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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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my ships (54/?) → aaron x liv

with your feet on the ground, tell me all that you'd learned 'cause love's never lost when perspective is earned

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my ships (53/?) → jessie/lydia

fall in love again and again...

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cause blood is thick but water is forever and I'm stiffer than a board lighter than a feather and that girl will be a problem only if you let her and I left her back home but I cannot forget her

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🇵🇸 Vetted fundraisers for Palestine 🇵🇸 (19/?)

Hi everyone, here are some more campaigns of the people who have reached out to me recently. Most campaigns need more funds - let’s get them all a boost!

Rana, Ahmed, and their four children: @ranamahmoud87 // vetted by association // donate // $511 CAD/$100,000

Diana Ahmed Zaqout's family: @magicaldragonwizard // vetted by associaion // donate // £654/£150,000

Jalal Osama al-Hindi's family: @jalalosama // #204 on GazaVetters list // donate // €931/€25,000

Hani Al-Sharif and his family of 7 people: @haniibrahem // #159 on GazaVetters list and #228 on the vetted evacuation funds list // donate // $4,735/$50,000

Eman and her children, Laylan and Walid: @emanalmadhoun8 // vetted by association // donate // $4,772/$25,000

Amjad Sido's family: @amjadsido99 // #126 on the vetted evacuation fundraiser list // donate // €6,966/€30,000 (campaign has been going very slowly!)

Dr. Husam Farhat's family: @needaafarhat // #248 on the vetted evacuation fundsraiser list // donate // $11,610/$29,500

Marwa Sobh and her autistic son Ahmed: @ahmed-sobeh and @ahmed-sobeh2009 // vetted by association // donate // €3,238/€5,000

Farah's family: @elegantkidpuppy and @farahhs-world // #310 on the vetted evacuation fundraisers list // donate // £7,101/£10,000

Ibrahim, Yasmina, their baby Maryam, and their extended family: @samaribrahimgaza // vetted by association // donate // $52,296/$100,000

All of these campaigns are legitimate and all these people do need support for food, medicine, clothing, and shelter when winter comes. If you don’t know who to donate to, click here. Whatever number you get, donate $5-$20 to that family, or whatever you can afford. Every little bit really does help :) I’d really like to encourage donations with these lists, not just reblogs. Thanks, everyone! 🇵🇸

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Help a besieged family in Gaza escape 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

I am Mohammed from Gaza. My family consists of 9 people. I am living the genocide in Gaza and we do not know if we will live or not. I hope everyone helps my children get out of Gaza and live in safety and peace. My children deserve a better life like all the children in the world. I hope my voice reaches everyone

I ask everyone to donate and share the link to help my family🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

https://gofund.me/f784eeba

@90-ghost @el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @sar-soor @sayruq @queerstudiesnatural @appsa @communistchilchuck @fairuzfan @neptunerings @just-browsing1222 @appsa @akajustmerry @feluka @marnota @annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies @tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @vivisection-gf @belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif @animentality @kordeliiius @brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @violetlyra @the-bastard-king @tamaytka @4ft10tvlandfangirl @northgazaupdates2 @skatehan @awetistic-things @nightowlssleep @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @friendshapedplant @mangocheesecakes @commissions4aid-international

@rwuffles @mogai-sunflowers

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Meet Mohammed

Mohammed @mohammedalhabil lives with his mother Ibtisam, his sister Noha, and his sister Nour. They are a loving family, but have had more than their fair share of struggles. Mohammed’s father was martyred by the occupation in its 2014 aggression. Ibtisam and Omar, Mohammed’s older brother, supported the family themselves for many years. Then, in December 2023, Omar was martyred by the occupation while he and Mohammed were out gathering firewood. Mohammed was severely injured in the same attack.

This was not the last time Mohammed was injured by IOF violence. Mohammed has been injured on four separate occasions, resulting in his left leg being critically wounded. He had to have a full cast put on, rendering him unable to move any part of his leg.

He undergoes regular physiotherapy when it is safe enough to travel to the clinic, but unfortunately this is not enough to heal his wound. Mohammed is going to require intense, specialized treatment in order to fully heal his leg and regain as full of function as possible. Due to the occupation’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, this cannot be done in Gaza.

Mohammed will need to travel abroad to treat his leg, which will be a complex and expensive proposition. Just passing from Gaza into Egypt costs thousands of dollars, not to mention the costs of lodging, food, medication, and medical appointments. He is trying to raise funds so that when the border reopens, he will be able to arrange passage into Egypt, and begin his journey to fully healing.

His family is already struggling to survive, relying on mutual aid for food and other basic necessities. They lost their home due to IOF attack, and none of them are able to work. This means Mohammed has no way to pay for his travel and treatment costs without your support.

Please help Mohammed be able to afford the treatment he needs

Thank you❤️❤️

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VETTED CAMPAIGNS LOW ON FUNDS

all of these campaigns have been vetted by mohammed ayesh, who helps run @gaza-evacuation-funds. all of these campaigns are in dire need of our support; please consider donating to even one of them!

mohammed zaatar was severely injured by shrapnel last year, and is now displaced with his family and in need of our help to afford basic necessities. €458 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * mohammed mabruk is in europe, separated from his family who are trapped in gaza and unable to reach them. he is trying to raise the funds necessary to evacuate them, but in the meantime your donation will allow them to buy daily necessities. €350 / €35,000 GOFUNDME HERE * reema and her husband ragheb and five year old son taim have been displaced more than six times and are struggling to provide themselves with their daily needs. your donation will help them as winter approaches, please consider contributing. €2,071 / €50,000 GOFUNDME HERE * eman has helped mohammed ayesh, who helps run gaza-evacuation-funds, by translating many posts into english for our benefit. she does this despite being displaced and living in unimaginably difficult conditions. please consider helping her and her family, as she does so much to help others. $6,700 CAD / $50,000 CAD GOFUNDME HERE * imad is raising funds for his family, who are displaced in gaza and living in woefully inadequate shelter. your donation will help them afford food, water, medicine and winter clothes and shelter. €1,319 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * qusai atef and his family have been displaced from their home in northern gaza, and are now completely lacking in basic necessities. they need to purchase winter clothes and other supplies. please consider helping them. NO DONATIONS YET! GOFUNDME HERE * rania is a talented artist and a geographic information systems graduate. she is raising funds to support her and her family. because they are in northern gaza, they are in particular need of your donations to afford food and water, as we know supplies have been cut off for a long time, and people are facing starvation. please consider donating to rania's paypal, as this will allow her to access the funds she and her family needs more easily. €3,508 / €60,000 PAYPAL HERE GOFUNDME HERE please, please consider donating to at least one of these campaigns! it is important that we get momentum going, so please share and reblog. i hope we can all work together to help these families as much as we can!

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Hossam has been in northern Gaza for the last year. He is the voice of 400,000 people being starved, shot at, bombed, kidnapped and burned alive. He is 21 years old.

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Make the most of the next two months

Get all your vaccines

Travel while we have a functioning DOT

Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt

Attend drag shows

Don't skip any of your classes

Read and buy history books

Find your out-of-state networks

Learn to carry cash

Get birth control solutions

Support the Biden/Harris administration

Postpone large purchases and save money

Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information

Feel free to add on.

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Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

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Women in Sudan committed sulcide to avoid getting SA

For an entire year we been seen children been unalive in Gaza without any mercy

In Congo children's are been slave and unalive because of the capitalist of the world

We have to keep paying attention & advocating & donating when we can.

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Some good news for y’all right now Missouri has overturned their abortion ban!!!!

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I’m donating to Holler Health Justice who are “a POC- & queer-led racial, economic & reproductive justice nonprofit in West Virginia.”

They are “building power in Appalachia with communities most disproportionately affected by health inequities, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ folk, those in rural areas & those with low income.”

You can donate here.

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if ur posting "trans people you have to survive" go do something about it? how many homeless trans people have u materially helped today? nothing changed right now. we been suffering already. where the fuck have u been every day that's not election day

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Were you helping refugees at the border last week by donating to mutual aid groups or doing translation and outreach?

Were you calling for ceasefire and doing what you could to aid Palestinians last week? (Esims for gaza here)

Were you talking to your unhoused neighbors with respect and advocating for them and protesting encampment clearances last week? (There's no link just treat people like people and share cash if you can)

Last week were you participating in community meal shares and free stores?

Were you supporting bail funds and protesting the carceral state and trying to stop executions and humanizing incarcerated people last week? (How to write a letter to an incarcerated person)

Were you working to increase access to abortion medications and birth control and abortions in general last week?

Did you share information about DIY HRT and spend time paying attention to the books your school board was banning and make your lgbtqia friends welcome and included last week?

Were you aware of the groundwork being laid for a 2028 general strike and the ways that you could support one (contributing to strike funds, joining and supporting unions, attempting to unionize your workplace) last week?

Were you helping the people around you, were you caring for your friends, were you making information free, were you picking up trash, were you sharing a meal, were you tracking fascists, were you challenging the wrongs done by your government in the ways available to you last week?

Good. Keep doing that.

A better world is possible. Keep working toward it.

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Important Update 17/10/2024 !!!

Today we took my little son Majd to the hospital because of the chest crisis he suffered in this war.

Please Don't leave my little son alone and help him by donating and reblog

@90-ghost @paper-mario-wiki @nabulsi @prisonhannibal @gaza-evacuation-funds @beepiesheepie @walcutt @schoolhater @commissions4aid-international @sar-soor @zigcarnivorous @tododeku-or-bust @turtletoria @brutaliakhoa @flower-tea-fairies @schoolhater @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @sayruq @appsa @omiteo777 @malcriada @neptunerings @bat-luun @kaneverse @nightowlssleep @staretes @friendshapedplant @soon-palestine @aria-ashryver @heritageposts @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness-blog @khanger @kordeliiius @mazzikah @feluka @dlxxv-vetted-donations @girlinafairytale @a-shade-of-blue @vakarians-babe @babygoatsandfriends @self-hating-zionist @mangocheesecakes