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genuinelyshallow · 6 months

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Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers.

"Yesterday, Israel achieved one of the main objectives of its war against Gaza's health organisations. The death toll of thousands has been causing a worldwide uprising of anger against Israel, which increases every day as the numbers increase. With the health system collapsing, the health administration can not count the numbers of deaths and injuries. Starting today and to the end of the war, perhaps even years after, we won't know the real death toll. They will be buried in mass graves or be left in the open or under the rubbles for their corpses to rot. We would have liked to say that Palestinians are humans, lives, faces, and names, and not just numbers. Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers. The world was too cheap to leave them with even just that"

#palestine #free palestine #palestinian lives matter #israel #gaza #genocide in gaza #social justice #jerusalem #human rights

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violottie · 7 days

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...i begging yall do not get desensitised to reading these. this is horrific. this is evil. children... were shredded... SHREDDED. do you understand what that means? do you get how evil someone has to be to do that to another person? can you process that sheer malevolence and wickedness it would take to do that??!! to a child?!?!!!

"Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud from Rafah, southern Gaza: About seven people, a mother and her children were killed earlier today. We’ve seen video from the hospital where their bodies were taken. The children’s bodies arrived in plastic bags. They were shredded in the air strike on the home. The only survivor of the attack is the father. ⁠

"This pattern of killing entire families is nothing new after nearly seven months of war. Entire families have been obliterated in Israeli air strikes. Just in the past 30 minutes, there was a strike at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. We’re trying to get more updates on that attack." from Al Jazeera English, 03/May/2024:

#genocide #this is genocide #violence against children #human rights #social justice #humanity #palestinian lives matter #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah

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trans-axolotl · 8 months

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nothing makes me more insane than the phrase "selling your body" btw. like was i not also selling my body at every other job i've had where i had to be on my feet all day, lifting boxes, working in a warehouse, etc. why is it that sex work is uniquely labeled as "selling your body" while every other job is sorted into another category, no matter how much that job might have a physical impact on your body. lmao.

#personal #sw #in fact i have had worse long term physical effects from my jobs that were not sw. as a matter of fact #anyway also related conversation to be had about how most of the human trafficking in the US is not sex trafficking but is in fact other #types of labor that is trafficked #and that if you include prison labor as human trafficking based on different definitions. there is a lot of important connections we can dr #draw. about labor. power. control. and how to build solidarity to actually fight for people's right to free + safe working conditions and #self determination

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samijami · 10 months

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Transfem butches, reblog if you agree

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demolition-queen · 4 months

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A Palestinian father, who was shot by Israeli snipers and is about to die, is trying to reach his child by crawling.

The streets are full of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers. Babies, children, women, men... They are all killed for one reason. Because they are Palestinians.

Do you know what? With each passing day, the perpetrators and supporters of genocide are killing our humanity, which is the common value of the whole world, more and more. One day, everyone will need that humanity, but at this rate, there will be no humanity left in the world.

#palestinian lives matter #palestine #palestinian genocide #gaza strip #free palestine #gaza #genocide palestine #genocide #gaza genocide #genocide in gaza #human rights #humanity #support palestine #israel is killing children #gaza news #palestine news #united nations

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ivygorgon · 11 months

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"No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." -Marsha P. Johnson

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system-processing-12 · 11 months

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Reminder

Credit to artist @_alyadadumb_ on Instagram. Sorry about not including it earlier.

#black lives matter #trans lives matter #black trans lives matter #bipoc lives matter #trans rights #trans rights are human rights

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beam-of-sunlightbb · 6 months

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#palestine #gaza #united nations #social justice #human rights #yemen #joe biden #black lives matter #blm #middle east #the hunger games

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morsobaby · 1 year

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Actually trans people are allowed to call their body parts whatever they please. It's not "cringy" or "delusional" or "unrealistic". It's their damn bodies. If it gives them euphoria that's a good thing. It doesn't fucking hurt or bother anyone if a non op trans guy wants to say he's got a dick or if a flat chested trans girl refers to her tits or if any nonbinary or genderqueer person has weird or funny or made up terms for their body parts. It's not your damn business. Actually it's really dope and cool and also coming up with your own terms for your body to avoid dysphoria or cause euphoria? Fuckin awesome. Period.

#My thoughts #Trans positive #Trans #trans positivity #trans pride #Transfem #Transmasc #Trans woman #Trans man #Nonbinary #Xenogender #Genderfluid #Transgender #trans is beautiful #trans lives matter #trans rights are human rights

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tomi4i · 1 month

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#free palestine #palestine #gaza #occupied palestine #palestine will be free #free gaza #gaza strip #justice for palestine #protect palestine #from the river to the see #israel massacre #israel #israel crimes #humans rights #ethnic cleansing #israel is an illegal occupier #end the occupation #fuck israel #palestine lives matter

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genuinelyshallow · 4 months

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Six ! For TWO MILLIONS! SIX LEFT

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #israel #palestinian lives matter #free gaza #social justice #genocide in gaza #jerusalem #save palestine #icj #south africa #yemen #signal boost #human rights #end israels genocide

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violottie · 2 months

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"A Palestinian father loses his temper while bidding farewell to his son who was killed in the Israeli bloodbath last night in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip" from Wissam Nassar, 16/Mar/2024:

#the anguish.... this torment must end #human rights #human lives #palestinian lives matter #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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LGBTQ+ organizations and allies are celebrating Michigan for becoming the first state in three years to pass comprehensive anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. The legislation, which now heads to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to be signed into law, finally passed after decades of court battles and hold-ups from Republican legislators.

The bill passed in a 64-45 vote in the Democrat-led House on Wednesday. It amends the state’s 1976 Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) to include LGBTQ+ people among its protected groups. The law forbids discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodation within businesses, government buildings, and educational facilities on the basis of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, marital status — and now, LGBTQ+ identity.

Democrats had tried introducing various LGBTQ+ non-discrimination measures over the last 40 years, according to the bill’s gay sponsor Sen. Jeremy Moss (D). However, the attempts were repeatedly voted down by Republican-led legislatures. Last January, Democrats took control of the full legislature for the first time in nearly 40 years, finally giving them the chance to pass the protections.

In July 2022, Michigan’s Supreme Court issued a landmark 5–2 ruling that ELCRA already forbade discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as forms of discrimination based on sex and gender. This followed a 2020 Michigan Court of Claims ruling that said ELCRA didn’t ban anti-gay discrimination as well as a 2018 vote by Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission interpreting ELCRA as protecting LGBTQ+ people from religious-based discrimination...

When the House voted to pass the historic bill on Wednesday, a crowd in the House gallery broke into applause, Bridge Michigan reported. Republican House members had tried adding amendments that would’ve carved out exceptions for religious people to continue discriminating against LGBTQ+ people. None of these amendments passed into the final bill.

Gov. [Whitmer] has signaled that she will soon sign the bill into law. In a Wednesday tweet, she noted the observation of International Women’s Day and wrote, “I’m celebrating trans women who have continuously led the way, despite constant threats to their lives and liberty. I’m proud that we’re finally in a position to expand the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to protect LGBTQ+ Michiganders. Let’s get it done!”

-via LGBTQ Nation, 3/9/23

Note: If it's not clear from the language, this is basically a done deal--the bill signing IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO HAPPEN.

As scary as things are right now, there are so many of us fighting to protect ourselves, our communities, and the queer and trans people around us.

This comes only a day after Minnesota's governor signed a landmark executive order that guarantees the right to gender-affirming care and prevents the state from complying with any other states' attempts to interfere. via them.us, 3/9/23

There is hope, and there are so many people fighting for us.

#transgender #trans #trans rights #trans healthcare #top surgery #gender affirming care #trans rights are human rights #michigan #united states #us politics #gretchen whitmer #democrats #voting matters #lgbtq #lgbtq rights #transphobia cw #good news #hope

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samijami · 11 months

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YO BITCHES AUTISTIC PEOPLE CAN BE TRANS TOO

DON'T MATTER IF THEY GOT NO DAMN IQ, OR IF THEY SMART AS ALBERT FUCKING EINSTEIN

WE ALL DESERVE THE RIGHTS TO TRANSITION IF WE FUCKING WANNA

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demolition-queen · 4 months

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Babies fighting for their lives in the siege of genocide. Gaza is full of these babies.

This genocide must stop! Where is humanity?

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pilloclock · 4 months

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Learn about Congo 🇨🇩 We cannot , after finding out so shamefully late about the genocide, continue as per. We have to change our choices and make the effort to be as ethical as we can and talk about this!

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