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This blog is officially raising funds for Yesmin, a friend of @ayooshsthings / @ayooshs-stuff (a verified blogger).

Yesmin is a 27 year old, a mother of two, and cannot afford food for her family.

If you have the means to do so, PLEASE set up a recurring/weekly donation for Yesmin. I know that everyone needs help, and it's hard to spread it so thin, but we all know there's no price on human life and dignity. So, please, even $5 a week can make a difference.

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I am raising funds for Yesmin, a 27 year old mother from Gaza and a victim of the ongoing genocide. Here are her own words:

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nyantara

kind of funny that people think ideologies are tested for evolutionary fitness, like secular liberalism or whatever will die because liberals don't have as many children as religious folk. ideological reproduction happens through the culture, not only literal reproduction from parent to child. there's also the living experience of being born in a religious family, which is often its own permanent inoculation into atheism.

nyantara

hindutva watch maintains an archive of hate crimes, hindutva legislation as well links and mirrors to relevant articles on the key issues, the ideology and structure of the sangh parivar. i rec exploring the website and starting with their reporters guide to hindu nationalism.

nyantara

hindu supremacist: hinduism is amazing! muslims have always been allowed to celebrate hindu festivals!!! muslims are the intolerants who decided themselves to stop being involved.

hard hindu nationalist: yeah now we have banned them cause they're all rapists stealing and converting our girls

funkyfeefee

The thing about American "leftist" comedians is that they aren't actually leftist, they are the Imperial Court Jesters. They stand on a stage, point directly at the blood-soaked gears of the war machine, make a little tee-hee noise, and the crowd erupts. Not because they are critiquing the machine, but because the laughter is a pressure release valve for the people inside it. Take the video of that stand-up asking the defense contractor if she helped Trump bomb those 160 Iranian school girls, and everyone laughing, including the contractor herself. That laughter is ritual absolution. The contractor laughs because she knows she will never face a tribunal. The audience laughs because they get to feel "self-aware" without having to actually stop anything. The joke doesn't condemn the contractor; it humanizes her, turns her into a lovable scamp who just happens to have a job graphing the velocity of shrapnel through children's bodies. By making it a punchline, the comedian sanitizes the atrocity. The blood is scrubbed off the stage. The audience gets to say "wow, we are so edgy for talking about it" while the person who builds the bombs gets to chuckle and order another drink. It is not satire, it is a team-building exercise for the empire.

Then there is the YouTuber talking about Transformers, casually dropping the "Iraq war aesthetic" like it's a color palette. Desert punk. Military core. A vibe. This is what happens when your country hasn't had a war on its own soil in living memory; the violence becomes media, a backdrop for childhood toys. The explosions are no longer the sound of mothers screaming; they are cool action sequences. They are digesting the visual debris of massacre as a nostalgic fashion choice, scraping the trauma off and compressing it into a genre for their retro-futurist fantasies. The apocalypse becomes a mood board.

And finally, the girl recounting celebrity love triangles from her childhood, flippantly mentioning how the U.S. was "busy with the Iraq war or whatever." Or whatever. That single phrase is the thesis statement of American innocence. Over a million dead, a region destabilized for a century, an endless river of grief; and for her, it was the commercial break between pop culture segments. It didn't raise her rent. It didn't stop her Wi-Fi. The violence is geo-locked to brown skin and distant deserts, just background noise like a refrigerator humming. She has the luxury of forgetting because the machine doesn't eat her children, it eats yours.

Americans don't hate the machine; they love the output. They hate the mess of it. So they turn it into jokes, into aesthetic, into "whatever." Because if they stopped laughing, if they stopped scrolling, if they actually looked at the 4K drone footage of the aftermath instead of the cool explosion CGI in their movies, they would have to realize that the lithium in their phones, the gas in their tanks, and the comfort of their suburban cul-de-sacs are all greased with the fat of foreign children. And they can't handle that. So they laugh. They turn it into a vibe. They call it "the Iraq war or whatever." You can't deconstruct the master's house with the master's jokes, especially when the punchline is the corpses holding up the floorboards.

#imperialism

hazardousyuri-deactivated202510

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stillnaomi

under the dictatorship of alberto fujimori, USAID funded peru's "family planning" program, which was used to sterilize 300,000 indigenous women, often through deception or in exchange for basic necessities such as food or medical care

A system of incentives and sanctions reinforced the policy: healthcare providers received cash or in-kind payments for each sterilized woman, while promotions, demotions, and the allocation of medical equipment were tied to the fulfillment of sterilization targets and quotas. The program was also implemented through mass campaigns. DEMUS reported large-scale operations aimed at recruiting women for tubal ligation, including so-called “ligation festivals,” which promoted sterilization as a path to happiness and often offered food or money as incentives.

Deceptive practices were widespread. Many women were misinformed about the nature of the procedure or told it was minor. In other cases, they were offered debt forgiveness related to childbirth or abortion in exchange for agreeing to be sterilized. Within a broader context of poverty and exclusion, sterilization often became a transactional means of accessing healthcare or food, services the state was already obligated to provide.

source

not coincidentally, US president george h.w. bush's administration was very pleased with the mass privatization fujimori's regime was implementing

nyantara

GUYS

nyantara

the twitter user who made the original anonymized people of the global south tweet is still active on bluesky, and is a liberal zionist who is currently mad at spain and italy for intervening on the behalf of hamas for accompanying the flotilla lmao.

nyantara

still stands by it to me when asked! this is honestly like getting to talk to a celebrity to me.

nyantara

the moral degradation this person has done to their soul may not be recoverable frankly

nyantara

a lot of discourse about poor working conditions is basically reliant on xenophobic instincts, what are we a bunch of asians forever and ever. if your country has an underclass, they're being exploited to prop up all the work thats dirty, dangerous or dull.

raangmanch

The regime is now demolishing universities too.

raangmanch

The Rampur Development Authority has ordered the demolition of 38 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University over alleged approval violatio

The Rampur Development Authority (RDA) has ordered the demolition of 38 out of 40 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur, alleging that they were constructed without the required approvals from the competent authority, drawing criticism over the alleged selective targeting of the institution and its potential impact on students. The university, run by the Mohammad Ali Jauhar Trust chaired by jailed former Uttar Pradesh minister and senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, has been given 15 days to remove the allegedly unauthorised structures, failing which the authorities will carry out the demolition. The demolition order was issued on Wednesday by Rampur District Magistrate and RDA Vice-Chairperson Ajay Kumar Dwivedi under Section 27 of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973. According to the RDA, a scrutiny of official records found that only the university's medical college building and one academic block had valid building approvals. The remaining 38 buildings, covering a total built-up area of 82,309 square metres, were allegedly constructed without permission from the competent authority. District Magistrate Ajay Kumar Dwivedi said, "The buildings of Jauhar University were constructed in Gram Singhan Kheda, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Rampur Development Authority (RDA).

Officials said the buildings stand on land where their present use is not permitted under the applicable land-use regulations and that the violations cannot be regularised under existing law, making demolition the only legally permissible course of action. The order followed notices issued on June 28 and 29 to the secretary of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar Trust and the university registrar after a complaint was received. The respondents submitted a joint written reply on July 8, and representatives of the university appeared before the authority on Wednesday to present their case. The university argued that the land was outside the jurisdiction of the Rampur Development Authority when the buildings were constructed. However, the RDA rejected the contention, holding that approval from the competent authority was mandatory under the Zila Panchayat Act and other applicable laws even before the area came under the authority's jurisdiction. The order also cited Supreme Court judgments on unauthorised constructions, observing that such violations warrant strict enforcement of the law. Meanwhile, the District Magistrate directed officials to ensure that the demolition process does not adversely affect students enrolled at the university. The Regional Higher Education Officer and the District Inspector of Schools have been asked to set up counselling camps on the campus to guide students and help safeguard their academic interests. Mukrim Rawl, a fourth-year B.A. LL.B. student of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, appealed to the authorities to halt the proposed demolition, expressing deep concern over its impact on thousands of students pursuing their education at the institution. (...)

nyantara

hi! just wondering about the “you will not call me desi or a person of colour” thing? finalgirlianthe also has it n i was wondering what it means? i mean, i do find poc terminology irritating, but i didn’t know if there was more to it. oke thanks bye

I find it very dehumanizing and awkward to be called a poc on this website. The desi thing is because I reject the category, it groups together all south asians under a hindustani term that signals mostly north indian and upper caste hindu culture as unifying. The term quite literally means "of the nation" in opposition to foreigner (videshi) or of othered nations (pardeshi) which has particular implications about citizenship and belonging deployed inside india in particular that I am politically opposed to since 2019.

I feel like temporary immigrants and diaspora have very divergent interests in and relationships to the homeland and it results in ugly friction due to the fact that we are grouped together and supposed to culturally rub along or something. Some of it is the narcissism of small differences for sure. Some of it is that temporary immigrants are too busy maintaining their visa status and tend to have contempt for solipcism about identity.

thundergrace

If you live in Detroit, it is strongly recommended that you don't breathe.

missanniewhimsy

As someone in WI, this whole region is awful so please be careful friends! (7/16/2026)

nyantara

Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this and its a serious carcinogenic and respiratory disease risk. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in because the cause is systemic.

frostbitfawn

I hate rgu fan's refusal to accept the idea that the show is racist. anthy is a south-asian coded racialized character who unfortunately plays into a lot of stereotypes associated with south asians. the only reason we know she is south asian is because of the bindi on her forehead. akio as the representative of the patriarchy is south asian and plays into the "brown rapist" stereotype. the only reason anthy and akio were racialized was to Other them. to say that the show is a thoughtful depiction of racism and colonialism is to give the show far more credit than it deserves. to say that race is a blind spot in the show is doing much the same. that's not to say that any analysis of utena through the lense of race is worthless, it actually adds to the show's critique of the structures of oppression. especially since racism is kind of inseparable to them. but that analysis can go hand in hand with acknowledging the show's inherent racism. a lot of south asians, including me identify with anthy as a character and they have given a lot of excellent meta that enriches the show but i don't want anyone to use that fact as a card to deny her orientalized depiction.

to add to this, a lot of rgu fans who try to analyse the show through a racial lense will impose western ideas of race onto the characters, this feels like ignorance of the very idea that racism can exist beyond the white/poc dichotomy and it's racism within itself. every character in the show is japanese in a japanese setting, anthy and akio are racialized due to being the only south asians in a majorly japanese setting. any analysis of utena that doesn't take this fact into account is worthless.

#racism

balrogballs

I really don’t want to open this can of worms because Tumblr hath no fury like people called out on their political performativeness but it is literally driving me up the wall to watch people react to Serkis’ ‘keep Tolkien white’ commentary by insisting twice as hard that Tolkien would descend down to earth and dropkick the entire Republican party to hell or whatever, just because they want to ensure that a piece of media they enjoy isn’t seen as being morally impure. Case in point: I have seen at least five instances of Tolkien’s ‘I hate apartheid’ valedictorian address being used as a ‘counter’ to Serkis being racist, including by actual news outlets.

Except it’s only ever the ‘I hate apartheid’ line that’s shared, and not the actual quote in its full context. Because here it is:

If we consider what Merton College and what the Oxford School of English owes to the Antipodes, to the Southern Hemisphere, especially to scholars born in Australia and New Zealand, it may well be felt that it is only just that one of them should now ascend an Oxford chair of English. Indeed it may be thought that justice has been delayed since 1925. There are of course other lands under the Southern Cross. I was born in one; though I do not claim to be the most learned of those who have come hither from the far end of the Dark Continent. But I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

Which is to say. This isn’t exactly the antiracist quote of the century, to say the least. This is a white South Africa born man and a white Australian shaking hands and going ‘omg we relate’ and expressing what is a very, very mild ‘segregation is not great’ opinion in order to convey his thoughts on an academic subject, ie the confluence of language and literature. Using race to make a point about his own subject of interest, in his own interest, which is, amusingly enough, what a lot of ostensibly well meaning progressive seem to be doing.

I also think that some of the general surprise around ‘what do you mean large swathes of the Tolkien fandom are incredibly conservative!?’ in lib/left Tolkien fandom is the result of a tendency in said parts of the fandom to transpose one’s own progressiveness onto Tolkien and turn a blind eye to things like, say, the Shire being a very specifically mid-century British racist construct that is very, very clear in its politics, often going so far as to insist it’s anarchist or an ideal society or whatever the fuck… and then getting really Pikachu-meme ‘but they’re misreading it’ every single time a conservative explains exactly what it is about the legendarium that they really love, and get surprised when someone uses the Shire being a racist construct to do more racism. It is 2026 let us do away with ‘I don’t see colour’ interpretations of media, I beg. Nobody is cancelling you for enjoying a book that is not kind to race. Most of the books I love are not kind to race.

#books #racism

nyantara

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

agricultural workers in punjab who have to labor in 45°C (113°F) plus heat are losing their teeth as their bodies prioritise cooling through respiration and minimise saliva production.

(h/t @stylo-90)

kaylmao

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

nyantara

i wish buy local or seasonal meant something to do with ethics but tbh most agriculture in the us is also farmed by immigrant seasonal labor in conditions that with the growing weaponisation of ICE raids by farmowners is much like the kafala system. the part of the supply chain where tomatoes get shipped from florida or southern california are like the least enslaved human labour parts of it.

nyantara

In a study published July 2023 in Nature, researchers at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University calculated the risk of forced labor across all aspects of the U.S. food supply, excluding seafood. They found that most forced labor risks came from animal-based proteins, processed fruits and vegetables, and discretionary foods – products such as sweeteners, coffee, wine, and beer. They also found that 62 percent of forced labor risk came from production or processing that occurs on US soil. The study notes that characteristics such as poverty, language barriers, and uncertain immigration status could render individuals at higher risk for forced labor in the US.

The elimination of forced labour (Sustainable Development Goal 8.7) is a priority for the sustainability of food systems. Using data on prod

and basically avoid chocolate. almost all chocolate involves slave labor, including the chocolate that advertised itself as slavery free.

penny-anna

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

penny-anna

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

penny-anna

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

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