the summer passing by

d | any pronouns | 20 | muslim | punjabi

[rcedge]

what a grim palm sunday it is

[rcedge]

not to be raised catholic on main but for the unawares today palm sunday. it's the celebration of the triumphant entry of jesus into jerusalem and marks the begining of holy week, or passion week, the week leading up to the crucifiction and resurrection. if jesus were to come today, as a palestinian man, there would be no palms woven and waved to greet and honor him. he wouldn't even be able to go into the city. he came to celebrate passover. he wouldn't have been able to. there would just be death, and starvation. murder, genocide. and yet christians worldwide turn their back on palestine now. there's nothing i can really say that others have not already said and better than i could ever.

if you are able to i think it would be a worthwhile commemoration of the season to donate in any way you can to palestine:

donate to UNRWA donate esims to keep gazans connected umaima mohamed is working tirelessly to help the stray animals of palestine fund for mai rajab and her family mutual aid fund to distribute necessities run by mona abu hamda fundraiser for mona and her family the wonderful ibtisims here on tumblr also has a tag where you can find more resources

[deadmeat-deactivated20240619]

does anyone want to have a concerning power dynamic with me

[thenewgothictwice-deactivated20]

[jinjurloaf]

lord please take both the twelfth doctor’s and the ninth doctor’s suffering and give it all to the tenth doctor

[smengart]

don't they know it's the end of the world? it ended when i lost your love

[knishy]

the communal jaywalk is a powerful thing

[ymustutortureme]

As the holy month of Ramadan approaches, Palestinians stay steadfast in their faith and struggle to find food, aid, medicine and shelter. Many others are struggling too and it's important we remember them.

Please consider buying these dates from to support people in need:

https://thedateproject.org/

[describe-things]

[ID: A screenshot of The Date Project's website, showing cases of different dates that can be bought for charities, labeled Dates for: Orphans, PAlestine, Rohingya, Syria, and Yemen. Each has a different, colorful design, and cost £10.00. End ID.]

Clickable link for mobile users

[transmutationisms]

lotta academics have bought into the idea that predatory journals only exist because people don't know better, rather than because there are structural pressures encouraging publishing at any cost (incl. a literal monetary cost) in order to generate a line on a CV. one danger in believing that these journals publish only the ignorant or uninformed is that people come to believe that they and their respected colleagues are above all that, because they're considering publication to be an unbiased referendum on the quality of the work and not analysing the material conditions at play (the academic's career and professional interests, the university's financial and cultural capital, the journal as a business entity, &c).

the difference between a 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' academic is not that the former was inherently more deserving or smarter or harder-working... much more to do with luck, demographic privileges (which is to say also luck), and ability and willingness to work the system, including by generating publishable and published results. you can't get rid of predatory publishing so long as publication is a structural barrier to raises, job security, & reputation, & thinking that you personally are better than or smarter than some mythical category of Lesser Intellectuals based on what journal you publish in is just self-serving and naïve

[closet-keys]

as a rule of thumb, if you see a post condemning someone for something serious (e.g. sexual violence) and there is no mention of a victim at all (not that the victim didn't want their name mentioned along with details of the trauma, but just zero mention of any actual specific person who was traumatized by whatever serious harmful behavior is being mentioned) then you should probably not reblog it. additionally, if the person being condemned in the post is a trans woman, you should check whether the post was written by someone who is not a direct target of transmisogyny. if it is, you should probably block the TME person who wrote the original post.

[noonwalkdiary]

crossfaded on melancholic literature and mold poisoning

[naomistares]

ianthe's little cannibalism moment except it's not little, it's 15 pages long, enjoy!

(this took a total of 115 hours, waw, i am still sick as all hell, so feel free to leave me all ur thoughts in great details, i will read them.)

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

[sapphling]

skepticism is literally sub-bare minimum like. you need to be doing so much more but at the very LEAST when somebody makes vile accusations about a transfem, the first thing you need to do is not point-blank accept them and unperson her in your head. if you see these kinds of accusations and go along with them, you either A. don't know and listen to enough transfems to know how hypercommon these smear campaigns are and how dangerous they can be, or B. you know, but you don't value women's safety enough to not be a useful idiot. both of these options are repugnant! stop fucking doing transmisogynists' work for them constantly and then throwing your hands up later and claiming you couldn't possibly have known any better than to willingly dehumanize and smear a transfem you've never met on command

[pearlpoet]

post-post clarity when you're looking at your post on the dash like who gives a fuck. delete

[shesgayfolks]

feel free to use my link rwrd.io/22ce2s2 for a 5% discount on buying esims for Gaza (Israel/Egypt) with Holafly, or promo code SSHA22GW for $3 (Middle East) with Nomad

[shesgayfolks]

thank you to those of you who have already used my codes. it makes my heart glad to see the points be added to my account, and I have been able to use them to purchase more eSIMs. I believe that it can keep going until the day we no longer need them.

[txttletale]

"the TMA/TME distinction has edge cases and can't always be neatly applied to every individual and the categories contain vastly heterogenous experiences of and relationships with gender within them" well then it's a good thing that the distinction is an analytical lens for discussing transmisogyny and not the new teams were going to be dividing everyone into when we do the gender hunger games isnt it

[txttletale]

TMA/TME doesn't cover the entire spectrum and nuance of every possible individual relationship to gender and cissexism because it's not meant to do that! it's meant to be a broad abstraction to enable transfeminists to discuss transmisogyny as a social phenomenon!

[slopaganda]

Gaming for Gaza: A charity stream for Palestine Children's Relief Fund

February 29 - March 3, starting 9PM EST

Join the Garufo House for a weekend of games, including FFVII Rebirth, Lethal Company, Minecraft, janky 2000s flash games, and lots more. Donate to PCRF to unlock rewards like art giveaways, a Steam gift card raffle, and a chance to make one of us get a Garfield tattoo.

Join the stream here on Feb 29, or donate now here.