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i hope you were charmed by my tendency to fall into long silences

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it's me your little snoopy bitch

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Some old trinkets given to me by my mom's friend.

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The Vibrant Doors of Lisbon

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google how to reach salvation no god no religion in 5 minutes

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2025:

KEEP IT MOVING AND NEVER DESPAIR

RETURN TO THE FOUNDATIONS WITHOUT DIRTYING THE WATER

BE OPEN TO ASTONISHING PAIN

TO ENDURE IS EVERYTHING

I'M SECURE BECAUSE I'M CRAZY

FIRST AN EGO, AND THEN PAIN, AND THEN THE SINGING

EVERY SECOND COUNTS

LOSE IT ON A WINNING STREAK

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

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Louise Bourgeois, I Did Everything I Could Every Day of My Life I

Fabric, 25.4 x 69.9 cm

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⏰ 🚨 attention please🙏🚨

Dear friends and compassionate supporters,

This is Eman Zaqout, from Occupied Gaza, Palestine. I am a Biotechnologist ,🩸💉 and scientific researcher contacting you at a really desperate moment.

I am seeking your assistance to raise funds for saving our lives, facing the starvation in Gaza and help me achieve my doctoral degree dream after being awarded OWSD PhD Fellowship for inspirational women🍉👩‍🎓

just like any motivated and loving life woman, and for years, I poured my heart and soul into my work at Al-Shifa Hospital and Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hospital, as Biotechnology Specialist serving cancer patients with compassion and skill.

photos of Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hospital before and after the IDF destruction

photos of Al-Shifa Hospital before and after the IDF destruction

I also gave medical lectures to students at different universities and training centers in Gaza👇☑

As a result of my outstanding grades in my study and the excellent performance in my job, I have been a holder of different scholarship and I am active participant in many research visits and scientific missions. 💪The last scholarship as at McGill University in Canada three months ago before the starting of the genocide in Gaza.😫

However,😥

My life changed dramatically when Israeli military launched a sweeping war against Gaza. My home and our neighborhood in the North have been destroyed along with our belongings and precious memories early in this crisis.😢💔

My job and my husband's job are gone. Israeli military forced us to evacuate from the north Gaza to the south where they claimed it would be the safe zone but it is not at all. Our sweet home and neighborhood have been destroyed 😥😭💔

Forced to flee with nothing but the clothes on our backs, today, we find ourselves sheltering in a displacement camp lacking access to sanitation, medical supplies, food and drinkable water. I will not talk a lot about the dire and unbearable life we have to go through, as no word can express it fairly 🥺😣

The good news in the midst of this tragedy, that I am one of the 22 women from the developing world who have been awarded OWSD- PhD fellowship to pursue my PhD study in Malaysia🍉💪. But now I am stuck in Gaza unable to achieve my dream because Israeli army has occupied and closed all the border crossings 😭💔

Meet 22 fellows awarded OWSD PhD fellowship

This genocide has been 11 months of hell and horror. We have reached a point where there is no hope left for us here in Gaza, where we are unfortunately just waiting for our turn to die.

Nevertheless,

I refuse to succumb to despair, holding on to the belief that brighter days lie ahead.

With your kindness and generosity🥺, I hope to survive the genocide and reclaim the path to achieving my doctorate 💉🩸

Your compassionate aid would mean the world to me and my family.🥺🙏❤🇵🇸✌

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I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!

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these are SOO CUTEEEEEE ❤️❤️❤️ EEEE

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bumper stickers by clare wigney, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 × 52 × 1.6 inches

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men are fucked up but i like it when they have nose rings

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MARGARET QUALLEY by Gray Sorrenti for Beyond Noise Issue, 2024