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I have nothing left.

My home was bombed before my eyes. I ran barefoot, holding my daughter, as smoke filled the air…

Now, we live in a tent. My husband is injured, I’m pregnant, and I have nothing to feed my daughter.

Every day begins with fear and ends with hunger.

I once dreamed of a warm home, a simple life, safety for my child…

But everything is gone. Our lives have become a fight to survive.

If my words reach you, please don’t scroll past in silence.

Share this. Help us. Be a small light in this overwhelming darkness.

I’ve been vetted by @gazavetters, and my number on the verified list is #665 ✅️

This means my case has been checked and confirmed as real. Thank you for trusting and supporting us 🙏

Here’s the donation link:

From the depths of my broken heart… thank you to everyone who shares, prays, or helps in any way 💔

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I don't even think this should be a "rent-lowering gunshots" type of post, but here we are: "transandrophobia" plain-out does not exist. The word "transmisogyny" was coined to discuss the intersection between transphobia and misogyny, and "androphobia" or "misandry" do not fuckin exist as structural forces in the slightest. Men are not punished for Being Men, and trans men are men, plain and simple. The word you're looking for is transphobia, please just block me if you disagree with very literally any of this. K bye

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"black people are seen as hyper-masculine and face a lot of violence for it, so yes you can be oppressed for seeming or being masculine"

AHT!! lets talk! black people are not actually hyper-masculine. hyper-masculinity is a projection by people trying to justify anti-black fear and violence. it is not a true and then demonised observation about black existence. the hyperfocus on the masculinity of black people is itself racism!

when you call this issue of racism anti-masculinity or misandry or whatever, you are obfuscating the bigotry at play. ESPECIALLY given that it is overwhelmingly just white women's fear about black people's supposed hyper-masculinity that actually gets listened to & acted upon.

in addition, there are other addendums people tack onto their anti-blackness that completely cause this logic to fall apart when applied. Namely, adultification! black people, black children get adultified by white society.

We are assumed to be older & more independent, and thus less in need of the safety, care, sensitivity, accommodation one would give to a child, and this results in violence and neglect. it is directly observable in the way black children are more likely to get detention, suspended or expelled for the same behaviour as their white peers, s/a rates for black youth, and the arguments that 40 y/o cops give for brutalising & murdering black 20, 16, 12, 8 year olds who so much as breathe in their line of sight.

Given this then, following the misandry logic, we can say being recognised as older or as an adult is a form of oppression.

"black people are seen as older/more mature and face a lot of violence for it, so yes, you can be oppressed for seeming like or being an adult"

we can for the sake of this post name this oppression adultery.

i kid. but do you see the problem. being recognised as an adult is obviously, not itself a form of oppression, in fact quite the opposite, being recognised as adult can grant you a lot of privileges that children do not have.

and black kids are evidently, not adults or people who act like adults. they dont mature faster. black 18 y/os will also face the problem of adultification to justify violence against them. black maturity is not a true and then demonised observation about black existence. the form of oppression is racism, and adultification is the deployed means of enacting racism.

the means of combatting the adultification of black people would not come in creating adult positivity or "advocating" for adults or telling children not to fear adults. it comes in the form of learning about anti-blackness, unlearning anti-blackness, and actually directly combatting anti-blackness.

similarly the means of combatting the hyper-masculinisation of black people comes in the form of learning about anti-blackness, unlearning anti-blackness, and actually directly combatting anti-blackness.

Racism explains both of this phenomena far better than "misandry" ever could.

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Trans girls, in my experience, have largely lived an existence in which for the vast majority of our lives, we've never been anybody's first choice romantically. That's if we're chosen at all.

Second choice? Yeah. Back up plan? Happens. Fetishized? Always.

But never just chosen. Never just pursued. Never loved quite as much as we need. Never the object of obsession. Never the focus of passion.

Every love feels like it's one better option disappearing like a vapor in the wind.

So I say all that to say, if you're romantically inclined, and you love a trans girl. Choose her. Really choose her. Choose her in every moment. Make her feel like she's the only one that matters and do it every day, because it's possible, likely even, that she's never felt that before.

Really choose her, or you will break her heart.

If you're not willing to do that, leave her the fuck alone.

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copying and pasting this over to here. don’t use wplace anymore. stop using this shit.

please reblog.

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Reblog to cast heal on prev

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The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

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Can I ask some questions to you just simply out of curiosity (as respectable as possible) even though it may have been discussed previously in your blogs?

Depending what they are, sure.

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I just published my first Cento poetry compilation, Weaving the Stories: Poetry as Spellcasting Arrangements.

This compilation is a roughly 30 page series of Cento arrangements crafted from the book Poetry as Spellcasting, which was edited by Lisbeth White, Destiny Hemphill, and Tamiko Beyer. This is being published with their consent, entirely free and attributed to each respective author.

If you could read and share it, I’d be deeply grateful. The work is rooted in Black Transfeminism/Transfeminist Womanism, and is written with Black trans women in mind, although it has value for everyone - especially trans women.

Come become spellbound and help find yourself. 💖

Art by @skelejor

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Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

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while you are here, please consider donating to nader's family!! the fundraiser is verified

donate here

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Anas’ last message to the world

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transandrophobia theory is just a worse version of oppositional sexism at best

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do you enjoy eating tinned fish as a snack? maybe you just want to try it and also get a cute, handmade snackplate out of it?

tinned fish enjoyer day with mei is holding a raffle for this tinned fish themed bundle. one ticket entry is one ten dollar donation to a mutual aid kitchen serving the families of gaza.

you can enter here for a chance to win this cute little collection of goodies while simultaneously providing meals to palestine.

if you arent interested in this particular raffle, you can still donate to this kitchen through the information here on instagram!

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"The bottom line isn't how Israel treats queer people... it would still be a country that's committing genocide and killing 100,000 Palestinians... It is important to point out that this [pinkwashing] is also a lie and propaganda, but the bottom line is that it doesn't matter. There is no amount of 'progressivism' a country can achieve that could permit it to commit genocide and mass starvation. [...]

The bottom line of my refusal [to join the Israeli military] is that no aid, no resources, no cooperation should be given to a state that's committing genocide. And of course, that's not to say that before October 7th, Israel was a 'moral' state that was 'suddenly corrupted.' Obviously it's a state that's upholding an apartheid system that's been committing ethnic cleansing for 77 years. But the reality as it exists today makes the question of what is to be done very simple: We need to employ every tool that we have to withhold as much help as we can from [Israel] to continue advancing its goals.

For me, it's withholding myself as a resource for the continuation of genocide. For people living abroad, it's putting pressure on governments, institutions, businesses, to cut all ties and aid with the state of Israel, and to take matters into their own hands and block the flow of weapons into the state of Israel... What I'd encourage everyone to do is to find a group that wants to exert as much pressure as possible, and organize with them, and do it, because that's what needs to be done."

- Yona Roseman, "The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the IDF" | matt bernstein

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Journal of Palestine Studies- From the Editor

A very well written article from Sherene Seikaly about the current state of Gaza.

This journal is also an excellent resource. I am more than willing to download PDFs of any article for anyone just dm me. If you go to a university in the US, you also might already have access.