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SANA Talk that Talk, 231014

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You have to recognize your capacity for harm. You cannot omit the harm you've done to others to remain "good." Anybody can be a bigot. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can harm anyone at any time even those who have been harmed themselves. The world is not made up of victims and villains only, this is life, not a Saturday morning cartoon and you are a human being who can or maybe even has hurt others and you HAVE to acknowledge that to learn to be better.

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© magicshop

#jhs

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he is just that beautiful ♡ cr. jung-koook

#myg

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For Refaat, teaching was more than just a job; it was a dynamic and transformative experience for himself and for his students. He wanted us to leave the classroom with a new pair of eyes, and with an exciting idea that we could take home and and contemplate for hours and days. He always encouraged us to share our newly developed thoughts with our friends and family, and to make note of their responses and counterarguments. One of his favorite activities at the beginning of each course was to rewrite a short story from the perspective of a different character, preferably the antagonist, or the least likable figure. In addition to achieving teaching outcomes like stirring the imagination and improving creative writing skills, this activity helped us deconstruct dominant narratives. It allowed us to extend our empathy, and to see the human in the outcast and the villain. Refaat was very biased in his love for Shakespeare; he read him with the passion and enthusiasm of a stage actor and he encouraged us to do the same. He particularly liked Shylock’s soliloquy, from The Merchant of Venice,and used to hold a competition for students to perform it: “Hath not a Jew eyes?” “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” He used to ask us if we, as Palestinians, identified more with Shylock, the oppressed Jew, or the Christian characters. Our answer was always Shylock. Refaat taught us about the Holocaust and the danger of anti-Semitism. He wanted us to be aware of the struggle of different oppressed nations and extend our solidarity to them. He always asked us to correct ourselves when we confused Zionism with Judaism. 

Nadya Siyam, from "Remembering Dr. Refaat Alareer", published in Words Without Borders, January 29, 2024.

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look at the way jungkook shyly laughs and reaches for namjoon after saying his solo ‘my time’ is his favorite track from the album 🥺

#bts

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desirability is such a distraction and as long as we are consistently invested in our own identity solely through the lens of desirability we will literally never progress ….the self objectification has to end at some point. like the denial of how much i truly have to offer outside of my own perceived desirability (which fluctuates anyway) is so disrespectful to myself tbh..i am so much more than this. we all are. i feel like the world is dead set on not ever cracking through the surface of things

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I let my pussy make my decisions, call that clitical thinking

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"I'm D boy because I'm from D!"

#myg

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Pakeezah (1972), India

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PERSONALLY I just feel like the "one bonus track per variant" thing is weird and it's weird when other artists do it too....it makes it feel like they don't see CDs and records as things people actually listen to and would want the whole album on??? anyway i'm not naive i know musicians do this to sell more copies but i just think you could still achieve that with just different photos or maybe bonus stuff that isn't music like the lover journals or rep magazines lmao

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my roman empire (cr. moreloveforhobi)

#bts #them

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bangtan boys in turtlenecks (13/??) ⤷ cr. dwellingsouls, namuspromised, 0613data bonus ot7:

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bus drivers are never neutral they are either heaven sent or deeply evil to their core

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missing them already ♡

#bts