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i need to pay my $150 phone bill bc it’s currently turned off. I’m also behind on rent.

I’m gonna offer astrological chart readings $20 for 2pages of in-depth info on your focus area of choice.

Let me know if you’re interested and if u could pls reblog n share id greatly appreciate it!! help support ur local disabled black woman get her money right.

paypal: @mulberry1111

cashapp: $emmanuelle14

venmo: mulberry1111

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petsitting with air conditioning for the next five days and i’m trying to get into the mindset that i’m on a writing retreat to bang out the first draft of my thesis. i can do it. i can write

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definitely still a work in progress but my living / dining room is coming along really nicely. none of this furniture was here like a month ago. we need more art on the walls, and lamps, and different dining chairs, but it’s so much nicer and more functional than it was!

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are Palestinian citizens of "Israel" not allowed into bomb shelters based off zionist jewish supremacy, or is it that Palestinian villages haven't been given the funding / infrastructure to build adequate shelters? or both?

I wouldn't put it past Zionists to lock Palestinians out of bomb shelters if they lived among each other. But yes, the main issue facing Palestinian communities in historic Palestine is the discriminatory funding policies, where in fact, 60% of Palestinian communities don't have bomb shelters.

To demonstrate the disparities, take the example of towns with predominantly Jewish populations in Karmiel. These towns have 126 public shelters (one for every 375 residents), whereas in neighbouring "Arab" towns, there are only two public shelters, serving a combined population of approximately 30,000 people (or one shelter for every 15,000 residents.)

Then comes the issue of how Israel classifies land that is inhabited/farmed by Palestinians within historic Palestine. The state of Israel classifies these lands as "open areas", which means that their 200,000 residents (predominantly Bedouin) don't get any bomb shelters, no sirens, and the residents have reported that the iron dome isn't even activated over these areas.

So yes Israel is an apartheid state with disparities such as this, and at least 60 other laws that discriminate against the Palestinian population within it.

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your boyfriend ? i thought you had a wife :((( did yall split ?

anyway i saw this insane pair of pumas in a curated thrift window yesterday and even if they would have fit me—they wouldn’t have— i’m wondering how acceptable it is to buy puma now that they’re no longer sponsoring the israeli football team. like that was a win but what’s the go with former bds targets? even though that wouldn’t really matter here since these were secondhand. and i already have a pair of secondhand pumas i love to wear. thrifting is so much better here than in sydney i never buy anything new any more

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when men walk around holding their girlfriends by the back of the neck i think that’s disgusting. but if my boyfriend does that to me i love it. maybe some of the girls like it too

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35 celsius in montreal let’s go

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Mohammed just told me that his daughter Saba has meningitis and a dangerously high fever! She urgently needs medical attention, but food is becoming increasingly expensive, and Mohammed doesn't have the funds to pay for it.

You can help this child survive by donating via:

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

🍓 $85 / $200 🍓

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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I don't usually mention that I'm an nb lesbian on donation posts but atm, it's relevant. I have to replace groceries as mice have eaten/contaminated much of my food, I have 2 doctors I need to see ASAP (eye insurance renews July 1st & my psych refuses to renew certain meds w/out an appointment), in addition to general med costs, this is very financially strenuous for me.

Med renewal w/ my psych is $210 & the eye dr is typically $235. I anticipate needing about $650 in financial assistance this month. I am extremely grateful & appreciative for all of the help I have received, thank you all so much! ❤️

Venmo also @ cab972

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“We experience the gaze of others as an evil eye not when it wants to penetrate our secrets and make them transparent (such a penetrating gaze is rather flattering and exciting)—but when it denies that we have any secrets, when it reduces us to what it sees and registers.”

— Boris Groys, ‘Art Workers Between Utopia and the Archive’ (via frnchrllo)

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phalaenopsis orchid key by anika smulovitz

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been watching my frown lines come in for years and everyone used to be like “what frown lines!” but i had a really stressful couple of years and now they’re pretty undeniable. i used to get botox about it (what living in sydney will do to you) but now that i’m too broke for that kind of lifestyle i’m learning to appreciate them more. i never get assumed to be a child any more (esp now that i have facial hair too) and i think i actually look sexy. the only thing is i don’t want to come across as angry to people who don’t know me but i think my general kind of affect balances that out. everyone gets freaked out about visibly aging but it’s literally luck of the draw. i just started finasteride yesterday though i won’t pretend i’m not vain lol

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also

• Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell !!!

@fenist asked me to share nine things i'm reading right now... i'm basically only reading for my thesis at the moment, so here are a few texts that are helping me wrap my head around iraqi jewish amulets~

New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin

The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a lost homeland by Claire Isaacs

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements by Ella Shohat

Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion by Joshua Trachtenberg

We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour

Childbirth Ceremonies, Folk Beliefs and Magic Among the Jews of Iraqi Kurdistan and Their Connections with European Jewish Practices by Shalom Sabar

Ritual medical lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick by Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

WHO NEEDS ARAB-JEWISH IDENTITY? FRAGMENTED CONSCIOUSNESS, “INESSENTIAL SOLIDARITY,” AND THE “COMING COMMUNITY” (Parts one and two) by Reuven Snir

Powers of the Hoard: Further Notes on Material Agency by Jane Bennett

:) :) :)

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i wish i was brave enough to ride a bike, i love cycling, but everyone i know who does it here has been hit by a car at some point. and i’m on that international student health insurance so i really can’t afford to get in an accident. oh well