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♡ lust rushes but love waits

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[zegalba]

When it rains the white petals of Diphylleia Grayi also known as skeleton flowers, turn crystal clear.

[zegalba]

close-ups of butterfly and moth wing scales

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[surr0unds]

same koi in two different parts of san francisco

[happyheidi]

Heart shaped lakes ♡ x

[cithaerons]

A Google doc with resources for Afghanistan 

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GoFundMe Emergency Funds for Afghan Artists

Afghan Child Education And Care Organization (AFCECO) (orphanage)

Visions for Children e.V. (assisting Afghanistan and other countries lacking educational infrastructure)  

[cithaerons]

Form for U.S.-based attorneys willing to help with Afghans with their SIV, P-2, and humanitarian parole cases (via Afghan Diaspora for Equality & Progress)

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[eflor]

[langsandlit]

Al Jazeera English has a whole series of documentaries available for free on Youtube about Palestine and Al-Nakba ("The Catastrophe") which helps contextualising what is happening right now in Gaza and all Israeli-occupied Palestine.

Palestine is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis while the United States and other European Prime Ministers express their solidarity with Israel. It's crucial that you educate yourself and support Palestine and Palestinians' struggles for justice and the end of this illegal occupation.

It's also important to remember that all of Israel was built on occupied land. Israel is an apartheid state and a settler colony. The Israeli state has no right to exist.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and boycott Israel!

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history (not by Al Jazeera but short and very comprehensive)

Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork (a stunning and powerful documentary about deconstructing the Jaffa oranges brand through representations, archival photos and videos. It tackles forced evictions, the bombing of Palestine and Al-Nakba. The documentary is available on vimeo for under 6$, absolutely worth it! I have bought this film in Italian so message me if you'd like to see it!)

Lost cities of Palestine: Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 1

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 2

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 3

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 4

Al-Nakba: How did the Nakba happen?

Al-Nakba: 70 years of exile

[mazarinel]

I feel like when Menstrual huts in Nepal are brought up to support arguments, they're dismissed because Americans and Euro-centric people have no experience with this kind of discrimination. They don't understand how much it fucks with your mind to be a woman segregated from her family for having a period.

Like, I am Nepali but I was born/raised in America, so I'm pretty used to the whole "gross but not super-shunned" American mindset on periods.

Four years ago, my father remarried a very traditional Nepali woman, and with her came her family.

My step-mother soon noticed when I would be on my period, since our whole family shares one bathroom and despite how I try to hide it, it's pretty obvious what I'm doing when I go to the bathroom tons of times a day. Her family began watching me whenever I went into the kitchen, I couldn't touch anything there or else I'd 'soil' it, I couldn't get a glass of water without being watched. I was told I couldn't sit on a certain side of the couch, couldn't enter certain rooms, and could not touch my baby brother or hug my father. Because I was on my period, and I was 'impure'.

Now like, that's not even a FRACTION of what some women in Nepal actually go through. Where they are forced out into huts with no heat, little to no food or water, no cleaning supplies, and are forced to stay inside for the duration of their periods. Many times women are raped and/or assaulted during this period.

There is such a depth to women's suffering that is glossed over by the rest of the world. It took me the tiniest bit of discrimination of this type to really be able to realize "hey, this is actually TERRIFYING".

And now I can imagine how little people truly care when they hear "Menstrual Huts" in an argument, because they have no experience with or knowledge of the subject. Truly, it's made me realize how much I fear for myself, my sister, and women all over the world. It's made me realize how much our natural bodies are hated and feared and disgusted. And how men control societies so much that they can create an entire tradition where our bodies and our lives are shamed and punished.

[mazarinel]

Here are some images, since I believe visual examples also help people a lot, as well as a few articles and a GoFundMe for menstrual cups in Nepal below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/menstrual-cups-in-nepal-chhaupadi

Menstrual Cups in Nepal: Chhaupadi, organized by Clara Go

Let's fight against the menstruation taboo in Nepal - Project Rato Baltin Rato Baltin is… Clara Go needs your support for Menstrual Cups i

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2019/03/22/women-are-still-dying-after-being-sent-to-menstruation-huts-but-no-one-is-filing-complaints

Women are still dying after being sent to menstruation huts, but no one is filing complaints

Despite having the highest rates of deaths related to Chhaupadi, not a single police complaint has been filed in Achham and Dailekh district

https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-1/2020/2/12/chhaupadi-an-outdated-patriarchal-practice-in-nepal

Chhaupadi: An Outdated Patriarchal Practice in Nepal — IR INSIDER

A longstanding tradition in Nepal results in the deaths of young women every winter. This tradition , which has its roots in Hinduism, mand

(^^^This article was published in 2020, so Menstrual Huts are a MODERN DAY issue for many women outside the western world.)

[revelli]

How do I stop being crazy for someone omfgggg when will it end

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[casket-of-beauty]

[approvers]

[tilthedayidice]

Some of my loose D6s

[revelli]

i just graduated university, im back in my home town, and i feel lost af. i know i won’t feel like this forever and that eventually through hard work and dedication i will find my way, but wow, i hate this in between period. it feels so dark and alone. i literally cry myself to sleep every night either because i’m tormented by my thoughts of being unproductive or not having my shit figured out, or the pressure to make money in order to sustain myself and help my family. Or also because i’m just sad, i miss my boyfriend, living with him being with my friends. i miss it all. I beat myself up for not really sinking in the beauty of those moments and it’s so hard to exist right now. Especially in the unknown. I guess the nostalgia is what is killing me.