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[el-shab-hussein]

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[opencommunion]

Yousef Katalo, Palestinian Mary I, oil and sand on canvas

[booasaur]

Terrified for the students in NY tonight.

Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.

The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.

It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:

[booasaur]

As people have pointed out, CUNY's going to get it even worse than Columbia because of the difference in demographics.

[booasaur]

The Rafah invasion would be so catastrophic that even Biden momentarily called it a red line, though of course he walked it back.

It's hard to say something could be worse than what's already happened, nothing I could say wouldn't already apply, but this would massively increase the scale of this ongoing atrocity. Any pressure that can be brought to bear to stop it must be applied.

[dykeluc]

I wish a very bad day on those who refer to biological family as "real family" / "real parents" do you not see how insensitive and gross and digusting you are.

[soon-palestine]

[adoptee-reminders]

it is not okay to steal terms from a minority group. Please stop using the term transracial as it is an adoptee only term. It means for someone to be adopted from a race/ethnicity other than their own. Stop appropriating our terminology. 

[whathappenedtonovember]

can we….can we please talk about how the found family trope has turned into straight up romanticizing adoption?

i see it more and more and as an adoptee it makes me sick because most of the time it’s by bio spawn.

if it were common for adoptees who are not out of the fog and/or in general have complex feelings about their adoption and wish to process those things by having fiction in which the characters have agency and autonomy, reinforcing the idea of choice, then my opinion would be different. but no, it’s pretty much always kept people ignoring the “families of choice” and “found family label” in order to romanticize the act of being adopted, something they have not experienced while having zero knowledge of how adoption actually works. there’s always this underlying aspect of adoption means love when that is statistically and narratively untrue. but they don’t know that and don’t care to look further because they love the trope more than they’ll ever love an actual adoptee who is out of the fog and sees the adoption industry for what it is.

instead, they think of it closer to pet adoption than to human adoption, making it cute and fluffy and looking at the savior complex through rose colored glasses. they use adopted in the theoretical sense, like how bio spawn people use it in real life, ignoring how adoption is a legal process, something that causes trauma, something that costs lives.

and on top of spinning our trauma into an idealistic fantasy that ultimately ends up being a nuclear family with extra steps, they ignore actual adoptees. they ignore our stories and our voices and continue to consume and create media that completely disregard how we actually feel about our experiences and instead turn it into a borderline fetishized (and sometimes actually fetishized) dynamic that makes them feel good.

things would be different if the adoption industry in the US did not pour so much money into manipulating the public into believing that adoption is inherently a good thing done by good people who just want to help kids. it’s clearly seen in how much people love the orphan trope in fiction. despite 97% of real orphans worldwide being manufactured because of the adoption industry, people eat it up every time, let it feed their already existing opinions of how adoption works, and then romanticize adoption in fiction as well. it’s a vicious cycle that bio spawn do not realize causes harm. and if we say something, we are pretty much always the problem because they’re obsessed with the fictional grateful orphan who was taken in by a loving person out of the kindness of their heart and how could that not be true in real life?

[whathappenedtonovember]

oh, also! heavily inspired by this post from @dykeluc and i want to give credit where credit is due

[dykeluc]

people when they find out foundfamily/family of choice means you arnt related, biologically, legally, step family etc and it applies to NON nuclear families meaning there isnt suppose to be a parent of the group or even seen like siblings

your just a group that feels like family WITHOUT the roles of a family. thats the fucking trope. if yall love this trope so much, can you atleast know what it is

[whathappenedtonovember]

!!!!!!!! exactly. the entire trope exists because of the pitfalls that nuclear families create, where people decide to create their own family so it’s entirely against the point to create the same dynamics once again.

people will really say things like “they’re the mom friend of the group” and know exactly what it means but then have absolutely no idea how to envision a dynamic in a fictional group of people without taking it to mean literally. like come on….

(and don’t even get me started on how someone can be a parental figure without being an adoptive parent. like do bio spawn not have that uncle who isn’t ur uncle but is ur uncle because that’s ur uncle or do they just call everyone they meet whose at least 10 years older than them mom or dad.)

[kaapstadgirly-deactivated202503]

palestinianartist

sending love from South Africa 🫶🏻 what about you?

[redvelvetwishtree]

[radicalgraff]

"Dear germans, stop making Palestinians pay for your parents crimes"

Seen in Berlin-Kreuzberg

[remindertoclick]

Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

Thank you <3

[fairuzfan]

Like people who criticize SWANA reporting have never known a SWANA reporter and especially not a Palestinian reporter. Speaking as someone who has reporters in their family who had to go country to country to avoid literal death, it's insulting the way zionists just dismiss Arabs reporting so openly.

[nikoco11]

too many dreams cut short 🍉

bashar is just one of many palestinians you can help continue their lives, dreams, futures, but time is running out and every second counts

https://t.co/SAAqfNa2Zu

Escaping Gaza To Pursue My Dream In Medicine, organized by Darina Bishop

If you would like to confirm the validity of this campaign, you can message… Darina Bishop needs your support for Escaping Gaza To Pursue My

life is tiring and hard, so please let’s do what we can to take care of each other. sharing, talking, boycotting, drawing- anything counts! do what’s accessible to you! thank you!

[doubleca5t]

everything about the Palestinian genocide is disgusting and inhumane and incredibly depressing but there's something extra infuriating to me about the fact that the reason Israel is taking all this land is so they can bulldoze the rubble and build subdivisions. Like not only are they going out of their way to wipe out an entire people and culture in one of the most horrific state actions of the 21st century, but they're doing it in the name of selling fucking tract homes like that's so so incredibly bleak

[doubleca5t]

Like intellectually I know this is just a current day iteration of lebensraum but there's something about seeing the souless corporate monotony of modern suburbia blended with inhuman, unimaginable horrors comparable to some of the worst atrocities of human history that makes me want to walk directly into the ocean and let the sea claim me

[sayruq]