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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. Here is her full quote (emphasis mine):

"When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: 'How sinister is this?' I'm a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I've worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what's so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate.

I was in Gaza for two months; there's no way to describe the horror of what's happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They're living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there's not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they're screaming: 'I'm hungry! I'm hungry!" I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way.

When my two months were finished, I didn't want to leave. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I've ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we've been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I've never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food."

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My friend Fadel and his family still struggle to afford food and clean water every week. They feel the pain of this intense hunger.

There are so many sources of pain and suffering. There is the hunger. Then there is the sickness. Fadel's tent is in tatters and the flooding has soaked through his family's mattresses and supplies. They are suffering severe flu and struggling to recover in this cold, wet winter.

My name is Fadel Al-Dane, a Palestinian from Gaza, my age 23-year-old third-year I… Fadel Aldane needs your support for Help Fadel And His F

Fadel's campaign was verified and shared by @90-ghost and @a-shade-of-blue, and was vetted by @gazavetters (#197 on the gazavetters spreadsheet).

Please donate if you can.

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Fadel urgently needs to travel out of Gaza to receive surgery. He survived Israelis bombing his home while he was inside, but he was left with shrapnel embedded in his body that cannot be removed with the remaining healthcare resources in Gaza.

He has heard word that the crossing will be opened sometime soon, but openings are always temporary and precarious during this occupation. This means he needs to travel quickly as soon as they open. To do this he needs to raise funds urgently so he can afford travel within this window of time.

Please understand that time is of the essence. Help him receive treatment and help his family to escape to safety.

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This is just a small part of what's happening to us here in Gaza. Imagine, we're living in winter, sitting in a tattered tent, constantly leaking water. All our blankets and pillows are soaked, and we're all suffering from colds. Worse still, I've been injured for over 500 days, and metal shrapnel is still embedded in my body. I urgently need surgery, but everyone is ignoring me. There are reports that the Rafah crossing will open this month.

So I desperately need your help to raise the funds for my surgery as soon as possible so I can travel and receive treatment. Please wake up and look at me! Please stand by me! I desperately need your donations for my surgery. Please donate, Please don't ignore me!

closet-keys

Please help my friend Fadel. The more people who can donate even one dollar or euro, the closer Fadel and his family are to real relief and safety. Anything that you can send his way helps a lot.

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Please help! Do whatever you can!

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please donate to help fadel get surgery for his injuries!!

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Guys, the situation is very difficult for us right now. We can't sleep because of the heavy rain and bitter cold. Our bodies are shivering from the cold. My injury is hurting terribly because of the extreme cold. Please don't leave us alone.

Help us buy a new tent and raise the money for my surgery and travel. Please don't abandon us; we don't deserve this!!!

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Fadel and his family still need your help, please help them afford shelter and medicine

fadell-aldany

Everyone is sitting in their warm homes, drinking hot beverages, while I am here inside our torn tent, constantly shivering from the cold.

Our pillows are soaked with rainwater leaking through the ripped fabric (of our tent), and my injury is worsening due to the bitter cold. I don't know how long we can endure this. Imagine what we are going through. Please stand with us and support us so we can buy my medication as soon as possible, and buy a new tent. Do not abandon us in these difficult circumstances Please donate.

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If you've ever wished there was a trans-run media network, you should definitely follow @transpiredmedia! They're just getting started, but Anonsee is a wonderful being and fae and the other hosts have lots to share with the world. I had the pleasure of creating this trans-pride-colored graphic for the network's use!

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Last Night’s fit

#transgender #genderfluid #asexual #non-binary #lgbtq #gray-ace #bisexual #queer #spoonie #lgbt #the story so far..#fashion #trans #ourlady’s portraits #spoonie fashion #black and queer #queer fashion #black and trans #trans fashion

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Cosplay from a couple days ago : Pear Douleur - former Grifter’s Bone groupie, now a band member!

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That skirt was white before you got into grifters bone

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asexuals are allowed to be sexy. we are allowed to want to look good and dress the way we want to.

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No one I know has had the same experience as me getting on hrt and honestly it's a damn shame

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me, mentally bracing myself for months, if not years of psychological evaluation: "So I think I might be trans?"

doc: "cool cool cool cool"

doc: "so... do you wanna start estrogen today or...?"

radar-one

This is the blessed post of ungatekeeping. Reblog this to never again have to barter with a medical professional regarding treatment of your mental or physical health.

elf--shot

if you are in the united states, this is a map of every us clinic which practices the informed-consent model of hrt; as you can see, there’s a fair amount, although great plains/basin and range/deep south coverage is lacking. i went to the san diego family health center after discovering that the in-house process covered by my insurance would take a long enough time and involve enough gatekeeping (especially considering my personal approach to gender and transition) that there was no chance of my getting on testosterone through them before i left the country, and the fhc not only got me fully processed and on hrt within a month but gave me an 80% discount. this is to say that even if your insurance doesn’t cover your nearest informed-consent clinic, or you haven’t got insurance, it’s still worth investigating.

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Informed Consent is absolutely the way to go if you have the option - even if you have to go some distance to make it happen. I’m more than happy with the course of my transition in terms of response from medical staff and clinicians (if not the actual effects of HRT so far... :-| ). If you’re considering transitioning medically, please, please, please do yourself a favor and check Erin’s Informed Consent map to see if there’s a clinic that does IC HRT in your local area.

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get it whiteboys

Cosplay from a couple days ago : Pear Douleur - former Grifter’s Bone groupie, now a band member!

#cosplay #trans cosplayer #black cosplayer #disabled cosplayer #the magnus archives cosplay #the magnus archives #grifters bone #grifter’s bone #OC #tma #tma OC #the slaughter

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expressing your needs, your emotions, your boundaries and your concerns will not drive away people that are committed to being in your life. wanting to be treated with respect, knowing your worth and acting accordingly is never asking for too much in any kind of safe or healthy connection.

marxism-transgenderism

Hi speaking of medical literacy for trans people, transfems pls check out the website Transfeminine Science, especially their introductory article on feminizing HRT

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Non-transfems can reblog this as well btw

Do you have any advice on how to be more accepting of one’s own body? I’m cis but I really just hate my body and myself and you seem so happy and loving of yourself and idk. I really wish I could do and feel that as well

Honestly the first step for me was to cut out self-deprecating jokes, etc. as much as possible. It’s a lot easier to get from disliking your body to being neutral about it than to accepting right away.

Other thing I found helps is it replace it with exaggerated positivity. Making jokes about how absolutely stunning you are, etc. helps positively reinforce yourself over time.

Just remember it’s not an instant thing, and you’ll never fully stop having those moments where you don’t like your body - but you can get yourself from those being 9/10 of your thoughts on yourself to 1/10 of your thoughts on yourself. But even if it’s just down to 8/10, that’s still progress. Still loving yourself a bit more than before, and I think that’s still good and worth it.

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