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♎ October 21st: Azúcar Negra, Celia Cruz.

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like idk maybe this is just me but i'd genuinely rather throw my loose change into something that could possibly be but is very unlikely to be a scam and just be like "oh well" if it does actually turn out to be a scam than try to denounce every single palaestinian that just wants to live in safety. tripling down on that behaviour is just fucking embarrassing. "it's not racist to be skeptical of donations asks" that's true but saying that a group of brown people are all hustlers running a mass scam ring is undoubtedly extremely racist you fucking clowns.

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pls help a disabled trans romani native + afronative couple survive until the 15th

URGENT: we are now in the path of tropical storm debby ‼️ heavy inland flooding is expected & our area is prone to flooding. it’s very likely that many roads will be inaccessible. we NEED to stock up on food & essentials by tomorrow afternoon.

additionally, we are still in need of funds for bills and food throughout next week until my beloved @divinemission gets his next paycheck on the 15th. the most important one is on saturday, which is an insurance bill for $140. we haven’t received any d0n4tions since my last update on our previous post. anything helps at this point. for more info on our situation, see our last post. his p4yp4l will be linked below. please share this if you can’t donate, we appreciate it 🫶🏼

link to p4yp4l

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I've been messaging back and forth with @mohammedalanqer after he shared his fundraiser with me, and very quickly into our conversation I offered to draw a comic about him to help boost his gofundme. he was incredibly excited about the idea and shared so many lovely pictures of his family for reference. the text is based off his story of him and his family living under constant bombardment, which you can read here.

he has been able to raise €50,403 out of €58,000, meaning he only has €7,592 left to be able to evacuate. please share this comic as much as possible so that he can reach his goal!

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Help a Palestinian college student rebuild his home!

As you know, I and my mutuals frequently post about Siraj @/siraj2024, who is trying to rebuild his home in Gaza. We stress that rebuilding in Gaza and resisting ethnic cleansing is just as important as evacuating to safety. One of the things we are all fighting for is for Palestinians to have the right to return to their homes. With that, I have another campaign I'd like to bring to your attention.

Mahmoud Hamam (@ma7moudgaza2) is a web designer and college student. He and his family have been displaced by the IOF several times and now live in a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis. He cannot stay there much longer.

Here's what studying is like for him now:

Due to the recent massacres there, he has been unable to come online. He also had his previous account terminated by Tumblr, in an act of genocidal censorship. This is why we must help him.

He is only at $2,238 of $25,000, and he has been campaigning for a month as of right now. He has a long way to go but I beliveve it is possible to get him to his goal soon! We have seen people raise this amount in record time, I really do believe in all of us.

Despite all he has endured, he has not given up hope. Lets help him rebuild.

I am Mahmoud Hamam from Gaza, in the midst of destruction and bombing. I am writing to you that our morale is still high and that determination is present. After all the harsh circumstances we have been through, horrific events, but they will not destroy us, but rather they will make us stronger..

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[link to his portfolio!]

[recent post by him with artwork you can repost on instagram for more reach]

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‼️Please don’t skip taking a look 🍉🇵🇸

Hi, my name is Naomi, and I’m from Texas. I’m organizing this fundraiser on behalf of my friend, Ahmed Abu Al-Rish, who is in Gaza. This fundraiser is meant to help him and his family escape the genocide.

“Hello, my name is Ahmed, 19 years old from Gaza. I finished high school with a high average and a very good grade, and because of the genocide war on Gaza, I was deprived of enrolling in university. I had dreams and ambitions to study photographic design, but I was deprived of all of that because of the genocide war on Gaza. I was living the best days of my youth. But with the beginning of this war, I became unable to live my normal life. At least our warm house sheltered me and my family until it was bombed for the first time, that damned night. Our house has become like a ghost town. We continued to seek refuge from death there until we were besieged and displaced from our safety under fire to a tent (shelter) in the bitter cold of winter, with the lack of basic necessities of life (water pollution, high cost of living, disease, insect infestation,

‏malnutrition,

‏Difficulty of movement, overcrowding), and many other daily difficulties, especially with the significant increase in prices. This was not the first time we had to be displaced. We moved again from a tent in Rafah to another tent in Khan Yunis. I then returned to our destroyed home to repair what we could to find shelter for my family, despite not having all the basic necessities of life (destroyed sanitation infrastructure and water lines, destroying any form of life). Please help me achieve my dream of completing my academic career at university and for my family to survive this genocide and escape to a safe place. And travel ❤️❤️”

Here’s the link: https://gofund.me/c4472150

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Ok I'm gonna put it as plainly as possible.

DONATE TO BILAL'S FUNDRAISER AND HELP HIM SAVE HIS FAMILY

I have shared multiple posts about his situation before, but donations have once again begun to stagnate despite the urgency of the deadline that has been imposed upon Bilal- with the decision on his deportation from germany coming on august 15th, i.e WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK.

If you don't know who he is, Bilal ( @bilal-salah0 ) is a 22 year old who moved to germany for work before the genocide began, and has been raising funds to evacuate his family of 18 from gaza since, including 5 children and 3 newborns.

Bilal's financial support has been getting them through this difficult time, as prices for basic amenities like food and water skyrocket, and necessities like diapers for the babies become scarce due to the blockade. He recently had to increase his goal to account for his familys living expenses till the border opens, and to cover the cut for international money transfer.

Currently he has raised only €75k / €100k

He needs to raise the remaining 25k within THIS WEEK

While he is working hard with the help of some people he connected with on tumblr to at least stall the decision on his deportation, if the verdict isnt in his favour he will be declared stateless and forced to seek asylum in belgium.

With the decision looming over him, he doesn't know what might happen happen to himself, OR his family (who have been wholly dependent on him for funds this whole time) if he isnt able to raise the money within this week. Because of the precarity of his situation in Germany at the moment, he hasnt been able to pay attention to fundraising as much as he needs to.

Against the backdrop of the islamophobic and anti-arab violence in europe against immigrants and asylum seekers today, i cant tell you how much his situation frightens me. While it has been well known for a some time now that the wealthy and comfortable portion of the world has been making efforts to turn away the underprivileged victims of their imperialism from their borders, the recent riots in the UK have proven just how hostile the world is becoming to their very existence.

The smear campaigns against palestinians, led by several users in the imperial core, that are still ongoing on this site are not an aberration- it is just another manifestation of the same problem, and i hope you realise how imperative it is that we do NOT allow this to become the norm.

That's why i need you all to take this seriously, to share his campaign as much as possible and donate ANY amount you can. I don't know what we can do about his deportation and the legal proceedings around it, but taking this burden off his shoulders is the LEAST we can do, especially if you live in the west.

Bilal's gfm appears #136 on hussein and nairuz's list of vetted fundraisers so please dont hesitate to donate. In fact, i will need you to take it a step farther and share it in you discord servers and whatsapp groups, or any other social media where you may have reach because this CANNOT WAIT.

Bilal and his family need your help, and they cannot afford to have ANY of you look away at such a crucial moment.

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hello everyone! @siraj2024 and his family are in desperate need of help right now. they've been forced to relocate SIX TIMES in the past few months due to massacres and bombings by the IOF. siraj’s 3 children have been robbed of their childhoods by this violence and injustice, and they are living in a tent and lacking basic necessities.

siraj has set a shorter term goal of 10k so he and his family can relocate once again to a safer location, which isn't cheap. they are currently at 7,274 CAD out of 10k. if you donate in currencies that are worth more than CAD (like USD and EUR) even small amounts will go a long way!

they have only received 4 donations in the past 7 hours. i know we can help more! thank you for hearing out siraj's story!

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IMPORTANT: Help Zeina Get to 25k!

Hi all, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the campaign so that we were able to raise funds for Malik's evacuation! I would like to share with you pictures of some pastries Zeina, Muhammad's 16 year old daughter, has made last year before the invasion.

Shaima and Muhammad's family was personally added to the vetted gfm spreadsheet by @el-shab-hussein as family number 260 a week ago, so please don't hesitate to donate!!

Wafaa (@wafans-blog) tells me that Zeina is a cheerful girl, and she is extremely lucky that she found her life's passion in baking early. She is always the first to volunteer to make pastries and cook for her family and friends' happy occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, and graduation parties. She brings a smile to everyone's face with the care and compassion she displays to anyone she spends time with. The cake on the right was the last cake Zeina was able to bake before the invasion, for Deema (Wafaa’s youngest daughter and Zeina’s best friend) when she turned 17 years old.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Hala agency has told Wafaa they will only evacuate the children older than 15 years old if she pays ADULT RATES for them, that's $5,000 per child. Zeina and her three older brothers need our help! We need your support to get to $25,000 in the next 3 days!! Please continue supporting this family by reblogging and donating what you can.

The campaign has severely stagnated, there has been no donations in the past 35 minutes!! Please donate what you can spare, and check out the Magikarp plush giveaway for donors!

Let's try to get to $21,500 by the end of day! Currently $20,020 raised of $21,500 daily goal, that's $1,480 left to raise in the next eight hours!!

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today's vetted fundraisers. please please continue sharing and donating in whatever capacity you can. your help is giving life and hope to those in the direst circumstances.

june 27th:

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including his sick daughter whose condition is worsening due to lack of treatment (CHF1,120/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, verified by @/sayruq

Ahmed Al-Nabih and his family of four (€1,108/€30,000) - @ahmedalnabeeh11, #218 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's list

Nesma Ahmed and her family of 12, including several children and her severely injured father ($64,648/$80,000) - @nesmamomen, verified by @/nabulsi

Randa Abubakr's family of six, including two disabled members (€19,440/€35,000) - @rnd8, verified by @/newsfrom-theworld

Muhammed Al-Azayza and family, including a young child with Down syndrome (kr6,161 SEK/kr200,000 SEK) - @hamouda-az, verified by @/sayruq

Ruba Abushaban and family, including her sick father who urgently needs medical treatment (€26,000/€100,000) - @rubashabansblog, verified by @/nabulsi

Wafaa's family of 15, including several children and a newborn (they just lost her young niece) (€18,801/€50,000) - @wafs-posts, verified by @/palipunk

14-year-old Malk Al Zaeem, her three siblings, their parents, and their sick grandfather ($16,521 CAD/$50,000 CAD) - @malkzaeem, @yosofzaeem, verified by @/nabulsi

Momen Alostaz's family of ten, including his chronically ill parents and a newborn (€12,424/€70,000) - @mo98h, verified by @/sayruq

Nedaa and her elderly parents (£3,934/£15,000) - @nedaapales, verified by @/90-ghost

Hadeel Adnan Abu Nasser and her family of 12 (they've lost her father and her brother) (€993/€20,000) - @hadeelgaza, verified by @/90-ghost

Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three children ($668 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, verified by @/sar-soor

Basma Alghoul, her husband, and their three young children (kr7,001 SEK/kr400,000 SEK) - @basmaalghoul, verified by @/nabulsi

not yet vetted:

Yasmin Albalawi, her five siblings, their chronically ill parents, and five nephews and nieces (€4,999/€50,000) - @yasminalbalawi, more details from @/mangocheesecakes

Mohammed Ismaeel, his two younger sisters, and their parents (€5/€25,000) - @mohammedismaeel

every effort counts, no matter how small it may seem to you. whatever you can contribute is urgently needed and extremely valuable. let's keep putting in all we can for these families.

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you would almost think that israel has stopped killing palestinians but in the past twenty-four hours i have seen some of the most gruesome images of dead and beheaded human beings in my life, once again, in july of 2024.

israel is banking on nine months of genocide pacifying global outrage, the slow and steady extermination becoming more palatable. however, nine months in this also incriminates them absolutely.

to be committing such heinous crimes nine months in, with a genocide trial, ICC warrants pending, the eyes of the world on them shows that israel is not a state with any system of accountability, nor are its citizens or its supporters capable of mounting a real opposition to its genocidal mandate of palestinians. nine months of unstoppable and unceasing war crimes, and nine months of israel apologists refusing to give an inch as they continue to take lives. nine months of proving that they were never trying to end hamas, nor were they ever capable of it, but they seek nothing except the annihilation of palestinians and the annexation of their lands. nine months of settler colonialism in action.

nine months of palestinians being proven, beyond a doubt, completely right in their assessment of israel. a state that is beyond redemption, a state that is not a partner for peace, a state that has never stopped reproducing the violence of its foundation since the day it was founded.

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The Story of Mohamed Hussein Ismail and His Family: A Journey of Struggle and Hope 🕊️🍉🗝️

I am Mohammad Hussein Ismail, a 23-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, reaching out to you during these unimaginably difficult times. My life and that of my family have been profoundly changed by the war, and today I write to you, hoping for your support and assistance.

My Family 🕊️❤️

My family consists of five members: my mother Raja (51 years old), my father Hussein (58 years old), my sister Iman (18 years old), and my younger sister Noor (13 years old). We used to live a simple life filled with hope and ambition before the war turned our lives upside down.

On a grim night at the onset of the war, our neighborhood was relentlessly bombed. The blasts shook our home, compelling us to flee into the darkness, navigating through sporadic explosions, desperately seeking safety. By morning, we reached southern Gaza, seeking refuge in Rafah, our hearts heavy with sorrow for what we had lost. 🕊️🍉🗝️

In this brutal war, my father was injured, severing tendons in his finger due to relentless bombardment. Due to malnutrition and rampant diseases, my sister Iman contracted hepatitis, exacerbating our suffering. We endured the cold winter within the confines of a tent, and the scorching summer heat as well, trapped inside due to harsh weather conditions. Unable to stay together as a family, we were forced to scatter and flee once again from Rafah due to intense shelling, seeking refuge in Deir al-Balah within the Gaza Strip, where our struggles continued in search of safety and hope for survival.🕊️🍉🗝️

Now displaced, we endure an immensely challenging life, filled with hardships. We struggle tirelessly to prepare food over open fires, to fetch water, and even find a place to sleep. We've lost the basic comforts of life. Due to inadequate shelter, severe infections have ravaged my body, and I've grown exhausted in the quest for treatment amidst the scarcity of medicine.🕊️🍉🗝️

Our plight is desperate, and we implore your support to rebuild our shattered lives and secure a future for our family. Your kindness and generosity can bring about a profound change. Your contributions will provide us with the means to find safe shelter, access essential medical care, and obtain the basic necessities of life we so desperately need.🕊️🍉🗝️

I had an old account that was deleted, and I am pleading for your help in sharing the new one. Our only hope is that you can help my family survive this brutal war. 💔🙏🌹

Please, we plead for your help during this critical time. Every donation, regardless of its size, brings us closer to safety, stability, and the opportunity to rebuild our shattered lives.🙏🌹

My component vetted by @90-ghost .

Old account on Tumblr deleted by Tumblr team's .

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Would you be willing to dunk on speak more on mainstream feminist theory you're reading? And/or share some of the non-juvenile feminist theory you've read?

(Note: I will try to link to open access versions of articles as much as possible, but some of them are paywalled. if the links dont work just type the titles into google and add pdf at the end, i found them all that way)

If there’s any one singular issue with mainstream feminist thought that can be generalized to "The Problem With Mainstream Feminism" (and by mainstream I mean white, cishet, bourgeois feminism, the “canonical feminism” that is taught in western universities) it’s that gender is treated as something that can stand by itself, by which I mean, “gender” is a complete unit of analysis from which to understand social inequality. You can “add” race, class, ability, national origin, religion, sexuality, and so on to your analysis (each likewise treated as full, discrete categories of the social world), but that gender itself provides a comprehensive (or at the very least “good enough”) view of a given social problem. (RW Connell, who wrote the canonical text Masculinities (1995) and is one of the feminist scholars who coined/popularized the term hegemonic masculinity, is a fantastic example of this.)

Black feminists have for many decades pointed out how fucking ridiculous this is, especially vis a vis race and class, because Black women do not experience misogyny and racism as two discrete forms of oppression in their lives, they are inextricably linked. The separation of gender and race is not merely an analytical error on the part of white feminists - it is a continuation of the long white supremacist tradition of bounding gender in exclusively white terms. Patricia Hill Collins in Black Feminist Thought (2000) engages with this via a speech by Sojourner Truth, the most famous line from her speech being “ain’t I a woman?” as she describes all the aspects of womanhood she experiences but is still denied the position of woman by white women because she is Black. Lugones in Coloniality of Gender (2008) likewise brings up the example of segregationist movements in the USAmerican South, where towns would put up banners saying things like “Protect Southern Women” as a rationale for segregation, making it very clear who they viewed as women. Sylvia Wynter in 1492: A New World View likewise points out that colonized women and men were treated like cattle by Spanish colonizers in South America, often counted in population measures as "heads of Indian men and women," as in heads of cattle. They were treated as colonial resources, not as gendered subjects capable of rational thought.

To treat the category of “woman” as something that stands by itself is a white supremacist understanding of gender, because “woman” always just means white woman - the fact that white is left implied is part of white supremacy, because who is granted subjecthood, the ability to be seen as human and therefore a gendered subject, is a function of race (see Quijano, 2000). Crenshaw (1991) operationalizes this through the term intersectionality, pointing out that law treats gender and race as separate social sites of discrimination, and the practical effect of this is that Black women have limited/no legal recourse when they face discrimination because they experience it as misogynoir, as the multiplicative effect of their position as Black women, not as sexism on the one hand and racism on the other.

Transfeminist theory has further problematized the category of gender by pointing out that "woman" always just means cis woman (and more often than not also means heterosexual woman). The most famous of these critiques comes from Judith Butler - I’m less familiar with their work, but there is a great example in the beginning of Bodies That Matter (1993) where they demonstrate that personhood itself is a gendered social position. They ask (and I’m paraphrasing) “when does a fetus stop becoming an ‘it’? When its gender is declared by a doctor or nurse via ultrasound.” Sex assignment is not merely a social practice of patriarchal division, it is the medium through which the human subject is created (and recall that gender is fundamentally racialized & race is fundamentally gendered, which I will come back to).

And the work of transfeminists demonstrate this by showing transgender people are treated as non-human, non-citizens. Heath Fogg Davis in Sex-Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination (2014) recounts the story of an African American transgender woman in Pennsylvania being denied use of public transit, because her bus pass had an F gender marker on it (as all buss passes in the state required gender markers until 2013) and the bus driver refused her service because she “didn’t look like a woman.” She was denied access to transit again when she got her marker changed to M, as she “didn’t look like a man.” Transgender people are thus denied access to basic public services by being constructed as “administratively impossible” - gender markers are a component of citizenship because they appear on all citizenship documents, as well as a variety of civil and public documents (such as a bus pass). Gender markers, even when changed by trans people (an arduous, difficult process in most places on earth, if not outright impossible), are seen as fraudulent & used as a basis to deny us citizenship rights. Toby Beauchamp in Going Stealth: Transgender Politics & US Surveillance Practices (2019) talks about anti-trans bathroom bills as a form of citizenship denial to trans people - anti-trans bathroom laws are impossible to actually enforce because nobody is doing genital inspections of everyone who enters bathrooms (and genitals are not proof of transgenderism!), but that’s actually not the point. The point of these bills is to embolden members of the cissexual public to deputize themselves on behalf of the state to police access to public space, directing their cissexual gaze towards anyone who “looks transgender.” Beauchamp points out that transvestigators don’t need to be accurate most of the time, because again, the point is terrorizing transgender people out of public life. He connects this with racial segregation, and argues that we shouldn’t view gender segregation as “a new form of” racial segregation (this is a duplication of white supremacist feminism) but a continuation of it, because public access is a citizenship right and citizenship is fundamentally racially mediated (see Glenn's (2002) Unequal Freedom)

Susan Stryker & Nikki Sullivan further drives this home in The King’s Member, The Queen’s Body, where they explain the history of the crime of mayhem. Originating in feudal Europe (I don’t remember off the dome the exact time/place so forgive the generalization lol), mayhem is the crime of self-mutilation for the purposes of avoiding military conscription, but what is interesting is that its not actually legally treated as “self” mutilation, but a mutilation of the state and its capacity to exercise its own power. They link the concept of mayhem to the contemporary hysteria around transgender people receiving bottom surgery - we are not in fact self mutilating, we are mutilating the state’s ability to reproduce its own population by permanently destroying (in the eyes of the cissexual public) our capacity to form the foundational social unit of the nuclear family. Our bodies are not our own, they are a component of the state. Situating this in the context of reproductive rights makes this even clearer. Abortion access is not actually about the individual, it is the state mediating its own reproductive capacity via the restriction of abortion (premised on the cissexual logic of binary reproductive capacity systematized through sex assignment). Returning to Hill Collins, she points out that in the US, white cis women are restricted access to abortion while Black and Indigenous cis women are routinely forcibly sterilized, their children aborted, and pumped with birth control by the state. This is not a contradiction or point of “hypocrisy” on the part of conservatives, this is a fully comprehensive plan of white supremacist population management.

To treat "gender" as its own category, as much of mainstream feminism does (see Acker (1990) and England (2010) for two hilarious examples of this, both widely cited feminists), is to forward a white supremacist notion of gender. That white supremacy is fundamentally cissexual and heterosexual is not an accident - it is a central organizing logic that allows for the systematization of the fear of declining white birthrates (the conspiracy of "white genocide" is illegible without the base belief that there are two kinds of bodies, one that gets pregnant and one that does the impregnating, and that these two types of bodies are universal sources of evidence of the superiority of men over women - and im using those terms in the most loaded possible sense).

I realize that most of these readings are US centric, which is an unfortunate limitation of my own education. I have been really trying to branch into literature outside the Global North, but doctoral degree constraints + time constraints + my own research requires continual engagement with it. I also realize that most of the transfeminist readings I've cited are by white scholars! This is a continual systemic problem in academic literature and I'm not exempt from it, even as I sit here and lay out the problem. Which is to say, this is nowhere near the final word on this subject, and having to devote so much time to reading mainstream feminist theory as someone who is in western academia is part of my own limited education + perspective on this topic

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vetted fundraisers from today. please keep sharing and donating as you're able, it really does so much; even if your individual action feels small, you are helping to save lives.

june 29th:

14-year-old Hala El-Hissi, her two siblings (the younger of whom needs hepatitis treatment), and their mother (€8,459/€16,000) - @halaelhissi, @nadasaftawi, verified by @/ibtisams

Muhammad Al-Azayza and his family, including two children, one with Down syndrome (kr6,738 SEK/kr200,000 SEK) - @hamouda-az, verified by @/sayruq

Ahmed Ziad, his siblings, and their sick parents (£2,733/£30,000) - @ahmed-ziad, verified by @/nabulsi

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including his daughter who needs urgent treatment to preserve her eyesight (CHF1,506/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, verified by @/sayruq

Safaa Abd, her husband, and their two young children (€952/€50,000) - @safaabed, verified by @/90-ghost

Wafaa Alnhal's family of 15, including four children and a newborn (€20,277/€50,000) - @wafs-posts, verified by @/nabulsi

Alaa Al Khateeb's family of six, including her mother who needs medical treatment (£25,391/£56,000) - @alaaalkhateeb, #99 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Haneen Atya's family of ten, including several young children, a newborn, and her mother who needs urgent treatment for a stroke and bleeding ($38,011 AUD/$70,000 AUD) - @haneenatya34, verified by @/el-shab-hussein

Mohammed Okal's evacuation and education (kr3,228 NOK/kr90,000 NOK) - @mohammedokal-2, verified by @/90-ghost

Mohammed Adly Haboub and his family of four (he turns 20 today) (kr14,191 SEK/kr300,000 SEK) - @mohammedhaboub, verified by @/90-ghost

Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three young children who've lost their treasured home ($1,398 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, verified by @/nabulsi

Hadeel Adnan Abu Nasser and her family of 12 (they lost her father in a bombing and her brother to malnutrition; Hadeel is responsible for all her family) (€1,126/€20,000) - @hadeelgaza, verified by @/90-ghost

not yet vetted:

Reem Mohamed, her husband, and their two young children (€1,925/€20,000) - @rem096

i know you likely see posts like this every day, but please don't tune them out. every one of these families and individuals deserves to live safely and pursue their dreams. any contribution you make keeps someone's bright future alive

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click on the link and then on the big "click to help" button. wait for the page to reload, it should read "your click has been counted" and you should see confetti

if you want to click more than once, you can use different browsers or devices, or open incognito mode, it seems to work (at least on the client side of the website)

💳 direct donation link 💳

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Help Mahasen, a Digital Artist from Gaza and Her Family!

Hello, I am Mahasen,a Digital Artist from North Gaza, where creativity thrives despite challenges.

PLEASE DONATE HERE

In this tough situation, I am a digital artist finding solace and resilience through my art .. pixels and colors.

For over a decade, I've navigated the freelance world, weaving intricate digital tapestries that reflect the beauty and strength of my surroundings.

My father died, and I am the main provider for my family.

Before the war, I worked with international companies in motion graphics,

specializing in character design and storyboarding.

The conflict forced us into repeated evacuations, and our home suffered damage, including the theft and destruction of my essential art equipment and tablet. Each stolen piece held not just monetary value but years of dedication and creativity and hard work. We are left HOMELESS, UNSAFE, SICK with VERY LITTLE FINANCIAL SECURITY!

Our family consists of:

• My mother, 62 years old.

• My sister Mai, 35 years old, who is also visually impaired.

• Myself,Mahasen, 31 years old.

• My brother Mohammed, 28 years old, who is visually impaired.

• My brother's wife Iman, 28 years old.

• My youngest brother Amin, 21 years old.

Your support is crucial as I rebuild what was lost. Your contribution will help replace my tools and restore hope and creativity. And mainly for my family's safety, ability to survive the current situation and community.

Together, we can affirm that art is more than expression,

it is a lifeline that connects us and enlighten even the darkest moments.

Expenses Needed:

• Travel arrangements to Egypt ( $5000 per person ) for 6 family members.

• Living expenses to survive the current situation in Gaza.

• Buying art equipment and tablet to recover what I've lost and be able to work again.

• Living and transportation expenses during the initial period of travel.

• Food and medical expenses.

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Did you know that israel gave Palestinians (which they are legally obligated to do as an occupying entity, they're not doing anyone a favor) near expired covid injections in 2021 with the intention that Palestinians had to pay them back with a fresh shipment that they would recieve later in the year