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I care about everything too much ( I do not claim ownership of any blog content unless otherwise stated)

[toddycats]

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Is there any other problematic author, like Scott Card (materially contributes to homophobic political legislation) or Gaiman (perpetrator of sex crimes) or any other of the myriad of authors and creators who are creating harm to the public (numerous types of issues), for whom you see a similar level of interpersonal pressure to denounce so thoroughly and continuously?

If not, why do you think that is?

I also do not think that supporting those people’s careers is a great thing to do while they’re still hurting people.

The difference is though that neither of those people are literal billionaires that are so thoroughly engrained in the public consciousness that every bookstore in existence seems to have a section exclusively dedicated to their merchandise for decades on end.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The scale of JK Rowling’s power is an anomaly in all of the history of professional writers.

Neil Gaiman is an exceptionally rich outlier by writer standards because of his work in tv and film and he has an estimated net worth of $10 million

Stephen King is even more of an outlier with an estimated net worth of $500 million

Rowling currently as I’m writing this has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion. Billion with a B.

She is the wealthiest author in all of history. Not just currently. Of all time. And she uses that power to fuck over trans people. She actively funds anti-trans court cases. She uses her considerable influence to donate money to and champion anti-trans legislation. She doesn’t stop tweeting.

This woman is a political force. She is heavily influential even outside of her own country. Neil Gaiman is a piece of shit but after his douchebaggery came to light he stopped tweeting. He doesn’t have the political power to do what she’s doing. Very, very few people do.

[radicalgraff]

"No one is illegal"

Seen in Tower District, Fresno, California

[firstfullmoon]

Devyn Springer, “the apocalypse”

[raangmanch]

The more I am trying to help fundraisers reach a wide berth of people, the more I am realizing that tumblr is a very performative website. Posts which are detailing a fundraiser have very little interaction, as opposed to those that point out the injustice of it all and have a tone of anger. But anger is not sustainable...if you want us ( those who are actively monitoring the fundraisers ) to give you a cause to rally against, if that is the only thing what moves you to donate, then how long can this go on? What does it even say about how you view the lives of people who have been forced to fundraise? They are not tinder to keep stoking your fuel of righteousness.

Every fundraiser which I am personally monitoring seems to only crest when the tumblr community at large either feels that appropriate bit of "oh yeah look I am so cool for rallying behind the cause." Or if there is a tragedy, an unimaginable pain a person has been put through and thus can evoke enough empathy/sympathy in the masses....what is this? What can one even say to this?

[raangmanch]

Anyway I do not know if you will see this post or scroll by, but if you would be so kind to go through it, can you at least spread the word about these fundraisers?

Shahed Muhammad- a 21 year old student, a daughter, an elder sister who made herself sick in trying to raise funds for her siblings to evacuate. Please help her evacuate too

Siraj Abudayeh- a journalist in Gaza, who took 10 years of pain to build his house only for it to be bombed.please help him rebuild, it is his right and his resistance

Shaima and Muhammad- brother and sister of Wafaa, the siblings who helped Wafaa at her most vulnerable. Please help Wafaa help them in getting their children evacuate at least

Every fundraiser here has been vetted and is present on Hussein and Nabulsi's spreadsheet. Shahed is at 224, Siraj at 219 and Shaima/Muhammad at 260.

[gaynfl-moved]

Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying "WAR CRIMINAL" and "GUILTY OF GENOCIDE" as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

[ambivalentpsychopomp]

The most moral army my ass

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 8, 2024 - A few of the many protests that happened this first week of 2024, as hundreds of thousands braved the weather in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and in condemnation of Israel's on-going genocide and fascist occupation. While our governments look away, the righteous people of the world have NOT forgotten our brothers and sisters in Palestine, suffering under the genocidal onslaught of the Israeli state, being murdered with American bombs. We keep marching, blockading, boycotting, and demanding an immediate end to the zionist occupation of Palestine!

Copenhagen, Denmark

Michigan, USA / Manchester, UK

Oslo, Norway

Milan, Italy / Paris, France / Stockholm, Sweden

Los Angeles, USA / Switzerland / Dublin, Ireland / Leipzig, Germany

Melbourne, Australia

New York City, USA

[intersectionalpraxis]

They killed the olive trees. They killed the little children. They killed the unborn. They killed the father. They killed the mother. They killed the journalist. They killed the journalists entire family. They killed all the aunts and uncles. They killed the doctors. They killed the soul of his soul. They killed the groom. They killed the bride. They killed the cats. They killed the elderly people older than their apartheid state. They killed the thousands of memories painted on the walls. They killed 30,000+ Palestinians that we will never get back. [@/ missfalsteenia on X. 01/07/24.]

[bloglikeanegyptian]

award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

[bloglikeanegyptian]

baraa is currently fundraising to get her family of 12 out of gaza. she is a friend of mine and this is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. the egyptian government is currently charging upwards of 5,000 USD per person to get to cairo through the rafah border:

Help Artist Baraa and her Family in Gaza, organized by Baraa Awoor

I urgently reach out to you in a time of crisis. My family, consisting of twelve… Baraa Awoor needs your support for Help Artist Baraa and

[fxhdskjz]

via lagrimasx

[albertserra]

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family (1985) dir. Per-Åke Holmquist

[feral-ballad]

These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.

One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejecti

[kreativekopf]

The Kiss of Freedom by Rami Kanso

[huzni]

Puma has decided to terminate its sponsorship of the Israel national football team, a decision made a year ago and unrelated to the Gaza con

Good evening folks, السَّلَام.

I'm glad and pleasured to inform you that boycotting is actually working.

[fusdoq]

German sports brand says decision was taken for business reasons and not related to consumer backlash

"The company, whose sales of €8.4bn in 2022 were almost double the level in 2018 when the calls for boycotts began, declined to comment"

it's important to mention that the boycott has been ongoing since 2018, and it has been working greatly and that is the last step. sure it was a business and financial decision, wonder how did that come to be though !

Boycott PUMA Campaign Timeline

Together, we have caused PUMA to lose millions in important sports contracts, exposed PUMA’s lies and spread our call for justice with milli

check the progress made by the BDS movement through the years "Together, we have caused PUMA to lose millions in important sports contracts, exposed PUMA’s lies and spread our call for justice with millions worldwide. We won’t stop until PUMA finally ends its complicity in Israeli apartheid." and they fucking did that!

[nativenews]

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

They are targeting the people of the land they wish to occupy