Rest Well, Hyacinthus

The effects of the war on Gaza are still present in the details of daily life, especially in the lives of those who lost their homes and found no alternative but tents.

I am the mother of a child born during the war, specifically at the height of the bombing, amidst the sounds of explosions, fear, and insecurity. Today, two years later, we still live in a tent.

Living in a tent is not life, but a daily struggle to secure the most basic rights.

Pure drinking water is not easily available. We have to carry it from long distances, and we may wait for hours to get enough water for one day.

Food is also not always available, and we often lack basic ingredients. Sometimes I don't have anything to feed my child and have to wait for aid or donations to arrive.

There is no electricity, no place to shower, and no toilets.

We are not looking for luxury, but for the bare minimum of dignity: a roof over our heads, clean water, and enough food.

Please, any donation, no matter how small, will help us in our war for survival.

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Why all this silence? No one is doing anything. Israeli missiles bombed the tents of the displaced at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The bodies of children, women and men were charred. No one was able to save them from the severity of the fire. Why all this failure, O world, where are the rulers? Where are the institutions that claim to be institutions that protect human rights? Where are we? We are going. We have never seen anything like this before. Please make our voice heard to every official, to everyone who can do nothing. O God, be with us, O God

Please, I do not want to lose any of my family, any of my friends, or my relatives. Please save us, stop all this injustice, all these massacres.

These are simple scenes from what happens every day in the north. If people do not die from the missiles, they die from hunger. There is nothing more unfair to humanity than this.

I have been corresponding with Duaa, her son Omar is 5 years old and in dire condition, he is autistic and needs treatment due to the trauma of the bombing and missiles. Their family is still in Gaza in horrific conditions under threat of disease and death, Duaa's father had a stroke due to the unrelenting stress and is unable to get treatment. She and Omar were able to escape to Egypt but she cannot work as Egypt requires them to have a permit.

Why all this silence? No one is doing anything. Israeli missiles bombed the tents of the displaced at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The bodies of children, women and men were charred. No one was able to save them from the severity of the fire. Why all this failure, O world, where are the rulers? Where are the institutions that claim to be institutions that protect human rights? Where are we? We are going. We have never seen anything like this before. Please make our voice heard to every official, to everyone who can do nothing. O God, be with us, O God

Please, I do not want to lose any of my family, any of my friends, or my relatives. Please save us, stop all this injustice, all these massacres.

These are simple scenes from what happens every day in the north. If people do not die from the missiles, they die from hunger. There is nothing more unfair to humanity than this.

I have been corresponding with Duaa, her son Omar is 5 years old and in dire condition, he is autistic and needs treatment due to the trauma of the bombing and missiles. Their family is still in Gaza in horrific conditions under threat of disease and death, Duaa's father had a stroke due to the unrelenting stress and is unable to get treatment. She and Omar were able to escape to Egypt but she cannot work as Egypt requires them to have a permit.

(I am certain this anon is writing about THIS ADDITION I made to @mousidy's original post)

OK anon, I'm going to respond as though this is in good faith for everyone reading over your shoulder in this public forum.

Here's my question - what are you doing with "being upset" at a few individual trans women on the internet? (As I tell my 3yo, feeling something is always fine, but how you act on it may not be) Are you feeling peeved in your own home and then going about your life? Are you making lists of "bad" trans women and their "bad" tumblr followers that they've "misled" with transfeminism and leading efforts to run people off the website because they wrote a few posts you disliked? Or sending people anonymous nastygrams to feel tall for a few minutes?

Any individual person has the capacity to be transphobic to any individual other person, so sure, you can be hurt by someone's vent post. A trans woman could be nasty to you individually, and everyone has a capacity for harm. But you have to understand! You have to make the cognitive and empathetic leap to realize that some of the pain that trans women express talking about trans men is because THEY EXPECTED BETTER OF US BECAUSE WE ARE ALSO TRANS, AND THEY HAD TERRIBLE ENCOUNTERS WITH SOMEONE THAT MADE THEM DOUBT WE WERE ON THE SAME TEAM. It's not "trans men bad," it's "what the fuck, we expected better of you." Rather than a personal attack on you, I invite you to think of it as a reason to try harder. That's why I wrote I was most devastated when my bi cousin rejected me - I had counted on her knowing better. Trans women are also counting on us knowing better.

While we're listing things that aren't transphobic, here are some more:

It is not transphobic to speak out about how trans women suffer most in almost every area of public life.

It is not transphobic to seek to prioritize aid to those members of our community that are most vulnerable, and that means black trans women specifically.

It is not transphobic to inquire if a trans space has trans women on the board or in any leadership positions, and it is not transphobic to conclude that a space that ONLY caters to/is reflective of trans men needs to reevaluate its priorities.

It is not transphobic for trans women to prioritize friendships and relationships with each other, and women across the board do not owe us anything.

It is not transphobic for trans women to develop a framework of language that describes their own experiences. Transmisogyny is intersectional like the term misogynoir, and "TMA/TME" works the same as "Black/nonBlack". There are contexts when it muddies the waters to refer to every non-white person as a Person of Color, such as discussing antiBlack racism in a place like American Samoa, where I lived for a few years and about 85% of folks are Samoan/Tongan. Similarly, there are times when it muddies the waters to simply say "transphobia", because we need to have the language to describe the specific abuse that trans women are facing.

Finally: it is not transphobic to be held accountable. To be held to a higher standard of behavior than random cishets on the street is a GIFT. It is a GIFT that these women are offering to us to be in community with them. Furthermore, be aware that these kinds of intracommunity conversations are also happening on other levels - white trans women are being asked hard questions on why they aren't better allies to trans women of color sometimes, and their prickly response exactly mirrors the same protective posturing I see from trans men being asked to consider their privilege. Thank you as always to @closet-keys for articulating the model that before you look up the power structure to understand how you are being marginalized, your best first step is to look downstream to be aware of the people suffering more, because you will be better able to understand the historical forces at work.

(it's ok if you don't want to!)

Equiping an armor tutorial

And what a beautiful song it’s made… honestly there’s not much of an idea I just had the vision to make this in my head 🤔 I just really liked that one shot in g1 of Soundwave using his telepathy is all, the way his hands (and dock) glowed during that… makes me kinda realize maybe that’s where Earthspark’s whole hand ability thing comes from 🤔