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Y'know, a radfem just commented in my vent post saying that we should log off social media if we're feeling that bad (and i am, for the record), and the only reason we blocked her is 'cause she's a radfem and seemed really transphobic by putting the "cis" in "cis women" on quotes, as to say they're "the only type of women". But her comment was spot-on: i should take a mental health break and detox from discourse (and never get involved with it again) and Tumblr as a whole.

Dw, i'm not gonna quit, i'm just gonna be less active to calm down and have less pressure on our shoulders.

Take care!

- Asia/Marco

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i wanted to show everyone my favorite tiktok

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I’ve figured out that one way to stump older people that complain about the current generation is to have an inflation calculator app on your phone.

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I always roll my eyes at posts about what "true punk" is/was and how it was always a left-wing thing because, like, the Sex Pistols were on of the first popular punk rock bands and they were recognized right from the start as posers who had no coherent politics beyond trying to shock people

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Some of y’all really think racism in America looks like this:

When it really looks like this

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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Just for once I’d like to tell the gate agents and flight attendants that my folding wheelchair is going into the onboard closet and not have them tell me there’s “no room”. Bitch that’s a wheelchair closet, not a “your bags” closet. Move your damn bags where they belong.

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Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)

“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)

“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)

“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)

“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)

“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)

“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)

“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)

“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)

“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)

“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)

“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)

“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this one is just a personal list and doesn’t have to have all types of Palestinian visual media 🙏

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ISRAEL are currently attacking Al-Shifa Medical Complex in GAZA.. Families, Patients and displaced Palestinian people at the Hospital are fleeing Al-Shifa on foot as Israeli warplanes attack the hospital.

A fire broke out on the upper floor of the hospital, it’s reported that there are dozens of casualties and civilians are being forced to evacuate under heavy gunfire.

Source.

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Okay so I just watched a video of a boy who once identified as trans still got bottom surgery after he realized he was cis and people were so fucking rude? Like just because this cis dude has a vagina people were calling him transphobic and wishing death upon him.

So this is a reminder that when we as a community advocate for bodily autonomy and gender surgeries that means everyone regardless of gender can do whatever they want with their bodies.

If someone who is cisgender wants top/bottom surgery THEY CAN GET IT. If someone wants facial plastic surgeries that we usually find creepy like buccal fat removal or eye lifts THEY CAN GET IT. And here’s the really controversial one but if someone wants to do things that harm their body like hard drugs or diy mods THEY CAN DO IT!

Because body autonomy isn’t just “I can get bottom surgery to pass” or “I can get an abortion” it’s also all the wild stuff that makes us uncomfortable and that’s okay.

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Cw for diet talk, fatphobia, self abuse, suicide

I'm a fucking traitor for going on a diet, i deserve everything that Will happen to me, i gave into fatphobia and paranoia, i chose to obey my parents' demands instead of following what Tumblr told me, i'm a piece of shit who should've never be trusted with sending a message to begin with, let alone be take as an example by others. I want to abuse myself until i have nothing left, i want to punch out everything i am, cut myself snd let me bleed, starve myself to death to the delight of my parents. Will they realize what they've done?

Who am i kidding? I'm only making this up with my paranoia, this is the voice talking, i shouldn't be trusted, i can't be trusted with anything, i'm a useless slob. I'm a waste of space. I'm pretending in order to get affection, i'm lying to myself, i should just kill myself as the waste of space i am, i've tricked others into loving me for what i am, but i'm not that, i'm a huge piece of shit who keeps lying, exaggerating and minimizing what she has done to appear as a small, defensless, pathetix creature.

But when i follow fat liberation, i'm a conspiracy theorist who believes random nutjobs on Tumblr in order to feel special and enlightened, who keeps hiding from the objective truth and willingly gets gaslit by uninformed motherfuckers that do nothing but lie to her, and will probably die at a young age due to her fucking obesity. But that'd be worth it to follow "fat liberationists" on Tumblr dot fucking com, would It?

Fuck you, you piece of shit, i fucking hate you.

#heavy vent #tw sui vent #vent tw #tw vent #vent tag #fatphobia #sui mention #sui ment tw #sui ment cw

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this day (march 16th) 21 years ago (2003), american activist rachel corrie was crushed to death by an israeli bulldozer while she protested the demolition of palestinian homes in rafah. she was 24. this april, she would have turned 45.

Sandra Jordan wrote in The Observer that because Corrie was American her death attracted more attention than the deaths of Palestinians under similar circumstances: "On the night of Corrie's death, nine Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, among them a four-year-old girl and a man aged 90. A total of 220 people have died in Rafah since the beginning of the intifada. Palestinians know the death of one American receives more attention than the killing of hundreds of Muslims." (Wikipedia)

while we honor corrie's sacrifice, we must remember what she fought for. you can read her emails from rafah about her experiences in palestine at the rachel corrie foundation for peace and justice, organized by her parents cindy and craig who continue her work.

donate to UNRWA donate to Help Gaza Children donate to PCRF buy e-sims for Gazans

ramadan kareem and may we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

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Cw for a mention of medical rape and talk of all sorts of abuse centering around intersexism:

I get that people have trauma with men and everything. I, too, was chased for an hour by a man in a car at age 11 calling me a bitch and telling me to get in; I, too, have had a group of adult men discussing physically harming me in public; I, too, have had B*n S*apiro steal one of my tiktoks to throw me to the harassment of his audience

But why are yall so afraid of strange men and not strange women? My experience as an intersex little girl was extreme social torment by little girls and adult women and my own mom and the first person to rape me was a pretty blonde female obgyn who wanted to punish and humiliate me for clearly being sexually active at a young age since I was shaving and not having periods (you know. Bc of the high T puberty)

One of the things that drove me into hiding before covid locked everything down was going out to a carnival with a few friends and having a woman loudly and angrily start harassing me in line for a ride in front of fifty people, threatening to beat me for asking her to stop, asking why i thought it was okay for people like me to leave the house, and neither of my friends said anything, nor did anyone else! The only person who did was her boyfriend who told her to shut the fuck up and apologized to me for her lmao!! I am a dyke who loves being a woman and loves women and women have overwhelmingly traumatized me more than fucking any other demographic. Family, friends, moms and grandma's of friends, women in church, and total strangers in a multitude of settings for most of my fucking life

So when people are talking about how folks that look like me are scary bc I look like a man and men are inherently the scarier ones I have to fucking laugh and then feel miserable and alone because everyone acts like it should be so obvious that of course people are more afraid of men! I was a little girl in the 90s and grew up a girl on the internet and I should totally understand!

But for me, I'm not safe around fucking goddamn anyone and people act like bc I'm an afab woman I must be safe among cis women. It's fucking suffocating. The first person to inappropriately touch me was a girl my own age whose mom regularly beat her and abused her dad and I'm so sick of having it shoved down my throat that we have to be so fucking afraid of men, as queer people, because they are naturally and inherently more abusive and any woman would naturally understand. To the point of openly admitting to fearing people who LOOK what passes as masculine in queer spaces, regardless of their actual identity or gender

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i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"

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Please remember to send money to Mona's initiative! Thanks to all your previous donations, Mona was able to bake and distribute pizza to people in Rafah! With more donations she can keep providing people with basic necessities! Even 1 dollar goes a long way! P*ypal.

G*f*ndme to buy necessities to distribute in Ghazzah.

G*f*ndme to help her family leave Ghazzah.

Her IG to keep track of progress.

So far she hasn't found anyone to distribute food and supplies to the North, but she's still trying.

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the way the war in gaza has been constantly about targeting flour, targeting hospitals, targeting universities, targeting water containers, targeting anything that brings life in order to "thin out the population" and "encourage palestinians to move to tent cities in egypt"

and then you have western media readily calling it a "humanitarian crisis" therefore fulfilling israel's goal of manufacturing a humanitarian crisis. this entire war was with the purpose of collectively punishing a civilian population of 50% children. that's why it was immediately understood and labelled as a genocide by multiple genoide scholars, by the lemkin institute, and is currently on trial for genocide at the hague

like the starvation and the blocking of aid and the dropping of parachuted MREs to just barely salvage the reputation of a few politicians is not a byproduct of the war. it's not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. acquiescing to israelis blocking aid by building ports and dropping pallets of food means acquiescing to famine as a strategy instead of trying to stop it. famine is not collateral damage, it is a central pillar of genocide. killing children is not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. we don't need hindsight to say this plainly, anyone who denies it now is another pillar of genocide.

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