I’ve gotten a some asks to help spread the word on Palestinian gofundmes - so I’m putting it all into one post with the hope they’ll get better visibility. all have been vetted by either @el-shab-hussein, @nabulsi, or @90-ghost
if you can donate, consider it
if you can’t, sharing is hugely helpful too
talk to your family, your friends, your coworkers, your elected officials. go to protests if you can. don’t let anyone forget what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank
from the river to the sea my friends
Youssef Helles (@4-zien-yousef) is trying to get his wife and five kids out of Gaza which require legal costs, housing, healthcare, food, basic necessities, emotional support, etc. He’s also had his tumblr deleted 3 times which is absolutely fucking ridiculous
€8459/23000
My name is Youssef Helles, 42 years old. In 2019, I left Gaza in search of a better l… Omar yousef needs your support for A Father's Plea: H
Tahani Shorbajee (@tahanibaby), her husband, her kids, her parents, her brothers, and her sister have lost everything. Her niece in the US is trying to raise funds to get them to Egypt which is 5k/adult and 2500/child.
ALSO Tahani studied chemistry and was an assistant prof which is hella cool. she’s looking to connect with fellow science nerds so go talk to her (whatsapp is on her page)
$17909/50000
With a heavy heart and a plea for urgent assistance, I am reaching … Renna Sharif needs your support for Please Help Tahani save her ch
Eman Zaqout (@emanzaqoutt) and her husband and two kids are in a similar situation. Their entire neighbourhood was destroyed and were evacuated from their home in the north to south Palestine. They need food clothes medicine literally basic necessities that have become even more scarce as the violence continues
Eman also got awarded to do her PhD in Malaysia but she can’t get out!! LET THE WOMAN GO TO SCHOOL AND REBUIKD A LIFE
$11779/40000
Dear friends, family, and compassionate supporters,
My name is Eman Za… Mazin Fakak needs your support for Help my family survive famine an
Raghad Qanou (@rhq2744) is a medical student at Al-Azhar university who is trying to get her family out Gaza. She’s managed to get out on a medical scholarship but her family is stuck. Not only are hygiene/sanitary infrastructure and health care inadequate but there’s costs when they get out. The family have done their best to figure out it but they need help now
£5467/55000
Hello,
My name is Bridget and I'm managing this fundraiser for Raghad and her family. Raghad and… Bridget Pallas needs your support for Hel
Jad Al-Haq (@falestine-yousef) is a new mom. She has a three month baby. She’s healing, having a hard time providing milk, there’s no diapers available or medicines or vitamins. Her fathers had a stroke and her mother has alot of chronic health issues. She and her family need to get back on their feet
$4495/40000
Hello all,
I am Palestine, Jad Al-Haq, I am 36 years old, married, a… Jacob Thompson needs your support for Help Palestine and Family Survi
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
i want to do a painting of a tiger taking a bath to put in a bathroom (bathroom-themed bathroom) and to this end i made a little maquette out of clay and i suspect this will scope creep into having both a painting and sculpture of a tiger or perhaps only a sculpture of a tiger. if i do both should they be displayed together or separately
Working on cutting out a large piece of wood to do the painting on, which is a constraint that will either be really fun or really annoying. Maybe both
Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks
i have written custody plans for labrador retrievers more complex than i have for children. i went to four years of undergrad, three years of law school, and sat for the bar exam to write up custody exchange provisions for dogs with hyphonated last names
my clients are paying $295 an hour for me to go to court and litigate who makes veterinary decisions for Chuckles the Goldfish and theres literally nothing i can do to stop them
“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force—a wild pain and decay—also accompanies everything.”
