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i love my city,  i love her people;  you’ll have to kill me if you want gotham.

Once again proving that ceasefire does not mean the end of Israel's hostility. On the contrary, they are using the calm caused by the ceasefire to brutalize Palestinian civilians because they think the world is no longer watching.

There will never be be peace for the Palestinians until Palestine is freed from the zionist colonization.

Please save/screenshot and share this on your socials. We can not simply stand by and watch as Palestinians continue to suffer.

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hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced because of israel’s genocidal actions this week. along with families being ripped apart and homes being destroyed, many people are left without any source of income — donations will go directly to those who are most in need of food and basic necessities for day to day living.

i hate having to do this, especially when so many others are in need, but i don’t get my final paycheck till friday and i need to survive for the next five days so here we are.

cashapp: $humanprada

Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships. 

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

a heem heem. so, as some of you may know, my roommates and i are getting fucked over by our property management company, so we've decided to just jump ship and move out somewhere else.

the three of us are all trans, and one of my roommates is currently unemployed due to the pandemic and still hasn't gotten her unemployment benefits, so we're all a little strapped for cash right now. we're asking for 3,000 dollars (of which we currently have $1,745) to cover all move in costs for a new apartment (i.e., application and administration fees, first month's rent, uhaul to move all our crap, etc.).

however, gaza needs donations for medical, financial, and food aid. below I've linked some trusted organisations:

PCRF (palestine children's relief fund) is an organisation that provides free medical care to children in palestine: urgent gaza relief fund

UPA (united palestinian appeal) is also directly based in palestine and provides emergency relief in gaza