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Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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i have yet to return to writeblr but in light of the uk supreme court ruling that trans women are not legally protected as women (+ in turn england suppressing scotland's right to legislate equality) it's a great time to reiterate that if you are a transphobe/terf/etc i think you are disgusting, you are not for true liberation, you are a bigot and this will never be a place for you. trans people i love you, trans women i love you, the world is a very scary place right now that as a trans person this love feels small in comparison but i hope you can at least hold it in your hands

part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

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We should also remember the late Refaat today

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since spotify wrapped is coming today i just want to bring awareness to the fact that around 86% of the songs on spotify are currently demonetized since spotify decided that tracks with under 1,000 cannot be monetized. not only that the ceo of spotify cashed out $35.8 million dollars in spotify shares in the third quarter of the year and it has been reported that he earns more than the top artists on the platform.

for a platform that claims to support artists, this is outrageous and i hope people realize that an artist who is starting out, cannot make a living out of spotify streams simply because daniel ek and his friends made it worse for the artists trying to start a career. if you wanna support musicians and the possibility for them to get a living wage please follow United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) which are trying to make The Living Wage for Musicians Act a reality so musicians can be paid fairly through streaming platforms and get the cut they deserve.

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There is nobody who actually believes 90-ghost is a scammer. as far as I remember he’s been on here for years how fucking evil can people be to defame someone who not only has lived under genocide but also has made immeasurable efforts to help other people throughout everything he’s been through. Anyone claiming otherwise is doing so intentionally

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I would recommend deciding how much from each paycheque (or &c.) you can afford to donate and then just giving a certain fixed amount out of that to every fundraiser you see until you hit your cap for that day. if you wait to be persuaded to donate by a particularly compelling narrative, it just cheapens people into needing to craft compelling narratives about genocide.

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How can we help 😔

Gaza Funds

Donate if you can. Spread this if you can't. Direct support to these families is the best thing we can do right now.

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I'm so sorry if this is a bothersome question, but are there more ways for me to help people in Palestine without donating? I don't have a way to send money non-physically, and even if I did, I don't have enough cash to be able to donate to all of the people I see. I've been reblogging donation posts from the Palestinian people who have come into my inbox and also the donation posts on my dash. I can't participate in any protests or events because there aren't any I've heard of that are near me, and if there was I don't have a car and my parents probably wouldn't let me go. I don't know what I can do beyond sharing posts online or if that really helps

Hi there, good question.

Sharing the fundraisers does help a lot too. The more attention a campaign gets, the better.

But in terms of what else you can do, there's a ton of things that can be done on an individual level:

Boycotting - you can start with the BDS list and expand as you go.

Educating yourself - this is a massive way you can help the cause, and this can be done in however way you prefer and at your own pace. From books to documentaries, being well informed on the history of the struggle is one of the best things you can do.

Sharing - when you see informative posts, share them. When you see a report from a journalist on the ground in Gaza, circulate it. This way you're educating others while amplifying Palestinian voices.

Writing your government representatives - I usually see templates that people use for emails or calls, whichever is more comfortable or applicable. This is another way of taking an active step to voice your opinion and concern.

Cultural study groups - this can be done in person or even virtually and would include you and a few other members studying an aspect of Palestinian culture together; for example, you can use a Palestinian cookbook to try out some recipes, you can all learn and practice Palestinian stitching (tatreez) or read a book written by a Palestinian and discuss it.

Join a school club - if you're in university/college, you can look up Palestinian rights advocacy groups and join them/attend their activities.

These are some ideas off the top of my head and I hope they can help you out.

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Reading weird poetry and short stories and unapologetically strange novels really does teach you that a lot of stuff people teach you about writing is just not true. Almost anything someone tells you must happen when you’re writing has an exception and writing advice has trends and fads just like anything else.

I was struggling to find where I fit as a writer until I found writers like Daniel Olivias who wrote short stories in ways I’d never seen before. I owe a lot of my current inspiration in my writing to Latin American magical realism writers. Finding magical realism and surrealism really opened doors in my brain that had been shut before.

You can get weird with it. You can get weird in content, weird in form, weird in structure. You don’t need a plot. You can tell a story backwards, you can just sit in an idea, you can explain, overexplain, skip explanation, get political, start ideas, end ideas. No ifs ands or buts you can just throw traditional story structure out the window.

I know what kind of writer I am now. A weird one. You don’t have to be held to standards of predictability, genre fiction, markets, tropes. You can just do whatever. Truly. Honestly. Completely. For ten words or a hundred thousand.

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I honestly don't think I will ever be able to describe the feeling of outrage and disgust some forms of writing advice online give me. It is entirely unreasonable and I am fully aware of that. But the thought of a writer seeing it and assuming the world who wrote it is someone worth taking seriously just because they feigned Professionalism for Internet Points really does make me want to bite my walls until I'm chewing drywall.

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even if i’m not active right now it’s always a great time to say that there is no place for terfs here i think you are all disgusting and want nothing to do with you! please unfollow me 🩷

part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

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part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

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Today is october 7th officially marking 365 days, 1 year, of the most well recorded genocide in history; of an occupation of a people which has been ongoing for 76 years. An entire year of constant israeli bombardment. Hundreds of thousands killed and missing. All the while, the people with the most power to stop the genocide continue to support and defend the politicians carrying out the slaughter.

Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.

In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.

May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

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Remember Khaliifah Marcellus Williams! A black Muslim man falsely accused. Remember that he's innocent. Remember that the governor of Missouri, mike Parson who had the opportunity to save this man's life, decided not to. Remember all but three supreme court justices decided his life wasn't worth saving either. Remember his face. Remember his Last words. And remember how fucked up this country is

Rest in peace Marcellus

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a lot of people have been hurt in the terror attacks in lebanon, i know this is a time where requests for donations are high and a lot of people are struggling financially. however, if you have something to spare please consider donating to the lebanese red cross, many people who have been injured or died in these attacks have been innocent civilians and hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients.

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I was into little kids shows for a long time since my host has younger siblings. But probably Dora was my favorite for the longest time, and she definitely is an icon.

Also, please reblog and share for a family with 2 young children in desperate need.