🇧🇷anonymized *PERSON* of the global south🇧🇷

The myth of saying the Malvinas are terra nullius is still dumb (it was not, it was administrered from Buenos Aires, the British deported the governor Luis Vernet when they took over, the gaucho Antonio Rivero resisted British occupation, people from the mainland were exploited as farmhands for the British for decades, this is all in historical record). It was a naked land grab, just one of many direct and indirect British interventions in South America.

But for real you have no idea how many anglos I met that really claim that the Malvinas was "terra nullius" and nobody lived there and nobody claimed them, the kelpers just manifested there with their sheep out of nowhere. They don't mention Luis Vernet, Gaucho Rivero and his resistance to occupation right in the first years of it, all the correspondence that acknowledges the Malvinas as part of Argentina that was occupied by the British (even correspondence where the British had to ask to operate in the South Atlantic before they usurped those territories), nothing, they don't even question it at all. It's just uh well if the British say they just appeared there who are we to question them? And also Argentines are just sooooooo blinded by nationalistic claims and who cares what third world countries do anyways, so I'll take the proper side here (the side of the British fucking Empire)

Many of us live bilingual lives. What those lamguages are, what they mean to us, the historical and political state of those languages, are very very important! So at some point I think it would be nice to write something that is simultaneously English and spanish, and there would be a pretty sizable number of people who could read that.

Hey all! Normally when I post for Mona's community aid initiative, I post about the communities of refugees she is helping. But today I went to Instagram to update you all and saw that she hasn't posted since April, and we hadn't spoken since then either. She hadn't messaged me updates like she normally does. I was very afraid. It turned out she had broken her phone during a displacement, and she hasn't been able to replace it due to the high costs. Mobile phones are a scarce and expensive resource in Ghazzah but they are a lifeline for the families there. And for Mona it is not just a lifeline for her family but also for the refugee community she has dedicated the last few years of her life serving. She cannot connect with her usual network of volunteers or access funds without her phone (she had to contact me through her mother's phone). Despite helping displaced refugees, her and her family are also displaced refugees also living out of a tent, and she cannot currently afford a replacement. Please please please help her get a new one so she can continue doing the life-saving work she has been doing. Chuffed link to support Mona.