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btw if you find yourself dehumanizing any person or group for any reason you've already lost

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american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

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Every year I put on my clown shoes and do up the makeup, pull out my feelings chart and have to verify if I still the same way as last year, which it turns out YES but there’s always an AND that shows up and honks my clown nose. This year it turns out I might be aplatonic… I’ll add it to the chart.

#aplatonic #aspec #aromantic #asexual #The enlightenment and hubris of ‘actually that explains a lot’ #packing it up for next year’s review #brought to you by some aroace that’s on the website #ramblings

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If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

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“what if a heterosexual cisgender man said he was aro just to get access to the queer community” what if

you just made up a guy to get mad at. i get it you hate alloaros and think theyre weird and are using the word “man” to get everyone to think some outside force is invading your pure lgbt community but like. really. if some mlw aromantic man wants to share his community with me then great whatever i dont care.

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“There’s no platonic explanation for tha-“

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Hey, why did you follow me? Just curious, because it seemed so random😅 ( smiling emoji with sweatdrop)

Hi! I'm pretty sure I was just scrolling thru mobile and my thumb slipped, it happened more times than I like to admit. But it's also a good way to expand my following page, I hope you don't mind :-) (Smiley face)

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By the Kung-Fu Panda 2 DVD case I cannot drive

#I can it's just HARD dude #I almost got into a car accident with my practice driving instructor today #No one got hurt but had to make a huge brake #I feel a little better knowing it wasn't my fault (confirmed by my driving instructor) #But still scared the shit out of me man #ramblings

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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications

(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Lemon Tree (2008)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Omar (2013)

Paradise Now (2005)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Foxtrot (2017)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive

The Village Under the Forest (2013)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

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(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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Why did I have to chose a user handle that looks like it’s spam-bot generated?

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Oh wow it’s just actually broken, is the staff testing out something? If so, why on the live website and not on a trial dupe?

I just turned this off a couple hours ago and now it’s back on my dashboard, again.

Why are you here? What do you want?

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I just turned this off a couple hours ago and now it’s back on my dashboard, again.

Why are you here? What do you want?

#“It’s not a bug it’s a feature’’ um well #it’s bugging me so #jokes aside if this becomes more than a one time occurrence #staff might as well just come clean and say they’re removing the snooze feature #I’d rather the honesty and clarity of being given crap #rather than this PR team vague speak of ‘‘Oh we’re working on that’’ #and not actually doing anything about it

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“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

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If you add a tag to Tumblr's built-in filtering system, it will filter based on the ORIGINAL TAGS OP PUT ON THE POST.

I learned this awesome fact last week that I don't think many people know about. Instead of shaming you for not knowing, like I was shamed, I'm just gonna enthusiastically TELL you!

This is amazing. This means that if a TERF post tagged "terf safe" escapes containment and ends up on your dash, you'll know. Probably none of the reblogs are tagged with anything suspicious, but because the OP tagged it "terf safe", your filter will catch it.

This is also great for folks who need to make sure they avoid potential triggers - I know that when I reblog I'm often lazy and do not tag triggers. I'm a lot more careful when I'm the OP of the post, though, and I bet that applies to most folks.

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I remember how my pops used to say how lazy people were a lot. “Oh don’t be lazy and do this,” “Your brother is being lazy and wont do that,” “These days people are too lazy to do this or that.” And for a long time I had a hard time understanding what he and other people in my life meant by ‘Lazy.’ I put in effort to the things I did, surely I can’t be lazy, so did my brother and surely the other people he’s complaining about also put in the effort, right?

I realized a few years ago that ‘Lazy’ is kind of a lazy word, or at least how my dad used it. When he used Lazy, it was not “oh your brother is being lazy and refusing to do his homework because he doesn’t feel like it.” it was “your brother is refusing to do his homework and I don’t know why he won’t do his homework so I’ll just say he’s being Lazy and leave it at that.” (He wasn’t doing his homework because he was struggling with executive dysfunction)

I love my pops, I thinks he’s a compassionate person and a good parent; so I told him this. And he stopped using Lazy ever since, haven’t heard a peep. The people you may love or care about are fallible, and if they respect you they’ll listen what you have to say.

#ramblings #don’t mean to be preachy and say there’s a moral here #just reflecting on the past and this came to me #reminds me of the small deeds of the world

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Lieutenant Gov. Sylvia Luke cautions that it will take the island, and its people, a long time to recover. "A lot of individuals will have mental health issues that they're suffering. They have never been in a situation where they just overnight lost the businesses that they invested in," she says. "It's going to take years, sometimes maybe decades, for us to replace some of the infrastructure, including schools and roads."  Officials say some 14,000 residents remain without power as crews work to contain the blazes. Luke said internet and cell phone service are down on parts of the island, making it hard for people to check in with their loved ones or call for help. And while the Big Island and Maui County have shelters, she says they are crowded with evacuees and have also been forced to close down and reopen in new locations to avoid the fire's path. The historic town of Lahaina — a popular tourist destination and economic hub — has been especially hard-hit. Luke got a glimpse of the destroyed homes and businesses firsthand while taking a Coast Guard flight over the area. "It just looked like the whole town went ... into ashes," she said. "And we're so heartbroken to see this happen before our eyes." Former President Barack Obama, who grew up in Honolulu, wrote on X that "it's tough to see some of the images coming out of Hawai'i — a place that's so special to so many of us." He encouraged people to donate to the Hawai'i Community Foundation's "Maui Strong" fund: