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shelaghdette · 3 months

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ctm s13e06 thoughts (spoilery, sweary, sleep deprived, scottish)

actual pisstake. frothing at the mouth. rabid. feral. unhinged. not being normal.

first of all, the episode.

matthew aylward is an absolutely abhorrent fiend. every single time his face showed up on the screen, me & my pals on the discord server were POURING abuse into the chat. callin this man the worstest names in the world. truly the minginest bloke ive ever seen. imagine shouting at my best pal trixie franklin (who is your beautiful gorjiss wife) just because she tried to help solve a problem YOU created. DIAF matthew aylward.

AND NOW APPARENTLY NONNATUS HOUSE ISN'T SAFE FROM CLOSURE BECAUSE TRASHTHEWS STUPID ARSE IS LOSING ALL HIS MONEY?? TAKING THE PEE EYE DOUBLE ESS ON THAT ONE MATE. NOT HAPPY. THE YOUNG LASSIES (WHO ARE PROBABLY ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS ME) HAVE ONLY JUST GOT THEIR PERMANENT JOABS AND NOW NONNATUS COULD BE CLOSING??? LIFE RUINING

speaking of new faces, love aw the wee pupil midwives passing their exams!! so excited to see wee rosalind and wee joyce as permanent staff at nonnatus!!!

speaking of the pupils, THEY ARE TRYING TO SET UP A ROSALIND/CYRIL ROMANCE STORYLINE AND IM NOT HERE FOR IT. ROSALIND CLIFFORD IS QUITE OBVIOUSLY A BABYGAY AND SHES IN LOVE WITH JOYCE HIGHLAND. STOP MAKING PEOPLE STRAIGHT HEIDI. BE BRAVE AND BOLD AND CATER TO THE SAPPHICS HEIDI. WE HAVEN'T HAD CANON LESBOS SINCE PUPCAKE HEIDI. WE ARE STARVING AND MALNOURISHED HEIDI.

speaking of cyril tho, he's an absolute legend and was serving so much cunt this episode. 100% lad. love how nice he was to the poor irish wummin & her barins.

also doctor turner talking about his old arthritic knees like he doesn't know what a temptation that is for me as a recovering dilf addict. scrum diddly umptious. i had to go and have a lie down and a valium after that blatant and violent assault on my mental health.

speaking of scrum diddly umptious and the turners, costume designer putting shelagh turner in lesbian flag colours THE ENTIRE EPISODE and teasing all the gay lassies who have taste? cruel and unusual punishment. i fancy her so much. at least it was acknowledged how bonny she was in this one (and every one) (cheers sister v you queen)

speaking of the turners also, it's fabulous to see all of my stepchildren safe and well, especially my best and favourite wee lassie may <3 i know we're probably coming up for some pretty harrowing stories about her, so it was awfy gid to see thon wee smile for a moment.

finally: loved seeing sheelz in her element on the old johanna whacking oot the jesus bangers wi the local weans SING HOSANNA SING HOSANNA SING HOSANNA TO THE KING OF KINGS!! GIVE ME OIL IN MY LAMP KEEP IT BURNING 🔥 🕺🏼💃👯‍♂️

fuckall but slay.

not about this episode but my very final thought: WHAT THE ACTUAL SHITTING FUCK DO YOU MEAN WE'RE NOT GETTING CTM NEXT WEEK BECAUSE OF THE BAFTAS. WHO GIVES A RATS SMELLY ARSE ABOUT THE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS. WHO EVEN WATCHES THEM. EVERYBODY LOVES CTM. LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO EVEN KENS WHIT THE BAFTAS ARE AW ABOOT.

god bless my ctm luvvas. catch yis aw in a fortnight. big kissies to all (especially my wifey sheely turny)

#call the midwife #roo speaks absolute shite

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freddiemercurylegendabovelegends · 5 months

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Annie Lennox - Born 25 December 1954

"For me he represents an era when people were less afraid of living life to the full. This was in the Seventies when rock's extravagances went beserk. Perhaps we're not living in that time any more. There's a glorious rebelliousness about it, of freedom attached to it, that represents that whole spirit of rock 'n' roll"

- Annie Lennox

Pic: 15th April 1987, London, Uk - Freddie Mercury with Annie Lennox (from left Terry Giddings, Freddie's driver and bodyguard), at the Ivor Novello Awards, held by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors at Grosvenor House.

👉 Queen is holding his award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music

📸 Photo by Dave Hogan

#1987 #annie lennox #ivor novello #freddie mercury #queen band #london #zanzibar #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #roger taylor #award

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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By: Andrew Doyle

Published: Apr 11, 2024

Get ready for the excuses. For years now, those who have sounded the alarm over the dangers of ‘gender-affirming’ paediatric treatment have been monstered as ‘bigots’, ‘hateful’, ‘transphobic’ and even ‘fascist’. Now their concerns have been entirely vindicated by the Cass Review, and those most responsible for the monstering are already attempting to wriggle their way out of accepting responsibility. We can expect much more of this as further revelations come to light.

Take Stonewall, the charity most culpable for spreading this toxic ideology. In a statement posted on X yesterday, it appeared to endorse the review’s findings, even quoting approvingly Dr Hilary Cass’s plea ‘to remember the children and young people trying to live their lives and the families / carers and clinicians doing their best to support them’. What can one say about such serpentine sleight-of-tongue? Perhaps the actor James Dreyfus – one who has felt the full wrath of gender ideologues – put it best: ‘The absolute fucking nerve of these people.’

Mermaids CEO Lauren Stoner is another in the running for the Brass Neck Award, appearing on Sky News to claim that ‘we’re not medical experts, we don’t advocate for any pathway’. Mermaids made the same claim last year in the tribunal it initiated in a failed attempt to strip the LGB Alliance of its charitable status. Yet in leaked emails it was discovered to have given advice to the now disgraced Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock Clinic. Most notably, Mermaids had offered support in the drafting of an NHS service specification, including details on how ‘[puberty] blockers will now be considered for any children under 12′.

Mermaids’ website currently claims that ‘puberty blockers are an internationally recognised safe, reversible healthcare option’, even though there is mounting evidence of the dangers of these drugs. One of the findings of the Cass Review is that there is no evidence for the efficacy of puberty blockers. Rather than being a ‘pause’ in which young people can take time to figure out their ‘gender identity’, in almost all cases they lead on to cross-sex hormones and, in some cases, irreversible surgery.

During Stoner’s interview for Sky News, she was also quick to remind us that Mermaids has ‘been supporting trans young people and their families for nearly 30 years’. What she neglected to mention is that until the arrival of former CEO Susie Green – a woman who took her son to Thailand on his 16th birthday to have him castrated – Mermaids actually offered sensible advice to parents of children who were struggling with their gender. A leaflet produced by the charity in 2000 is more in line with the ‘watchful waiting’ approach favoured by many paediatric therapists. ‘Gender-identity disorders in infancy, childhood and adolescence are complex and have varied causes’, it said, before stating that ‘the majority of cases the eventual outcome will be homosexuality or bisexuality but often there will be a heterosexual outcome as some gender issues can be caused by a bereavement, a dysfunctional family life, or (rarely) by abuse. Only a small proportion of cases will result in a transsexual outcome’. That even Mermaids once held this position shows the extent to which gender-identity ideology drives well-intentioned people away from the truth. It’s also a reminder that this belief-system has taken hold remarkably quickly.

Both Mermaids and Stonewall were mentioned by Tavistock whistleblower Dr David Bell as being chiefly to blame for the current climate of making ‘people afraid even of listening to another view’. To this we might add groups such as Gendered Intelligence, the LGBT Foundation and the online Pink News, which has published defamatory pieces about those who have objected to the rise of this ideology. These groups, while claiming to advocate for LGBT rights, have tried to intimidate into silence anyone raising questions about the irreversible surgical malpractice that has left many young people sterile and eliminated their sexual function.

And what of the private practices, those who evaded the NHS’s recent ban on puberty blockers? We shouldn’t be surprised that Dr Aidan Kelly from private clinic Gender Plus appeared on Novara Media to argue that the evidence demanded by Cass is neither deliverable nor desirable. Host Michael Walker seemed to think that the figure of approximately 1,000 patients in 10 years prescribed puberty blockers was too low to merit concern and that ‘some of these issues have been politicised to a degree that they don’t need to be’. One wonders how many instances of testicular atrophy, increased risk of cancer, osteoporosis or impaired brain development in healthy children should be considered acceptable? Why are we even countenancing ruining young people’s lives through the unevidenced, experimental and ideological medicalisation of problems that almost certainly require a psychotherapeutic approach?

Novara Media might want to start preparing its own excuses too, given that it published an article in December 2021 offering advice on how to deceive medical professionals in order to be prescribed opposite sex hormones. ‘I’m not suggesting you tell any especially big fibs’, the article says, ‘but maybe finesse your story into one that’s likely to be received with the least amount of confusion (and bear that in mind with the psychiatrists too)… You’re not here to make friends, you’re here to get hormones. Don’t feel bad about it.’

This kind of duplicity has been widespread. Dr Hilary Cass has revealed to the British Medical Journal that children have been ‘coached on what to say and what not to say’ in order to be prescribed puberty blockers. ‘They’re told not to say they’re unsure about their sexuality, not to say they’ve been abused, because it’s so high stakes at that point’, she said. We have known for a long time that the overwhelming majority of children referred to the Tavistock were same-sex attracted, and that gender nonconformity in youth is a reliable predictor of homosexuality in later life. This has been confirmed in the final report by Dr Cass, which found that 89 per cent of girls and 81 per cent of boys referred to GIDS (Gender Identity Development Service) were either homosexual or bisexual. The NHS has been practising gay conversion therapy in plain sight.

We also know that those who have suffered abuse are disproportionately represented among these patients. One study cited in the final Cass report shows that at least one in five children referred to gender services have suffered sexual or physical abuse. In other words, rather than experiencing some kind of esoteric mismatch between body and gendered soul, most of these kids are simply gay or troubled. And yet they are being coached to lie about their actual problems to satisfy the expectations of ideologues. These people have an agenda, and if a few children have to suffer then so be it.

Throughout the Cass Review, the lack of evidence for all of these treatments is continually emphasised. The very notion of ‘gender medicine’ is underpinned by the belief that we each have a ‘gender identity’, what Helen Joyce has described as ‘something like a sexed soul’. In this, she is supported by trans campaigners like Julia Serano who calls it a ‘subconscious sex’, or the barrister Robin Moira White who on my show, Free Speech Nation, said it was an ‘essence of male or female’. This amounts to a faith in the supernatural, and is a key doctrine of the new state religion of gender. It goes without saying that people are entitled to their beliefs, but the idea that a metaphysical hypothesis should form the basis of NHS practice is, on reflection, extremely bizarre.

One of the reasons why this has been allowed to happen is that so many have been duped into accepting that this quasi-religion has some basis in science. This is largely down to the influence of WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health), a body established in 1979. It’s recognised as the leading global authority in ‘transgender health’, and has pushed for the normalisation of the ‘gender-affirming’ approach. Its ‘Standards of Care’ have formed the basis of policies throughout the Western world, including in the NHS, and it is explicitly critiqued in the Cass Review for its ‘lack of developmental rigour’.

In early March, the credibility of WPATH was shattered when internal messages and videos, which had been leaked to journalist Michael Shellenberger, were made public. A full report was written by journalist Mia Hughes for the Environmental Progress think tank, entitled: ‘The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults’. The files revealed WPATH’s general lack of ethical and professional standards. There are messages proving that surgeons and therapists are aware that a significant proportion of young people referred to gender clinicians suffer from mental-health problems. Some specialists associated with WPATH are proceeding with treatment in the knowledge that no consent has been secured from either the children or those directly responsible for their wellbeing. They have also withheld from patients details of potential lifelong complications, or continued down this path knowing that the children do not understand the implications. But then, how could a pre-pubescent or even adolescent child fully grasp the concepts of lifelong sterility or loss of sexual function?

The revelations of the WPATH files should have been the end of ‘gender-affirming’ care, but so deeply-rooted is the ideology in all our major institutions that it was always going to take a lot more. The BBC has yet to report on the WPATH files, which is perhaps to be expected from an organisation that has actively contributed to the promotion of gender-identity ideology. In one BBC film, a woman is seen telling a group of children that there are over a hundred genders. I have sent five requests to the BBC press office over a period of more than a month to find out why the WPATH Files have been ignored. I have yet to receive a response. But for those who are interested, I presented a two-hour special on the subject, which can be seen here.

The problems do not end with the BBC. Politicians on both sides of the house have been complicit in the spread of gender-identity ideology and its destructive consequences. When Liz Truss tabled a debate on her Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill in March, a motion which raised concerns about the social transitioning of children in schools and how private companies are evading the NHS ban on puberty blockers, Labour and Conservative MPs spent four hours filibustering about ferrets in order to prevent the discussion. Their ignorance of this ideology has made them its cheerleaders.

We should not expect many of these people to admit that they were mistaken. The psychological consequences of accepting that one has been complicit in gay conversion therapy and the medicalisation of healthy children is perhaps too much for many to bear. Since the Cass Review was published, Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman – a woman who has criticised biology textbooks in schools for stating that sex is binary and who has suggested that children as young as eight should be able to transition – has already decried its contents. ‘Trans Healthcare is vital to protecting and supporting the rights and lives of trans people’, she posted on X, adding that her party ‘will oppose any moves to increase the age of accessing gender-affirming care to 25’.

Of course, the Cass Review makes no such recommendations. Rather, it says that ‘NHS England should establish follow-through services for 17- to 25-year-olds at each of the regional centres, either by extending the range of the regional children and young people’s service or through linked services, to ensure continuity of care and support at a potentially vulnerable stage in their journey’. This kind of moderate caution is certainly commendable given that the adult brain is not fully developed until the age of twenty-five. Of course, it’s too late for some. One detransitioner posted the following on X: ‘Had the recommendations from the Cass Review been implemented when I transitioned, in particular the recommendation of waiting until the age of 25, I would never have transitioned. I grew out of gender dysphoria by the age of 22, but had my genitals amputated by then.’

Although MPs sought to prevent a debate on the problem of private gender clinics, perhaps the Cass Review’s criticism of these clinics for pressurising GPs into prescribing the drugs will change all that. Not surprisingly, the practitioners are defiant. A statement from GenderGP has vowed to ignore the recommendations of the Cass Review and continue with its unevidenced ‘gender-affirming’ approach according to the WPATH Standards of Care. The revelations from the WPATH Files mean nothing to the high priests of this cult. And let’s not forget that the current version of the WPATH Standards of Care includes a chapter on ‘eunuchs’ which urges medical practitioners to perform castrations on patients who so identify.

Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process. The ideas are too entrenched, which explains why even the Cass Review has adopted some of the language of the ideology (eg, ‘cisgender’, or references to sex as ‘assigned at birth’). Besides, too much is at stake for individuals who have promoted these beliefs. Already commentators like James O’Brien are blaming the ‘toxicity’ of those who have tried to warn people of the dangers over the last decade. We can expect similar revisionist attempts from others who have failed to speak out, and no doubt ‘the culture war’ will be blamed by those most responsible for waging it.

Ultimately, those responsible must be held accountable. Starting with Stonewall. Whereas the charity once fought for gay people, it now works against them. There should be an investigation into how it was allowed to maintain its influence in major institutions even after its shift away from gay rights and towards an unwittingly anti-gay agenda. Any government departments and quangos still associated with Stonewall should sever all ties immediately.

Both the Conservatives and Labour ought to ditch their commitment to a ban on ‘trans conversion therapy’ and recognise that this will effectively stymie the therapeutic efforts of medical practitioners to support gender nonconforming children. Moreover, there should be a ban on private clinics who intend to persist with WPATH guidelines in spite of Dr Cass’s recommendations. Above all, we need to ensure that the wellbeing of children is never again sacrificed on the altar of ideology.

#Andrew Doyle #Cass Report #Cass Review #Hilary Cass #Dr. Hilary Cass #Stonewall #Mermaids #gender affirming care #gender affirming healthcare #sex trait modification #medical scandal #medical malpractice #medical corruption #ideological corruption #gender identity ideology #gender ideology #queer theory #intersectional feminism

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spacecravat · 7 months

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Hi margot do you have a list you'd share of the Hugo and nebula women? This is so in my vein and I've been feeling the itch to read more sf again also I hope you enjoy the female man I thought it was a fun whirlwind

Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JgcIyXqcOJbAqMjXKEsGgTRCRBGm6ksCInb6nqFdeao/edit#gid=0

I'm expanding this to women and nonbinary authors, which was less of a concern when I was just doing pre-1980 books, but a few more these days.

Authors with an asterisk next to their name means they won the award for that year.

For the 50s-80s I actually checked every author, since a few (like Andre Norton) used pseudonyms. For the 90s on, I got lazy and mostly just assumed gender based on first name (I know, I know) and only checked ambiguous ones. May or may not be entirely accurate, and there might be a few I have or have not deleted that should be. But it's probably most of them.

Nonbinary authors I am aware of: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Annalee Newitz, Shelley Parker-Chan, and C.L. Polk. And there may be more! I admittedly was not being super thorough.

I removed Yoon Ha Lee, who is the only trans man I know of who's been nominated, but I do love his books so I want to give a shoutout here to the Machineries of Empire series anyway.

Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Pollack, and Ryka Aoki are the trans woman I'm aware of on the list, though again, there may be more.

The second tab has all winners/nominees, including for a few other awards. (I did delete one entry for association with the Sad Puppies nonsense.)

Also if you have trouble finding any of the books, let me know and I can probably help! I've managed to track most of the older ones down. (I've had good luck with archive.org and libgen for the long out of print.)

#also caveat that just because they're nominated doesn't mean they're good #i've read and hated many of these haha #gothiccoherence #asks #book blogging #leaving jk r*wling in for completeness. despite it all.

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tracichee · 3 months

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Happy end-of-release-week everybody! 🔥 I've been so excited to see KINDLING heading out into the world, so thank you for all your posts and excitement! Just a few reminders today as we head into the weekend:

🎉 Launch Party TONIGHT at Linden Tree Books in Los Altos, CA! Join me at 6pm for an evening of game show trivia with fellow authors Parker Peevyhouse, Randy Ribay, and Emily Skrutskie! Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP here.

🎨 Pre-order gifts are available for a few more days! Until March 5, get three "Polaroids" of the kindlings featuring art by Naomi Giddings. Find all the details in this post.

[Video description: Moving illustration of seven armed warriors popping up over a dark field with a sunset behind, with the text "Seven young, magical warriors cast aside after the war"; the same sunset but with a lone girl leading a black horse, with the text, "One final battle, searching for purpose, identity, love, family, glory"; a zoom in on the book cover for Kindling by Traci Chee with the text "a standalone fantasy from bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee"]

#blog #news #kindling #events #traci chee #books

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guys-in-distress-database · 8 months

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The GID Awards: Comic Book

Our next category is a certifiable classic and the origin of many a bondage kink, I imagine: the comic book.

I know a LOT of people in the community who developed bondage kinks because they grew up reading golden and silver age comics. For most people, it was American superhero comics, namely Batman, Captain Marvel and, for DID fans, Wonder Woman.

Not me though...

I grew up reading Franco-Belgian comics and they probably hold about 75% of the blame for me developing a bondage kink. I don't know (and would be really curious to learn) why predominantly children's media between roughly 1920-1980 was SO bondage-heavy. Like, were men with bondage kinks running the media industry or was there some sort of bizarre romanticization of kidnapping (that got upended by the public revelation of the domination of serial killers and kidnappers during the 60s and 70s) or was this all a wacky coincidence?

Aaaaaaaaanyways...

This one was hard to get personal bias out of the picture simply because I just don't read American comics that don't have anything to do with Star Wars. That being said, I did end up choosing one just because, how could I not?! My choice is:

Shazam/Captain Marvel

Now I'm cheating a bit with this one because I've never done an entry on it, though I can justify that as comics being difficult to make entries for owed to how many of them there are and just how confusing they are to categorize. And how can I not choose this one with the impact it's had on GID?

Any character who activates their superpowers through speaking is just asking to get gagged over and over and over. And that's exactly what happened to Billy Batson. While they've definitely toned it down over time (likely due to changing attitudes around having underage characters in distress like this), back in the early days, the guy couldn't go a few issues without getting bound and gagged.

Every source of conflict in his early days seemed to be him getting captured and then finding some clever way to get his gag off. Hilt of a sword, flaming piece of wood, hook in the wall, you name it.

Although there's definitely been a reduction of scenes overtime, you do still see the modern Shazam suffering similar fates, especially in the Injustice comic and the Friends Like These comic, so it's nice to see his legacy being upheld.

So for its contributions to GID, I have chosen Captain Marvel as the winner for best GID comic!

Honourable Mentions

Some other comics I considered, but ultimately did not choose for this award:

Suske en Wiske (for directly influencing my bondage kink and sheer volume of scenes)

Attack on Titan Manga (for having a great scene that didn't make it into the anime)

#the GID awards #comics #captain marvel #shazam

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cridhe · 7 months

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Asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, had been crossing the porous Egypt- Israel border since 2006, braving kidnappings, torture, and rape by Bedouin traffickers, and have been rounded up and deported by the Israeli immigration police since 2012. The deportations were presented as “protecting the Jewish identity of the state” and copper- fastening Israel’s racialized citizenship regime. Thus, in August 2012 Interior Minister Eli Yishai instructed the Population and Immigration Authority to arrest Eritreans and North Sudanese, since the “infiltrator threat is just as severe as the Iranian (nuclear) threat,” insisting that deporting “illegal migrants” upholds the “Zionist dream” and that “until I can deport them I’ll lock them up to make their lives miserable.” Israel has enacted a series of laws aimed at preventing people it contentiously calls “infiltrators” rather than asylum seekers from entering the state. It is worth noting that the term “infiltrators” was used in the 1950s to describe Palestinians attempting to return to the lands they had been expelled from in 1948.

The attempts to deport asylum seekers to “third countries” in Africa, mostly Rwanda and Uganda, with whom Israel trades in arms and security equipment, followed the deportations of “unauthorized” labor migrants since the early 2000s. In order to ensure their deportability— the threat rather than the act of removal from the nation-state— Israel constructed an electric fence along its border with Egypt, and the “world’s largest detention facilities” able to hold up to 11,000 people, where the “infiltrators” could be detained up to three years without trial— allegedly the longest such detention period in the West. Israel has a uniquely low refugee recognition rate: as shown in a Knesset report, only 200 people had been awarded refugee status in Israel since its establishment in 1948, and between 2009 and 2012, of 14,000 asylum applications, only twenty- two people were recognized as refugees.

David Sheen, who has been documenting the racialization of African migrants and asylum seekers, describes Israel’s success in reducing the number of Africans living in the territory it controls as “ethnic cleansing,” the term Pappe employs to describe the 1948 Nakba. Documenting the unapologetic racialization of African asylum seekers by politicians, Sheen notes Prime Minister Netanyahu’s pre-2015 election boast about limiting the access of African asylum seekers, racialized as “terrorists,” to the Jewish state: “We shut off, completely closed off access to terrorists, to infiltrators to the State of Israel . . . The only state that managed to control its borders.” Once Netanyahu secured reelection, Sheen adds, he appointed to his cabinet three Likud lawmakers who were featured speakers at a May 2012 anti-African rally in Tel Aviv that devolved into a full-on race riot: “For years, Netanyahu has led a team of ministers who demonized Africans in the minds of the Israeli public by associating them with terrorism and fatal diseases.”

In September 2013 the Israeli High Court ruled against the constitutionality of the Anti-Infiltration Law that allowed jailing asylum seekers for three years without trial, refusing to examine their asylum applications and treating them like criminals. However, Sheen writes, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who headed the parliamentary “lobby to return the infiltrators to their countries”— a group dedicated to expelling all African refugees from Israel— introduced a bill that would limit the high court’s power to overturn laws. In 2015, as judges were concluding the deliberations over the Knesset’s third amendment to the Anti- Infiltration Law, Shaked was busy uploading videos to the internet depicting African refugees in a negative light.

Commenting on the Supreme Court as negating Zionist values in her speech before the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv, on August 29, 2017, Shaked pitted Zionism against human rights. According to Gideon Levy,

if in 1975, Israel’s UN ambassador Chaim Herzog dramatically tore up a copy of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with racism, the justice minister has now admitted the truthfulness of the resolution (which was later revoked) . . . Shaked prefers Zionism to human rights, the ultimate universal justice. She believes that we have a different kind of justice, superior to universal justice. Zionism above all. It’s been said before, in other languages and other nationalist movements.

In November 2017, Israel further escalated its racializing asylum policies announcing its intention to forcibly deport 40,000 African asylum seekers— including 27,500 from Sudan and 7,800 from Eritrea— and to close the Holot detention facility by 2018. Asylum seekers, whose applications Israel does not recognize, were given a choice to either leave Israel voluntarily for Rwanda or Uganda within three months, or suffer indefinite detention in Israel. Israel would pay Rwanda— which it had armed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi— 5,000 dollars for each asylum seekers it accepts, and would grant 3,500 dollars plus airfare to each African who agrees to leave. Netanyahu referred to the policy as the “increased removal” of the “infiltrators”: “This removal is enabled thanks to an international agreement I achieved, which allows us to remove the 40,000 remaining ‘infiltrators’ without their consent.” Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who introduced the proposal, said the deportations were necessary to “return peace and quiet” to the country and “ease the suffering of residents in south Tel Aviv and other neighborhoods where the infiltrators reside.”

from 'Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism' by Ronit Lentin

#israel #racism #palestine #so gross

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MASSIE (Matty x Cassie) - Character Relationships (5/?)

Relationship timeline: post s3-mid s4

Have you ever seen a PR relationship that went well? Me neither.

For a little refresher backstory: at the end of season 3, Matty went on a tirade that ended with him beating the shit out of Charlie.

His agent heard about this and wanted to get one step ahead of all the bad press that followed and that resulted in... a PR relationship.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Caulfield was one of pop music's blazing stars, having recently won a Grammy for Best New Artist and was nominated for Album of the Year for her debut self-titled album. With a squeaky clean good girl reputation, she was perfect for this.

The seeds were planted: the two of them seen hanging out in public, him being credited on her single "Don't Talk", and then when the music video was released, he played the love interest (the video ending with a real kiss between the two).

Tabloids were paid to keep their names in the press. Matthew Smith and Cassie Caulfield seen kissing in car outside Vancouver coffee shop. (You know those couples - picture Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello or literally any relationship Pete Davidson is in).

The two of them write and release a love song along with a music video, which wins Best Video at the VMA's that September. When the two of them perform the song on the award show, they end it with the two of them making out as the partition comes down to block them. It's met with critiques but people brush it off cause "they're teenagers and they're in love".

Matty gets invited to the Total Drama Winter Getaway Reunion, and asks if he can bring a +1 -- purely to rub it in Beric's face that he's "happy" and "in love" and all that fun stuff.

It becomes a test of sure willpower because part of their contract was Matty had to go to anger management therapy and if Cassie found out he was fighting with someone (physically or verbally) everything became null and void and she could dump him.

The two of them are obnoxious when they're around the others, but because the rest of the cast (understandably) hates Matty, the two of them end up in a smaller cabin with Beric and his girlfriend Brie. Awkward.

Closer proximity to Beric makes Matt be forced to confront his jealousy in the most unhealthy ways possible, including a fistfight with Beric he kept hidden from Cassie.

They go home from the trip, Matty being a little distant but committing to the PR act. Dates, staged PDA, going to award shows together. Everything to make it look like he's okay. Cassie on the other hand... has fallen in love with Matty (girl, why). Matty pretends he is too to keep her from being sus.

When season 4 comes around, Cassie signs up to be on the cast, not cause she wants the money or to win, but because she wants to spend more time with her boyfriend!

The season is not all it had been in her dreams. Cassie feels forced to pretend everything it okay with Matt when different cast members help her piece together the toxic relationship build on lies that she was invested in.

Matty and Beric finally reach the moment of admitting the shit they'd been hiding, kissing. As you could guess, Cassie is really hurt cause she really thought that he loved her. She knees him in the balls and runs off, sobbing.

She spends the rest of the season writing and planning to release an EP of songs putting Matty on blast called "Total Hell".

The two of them break up publicly once they get home. And they don't see each other again... until season 5 ;)

Art credit to @lionheart-giddings <3

#teadocs #by kenzie #massie #matty shelf boy #matthew smith #cassie caulfield #character relationships

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debdarkpetal · 2 years

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Freddie, bodyguard Terry Giddings and Debbie Leng (Roger's girlfriend at the time), arriving at Brit Awards, London, 18 February 1990.

#freddie mercury #queen #queen band #fred #freddie mercury's bodyguard #debbie leng #deborah leng #roger taylor's ex partner #brit awards #1990 #90s #credits to the rightful owners #ms

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damon-rutherford · 1 year

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Ruthasibs

Damon: Bad news - looks like I'll have to stay in Porto for another month.

Damon: Won't be around for the awards.

Damon: Don't have too much fun without me, assholes.

Damon: Also, proud of your WOTY nom, Yv. ❤️

Damon: We'll address Lara and Gid hogging all the awards at a later date, thanks.

#lets say this was right after the noms dropped

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genya-ruination-safin · 2 years

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PJO DAY ONE

New updates!

This is it, demigods! Here in Vancouver, we have all hands on deck for the first day of filming on Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The excitement is so thick you could cut it with a celestial bronze ballpoint pen!

Even more cause for celebration: let me introduce you to some of our incredible adult cast members you will meet in the first couple of episodes, listed in alphabetic order.

VIRGINIA KULL - SALLY JACKSON

From Austin, Texas, Virginia Kull has appeared in Boardwalk Empire, Big Little Lies, Mr. Mercedes and NOS4A2, among many other films and shows. Originally, she planned to be a doctor, but fortunately for all of us, she decided to pursue acting instead! Her combination of strength, humor and heart makes her just the Sally Jackson we need. In the table read for episode 101, her performance moved us to tears.

JASON MANTZOUKAS - MR. D

Hailing from Nahant, MA, Jason has decades of experience in movies and television, having showcased his dramatic and comedic skills in shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Recreation, The League, The Good Place, Big Mouth and Invincible. Self-described as “100% Greek,” Jason is the perfect guy to inhabit everyone’s favorite grumpy wine god and head of camp, Dionysus. He’s also an accomplished jazz drummer!

MEGAN MULLALLY - MRS DODDS

Originally from Los Angeles, Megan rose to fame playing Karen Walker on Will & Grace, for which she won three Screen Actors Guild awards and received four Golden Globe nominations. She has appeared in dozen of films, and has brought her talents to such TV series as The Great North, Parks and Recreation, and 30 Rock. She is also the voice of Gayle in Bob’s Burgers.

GLYNN TERMAN - MR BRUNNER

Where to even start with Glynn’s legendary career? One of his first stage roles was at the age of twelve, when he appeared alongside Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Since then, he’s had such notable TV roles as Mayor Clarence V. Royce on The Wire, Jeremiah Kaan in House of Lies, and Doctor Senator in Fargo, winning many awards and accolades along the way. He also starred in the feature Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom with Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Not only is he a multitalented actor, Glynn is also a champion rodeo cowboy who has run Camp Gid D Up in Southern California since 1992 to introduce inner city and at-risk youth to horsemanship at a working ranch. In other words, he is the perfect Chiron, the immortal centaur and trainer of heroes at Camp Half-Blood.

TIMM SHARP - GABE UGLIANO

Hailing from Fargo, North Dakota, Timm has been a TV series regular on Blunt Talk, Undeclared, Enlightened, Briarpatch and Six Feet Under. Over the past twenty years, he has appeared in dozens of films and shows from Fun with Dick and Jane to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and is also active in the Los Angeles improv comedy community. Timm had us laughing out loud with his take on Gabe Ugliano, and we can’t wait to see him play stepdad to Walker Scobell’s Percy Jackson!

More to come, demigods! Look for another post from me next week, when I will share a few more inside scoops about how filming is going. Further casting information will be coming out in phases, so stay tuned and be patient!

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