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This is one of the new, limited edition prints I've made. Get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop

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I'll be at Birds, Bikes, and Beats at Big Marsh Park in Chicago on Saturday with tons of these free zines about lawn alternatives

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white ppl have no concept of the pain of finding a community that you belong to and then discovering the deeply entrenched racism in said community

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tourists get to enter palestine, lounge on our beaches, live on our land, eat our food, and explore our (stolen) art, style, and culture. but refugee palestinians who were kicked out of their homes, palestinians who left because they didn’t want their kids to live under apartheid, palestinians whose only options were to flee or get massacred- they barely ever get to enter their homeland again. most are never allowed to even go back.

how is that fair? that other people get to enter OUR country, live on OUR land, share OUR culture, but WE were never given the chance to? how can you just sit by and watch this happen without feeling disgust and pain in your heart for not even speaking up about it? the least anyone could do is just speak up. just say something. please.

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Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.

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uh so i never do this but maui is quite literally on fire and there isn't nearly enough care or consideration for. you know. Native Hawaiians who live here being displaced and the land (and cultural relevance) that's being eaten up by the fire. so if ya'll wanna help, here's some links:

maui food bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

maui humane society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

center for native hawaiian advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

hawai'i red cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

please reblog and spread the word if you can't donate.

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BONUS:

GOOD OMENS | 2.02 THE CLUE

If you’re going to invoke fiction, you might as well do it properly.

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Disability Pride month let's not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!

I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm

I learned about it from this video:

And I found the website for the campaign which is here:

Let's support all members of our community

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i don't know how to properly verbalise this but. i hate the global cultural monopoly the usa has. i hate that when topics go viral in the United States they go viral everywhere else too. because that means when gay and trans rights are under threat in the usa, in my country, where gay and trans rights were never even on the table, our government doubles down on hating gay people. they double down on culturally boycotting anything queer. anything that would make queer people living here feel like normal people. bigots double down on their bigotry. they feel the need to bring it up at every social gathering. just when we let our guards down and feel normal for 5 seconds, we're not allowed, we're reminded that we're not normal and we'll never be considered normal. and honestly, i feel like im in a tar pit sinking deeper until i disappear. and if the usa's culture and society weren't so loud, at least people here would forget gay and trans people exist and we wouldn't be accepted but at least we wouldn't be under fire in a place where we have a lot less protections.

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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#black cat #cryptid #cat cryptid #black cat cryptid #silly things #silly cats #silly sketches

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Winter – ICNA Relief USA

https://icnarelief.org/winter/

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#palestine #sheikh jarrah