here’s to a liberated palestine and an end to the occupation in 2024، إن شاء الله
FUCK this government so fucking much i hate it here
Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add
The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦
Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧
Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪
The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬
Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺
Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽
Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵
Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰
The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺
Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱
Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬
The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷
The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱
Gay rights protests in India 🇮🇳
Today, May 15th 2022, is the 74th Nakba Day. It is a day for rememberance, mourning, and resistance for Palestinians
Non Palestinians, please use this day to be loud about your solidarity with us. Today more than other days please use your platforms and your voices to amplify the voices of Palestinians and condemn Israel on every platform you can... Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Seek out Palestinian journalists and activists who are talking about Israel's crimes. People like Mohammed El Kurd and Muna El Kurd, Eye On Palestine, Abier Khatib, Mariam Barghouti...
Supporting Palestinian journalists and activists is especially vital in the wake of Shireen Abu Akleh's assassination at the hands of the occupation forces just days earlier.
Please check out the BDS website for resources. There are webinars and online rallies and ways you can protest online from your own home. And try to learn more about the different kinds and of boycotts you can take part in, as well as how and why these boycotts are important. The site also has lists of things you can easily boycott including action plans.
(via the BDS website)
DecolonizePalestine is another amazing resource. If you don't know much about the crisis in Palestine, please educate yourself so you can educate others.
If you're able to protest in person, this post wonderfully put together by @soullsword also has information on Nakba Day protests all around the world.
And donate if you can! To organisations like:
Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), which provides emergency medical services for Palestinian children.
United Palestine Appeal (UPA) - an organization supporting Palestinian socio-economic development
If any Palestinians have anything to add, please feel free 💖🇵🇸
This bonfire night, my friends, please remember your safety tips!
Check your bonfires for hedgehogs! They like to burrow into the wood pile and they can do this overnight.
Don't go back to an unexploded firework! Leave it! Self explanatory.
Ensure your gunpowder barrels are directly below the tory benches for maximum impact don't let even one of them escape kill them all in one swoop do it fucking do it burn it all to the ground and spit on the ashes
Be aware of the spitting fat from a roast if you're cooking over a fire! Wear an apron and gloves.
"In another life, you were my babe. In another life, you were the sunshine of my lifetime. What would you trade the pain for? I'm not sure. I used to be a real go-getter. I used to think it'd all get better"
10 miles away from where the Derek chauvin trial is taking place, police murdered Daunte Wright, a Black man, today on April 11th. They then left his body on the ground for 6 hours. They pulled him over for having an air freshener obstructing his rear view mirror. This can't be reformed. Abolish the police
some of my favourite prince phillip tweets so far
it is also worth noting that this will be used to cover up the inaction on the cost of living crisis. expect a bunch of "uk coming together to mourn the queen" bullshit soon when families are choosing between heating their homes and feeding their kids
let me just say, as a young girl, that was the goddamn best thing i had ever seen. it was a religious experience. i cried because that is my life. people telling me i cant do things. that i’m too emotional. that i’m not good enough or strong enough or fast enough because i’m a girl.
do you know how i felt, walking out of that cinema? there was an energy inside me, an awakening, i felt free and powerful, i felt like i could do anything. i felt like my sex wasn’t holding me back.
she wasn’t sexualized, she wasn’t a side character, there was no romance (i still ship carol/maria thou) it was just her in a purely singular way. she didn’t need a guy to pull her punches, she didn’t need a slutty costume and over-sexualized fight moves.
I get a ride with my friends aunt to a youth group. on the way, she was talking about her son (young, cis, straight, white, privileged) seeing captain marvel the day before me. he said it was ‘too feminist’.
oh?
OH??
really, a movie about a women constantly pushed down by men is feminist? a movie about empowering young girls and women is feminist? a move about the most powerful character in the MCU as a women fighting past sexism is feminist? a women rebelling against social roles is feminist?
gee, who would have guessed?
later, on the ride back in a different car, the driver, a 40-year-old father of daughters said that he’s just young and confused, doesn’t know what’s right and whats wrong.
excuse me?
I am a FUCKING TEENAGER, barely out of my ‘tween’ years, and i am not sexist, i am not racist, i am not homophobic. it’s not anything about being young. it’s about being a decent fucking human being. it’s about accepting the struggles women go though everyday and opening your eyes, because it’s there, in the media, online, in people all around you. it’s in the girl that gets catcalled walking down the street. it’s the girl crying in the bathroom because someone called her fat and ugly, a whore. it’s in the jokes that aren’t jokes. it’s in how me, my mother, and my sisters do housework while my father sits on the couch. it’s about how i get overlooked for everything, simply because i have breasts and long hair and a vagina. it’s how i get remarks like ‘are you on you period?’ ‘i guess it’s that time of the month’ and ‘crazy bitch’ everytime i open my mouth to talk about something important, get labelled hysterical, and radical and a feminazi.
it’s how every women in the world has to fight for anything, how many governments fight against them, about how trump is defunding planned parenthood, how pads and tampons are luxury items, about how women have to fight to be allowed into things like the air force, like the army, even harder into sciences.
it’s not hard to find, to see, it doesn’t matter how old you are, how confused you are. it is not hard to find, it is staring you in the face, it is screaming and screaming but you plug your ears with it’s her fault, she was drunk/wearing a short dress/high/leading him on/slept with his friend and cover your eyes with that doesn’t happen, i’ve never seen it. (you’ve never looked.)
the truth is that man – boy, is a who has to call his mother for instructions on how to make spaghetti is living a lie, that he is better, he is smarter, based on his skin and who his dick likes, how he sees his body and how much is in his parent’s back account. he has accomplished nothing in his life, (from what i can tell.) I, a girl about 8 years younger than him, has done so much more, just on the fact i’m not a piece of shit that hates equality.
I have to deal with the same shit everyday, so does any woman, and you have the gall to say that it wasn’t valid because you, chad, haven’t had the same experiences?
get a life, everyone who hates captain marvel for not being sex on legs, ignoring women’s issues and continuing this toxic culture of male superheros and oppression of girls.
get a fucking life or i will end yours, and so will every girl who grew up watching captain marvel and knowing they are stronger than people say.