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people will cry about oh we have no sense of community and no one cares about each other but then treat their co workers, neighbours, and people they generally don’t know that well like ‘NPCs’ who aren’t real human beings with lives and feelings and are unwilling to have any small friendly but possibly boring interactions with people well you’re the problem

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É tão dificil fazer um au brasileiro dos livros que eu gosto quando a realidade dos personagens seria mil vezes menos fudida se eles tivessem acesso ao sus e faculdade federal...

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via polinatammi on instagram

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please help her

her gofundme

saving al-genina

sudan solidarity collective

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My biggest surge in followers was when twitter got banned in brazil. My second biggest surge was when i was having a catholic meltdown earlier this year

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eleanor vance was thirty two years old when she came to hill house. your life is not over in your twenties!

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Cute date idea

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If you don't have money, then you can still reblog. Even 2 dollars still help and it won't take long.

Vetted and confirmed to be real by @gaza-evacuation-funds (here) and @bilal-salah0 (here)

@ahmedpalestine is trying to get his family with little children out to safety, worrying for them everyday due to being surrounded by death and being deported from their home. But it is going slow and tanks are approaching them after harming nearby residents. Their time is limited, yet their campaign didn't get enough reach nor donations.

You can help them here

@anneemay @komsomolka @transmutationisms @forevergulag @mesetacadre @2violent2revolution @pitbolshevik @27moremoons @t4tails @birdmenmanga @lesbianalism @toesuckingoctober @knxfesck

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let's play maiden dissection!

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My former school must hold my city's record for most teachers fired for sexual assault holy fucking shit

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Ainda tá precisando?

In need of the "usamericans doing a thing americanly in the us: what are we asians?" screenshot, probably for the best that I couldn't find it

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I was checking on someone from Gaza and I asked them "how's the condition of the tent?" a question that really, really stung.

As Palestinians, whether or not we experienced living in tents and refugee camps first hand, tents have been a symbol of our initial displacement in 1948.

Finding myself asking this question to a Palestinian 76 years later really struck me.

Israel is a settler colonial entity, intent on disappearing Palestinians through massacres and displacement to make way for its expansionist project.

The fact that this is a question we are still having to ask is beyond heart-wrenching, but it also tells me that try as they might, we are rooted in this land and Israel's attempts have never deterred us.

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If you are as concerned about migrant workers in Lebanon as I am, please donate to this fundraiser to help repatriate stranded migrant workers home or please donate to this fundraiser. There are networks of aid created for situations like this, please do not leave them abandoned. The most marginalized people in our society, like the SEA and African migrant workers, like the Palestinian refugees that make up my family reliving genocide again, like the Syrian refugees forced to flee to another warzone during these horrible times, the queer people abandoned by their families and pushed away from society. All of these communities will be assisted by this project.

Here are some of the situations migrant workers are finding themselves in during this time of war and the ethnic cleansing of Lebanon.

If you would like to continue supporting migrant workers in Lebanon outside of times of war / attempted genocide, this is an organization & network run by both former migrant workers and Lebanese advocates who are working to improve Lebanese society by naming and shaming the abuse migrant workers go through.

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The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

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Něco z Alenky/ Jan Svankmajer/ 1988

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although humbert humbert is the kind of stereotypical image of a pedophile (does what he does because he’s attracted to children (though i mean unreliable narrator he could be lying)), lolita is SUCH a good text to childhood studies with. like humbert retains power over delores by telling her that he is her only guardian, and that escaping her would mean winding up as a ward of the state where she will be treated even worse. he uses the power he has over her and specifically draws attention to the fact that he has so much power over her because society leaves her completely powerless; were she to go to the police about him, she wouldn’t be able to choose to take care of herself or choose who gains ownership over her in the future, so she might as well stay with the guy who rapes her but at least buys her things

the tragedy of her ending, then, in part is the fact that the only person she could manage to go to for help is someone who will also sexually exploit her, but (at least she believes) less than humbert will. her school notices that she is struggling, but the only recourse they have or even seem interested in is informing the guardian who is causing the abuse, a very common issue for abused children in schools. as much as conservatives hand wring about schools taking over their parental rights, they really have nothing to fear even now into the modern day, as only the most blatant and obvious child abuse can be addressed without involving parents; every other action schools have available to them is to consult the child’s owner, their parent(s), first and foremost. nobody in a child’s life, as lolita reflects, is able to materially aid a child without the parents’ permission or else they are breaking the law. as such, delores’s only chance for escape was to go with a man fine with breaking the law, and that wound up being another pedophile.

the criticism of systems of power in lolita is criminally underdiscussed, but a lot of that is also because criticisms of systems is often glossed over in most discussions of csa. people are somewhat aware that pedophiles, like other rapists, are more interested in power than attraction, but the imbalance of power between child and adult is fully naturalized. while obviously some aspects of that are innate (the physical difference, for example), there is also plenty about that difference in power which is socially and legally constructed, ESPECIALLY between a child and their legal guardian, who retains ownership over them even above the child’s own autonomy