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BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) dir. Richard Linklater

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One of many pieces of information rarely discussed that has stuck with me in studying the Holocaust in a literacy class is that people who survived the death camps often did not survive starvation. It is very difficult for a severely malnourished body to recover from starvation. A severely malnourished body will struggle to process food at all, and many people die in the process of “refeeding.” This is called refeeding syndrome for this reason. Reintroducing food can and often is fatal without careful, medical guidance.

Starvation is one of the most common and effective forms of genocide. What makes it effective is that past a certain point, even if aid has been delivered, it is not enough to save someone from death by starvation. What also makes it effective is that withholding food is viewed as a passive consequence of political turmoil rather than an intentional act of violence among a people. You will see more people die from starvation in genocides across history because it is an effective way to kill many people without the use of state resources.

The starvation of Gaza is intentional. The United States and Israel may gesture that they are delivering or allowing aid into Gaza, but in reality they are active participants in the starvation of Gaza by destroying medical infrastructure, limiting the amount of aid “allowed” in, and blocking aid trucks from entering. Throwing food into Gaza by airdrop at this point in the genocide will not be enough without medical infrastructure to refeed a severely malnourished population. Many will die anyways. Many have already.

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Yu Shi as Ji Fa Creation of the Gods Ⅰ: Kingdom of Storms (2023)

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GERALDINE VISWANATHAN for The Face Magazine

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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so glad I keep this on me at all times. the strength it gives is immeasurable

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so it's lesbian visibility week anddd I've been so wiped by doctors/medication fees I think I might disappear 🙃 going to leave links here in case any of you would like to help out a mentally ill lesbian of colour. thanks, and no pressure

paypal | ko-fi | beem

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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

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"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

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Femme (2023) // dir. Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping

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house & wilson i bet on losing dogs amv

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saw a post talking about a song from 2018 talking about bombings in palestine to highlight how it wasn’t just after october 7 and wanted to plug “words i never said” by lupe fiasco ft skylar grey, a song recorded in 2010 that handed me my whole life in middle school

some lyrics and screenshots from the music video that came out in 2011

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full offence but I do NOT watch movies so I can "turn my brain off" I take this shit so seriously

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no met gala look will ever top cee lo greens powerful sorcerers garb from the grammys that one time