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“Gaza is not the most beautiful of cities. Her coast is not bluer than those of other Arab cities. Her oranges are not the best in the Mediterranean. Gaza is not the richest of cities. (Fish and oranges and sand and tents forsaken by the winds, smuggled goods and hands for hire.) And Gaza is not the most polished of cities, or the largest. But she is equivalent to the history of a nation, because she is the most repulsive among us in the eyes of the enemy – the poorest, the most desperate, and the most ferocious. Because she is a nightmare. Because she is oranges that explode, children without a childhood, aged men without an old age, and women without desire. Because she is all that, she is the most beautiful among us, the purest, the richest, and most worthy of love.”

— Journal of an Ordinary Grief - Mahmoud Darwish

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love when a mutual in law becomes a mutual. like yaaaay :) it's like the godfather but if they all said yaaaay :))))

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Kate Bush at the Lionheart launch party, 1978⁠

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​dykes of the world we must objectify each other it’s literally all we have left

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Joan Baez, 1972

#heyyyyyy

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just got harassed for 2 hours on a bus. guy was being really creepy and following me. when i asked the faculty in charge of the trip (it's a uni trip) to move me or him, she got mad and told me to deal with it. ugh.

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10 SPIRITUAL PLAGUES OF GENOCIDAL ZIONISM by Nomy Lamm, read at the liberation seders at various university encampments for Gaza, Pesach 5784

"The ten plagues of biblical times were material plagues that targeted the oppressors who held the Israelites captive. As American Jews, we have been conscripted into the role of complicity with those, oppressing, murdering, and destroying a people and their history. To accept this role is to sacrifice our own divinity.

There are kabbalists who have mapped the ten biblical plagues onto the ten sephirot (faces of the divine), starting at the bottom of the tree of life and working upward. I used the same method to map out 10 spiritual plagues that befall those who benefit from and support the occupation of Palestine.

As you read these, ask yourself which of these plagues have impacted you? Consider what you may have lost, and what it might take to repair it. The antidote to each plague is held in the energy of the sephira it is mapped onto. Feel welcome to perform the action of connecting with each divine portal as we read, or come back to it at another time."

Loss of Foundational Connection to Truth ~ malchut, shechinah, the physical world

This plague separates us from our foundational truths as inhabitants of this planet. Where do we belong? What is home? How do we ground into connection with the earth and what does it mean to do so?

(anoint your feet and feel the ground)

2. Loss of Ability to Trust our Dreams ~ yesod, portal This plague impacts our ability to dream as a Jewish people. The level of violence that we are witnessing and being asked to be complicit in requires us to separate from the messages of our subconscious and the magic of our dreams.

(anoint your lower belly and feel your aliveness)

3. Loss of Perspective ~ hod, pacing This plague impacts our ability to have a clear perspective on what has happened, what we want, and where we are going. We become split, unclear, and difficult to understand or relate to. Our perspective comes not from our own sense of reality, but from a disembodied dictate.

(anoint your hips and feel your stability)

4. Loss of Allies ~ netzach, power This is the plague of isolation, where we make true our greatest fears, by assuming that we are somehow uniquely positioned as victims, and that any actions we take out of fear are justified. To the rest of the world, we appear terrifying and dangerous.

(anoint your knees and feel your momentum)

5. Loss of Humanity ~ tiferet, beauty With this plague, we lose our place in the human family, the interconnection and common destiny that we all share as inhabitants of this planet. When we attempt to place ourselves outside of and above others, we sacrifice our own humanity.

(anoint your heart/solar plexus and feel your tenderness)

6. Loss of Hope ~ gevurah, boundary This is the plague of despair. It crumbles our belief in the possibility of transformation, severing connection with a loving god, sacrificing our faith to a punishing, war-mongering supernatural dictator.

(anoint your shoulders and feel your edges)

7. Loss of Empathy ~ chesed, opening With this plague, we lose our ability to feel anything for those who are harmed, whether by our own actions or by others. We find ways to blame people for their misfortunes, and assume such things will never befall us if we stay strong and on top.

(anoint your palms and feel your openness)

8. Loss of Clarity ~ binah, understanding This plague impacts our ability to make sense of complex sensory input and to know ourselves as a part of the world, operating by the same laws of the universe as every other sacred fragment.

(anoint your ears and feel your sharpness)

9. Loss of Wonder ~ chochmah, wisdom This plague annihilates our ability to experience the world with openness and wonder, to appreciate the wisdom of child mind, and to merge with the infinite.

(anoint your forehead and the back of your head and feel your magic)

10. Soul Loss ~ keter, source Who even are we? Those who have experienced all these plagues without consciously unwinding them are lost to themselves. Only when we experience this ultimate and final plague is it possible to commit the gut wrenching atrocities we witness at the hands of Zionist soldiers.

(anoint the top of your head, place your hand on your head and feel the blessings pour through you, connecting you back down to your roots, to the earth)

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there's this girl in my class and i wanna suck her off the bone. respectfully. lesbianly. in a not creepy way

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nice out fit loser. 1974 called, apparently president gerald ford has granted a full and unconditional pardon to former president richard nixon

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texas is so weird. wdym back the blue?? what happened to dont tread on me. what happened to come and take it. why are y'all bowing down to authority, wtf happened

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#gonna end it all

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i walked into a smoothie place like an hour before it closed and they all stared at me like i was stopping them from closing and i thought i was gonna cry

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heyy guys i was wondering if y'all have any tips on how to be vegetarian (or vegan) on a low budget. i'm a college student w/ student loans and shit so my diet consists of the cheapest food i can find, which is mostly not vegetarian or good for me.

thanks :)

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What is the highest number of notes on a post you have made? What's your most "successful" post?

#1.3k on my swifties are annoying post 😭