Hey y'all -- I'm making this post on behalf of Sami and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza. You can find their fundraiser here. I think we can all do more for Gaza, more for others — you don’t want to move through the rest of your life with the regret that you didn’t help when you could have. We've all wished for someone to be there for us in a time of need, and we can be that for other people.

Sami's family has a lot of young children and I ask you to please consider donating if you have the means-- even something small-- or reblogging to circulate their fundraiser. Anything helps! Thank you so, so much for even reading. FUNDRAISER.

Please, friends, I call on you from within the genocide, hunger and war. Please help us by donating to me and my family.

Did you know that your donation helps an entire family that has been subjected to non-stop bombing for two years? I hope you donate so that we can just live. 🥺

Now, in the midst of the bombing and genocide, I say to you, thank you to every person who participated and donated to help us in these critical times.

Everyone is talking about the Freedom Flotilla, and I say to you, from the midst of the bombing and annihilation, we are here, closer than any fleet. Please donate, donate. My family is here, appealing to you.

JURIN: ‘GALA’ (from 1st full album) concept photos

The Mikeno, a boat in the Sumud Flotilla, captained by Muhammad Kuchuktigin, recently broke through the blockade! Though the ship was intercepted, this will hopefully not be the last to make it into Palestinian waters.

While The Mikeno did not make it to shore, you can still directly support fundraisers now by donating to on the ground groups and Palestinian families.

PLEASE consider donating to Nader's family -- he's a young man who's been working tirelessly to feed and house his household and little cousins. FUNDRAISER HERE.

Unfortunately, neither the Monocqua nor the Alma nor any other ship from the fleet of 50 ships arrived. The Zionists intercepted and hijacked them in international waters. We were impatiently waiting for them to lift the blockade imposed on us for a long time. This is not the first crime of the Zionists. They always commit crimes like this. Come and save us from them. Please help us and donate anything to us, please.

Help my friend Nader's family get out of the Gaza Strip safely and well. They have been suffering there for almost two years. Every donation helps them stay alive longer. Please donate now.

Unfortunately, everyone share, but very few donate. Please, my friend, please donate to us. We really need your donations. Please donate.

This post has been shared by almost 400 people and only 2 have donated. Why are you ignoring us? We are in dire need of your support. Please, please donate to us now. Please.

please consider helping nader out! everything helps!

Guys, please don't ignore us, don't ignore our suffering and what we are going through here. The situation is very difficult. Life in tents is not easy and is very expensive. Please donate to us so that we can continue living. Please.

Guys, please help us. You are our last hope to stay alive. Your donations help us a lot. Please do not stop participating and donating. Please.

Guys, it has been two hours and no one has donated to us. Please do not stop donating to us. Please donate. Please help us and do not ignore us. Please.

Nader still needs your help!

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Come on, please, my dears, don't leave us alone. Help us and donate to us, please.

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

Helena Janecic – "City Gals" series (2011-2012)

does anyone want a commission crawls on my hands and knees

7 dollar for notes app doodles/sketches!!!!!!

i will draw Anything. (no um inflation, or caca peepee diapy stuff or outright porn or illegal!!!) i can draw a nakey tho. and a gore!! just ask and I'll tell youuuuu!!! i also need free reign for poses it's just better that way i promise! i would also like a clear reference that i can see, I don't want to think up an animal pls I will suffer ilu

i use kofi! and payment happens first before i draw, pls talk to me (dm here or on discord if you know me) first before paying (i will dm you my kofi)! bots are rampant, can you mention this post when you dm me so I'm not paranoid? :3????? :D

100000000 spots open ! all drawings will be posted on @juen-bug that's my art trade/commission tumblr (message me here tho not juen-bug)

every commission is added to my google sheets no one will be forgotten!!! turnover will be up to a week but probably sooner could be same day okay could be less than an hour depending on work load

everything includes: fanart, ocs, guys, you, pets, any animal, landscape, robot, frog, my mom, your mom, me, my ocs, bugs, dinos, plushies, anything! i can also do bubble lettering and pretty cursive if you just want your name or something :3

boosting some more uvu sorry yeeoghhh

My partner made this comic, and it is beautiful and amazing, and you’re all missing out by not seeing the original on paper because it’s even prettier there!

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

america is an imperialist behemoth that needs to be obliterated, that's fact. but if you're a white person from france or canada or australia etc etc who constantly talks about how all problems come from america with the implication that your country isn't that bad i think. perhaps. there's some self reflection that needs to happen

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) dir. Liz Garbus

I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding

@mortuarybees​: #i think its deeply important for all of us to come to terms with the fact that its actually fine to be mildly inconvenienced

I’m begging you—please listen.✋️😭

Tonight our sky exploded with fire, and a neighbor’s home was swallowed in flames.

The ground shakes, the air never stops screaming. We cannot sleep. We cannot even breathe without fear.

The bombing grows closer every hour, and we have nothing left—no money for transport, no safe place to run, only the terror of waiting for death.

This might be the last time anyone hears my voice.😢🚨

Please, I am pleading with you: share my cry for help, or give whatever you can so my family can escape before it’s too late.💔🍉🇵🇸🙏

We have two options: either face death in the north or move south. 💔🙏😢🫂

{ Photographed from the tent by my husband, Mohammed Ayyad. }

•We have received a threat to evacuate the area. 😭

•We are living in a tent between towers at risk of being bombed.😢

🔴 We cannot move south on our own as it requires a lot of money and effort, especially since I am in the last two weeks of pregnancy and cannot walk long distances.🚷

🔴Please, your support can help us secure a new place to relocate, or otherwise, we will face death alone.🙏🙏🫂💔💔💔

🔗 [https://gofund.me/69d9ed7c]

✅vetted! #14 on gazavetters listed here

✅Vetted! #6 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds list here, #451 on vetted list by el-shab-hussien, MohAyesh and Nabulsi,

✅ vetted by bilal-sala7,Gaza Fundraiser List Number #20

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Deadline 20 September

Subject: Collecting money to buy food

Current process:

USD 4,720 / $6,220

Vatted by @90-ghost

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Vatted by @fairuzfan

Every day in Gaza has become a struggle for survival. After being forced to flee from Gaza under relentless bombardment, my family now displaced in the south with nothing but the clothes we carried. Here, even the most basic needs food and clean water are out of reach. Prices have soared beyond what we can afford, and every meal feels uncertain. We are exhausted, hungry, and trying to keep hope alive in the face of despair.

We urgently need to raise $1,500 to provide food, clean water, and basic necessities for my family in these extremely difficult days. We urgently need your help to survive this tragedy. Your support can give us the chance to have a meal, to drink clean water, and to hold on through these dark days. Your support means more than words Please, if you can, help us hold on through this dark time

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I think it's important now more than ever to understand that the media is always trying to misdirect from the horrific violence going on in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Horrors are still happening. Bombs are still falling. People still need help.

Please consider donating to my dear friend Nader -- a young man in Gaza right now who's been tirelessly raising funds so his family can eat and afford care. We cannot forget Gazans are people just like us who deserve support in their time of need. FUNDRAISER HERE.

Hello, I will not prolong my speech. Frankly, I do not have the energy to write. You are all seeing, via TV, phone and computer, what is happening in Gaza, broadcast live in the last two days. The situation has become terrifying. Yes, the bombing does not stop. Never, never stops, and everything is close. We are tired of the many appeals and the world is ignoring us. (Please help us, share and donate. We really need assistance.) Donate if you can, please.

once again asking any of followers to help Nader here, nobody deserves to be put through this

During the past three days, it was as if we were literally living in hell. I did not sleep for more than a few hours. I have not witnessed bombing like this since 7/10. It is horrific. I feel as if my heart wants to jump out of my chest and my mind and head are about to explode. It is truly unbearable. Please save us.

I think we have endured enough, and that is enough. We can no longer endure. We can no longer endure. We are tired. Understand this. Stop the war. Stop the war. Stop the war.

Guys I am holding on to hope for my family who depend on me I am fighting for myself and for my family I will never stop trying and trying and trying we deserve life please come support us share and donate please

I really can't imagine how desperate Nader and his family are right now as they try to seek help in every way possible. Please help them. Please share and donate.

Mister Rogers

Dang, I gotta start feelin’ better about myself.