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any pronouns | this blog is a collection of things i like so it's a mess

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[bananacockroach]

Hit the hay so hard last night that i found the needle

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

Naming what happened to you might not fix it. But it shifts something in you, the culture, the dread in all that silence.

For those of you not familiar with The Marginalian, I want to introduce you to an incredible writer and curator of art, thought and meaning through this great little piece on the sage icon Baldwin.

Much love.

[veryluckyclovers]

sending love to those fighting the job market

[sevaria]

Jk Rowling will die in my lifetime and that’s so beautiful to think about

[archbudzar]

late spring trail cam footage

[bicreature]

Happy international Romani Day! This year with the ongoing genocide against Palestinians i would like to draw attention to the Dom people in Palestine. The Dom and Roma people are not the same as the groups left India at different times and using different routes but they share similar origins and face similar struggles and oppression. There are estimated 2.2 million Dom people in the Middle East and North Africa. The Palestinian Dom people live in West Bank, Gaza and occupied Jerusalem. The biggest Dom community is in Gaza — around 12,000-15,000 people were living there when the war started, but nobody knows how many of them are still alive.

The Domari Society is a non-profit organization based in Jerusalem aiming to improve the conditions of the Dom people, founded by Amoun Sleem who's interviewed in the recent article linked above. The Domari Society is unique for being founded and organized by the Dom community itself and has done incredible work such as providing education for children and women and preserving the endangered Domari language. The organization relies on donations to fund its activities and i recommend donating to them if you want to support the Palestinian Dom people in this particularly difficult time. Just raising awareness about the Dom and their situation is important too even if you can't donate

Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem

WELCOME TO THE GYPSIES SOCIETY IN JERUSALEM

[movedclonekisser-deactivated202]

deadbeat daughter

[communistkenobi]

before Jordan Peterson became an international anti-trans figure he was mostly doing islamophobic shit and being racist about immigrants. trans people are not the first canary in the coal mine for far right violence, not by a long shot and you’re racist if you think otherwise lol

[irhabiya]

there's few things i hate more than people watering down what it means to be antizionist. it's in the fucking name. if you believe there's any capacity to reconcile palestinian liberation with the existence of israel you're not an antizionist, you might as well take that watermelon emoji out of your bio.

it is not enough to be "pro-palestine," we're over a year into a live broadcasted genocide, recognizing and denouncing the genocide and siding with its victims is the bare minimum and should be the standard at this point. after 15 months of live streamed genocide, you'd think that would prompt people to investigate what led us to this point, how we all failed palestinians, and what it means to truly stand by them, but no not really. some dumb fucking cunts really think they're well and truly antizionist by advocating for a ceasefire and politely asking israel to pull their rabid, bloodthirsty settlers out of the westbank. as if the settler colonialism started in '67, and the ethnic cleansing that preceded is always either left not acknowledged or outright justified.

palestinian liberation means the abolition of the settler colonial, apartheid nation state that is israel, and giving the land back to its rightful owners, nothing less, not even an inch less.

[littleyellowleaves]

determination

[tanyushenka]

A Palestinian boy gives the symbol for liberation as he climbs a pole, 1988 Photographer: Peter Turnley

[anxeious]

via laninuuu on twitter

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[insomniparty]

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i keep thinking about the future. i keep thinking about the day the death toll from the genocide is fully acknowledged and what we'll all say in our defense. i keep thinking about compounding atrocities in palestine, in sudan, in lebanon, in syria, in congo. this is the second year where every holiday, every celebration, every wedding, every birthday, every achievement has been marred by the knowledge that our world is rotting. i think there's always been an awareness that there are many political forces that keep people suffering, but the genocide has been so telegraphed, televised, recorded, tolerated, defended, all-encompassing in ways that have brought everything else to light. things haven't been normal for me in a long time. i don't understand people who have had a normal year. i think it's appropriate to feel shaken and it's appropriate to feel angry. otherwise you are not prepared for the future. happy holidays to everyone else who feels that way

[bloglikeanegyptian]

honestly i know it sounds like some kind of punchline to be somewhere safe and warm and pleasant and talking about a genocide or wars in countries you've never been but when we remember this time period in the future, when you watch a documentary about hind rajab someday, i think you'll probably remember hearing about it as it unfolded. you might remember going to the movies or being in class or at work when the audio came out. those days before we knew what happened, when they sent paramedics out to rescue her. isn't it so much worse, so much more of a joke, to live through this time without at least acknowledging what this time is?

i think it's okay to be affected by part of the collective humanity. i think it's good to normalize it instead of stigmatizing it. it's actually normal for everyone i know. everyone i love is also carrying it, because of where i'm from and who i know, and because we're all watching the same news and feeling the same way. but we still have holidays and celebrations. this is just how it is. its more shameful to forget. we have no defense for any of it, anyway.

[gothhabiba]

I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours

Mawasi Al-Qarara Mutual Aid Project

This campaign is a mutual aid initiative involving myself, my friends Mohammad Abu-Alwan and his two brothers in Palestine, and Shakhya Scri

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

[soracities]

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]