Unearthing this from the drafts because holy shit have I been on hiatus sorry college is crazy
Translations:
- Elijah West's (informal) twitter account handle is a pun on his name with the tagalog word for "west"
- First reply (second image): God, I wish I were his shirt instead
- Third image: Motherfucker did you guys see the you-know-who's photoshoot? I'm so gay fuck
- the idiomatic expression: nakakabakla, basically just means you're gay for something. It used to be utilized by straight (girls mostly) people to express admiration for the same sex but emphasizing their sexuality in the process (e.g. saying they're NOT gay but they admire this/these same sex people/s so much that they might BECOME gay). I believe it has since then been reclaimed by the filipino queer community but I could just be hanging around a lot of queer filipino people who have reclaimed it.
- the "sb" at the end of Elijah's twitter username (images 2, 3, and 4) may seem random but it comes from the larger abbreviation "nbsb" meaning "No Boyfriend Since Birth" (a filipino expression to suggest that obviously, the person being reffered to has never had a boyfriend before) so the "sb" basically just means "since birth"
I am Inas, a mother of two young children: Muhammad, 7 years old, and Hala, 5 years old. They should have been living their childhood like all children—safe and warm in the embrace of their father. But the war has stolen that dream from us😭😭😭
Six months ago, my husband Anas, a kind-hearted man who endured a life of poverty, was killed by a random shell while on his way to work as a taxi driver. Since that tragic day, I’ve been left to carry the unbearable weight of life alone.
I held a diploma in international secretarial studies and was about to start a job to help support my family. But the war shattered not only our home but also my hopes and dreams. We’ve been displaced six times and now live in a tent that offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the ever-looming fear.
My young children face relentless hunger that weakens their fragile bodies and a cold that knows no mercy for their small hearts. Each day, their cries for warmth and food grow louder, and each day, I feel more helpless to provide them with even the basics of life💔😭😭
I appeal to your humanity, to your compassion. We need your help to survive, to find a safe shelter, and to feed my children. Your generosity could be the reason Muhammad and Hala continue to live and find hope amidst this darkness🥹
Please, help me keep the light of these innocent children from being extinguished by this cruel world
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My name is Gabe. I am from Portland, OR and I am raising funds on behalf of Enas Shukry I… Gabriel G needs your support for Help Enas and he
Words are no longer enough to capture the tragedy my family and I endure.
My name is Wedad Shadi, I am 15 years old, and I live in Gaza, Palestine.🇵🇸
Our home was completely destroyed, and now we live in a torn, fragile tent. We are a family of 7, and my mother, father, and my little sister Mira were injured when our house was bombed.
My mother and Mira are in urgent need of medical treatment, but we have nothing to pay for their care, not even food to survive.
My mother and my sister were injured during the war. I am terrified of losing them… please, don’t leave me without my mother and sister. They need urgent help to survive.
They desperately need medicine and medical treatment, as shown in the videos. Every moment without help is a struggle for their lives.
Please, I beg you… save them, help us, and give them a chance to live. 🙏💔
I have started school, but I could not register because I cannot afford the fees.
Please, I beg you to help us. Donate to save my mother and my innocent little sister before it’s too late. Every contribution can save a life and bring hope to a family in desperate need.
Every day we wake up to the same reality: destroyed homes, no safety, no stability, and needs that keep growing.
People think the pain paused… but for us, it never did.
Even with a so-called “ceasefire,” nothing has really stopped.
The explosions, the drones, the fear — the violations never ended.
And our suffering definitely didn’t.
Your support is the only reason many of us manage to keep going.
Your donation 🙏🙏 — no matter how small — can mean medicine, food, warmth, and a little bit of dignity in a life that’s been stripped of everything.
Please, stand with us. Don’t let this struggle fade from the world’s attention.
We still desperately need you to get back on our feet.
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Hello, my name is Mickey from Michigan USA and I am raising funds for Wedad… Mickey Dee needs your support for Support Wedad's Journey to Sa
I am writing to you with a heart crushed by endless tears, from a hospital bed where fear and pain surround me. Every moment feels heavier than the last, and I am desperate for help to save myself and my children
My name is Suhaila, a mother of four children.
I am writing these words from inside the hospital, with a heart full of fear and pain.
My health is very critical. My iron level is 6,
and my little daughter Miral’s iron level is 5.
I urgently need donations to buy the medicine and save our lives
My husband is injured and unable to work. We have no income and no protection.
Our family lives in a torn tent, exposed to cold, hunger, and fear every day.
My health is very critical. My iron level is 6,
and my little daughter Miral’s iron level is 5.
She is so weak… her small body is fading, and I cannot afford the medicine or the food she needs to survive.
Right now, my daughter and I are in the hospital, waiting helplessly.
My other children are alone in the tent, hungry and scared.
We are not asking for luxury.
We are asking for treatment to stay alive
and food so my children do not die.
Please, do not let my children lose their mother,
and do not let me lose my daughter in front of my eyes.
Help us. Save us. We are slowly dying. 😭💔🙏
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Hi my name is Mickey and I'm raising funds for:
Suheila, who is a m… Mickey Dee needs your support for Support Suhaila's family in
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💬 69 🔁 6676 ❤️ 1415 · My name is Suheila from Gaza 🇵🇸,
a mother of 5 children, living with my family in a tent after the war destroyed ou
critically stagnant spotlight campaigns for today (5/12.)
all campaigns are vetted by the organizers of gaza funds. this site has been vouched for by palestinian bloggers. for full transparency, a list of campaigns is available to view on their site. additionally, if you look at my list of individual campaigns, you will see that i personally trust these campaigns and have donated to them many times.
karem al-kahlout: 16 days since last donation
ahmed atallah: 16 days since last donation
yasmin's family: 15 days since last donation
rania alneder: 12 days since last donation
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raghad's family: 7 days since last donation
campaigns in danger of becoming critically stagnant:
bessan khalaf: 5 days since last donation
this list comprises the majority of my active gaza funds spotlight campaigns. i am actively spotlighting 14 campaigns. eight of them are critically stagnant, and one more is in danger of becoming critically stagnant.
individual posts for these campaigns are generally ignored, which is why i've moved to using this pinned post instead. it simply takes me too long to queue up a bunch of posts people will just scroll past. please don’t ignore this, you have the opportunity to throw someone a lifeline and do some real good. even if you don’t have any money, a reblog is free and can help get more eyes on these campaigns. none of them are on tumblr, to my knowledge. nobody sees these campaigns unless people reblog posts about them or make their own posts.
thank you in advance for your consideration.
tags for reach under the cut (you can always let me know if you'd rather not be on this list, or if you want to be added to the list!)
BEFORE YOU SCROLL, THESE MAY BE MY LAST WORDS ABOUT QAIS.
Today, my baby Qais lost consciousness because of severe anemia caused by malnutrition and the lack of available blood units, and I thought I was losing him in my arms forever.
Thanks to your previous donations, he was able to undergo adenoid surgery successfully. Today, he urgently needs another surgery to remove his tonsils because he is still in pain and struggling every day.
The cost of the operation is $250.
I am Veronica Salber, a friend of ahmad from Gaza. I created this campaign to ensure that donations reach her safely and with full transpare
Any donation, even a small amount, can help relieve his pain and give him a chance to recover.Please donate or share this post.
Your kindness could save my child from more suffering. 🥺🙏
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So, I recently made a tweet talking about how people who continuously defend celebrities for shallow/deficient support for the movements they stand behind often pretend to care about these issues more so than they actually do. While I recognize now that I probably should have worded the whole thing differently, there's no going back on it now. I brought up in the tweet that if all it takes for a person to compromise their staunch activism is their favorite celebrity disagreeing with them, then it says more about their integrity than it ever could about that celebrity, which I stand by. I know I dropped multiple actors, shows, musicians, and influencers that I adored because they were either very Pro-Israel, or doing surface-level activism for Palestine after being met with backlash over their silence (one of them was Brittany Broski and the other was Lana Del Ray).
If you have a strong personal conviction towards a political issue, I staunchly believe that compromise or complacency goes hand in hand with oppression itself. With an issue as pervasive and destructive as the Palestinian genocide especially, it's either a figure I personally enjoy advocate for it actively, or the support isn't palpable. Those are only my personal convictions and I do not seek to prescribe anything over anybody else who believes in the liberation and freedom of the Palestinians and the returning of the Occupied West Bank to these communities that were forcefully expelled from their land. I believe as progressives, we have to be empathetic and open-minded, and I try to work towards that as much as possible.
It comes to a point though, and while celebrities like Gal Gadot are a no-brainer to criticize and completely boycott, celebrities and figures like Noah Schnapp and Lana Del Ray are different stories specifically BECAUSE they have people defending their actions. I brought up in the tweet that liking these celebrities is okay but defending them is entirely in vain because it is the antithesis of asking for accountability. I'm glad that Noah Schnapp has grown and has allegedly donated to Palestinian relief funds because we need as many people behind this as possible. Defending him is an entirely different story, the tweet was originally about individual performative activism, NOT whether Noah Schnapp was a zionist.
I'm no longer going to put my two cents into that because it's been debated to high hell, come to your own conclusion about his standing. The rhetoric people used to defend him though, are harmful if left to perpetuate. You cannot two sides the issue of Palestinian genocide, praying for both sides is an implication that the damage has been anywhere near parallel. 'Both-sides'-ing the whole issue is a compartmentalization that is reductive of the extent of Palestinian suffering and the atrocities of the Israeli ethosupremacist apartheid. You can pray for both sides all you want but the survivors of nearly a century of genocide and forced migration do not feel prayed for by apologies and white fear. I'm in no way shape or form trying to oppression olympics this issue, I am against terrorism as any reasonable human person would be. However, if stories about Israeli suffering are directly speaking over stories trying to bring to light the atrocities that have been unfolding in the occupied West Bank and historic Palestine for nearly a century? Then it begins to cross the boundary of reasonable empathy. These two things can coexist, but not one over the other.
Today is the 78th commemoration of the Nakba, the event in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their land and 400 villages in Historic Palestine were ceased by Israeli military forces. We should not be talking about celebrities in the first place, yet here we are because some people are more so concerned with a defense of their actions than the suffering of the peoples they claim to care about.
There was also somebody under that tweet telling me I was coopting the genocide of millions to talk about fandom drama which is...bold to say the least. I know I shouldn't have to defend myself or get defensive but the assumption was odd. They don't know me, don't know to what extent my activism even extends and yet they were confident enough to make an assumption based on a single tweet. I'm pretty sure they were also pro-Palestine too which is disconcerting.
All of this is to say that defending celebrities for having an ill-informed perspective on an issue in the same breath that you proclaim to care about said issue, is a cheap compromise that you should not reduce yourself to. Pirate stranger things, consume fan content, like Will's character, talk about him all you want, but a defense of Noah Schnapp's past actions is outrageous, especially when its pushing rhetorics that we actively try to avoid.
P.S. I don't advertise the treatment of Noah Schnapp by certain users online. Bigotry, antisemitism, homophobia, none of these things are okay and the fact that people are using Noah's queerness to attack him is an unbelievable low. I don't want to claim these people as fellow progressives, if not all of us are free, then none of us are free.
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