Between Paramount’s endorsement of Israel and the fat jokes from the Cinemacon trailer, the Keanu casting is just another nail in the coffin for this movie.
There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.
Don't pay a single cent to Tumblr, its merch, or the checkmarks. 4 blogs erased in about 48 hours, fuelled by transmisogyny. If you want to read more about it, look up the usernames of the blogs involved and scroll through the posts. There's no shortage of explanations or perspectives from the transfems on tumblr. And tbh I'm worried that more will be deleted for speaking out.
Imagine if this site just had proper tools to deal with harassment? This whole situation could have been avoided. Avery was pushed into desperation, we all watched her get no help from Tumblr after everything she had to endure. There has to be some leniency under which someone is allowed to express frustration with the people in charge for doing a poor job with protecting their userbase.
If Tumblr really wanted to make me take the point of "death threats are never okay" seriously, then there should have been effective and immediate tools for EVERYONE on the site to deal with death threats. Many of my friends on this site have had to suffer way worse things than being told "I hope you die". Tumblr just doesn't care enough to protect us. We aren't a protected class like staff is.
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.