The Time That Remains is available free on youtube (with baked-in English subtitles). It is a semiautobiographical film by Elia Suleiman, that follows his Palestinian family across the years from 1948, the beginning of occupation to the then-present day in four chapters. I highly recommend it, a favourite of mine.
knit designs by kaffe fassett, 2003.
It is Winter. Babies are literally freezing to death in tents while Israel is blocking aids only miles away.
Acting like either masculinity or femininity is a privilege is such a white perisex take to me. Talk to any Black person ever. Talk to Asian men. Talk to intersex people. The privilege comes with the other attributes and experiences (class, race, etc) NOT the presentation*.
*This applies with cishet perisex people too. The privilege isn't them presenting in a conforming way, it's them being cishet perisex and doing that.
Just this week alone I've been engaging with people and remind them that gender conformity is not just "feminine woman/masculine man". It's also about proximity to whiteness—even being abled-body. I remember I saw someone saying that there is no way fem woman can understand gender non-comformity and/or being treated as tomboy, and it's so ridiculous because if they even spend time talking to black fems, they would know. Or even fems from my culture who is shamed constantly for their practice of femininity.
idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
white people not randomly drop the word white in posts very clearly not analysing the role of whiteness, purely to hide behind poc:
challenge impossible
tbh some actual critiques of white transmascs from a tmoc:
Thats it for now!
Hello everyone, my name is Eman.
For a while, our days passed in darkness after the Rapid Support Forces attacked the power plant at the Merowe Dam. No electricity, no sense of time, just long nights filled with worry and waiting. Life felt heavier than usual, but somehow we kept going.
By God’s mercy, the electricity has finally returned. It may seem like a small thing, but for us it felt like a breath after being underwater for too long. A reminder that not everything is lost, that we are still here.
I will continue posting about my campaign, not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary. I’m trying to build a safer, more dignified life for myself and my family in the middle of circumstances none of us chose. Every bit of support, every share, every kind word truly matters more than you might imagine.
If you’re able to stand with me, even just by sharing my story, please know that it means the world to me.
Thank you for listening, for caring, and for being here.
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Hope you'll get what you need ♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎
historical silence of an entire demographic should fill you with horror, fear, and dread, wondering "what happened here?", and not blanket assumptions that nothing happened at all. there is no mass demographic of human beings who simply sit around and do nothing, have no history, have no stories. if an entire demographic has its history missing, there is a reason for that. and that reason is damn near always violent.
