[nannotual-moved-deactivated2021]

coming out as parasexual

[nannotual-moved-deactivated2021]

i'm only attracted to people who i've formed a relationship with in my head

[joey-wheeler-official]

Gonna go have plot important sex with my protagonist wife

[oddlyunadventurous]

[slopaganda]

we'd be spared a lot of gifted kid discourse if some of you would just admit to yourselves that you grew up thinking you were superior to everyone else and now you're deeply insecure after realizing that you're not actually all that special

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

March 16, 2003: Rachel Corrie, Palestine solidarity activist from the U.S., murdered by Israeli bulldozer while defending a Palestinian home in Gaza.

“Rachel, who came to Rafah to stop the tanks, we remember her with love and honour as an inspiration” - Graffiti in occupied Palestine

[guerrillatech]

[woodrider]

onionize your workplace

[corporationkills]

hello? uhhh...yea hello?

[psikonauti]

Woman With Her Crow at the Limelight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1950s 

Photo by Weegee

[blackwoolncrown]

I’m sitting in a climate summit rn and I really need to remind people that agricultural trafficking is a bigger issue than sex trafficking AND sexual assault happens to trafficking victims in EVERY field to the point that it’s kind of disingenuous to call it/focus on ‘sex trafficking’ the way it’s disingenuous to complain about sex work being ‘exploitative’ or the source of sex trafficking as if hotel workers, restaurant workers and so on aren’t known to be exposed to extremely high amounts of sexual harassment and assault.

anyway apparently some 70% of the children trafficked into child labor in the US are in the agricultural fields to put veggies on shelves and houseplants in home depot.

just something to think about.

[blackwoolncrown]

I also want to remind you that the vast majority of farm workers are Black and Indigenous. Like down here it’s mostly Mexican & Haitian workers. Working the fields for pennies a unit with no breaks, in the heat. This is the legacy of slavery. This culture forces people who know the land to feed them, and gives them NOTHING in return. They did it with Africans and Indigenous people up and down the east coast and into the Caribbean and they’re STILL doing it.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

For those who don’t know the context behind what OP’s saying, I recommend this interview with a long-time researcher and consultant on human trafficking. A relevant quote:

What we should have done [instead of separating “sex trafficking” from other forms of trafficking] was talk about forced labour, including forced sexual services, slavery-like practices and servitude. We should have used concepts that describe the living and working conditions in which people find themselves. These are concepts that are defined in international human rights law, and they’re kind of neutral. But at that time we weren’t aware of all that, so we ended up falling back on the 19th-century Victorian concept of trafficking with its focus on the purity and victimhood of women and the protection of national borders. In doing so, we unwittingly imported a highly biased concept, dividing women into innocent victims in need of rescue and guilty ones who can be abused with impunity, but also with racist and nationalistic overtones.

[kafk-a]

adrienne rich from a poem she wrote for audre lorde

[belairbeautyqueen]

Spice Girls in New York, in March 1997

[bacchusishvara]

No, I’ve never heard of the show you’ve been streaming. No, I’ve never heard of that actor. No, I don’t watch sports. What? I’m out of touch? Have you read a book of poetry again and again? Have you pushed your body to its breaking point? Have you wept for joy all by your lonesome? Have you woken up in the morning and looked in the mirror and said to yourself, “today I am prepared to die”? No? And you call me out of touch. Pfft.

[drethelin]

[ununquadius]

Learning a language that doesn’t use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you’re doomed

[samayla]

I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we’d write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).

Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.

About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face…

“I appreciate the effort, but…”

You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G’s or our Y’s get all swoopy, or we dot all our I’s with little hearts?

Yeah…

Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I’d been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!

[bending-sickle]

some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability

chinese:

korean:

russian:

greek:

[kephas-rolling]

[arabian-batboy]

You must be fucking kidding me.

Anyways, if you’re not Palestinian/Arab and want to wear a keffiyeh in solidarity during a protest or something, then please do so by ordering an actual authentic keffiyehs made by Hirbawi, the last original Palestinian keffiyeh factory in Palestine. 

Their beautiful keffiyehs come in so many colors/pattern and all of them are under 19 Euros (I ordered one and I can tell you that they’re very high quality and soft)

Home site: http://hirbawi.ps 

Europe: http://MADEinPALESTINE.de 

US: http://hirbawiusa.com 

Worldwide: https://www.kufiya.org/

[arabian-batboy]

I’m glad someone said this, because till this day if you type “what do terrorist wear on their head” the first result will be the Palestinian keffiyeh (and not the LV version)

Article talking about it: X

[hayatims-deactivated20240111]

some things that have happened since you stopped hearing about p/alestine after the “ceasefire” was declared

1,000+ palestinians were arrested in a mass-arrest campaign designed to, and i quote, “instill fear” - including children

al-aqsa mosque and worshippers were attacked and beaten

literal children, not even teens, children, were arrested and tried in a military court (this is not new, thousands of children have faced this terrorization over the years. Isr@el is the only country in the world that tries children in military courts. 500-700 children are prosecuted each year.)

a soldier deliberately ran over a child on a bike for having a pales/tinian flag on his bike. an adult man ran over a child with his car. on purpose. the child is 12. read that again.

sheikh jarrah was blockaded, illegally

whatsapp blocked the accounts of over 100 pal/estinian journalists

silwan, another pal/estinian neighborhood like sheikh j/arrah, is being violently ethnically cleansed to make way for more settlers

Isr@el has forced social media sites to censor the hashtags “free pal/estine” and “save sheikh ja/rrah” many posts and accounts have been deleted

25 pales/tinians have been murdered by the ID/F and settlers

in Jaffa, 300 arab families are under force expulsion orders to make way for more settlers. 300 families.

suicide rates in g/aza have risen to an all-time high due to PTSD and hopelessness

Pales/tinians in G/aza still do not have access to safe drinking water, electricity, medical care, and nutrition. families are still being displaced from their homes by settler colonialism. There is still an inability to mobilize freely, pursue a career, seek an education, or gain access to decent healthcare or mental health resources. The occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing continues whether you see on your feed or not.

[levantine-deactivated20220812]

The censoring of any Palestinian content is in full swing right now especially on Instagram and tiktok, please continue to seek out news and info :

Mohammed el Kurd

Eye on Palestine