Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Yves | nonbinary | bisexual | black

[writingdotcoffee]

Rule one, you have to write. If you don’t write, nothing will happen.

Neil Gaiman (via writingdotcoffee)

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Middle East eye recorded an interview with a palestinian woman who was kidnapped from her children for several days and she spoke about being continuously told to strip by Israeli women soldiers and being beaten by men and women occupation soldiers. It makes you think all that bullshit about solidarity with all women. israeli women can choke they facilitated the rape of palestinian women in Gaza and beat palestinian women with no remorse because theyre palestinian (the palestinian woman said "it was all punishment"). Because at the end of the day regardless the abuse israeli women face in their society, well they consider themselves part of the colony and superior to the native. Women settler colonialists who proclaim feminism only want to be equal to the men in their colonial project. All that bullshit zionists have been talking about "believe all women. Believe israeli women" actually never pertained to all women because where is their shock regarding the testimony of palestinian women relaying the sexual abuse they faced? No where

[bloglikeanegyptian]

its relatively obvious that my mindset is not the best lately but i have been trying to keep a lot of my nihilism from spilling over. and because i'm forcing myself to do it i will say despite everything i think all these systems of oppression are emerging and solidifying particularly to combat the ease with which people are collective. i think it's very radical that people in gaza or sudan or anywhere else can reach out to the diaspora in the imperial core instantaneously. i think it's radical that the first instinct people have now is to appeal to humanity at large. do you see this? do you see us? make it go viral. people don't just appeal to organizations and governments anymore, they appeal to everyone. i think its easy to overstate the impotence of something like social media (as happened with the arab spring) in the face of war and genocide but i also think access has fundamentally restructured our world and that's terrifying to a lot of people. i have no idea how this will play out in ten, twenty, thirty years. but we've never experienced anything like the past decade as a human race. we've never had wars fought on livestream, organizers and journalists and killers and victims and colonizers and the colonized all jumbled up in one endless loop, interacting endlessly in op-eds and quote tweets and tiktok edits and scam iftars and doxxing websites and promoted ads where some latent meme can be given as much cultural weight as a drone strike on a human body as a singer choosing to make a political statement as a president scrolling through his notifications. so much is built to combat this constant exchange of life that it reinforces it all the same. i think things are bleak but i think things are changing in ways we probably can't imagine, we can only adapt to.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Healthy love is glad to be told what a loved one needs, healthy love is eager to take part in the work of loving. Healthy love is excited to see a loved one confident and happy, and has no desire to be the source or arbiter of a loved one’s self-esteem or confidence - healthy love is happy to reassure and eager to compliment, but not to be the only source of positive regard in a loved one’s life. Healthy love is glad when others show a loved one care and respect, and wants loved ones to have lots of sources of positive regard.

Healthy love wants to see a loved one accept love with gladness and confidence, not shame and feelings of unworthiness. Healthy love wants the loved one to truly know deep down that they are worthy of love and care and respect, and to respond with reciprocation, not gratitude.

The people who love you in a healthy way do not need or want for you to make yourself as small as possible. They don’t want or need you to minimize your own needs and desires, they don’t need or want you to act like they’re doing you a giant favour by treating you with love and respect. The people who love you in a healthy way will be so glad if you accept their love as something you deserve. They won’t think you’re being selfish or self-centred or full of yourself if you accept love with reciprocation and not self-effacing gratitude - in fact, they will be glad!

Because healthy love wants to see YOU healthy and happy, and you aren’t either while you’re letting poisonous self-hatred fester in you. Whoever planted those seeds, you aren’t obligated to tend the plant yourself. You do not have to be a shrine to those who have treated you badly. You can tear out self-hatred wherever you find it, and the people who love you will not only agree you are entitled to do so, they will rejoice with you with each victory!

You deserve care and respect. The people who love you in a healthy way believe you deserve care and respect, and their belief doesn’t hinge on you cowering and acting self-effacing and denying your needs. Instead, their belief that you deserve care and respect means they don’t want you to act like you’re less than them, they don’t want you to constantly defer to their needs and desires, they want to be total equals! They want to just be asked for reassurance when you need it - people who love you in a healthy way don’t need to be manipulated into giving you bits of reassurance!

The people who love you in a healthy way do not need power over you in order to love you fully - they can love you even better the more you participate in the process of sharing your true self, what you actually need and want, who you actually are. Love is work that has to be tended together - that includes letting the people who love you do kindnesses for you instead of you always being the giver.

Healthy love is respect and care and reciprocity.

[mikedawwwson]

"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

[niki-smith]

A good day to reblog this, I just found out The Deep & Dark Blue is on another new ban list, this time in Colorado. Hooray.

[borgevino]

the allergy i am seeing grow up around small talk in any form is troubling to me. do you know how to make friends with people in your physical environment? it typically starts with small talk. do you want to live in community? small talk. do you want to have the type of relationship with your neighbors where you can run over and borrow a battery for your smoke detector when it starts beeping at 10pm? small talk!! do you want leeway from your coworkers when you fuck up something small? you gotta be able to build a relationship and that's small talk, baybeee.

"but i don't need friends and i don't care about community!" okay, lone ranger, what about the people in your community who need you? "but i have social anxiety!" me too, bud! we simply must soldier on. making up lists of questions to ask people helps. and people are predisposed to be generous, i've found. even if you make some kind of mistake, what is this but the natural give and take of human interaction? nobody is perfect.

you were not put on this earth to live by yourself and then die. you need people and people need you. treat those around you with curiosity and generousness of spirit and you will gain so much goodwill in return.

[embraceyourdestiny]

Hello everyone, the US Senate is conducting a survey to get the opinions of people on issues such as a ceasefire in Palestine, America funding Israel’s weapons, and the TikTok ban. Please share and take the survey, let your voices be heard. (Non Americans can participate )

Survey

[ptseti]

A History of the Democratic Republic of Congo… From IG - @redstreamnet — Did you know that the CIA once orchestrated the execution of Patrice Lumumba by a firing squad? On the 17th of January, 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, was executed by a firing squad following assassination plots concocted by the US and Belgian governments. Lumumba’s anti-imperialism and his vision of a united Congo made him an adversary of both Belgium and US imperialism. Although the CIA ordered his assassination, they weren’t able to carry it out themselves. Instead, Washington and Brussels secretly funnelled cash and aid to rival politicians who organized a coup and arrested Lumumba. He was then beaten, tortured, and killed. #BlackHistory #PanAfrican #AfricanHistory #AntiColonialism

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[moniquill]

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[muhtesemz]

A Muslim woman plays with a child next to the Dome of the Rock, East Jerusalem, Palestine.

Ramadan 1443.

Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters

[sar-soor]

Ramadan Kareem to all those who observe, may Allah accept our fasts and duaa and allow us growth and harmony over the course of the next month. May Allah ease the suffering of those in Gaza and across Falasteen, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Tigray, Kashmir, West Papau, and all those who are oppressed around the world. May He grant them shifa, tranquility, steadfastness, and sabr. May He grant us the strength and ability to fight injustice wherever we see it, and victory over our oppressors.

Here is a list of resources for Gaza and Falasteen. Here is an even bigger list. Here’s a much smaller one. Here is one with resources for both Gaza and Sudan.

Here is the link to a GFM that is very important to me. Here is the link to a GFM for a family in urgent need of evacuation out of Gaza.

Here is a way to help out Sudan. Here are links for donations, Sudanese businesses to support, and brief education about Sudan. Here is a post with resources for education and updates about what's happening in Sudan.

Here is a post with resources for Tigray.

Here is a post with important information on boycotting for Congo. Here is a post with links to support Congo.

Here is a list of resources for education on various issues around the world, including but not limited to West Papau, Hawai'i, Kashmir, and Armenia.

You can check my resources tag for more. I know tumblr's searching system isn't the best, though, so I tried to put as many as I could from that tag here.

Ramadan Kareem. May every action we take towards justice bring us lasting freedom and tranquility 🌙

[wingedprincessheart]

ok some days being visibly homo is the most wonderful thing in the world. an old woman walking her dog stopped to say hello to me and I asked if i could say hi to her dog. she seemed really excited and told me "his name is rupert brooke. i named him after a gay poet from the era of the first world war. he had red hair just like my dogs fur". then she leans in and whispers like she's divulging some great secret and says "i don't usually tell people about the gay part"

[littlemousling]

I’ve told this one before, but: I was in a long-distance relationship in 2010. One time, after flying back into Toronto, I got a cab to my apartment. The cab driver, who was a recent Pakistani immigrant, asked where I had been travelling.

And I had to think about my safety as a passenger and a woman, but I decided to just tell him: “I was visiting my girlfriend in New York.” And he went quiet, and I was briefly terrified, and then he said, “It’s good here in Canada, for people like us.” AND THEN I FUCKING CRIED OBVIOUSLY.

It’s good to be visibly or openly queer, when you can be. There are so many more of us out there than you ever realize otherwise.

[voluptatiscausa]

The pronoun pin I wear at work does not stop coworkers from misgendering me but it sure as hell makes the students feel safer.

The number of students that just visibly relax and share their chosen names with me at the reference desk makes me so emotional.

[sjoongki]

ramadan mubarak to all those who are observing. may this holy month soothe all of the aches lingering in your heart, wash away whatever burdens that may be weighing you down, reward you for all of the sacrifices that you have had to make in order to survive, shine light through whatever darkness that has made you doubt your place in this world, and grant you the inner peace, genuine happiness, and relief that you have been praying so patiently for.

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