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hi im zoe (she/they) // 19 // wishing i was on a spaceship !

[harrytheehottie]

read this again and again and again and again and

[deliciouspirategod]

I don't get why the rest of this tweet was cropped out. Are people that afraid of speaking out against what's being done to Palestine?

While what she said does apply to other situations this matters more. A lot more.

[dolerme]

marc forne by iñigo awewave for vogue ukraine man, april 2021

[lgbtmazight]

the cognitive dissonance displayed in some posts about palestine by white americans etc is absolutely fucking astounding. i really really need you to understand that the horrific genocidal process of land expropriation we are witnessing in sheikh jarrah is how all of israel was settled, how every settler colony was established, and that that violence and theft are ongoing not just in occupied palestine but where you live. in the united states and canada and australia and new zealand and new caledonia and french polynesia and the french antilles and and and. and that if you don’t understand settlerism, the ideology behind it and the mechanisms through which it is enacted; if you do not see the material connection between standing rock and gaza, you cannot be effective allies to palestinians because you do not actually understand what is happening in palestine. that the dispossession and murders have an end goal, and it is the establishment of a colonial state that looks like yours. of a country where natives don’t exist, or exist in such minuscule numbers that large scale resistance becomes impossible. the end goal is annihilation. what appears like “senseless” brutality does have a purpose, and it is a purpose that is fundamentally incompatible with the existence of palestinians. and when you see pictures and videos from jerusalem, you need to remember that the land you are standing on was and continues to be settled through the same processes. not so that you can feel useless guilt, not to derail from the urgency of the situation in palestine; but specifically so that you can contextualize the genocide of palestinians and where it fits in the colonial timeline. so that you can understand talks of two state solutions and nuance and “both sides” the same way you understand manifest destiny and unceded land and one-sided treaties. and so that you can finally develop an internationalist political approach to indigenous struggle and liberation and imperialism, and start fighting the correct enemies where you live in the belly of the beast, because that is what you have to offer and what will help colonized people everywhere.

[lgbtmazight]

@anarcho-queer-mandalorian said: …..aren’t jewish ppl indigenous to Israel though?

the word indigenous describes a specific relation to colonialism and to regional structural power, it does not simply mean “originally from/autochtonous to a given piece of land”. in the context of a racially organized settler state, claiming the dominant group that holds all judicial and political power is “indigenous” is absurd and literally goes against the definition of the word. it also negatively impacts native struggle globally by muddying people’s understanding of indigeneity and what the needs and demands of indigenous people are. incidentally, this was half the point of my post.

the jewish diaspora is spread across the world, and has been for more than two thousand years. they have throughout that time become integrated within various countries and cultures, developing their own unique ethnocultural identities, which is why terms like ashkenazi and mizrahi and sephardi exist. the denial and erasure of jewish european, african and asian national and cultural identities in order to retroactively justify the zionist project is one of the ways in which zionism is also harmful to jews.

may i also suggest: 1) this thread by rabbi andrue kahn

2) when does a native become a settler? by yuval evri and hagar kotef

3) my own post about global conceptions of indigeneity

4) this thread by em cohen

[emmaharwoods]

you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.

[sharmou6-deactivated20210706]

I just want to ask what you think the UNRWA is gonna do for Palestinians rn? “Your click helps the plight of the Palestinian people” in what way? If you actually listened to Palestinian people in sheikh jarrah rn, you’d know that they don’t want you to donate to ANYONE. Especially if it wasn’t endorsed by them. We keep telling you what we need from you, but no one listens. Almost 4,000 people reblogged this post and are talking about how they’re gonna click once a day 😜 so they can say they did something when this is not what we want or asked for. For years Palestinians have been saying support BDS, it WORKS. But all you guys want to do is press a button and call it a day

[politicalsci]

FULL TWITTER THREAD: https://twitter.com/NathanThrall/status/1386895332668235776

[lostinurbanism]

Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

[wike-wabbits]

Sardines brooch by Hattie Carnegie (1880-1956)

[lightlessons]

So, hello. I'm using my platform here now to inform about what's happening in my country. I'm from Cali, Colombia. The city that's been burning for 5 days now and being massacred by its own government.

We need your help to spread awareness on this. As of yet, there hasn't been a lot of international news coverage about it, and our own news are too biased in favor of the government to be of any help.

How did it all start?

On April 28, a national strike was called for people to raise their voices against a tax and health reforms proposed by president Iván Duque, during an economic and social crisis exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic.

Among other things, this reform wanted to tax us for funeral services (during a pandemic). They also wanted to increase the price of food and water, when most of the population has a salary that does not allow a family to live with dignity. Moreover, another nefastous health reform has yet to be taken down.

But the response of the national government to these protests has been to deploy military forces against the civilian population. A violent, disproportionate, and arbitrary action that incurs in serious human rights violations. My city, Santiago de Cali, has been one of the most affected places. During the night hours of the last few days, in different areas of the city, the police and the mobile anti-riot squad (ESMAD) have burst into peaceful demonstrations attacking with firearms, tear gas, and leaving a balance of dead and wounded that has not yet been counted. They have also captured many demonstrators, some of whose whereabouts are unknown.

My state is threatening the lives of the Colombian population in full view of the world. Please, don't let them silence us!

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

ursula k le guin was right

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

all of it, more or less

[lamignonette]

ettrumil

[bimotifs-deactivated20220327]

there are people to love and dishes to do in the meantime. insp. by @soracities

kitchen sink by joy nichols / kitchen sink by james needham / sink by lisa daria kennedy / kitchen sink by alaiganuza / july kitchen sink by karin rabuka / dishes in the sink by david showalter

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

Quilted Hoodie & Quilted Sweatpants from Teddy Fresh

[farmlesbians]

all in a day’s work

[scottishwobbly]

“Speak not of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed. (via outlawpoet)

[emmaharwoods]

ma’khia bryant was a 16 year old Black girl who called the police for help as she was getting mugged but was shot and killed with no warning minutes before the verdict for derek chauvin’s case was announced. here is the official gofundme for ma’khia, organized by her family. please boost this post and donate if you can.

[couldbedon]

[distantvoices]

Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers

Photographed By Annie Ling, James Holton and An Rong Xu