yaya (no pronouns/they/them/elle)

Disabled non-binary femme. Mestizx. Chicago. Love anime. Michi fan. Musician. #reproductivejustice

[yukipri]

Banana Fish Locations Guide

Previously was attached to my art Masterpost, but I decided to move it to its own separate post ^ ^;

Incomplete; yeah, I have all the info for all the other locations, but I got lazy lol

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Around Ash & Eiji’s 59th St Apartment - Part 1

Around Ash & Eiji’s 59th St Apartment - Part 2

Around Ash & Eiji’s 59th St Apartment - Part 3

Central Park: The Mall

The American Museum of Natural History Part 1

The American Museum of Natural History Part 2

The American Museum of Natural History Part 3

The New York Public Library, Part 1

The New York Public Library, Part 2

The New York Public Library, Part 2 Extra

The New York Public Library, Part 3

East Broadway subway station

Coney Island subway station

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ART MASTERPOST HERE

[thedisabledfemme]

My birthday wish is for all people to rise up, in solidarity with those most oppressed, and for their own sake, and if not for this generation but for the next one

[thedisabledfemme]

My university had remained silent these past two months. I was able to organize a brainstorming session for future programming and got faculty to support and even got the Dean of students and Director of the Office of EDI to come out. But it still bothered me that there was not a community event to process the grief. And so I decided to organize an end of semester vigil. Was able to get 70 or so ppl to come out and to stand in solidarity, and mourn the martyrs of Falasteen. As the organizer, I spoke, yelled and cried, and saw so many people also in tears. After the event, myself and members of the Muslim student association were harassed by one fucking old man Z*onist. The week afterwards one of my Muslim comrades was harassed by yt students. One of fellow peers gifted me pepper spray because she is worried about safety now that I publicly spoke out.

Despite these incidents, I found many people who are wanting to know organize and who were so grateful that I took the initiative to do something because no one else had this entire semester. The work on campus has a long way to go. Faculty union president and certain z*onist professors are trying to silence any conversation. But I know there is more pro-Falasteen voices on this campus. We just need to use them.

Anyway, there are many communities that need our support. And there’s different ways to engage and support the movement. Be willing to take the risk and talk to people. It breaks my heart that some people are not willing to engage with the truth. But there are many out there who are willing to learn and support. This is a lot to carry alone. But we’re not alone!

Viva Palestina!

[thedisabledfemme]

Missing you every day

[brightgreenmind]

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Please watch!!!

The past 42 days have been nothing but horrific. Everyday I wish I could go back to reblogging lovely fan art and silly things.

However, this is not possible as an ethnic cleansing is happening in Palestine in front of our eyes.

I know it’s uncomfortable. I know it’s distressing and painful to witness. But the people of Palestine are showing us their reality. So don’t look away and amplify their voices!!!🇵🇸

[aeonthespian-blog]

Palestine isn’t the only genocide happening. There’s: Native American genocide. Haitian Genocide. Congolese Genocide. Sudanese Genocide. Myanma Genocide. Tigrayan Genocide. None of us will be free until we’re ALL free. Solidarity with each other is the only way forward.

[thedisabledfemme]

The kids are all right

Yesterday, my community service club was doing outside litter pickup, when I overheard one of my students talking about Israel killing kids.

“Yeah, Israel is killing Palestinian kids. Israel is killing children like us.”

“What!?”

*pulls out phone to show a video of babies in distress after the Israeli air strikes.”

“Huhh! Omg look at her!”

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I keep thinking what he meant by “us.” Children their age, racially minoritized people, or was it something else?

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The children are listening.

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Follow the Abolitionist Teaching Network for resources for educators here

[timothylawrence]

Hope people use this time to check themselves on their internalized Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism— especially if you’re American or European. It is not “normal” for the Middle East to be “constantly at war”. Muslims are not more inclined to violence and “barbarism”.

The state of the region is the product of decades of colonialism, exploitation, and racism in play. The word “Middle East” itself stems from those very same things.

[bloglikeanegyptian]

it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

[thedisabledfemme]

[thedisabledfemme]

Twitter: @/rhesohp

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[thedisabledfemme]

Reposted with permission

Twitter:@/yachi_chann

[queenapplebuuum]

indeed. Unrepentant villains. A word from Kwame Ture.

[lamuliz]

Don't stop talking about them. We need to be their voice.

Inspired by the amazing poem by dana

[politijohn]

Source

[patamon]

02 The Beginning Opening

[luthienne]

currently reading:

except for palestine: the limits of progressive politics by marc lamont hill & mitchell plitnick

palestine: a socialist introduction, ed. by sumaya awad & brian bean

on my non-fiction reading list:

the question of palestine, edward said

the hundred years’ war on palestine, rashid khalidi

palestinian identity, rashid khalidi

ten myths about israel, ilan pappé

the ethnic cleansing of palestine, ilan pappé

on palestine, noam chomsky & ilan pappé

blaming the victims: spurious scholarship and the palestinian question, ed. by edward said & christopher hitchens

the case for sanctions against israel, ed. by audrea lim

justice for some: law and the question of palestine, noura erakat

freedom is a constant struggle, angela davis

the butterfly's burden, mahmoud darwish

on my fiction reading list:

minor detail, adania shibli

enter ghost, isabella hammad

salt houses, hala alyan

men in the sun, ghassan kanafani