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@zerofuckingwaste
can we hurry up and make it legal to have boobs out in public it's been too hot outside lately
I love Google maps, but it has produced so many people who just, can't be bothered to read street signs, it's absurd
If I tell you what street something is on, you should be able to find it with that info
Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.
Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal
you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself
forgot about stains, i really thought they were just listing off some things
forgot about stains,
i really thought they were just
listing off some things
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Boy ain’t that the truth
truly: today is a farce, and I’m sorry.
This is actually exactly what I've been thinking and experiencing.
I saw the rape denial coming up again on Twitter last night.
I haven't really talked much about how it's affected me over the past two and a half years.
For a lot of that time, I couldn't put it into words. It had forced me back into the "emergency phase" of recovery from sexual violence. Where it's affecting your entire life, and you aren't yet able to reason with it or talk about it; you're just immersed in it.
As a sexual abuse survivor, it has been extremely, intensely traumatizing to see people publicly and en masse deny that there was any sexual assault on October 7.
A lot of people are still even denying that anything at all happened on October 7. In their version, the IDF killed any and all Israelis who died, solely so they'd have an excuse to invade Gaza.
Before I go any farther, I'm just going to hand everyone the evidence.
A UK commission spent a full year collecting ALL the evidence of anything that happened on October 7. Forensics, photos, videos, interviews, survivor testimonies, first responder testimonies, et cetera.
They compiled it all into the 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report. Which you can read right here.
I will be interspersing relevant screenshots from it throughout this post. It is gnarly as fuck. Consider that your content warning.
I have witnessed many people using their platforms and authority to convince the public that there was no mass rape.
I saw a clip from one podcast on TikTok, in which a woman who was supposed to be some kind of authority got dressed and ready and appeared on this podcast, knowing that she was there to claim that mass rape did not occur.
And with her whole chest, she stated that she was willing to believe that maybe someone was raped, at some point, on October 7... but that she hadn't heard of anyone.
Which meant that, despite knowing she was going to go be on this podcast to talk about this specific topic, she didn't even bother googling it.
Because by October 13, I had heard of mass rapes occurring. Because I had actually bothered to look for eyewitness accounts from people who survived October 7. And the first thing I'd seen, a PBS interview with two survivors, featured one talking about a woman he'd seen being gang-raped and then murdered. (Similar to, but earlier than, this interview from The Times.)
I feel like my arms are vibrating, just typing this now. Almost two and a half years later. I feel like I'm shaking inside.
I was in autistic burnout when October 7 happened. Trying to recover. Trying to put my life back together.
One of my main trauma responses, I have learned, is that I will repeatedly stay up until 3 am researching and writing about a traumatic situation. Trying to find a way to control it or fight it. Trying to gain some understanding of what's going on.
I spent months and months doing that. I had no control over it. I fucked up my sleep cycle really badly, along with my ability to recover from both the preexisting autistic burnout and the new trauma.
I've finally dragged myself out of burnout, mostly, two and a half years later.
It is absolutely terrifying to see people continue to bring up the mass rapes themselves in order to tell people nothing happened.
And there are so many reasons that it's terrifying.
I get why it's still a big deal to me: someone who has read all of the evidence of it repeatedly. Someone who was not only sexually abused, but ritually abused - which means abused in the name/framework of a particular ideology. It's a big deal to me, a survivor of similar things, to have to see people saying these similar things never happened. But there seems to be no reason for people who DON'T believe it happened to keep bringing it up.
2. I can't think of any reason to keep bringing it up that isn't deliberately cruel. Denying it in the first place is weird and entitled and cruel, but many people are very confidently wrong about many things. It's like... denying it when it first comes up is bad enough. Bringing it up years later, and making a big deal again about how it never happened, is deliberate cruelty.
3. The pattern of disinformation and hatred and targeting, over the past two and a half years in particular, has made one thing especially clear to me: A lot of people unconsciously perceive Jews as sus. This is not new. The idea that Jews are sinister, shady, secretive, plotting, nefarious, dishonest, scheming, lying, controlling, is a core part of a ton of antisemitic tropes. This is why there are so many conspiracy theories about Jews. Jews control the world financial systems and media and governments and all that shit, Jews have space lasers, Jews control the weather and use it to influence voter turnout, Jews have a global network of pedophilia, Jews control the drug and alcohol trade, blah blah blah blah blah. It's fucking scary to see this idea extended into, "Jews will even lie about having been publicly raped en masse! Jews will say ANYTHING!"
It's fucking scary to see how thoroughly this idea has spread over the past few years. The idea that you can't trust Jews. The idea that any Jewish organization is likely to be secretly genocidal. Hillel, Chabad, your local synagogue, your local Jewish preschool; any of them. Scheming to support genocide and lying about it. That this is a reasonable premise to use in your approach to the world around you.
4. A lot of people actively believe that Hamas Did Nothing Wrong because it calls itself the Palestinian Resistance. It's extremely reasonable to want a resistance group to be right. To want it to be taking very dramatic, drastic steps for equally dramatic and drastic reasons. Rape is everyone's uncrossable line. People perceive rape as inherently morally wrong and unjustifiable, in a way that (to many people) murder is not. I suppose that we think murdering someone prevents them from harming anyone else, but raping them instead doesn't; and raping them as well is inhumane. So this is the sticking point. People cannot accept that Hamas raped and sexually mutilated people on October 7, because that would mean the "Palestinian Resistance" is unsupportable. And for a lot of people, that would challenge everything they know about the world. This is also why people could not center and platform Gazan activists. Why, instead, almost every Gazan peace and human rights activist I know of gets called a "Zionist" or an "Israeli shill" daily, and has been blocked by pro-Palestinian leaders and influencers. Often before even reaching out to them. Pre-emptively blocked. Because Hamas holds Gaza in a brutal dictatorship. Gazan activists have been fighting Hamas for at least 7 years. Westerners perceive this as a nice neat binary. Israel Versus The Palestinians. Because, for decades, we've been getting our information about it from groups that openly support Hamas. Many of which held rallies celebrating October 7.
The fact that the pro-Palestine movement has refused to center and platform the people directly affected by its work is a huge red flag.
5. It's terrifying to watch the left abandon all sorts of progressive principles when it comes to Jews. We listen to marginalized groups about what harms them, except for Jews. We don't accuse them of weaponizing their oppression, except for Jews.
We believe them when they talk about the hate crimes and discrimination they experience, except for Jews. We believe people who say they've been raped, except for Jews. We center and platform the people directly affected by our actions, except for Jews. (And Palestinians, if ignoring them is necessary in order to stay mad at Jews.)
We fight for diversity and representation and inclusion of marginalized groups, except for Jews.
6. It's terrifying to discover that there's a group out there whose sole mission is to destroy and conquer Israel -- and that it's motivated by the belief that the land belongs to the Muslim world by right of conquest 1,400 years ago, and also, the belief that Jews are Evil.
It's terrifying that Hamas didn't just explicitly plan out how to attack each village, with floor plans of its dentist offices and supermarkets and kindergartens, but also, how it would build a new caliphate afterward.
How it would decide which Jews must die, which ones must stand trial, which ones could flee, and which ones must stay and contribute their skills/education.
How it would recreate the Pact of Umar, a dense network of Jim Crow-style laws subjugating non-Muslims for profit. The same legal system that the entire region had lived under throughout 1,300 years of Arab colonization.
It's terrifying that it's promised publicly to repeat its attack "again and again" until Israel has been "annihilated."
7. It's terrifying that Hamas's original plan had been for Hezbollah and Iran to join in its attack, from the north and east, and for Iran to target the big cities. That Hamas believed it could destroy Israel that way. But its allies weren't prepared to join in, and Hamas decided it needed to act ASAP.
Because I think it's possible that it's right. If that many more forces had attacked on that many fronts at once, it would have taken much, much longer for the IDF to drive them off. I think they would have succeeded in hitting the big cities pretty hard. Bomb shelters in Israel aren't equipped with locks. For safety reasons. Imagine if Iran had just bombed people into the shelters, ready for slaughter by Hamas and Hezbollah.
I'm just saying. Almost half the Jews on earth live in Israel. These groups explicitly want to take them out. And their fans have been explicitly calling for the destruction of Israel.
You guys just finished killing off almost half the Jews on earth 80 years ago.
Maybe you could just not??
8. Lastly, it's especially fucking terrifying that this is resurfacing at a time when the dictatorship of Iran is threatened.
A time when somehow, people are also not hearing from or seeking out Iranian voices.
A time when the dictatorship of Iran has been raping and massacring the people for protesting it.
When somehow, the only thing I hear about it on the left is "we bombed a girls' school!" (Because we're, yet again, unreservedly believing what dictatorships tell us.)
This seems like a desperate stab at keeping us mad at the U.S. and Israel, and keeping us uninformed about and distracted from what Iran is doing.
It's all just a pattern of lies to cover up fascists' torture of innocent civilians.
And, yes, also: it regularly makes me want to hide in a corner of a dark room until I'm done screaming silently into the internet for the day.
It makes me feel like someone has scraped my nerve endings. Like there's sandpaper facing inward underneath my skin.
It's fucking horrible, it has made me lose trust in many of my communities, and I fear it will never end.
A lot of cope for the fact that zionazis and israeli settlers are the ones using sexual violence against women and children as a weapon and have been doing so for decades. "Mass rape" is up there with the "beheaded babies" when it comes to absurd and incoherent propaganda about scenarios that simply don't make an ounce of sense during the unfolding of the events of a retaliation against israeli violence. Pathethic post.
imagine calling documented evidence of mass rape, torture, and mutilation “cope.”
this is vile and abhorrent, and I hope someday the weight of your cruelty is something you have to reckon with.
@donnatroialuv Get fucked, you reprehensible piece of shit and don’t ever pretend you give a solitary fuck about survivors ever again. You cope with the incredible amounts of documented evidence that your precious “freedom fighters” are nothing more than evil killers who inflicted humiliating torture and pain on other human beings for the sheer hell of it. I hope someday you are utterly ashamed of your cruelty in denying that pain, but I won’t hold my breath.
If you say you care about and support survivors of sexual violence while simultaneously calling the incredible amounts of documented evidence of mass rape and sexual torture on October 7 and the testimonies of surviving hostages “lies” - NO THE FUCK YOU DON’T.
I’m not joking even a tiny little bit when I say by doing so, you betray every single person on this earth who has ever been raped or sexually abused, every single person who needed people to believe them, every single person who has ever lived silently with what has happened to them because they knew they wouldn’t be believed or they would be blamed for their own abuse. Every single one.
I’ve been doing some field work with geologists this winter and I’m kind of amazed by how these dudes can pick up a handful of dirt and talk about it for an hour using terms I’ve never heard of. Like wow you see a whole universe in there that I don’t. The world is truly full of beauty and we only comprehend a fraction of it.
Been thinking a lot about my 6th grade teacher who, when we were learning about the Holocaust and I was all,"RIP to the Germans. I would simply not be evil," looked me dead in the eye and said, "you don't know that. No one doing these things thought of themselves as bad people. They thought they were being right and just. They weren't inherently evil people. They were just people. " And the idea that I could unknowingly cause such a great amount of harm while being none the wiser scared me so bad it fundamentally rewired my brain, and made me a more thoughtful, empathetic person.
Because I never again thought of myself as an inherently good person. But as an average person susceptible to the banality of evil. And the only antidote was rigoursly inspecting my own assumptions and beliefs and learning about other people's.
Just wishing more people had that experience and also very very grateful.
I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes
what do you mean my childhood affected me
i have terrible news
Just because you did something wrong in the past doesn’t mean you can’t advocate against it now. It doesn’t make you a hypocrite. You just grew. Don’t let people use your past to invalidate your current mindset.
Bruh. This needs to be a mandatory post on everybody’s blog. Y'all really be pullin out decade old receipts like woah.
Either you want people to grow and change or you want people to stay evil villains soyou can feel superior as you shame them.
Class solidarity leaving people's bodies the second workers going on strike inconveniences them in the slightest
"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with
ICE now tackling press.
Source.
Interview where he talks about what happened.
A photographer for Getty isn't even a journalist so much as an archivist. ICE violently disrupted the apolitical documentation of what they were doing, violating any and all rights that might flimsily stand in their way. It would have been just as wrong had they done this to an MSNBC reporter hellbent on a spin, but now Abernathy's neutral action as a photographer has been rendered necessarily political by ICE's violence.
They know what they're doing is objectively evil. They have no intention of stopping.
previous tags from @nihilisticspacequeer, which provide a bit of context for why Abernathy threw his (extremely expensive) camera
they got way more on camera too. lookit this shit. source
they knock him down from behind, they're kneeling on him, and they've set off tear gas. his arms are pinned under him and he can't breathe. look at this photo of his face.
I'm gagging and literally thought I’m going to pass out. I couldn’t breathe. I was thinking I only have a couple of breaths left and I don’t know what’s going to happen after that. I had taken that last shot and I threw my camera. I lifted my head up and saw one photographer taking photos. I threw my camera and then I threw my phone.
this last picture is his camera on top of his citation.
but the insane thing? yk how he said
I had taken that last shot and I threw my camera.
THIS IS THE LAST SHOT
THIS is the photo he took before he threw his camera. how poignant.
check out the article source too, it's a really good read.
Autism actually can make people violent and aggressive, and I’m tired of “autism advocates” saying it can’t. Many autistic people, especially higher support needs people lose control of their bodies during meltdowns and times of high emotion. Some autistics have limited control of their bodies at all times. This body brain disconnect is a prevalent associative feature of autism. This is not to say that measures shouldn’t be taken to protect and teach the autistic person and others, but you can’t erase real, but stigmatized parts of a condition, and then dare to call yourself an advocate. Just because a symptom is unpleasant or unpalatable doesn’t mean it’s not a genuine part of the disorder. Stop ‘cleansing’ your autism advocacy.