My mother's weak voice, my father's silent moaning, my little sister's crying, and the children's hunger...
They are all voices that penetrate the heart, but they can't find anyone to hear them.
Today I stand on the verge of helplessness, not because we don't want to work, but because we don't even have the price of a loaf.
The price of a bag of flour reached £500 before the commission, which is a distant dream for us.
I don't ask for anything much, just give us a hand that helps us, saves us from hunger, and keep us alive.
Every donation, no matter how simple, may save an entire family from hunger
Help us. Don't be late.
We can't tand it anymore
My name is Mahmoud Zaatar and I am 25 years old. I am currently living in Gaza in a tent with my parents, my sister Asma, my brother Mohamme
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