[seriedesiluetas]

published in the brooklyn rail (2021)

[10amiswhenyoucometome]

‘MEMORIAL TO 418 PALESTINIAN VILLAGES WHICH WERE DESTROYED, DEPOPULATED AND OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL IN 1948’ (2001), is a work by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir, born in 1972, featuring a refugee tent embroidered with the names of Palestinian villages impacted by Israeli expansion.

[closet-keys]

"You now have an environment where a lot of white people feel like their ass is in the jackpot. Like, 'oh, I might actually be in danger here. Oh, I'm worried about, you know, certain benefits getting cut. I'm worried about ICE. I'm worried about what's going on in my neighborhood. I'm worried about the price of groceries.' So now that you're in that context where you're feeling like you're in some danger and there's some skin in the game for you, when someone is like, 'hey, can you word that a little bit differently? That's kind of insensitive to this marginalized group' you're like 'Shut the fuck up, you must not know what's going on!' What's really funny about that is like, yeah dude, you don't think black people know what's going on? You don't think disabled folks know what's going on? You don't think trans folks know what it's like to be in an environment where it's like 'Oh I gotta worry about danger on every corner. Oh, I gotta worry about whether or not the government is gonna use its weaponry against me'?"

-elliot sang, "You don't have 'black fatigue,' you're just racist"

[rubypomegranates]

“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”

Alice Wong “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century”

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hi there <3 im a Black nonbinary lesbian artist 🥺🫶🏽 got an autoimmune disorder diagnosis last week that may explain the years of rapid dental health decline & chronic pain. been seeking medical services for years, currently waiting to see a specialist. been in a lot of pain, affecting my mobility & i havent been able to sleep or eat much. grateful for any help <3 c4$h4pp v3nm0 p4yp4l k0fi

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account is still in the negative, havent been able to take my pain meds or afford tampons or toilet paper or cat litter. genuinely grateful for even $1 or a kind word <3

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hey can i get some help. even $1 or a kind word will go a long way <3

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joint pain has been so bad today ive had trouble standing, please. even $1 will help <3

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ik this has a lot of notes but i genuinely am grateful for even $1. been struggling with my mobility really badly, trying not to internalize that shame, genuinely grateful for any help <3

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happy trans awareness week, please consider helping out a young Black nonbinary lesbian artist struggling rlly badly <3

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have a surgical consultation on the 17th, trying to survive until then. joint pain has been so bad i havent been able to sleep. please dont ignore this, even $1 or a kind word will go a long way <3

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[hollowboobtheory]

you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it

[hollowboobtheory]

I get how we need records of who's in the country for like census or tax purposes, yk boring logistical stuff. but you know what we could do with people who don't have the paperwork? send them to the courthouse to fill out their paperwork. boom problem solved and you didn't have to spend 80 thousand dollars detaining and deporting them

[parakaryote]

We need to start talking more about Congo (DRC). I literally never see posts about it anymore.

Remember to:

Avoid buying new tech if you can

Try to buy refurbished if you absolutely need to replace something

Boycott vapes if you haven’t already

Hold tech companies accountable for this

[librarycards]

here (and this is only from a cursory search) is what tech overconsumption is fueling:

Apple accused by DR Congo of using conflict minerals

The tech giant says it "strongly disputes" the claims and it is "deeply committed to responsible sourcing" of minerals.

Humanitarian Crisis in Congo Is the Sinister Underbelly of “Green Tech”

The “green tech” industry is reproducing the same colonial and extractive patterns that got us to the climate crisis.

Special Report: Conflict Minerals in the DR Congo

By Grace Harris, Ebonie Kibalya, and Lea GruberGenocide Watch Great Lakes TeamA miner shows a bag containing coltan in the Democratic Republ

[closet-keys]

One function of terms like "health," "nutrition," and "hygiene" becoming dogwhistles for white supremacy and eugenics is that it neatly obscures any actual discussion of survival.

While those in power construct health, nutrition, and hygiene as ideologically representing "morality" and "purity," the material project they undertake is to ensure these things are only accessible to those in power.

The prizing of health, hygiene, and nutrition as a fascist ideal necessarily comes hand in hand with the deliberate targeting and systematic destruction of all sources of survival.

Nowhere is this more clear than in Israel's genocidal occupation of Gaza.

[closet-keys]

Health. The US-backed Israeli military relentlessly targets hospitals, health care infrastructure, doctors and healthcare workers. My friend Fadel still has not been able to get shrapnel surgically removed from his body after surviving the bombing of his home, because there are no supplies. Every month he struggles to afford his medication for his disability.

Nutrition. The famine in Gaza is recognized globally as a deliberately constructed starvation of Palestinians. Israel has blocked aid, used their own aid sites as death traps to lure starving people, and tortured people trying to bring aid. They use malnutrition as a tool of genocide. Fadel's family has been on the brink of starvation for months, and their access to food is held at the whims of blockades and the flow of donations.

Hygiene. The overwhelming majority Gaza’s water and sewage facilities have been destroyed by Israel’s bombs. In August Israel bombed a sewage line near Fadel's family in Gaza, and ever since they have struggled to get clean water. They are all getting sick drinking dirty water. Forcing people into overcrowded displacement camps and toxic fumes and residues from weaponry also contribute to the spread of illness. Now there is an unprecedented outbreak of Guillain-Barré syndrome in Gaza due to these conditions.

Donate to Help Fadel And His Family Live Safely., organized by Fadel Aldane

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

[closet-keys]

Do you see how this works? The ideological construction of health, nutrition, and hygiene as denoting the "morally pure and deserving" emerges from a literal, on-the-ground campaign of targeting and destroying all access to healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation.

It is an ableist, eugenicist project to make populations disabled and then allow them to die.

Health cannot be individual. Health is collective or it is genocidal. We must support colonized, disabled people to survive.

[drdarine]

Losing the home whose walls we grew up within the one that embraced our laughter and childhood dreams, and witnessed our simplest and most genuine moments is a pain beyond words, a weight upon the heart.

And yet, when I calm myself and take a deep breath, I realize that this pain, harsh as it is, can not compare to the sorrow of losing someone you love forever.

[drdarine]

My mind drifted for a moment:

Do you realize how terrifying and tragic this war has become that we now find ourselves making such comparisons?

Please tell me… what do you think?

[dawoudi]

After everything we’ve been through over the past two years, there are still those who believe our tragedy has ended that we no longer need help, simply because there’s a fragile ceasefire, or because a few aid trucks have reached two million people who were deliberately and systematically starved for two years.

[dawoudi]

But the painful truth is that nothing has truly changed: the suffering continues, the hunger remains, and life is far from returning to normal. In fact, we are still a long way from that. The only thing that has changed is the form that our agony takes.

Donate to Support DrDarine and Her Family's New Beginning, organized by ENASE ZAGOOT

Update 09 October 2025 We can only hope the war has finally ended. We’… ENASE ZAGOOT needs your support for Support DrDarine and Her Fami

[gazavetters]

I think you’re right. This is the cruelest part of it all, that we’ve learned to call pain “endurable” only because there’s something worse.

It’s heartbreaking that war has forced us to measure pain to decide which loss hurts more when all of it is unbearable.

Your words capture something many feel but can’t express, the quiet grief of realizing that survival itself has become both a blessing and a burden.

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

RIP Miss Major

[creatingblackcharacters]

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

[bowserdyke]

A good way to honor Miss Major's memory, if you have the ability to, would be a donation to the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Black Trans Cultural Center.

This is a project originally led by Miss Major herself and aims to provide political education, leadership development, re-entry resources following incarceration, and legal advocacy to Black and Brown members of the transgender, gender-variant, and intersex community.

Support Us - Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center

Donate today and help TGIJP continue in the fight for self-determination, gender justice, and abolition! Donate Today!

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

[jareckiworld]

Marianne Vlaschits — Auroras (oil on canvas, 2021)

[poisonedmiddlesister]

it is a little bit funny to have the discourse of the hour be about that post saying that trans women need to stop being so paranoid and embrace tme people meanwhile the tme people are hunting down every trans woman on the website as a hobby

[poisonedmiddlesister]

my cool awesome allies that want to disintegrate me

[beyond-a-name]

I think this blog being deactivated makes this especially loud. she would have been here two days ago to make this point. I wonder what happened.

[romanceyourdemons]

some pitches for new barbie animated movies

barbie’s rite of spring

barbie in no exit

barbie of the red chamber

barbie mulholland drive

the sisters karamazov

the talented mr. barbie

[addictivecontradiction]

Harold and Maude, 1971

[junglejim4322]

Things will never work out the way you expect you can’t stay in paralysis waiting for the right moment forever or you will experience nothing. Keep it moving and remember not knowing how things will go is part of the excitement of living