#fighting oppression

[killerolives]

day 23 prompt: celestial

suspended in time,

singular, archaic.

praying to a sky

littered with corpses

for the rebirth of a line.

what does it mean to

hold position? alight,

unmoving,

the centre of orbit

amid a celestial blaze.

burn, be consumed,

there will be no flash of

dying light.

burn, then rise,

become the seraphs themselves,

and fight.

#prose #original poetry #poetry #inktober #poems and poetry #spilled ink #words words words #prosetober #free palestine #fighting oppression #there is too much i wanna say so just gonna leave this here #free gaza

[youwerelikeanangel]

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[Image description: Tweet by bhavani kunjulakshmi that says: Your solidarity with Palestine is accused of anti-semitism? Like your feminism is accused of misandry/man-hating? Like your anti-racism is accused of reverse racism? Like your workers rights’ unionism is accused of treachery? Like your protests are accused of vandalism?

The oppressor will always find ways to appropriate, co-opt, and manipulate the language of the oppressed to claim victimhood and to justify their violence as self-defense. \End description]

#THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! internalise this don’t let the oppressive force diminish your fight for justice . #free palestine #palestine #x #also i beg of you all do not stop sharing do not become silent . be loud demand justice text your reps call your reps #for germans : hmu for resources on how and who to text to demand for a ceasefire

[streakoflavender]

The thing about 'The Nazis only hated those other groups because they associated them with Jews, therefore their genocide is less important' is like, OK why did the Nazis associate communism, gender deviance, etc, with Jews? Could it be their Antisemitism, their racism against Romani people, their praise of settler colonial projects, their fanatical opposition to communism, their belief in rigid gender roles, their support for eugenics, all stem from some underlying causes, that they all uphold a system that some stand to gain from, and they assigned Jews as the ones behind it all? No, that would run the risk of contextualizing Antisemitism, tying it to other forms of oppression, implying we have reason to be in solidarity with other groups, and worst of all, implying that changing social conditions may eventually end (or even lessen!) Antisemitism. And that would undermine the ethnic separatism I was raised to believe. Better to take the Nazis at their word that they saw all those other things as Jewish creations and attribute their Antisemitism as stemming from some transhistorical madness, that way we can treat Antisemitism as coming from everywhere and nowhere, an eternal, unsolvable problem. That way we can feel confident that our ethnonationalism is correct, that the genocide I support is justified self defense.

#it does not help in fighting our own oppression or in mourning those lost in the shoah to deny any connection to other oppressed groups #it does nothing but encourage despair and separatism #in fact it does a good deal of disrespect to those who died in the shoah #to refuse to understand why they were killed and to let the ideological descendants of their murderers off the hook

[chaiaurchaandni]

also remember that no form of resistance is ever acceptable to the colonizer. and that includes non-violent resistance (the great march of return) + non-violence is only successful against a force that has a conscience. but if your opponent had a conscience, he would not be oppressing you in the first place.

#its a bit weird how people who have been oppressed for decades are held to this moral standard that not even their oppressor is held to tbh #also yeah agreed w the person here like if i was a part of such a group being oppressed i would not just sit and take it #there's only so much pain and loss you can take #israelis want to cause so much destruction that it debilitates the palestinians but it ends up fuelling their desire to fight back even mor #i was just reading up on how initially the people who made up hamas focused on social services #and only became interested in developing a militant wing after israel's brutal occupation of south lebanon #and the plo's retreat #even before oct 7 #hamas fighting back was never acceptable to Israel #even if they were only using rockets made of scrap metal. no form of resistance can ever be acceptable to the occupier. #free palestine #palestine #gaza #israel #israeli war crimes #death to israel #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance

[zeb-z]

Something about Brasso being the kindness in this series. Warm, trustworthy, friendly, compassionate. He’s who Cassian goes to when he needs a cover, and he’s on the same page without question. He’s who takes care of Maarva the best he can while she’s still alive. He tells Bix to run the moment the Imperials are after her, no question or hesitation as he steps between her and the Imps. He’s patient with Bee when Maarva passes, encourages the old droid to help the Daughters, stays in the house with Bee when he’s asked. The first thing he does when he sees Cassian again is hug him, long and hard. He delivers Maarva’s final words, how Cassian is loved more than any wrong he could ever do. He walks Maarva’s brick down Rix road, he’s the first to start swinging at the Imps, and he drops the fight to rescue the poor kid (who’s name I can’t remember).

Something about him being the kindness in the series in the face of adversity. Loyal and compassionate. Something about how his role is crucial in this rebellion. And something about how, most importantly, he survives.

#something something there’s always hope even in the darkest nights something something kindness cannot be killed so easily #can anybody fucking hear me #he’s compassion he’s selflessness he’s kindness at his core and he lives and breathes in the face of oppression. in spite of it #and most importantly he outlasts it. he starts the fight and he lives through it #Andor #Andor spoilers #brasso #Star Wars #sw #z speaks

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Serious.

this is a very serious post.

KOSA? It's awful. I wrongfully thought we were out of the woods. Were not.

The things they could censor? It's a violation of US rights, silencing LGBTQ+, and Palestinians, health care about resources to get out of abusive situations.

STOP KOSA. END KOSA. FREE PALESTINE. GIVE US EQUAL RIGHTS.

Even if you DON'T support those things, IT WILL CENSOR YOU.

Don't panic, take action.

END. THE. CENSORSHIP.

#Stop kosa #bad internet bills #free palestine #free gaza #Equal rights #Fight back #Don't let us be oppressed #End kosa #kosa bill #bad bills #don't panic #take action #End censorship #Don't panic take action #Reblog #please

[dolokhoded]

with greece legalizing gay marriage and everything i'm so tired of people diminishing queerness in greece to "oh your ancient greek ancestors would be proud ! alexander the great would be proud ! achilles would be proud sappho would be proud plato would be proud" etcetc.

queer rights progressing in greece wouldn't make our "ancient greek ancestors" proud because they had an entirely different concept of marriage than us, viewed women as objects to be sold and traded and only accepted homosexuality between men, or even more likely, a man and a literal underage boy.

gay rights in greece aren't benefiting some people who died a few thousand years ago or are Literally Fictional. greek queerness isn't just some ancient dionysian fantasy of feeding each other grapes and reciting poetry to each other by the sea. actual greek people who do benefit from this still exist. it doesn't honor some ancient guy who condoned slavery. it honors greek queer people who were out there protesting at the controversy this law raised with the church and actually made the effort to win this fight.

ancient greece isn't the epitome of queerness, not even close. absolutely in no way when it concerned exclusively just gay men. the epitome of queerness is the trans kid from my hometown who insisted on cutting their hair and dressing masculine even within their transphobic high school environment and strict orthodox family, or the woman who taught me programming who was married with children and realized she was aromantic fifteen years into marriage, or the gay punks who kept cops out of the university's anarchist hotspot.

greek queer people aren't history or mythology, and ancient greece isn't the queer utopia you make it out to be. we're still here, and we're fighting against the exact ideas our ancient culture perpetuated.

#🧅 #if i have to hear ONE MORE WORD about achilles and patroclus i'm gatekeeping greek mythology. don't piss me off. #ancient greece sucked ass. if i were born in ancient greece as a queer person AND as an afab person i'd actually just kms. #NOTHING about actual real life queer people fighting for their rights is about them. the people who were /oppressed/ by #ancient greek society sure. but nothing about it was queer friendy or liberating.

[marzipanandminutiae]

man I wish there were a more nuanced way to talk about dress history’s darker sides without like.

making people feel guilty for thinking the clothes were pretty.

to be clear, I don’t mean this in the Conservative Pundit sense where literally any criticism of white/cis/straight/male privilege and its negative effects on society makes them cry about being Laden With Unfair Guilt(TM). I mean like...I don’t know. this Gotcha attitude I see sometimes that’s like

“think this dress is pretty? well IT CAME FROM A HORRIFIC SYSTEM SO THINK AGAIN, BOZO! BET YOU DON’T LIKE IT SO MUCH NOW HUH???”

obviously we should talk about the horrific systems (many many of them) in the past. if a garment was made from fibers processed by enslaved people, and sewn by teenage seamstresses making a pittance, that needs to be discussed

but I feel as if it would help to contextualize that with like

“who makes the majority of our clothing today? what conditions do they work in? what difficulties prevent us from simply opting out of having our clothes produced this way? who sets trends, and do people outside their social echelon also enjoy those trends?”

so that people get that they should be thinking about the past and how its legacy impacts us today, rather than tearing themselves up for Finding The Early 19th Century Cotton Evening Gown Pretty

there is no unproblematic period to enjoy clothing from, including the one we live in now. and it’s not productive to rip people a new one for Bad Fashion Preferences. to me, it’s the same as claiming that someone supports sweatshop labor because they said a Shein dress was cute once

#dress history #this brought to you by: the frantic thread by people trying to find a Less Problematic era to replicate clothing from than Victorian #they settled on Medieval which #J*wish people would like a word about that (censoring to avoid tag) #it's just such a pointless endeavor because no such era exists. now or in the past #you like what you like. you're human. #and just like insufferable crypto bros wear jeans so do activists fighting the environmental damage crypto could cause #also: surprise! the people making the clothes for the system that oppresses them mostly also want to be wearing those styles #it has ever been thus #so are THEY then also evil for admiring styles worn by the exploitative elite?

[ganondoodle]

im 27 now

#ganondoodles #personal #its past midnight my time #so im officially 27 now #also no this isnt meant as a complaint that im tired of hearing news about palestine #well kinda bc I WISH THE OPPRESSION WOULD STOP #LET THEM LIVE #i just want a good life for everything #still fighting of course #but it takes toll on you hearing and seeing more horrifieing news each day with half the world taking the side of the oppressor

[azucarera-art]

redrew that one steven universe meme w my comfort characters

#forgor to post this one here whoops #anyway #i love traitors who betray their og cause to fight on the side of the oppressed #alex keller #paarthurnax #cod #call of duty #tes #the elder scrolls #meme redraw #azu art #rkgk

[alicentes]

I didn’t sit here for years tryna stay calm and silent while listening to your bad takes on gale (who grew up oppressed, in poverty and then witnessed his entire district getting wiped out then rightly went to fight in the rebellion because it was his inlg chance of tearing down the system the wanted him and his family dead) being a “terrorist war criminal who is single handedly responsible for killing innocent people including prim and who is the REAL villain of the hunger games” just for y’all to turn and start stanning and defending actual facist dictator and child trafficker Coriolanus Snow because you saw a young hot version of him.

#i actually do enjoy coryo as a villain and liked his origin story but people are really making excuses for him? and they know what he became #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #anti coriolanus snow #tbosas #like even in tbosas he shows that he is a sociopathic narissist. he tries to be good but those traits are still there and he embraced them #as for gale he was oppressed his entire life and lived in the poorest part of panem and resents the rich who were complicit in his suffering #the things he does for the resistance were things he thought was neccessary to win to end oppression #the other option was losing the rebellion and getting tortured killed and allowing snow to cause a lot more suffering #do i agree w everything he does? no because he is a character with flaws but i dont blame him one bit for decisions after the genocide of 12 #he has to live with the consequences of what happened during the war and what he had to do to survive #but he is not a bad person for fighting back and willing to kill to survive he also does not understand the toll it takes to have to kill #him and snow are the same age and they both choose survival but snow is choosing power for himself and restoring his families wealth #and gale is choosing to join the rebellion and willing to fight for the sake of the rest of his people and to put an end to the suffering #one creates an oppressive society and one is tearing down that society both do whatever it takes #wow i guess i have more thoughts on gales character than i originally thought and the comparisons with snow are interesting

[mannimarcos]

my current team in omega ruby

#boy gardevoir = most oppressed individuals in pokemon world and i fight for them for their rights #milotic #aggron #cradily #latios #swampert #gardevoir #pokemon

[lecoindecachou]

The fact that tumblr is cheering for fucking Iran really says it all and shows y'all need to shut up forever about the Middle East. We get it, you think the only good Jew is a dead Jew. But aligning yourselves with the Islamic Republic? Fucking really?

#israel #palestine #iran #meanwhile iranian women are still bravely fighting for their rights in the face of brutal oppression. #not like tumblr gives a shit or anything #they only care about the middle east when they can point the finger at the west #the enemy of your enemy is not your friend

[alwaysbewoke]

being anti-genocide is not allowed on meta

like i said before, i don't mess with shaun king like that, but that being said, many things about one thing can be true at the same time. it is very clear that there is a wave of censorship happening across social media against pro-palestinian content in favor of israeli propaganda. so whether or not you like shaun or not, it is very clear what is happening and why. there is clearly a genocide happening in gaza that is being perpetuated by colonizing power. a genocide against an indigenous population for land, resources, and power. basically the same thing america did to the natives here. had it not been for people like shaun king (flawed as he may be), many people would not be aware of the heinous acts of israel against the palestinian people right now. so even as someone who is not a shaun king fan, i am not so myopic in my view of things to not realize that he served a positive purpose when it comes to the israeli genocide of palestinians.

on a much larger scale, whenever a platform or a power attacks someone popular, one of the goals is to send a message to everyone else that they are not safe and that they should back off. it's like a football coach picking on and cursing out their hall of fame quarterback. when everyone else who isn't as popular or powerful sees that on the team, they immediately realize that they must fall in line or worse can happen to them. that's the goal of banning shaun king from ig. however as a black man who understands how connected all oppressive systems are, we cannot slow down. may i remind all my brothers and sisters that israel is where police forces like the nypd go and train in abusive violent tactics, which they then come back to america and overwhelmingly exercise on black and brown bodies. so if you think this does not affect you, you are sadly and deeply mistaken. additionally, this kind of censorship is going to spread. if we don't fight back, it won't be long before you will be arrested for speaking out against israel. this is what israel wants, and they have the money and political power to make it happen. you can either sit back and let it happen or you can fight back. however, make no mistake, it's coming, and this is the first major blow that the enemy has struck in their offensive against our free speech.

#censorship #pro palestinian #israeli propaganda #gaza genocide #colonization #indigenous rights #shaun king #awareness #oppression #free speech #fight back #police training #black lives matter #political power #solidarity #speak out #no censorship #resist #palestine solidarity #human rights

[hamletisintown]

Eros the god of Love.

Sly Eros is just as much of a warrior as his lover Hemera, albeit a more subtle one. He patrons the less overt kind of wars: the plotting, the scheming, and the revenge. The violence of the weak on the strong.

The wasp god is associated with love, deception, diplomacy, and more broadly, with anything related to feelings and interpersonal relationships. He acts as a counterpart to Hemera, his complimentary partner. He is the poison and the antidote, the knife and the heart into which it is plunged. People pray to him when they require strength and guidance in love, family matters, or revenge.

_______

(Wasps are some of my favourite bugs so i really wanted to make a good design for him, he deserves it.)

#art #my art #my ocs #faes&cel #faes #oc:eros #thepantheon #castorlore #also if anyone was wondering yes he is the patron saint of survivors of abusive relationships #yes he supports the rights of victims to fight back against oppression #(if my tags are weird it's because spaces seem to fuck some stuff up sometimes when i link things) #(so i'm not taking any chances and just removing spaces in the most important tags) #(don't mind me)

[ladyluscinia]

Literally though "Why would Izzy be so against Edward's embracing the crew in his grief if he wasn't a femme-gay-hating homophobe hmm???" Because they are boat based criminals, Margaret.

Because they scare people for a living. Because they are social outcasts making a system work for them that was never intended to. Because Izzy is a hardened, paranoid bastard who thinks being weak in front of people you cannot trust is how you get killed, and staying alive is more important to him than emotional fulfillment. Because he doesn't trust the Revenge to be a safe space.

There's a really-not-that-hard to spot story here about community and support and the importance of being yourself openly, but it's rooted in the community bit. In having a group of people who you trust and are comfortable with before you start feelings-circling your softest bits.

No fucking shit the antagonist whose defining experiences on the Revenge were mockery, disrespect, having his crewmate spread an embarrassing story to the enemy, more targeted mockery, being lied to, and then being banished does not view the Revenge as a safe space to be vulnerable. 🙄 Is he probably going to learn that being a dick to keep anyone from bonding with you is part of his problem and that physical safety isn't everything? Learn the value of community and letting go of defensive maladaptive behaviors that actively harm yourself and others? Seems likely.

But fucking hell it is not actually a sign of undeniable moral corruption to not instinctively trust strangers to welcome you into the fold and become your support system. Especially when they don't.

(Hell, our protagonist Stede doesn't open up even as he preaches the importance of opening up - because he too needs to learn about safe spaces and community support.)

#our flag means death #izzy is the antagonist because he doesn't like the revenge crew and they don't like him #he's an asshole. literally everyone knows he's an asshole and that he's not innocent of blame for fighting with stede / edward / the crew #but that doesn't make him *evil* - especially when they are bitchy right back! #they are all pirates! they are all gay! they are all boat based criminals because the oppressive empire hates them! #izzy hands ofmd #ofmd piracy #ofmd meta #ladyluscinia