TGIRLS WANTED! HELP WITH ART PROJECT NEEDED!!!

i am working on an art project in response to the constant ban waves and harassment of trans women on tumblr. all i ask for is a submission of a picture with your face in it (i will be censoring your face in the project but if you don't want credited ask me and i will be sure you remain anonymous)

you can also pre-censor if thats more comfortable for you!

hey everyone this is my friend, she does pretty cool art stuff! I'm gonna be in this one, do you wanna come with me?

forever obsessed with how diaspora jewish languages were born out of hebrew and then they themselves influenced modern hebrew. hebrew birthed them and was in turn changed by them. what is that if not a mother.

I bring sort of a 'peasants of the past were not as debased,uneducated and dirty as a lot of pesudo-medieval fiction makes them out to be but this new wave of attempting to sweep the very real indentured servitude, corporal ownership, poverty and lack of basic human rights under the rug isn't achieving what you think it's achieving' vibe to the party that people don't really like

zoning out or imagining things is not dissociation. dissociation is a severe trauma response. fucking stop with this. you were not traumatized by your math homework and dissociating at your desk, you were uninterested and zoned out.

i don’t know how to explain to my non-jewish audience what it means that two torah scrolls were destroyed in an arson attack but what i can tell you is that during the los angeles wildfires, three staff at the synagogue in pasadena made 4+ trips each back into the building to rescue torah scrolls while the fire was close enough that ashes were falling in the parking lot.

what i can tell you is that we have a holiday once a year where we hold the scrolls and hug them and dance around them. what i can tell you is that they are written with love by hand by trained scribes who take exquisite care to make sure each word, each letter, is perfect. when we read from them we do not touch the parchment directly so that it won’t be harmed by the oils from our fingers.

we make beautiful clothing for our torah scrolls, embroidered cloth coverings and shining worked metal crowns to sit atop them or carved wood cases plated with gold and silver. the torah is to us the words of the living God, the tree of life, the record of who are and where we’re going, and the torah scroll is our most holy ritual object.

the torah scroll never touches the floor. if it is dropped accidentally, everyone in the room must fast for forty days in mourning. the desecration of a torah scroll is the utmost level of desecration that can be done to a jewish community, short of killing its members. nazis burnt and destroyed torah scrolls as part of their campaign of terror against the us even before widescale mass deportations began. in ancient times, the romans wrapped the rabbis who led our community in torah scrolls when they burnt them at the stake.

this past shabbat, in the middle of the night, a synagogue in jackson, mississippi was intentionally set on fire. the library was burnt to ashes and five torah scrolls were damaged, with two of completely destroyed.

i don’t know how many books were burnt, how many jewish holy texts and how many stories of jewish life and philosophy and love and resilience flew up with the smoke. i do know that the library was where the congregation had shabbat services and torah study. it was a sacred space. this is not the first time that people who hate us have destroyed our sacred spaces and our holy texts and our torah scrolls in order to terrorize us. i dearly wish it was the last.

@rosesonkittens They tend to last a long time because of how carefully they are stored and used. Also, scribes will touch up the lettering on old Torah scrolls to keep them kosher (ie, intact enough to be used for ritual readings). There are Torah scrolls that are hundreds of years old.

Often, very old or historic ones are not used or are used only for special occasions, and many synagogues have Torah scrolls that were rescued from the Holocaust. The synagogue in Mississippi that was set on fire had one of these; thankfully it was unharmed because it was in a glass case. There’s a painful irony to that too, though.

But to actually answer your question — when a Torah scroll is worn or damaged beyond repair, it is ceremonially buried in a cemetery, like a deceased person. Old and worn printed holy books are also buried, sometimes in a grave with a deceased person.

Thank you. That's fascinating and sad. The painful irony article made it even sadder.

I'm sorry for their loss even more than I was when my brain was seeing it like if my childhood church, a historical building since 1812, was burnt down by people against protestants suddenly... And feeling sad at the loss of all that history and a beloved building.

But the way the scrolls are talked about it seems almost like whatever monster did this did succeed in killing something living even if they killed no one alive.

I'm sorry for Jackson, Mississippi's loss.

Somebody on another post--not Jewish--commented on the financial cost of losing a Torah scroll. I want to make it clear that when we hear about a tragedy like this, that doesn't even cross our minds. The reaction is something visceral, like hearing about the death of a loved one: This wasn't supposed to happen.

"Why not make female heroes more feminine so girls know you don't have to be masculine to save the world" is misguided. The target audience of heroic adventure genre is not children who actually save the world in a literal sense, it's children who want a cathartic outlet for the struggles and injustice they face. And one of the most common types of injustice that many girls and children assumed to be girls are subjected to is forced feminization.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

State terrorism charges have been dropped against Luigi Mangione. He is still on trial for the lesser charge of 2nd-degree murder.

Hope his lawyers are smart enough to have the murder charges dropped on a technicality after all those government officials declared him guilty without a trial

IT'S HAPPENING

Thank you so much! I really appreciate this <3

A mutual told me it would be better to reach out to them via asks because they can see them better but doesn't Tumblr keep alerting you that you have a message until you finally hit on it? Or am I wrong?? In my opinion asks can much more easily get lost within other notifications. But maybe that's just me.

i feel like what is often read in transmascs and lesbians as a lack of care to police the boundaries of womanhood/femaleness is really better explained by trying to understand the patriarchal need to control not just people classed as women, but what can even be considered deviance from that class. this is not yet a fully formed thought but. something something the way the public sphere is masculinized and the private sphere is feminized. the way that the policing and punishment of deviant masculinity is made a public spectacle, while the policing and punishment of deviant femininity happens whenever possible behind closed doors. the way that queen victoria didn't want to enact a law banning lesbian sex because she didn't want to publicly admit it happened. the way that bodies perceived as female go understudied and health issues ignored, the way intersex variations in such bodies go ignored unless it causes issues with fertility or having vaginal sex with a penis. this is not a hard binary to be clear, just general trends, but still important to consider. there is a sense that the patriarchy wants everyone to know what it looks like to fail at being a man (creates a culture of scarcity around manhood) but it very much wants to restrict and control how we are able to conceive of failing to be a woman. it's quite literally unspeakable! and people mistake the silence for absence constantly

If your character is clocking Jin Guangyao's detached look and fake smile at first glance, you just made him ooc 🗣🗣🗣

really hilarious and unsexy when hetero romantasy authors refer to love interests as males and females. you sound like david attenborough narrating a special documentary on two turtles humping in the mud

i don't care if he's the king of the fae. if that man called me a desirable female i'd have him gelded

Here's a video of an ICE agent using their $75,000+ car (that tax money bought) to ram civilian's cars through red lights. (That I can't just download for some reason.)

They've been going door-to-door as well, just looking for another flimsy excuse to kill people.

They kill somebody who they pretend was trying to hit them with her car, and then they actually try to cause car accidents. By their logic they should be punished the same way Renee Good was punished.