some of my fav tattoos from the last several weeks 🪶
*me eating something that I know will make my tummy hurt* i don’t really care if this makes my tummy hurt
*a few hours later when my tummy hurts* oh… the quencies …
My grandmother talks about how growing up in Belfast, Ireland, British soldiers would raid the local Irish people’s houses, steal from them, smash up their homes or burn them out, beat up or kill or imprison the men, rape the women, and then justify their actions by saying the local people were harbouring IRA terrorists and illegal weapons stores even though they weren’t. Any time the British committed an act of violence against the Irish it was the same excuse.
And every time Israel blows up a school, hospital, refugee camp killing hundreds of civilians in the process and justifies it by saying they were harbouring Hamas it makes me think of that. Colonialism never changes.
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I’m incredibly happy and so so soooo thankful for my wonderful boyfriend @kapitein-oranghien-29 for doing my boys Andy and Johnny in his patreon requests.
The holidays are hard, but with a warm reminder of my guys and my amazing love, I can make it.
Was verry cute indeed!!!! Reminder to my patrions, you can have ocs or existing characters drawn by me (in colour) ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
joe biden is a rabid dog he should be beaten to death with a stick
i don’t fucking give a single shit about your stupid ass electoral politics, im an anarchist from another fucking continent and we all constantly have to put up with all the fuckass shit ur useless government does, no matter which old useless dude with power fantasies you put in the oval office
since everyone seems so very intent on missing my point
The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn’t Know
Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off
LGBT Activist Scott Long’s Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources
(includes some of the reading material recced below)
The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List
List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal
Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)
- Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury
- Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge
- (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications
- (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press
- (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books
- (2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications
- (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press
- Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan
- Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books
- Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.
- Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press
- Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press
- (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
- (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press
- Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)
- Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press
- Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press
- Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House
Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:
- Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)
- Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine
- Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books
- Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books
- Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury
- Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury
- Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury
- Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books
- The Works of Mahmoud Darwish
Human Rights Reports & Documents
- Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’
- UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022
- UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022
- Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022
- Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021
- Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)
- Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004
Films
- Lemon Tree (2008)
- Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)
- Naila and the Uprising (2017)
- Waltz with Bashir (2008)
- Omar (2013)
- Paradise Now (2005)
- 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
- The Gatekeepers (2012)
- Foxtrot (2017)
- Gaza Mon Amour (2020)
- The Viewing Booth (2020)
- Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive
- The Village Under the Forest (2013)
- Palestine Film Institute’s films on Gaza
- Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin
- Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary
- ‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)
Sources:
- https://www.972mag.com/
- https://jewishcurrents.org/
- Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series
- Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1
- Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper
NGOs
- B’Tselem
- Breaking the Silence
- Al Haq
- Palestinian Feminist Collective
- Yesh Din
- DAWN
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- Gisha
- Forensic Architecture
Instagram Accounts
Twitter(X) Accounts
- @PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies
- @medicalaidpal
- @middleeastmatters
- @KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch
- @YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS
- @ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states
- @btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre
- @MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group
- @rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal
- @sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)
- @alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation
- @FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories
- @Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation
- @sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer
- @EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer
- @saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)
- @Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO
- @_ZachFoster - Historian
Share widely!
(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it’s fixed.)
From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)
French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi
It’s worth noting too that Marie-Pierre Pruvot is still alive. She’s 87 years old. She was a showgirl and later in the 70s became a literature teacher, a quite esteemed literature teacher at that.
Once again, I HAD to know…and it gets better, y'all. X3 The Greyhound is probably the best pic, but this artist LOVES DOGS. LOL
22 Mar 1910, Chicago Tribune, Page 5. It’s accompanying an article about the Chicago Kennel Club show. LOL
Ok, but that’s the most accurate greyhound picture I’ve ever seen.
It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the “Torture is bad” principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor’s visit. If you’re worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.
TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord.
Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread.
HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI.
Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual.
Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online.
Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.
Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.
How to be a trans ally 101, from To Wong Foo (1995)
i’m reminded of those posts from trans women who stated in their experiences that by far most cis women they interact with in person aren’t transphobic towards them. and that recent study that showed the uk population is more accepting of trans people than they perceive each other to be (ie 2 uk polls, “do you think most people are trans friendly” vs “are you trans friendly”). i think there’s more love and acceptance in this world than transphobes want you to believe. you are not as hated as legislators and conservative news outlets would lead you to believe.
Did I ever tell you folks about the time I saved Sesame Street?
Back in 2002, I was attending the University of Oregon (my second go at college, and my third school) and had the morning off from classes, and was idly flipping channels (because people used to do that) and landed on PBS as Sesame Street came on.
Now, I grew up on Sesame Street, and I’m still a big fan of the layers of humor they manage, so I figured I’d watch a bit and probably flip away if I got bored. In the street segment, Oscar the Grouch was watching some grouch TV station as it played an ad for an amusement park, something like “Sick Flags Over Yuckyworld”, and in this ad, in that early internet time, they included a URL: yuckyworld.org .
I thought this was hilarious, and particularly loved the fact that it was a .org domain, so I got on my computer to see what CTW/Sesame Workshop had put up.
They hadn’t put anything up.
They’d neglected to register the domain.
I immediately had horrific visions of what might show up there. Anybody could snap the name up. 4chan wasn’t around yet, but it was the heyday of Something Awful and rotten.com, and I had huge fears of somebody putting up some shock site just in time to hit the afternoon broadcast.
So I registered the domain myself, and within 15 minutes or so had a barebones site up, just a text affair to hold the place, explaining what had gone on and letting the showrunners know that I’d give them the site if they contacted me.
They did indeed contact me by the next day, and I arranged to transfer the domain back to them. I think the situation was that they’d intended to register the domain — the next segment was Oscar getting an adult to help him look up the site on the web, so it was intended as a teaching thing — but paperwork had gotten lost and the episode aired before the site was ready. I got some nice letters from parents thanking me for looking out for their kids, and the SesameStreet.com folks sent me a t-shirt, a mug, and one of those “autographed” photos of the Muppet cast.
So, anyway, that’s my contribution to children’s television history.
awww that’s wonderful
being mailed is enrichment for us girls
good girls get USPS and bad girls get fedex to dump them in a ditch
GET IN THE ENVELOPE.











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