from now on we don’t want minors following us. we’re not an nsfw account by any means, but the age difference makes us uncomfortable, especially when we’re sharing posts about or discussing topics that are in a gray area, agewise. i’ve got Appropriateness ocd and it can make me anxious to even share nsfw jokes in spaces that aren’t Explicitly 18+

we’d been considering doing this for A While, but we don’t get real followers often, so it didn’t feel worth the effort. i doubt we even have any under-18 followers in the first place, but regardless: you miiiight start to see posts tagged as nsfw. we won’t be posting or reblogging anything explicit, for the record, but just a heads up in case you wanna block the tag or anything

we will Trust that all our current followers are adults, but we Will be blocking any new followers who are obviously underage

genderpunks:

people who can’t pass credit checks still need housing. people who don’t have credit at all still need housing. people who can’t pass criminal background checks still need housing. people who have been evicted before still need housing. people with past unpaid rent still need housing. people who can’t take out loans still need housing. people who can’t pay off their mountains of debt still need housing. people who don’t or can’t work still deserve housing. housing is not an “investment”. housing is not the act of “borrowing” property from someone else.

housing is necessary for human survival, no matter how poor, disabled, addicted, insane, or bad with money someone is. every single person on this planet requires housing. everyone. money does not belong in the affairs of housing. housing does not wait for money to come. housing is a human right, that EVERY human deserves, regardless of how much money they make, if any.

blankwhiteshield:

http://getnomad.app

link

link

saint-theophania:

don’t loose hope, there is love in life, there is community. people are coming together to protest all over the world, people are finding solidarity with each other even among the horror, people want to help. over the course of hours i saw hundreds come together from all over the world online to buy e-sim cards for the gaza reporters (they’ve succeeded in getting internet access to key online press reporters and are working to connect more), i’ve seen stories of people coming together in their grief and joy. despite the darkness there really is love. and i do believe that it is fundamental to the human condition.

Palestinians prepare food for the displaced families in the south of Gaza Strip. 10-28-2023

urunclesonic:

aforlorngazeintoyesterday:

narrator-navigator-storyteller:

aforlorngazeintoyesterday:

aforlorngazeintoyesterday:

anyways reminder that scars of any kind are morally neutral and not bad or harmful to show. if that shit is healed and not a literal open wound it is not fucking bad. it is not okay to shame or trigger warning a normal fucking part of someone’s body, including and especially when it’s a sign of physical or mental illness.

look every single time I make posts like this someone comes on my post like “not self harm scars though! those are triggering!” and fucking. think about what you’re implying for just one second here. you’re saying that if anyone has ever even once hit a mental point where they harmed themself in a way that left a lasting mark they can never show their body uncensored again. this is okay to you? you think this is fucking okay?

also, to expand on this: do not assume you know what are and aren’t self harm scars. i have ‘traditional self harm scar’ looking scars that are not self harm, just that i have a cat and scar easily. i have scars that do not look like self harm scars that very much are. you do not have the right to go up to someone and ask “hey, what are you scars from so i can decide if i can censor your body?”, nor the right to assume the origin of someone’s scars in order to censor their body. In general, no one’s scars or any other part of their body is your business

HEY THIS IS A BANGER FUCKING LINE.

blackpearlblast:

blackpearlblast:

the thing is israel basically belongs to the united states. it is funded by our government. they test weapons for us. when the us defends israel it is not defending a sibling nation where there might be room for them to break away or disagree, it is defending its own military interests. i think this is important for understanding why the states are acting this way and to make it clear this is something US citizens are directly involved in, as much as any other cruel, imperialistic war we are told to support, only to be apologized for as wrong decades later. you can apologize for the deaths once you have already benefitted from the deaths. that is how these things go but it is always essential to fight that pattern because we already know how it ends if we were to let it play out. none of this is new, for all the claims of complexity, it is the same old playbook and we must recognize it for what it is and fight it as we would any other demand for crimes against humanity in the name of “peace”. learn from the past, learn from each other, learn from those who have been fighting this struggle longer than we have been alive. mass opposition to US imperialism, to settler colonialism, to “”“justified”“” genocide is the only way.

to those in the notes asking what can be done, here are some resources to get you started. most of the scripts list is targeted towards a U.S. audience but should be possible to modify for use elsewhere depending on where you live.

call scripts (most can easily be modified into email scripts as well):

contact your city council to put out a statement in support of palestine

contact your senators/representatives to support the ceasefire bill

contact your senator to support something like the ceasefire bill (alternate script for senators who are voting in favor of israel)

contact your representative to support the ceasefire bill (alternate script for senators who are voting in favor of israel)

list of protests (including a link to free transportation to them and a way to donate to support that free transportation)

a post on how to archive the events and information being shared online

BDS has existed for a long time as a way to support palestine and protest israel’s violence, i highly recommend spending some time on their website

there are also many donation links going around which are compiled in other posts. i am currently getting a lot of mileage out of sharing the games for gaza bundle on itch, as it is very easy to bring up in conversation. if you are in discord servers with gaming channels, it is a very easy way to bring people’s conversation and attention back to palestine by sharing it.

keep sharing!! keep talking! don’t look away. give these resources to other people and keep listening to and boosting palestinian voices. that’s what has been asked of us. your words ARE important right now. there would not be so much effort to silence and shut down the public’s cries for justice and freedom if there were no effect.

pozechka:

ayin-me-yesh:

Ok I’ve decided to make some basic resources for anti-Zionist Jews who feel really alone and want to connect with each other or with our culture or history.

Reading List

Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race

The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement

Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund A Memoir of Interwar Poland

Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews

Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing

The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism

A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York

How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958

A History of Egyptian Communism Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution

The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity

(Do also check out Decolonize Palestine for the original resources as well as the reading list that centres Palestinians themselves)

News and Magazines

Jewish Currents [United States]

Treyf Podcast [Montreal, Quebec, Canada] (sadly defunct but you can listen to their older, archived podcasts which include some great interviews)

Edit: I think it’s also worth adding The Electronic Intifada. It’s not explicitly Jewish, but it often features interviews with and opinion pieces by anti-Zionist Jews while primarily being an outlet for Palestinians themselves.

Organisations

Jewish Voice for Peace [United States]

IfNotNow [United States]

Independent Jewish Voices Canada [Canada]

Jewdas [United Kingdom]

Jews Against Fascism [Australia]

Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation [Aotearoa / New Zealand]

Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices [Aotearoa / New Zealand]

Synagogues

Tzedek [Chicago, Illinois, United States]

Chavurah For A Free Palestine at Kehilla Community Synagogue [Piedmont, California, United States]

Edit: Have also been told I can add Kadima Reconstructionist Community [Seattle, Washington, United States] to the list!

if I may, I would also add:

Reading List

Antisionisme, une histoire juive

A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists

“Not by Might, Nor by Power:” The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism

Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel

Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish Voices of Dissent

Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948

Organizations &c.

Jews Against White Supremacy [international]

Judaism On Our Own Terms [North America]

Kavod Boston [United States]

Loud Jew Collective [Australia]

Een Andere Joodse Stem - Another Jewish Voice [Belgium]

Shabbes 24/7 Collective [Belgium]

Junts - Associació catalana de jueus i palestins [Catalonia]

Tsedek ! Collectif juif décolonial [France]

Jüdische Stimme [Germany]

Jüdisch Antikolonial [Switzerland]

TzedekUKI [United Kingdom & Ireland]

while some of these do not describe themselves as anti-zionist, I think it can nevertheless be a good start to meeting like-minded people and building explicitly anti-zionist alliances

Miscellaneous

Disillusioned [podcast]

Matzpen [website, documents, videos]

Radical Jewish Calendar

Making Mensches

Queer Mikveh Project

nativenews:

ri-writing:

allronix:

arkan-dreamwalker:

Age-old advice which is more relevant nowadays rather than less. This is the second iteration of it though. The original version is: “Never write anything in a letter you wouldn’t want to see in print.” Advice handed down by my mother from her forbears.

From the IT department. We archive EVERYTHING. And Outlook autosaves every couple seconds.

“Dance like no one is watching.  Email and text like it will one day be read in court.”

theotherhappyplace:

vhagarswattle:

My friend reminded me of one of my favorite images on the internet ever

i say this to myself like, once a day. out loud. its just part of me now.