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i asked my mum if i could buy myself a $150 colonial mens wig for christmas and she looked me dead in the eye and asked “cant you just do drugs or something?”

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reblog for easter

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alright so Pangur got her claw stuck while rolling over in bed, and then just GAVE UP, which led to her being horizontally flattened in a way that gives her impossible girth and...... I'll share, but just know that it's an optical illusion. please. I swear to god she's a healthy weight. I mean, a little chubby, but not like this.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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(“sailor song” by gigi perez starts playing)

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Go report Tumblr.com for discrimination to the NYC Commission on Human Rights: https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/about/report-discrimination.page

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everyday i see clueless westerners (especially white people) reblog thinly veiled hindutva propaganda which they wouldn't know cause they know absolutely nothing about what goes on in india. so here are some signs that that the tumblr user you're interacting with is a hindu nationalist:

they either do not acknowledge casteism or claim that caste is a western construct. my personal favourite however is dismissing anyone bringing up caste discrimination by saying that the indian constitution outlaws untouchability. they may also bring up the fact that the prime minister belongs to an other backwards class (obc) so clearly india has moved on from caste and hindutva isn't only for the upper castes. they possess a shallow understanding of caste

harping on about "islamic colonisation" : no, the mughals did not colonise india. when you point this out, they will immediately assume that you think muslim invaders were innocent beings who did nothing wrong, which is very much not what anyone is claiming here

while we're on the topic of "islamic colonisation" they will also refer to the demolishing of muslim sites of heritage and worship and then building hindu temples over them as "decolonisation" (cough cough ram mandir) the hindu right also goes around pretending that they're indigenous to india. this is false

along a similar vein, they will dismiss islamaphobia by bringing up instances of hindu oppression in countries like pakistan and bangladesh. it is true that hindus are persecuted in these two countries, however they are used to fuel their oppression complex, that their upper caste hindu self is under attack in india of all places (think a white christian in the united states). you should be in solidarity with minorities everywhere. it is neither transactional or conditional (note: they will never bring up sri lanka. persecution of hindus exists only when the oppressors are muslim)

claiming that hindu nationalism and hindutva are not the same because hindutva means "hindu-ness". that is only the literal translation of the term. like it or not, they're the same thing

they support the indian military occupation of kashmir. they will call it an integral part of kashmir, one reason which will be "hinduism is indigenous to kashmir." they will also bring up the last maharaja of kashmir signing the instrument of accession as further proof, as if the consent of the people was taken

they're zionists. do i even need to explain this. hindutva is just zionism for hindus

they refer to buddhism and jainism (sikhism too sometimes) as branches of hinduism rather than separate, distinct religions

they condemn any resistance to the indian govt as a burden or terrorism) (like calling the farmers who are currently protesting a hindrance or terrorists. funny how sikhs are the same as hindus when they support hindu causes but terrorists when they resist oppression...)

they call you a pseudo liberal or a fake leftist. i'm telling you, they don't know jackshit. they can't even tell the difference between a liberal and a leftist and call US unread lmao. bonus points if they call you a liberandu or a sickularist 💀

they call india "bharat" when they talk in english. there are in fact multiple indian languages call india bharat or bharatam, but if they say bharat while talking in english, that is absolutely a hindu nationalist no questions asked

please do your due diligence. read up on hindutva. hindu nationalists have already started making gains in the united states, thanks to rich upper caste nris . do not fall for propaganda

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Video by Diné creator @WitchyTwitchy on Instagram.

Video transcript:

Did you know that Native Americans were directly mentioned by one of the founding fathers of zionism? In his 1923 essay* The Iron Wall, Ze'ev Jabotinsky argued that the only way to successfully colonize Palestine was through brute military force. He referenced what happened to indigenous people here in the americas as an example. He writes, “my readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries.

“The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage. And it made no difference whatever whether the colonists behaved decently or not.

“the Pilgrim Fathers, the first real pioneers of North America, were people of the highest morality, who did not want to do harm to anyone, least of all to the Red Indians, and they honestly believed that there was room enough in the prairies both for the Paleface and the Redskin. Yet the native population fought with the same ferocity against the good colonists as against the bad.

“This is equality true of the arabs.

“We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico , and their Sioux for their rolling Prairies.”

The one thing I wanna point out is that in 1923, one of the founding fathers of zionism is labeling himself and the project of Israel as colonizers. He is referring to Palestinians as the natives of the area, comparing them to the indigenous people of the Americas. He also is glorifying the pilgrim fathers of the Americas, painting them as absolute saints and basically applauding how effectively they were able to slaughter and murder us and steal our land. So I genuinely want to know how is a movement going to go from applauding and fawning over our murderers to suddenly wanting to steal our identities and claim indigeneity to the area in order to more effectively carry out the same levels of violence and genocide that happened here. Unfortunately for them Palestinians and Native Americans are similar in many ways, including our resilience and our fighting spirit. Despite every genocidal act that the ‘wholesome’ pilgrim fathers committed over the past 500 years; natives are still here, our languages are still here, our cultures are still here, we still have our identity and if we can survive that long of fierce brutal colonisation, I know that Palestinians will do the same. I highly encourage all of you to look up the essay The Iron Wall, thoroughly read it so you can fully understand how deep this history goes and you can see the parallels for what they truly are: blatantly obvious. And to my fellow natives on here, educate yourself on this so that you can educate your family, your friends, your tribal leadership. We need to boldly and loudly push back against this weaponization and bastardization of what it means to be indigenous, especially with the opening of the “indigenous embassy” in Jerusalem on February 4th. The embassy’s goal is to quote “change anti-israel narrative among native peoples.” They’re realizing that indigenous solidarity with Palestine worldwide is becoming a problem, and they’re trying so hard to undermine that. Do not let them appeal to and use our own people in order to do that because as Ze'ev Jabotinsky himself said, the Palestinian struggle and the Native American struggle are parallel and intertwined. And it doesn’t matter how many embassies are opened, how many bribes are given, how much propaganda is spewed. You can not erase that bond between Palestinians and indigenous people.

Transcript end.

*the essay mentioned, the Iron Wall by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, can be read here or here provided by the Jabotinsky Institute and the Jewish Virtual Library respectively. More on this essay can be found on the essay’s Wikipedia page. The transcribed excerpts were copied directly from the essay.

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watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

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[Image description: a tweet by Twitter user “Kai Heron” (@KaiHeron) that says: "Strengthen Indigenous land rights because they're good stewards of nature" has become a refrain among Western environmentalists. Land Back is vital for Indigenous self-determination and liberation, not because Indigenous peoples do the West a service by conserving nature. /end ID]

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God I'm really glad to see so many people being fed up with this sites bullshit but I need all of you to understand that what happened to Avery has its origins in the callout posts many of yall have been spreading for years. Like not in some abstract way I mean I can trace the direct origins of these escalating waves of harassment against her to a callout post from just over 2 years ago that she and I and many others were tagged in demanding we condemn some random transfem for the crime of being kinky

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Also like this can't be explained away by "it's hard to moderate so many blogs"

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Like it's pretty obvious who's welcome here and who's not. An actual hate group is more welcome than the victims of their harassment.

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funny to see the yt queer girlies talkin bout how staff nuked a yt trans woman's blog from orbit but they stay absolutely dead silent on how many of us queer BIPOC have gotten nuked for talkin about Palestine and indigenous liberation they're even more silent when it comes to the pandemic killing us too but then they were the loudest about the "need" for returning to in person, unmasked life "for mental health" reasons and how it's bad and wrong to require masks and center the most vulnerable cause then the vibes are whack and that's the biggest sin for the yts yt queers are yt first and last and they'll care about other issues so long as it doesn't get in the way of being yt I see y'all's racist, eugenicist, fascist asses. your ableism and fairweather "allyship" always shows y'all's true colors. y'all truly only care about yourselves. ytness and yt communities are death cults.

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what can tme people like myself do to make trans women/tma people feel safer? watching all of these trans women be targeted by staff itself, ESPECIALLY in predestrogen's case, is so sickening. what is trans solidarity if it doesnt include trans women and their happiness and safety?

speak out. tell your friends. raise a huge fucking stink about this. reblog tumblr's ceo referring to a very not it/its trans woman as "it", threatening to sic the fucking FBI on her, deleting her account four times, ignoring her harassment. me and my friends are only so big, this needs to be a fucking SCANDAL. if strangeaeons isnt making a video about it by april we've failed.

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"banned for sexual content and threats of violence". if you saw even half the sexual content your advertisers push on us, or a fraction of the harassment on this website from people who want us dead, you'd fucking wish a car made of exploding hammers would come your way.