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IMPORTANT!! FUNDS NEEDED TODAY TO SAVE A BABY!!

I'm sorry I need to ask people for help. I'm crying. I don't know what to do. Raneen and Ahmed, @life-22, are my friends. They live in Gaza. Their baby Mohammed has cancer; we urgently need $900 before the end of the week to pay for his life-saving surgeries. Please donate to help the baby live!!

Their account is vetted by @90-ghost , @gazavetters (#576) , and @bilal-salah0. Gofundme takes too long, you can dm @life-22 if you want to confirm that paypal goes to them. Please help.

When you donate, please don't mention Raneen or Ahmed Hammad in the paypal message. PayPal is racially profiling and it is retaining all money that accompanies those names. PLEASE HELP MY FRIENDS SURVIVE THIS INJUSTICE!!

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disabled people are worth the extra effort it takes to accommodate them. it's worth going the longer route together that's wheelchair accessible. it's worth the time and effort to research places to eat that work with specific allergies or food intolerances. and it's worth the price if those places or that food is more expensive. it's worth going further to buy something gluten-free or nut free or dairy free for your party or get together. it's worth adding extra travel time, or planning an overnight stay instead of a day trip. it's worth learning how to administer medication for people who need it. it's worth learning how to call ahead to check if somewhere is accessible. it's worth the whole friend group going to the film screening with captions even if only 1 person needs it. disability often means having to do more work, more planning, take up more space, more money, more time. it's false to say it's as easy as having an abled companion, but that effort is worth taking. it's not wasted because it's all spent in favour of a disabled person, and that's always worthwhile

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disabled people are worth the extra effort it takes to accommodate them. it's worth going the longer route together that's wheelchair accessible. it's worth the time and effort to research places to eat that work with specific allergies or food intolerances. and it's worth the price if those places or that food is more expensive. it's worth going further to buy something gluten-free or nut free or dairy free for your party or get together. it's worth adding extra travel time, or planning an overnight stay instead of a day trip. it's worth learning how to administer medication for people who need it. it's worth learning how to call ahead to check if somewhere is accessible. it's worth the whole friend group going to the film screening with captions even if only 1 person needs it. disability often means having to do more work, more planning, take up more space, more money, more time. it's false to say it's as easy as having an abled companion, but that effort is worth taking. it's not wasted because it's all spent in favour of a disabled person, and that's always worthwhile

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Sinners is an excellent horror film for many reasons, but to me the most central is that it is horror with something interesting to say and ask. The film explores the ways in which colonialism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism impact how people form relationships, build community, create art, practice spirituality, connect to history, and value other people. It also has something interesting to ask about what it means to be someone who is part of a population that is considered ontologically always dying and already dead.

As you consider these themes, I would like to ask you to extend your thoughts to Fadel. Like the fictional protagonist Sammie, Fadel is a talented, kind, young adult who has dreams for his life and enduring love for his family and community.

He is a disabled and injured Palestinian in Gaza, part of a population who much of the world reduces to their suffering and deaths, as if their early death is an inevitability. It is not. It is preventable.

He is alive right now. You can message him, check in on him, extend your love and care to him ( @fadel-dani ). He needs some money to get to a hospital resourced enough to treat his injuries after a bombing. I know you can empathize with being in pain, with health care being inaccessible and stunningly expensive. You have common humanity with him. You understand him.

Fadel is not a story. His future is not fated or scripted or set in stone. The way his life unfolds is entirely dependent on the social systems around him and the decisions of people who have resources, especially people like us who are not in active genocide, who get pay checks every couple weeks or every month.

Your decisions matter. Please help him out.

His campaign is vetted by: @gazavetters list (#197) and @90-ghost and @a-shade-of-blue

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I absolutely adore how ATLA deals with disabilities.

I know we all love to talk about how great of a disability rep Toph is, but we should really be talking more about Teo (the boy in a wheelchair the gaang meets in the Northern Air Temple)

Teo, just like Toph, has his disability be both something that hinders him in some way, but also something that gives him an advantage/ different view on some points - in Teo's case, him being the only one with "an airbender spirit".

But there's something that Teo has that Toph doesn't, and that is a properly supportive father.

Teo has a dad who went above and beyond to give him not a "cure", but accommodations, which was what he truly needed. There's nothing wrong with the fact that he can't walk, nothing to be "cured". No one even brings up the possibility of him walking again, no one asks about it because it was not relevant at all. He is disabled and has proper accommodations and a great support system, and a very good life!

Teo is such an amazing disability rep because the fact that he needs mobility aids is not viewed as an inconvenience or a bother - his dad, and literally everyone around him, are more than willing to accommodate his needs, it's not even a question. And that's how it should be for every disability, in and out of fiction.

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Ok gotta talk about it.

As a Jewish historian, I fucking hate Israel in ways most probably will never be able to comprehend. I'm going to try and explain it anyways. The central creation myth of Israel is that it is Jewish, and then consequently, that Israel is a part of Jewishness. Its easy to simply state this is false, but fully comprehending this and putting it into practice in thought and deed seems rare to me.

The evil at the heart of this violence predates the recent acceleration of genocide. Israel is a colony, and more than that, an antisemitic fraud itself. After WW2, when Israel was being founded, the Jews of Europe generally did not wave goodbye to their neighbors and head to the promised land. Many were expelled from their homes. Zionism itself, as an action, was a false choice at the time. A mere excuse to place an ally in the middle east, and an excuse to complete the expulsion and destruction of the European Jew. The Zionist Jew is more than complicit in this, they actively seek the destruction and assimilation of all other Jews.

Many fail to realize, and largely because of Israel, that Jews are not inherently white, Ashkenazi, European-descended people. Our faith and culture has an immense variety that is spread all across the globe. Jewishness, in population and volume of culture, exists more so outside of Israel than within it. Israel is for a very specific kind of Jew. The kind that lets Yiddish die, that attaches themselves to European things, that makes themselves and their practices as white as possible.

And they have the nerve, the fucking belligerent GALL, to frame themselves as the necessary saviors of our people. To the Zionist, questioning Israel is to question Jewishness itself. They bake adoration for the colonial machine into their very prayers, and push them on us even as children. To *not* oppress, to *not* kill, to *not* genocide, is to invite death. This is the core of fascistic thought, of course. "Kill them before they kill us." And they KNOW this too, they really do. The truth of that irony does not matter, because as is true for all fascists, the truth itself does not matter to them. They wanted this, they wanted this even before the British saw it in their best interest to give them the land. Any excuse to RETVRN, as the neo-nazis say of Rome, or the German Empire, or whatever the fuck stupid country they want to poorly animate the corpse of. Some select Zionists even *sided with the fucking Nazis* in agreement they should abandon Europe to colonize Palestine. (Haavara Agreement)

My people have proved time and time and time again you don't need a nation state to have an enduring culture. We have protected ourselves for thousands of years without the help of these spiteful, doom-saying maniacs. I was going to post something like this on Passover, but that would be hypocritical. The state of Israel doesn't actually have shit to do with Jewishness. Hear Israel (the state and supporters, Israel the icon) I should outlive it long enough to bury it. (old yiddish curse)

Free Palestine. Donate what you can, they need it right now.

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I don't understand how people are becoming tired of genocide. I barely see anyone talk about Palestine anymore and so many people have stopped even boycotting when right now is when Palestinians need the most support. It's always been getting worse. No food has entered Gaza in over 70 days and the price to get even one can of food is incredibly high. @iyadsgaza and his family consist of 10 people, several of whom are children and Iyad and his wife are elderly.

They need food. Please consider donating and please share this post. Their last donation was 5 days ago.

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I don't understand how people are becoming tired of genocide. I barely see anyone talk about Palestine anymore and so many people have stopped even boycotting when right now is when Palestinians need the most support. It's always been getting worse. No food has entered Gaza in over 70 days and the price to get even one can of food is incredibly high. @iyadsgaza and his family consist of 10 people, several of whom are children and Iyad and his wife are elderly.

They need food. Please consider donating and please share this post. Their last donation was 5 days ago.

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I don't understand how people are becoming tired of genocide. I barely see anyone talk about Palestine anymore and so many people have stopped even boycotting when right now is when Palestinians need the most support. It's always been getting worse. No food has entered Gaza in over 70 days and the price to get even one can of food is incredibly high. @iyadsgaza and his family consist of 10 people, several of whom are children and Iyad and his wife are elderly.

They need food. Please consider donating and please share this post. Their last donation was 5 days ago.

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Hello, if you have humanity please share and donate to this fundraiser!!!!

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If Not For You

If not for you I don’t think I could bear believe in better worlds and I know that you don’t but in your eyes I still see revolutions thousandfold and not just revolutions of the sort where some go grab their weapons and overthrow a government but also of the kind where you so quietly start questioning the ways they taught you you are worthless or that we work to earn a living that difference is to be lesser and that indifference should be how we perceive each other that empathy is worthless and we are so estranged from one another

Its in your gentle caring acts and in your words of affirmation that I see better worlds unfold and I said to you, oh my lover dearest, I love you just the same, I said to you that we are building spaces thimble sized which, free from exploitation shall exist and like the crop of mushroom in the forest soil a single dot is what springs forth after the season’s rain and its not before long that all the ground is dotted with fruits most beautiful, decay made manifest, a metaphor

If not for you I don’t think I could bear believe in better worlds and I know that you don’t but I hope one day you will too

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space patch designs, for the feral astronauts within us 🪐

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space patch designs, for the feral astronauts within us 🪐

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Blessing Prayer for the Unknown Saints

Blessed be the indignant and those who fight for rights so easily bereft 

and twice blessed be their aim

and Older Gods I call to bless the bottles, handbags, rocks and bricks 

cause words alone won’t save us nor protect our fragile bones but blessed be our nail-clad bats and sticks

and with lined lips and war paint bracing artificial eyes that would identify each and every one of us 

and masks and balaclavas, our mouths speak fire but contain the spread of counter-solidarity 

and blessed be the merry and the meek, who know they’re weak and few who still can’t help but seek a fight and also those who tear them down, those unjust brazen bastions of their bigotry and cruel-crushing might and blessed be those who join not on these front lines but many miles behind them

blessed be the lovers, community and friends

blessed be thy aid most mutual, and all the gifts that we exchange

cause with no fuel and with no food for hearts and minds and bodies there’d be no wall of shields

and there would be no arms left to hold on to one another

and with no hands to hold and no more stew to give

the movement would just die

so blessed be the cooks and blessed be our artistkind

and blessed be providers, and those who care beyond what they can give

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Blessing Prayer for the Unknown Saints

Blessed be the indignant and those who fight for rights so easily bereft 

and twice blessed be their aim

and Older Gods I call to bless the bottles, handbags, rocks and bricks 

cause words alone won’t save us nor protect our fragile bones but blessed be our nail-clad bats and sticks

and with lined lips and war paint bracing artificial eyes that would identify each and every one of us 

and masks and balaclavas, our mouths speak fire but contain the spread of counter-solidarity 

and blessed be the merry and the meek, who know they’re weak and few who still can’t help but seek a fight and also those who tear them down, those unjust brazen bastions of their bigotry and cruel-crushing might and blessed be those who join not on these front lines but many miles behind them

blessed be the lovers, community and friends

blessed be thy aid most mutual, and all the gifts that we exchange

cause with no fuel and with no food for hearts and minds and bodies there’d be no wall of shields

and there would be no arms left to hold on to one another

and with no hands to hold and no more stew to give

the movement would just die

so blessed be the cooks and blessed be our artistkind

and blessed be providers, and those who care beyond what they can give

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N.O. Bonzo

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N.O. Bonzo