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need to arrange these thoughts somewhere so:

zionists will try to convince you any palestinian civilian "deserves to die" because they may have harbored ill feelings about israel as a result of running a decades-long campaign to frame opposition to israel as an unacceptable moral flaw rather than a logical political position.

this is obviously part of connecting anti-zionism to anti-semitism and why they have been utilizing every means at their disposal to prevent even seemingly benign criticism of israel

but i can't stress enough how this hasn't convinced non-zionists so much as it has convinced zionists themselves that criticism of israel is an unacceptable moral flaw. they regard any criticism of israel with deep suspicion and believe it has to be rooted in an inherent characteristic somebody has (that characteristic can be "being arab" or "being muslim" or born hatred etc) rather than a rational response rooted in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid principles.

the idea is that if a palestinian hates israel then they are antisemites who hate israelis for merely existing, and more significantly, tolerate violence towards individual israelis (and most extrapolate this to include the worldwide jewish population) on an interpersonal level. but they never pause to consider that supporting israel in any capacity requires co-signing far more violence towards individual palestinians, and is viewed as explicit approval of the violent subjugation and dispossession of palestinians. even supporting a fantasy version of zionism where everyone gets along requires, on some level, accepting the extraordinary injustice done to palestinians as the price paid to get there. and yet far fewer (if any) zionists are ever subject to a moral purity test of being asked if they wholeheartedly love and support palestinians and believe a palestinian state should exist at any cost to israelis. israeli hatred is tolerated and justified, while palestinian opposition (and here it is important to stress it is not hatred because it is not rooted in irrational fear but rational historical grievance) is demonized.

this is also why it is important to extend allyship to palestinians by normalizing criticism of israel. palestinians are quite literally being murdered in part because they are perceived to have an inherent hatred of israel. they are so dehumanized that their rational political stances as being denied because they are seen as incapable or undeserving of rational thought. to illustrate this point, israeli perceptions of european antisemitism dictate the conversation of how palestinians feel more than palestinian history itself. imagining, for example, that a palestinian needs a book about hitler or knowledge of antisemitic tropes to hate israel when israel is literally starving them and killing their children is the height of israeli (and western) arrogance and palestinian erasure. israeli logic contends that no palestinian is allowed to have a legitimate grievance with the state and soldiers carrying out their genocide; and if they do then they deserve to be eliminated so it wasn't a genocide but a righteous act.

so rather than saying "no palestinians don't hate israel!!!! look how many palestinians work in peace projects/advocate for tolerance/condemn violence" it's important to say why on earth are palestinians required to love their colonizers? why is anyone on earth required to lend approval and loyalty to an apartheid state? are palestinians supposed to salute the israeli flag in their refugee camps between checkpoints and bombings? by legitimizing a moral purity test of loving israel, you throw every palestinian who (quite rationally) does not like israel under the bus and validate the idea that loving or hating israel is a moral position about individual values rather than an explicitly political one about states and rights.

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Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud and angry about the new "deception as to sex" guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don't disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth to sexual partners.

This is particularly going to harm trans and intersex sex workers, who often have a higher number of sexual partners who we might keep our trans or intersex identity from for our safety.

"To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent."

"This interpretation of part of the existing Sexual Offences Act (2003) places an unreasonable burden on trans and intersex people to inform our sexual partners of our medical history, while no such burden is placed on cis perisex people who are allowed to rely on assumption."

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i was informed op is a terf so here's that photo of gisèle pelicot again, with source. merci gisèle ❤️

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file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

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“The museum really asked us to water down our ideas about how we define Afrofuturism and its relationship to liberation,” Butler continued. “As a team, our position on freeing Palestine is also tied to our relationship to Afrofuturism."

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I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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endless night

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How many of these sound familiar?

Congratulations, you're utilizing AAVE!

How often do you find yourself recognizing when you are? Do you actually know what these words mean? Do you know when they're being used improperly? Are you interested in learning to respect the history behind the dialect?

This thought process, and others, are discussed in my lesson, "It's Giving" AAVE, and the Denied Yet Undeniable Impact of Black Culture.

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clap along if you feel like a wraith without a tomb!

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Yalı Mosque in Izmir, Turkey

Via IslamicArtDB

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DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

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It is really disturbing how people can lose their humanity and threaten you just because you *checks notes* sentenced their child to death :'(

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Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to surrender myself to the mercurial whims of The Manuscripts

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7/? - "i want to go home"