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I write for a youth rights blog and I respect all teenagers except white teenage boys love and light <3

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Like the thing is Black Americans have been telling you American crackers that Joe Biden was a segregationist and I've seen these conversations myself since 2018 and you crackers never cared. I never once doubted you filthy pieces of status quo shit would do the same to us too when the time came to it. Because we know killing Arabs is a bipartisan American duty, and we knew this was coming, and we knew it would come down to this.

I hope you enjoy the smell of your soul rotting, it will follow you till the rest of your putrid lives.

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“I can’t talk. I can’t manifest myself. I’m paralyzed… Communication haunts me, imperative, vital. I hate the failures.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939

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realized i never shared my rot series from beginner's ceramics 🍊 obviously pretty wonky + some cracking and weird glaze stuff, but i really loved every step of the process <3 hoping i get to do it again sometime

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Zionists and everyone else PLEASE stop abusing the term ‘blood libel.’ IT DOES NOT MEAN “ACCUSATION OF MURDER.”

It is a feudal European conspiracy theory to justify pogroms by accusing Jews of murdering Christian children to use their blood for satanic rituals, including baking matzah with this blood. If it isn’t literally an accusation of blood drinking or blood magic or ritualistic child murder, it is not blood libel. It is not blood libel to accurately describe Israel’s actual actions bombing children. That is completely unrelated to the blood libel myth, stop expanding the definition beyond the phenomenon it was invented to describe.

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Ahmad Abdel Rahman says if bakeries had not re-opened their doors, many Palestinians would have been on the verge of losing their families to hunger. “We lived through difficult days, and no one looked at us. We were dying every day from starvation, from bombing, and from running behind the aid parachutes that the planes dropped over us. Aid was dropped from the aircraft into the sea,” he explained. “If we wanted to get food for our families, we had to go to the mouth of death, to the sea, to pick up the aid that fell there.”

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“I hid from my children because of their constant insistence and requests for food. I used to tell them that I was going out to bring them food, but I would go to the house of one of my brothers and spend hours there until I was sure that my wife was able to force the children to go to sleep hungry and when they slept, my wife would send for me to come home. I slept beside them, hungry like them, trying to swallow my tears,” Ahmad recalled.

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snoopy on tour by Paul Ceely on flickr (2012)

⭒ via star4gardens

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thinking about this message from me mam that she sent me back when i was in uni. it literally is just a pinprick in the tapestry of life!!

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Following months of escalating protest over the organization’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, and the recent withdrawal of over a third of this year’s nominees, the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards have now officially been cancelled. In the last hour, PEN America confirmed this cancellation in a press release published on the organization’s website: PEN America announced today the cancellation of its annual Literary Awards ceremony, and released the names of its 2024 award finalists and winners. It was a very difficult decision not to move forward with a public celebration to recognize this year’s honorees, according to PEN America’s Literary Programming Chief Officer Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf. “We greatly respect that writers have followed their consciences, whether they chose to remain as nominees in their respective categories or not,” said Rosaz Shariyf. “We regret that this unprecedented situation has taken away the spotlight from the extraordinary work selected by esteemed, insightful and hard-working judges across all categories. As an organization dedicated to freedom of expression and writers, our commitment to recognizing and honoring outstanding authors and the literary community is steadfast.” [...] For the cash prizes that could not be conferred, a decision about how to allocate the funds will be made on a case-by-case basis, according to the specifications of each award contract and the wishes of our generous award underwriters. Of the 61 authors and translators nominated for a book award this cycle, 28 authors chose to withdraw their books from consideration. Nine of the ten authors recognized as nominees for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award withdrew their work from consideration. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, and Bill Clegg, on behalf of the foundation and the Literary Estate of Jean Stein, provided the following statement: “Jean Stein was a passionate advocate for Palestinian rights who published, supported, and celebrated Palestinian writers and visual artists.  While she established the PEN America award in her name to bring attention to and provide meaningful support to writers of the highest literary achievement, we know she would have respected the stance and sacrifice of the writers who have withdrawn from contention this year. To honor their decision the Estate of Jean Stein has directed PEN America to donate the $75,000 award to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.”

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what are your thoughts on the asd level system in replacement of functioning labels?

the euphemism treadmill rolls on. to claim that "levels" are somehow a purer, more "objective," and less reductionistic way of measuring ... degree of autism? distance from "normalcy"? proximity to neuronormative demands? is honestly insulting. like any other description of super-generalized "support needs," it has little bearing on the lived realities of actual autistic people.

as always, i advocate deep listening, specificity, and openness to change in conversations about what all of us as autistics want and need. generalized labels do the exact opposite of this, fixing us in place in relation to highly arbitrary and oppressive cultural tropes of functionality, productivity, and intelligence. i want to be understood as a whole person, not as something whose deviance can be quantified by medical authorities.

plus like...this shit was designed by the dsm. why on earth are we behaving as though the apa designs anything with the best interests of ND/Madppl in mind. levels, like all other formalized ways of seeing/marking autism, are designed with the ultimate goal of ameliorating rather than celebrating difference.

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he has become a helicopter

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@nika_saito

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white people who live in europe love to criticize black americans for being american because they think somehow being a white european is different and more woke than being a white american

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