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Manal has arrived safely in Cairo and is awaiting life-saving treatment! As of writing this, the Al Manasra family is $5,250 away from covering Manal's scheduled blood transfusion.

None of this would have been possible without your compassion and generosity towards this family's campaign. I will be sharing frequent updates until this final stretch for the fundraiser is complete and the entire family is safe. Manal's hysterectomy has been funded and she will be operated on tomorrow. After two days for recovery, the family will be expected to pay to remove infected blood that still threatens her life. Please help this family celebrate the ceasefire by ensuring the mother's survival.

the Al Manasra family is vetted #192 here by El-Shab Hussein and Nablusi.

mohamed’s Tumblr page is @save-mohamed-family, please share. you can alternatively donate to Mohamed’s still-active GOFUNDME page if you have an issue with Chuffed (linked below!)

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A lot of Israelis say "this isn't america your concepts of race don't fit here" as a way to try and shut people up but what they mean is this brown jewish guy who is terrorizing a blonde blue eyed Palestinian is somehow more oppressed and are emphasizing that you should actually use American concepts of race just not by applying them critically with an understanding to power dynamics

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somebody made a post claiming you said anyone who went to michfest back in the day is transphobic, i didnt believe the post but you should know about this rumor about you

well Michfest segregated trans women from attendance as a policy for decades, and everybody who attended this from at least the 90s onwards was intimately & personally aware of that segregation, because Camp Trans protested outside every single year.

just from a glance at the opening paragraph of wikipedia, you’d find out that The Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force all publicly opposed Michfest & its transphobic policies. even fucking celebrities like The Indigo Girls announced in 2013 they would not be returning or performing again whilst the exclusionary policy was still in place — which it was, right up until Michfest stopped in 2015 due to lack of support & constant boycotts.

i need yall to understand Michfest wasn’t like… incidentally transphobic, this was a massive massive conversation all throughout the 90s until 2015. Dyke Marches were canceling performances from musicians who attended Michfest, because it was universally seen as dirty, bigoted, “I got mine” behaviour to anybody who gave a fuck about trans rights.

Like, I have to reiterate; Michfest was a music festival that by policy segregated trans women (and trans women specifically by the way). It is segregation. Yes I fucking think everybody who happily attended SegrationFest, known for the violent hatecrimes & sexual assault that routinely happened to trans women who snuck in, and hasn’t apologised for it is transphobic.

Alison Bechdel was talking positively about Michfest being free from “the male socialised” (read: trans women) in 2017. Her most recent book, which only came out a couple years ago, openly praised it for its segregation policy.

It’s not a rumour, I think it: Michfest attendees are/were all terfs. The word terf was literally coined to describe Michfest attendees. By even the most basic & oldest usecase of the word, Alison Bechdel is definitionally a terf. just because she drew a nice cartoon or two about us doesn’t change the fact all her idols were terfs and all the people she hung out with were terfs and her politics are copy-pasted directly from the terf playbook.

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WHAT IS SAID AT THE MICHIGAN WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL DOES NOT STAY IN RURAL MICHIGAN by Kay Lamothe

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March on Washington, 1993

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helenakrausz, 2007

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helenakrausz, Aniversário Lu - 2008

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Tomboy

Lorena Bonna, 2015

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Catherine Opie. Kate. 2007.

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merchandise from Dyke TV's website

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Dyke TV, 1993

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Elizabeth Streb on Dyke TV, 1993

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