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he/him | 24 everything is a wip + art dump. Sidebar and icon by @tomato_blood on twt

[dracupa]

kraftyuri refs

[dracupa]

obligatory mina and her vampire gf lucy

[dracupa]

not sure what caused the resurgence here, but thank you for the sudden notes! This art actually led to me getting slurs sent into my ask box by racist iwtv fans so to actually see people like it means a lot to me :')

[dracupa]

i have a public art twitter now!

it's mostly going to be aimed at oc art but. here you go

[sacredwhores]

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

[opencommunion]

"The arms of our people embrace the sky." Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour for the PFLP, 1989

[sayruq]

If you're feeling helpless, boost/share these links. Donate if you can

[junaart]

a little mock postage stamp i did a while ago. free to download (X) and print as stickers, posters or whatever you like.

[sayruq]

[evilsoup]

the figures we were getting for the first few months were from the gaza health ministry, and they were to a high standard i.e. they weren't just going and counting bodies but were identifying the dead. With the total devastation of Gaza it's impossible for this work to continue, or for the ministry to function when its workers need to concentrate on getting food each day. This is why the number has stood still at 34,000 for so long. This is all obvious stuff; the fact that news media keep using this figure, generally without any caveat, is journalistic malpractice and complicity in genocide.

The truth is that we don't know how many are dead, because the organisations which could provide a count are not present in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands seems likely, especially when we take into account food shortages.

[feluka]

oh god shut up. you didn't even know the damn kid.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." — James Baldwin

[sissi-n2-deactivated20260310]

Nah, if the kid ain't mine I don’t give a shit.

[feluka]

"I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." — James Baldwin

[feluka]

for the fairuz newcomers from macklemore's hind's hall, this is the song sampled with english subtitles

[fairuzfan]

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

[many-sparrows]

I'm very tired of this "queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they'd kill you there!" I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, "but what name do you want to go by?" A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure green haired protestors got out safe. A Palestinian girl with an ex-southern baptist fiance, who definitely isn't a practicing Muslim, whose parents were raising hell for her. I don't want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.

[parsnippety]

Queer muslim here. I couldn't have said it better myself. We are not free until all of us are free.

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

it might take me a bit to make them, but if you donate at least $18 to any of the Gaza funds (either evacuations funds or people fundraising for survival in gaza or eSims drives) and send me proof, i will crotchet you a kippah like the ones below. if you donate more, i can add a short phrase of text to the white band

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

Pick a fund, donate $18+, screenshot the receipt, send it to me and we can talk abt kippah designs

[sawasawako]

some ppl want to support palestine without aligning themselves with the anti-colonial movement and it shows

[sawasawako]

obviously condemning genocide is the decent, principled thing to do but it’s not in spite of politics… there are political reasons why the genocide is being committed and political reasons behind how and why is//rael as a state was established and political reasons why people are protesting. and its to do with colonial violence and decolonisation, which protestors and colonised ppl themselves have made abundantly clear. you can’t condemn the genocide without condemning the settler colonial ideology that supports it

[luxmundi-i]

[dreamylaw]

They are invading Rafah

They have placed tanks at the Egyptian border. No one can escape and no aid can come in. 1.4 million civilians, many of whom are children, are trapped in a tiny area.

Don’t look away. Keep protesting, donating, raising awareness, and amplifying Palestinian voices.

Free Palestine

[bunabi]

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

[umbrellahat07]

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

[beatrice-otter]

Does this look quiet, peaceful, nondisruptive?

And the struggle didn't stop after formal integration, once the Civil Rights act had passed. Because even when they are legally required to serve you, they can make you really fucking uncomfortable and threaten you and the cops probably will take their side.

For one example, there was a cafe that would serve Black people, but would then publicly break the dishes so that no white customer would ever have to eat off a dish a Black person had eaten off of. This was done publicly, right as the Black diner was done eating. The waitress takes the plate and smashes it. This is a signal both to the white diners "see, we hate them just as much as you do, you're safe here" and also a threat of violence to the Black diners. "If you're not careful we'll smash you just like we did this plate."

But at the same time, if Black people go there and eat every day ... how long before the cafe can't afford to do that? How long before they have broken so many dishes that it's eating into their profits? How long before the white diners start getting used to eating alongside Black people and simply don't care as much any longer, or start getting annoyed at the noise and fuss and mess?

Black people eating in white establishments was loud, inconvenient, and disruptive. Because that's the nature of challenging the status quo.