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how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

medical aid for palestinians

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

mohammed is a friend of ahmed (90-ghost) and is a haemophilia patient. him and his family are currently living in a tent on the streets of rafah.

help gaza’s children

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

no forced displacement! - action network

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

[wildzero]

white boy SHOCKS friend group by growing perfect c cup breasts

[oneheadtoanother]

[cuntwarehouse]

(driving home from work) i must not kill myself. killing myself is the myself killer. i will— (sees a guy jogging shirtless and he’s all sweaty) Woaw i wish I lived in his armpit (crashes car into telephone pole)

[juno-infernal]

Glen Martin Taylor, “but i am safe in here.”

[francisforever2014]

she needs unproblematic queer relationships with thoughtful communication and healthy attachment

no! unproblematic representation will kill the patient

she needs queerbait to live

[dtacore]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

op link the fucking article

[dtacore]

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football enjoy reading about football :)

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

thanks. what the fuck

[borrowmyshovel]

the understanding of transandrophobia will remain incomplete as long as we describe the trans community as an incidental participant rather than an enthusiastic one. There can be no analysis of trans men's erasure that is of any use to anyone, unless we start taking into account the ways erasing, infantilising and demonizing trans men benefits trans people of all genders. Until we understand that we're not dealing with a million oopsie-daisies, but with a motivated pattern of behavior - not in the sense of some kind of master plan, but of a system of incentives that make transandrophobia beneficial to the people enacting it. We're stuck playing whack-a-mole with symptoms of a sickness that's been passed down in the community since before the time of Magnus Hirschfeld.

[borrowmyshovel]

to make it as clear as possible: i do not mean this is the fault of trans women. I used the terms "trans community" and "trans people of all genders" very consciously, and not in order to obfuscate some secret message. I mean what I said, just the way I said it.

Trans people, *of all genders*, are motivated to ensure the existence of an underclass. Trans people, *of all genders*, can be in a position to reap the benefits of erasing, infantilising, and vilifying other trans people. Transandrophobia is one of the many tools that can be used for that purpose. The same principle holds for transmisogyny, exorsexism, transmedicalism, so on. Trans men can be in a position to benefit from perpetuating transandrophobia just as women like Blaire White can benefit from perpetuaring transmisogyny.

[borrowmyshovel]

With that disclaimer out of the way: transandrophobia within the trans community cannot be adequately explained as a collection of isolated incidents. There are many good reasons for trans people to be transandrophobic that we're gonna have to reckon with if we are to ever grow past it.

Transandrophobia is so baked into the core of this community's understanding of itself that challenging it is seen as an act of aggression against trans people. Conversely, enacting it is commonly understood as allyship. This is itself motivates all trans people to be transandrophobic. Perhaps especially trans men, who do not have the privilege of neutrality on the issue. There is a reason some of the most ardent opponents of the discussion of transandrophobia are themselves trans men. They are almost expected to pick a side: either fight transandrophobia, and be seen as traitors to their own community, or enforce it, and be one of the good ones.

Putting down trans men is an almost self-soothing behavior. It feels good to have a group of trans people to refer to as "the worst ones", the privileged, the immoral, the traitors, because it means you are not those things. And perhaps counter-intuitively, this is still not the exclusive domain of trans women, or transfems, or just trans non-men. Trans men can, and do, take advantage of this dynamic by simply drawing a line betweenbad trans men, who are devoted to their worst impulses the the detriment of the trans community, and good trans men, who are aware of their evil and fight against it.

Then there's the simple desire to appeal to cis people. Trans men's self-advocacy complicates the understanding of trans identity, which makes it less sellable to outsiders. To truly understand trans men as an oppressed class is to challenge the binary in a way that is simply unpalatable to many cis people, whose understanding of transness begins and ends with the phrase "trans women are women". And the concern is that by asking them to understand trans men's full experience, we will reach the end of their patience, and cause them to give up even that degree of trans acceptance. Which is barely anything, to be clear, and does as close to jack shit to benefit even trans women as is conceivably possible. Especially considering that same worry has been also weaponised against trans women, to accuse those who do not quite fit to conventional standards of womanhood of bringing the rest of the community down. But it is something, and when you're used to having nothing, anything is too much to lose.

I keep feeling the need to clarify that none of this is a trans woman problem. It is a trans community problem. This is a pink white and blue bucket of crabs, and we'll either all get our shit together and work on getting out, or we'll all boil.

[borrowmyshovel]

In the interest of closing any potential avenue for misunderstanding: The oppressor of trans people, as a class, is never other trans people. What we are dealing with here is one of the many ways bigotry keeps itself alive even within the groups that aim to fight it. This is in no way a phenomenon unique to the trans community. Pretty much every marginalised group has a version of it. There is always some benefit to throwing other marginalised people under the bus, be it a cushy job at Fox News or just the satisfaction of feeling above someone else for a moment. The opportunity to actually do it is more readily available to some than to others, which is part of the whole deal of intersectionality: it is easier to make a Bad Subgroup out of multiply marginalised people. And for that reason the problem is wider than just transandrophobia, and wider than just the trans community.

[intersexcat-tboy]

"you're not oppressed for being masc, you're oppressed for being GNC!"

Ok, and what part of me makes me GNC? You mean, my masculinity? The masculinity that makes me GNC?

[genderkoolaid]

I just saw a freaking take like "transandrophobia is erasure, transmisogyny is murder. Just admit transmisogyny is worse."

Crazy thought here but what if the whole erasure thing makes murders less likely to be seen as such?

People's understanding of erasure is, ironically, so clouded by erasure as a social force that it just reinforces itself.

Anyways. I have the Archive of Violence Against Transmasculine People for explicitly this purpose.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ignorance: thinking erasure just means people don't see/pay attention to a group

Knowledge: realizing erasure means you have no idea how many of the people in that group are being killed

[prof-grace-aspen]

I'm going to say it again:

"Men are dangerous" is 100% patriarchal rhetoric.

The patriarchy does everything it can to train men to be dangerous. It creates a toxic version of masculinity that only profits and privileges men who choose to be dangerous. It does everything it can to put men into positions where they can be dangerous.

Which means that danger is artificially constructed.

Men are not dangerous because they're male. Men are not dangerous because they're masculine. Masculinity and manhood are not dangerous things.

The dangerous version of masculinity sold by the patriarchy is a social construct that can, in fact, be opted out of. Men and masculine people can construct a masculinity that is not toxic, that does not promote violence, that is centered around healthy relationships and communication and helping others.

Building a healthy, vibrant vision of masculinity is absolutely a part of feminism. I'm not saying it needs to be done by women - do not twist this into a claim that I'm attempting to burden women with remaking masculinity. Men can be feminists. Men who are feminists are eager and willing and actively taking part in the act of ripping masculinity away from the patriarchy and reforming it into something new.

[genderkoolaid]

I just saw a freaking take like "transandrophobia is erasure, transmisogyny is murder. Just admit transmisogyny is worse."

Crazy thought here but what if the whole erasure thing makes murders less likely to be seen as such?

People's understanding of erasure is, ironically, so clouded by erasure as a social force that it just reinforces itself.

Anyways. I have the Archive of Violence Against Transmasculine People for explicitly this purpose.

[lago-morpha]

should I post a diy ftm hrt guide? it's hard to figure out if you're not at least a little technically inclined like me but that would also require a bunch of fucking work so id rather not do it unless people specifically show interest

[lago-morpha]

It’s possible to diy ftm hrt???

yeah dude. you can do this all on your phone too though it is less secure to use tor on one. keep in mind it's not really the most anonymous thing to send people paypal money for crypto or use tor on your phone but the police could not give less of a shit about people buying steroids or drugs in general for personal use. if you're not selling or buying distribution amounts they doooon't care

all you have to do is download tor (google it and click the first result or use the play store)

go on tor.taxi and pick a market, open the market link in tor [I use incognito]

get a crypto wallet [I used cake wallet]

buy bitcoin/monero/whatever with a P2P market, basically crypto version of reddit marketplaces [I used localmonero and sent paypal money in exchange for monero, make sure to follow the directions the market gives you, like not sending any money unless it says it's ok, you can always cancel if you feel like you're getting scammed and make sure to pick someone with lots of reviews]

send the crypto into your wallet on the market, wait

look up testosterone and make sure that it is shipping DOMESTICALLY. don't bother with customs. keep in mind 10ml = ten doses, if you're like me and take 2[50]mg biweekly. it'll be twenty if you take it every week.

place order! just fill out your shipping info and pay lol

it's pretty simple, remember to log in and release the money once your package arrives! [go to your orders and click the button that says release funds]. the other person is waiting on their money and it's helpful to release it as soon as you get what you ordered.

I hope this helps anon

[sometimesraven]

When Brianna was killed I couldn't log on to tumblr or facebook without seeing posts about her. There were vigils held locally for her.

Not even my local trans support group has said a word about Nex. I had to post about them myself. This silence is deafening. I'm exhausted.

[borrowmyshovel]

So. A transmasc child is dead. Assaulted by their classmates, left to die by school staff, misgendered and deadnamed by the press. And it's about fucking time we have a serious talk about the way we discuss transmasc victimisation - or rather, the way we don't.

The dynamic is especially evident in the way we talk about terfs, and exemplified by the dichotomy: "terfs recruit trans men, but they want trans women dead". This does three separate things:

It minimises the harm terfs do to the transmascs they recruit. Terfs don't just want transmascs to join them; they want transmascs to live as women. Coerced detransition kills. Suicide rates are extremely high among transmascs, and lack of support raises them further. To want trans men to detransition is to want them dead.

It positions trans men as a threat to trans women. As, essentially, terfs waiting to reveal themselves. What should be seen as a common enemy instead becomes a new vector for division. This fear is such that a common retort against transmascs who are seen as misbehaving is "you're gonna become a terf". Trans men are scrutinised for signs of this inevitable transformation, inundated with prophecies of their induction into the cult that wants to drag them back into the worst period of their lives.

It boosts the narrative terfs want to spread about themselves. Terfs love to say they are a safe space for transmascs. It helps them sound less hateful, and it helps them recruit. In reality, terfs are extremely hateful against transmascs they see as too far gone to be targets for recruitment. They see rape and hate crimes as just desserts, they wish death on transmascs who disagree with them, they talk about trans men on hrt as roided up monsters. And yet all of that has seemingly gone under the radar, because we're just not willing to acknowledge it happens.

More broadly, transmasc victimisation is seen as a joke. There was a hilarious post going around a while back about transmascs in abusive relationships with cis men who won't let them transition - the joke being on the transmasc in that situation. Multiple posts about specifically nonbinary transmascs, characterising their fears of transphobic violence as the oppression fantasies of privileged women, their experiences of dysphoria as laughably immaterial. No negative experience is serious enough once it's stacked up against murder, and trasnmascs who have been murdered aren't exactly in position to use that fact as a gotcha, are they?

There is a broad resistance to understanding transmascs as the victims of any situation. Part of it is a sort of trans-inclusive sexism: we don't think of cis men as victims, so we can't think of trans men as victims either. But they are.

Another is plain transphobia: dismissing trans people's experiences as not that bad, irrelevant to their trans status, or entirely fabricated is old hat at this point.

A third is a kind of... weaponised transfem advocacy? Any discussion of transmasc experience can be derailed by claiming transfems are somehow being harmed by it, and any harm that befalls a transmasc person can be dismissed by conjuring a hypothetical transfem who would have had it worse. And it sure seems like great allyship at the moment, despite the fact that it doesn't actually help transfems at all.

We often urge transmascs to be the protectors of transfems. Trans solidarity is crucial. But unless we are able to also conceptualise transmascs as needing protection, our solidarity will remain incomplete. And transmascs will continue to die, and be buried twice, both outside the trans community and inside it.

[pineappleciders]

The children of Gaza deserve to grow up with their mothers and fathers.

The children of Gaza deserve to grow up in a safe and healthy environment.

The children of Gaza deserve to grow up to have careers and families of their own.

The children of Gaza deserve to grow up.

[longlivepalestine]

The Palestinians deserve to live.