Books With Rita

Rita. 27. INFP-T. 🌈 Communication and Social Media grad student. ❤️ studyblr turned bookblr turned whatever this is now.

[bookswithrita]

Sunday, Oct 10th (part 2) 🍁

(I've been working on and revising my thesis all day and honestly I'm tired of rereading my own writing lmao)

[circumpolarvampire]

When the death toll for Gaza goes up from disease, Israel will claim deniability, that those deaths were not deliberate and calculated. You see it with how settlers will talk about the genocide of Natives, that most of us "just died from disease then colonizers 'accidentally spread'". It is NEVER an accident. Famines and Diseases and always used as tool for genocide by colonizers

[fairuzfan]

A little girl died from hunger in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, despite being in the area where aid trucks are distributed. Another family in the north in Gaza city was forced to eat a donkey, which for many in Palestine is inconceivable culturally. Bisan says there isn't even water (clean OR dirty) for them to drink or wash with.

[tamarrud]

will never forget the parents who lost all 8 of their kids saying "they slept hungry, we were trying to get them a piece of bread but they were killed"

we are witnessing a population run out of food. WFP said a few days ago that half of the population are starving, nine out of 10 are not eating every day.

[gorillawithautism]

keep in mind that not having enough food, even when you're not literally starving to death, makes your body heal slower so all these people (who have all sorts of wounds from the bombing and everything else) are all physically healing much more slowly than they would be if they had any food to eat. it also causes you to have difficulty regulating body temperature which means that these people (who had to leave their homes with no winter clothes to speak of) are much more susceptible to the cold than they would be if they just had food.

the current problems every gazan is facing right now all exacerbate each other.

[onetwofeb]

Emily Dickinson

[photomuzik]

[triviallytrue]

oh man, they made you defend your thesis? that's fucked up, they told me mine was perfect the way it is and just gave me the phd

[starlightshadowsworld]

To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.

And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.

Saint Porphyrius Church, a structure built in the 5th century and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.

It's not an accident.

Israel aren't simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.

Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there's.

It's easy to deny someone's existence when there's no record of them.

Which is why it's so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what's happening.

But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it's suffering.

There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.

Traditions they've carried for centuries.

So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.

Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.

[mysharona1987]

You’d think this would be a bigger story, tbh.

[dioraberry]

fall inspo 🍂🌰

cr: ig

[somisi]

[sayruq]

Now that the truce has ended, don’t call for a 'permanent ceasefire', call for the end of the occupation. As long as Palestine is occupied, Palestinians will never know peace. Even if the Israeli army left Gaza in this very moment, Palestinians will still face brutal suppression at the hands of the Israeli state. Apartheid laws will still remain. Palestinian children will continue to get kidnapped and tortured in prisons. Armed Israeli settlers will continue to act as shook troops in the Occupied Territories.

The state of Israel must be dismantled and occupation must end for such a permanent ceasefire to happen. Support the end of the occupation.

[emptyportrait]

[butchscientist]

The fuel blockade on Gaza also prevents sewage treatment facilities from running, leading to massive amounts of untreated sewage contaminating the Mediterranean.

[lifeinpoetry]

History is full of people who just didn’t. They said no thank you, turned away, ran away to the desert, stood on the streets in rags, lived in barrels, burned down their own houses, walked barefoot through town, killed their rapists, pushed away dinner, meditated into the light.

— Anne Boyer, from "No," published on the Poetry Foundation blog

[the-oddest-inkling]

Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

[ilta222]

november 🍂 enjoy the colors before they're gone

[zoesupreme]

Democrats are further right than fucking Reagan on this

[zoesupreme]

Biden himself was further right and more openly bloodthirsty than Reagan and the Israeli Prime Minister during the 1982 Lebanon war

[mahgnolias]