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Blog undergoing reconstruction!

I've had this babe since my mid teens and I'm tired of treating tumblr like social media, will probably set this one up to function more like a blog where I post stuff I write or do, and reblog when I want to participate in a discussion.

I've only got around 500 followers and a handful of those interact regularly, so I don't figure too many people will mind one way or the other. In the unlikely event that someone really cares about seeing specific stuff on my blog, idk just tell me and I'll take that into account?

To my friends who follow me, you guys already know the kind of shit I like to talk about so if you want to stop me, now's your chance!

#my post

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fuck western/white feminism.

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This is what you "Vote Blue No Matter Who" people sound like btw

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Ok ok hold up here. I answered them 'cause I saw their notification first. Could we finish this up via DMs? I think there's a mutual misunderstanding here that a reblog chain will be ill suited for clearing up.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no one actually cares about men who are abuse victims unless they can be used as tools to silence women

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Do you think there shouldn’t be a Jewish state at all? Not even in a different continent?

You might need to sit down for this one but ethnostates shoud not exist, regardless of what continent they might be on lmao

The existence of an ethnostate by default means the subjugation and violence committed against other groups of people and you cannot name anywhere, definitely not a continent, where a homogenous ethostate can be established without displacing the people already living there who are not part of the ethnic group.

The only way this can ever be achieved is through ethnic cleansing and you're literally asking me if I'm in favour of that and the answer is fuck no

#palestine #texts #come back to later

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“Palestinian workers oppose the assumption that international support for the BDS movement might harm Palestinian workers who work for companies targeted by BDS. On the contrary: the dismantling of the Israeli settlement enterprise means that we Palestinians will be able to reclaim our land and natural resources. This, of course, will put an end to the exploitation of Palestinian workers by their Israeli employers. Any argument against this is an anti-worker argument.”

— Manal Shqair, an organizer with the Palestinian New Federation of Trade Unions

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No listen I get what OP is trying to say and I think we're in agreement about how the vast majority of public discussion about male victims of abuse comes from a place of very bad faith and is weaponized against women.

What I'm trying to warn about in my reblog is just that the phrasing of the post does sort of (unintentionally, I assume) fall into dismissing any genuine care about male abuse victims beyond their use in misogynistic rhetoric:

(nobody) cares unless X = (group that cares) cares if X, trans men care, therefore trans men care if male abuse victims can be used to silence women

Do I think this is what OP meant? Of course not. I think OP meant something a lot closer to the first paragraph of this reblog. So why did I add all of this if not to argue with OP? To put it simple, because there's a lot of rhetoric going around on this site that posits men and masculinity as inherently antagonistic towards women and our interests as inherently conflicting, which contributes to the erasure of transmascs' struggles, and through that lens, this post could easily be read as such. Considering what OP has to say about gender essentialism, I figured that's not something she would like, and that she might want to hear from trans people if something of hers that discusses gendered issues, could carry unwanted implications about x group of trans people.

My tags especially are not there to argue with OP as much as they are there to expand upon the topic she raises.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no one actually cares about men who are abuse victims unless they can be used as tools to silence women

#also gotta put this disclaimer here just in case my tone reads as aggressive or aloof or idk #it's 5.30 in the morning and I've been up all night writing a political article about the instrumentalization of antisemitism #against Palestinians and their allies #and can't seem to shift out of that sort of writing mode; you feel? #If you want to keep talking I might want to request we move to DMs #It's easier to have a fair conversation in a chat than on a blog post and makes it harder to spread the contents out of context

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Link to Abdallah’s gofundme campaign: https://gofund.me/0b896649

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Transgender men have been trying to have conversations about abuse we face and how erasing male victims of abuse hurts us for a long time. It strikes me as very callous to dismiss our voices as only being concerned with silencing women.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no one actually cares about men who are abuse victims unless they can be used as tools to silence women

#We're often forgotten in or left out of these discussions #There's a whole group here of men who face incredibly high rates of abuse #Our lived experiences and concerns are not a patriarchal tactic to use against women #I understand that mistakes happen. I understand that it's hard to remember every group's perspective in any given discussion. #I just need you to understand how much it hurts to be repeatedly told that our cares only exist in opposition to women's #the assumption that we must always prioritize antagonizing women even over caring about out own trauma #Allow us to express genuine care for each other and our struggles. Give us the grace of acknowledging our voices as part of the discussion. #You can't keep letting us fall though the cracks. We can't keep getting lumped in with the MRA:s or falling entirely under women's rights. #We are not no one. We are men who are being abused and who are fighting to be heard and we care. #trans tag

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"On Zionist Feelings"

By Dr. Randa Abdel Fattah, excerpt below

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zionist-feelings/

Last month, Jewish Zionists were “outraged,” “profoundly saddened and disappointed,” and felt their ‘safe space’ threatened and disturbed by three actors in a Sydney Theatre Company stage production who wore Palestinian keffiyehs during curtain-call. Donors withdrew, a petition garnered over 1000 signatures, one performance was canceled, three board members resigned, and the company went into a frenzy of damage control and issued statements of apology about “safe spaces,” “harm,” and “offense.” One board member resigned because there was “no apology from the artists” for a gesture that “traumatized Jewish members of the audience.” Resigning from the company’s philanthropic foundation in protest, another prominent donor Judi Hausmann wrote, “I never imagined my resignation would be necessary because I’m a Jew.” In all these instances, expressions of Zionist fragility expose a calculated, purposeful strategy of insisting on the status of victim when confronted with the material fact of Palestinian existence and the solidarity of others. That the cultural presence of the keffiyeh on stage is enough to trigger Zionists in the audience and Zionist board members reveals how the fragility of Zionist privilege is being challenged at a moment of global awakening and reckoning of the genocidal violence of the colonial settler project. The keffiyeh, as a symbol of anti-colonialism and anti-racism, thus disrupts the Zionist narrative of victimhood and centers Palestinian resistance as a struggle for freedom and self-determination, supported by people across the world in their thousands, in their millions. What is grotesque in the weaponization of Jewish ‘trauma’ over a symbol of cultural significance is the fact that at that very time, the Palestinian death toll from Israeli airstrikes and bombardment had reached over 15,000. It is now over 25,000.

Dr. Randa Abdel Fatter does an amazing interview with Mohammed El Kurd below, but read the article first. Both are quite short, cw for mention of violence.

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queer palestinian and arab content please

I love this, I will admit I am still doing research into queer Palestine, but here are some of the books I have been recommended to pick up so far!

Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa'ed Atshan

Decolonial Queering in Palestine

Walaa Alqaisiya

(Some of the links above are affiliate links, and I will be donating the profits of that)

As for other resources, there is Queering the Map, a project I have been a fan of for a while now.

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oh you're pro palestine? are you normal about black palestinians?

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this is so compelling and heartbreaking and important and i wanted to share it. this is the reality of getting an abortion even with roe v wade in place and it's about to get worse.

#abortion #reproductive rights #USA

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💀 shadows of ourselves 💀

#art

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guys why the fuck aren't we talking about what's happening in the uk right now

nobody outside the uk is talking about this. why is nobody talking about it

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OH NO LMAO I'M NOT ONE OF THE EXPERTS, I'm just one of the many members of the group who are there to learn from the posts

Just so everyone is aware:

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ONLY BUY BOOKS FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES AND AT THIS POINT THAT MEANS ASKING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WHAT BOOKS THEY USE.

Mushrooms are fun, amazing organisms. Enjoy safely.