ramlionbam

ashkenazi jew. any pronouns

[ram-lion-bam]

pinned.

i'm intersex, trans (genderfluid) and plural. may sometimes use 'we' pronouns. we consider our system to be traumagenic. our family is primarily from romania/russia but one of our grandmothers was born in colombia. we primarily consider ourselves jewish and (to a minor extent) hispanic.

i'm an ashkenazi jew who grew up with a conservative synagogue/family, but i've lapsed a bit and also missed out on some things (synagogue was very unorganized in my youth), so i'm trying to reconnect.

opinions quickfire: i support endogenic systems, i support problematic fiction ('proship', 'anti-anti', etc.), i support kink and sex work. i prefer not to use tma/tme and support all good faith identities (mspec lesbians, afab transfems, etc.) though i do not support radqueer identities.

i support both jewish/israeli and palestinian rights to the land of israel. would also like for netanyahu's government to stop being kahanist fucks. this is a sensitive topic for me but putting my opinions here so i don't need to explain myself again.

[ram-lion-bam]

i'm so tired of opening up blogs that focus on jewish history and share lovely pictures only for them to say insane shit about the (((zionist project))) and never post about antisemitism and instead post about how the jewish community needs to do x thing and how the jewish community has a lot of (insert racism/bigotry here) and etc etc.

do you actually know or care about jewish history or do you just like the aesthetic of your people as you ignore the corpses of your ancestors

[turbomitzvah]

Selective Humanitarian Messaging in Children’s Media

Exploring Narrative Imbalance, Victimhood, and Anti-Semitic Erasure in the Case of Ms. Rachel

[ram-lion-bam]

thinking about how a lot of pride flag posts will include a lot of niche microlabels but won't include two spirit or the jewish pride flag (or other similar flags i don't know about)

half the time they can't even include the progress flag with one whole brown stripe for queer poc.

[ram-lion-bam]

jumblr really can we please block and not reblog from people that use the r-slur. please and thank you.

[ram-lion-bam]

antisemitism takes such a large toll on us. several alters whose primary purpose is to hold jewish trauma. complete shutdowns. panic attacks. being so overwhelmed and paranoid that even getting takeout sounds like a risk. being so overwhelmed and shutdown that even heating food in the microwave is impossible.

constant reminders every single place we go that jews aren't wanted. that (((zionists))) aren't wanted. asmr youtubers, art fight, pet sites, discords for ancient kids' games.

if i could quantify the amount of pain and suffering in therapy bills and emergency takeout and comfort objects, all just enough to keep us from hyperventilating and lying in bed with an empty stomach until we pass out, and receive that check in the mail, it still wouldn't be enough to heal the wounds.

but we all know that no one would ever write that check. they don't think we deserve to be alive in the first place.

[ram-lion-bam]

made a cool thing recently but unfortunately its tied to my fandom identity and i have been harassed enough over there to never ever want this account to be linked to it so i can receive even more stalking, public mockery, antisemitism, etc.

which sucks considering that i think the way it talks about antisemitism is very cool. albeit going entirely over the heads of 99% of people. oh well.

[ram-lion-bam]

went to synagogue today and a couple is getting married and the rabbi did a really nice spiel about everyday commitment and :)

i love jewish life events being community events

[abirddogmoment]

Gals being pals

[disfiguredgrace]

yidgirl, listen to me. your coarse hair belongs to your mother and her mother and her mother.

your monobrow that boys made you feel alien for in school is an heirloom from the first of your foremothers forced into exile.

your slow metabolism and the weight you carry in your hips and belly are traits inherited from those who nearly starved.

your nose in profile is like the rock of gibraltar.

your crooked smile is the reef that nazi u-boats run aground on.

don’t augment your bodies so you might assimilate more easily. be ugly to them if you must. but your being is undeniable and beautiful.

i love you and i will always defend you.

[ram-lion-bam]

my most toxic trait is that i cannot bring myself to give a single fuck about the swamps in israel that got drained/destroyed. like yes biodiversity bla bla bla. i dont care about the biodiversity that got created by stealing and fucking up and neglecting our land.

however i will stare down anyone that thinks deserts are barren wastelands instead of beautiful incredible vibrant ecosystems and that "making the desert bloom" is the only way to tend to the land. fuck that noise. (i currently live in a very beautiful desert, albeit an american one)

[iliothermia]

Since it's Jewish American Heritage Month I'm sharing some of my favorite pieces connected to my culture 🫣 I love being on here n I love sharing my world with you and I'm lucky y'all enjoy my world too ❤️

[ram-lion-bam]

on the one hand i despise the treatment of the magen david as a generic "occult symbol" to the point where in some places people don't even know its a jewish symbol - for example i've seen it pop up randomly in visual novels (like saya no uta) or in fanart (some chinese & korean artists primarily). in the latter case, if anyone bothers to ask why the jewish star is there, the response is "it's a western occult/magic symbol, isn't it?". that's all it is to them. some demonic or occult or magic symbol, with no recognition of how the magen david is a middle eastern symbol or how its from a closed culture and treating it like some generic western occult thing ties into centuries of violent antisemitism.

on the other hand. at least it means that when i commission an artist on crepe (korean art platform), i can ask for them to put in the "six pointed star" and no one will bat an eye or think 'jew' for even a fraction of a second.

[ram-lion-bam]

we have a jewish therapist now!! i am. glad.

something so nice about that.

said therapist also told us to doomscroll about the horrors of antisemitism a bit less lol

[nonbinaryjudean]

today is Earth Day AND Yom Haatzmaut so im going to repost a reblog i added to a post about indigenous conservationism (by someone who ended up being awful)

the Persian fallow deer is native to most of the middle east. in the 20th century it nearly went extinct. today they only exist in the wild in israel and iran.

israeli conservationists successfully recovered and reintroduced them to the wild!!!! and part of why is because they are culturally significant to the jewish people!!!

Jews are indigenous to Israel. we know the land. our culture and holidays revolve around the harvests, the native flora and fauna, the geography of the land. under colonial rule, it was plundered for resources and became a barren desert. the government is not perfect, far from it. but the jewish people have an ancient and everlasting connection to the land. love for the natural world is pretty integral to many of our culture's aspects.

[ram-lion-bam]

i live in a state that has free public transport and free childcare and free college and that acknowledges the ihra definition of antisemitism. but no jews no news and mamdani is totally revolutionary nothing like him he's the future of democrats etc.

progressive policies are only cool when its your favorite antisemite doing it not when its the native and hispanic people who you forgot existed + are still suffering bc of us colonialism

[ram-lion-bam]

one of my many many many antisemite ex friends posting about "jewish supremacy" in the same breath as white supremacy and pan-arabism...

its just so hard for me to process how horribly, violently antisemitic so many people are and how they will never, ever get better. how talking to them about it will only make them target that violent antisemitism at you.