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God I miss the days when you could show up to a stranger’s farm and he’d say “What’s your name, boy?” and you’d take off your hat and hold it to your chest to better let him see your face and reply “Why I ain’t got none, sir, on account of my mammy passed on before she could give me one” and he’d tell you he’s real damn sorry to hear that and ask what he can do you for and you’d tell him that you can’t read nor even write neither but you’re mighty good with horses and can mend them fallen fence posts what you saw on your way in and won’t ask for nothing much more than a hot meal and a warm barn to sleep in and he’d keep his wife and daughters inside but send his boy who ain’t got married yet even though his mama tells him he needs a woman out with a lantern and some stew at night and the two of you’d get to talkin and he’d throw you his flask to take a swig from and watch you drinkin from it while he leant against the door frame and when he finally got called back on up to the house again he’d take a sip from it too real slow-like like it weren’t the whiskey what he were tryna savour

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some dykes for your feed :) going to be making pints of this later this year >:)

#art

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google drive of 100 posters for a free palestine

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beauty is fake bc when you love someone all their features blend together and to you they look like this: ❣️❤️❣️❤️❣️

#so true

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whenever i spend my day outside when the weather is good i’m like wow i’ve finally unlocked the secret to inner peace

#this is so true

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To encourage the spread of #ReadPalestine, participating publishers will be offering one of their e-book titles for free download from November 29 to December 5, on this website: publishersforpalestine.org

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Taking Flight, 25”x25”

crochet tapestry designed by me, bordered with a granny square frame.

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global north academics just do not want to discuss the privileges of passports. i can bring it up and there will be total silence and then a change of topic. 

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here's James Baldwin summing up Palestine in 1979

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I know it’s not much in the face of everything but I have been finding hope & resilience in palestinian poetry these past few weeks and I created a google drive file of poetry collections by palestinian poets that I will keep updating as I keep on reading. I also recommend checking out @fiercynn’s palestinian poets series for more poets + poetry available online

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What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

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"but they'd kill queer people in Palestine" is balant racism and islamphobic rhetoric disguised (very badly) as concern for queer people. People who claim this can more than easily look up queer liberation movements in SWANA but guess what, they do not care, they never cared abt the queer ppl here, and they just view us all as a hivemind incapable of growth and change. The US introduced 500+ homophobic bills this year alone and I dont see them saying Americans deserve getting bombed endlessly.

Israeli airstrikes hit all Palestinians regardless if they're queer, young, old, men or women. Acting like a country's stance on queer liberation should decide wether its people deserve life and safety is insane, actually insane, it's just bigotry and dehumanization beyond words

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Lavish obi with beautiful zakuro (pomegranate) embroidered on black base.

The embroidery is quite unusual, with a lot of different stiches bringing texture to the design.

#embroidery

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Israel and Israeli settlers aren't the way they are because of Judaism. That's how settler colonialism and settlers are. Even people who are political radicals, who have experienced oppression as an ethnicity themselves, etc. can become twisted into believing and doing horrible things as Settlers. Look at the Irish in Ireland vs Irish American settlers politically. Australia ended up with a disproportionate amount of human rights and workers rights activists in its initial groups of settlers (as convicts), it lead to nothing in the face of joining settler colonialism. Colonialism routinely makes monsters of the colonizers.

Scapegoating Judaism just lets other settler colonies off the hook for similar brutalities.