art + grief + control

Mahasen’s final illustration captioned "tell me what you’re feeling when you see anybody burning…."

Mahasen spent a lot of time on Tumblr trying to push her campaign to save her family. 

Mahasen didn't succeed and was killed by Israel last night in north Gaza.

less than 13 hours before she died she was still drawing, the last drawing depicted above. she posted a video of it to twitter where you can hear the drones in the background:

please take a minute to scroll through her twitter and her tumblr and appreciate who she was as a human being, how she spoke, what she was doing despite how she was living.

because people don't have curiosity about how someone could still be living in north gaza, because so many of you have written off palestinians there as "already dead" in some way, because they don't ask how people survive while under siege, because they don't view palestinians as human beings who use the internet like they do, because they lack the capacity to imagine that this is happening to regular, everyday human beings who are online, who can understand you, who are engaging with the world despite living literally in unfathomable conditions undergoing the worst crimes humanity has to offer—we end up seeing otherwise perfectly nice users on here literally commit genocide denial and think nothing of it, call palestinian scammers easily, refuse to listen when people tell them very patiently why these things are happening and how, and eventually just turn a blind eye to it all.

too many of you are too dismissive too casually, are unbelievably ignorant about your own ignorance, and are too comfortable with great cruelty.

i don't know what it means that in our modern age you don't need to physically smuggle someone in your home to save them from a war, that you don't need to be standing across a fence to look at people in a concentration camp, that these things are all happening in your phone and on your computer. maybe this is why some of you don't understand the magnitude of it, that you are separated from a genocide only by a computer screen, which means your ability to help directly, to engage with these people, to offer them comfort and save their lives is so much greater and easier than it has ever been, and you still can't do it.

Med @fairuzfan’s blog got terminated by tumblr which is obviously unjust for all the people who rely on them for resources on Palestine, but it now leaves Hussam’s helpgazachildren donation drive without a point of communication, and has deleted all previous information Med had shared about the drive.

Please remember to keep donating to helpgazachildren as Hussam’s hard work getting resources to families in Gaza should not have to be hindered while Med is working on getting their blog back 🤍🇵🇸

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