Meg Ryan Dedicating Her New Movie To Nora 🙌
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Books To Read For Genderfluid Visibility Week
Happy Genderfluid Visibility Week! Here are some books with genderfluid main characters you should read and/or preorder:
Book titles:
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- Dragonfall by L.R. Lam
- Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall
- Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray
- Nine of Swords, Reversed by Xan West
- Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
- The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle (comes out November 7, 2023)
- A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford (comes out December 5, 2023)
Control | Scenery
BOTTOMS (2023) written by Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott
Yasha and Obann in the style of Artemisa Gentileschi's David and Goliath for @artists-guild-of-exandria style swap!
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!
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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.)
Carry your girlfriend
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HAPPY THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER!
tfw that nerd from the sixth informs you that the cavalier you killed like a piece of meat is now slowly but surely becoming an indelible part of you and you just have to live with that
It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind - songs in the pines.
period drama + sunset
- ATONEMENT (2007)
- JANE EYRE (2011)
- PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)
- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
- ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)
- SANDITON (2019 - 2023)
BELLA RAMSEY in Catherine, Called Birdy.
Might you share some of your passions? Hobbies? Your soul’s deepest inclination.
Jane B. par Agnès V. / Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988) | dir. Agnès Varda
“The thing about that t-shirt that was so important to me, in terms of having it included in the pilot was the idea that she’s probably been wearing it since college. And it’s probably, like, threadbare, about to fall off her body, but she just will not let go. She will not let go. And when you see her wearing that shirt, she’s surrounded by a bunch of girls in evening gowns - She’s actually lying on the floor of a limousine, taking them basically to their slaughter. I always think of it as like a vegan working in a slaughterhouse.” - ‘Unreal’ showrunner Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
what the fuck is going on this year. january through june didnt happen. july is a distant memory. august and september were the longest months of my life. october ended in 5 seconds. why is november here already this isn’t right
It's the season erosion from the climate crisis, combined with a hyperindividualistic and stress-bound society. It warps your sense of time.
awesome. how do i stop all that though
The Marvels with Harrison Ford - Director Nia DaCosta, Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani.












