harto amor

☭ from south america, living in the east coast - let's laugh and be kind to each other ya'll

[1five1two]

'Pretty big eggs'. Alai Ganuza. 2022.

[achillesinhighheels]

[curtwilde]

Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.

Donate if you can and share.

[gothhabiba]

my friends and I are all noticing that it's getting harder and harder to fundraise for Palestine.

[gothhabiba]

Some grassroots initiatives helping people and families in Gaza:

Relief for Rafah: a Mutual Aid Project

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

Isnad: Supporting Students in Gaza

[gothhabiba]

Israel has resumed its assault on Gaza, and has denied the entry of vital aid, including food, water, and medicine. People in Gaza are still living a nightmare, struggling to afford the necessities of life.

You can help Mohammed Abu Alwan feed his three young children by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry."

$0 / $200 (for Sun, Nov 9)

[gothhabiba]

🪻 $50 / $200 🪻

Thank you!

[sovietpaintings]

Чукотские Дети | Chukotka's Children;

Serafim Frolov, 1970.

[wetheurban]

Non-sexual turn-ons: Reassurance. Intentionality. Kindness. Vulnerability. Consistency. Intelligence. Safe energy.

[manny-jacinto]

Matthew Macfadyen on set of Pride and Prejudice (2005)

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[redkakusu]

I would think this idea permeates our society due to it being intrinsically linked to capitalism itself.

Capitalism is built on the idea of perpetuity, it must get bigger, better, faster. So the idea that you have to be successful, forever, is needed to sell the lie; that it’s good that Amazon is opening another data centre. It’s good that Blackrock is buying more homes than ever.

ITS GOOD, I PROMISE

[ahneunjin]

CHUNGKING EXPRESS 重慶森林 (1994) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

[the-portrait-of-a-lover-deactiv]

[farmlesbians]

i’m gatekeeping myself. nobody can know who i am

[alfedena]

"The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor. Confrontation would disrupt the smooth functioning of the society and so the politics of the liberal leads him into a position where he finds himself politically aligned with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed. The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation [...] is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it. He enjoys economic stability from the status quo and if he fights for change he is risking his economic stability. What the liberal is really saying is that he hopes to bring about justice and economic stability for everyone through reform, that somehow the society will be able to keep expanding without redistributing the wealth."

Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism

[nyantara]

Studies show that 80% of Mexican and Mexican American women farmworkers in the U.S. have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work. Rape is common enough for some to nickname their workplace the “fields of panties.” For comparison, about 38% of women in the U.S. report experiencing some kind of workplace sexual harassment. [...]

Agriculture holds a special status under federal labor laws, which permit farm owners to hire children as young as 12. Facing low wages and high poverty rates, farm worker families often rely on income from children’s work.

Experts say young girls may be especially vulnerable to sexual harassment and violence on farms because they are less likely to recognize and report abuse. Currently, children as young as 12 can be hired on farms without a cap on the number of hours they work, as long as they don’t miss school.

Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers – here’s how the US could reduce their risk

Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries in the US, with workers exposed to vehicles, chemicals and heavy equipment. Women workin

h/t @ardl

[f4ggydog]

this is gonna sound super “unwoke” but idc cause its true. if u want to be extremely firm in your palestinian activism you gotta stop being scared of being called anti semitic. anti semitism is real but in context to palestine its almost always a buzzword used by privileged jewish ppl who want u to downplay israel and israelis’ colonization. you aren’t anti semitic for standing with palestine. there is no anti semitism problem in palestinian advocacy. that white jewish lady crying in her penthouse in new york isn’t the victim here. stop falling for it.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Texas, Florida hit with far more ICE arrests than California. But that's not the whole story

California arrests lag behind states such as Texas and Florida, because those states started with more arrests. They also have a stronger re

Some immigration experts and community activists cite the organized resistance in L.A. as another reason the numbers of ICE arrests were lower in California than in Texas and even lower than dozens of states by percentage of population.

“The reason is the resistance, organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio Los Angeles, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.

“They’ve been chased out in the different neighborhoods where we organize,” he said. “We’ve been able to mobilize the community to surround the agents when they come to kidnap people.”

In L.A., activists patrolled the streets from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days a week, Gochez said. They faced off with ICE agents in Home Depot parking lots and at warehouses and farms.

“We were doing everything that we could to try to keep up with the intensity of the military assault,” Gochez said. “The resistance was strong. … We’ve been able, on numerous occasions, to successfully defend the communities and drive them out of our community.”

[kropotkindersurprise]