new blog @chrry

[bryceslahela]

now that george floyd’s murderer is behind bars, let’s help support the people who helped with the guilty verdict as well as george’s family. the fight is hardly over.

darnella’s fund - darnella was the young woman who filmed george’s last moments.

gianna’s fund - george’s daughter who has now been left without a father.

[lgbtmazight]

"To sit in the comfort and safety of the West and condemn acts of armed resistance that the Palestinians choose to carry out – always at great risk to their lives – is a deeply chauvinistic position. It must be stated plainly: it is not the place of those who choose to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians from afar to then try and dictate how they should wage the anti-colonial struggle that, as Frantz Fanon believed, is necessary to maintain their humanity and dignity, and ultimately to achieve their liberation. Those who are not under brutal military occupation or refugees from ethnic cleansing have no right to judge the manner in which those who are choose to confront their colonisers. Indeed, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause is ultimately meaningless if that support dissipates the moment that the Palestinians resist their oppression with anything more than rocks and can no longer be portrayed as courageous, photogenic, but ultimately powerless, victims. ‘Does the world expect us to offer ourselves up as polite, willing and well-mannered sacrifices, who are murdered without raising a single objection?’ Yahya al-Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, recently asked rhetorically. ‘This is not possible. No, we have decided to defend our people with whatever strength we have been given.’"

– Louis Allday, The Palestinians’ Inalienable Right to Resist

[brunetteg1rl]

holding hands

raised hands of great finesse, kom ombo temple - egypt // holding hands, persepolis - iran // egyptian colossal of ramesses II and the goddess sekhmet // temple of horus at edfu

[apoemaday]

Dogfish

by Mary Oliver

Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing kept flickering in with the tide and looking around. Black as a fisherman’s boot, with a white belly.

If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin, which was rough as a thousand sharpened nails.

And you know what a smile means, don’t you?

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song   where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;   I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was

alive for a little while.

It was evening, and no longer summer. Three small fish, I don’t know what they were, huddled in the highest ripples as it came swimming in again, effortless, the whole body one gesture, one black sleeve that could fit easily around the bodies of three small fish.

Also I wanted to be able to love. And we all know how that one goes, don’t we?

Slowly

the dogfish tore open the soft basins of water.

You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story– a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world.

And look! look! look! I think those little fish better wake up and dash themselves away from the hopeless future that is bulging toward them.

And probably, if they don’t waste time looking for an easier world,

they can do it.

[amouthfulloflove]

“I don’t mean to hurt anyone, but it’s been so long since I’ve had proof I’m not alone. & what good would another body do me? I still won’t swallow light. I want to see the sky. I want to know this thing that made me. Maybe, then, it will not be my fault when water touches me & I flinch away. I want to pluck feathers from the sky until my cruelty is something I can measure with my hands.”

— Mama & I Talk About Salvation, Uma Dwivedi

[thatsbelievable]

[capricornpropaganda]

Nostalgia is purely manufactured because we force teenagers to experience things before they're ready and we tell adults life ends at 25 so they can try to desperately reclaim their teenage years. It's okay to transition out of each phase when you're ready. The milestones for adulthood are not universal or even required

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

I embarrass myself daily.

i used to think like this too. but the implication that you are embarrassing yourself is entertaining a notion that a voyeur is steadily dwelling on the actions of one individual. out of hundreds of thousands. it’s a very self-centered thought process to assume that your fractional moments are so noteworthy and memorable. i don’t consider fleeting and perfunctory ticks to be of a defining nature because who am i to decide what is and what is not normalcy. existence itself is subjective; from beliefs to the concept of morality. what is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly. embarrassment is a made up sensation cultivated over time. it is man made and merely a form of paranoia; a product of insecurity. get out of your own head and enjoy life with me out here friend. there is truly no freer feeling.

[commievoltie-deactivated2021070]

“The imperialism we’re fighting is not an isolated thing. It’s a system. You have to counter a system with a system, an organization with an organization, not simply individuals full of goodwill, good sentiments, honesty, courage, and generosity.”

— Thomas Sankara

[universallovebot]

people are all we’ve got

[macrolit]

“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it -– at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has.”

— James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist, playwright, activist

[kafk-a]

[mithli-archive]

[girlactionfigure]

Debunk BDS

[palestinianliberator]

Hmmm do you think, perhaps, that this is because an active part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine involved the pillaging and destruction of Palestinian libraries?

That Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books on Palestinian history and culture because they posed a “security threat” to the state, all so fucking idiots like you can go and make claims like this?

How Israel stole over 70,000 Palestinian books and “recycled” them to be used in paper mills in a concentrated effort to erase Palestinian culture and history?

Or how the few books that did survive are being kept in the Israel National Library, off-limits to Palestinians and historians?

These books include historical texts, personal diaries from hundreds and hundreds of Palestinians living in Palestine pre-1948, paintings and other works of art, and cultural texts documenting life in Palestine pre-1948 and reaching centuries back.

Israel and the armies of the Zionist terrorists in 1948 made a very deliberate effort to destroy every aspect of Palestinian culture and history in its effort to wipe us out, and allow future scum like the op to go and make such claims, as if that in some way invalidates the Palestinian struggle.

What’s funny is that you won’t find any history books that detail Israeli culture or history prior to the 1940′s because *gasp*, there was no Israel!

These scum are so transparent, they’re pathetic

[laughingmagician]

And even still, there’s plenty that survived this, some of which is in the British archives, and some of which is scattered across various splintered Palestinian archives. It’s such an absurd statement and demonstrably untrue.

[politicalsci]

[miseryunplugged]

hi all, palestine’s going through a mass genocide right now and really needs help, here are a few ways you can do that

palestine children’s relief fund: provide urgent humanitarian care for children in gaza

anera: provide on-the-ground emergency relief

united nations relief and works agency: food assistance and emergency physical+mental help

medical aid for palestinians: emergency relief for women and children, psychosocial support, disability help, other medical needs

doctors without borders: medical teams on the ground treating injured palestinians as needed

feel free to add on in the notes, notify me if any of the fundraisers listed arent necessary/actually helpful to donate to, and let me know if anything needs added on/modified

as always, if you cant donate then please share and spread awareness

[butterflypeaflowertea]

gaza is under attack right now in the middle of the night please don’t let palestinians suffer in silence please stay updated please stay aware. people are trying to trend #GazaUnderAttack on twitter