LOVE AS A VERB

nonwhite / tme (trans man) / 20+

[flipchild]

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

vetted fundraisers from today. please keep sharing and donating as you're able, it really does so much; even if your individual action feels small, you are helping to save lives.

june 29th:

14-year-old Hala El-Hissi, her two siblings (the younger of whom needs hepatitis treatment), and their mother (€8,459/€16,000) - @halaelhissi, @nadasaftawi, verified by @/ibtisams

Muhammad Al-Azayza and his family, including two children, one with Down syndrome (kr6,738 SEK/kr200,000 SEK) - @hamouda-az, verified by @/sayruq

Ahmed Ziad, his siblings, and their sick parents (£2,733/£30,000) - @ahmed-ziad, verified by @/nabulsi

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including his daughter who needs urgent treatment to preserve her eyesight (CHF1,506/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, verified by @/sayruq

Safaa Abd, her husband, and their two young children (€952/€50,000) - @safaabed, verified by @/90-ghost

Wafaa Alnhal's family of 15, including four children and a newborn (€20,277/€50,000) - @wafs-posts, verified by @/nabulsi

Alaa Al Khateeb's family of six, including her mother who needs medical treatment (£25,391/£56,000) - @alaaalkhateeb, #99 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Haneen Atya's family of ten, including several young children, a newborn, and her mother who needs urgent treatment for a stroke and bleeding ($38,011 AUD/$70,000 AUD) - @haneenatya34, verified by @/el-shab-hussein

Mohammed Okal's evacuation and education (kr3,228 NOK/kr90,000 NOK) - @mohammedokal-2, verified by @/90-ghost

Mohammed Adly Haboub and his family of four (he turns 20 today) (kr14,191 SEK/kr300,000 SEK) - @mohammedhaboub, verified by @/90-ghost

Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three young children who've lost their treasured home ($1,398 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, verified by @/nabulsi

Hadeel Adnan Abu Nasser and her family of 12 (they lost her father in a bombing and her brother to malnutrition; Hadeel is responsible for all her family) (€1,126/€20,000) - @hadeelgaza, verified by @/90-ghost

not yet vetted:

Reem Mohamed, her husband, and their two young children (€1,925/€20,000) - @rem096

i know you likely see posts like this every day, but please don't tune them out. every one of these families and individuals deserves to live safely and pursue their dreams. any contribution you make keeps someone's bright future alive

[seers]

DISABLED TRANSFEM BUTCH LESBIAN in dire need of MUTUAL AID‼️

Above is my dear friend, Jessica. She’s currently going through the unimaginable. She’s disabled due to a terminal illness and is currently being forced out of her apartment. She’s facing incredibly traumatic public ostracization due to an abuser in our local queer scene on top of her disability and rampant transmisogyny, AND she just lost access to the money she was going to be relying on in between housing situations. Please help my friend eat and stay safe. Please reblog this and, if you can, send even a dollar. 

I included proof that she is aware of me making this post and will be receiving funds in the above. Thank you so much for any help !!!!

ve^mo : Jessi-cvnt

[zegalba]

Lamp design by Carlo Nason (1969)

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[shane-actually]

in a way this is beautiful because this is how language worked in the elizabethean era

[therehavebeenstranger]

i talk my shit but do you guys remember being 12 and in 2008 and you heard viva la vida by coldplay for the first time and you were like fuck this is so powerful. i'm going to kick the ass of god

[peonypaint]

dont stop talking about gaza and about palestine!! keep fighting and speaking out, keep protesting and boycotting, keep acting in whatever ways you can and keep doing whatever you can. we must demand not just a ceasefire but an end to the occupation and a free palestine!!

feel free to print this as a protest poster if you would like

if youre able to PLEASE donate to: the palestine childrens relief fund, the mersal foundation for charity and development, buy an esim, shaymas immigration fund, ahmeds kofi and paypal fund (his gofundme is unfortunately having issues at the time of writing this, donating directly to his kofi/paypal can still help)

[ ID: a digital poster which depicts two peoples outstretched arms holding dirt in their hands, out of the dirt is an olive tree sprout growing. behind the hands is a dove flying, and below are more doves flying over mountains which have the pattern of a kufiya on them drawn in green. at the bottom of the mountains are red poppies. there are clouds in the sky that are red, with a red sun drawn above the crest of the mountains. below the poster is text that reads "palestine will be free". the drawing is done in red, white, black, and green colors as a reference to the flag of palestine. /END ID]

[peonypaint]

I will not be posting more art during the global strike (jan 21st - 28th 2024) in solidarity with gaza, and i encourage you all to continue to speak up and do whatever you can to help. esims are still very much needed, as are donations for aid. keep talking about palestine, keep protesting and acting in solidarity and support. palestine will be free!

[pinkcultgirl]

out of all my art, this is the piece i selfishly wish to become viral so as many people as possible can read my words.

[tortiefrancis]

[ ID: Digital, stylized art of a young girl holding the Palestine flag, frowning. Next to her, newspaper style text, which reads: Today is the only day you can choose to end your silence. Today should be when you throw away your neutrality.

The girl has light-medium tone skin and brown eyes, and wears a pink hijab, a tan shirt, a brown vest, matching brown shorts, pink leggings and brown boots. The flag looks painted. Behind the girl is a piece of cardboard and a pink collage with paper and flowers. Background behind it is white. /End ID ]

[officialbabayaga]

Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.

[officialbabayaga]

Hi likes do not help this post, please reblog

[spacemancharisma]

do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

books on, about, and made by palestinians. non-fiction books about palestine, palestinian poetry, history books, fiction books by palestinian authors, links to free e-books and poems. i apologize in advance for not breaking this down by genre / type.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Free Palestine! A Reading List

Books for a Free Palestine

Google Drive of Palestinian Poetry made by @firstfullmoon

Palestinian poems series by @fiercynn

40 books to understand Palestine

FICTION:

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

The Things We See in the Light by Amal Awad

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Secrets Under the Olive Tree by Nevien Shaabneh

Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat

The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

Mother Country by Etaf Rum

The Sea Cloak and other stories by Nayrouz Qarmout

The Parisian by Isabella Hammad

My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh

Velvet by Huzama Habayeb

Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis

NON - FICTION:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)

Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction [edited] by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

From the River to the Sea [edited] by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

Palestine Speaks [edited] by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek

The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy

The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi

Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq

The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish

[fairuzfan]

Mosab Abu Toha talks about what it's like to live in a communication blackout, water+food seige, and his sister in law giving birth with absolutely no support or running water.

[fairuzfan]

Something he also talks about:

Refaat, the poet, is still under the rubble weeks after his martyrdom. He wants people to remember that Refaat can see the kites that are flying in the sky because of him, and he was a man filled with love and strength. Please always remember Refaat for the beautiful soul he is.

[ahuara-deactivated20250412]

"Palestine Will Be Free" by Victoria García (via / source)

[melaninmotion]

[comorbid-curiosities]

This is Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Belbiese (hamodabady on ig and hamoodabady on tiktok). He passed away in an Israeli airstrike on Oct. 17.

The person who filmed this, Bassam Fal (bassamfaluona on ig and bassam_fal on tiktok), now documents the genocidal assault on Gaza as one of many journalists on the ground who are being targeted by the IOF for their work. Israel has killed over a 100 Palestinian journalists since October 7.

[Video description: A tweet by @/jinsjiddies from December 28 2023. It reads:

I remember seeing a Palestinian guy dancing dabke at his graduation in August and he went viral. I woke up today thinking about him and wondering where he is today… I found his account and he hasn’t posted since October… but this was him 🥺

Attached is a video of a young, skinny Palestinian man with brown skin and short cropped black hair dancing dabke with several others, wearing a black graduation gown with gold trim, in front of a crowd of similarly dressed fellow graduates.

The video is by TikTok user @/bassam_fal.]

[asterkallium]

piplup grain entrapment

[asterkallium]

piplup cares a lot about his work

[asterkallium]

piplup reports on the company's finances. layoffs are inevitable.

[asterkallium]

piplup takes a sick day

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piplup considers some jorts

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piplup forgives his father.

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piplup goes grocery shopping

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piplup jumps your battery

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piplup lights the menorah

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piplup sees the pale blue dot

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piplup catsits

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piplup hides a zombie bite from you

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piplup studies plein air

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piplup goes overboard at shopping therapy

[asterkallium]

piplup tells you it's a fiction. we made it up.

[foreveriallyzombified]

tonight i went to the bathroom at 3 am and looked up and saw two bugs on my wall having sex and i thought of you

thank you for thinking of me. here’s a poetic adaptation of how that might‘ve gone down:

i look and see a shock above,

but really there’s,

no danger.

i pee and watch the bugs make love,

and think of him:

a stranger.

[foreveriallyzombified]

some twin peaks shit happening on my poem

[zvaigzdelasas]

Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister | CNN

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed 34-year-old Gabriel Attal to become the country’s next prime minister.

9 Jan 24

[log6]

[kropotkindersurprise]

lmao this is the guy who banned students from wearing an abaya in school. #DiversityWin!

For those who don't know, an Abaya is a type of long dress or overgarment worn by men or women. No, wearing any other dress is not forbidden in France. It is only forbidden if the dress might be linked to arabs or Islam.