catherinebkrause

[catherinebkrause]

at this stage i think its good to say, and i direct this to all of the trans women on this site:

you are loved. you are appreciated. your presence is valued.

ppl can do all they can to invalidate you, to drag you through the grime and do their best to make you nothing. and they can fucking try.

but it won't change the fact that we care about you. i care about you. and i appreciate you taking the effort to stick around in this world, especially as things turn awful.

big ass hugs for you girls.

we're still here 💙

[catherinebkrause]

I bought a book with extremely modern and relatable translations of Sanskrit poetry from 2,000 years ago

[catherinebkrause]

If you read nothing else on my blog at least read this:

Jewish survival is beautiful, and amazing.

I know times right now are absolutely awful, and it can feel like the world is against us. We're seeing the Nazi marches, the targeting of Jewish businesses, harassment of religious Jews, and so much more at a much more severe rate than many of us have seen within our lifetimes.

But we've survived this before.

The most dangerous thing right now is to lose hope. To lose hope of a better future, to lose hope of any future. We have survived the pogroms, the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the many Middle Eastern anti-Jewish genocides and attacks, various expulsions and so much more.

I've reblogged someone else's post saying this before but I'm going to say it here again: every single Jew alive right now is a miracle.

So here's one thing I want to ask of you: Live.

Do it out of love for your fellow Jews, do it out of spite towards our enemies, do it so that there will be more miracles in the future.

Living is the greatest form of Jewish rebellion.

Living a proud Jewish life is even more so, but at the very least, please live.

Please please please don't give up on life right now. If you feel alone, reach out. Reach out to your fellow Jews, find non-Jewish allies to stand by your side, seek out supportive communities.

As a Jew, you are never truly alone. You have people who will love you like family if you just reach out, because we are one. One family, one nation, one soul. And we all care for each other.

Am Yisrael Chai 💕

[catherinebkrause]

if the ceo of tumblr saw the death threats i get he'd hurl

[catherinebkrause]

It has been ten years since russian invasion of Ukraine began.

[catherinebkrause]

If you’re going to make the argument that Israel is settler colonialism then the best analogy would be Liberia, where freed Black slaves colonized West Africa. Traumatized people going back to their home continent and hurting the other people there. America, Australia and Canada are not appropriate analogies, not on the same moral grounds, because they involved white settlers going to another people’s land with the sole intention of exploiting it for profit.

And indeed, occasionally, people do make the Liberia analogy, when Jews protest that we can’t colonize our own homeland. But most people don’t make that analogy because they look at it like “Jews = White Europeans.” The discourse assumes that Jews are white European colonizers with no ties to Eretz Yisroel 99.9% of the time, and also completely ignores that almost every Jew who relocated to Eretz Yisroel was a traumatized refugee.

Liberia is a case where you can clearly empathize with both sides, both the freed Black slaves and the native population. The conflict looks like a tragedy more than a simple, clear-cut case of right and wrong. This empathy and this two-sidedness are cardinal sins in Israel-Palestine discourse. Which is why it’s still relatively uncommon to see people analogize Israel to Liberia. To do so would invite the unforgivable act of empathizing with Israelis.

[catherinebkrause]

Affirmations to read to your cat:

You are strong, capable, and wise without standing on my keyboard

You are respected and loved without standing on my keyboard

You are capable of accomplishing all things you set your mind to without standing on my keyboard

All things will come to you in time without standing on my keyboard

There is wet-food and toy-time in your future without any need to stand on my keyboard

Get off my keyboard

[catherinebkrause]

קאַלט ווי דער קאָסמאָס טוליען זיך קעץ צו צו זיי פּלאַנעטן מיט שטערן

#הײַקו #ייִדיש #יידיש #הייקו #ליד #לייענליד #haiku #yiddish #yiddish poem #yiddish haiku

[catherinebkrause]

I feel like you can support Palestine without supporting rape? I feel like it's important to be able to do so?

College students have been kicked out of sexual assault support groups on the basis that they supported Israel, and opposition to rape must, so it was said, go hand-in-hand with support for Palestine.

So why aren't they going hand in hand?

#sexual violence #sexual assault #rape #atrocities #war crimes #palestine #israel #palestine and israel #hamas #tw rape #tw antisemitism

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RIP Vicki-cat. You'll always be with me

President Baby Syndrome

Catherine Krause

Why am I 31, Vicki-cat, and why are you always taking my seat next to reason? I thought I’d composed the greatest one-word poem ever written, come to find out you say it when the door is shut. It’s OK, Vicki-cat, if you don’t want to meet my partner, even when it’s 2016, but whatever happened to you as a kitten, I had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t there.

art by desligamiento

[catherinebkrause]

“Transmascs talking about their oppression in ways I don’t like are actually anti feminist anti women MRAs who are desperate to gtow”

And

“Transmascs talking about their oppression in ways I don’t like are actually future detrans terf women who cling to their asab and weaponize it”.

The two genders ig

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something that really bothers me about response to the war in ukraine is the overwhelming use of the theoretical if.

"if russia did the same thing then the world would be up in arms"

no matter what atrocity russia has commited it will never be acknowledged. ukrainian war crimes, both real and imagined, are taken at face value but there's never enough proof to pin anything to russia. use of cluster munitions on cities, executions of civilians, mass graves, widespread use of sexual assault. all of it is either a hoax or worse they blame ukraine.

no amount of proof is enough for bucha or irpin to be real but organ harvesting biolabs are taken as gospel. its an incredibly insidious way of shifting the goalposts and acting like the victim. any mention of the kidnapped children is russophobia. its all the western propaganda about the over 700 medical facilities hit with missiles. all aimed at discrediting ukraine and making russia seem like the victim.

i'm not going to pretend like ukrainian war crimes don't exist. however there are so many lies about organ harvesting, forced surrogacies and biolabs among the more mundane claims like ukraine commited the bucha massacre and blew the nova kakhovka dam that simply aren't happening.

ukrainian war crimes are solo bad actors who are punished once evidence comes forward. russian war crimes are systemic and awarded for their efforts. the pilot who blew up the mariupol theatre got a medal. and yet to the outside world when it comes to russia its always that fucking if

[catherinebkrause]

I'm like a girl who wants to read more books but doesn't

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Incredible how many times I've begged on here and tiktok for intersex awareness and inclusion and how many people have told me directly "intersex people don't want to be included in queer discussions"

To me, an intersex person BEGGING for inclusion

I've had intersex mutuals on tiktok post about their own experiences and had dyadic queer people swoop in to tell them intersex people don't want to be included in the queer community

Why the fuck are yall like this? Yall are so comfortable parroting exclusionist radfem bullshit if it's about intersex people

"Intersex people aren't queer" is a conservative and radfem take. I've met exactly two intersex people who believed that and they were terfs. There are so many more intersex people who are begging yall to include us and to pay attention to our genocide.

But we aren't as important as everyone else I guess :)

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The way some transfems hate transmascs and just... seem to get away with it while transmascs are accused of transmisogyny just for acknowledging that transmascs are oppressed sure is.... something

[catherinebkrause]

if you identify as rumplestiltskin does that make you a rumplestiltskinkin

#otherkin #rumplestiltskin #rumplestiltskinkin #kin

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It's so worth watching, trust me, and I normally hate stuff like this. So satisfying though