the pain will remind us of each other.

when we meet later, if there is a later, we will recognize each other by it. lilly; 24; dyke

[base-and-superstructure]

Just saw a petition in a group chat about "don't bring ICE to Europe!" and I felt insane for a minute. We already have militarised borders and concentration camps for migrants and we let people die in the sea and we banish people to unfamiliar countries and we brutalise them and we terrorise them and we detain and deport them!! The UK and the EU are not the liberal paradises we pretend they are!! Our borders kill people!! We don't need a petition to keep US violence away, we need to organise against the European violence we already have!!

[deadbirds-and-daydreams]

The amount of pictures of people dying in boats trying to get to europe. and the amount of few survivors who then get denied put into prisons (remembering the harlem panopticon where we put immigrants for a while. and i do mean like an actual literal panopticon.) or camps and then send back. and why? because some europeans are so fucking racist and xenophobics theyd rather see their fellow men die than to have absolutely nothing change in their lifes to help these people survive. Words will never be enough to explain my rage for how EU has treated people like absolute fucking cattle. all my life the news here. the politicians. the US is a shithole. the EU is a shithole but tries a lot harder to hide it. theres so much blood on these hands. its sickening.

[dykepuffs]

I keep remembering that fucking post about "Uwu look at Europe's beautiful open borders!!!!" With pictures of a little boundary stone in a field in Belgium or a line painted on a road in Luxembourg, that was circulating around the same time as yet another overloaded boat had been turned back by Greek or Italian coastguards in the middle of the Mediterranean and the International Community(TM) had collectively shrugged when bits of it started washing up in the Greek islands.

The way that Europe has sold itself as such a fluffy woo Good Vibes Only Continent should be studied.

[bmoreisapunkrocktown]

I just want to add this, because I think it's immensely important in these conversations and because it took me 45 minutes to track it down.

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa

The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.

[emmaharwoods]

ISA BRIONES by Sela Shiloni for WWD — January 2026

[identitty-dickruption]

I hate anything that implies Caring About the World is a sign of privilege. I hate “I don’t know, I have an adult job”. I hate the aligning and realigning of political consciousness with the elite. and I hate anyone who reifies these ideas like it’s their full-time job. marx literally warned us about this

[sissa-arrows]

In France if you suffer from hair loss as a teenage girl and cannot afford a real hair wig the school will try and force you to go to class bald. The school will make you buy a chemotherapy turban, you will buy two different so that the school can choose which one they prefer and you will prove that they are chemotherapy turban and not hijab but once you wear it they will change their mind and say it looks too much like a hijab and insist on you going bald or buying a real hair wig that you cannot afford.

If your doctor makes multiple documents confirming that you suffer from alopecia because of stress and the medicine you have to take for your epilepsy and that wearing a bonnet or something is recommended for your mental health as you’re not ready to go out bald in high school as a teenage girl, instead of admitting they are wrong the school will accuse the doctor of lying and report him to the Ordre des Médecins (equivalent of the General Medical council). Your doctor will find himself asking you for a document stating that you are not Muslim in order to defend himself and prove that no he wasn’t colluding with you so you could wear a substitute for hijab.

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In France if you are a North African nurse at a public hospital and wear a fabric surgical cap they will try to make you remove it because apparently it’s a hidden hijab. They will accuse you of going against secularism and when you’ll argue that they are discriminating you by assuming you’re Muslim for a surgical cap on your head they will change their angle and claim that you should wear nothing on your hair because you wear the same surgical cap in multiple bedroom which is unhygienic apparently (which is a bullshit argument cause you wear the same scrub/uniform in different bedrooms as well). They will go as far as claiming that disposable scrub caps (you know the thin papery ones?) are not okay to wear in a hospital even if you change it regularly. And then they will fire you for a lack of hygiene because you wear a surgical cap.

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All of that will be done in the name of secularism and women’s right despite having nothing do with either quite the opposite.

The teenage girl’s story is also not just about racism and Islamophobia it’s also about ableism as the girl is convinced that the real reason the school is trying to push her out is because she had an epilepsy crisis in class and nobody knew what to do and the school nurse was absent. It could have ended badly had her best friend not known what to do to help. Apparently it was bad enough to cancel class for the rest of the day and the teacher was shocked to the point of ending on sick leave.

[sissa-arrows]

The 2004 law says “no ostentatious religious sign”. So crosses are allowed as long as they are not too big as they are not considered flashy. The law was even later clarified to explicitly say that discreet religious signs are allowed and the exemple given was a small cross that can be hidden if required. That being said I knew a guy who was able to work with an 8 cm long wooden cross around his neck with a white marble Christ crucified on it and he never got in trouble when I know for a fact that a hijabi would have been in trouble in that same office. So I have no clue how a cross would have to look to be considered flashy.

Which means that the law technically only affects Muslim girls and Jewish boys. Except Jewish people also have a lot of private Jewish schools so most practicing Jews are able to send their kids to private Jewish schools. Meanwhile Muslims private schools are rare as the government often fin excuses to refuse their opening and the few who exist can get closed by the government for fake reasons. So while the law is written for all it affects almost exclusively Muslims and it’s on purpose. All the French laws about religious signs have always been about the hijab it always start with “how can we keep women from wearing a hijab in that specific situation” then every single debate is about the hijab, they openly say the goal is to prevent women from wearing the hijab but then when the law is written they word it without mentioning the hijab directly and saying “religious signs” as it would be too obvious that they are just racist.

[charl0ttan]

You know that Mr Rogers thing of 'look for the helpers'? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying? That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world. And sometimes you can't save one life, sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes there's no getting out of this for anyone, but ... try anyway. Because it matters anyway. And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

[charl0ttan]

Sometimes helping isn't heroic. It's quiet, ordinary, and unseen. But choosing not to look away - especially when it would be easier - is still a form of responsibility.

[charl0ttan]

If you've finished reading and are feeling warm, I'd like to remind you that I have a friend in Gaza, Nader, who, along with his family, is suffering from the extreme cold and needs our support and assistance. Please donate to him.

Donate to Help Nadeir and his family rebuild their lives., organized by Nadir Alanqer

Hello, I'm Nadir, a young man from the Gaza Strip. I've lived through th… Nadir Alanqer needs your support for Help Nadeir and his family re

[abdalsalam2000]

Please, friends, help us. You are our last hope. You are the only ones who can save us. Please donate to us. We need all the help we can get. The cold is bitter and deadly. Please donate.

[nibeul]

Nader and his family need all the help they can get. Winter has arrived in Gaza and these donations will allow them to keep warm in these harsh conditions. Please, if you can share anything, even 5$, it will be something! Continue to spread this post and donate if you can.

[peachfromcmbyn]

The person who wrote "I supported Amber Heard when I thought she was beating Johnny Deep's ass unprovoked" should win the Nobel Prize in Literature

[elierlick]

A trans woman was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for defending herself from an attacker. She wanted no part in the fight and witnesses described her actions as self-defense. With right-wing media constantly portraying her as "evil" since the incident, the trial was over before it began.

[hashimoto-appelbaum-sufferer-de]

Jaia's prison ID number is 3492500039. The state of New York handles commissary money transfers through JPay. Monetary support is crucial for even a 'short' stay in prison, all the more so for trans women who are disproportionately mistreated by corrections officers and other prisoners, and frequently placed in solitary for their 'own safety'.

JPay offers convenient & affordable correctional services, including money transfer, email, videos, tablets, music, education & parole and p

[mesetacadre]

indigeneity is not a game to see who can find the oldest reference to [group] existing in [place] and then claiming you're [group], it's a specific set of social relations that a population continues to develop with another population to the present day which are historically rooted in a displacement or occupation of one population by the other

[partialbirthabortion]

This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!

[partialbirthabortion]

my girlfriend has been talking about this since ancestry kits became A Thing

[deanwinchesterapologist]

For whom the jug heads

[lillylonya]

großer fan davon soko leipzig zu schauen und alle 5 Minuten alle um mich herum mit "da hab ich mit meiner ex schluss gemacht", "das passt geographisch absolut nicht, so schnell kommt man da nicht hin, "das ist niemals leutzsch", "da hab ich praktikum gemacht", "wie bezahlen die die wohnung in der lage???" zu nerven

[teaboot]

As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic

[chappellsource]

chappellroan: JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED & U WILL LIKE IT

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are worth whatever cost or resources is needed to keep them alive. disabled people are worth it even if they don't live long. they're worth it even if they will need extra support and resources for every day of their life. they're worth it even if they spend all they life indoors. none of it is wasted. none of it is in vain. time, effort, money, resources spent on a life are not wasted. these things have served their purpose. the joy of someone's existence is not undermined by not lasting forever. there's no meaningful point, some threshold where you can say "okay this is enough. after that it's not worth it." it's always worth it.

[goth-ginger-witch]

This is resonating deeply with me today. People have constantly been blocking the ramp out of my apartment lately and it makes me feel like I am not worth the effort. I'm glad there are still people who think otherwise

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

another world is possible

[grahamkennedy-deactivated202411]

“Australia Day” is almost over and I haven’t even seen the photo of Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia on my dash yet

[grahamkennedy-deactivated202411]

“Australia Day” is almost over and I haven’t even seen the photo of Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia on my dash yet