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27-moons

Happy Birthday Shireen Abu Akleh

Your legacy lives forever. You will be avenged. Your Palestine will be free.

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[image description: two photos of palestinian-american journalist shireen abu akleh. in the first, she is wearing a blue press vest while standing outside somewhere with grass behind her and smoke rising in the air. in the second, she is inside holding a white frosted cake that that says "press" with a blue background and her name in silver, along with a microphone made of frosting.]

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Shireen Abu Akleh (1971 – 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by an Israeli soldier while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The IOF deliberately shot at her and murdered her on May 11, 2022, after which they repeatedly denied it being an intentional attack and refused to launch a criminal investigation. During her funeral, israeli police attacked pallbearers with batons and stun grenades as well as invaded the hospital in which the funeral was held, attacking and wounding patients and medical workers.

Abu Akleh’s funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people, thought to be the largest Palestinian funeral in Jerusalem for over two decades.

On October 28, 2023, an iof bulldozer destroyed the memorial for Abu Akleh in Jenin as well as razed the entire street where she was fatally shot.

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Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

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Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

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by Fabio Romano

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These disgusting racists have always been among us. Trump gave them permission to be cowardly about it.

No surprise betrayal is MAGA personality trait.

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Summer Landscape (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Les Deux amies (1895) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

luntfontanne

18th century lesbianism??? in MY early history of ballet?????? (from Jennifer Homans, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet)

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“You’re the only friend I need, sharing beds like little kids” (insp.)

Bound (1996), Saving Face (2004), Thelma (2017), Carol (2015), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Hearts Beat Loud (2018), Disobedience (2017), The World to Come (2020), The Handmaiden (2016), Blue Jean (2022), Lovesong (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Rafiki (2018), The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), Night Nurse (1931)

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i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

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Les hivers de Monet 🕯️

collaredfrank

As a queer person who has had this kind of conversation with my straight mother, I'm obsessed with Ilya's reaction to Yuna saying he and Shane staying in the closet and keeping their relationship a secret for the rest of their careers is sad. That feeling when someone's catching up to your lived experience over the last decade.

ladiablesse

i do think it’s interesting how people generally seem more inclined to refer to ICE as nazis rather than modern day runaway slave catchers. bc that’s what it feels most reminiscent to me of. ofc the two are intrinsically linked given that the US inspired nazi germany which inspired the US again and so on and so forth. but still idk slave catcher feels more accurate to me.

ladiablesse

i think the thing that bothers me about the urge to refer to them as nazis is that i think white americans love to act like what is happening right now isn’t the most american shit ever. ICE is as american as the trail of tears as minstrel shows as jim crow as lynch mob postcards as cointelpro. stop trying to outsource what’s happening. this is what america always has been and always will be