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A mother's plea: Help us survive and protect my child who was born in war.
My name is Sahar. Like any young woman, I dreamed of a stable and happy life. I was engaged to Mohammad, and together, we dreamed of building a warm little home where we could start our life. We spent years preparing our house, but just before our wedding, everything was destroyed in an instant by the war.
I was faced with a choice: to leave Mohammad in the midst of this chaos or to stand by him and begin our journey together, no matter how difficult it might be. I chose him. We got married, not in the dream wedding I had envisioned, but under the harsh reality of war. Our new home became a fragile tent, offering neither comfort nor security.
After we got married, I received the news that I was pregnant with my daughter, and I live in constant fear for my unborn child. I am terrified of the world she will be born into—a world of poverty, hunger, and bitter cold. We have been displaced from our home more than nine times, carrying with us nothing but the burden of loss and the hope of survival. The house we dreamed of is now rubble, and the tent we live in barely protects us from the rain and cold.How will I protect my daughter? We struggle to find enough food. Basic necessities like milk, blankets, and clothing feel impossibly out of reach. The cost of survival has become unbearable. Every night, I am haunted by the thought: how can I bring her into this world, knowing I cannot keep her safe?
After a long pregnancy filled with pain and fear, after nights without sleep, I finally gave birth to my baby girl. She was born in the middle of bombing, surrounded by destruction and poverty—not in a warm room, not in a safe place. Her first cry mixed with the sound of explosions, as if she was announcing her arrival into a cruel world she never chose.
I gave birth to her with nothing but my heart. I cannot promise her anything. Poverty surrounds us from every side, and the cold reaches her tiny body before night even comes. My baby and I are suffering deeply, not because we ask for much, but because I am unable to provide her with the most basic needs: milk, warmth, and safety.
When I look into her eyes, I feel strength. When I look at my empty hands, I break down in tears. I am a mother trying to save her child from hunger and fear, in a world that has shown no mercy even to the dreams of children.😢🥹
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What I like so much about this show and Shin Seo-Ri in particular is that she has no idea what is going on exactly most of the time, but she fairly quickly figures out just enough to know if it's good or bad for her and then goes for that. Like she sniffed out right away that Cha Se-Gye was wealthy and in charge from the way he acted, even if she didn't know what a CEO was in particular. She has her wits about her in a way that feels realistic to me, as someone from 300 years in the past.
An influential Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist activist of the Civil Rights era, Malcom X, born Malcom Little, grew up in frequently changing homes in the North and East, his father being a Pan-Africanist who was frequently harassed and may have been murdered by white supremacist groups. These experiences installed a racial consciousness in Malcom from a young age, and this would only grow as he aged. During a stint in prison, Malcom became a member of the Nation of Islam, and adopted the surname "X" in accordance with its teachings. He began ministering for the NOI after prison and began to gain national prominence for his political activities in support of Black self-determination, arguing that Black people should defend and advance their rights by any means necessary. He left the NOI in 1964 after growing conflicts with its leadership, and converted to Sunni Islam. Soon after, he went on Hajj to Mecca, and the experience strengthened his faith and his belief in Islam as a uniting force. He continued to speak in a variety of forums, denouncing American imperialism and racism. Malcom X was assassinated in 1965, allegedly by members of the Nation of Islam, which had continued to feud with Malcom after his departure from its ranks, but US government involvement has long been suspected.
"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution."
as a person who works in an adjacent industry to the one the protagonists of we are all trying here work in everything i’ve seen in the first two episodes is so familiar to me and that recognition really unsettled something in my stomach while watching. putting aside all the usual guffawing about stories set in the film or entertainment industry — from everyone making enough money or being privileged with success or fame or even just great funding for what people essentially not see as real work — it hit the nail on the head about just how insecure and painful living and working in this field can be. how suffocating.
dongman’s fourty and he never even released a film, not as a director or scriptwriter, but the idea of being called unemployed by one of his friends enraged him beyond belief, because to himself he is a film director and screenwriter, he does work in this industry and is an active part of it, even if he hasn’t made it as far as the rest of the eight club. it’s his identity and to take that from him sends him reeling. at the same time this slow chipping away at his dream makes him so actively depressed he’s on the verge of losing all his friends, goodwill, and makes him fight with his brother monthly in a way that stops them from talking to each other altogether and makes his depression worse because the lack of income between them barely pays the rent. but he’s still a film director, he’s still someone, even if he has to metaphorically crawl on his knees through the dirt to get his film made and be the only person to remind himself that he exists.
eunah (and hyejin too) on the other hand is the kind of woman who suffers at the hands of these kinds of artist, though less dongman and more the archetype he could have turned into with more, but not enough, success, which are park gyeongse and choi donghyeon. both eunah and hyejin are in positions where they have to cater to the fragile male ego around them and from what we have seen and heard have to respond to it in a way all-too familiar to women in this industry. eunah is an incredible dramaturg and could be a great producer, but instead she’s sent in to wrangle directors and actors that don’t get along with her boss and reads scripts for him to produce, since he doesn’t read them himself, but still has to live with him berating her for doing his job for him and doing it better. meanwhile hyejin is a ceo in her own right and yet she is the one who has to meddle and mend in her husband’s imagined rivalry with dongman and put dongman in his place when his behaviour disrupts her life and their friend group too much for her to keep bearing the brunt of it, as all the men in the group conveniently let her handle it. these women are visibly exhausted by the men around them and despite being in the same circumstances as those men, they have to shoulder their burdens too instead of being allowed to just focus on their own art or work. they are currently supporting characters in their own lines of work and their own lives even, solely for being women. without even being the muses to these men, they are their labourers and their consciences.
and then there’s the conflict between dongman and jinman. jinman is a failed artist in his own right. he wanted to be a poet and a university professor but couldn’t hack it, so now he’s back in the “real world” already unlike dongman. and, yes, while we saw an argument between them that is implied to have happened many times over, he still only wants to help his brother make it and get better than crush his dream entirely. hell, he lashes into dongman’s entire social circle for ostracising him, raising the valid point that a lot of their worries are frivolous compared to what is happening in the world. jinman is right, but jinman is also miserable in his current job, because it doesn’t pay the bills enough and it’s not what he wants and that dissatisfaction has made him callous, but from where he stands this means dongman either has to make it or join him to at least pay the bills and keep them from losing the roof over their heads. which brings it back to dongman as the unemployed artist trope and how he doesn’t even want to be that, but being anything else would kill him. his brother knows this, because it is actively killing him, and yet they can’t get to that because the crushing effort of even living a little above complete poverty takes up all their time, energy, and air.
and yet up until now neither of these men has noticed that eunah lives in the same neighbourhood as them, because the men in this show are still mostly occupied with themselves. it is all painfully recognisable to me.
Hello everyone. I'm going to have to keep making posts like this as long as Lola keeps being trapped in this hotel. She wants to move out as soon as possible but needs your help to do that. Would any allies be willing to donate so that she can finally start living a life of he own?
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We met the birth certificate goal (thank you to everyone who donated) and now are moving onto a new goal -- getting Lola a new passport! She needs $225 USD to cover it. Please help however you can 🙏🏿 remember that the money gets to her fastest through PayPal and cashapp
We have to increase the goal again. Lola may have found a new apartment which goes for $350 a month, in the same building as her friend! But she still needs to pay off the hotel fees, which are $330 USD. And then she still has to get the passport. I'll be keeping that at $225 because she hasn't been raising the money quickly enough.
This means that I'm setting the new goal at $905 USD with a focus on the hotel and the apartment. Lolas mental health is getting exponentially worse, and the longer she stays at this hotel and stays in Nigeria, the worse it gets. I don't want her to hurt herself or get hurt and I'm doing all I can to support her. If you're an ally, please also help so that she's able to live a full and happy life 🙏🏿
If we could please get donations through the PayPal or Cashapp, that would be MUCH preferred because that way she can get the money immediately. Lola just informed me she will be locked out of her room either today or tomorrow and so she needs to pay off at least some of the hotel fee that she owes, which is close to $400 dollars now.
The longer it takes to fill this goal, the more Lola's hotel fees devour any money that comes in. The fastest way to make sure she both pays off the fees and can pay for the next stages of her escape to Germany is to send what you can through Paypal or Cashapp. There's no delay (I can send in minutes rather than waiting the 2-5 days with GFM) so she gets it within minutes.
i admit i didn't start 2023 as a bleeding heart liberal or anything but the past two years have really radicalized me beyond belief not because its the first time we've seen atrocities or the first time our region has been targeted or the first time i've watched governments oppress and ignore their citizens but because it's the first time i have really felt like the price of living in this world as it is will be higher than the price of trying to change it.
Hey everyone I’ve been trying so hard for the last few months to not have to do this. But I really need help, I was terminated from my job in November due to reporting on going harassment. I had been physically and mentally harmed to the point of hospitalization in December. Despite all of this I was still denied my unemployment benefits. I’ve done many job searches and interviews I’ve either been ghosted or not accepted. I’m 2 months behind on rent and I can’t be homeless during the winter time or I will not make it. I need $2000 to cover everything before the end of February.
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