Birb

Audio is from Ben 10: Ultimate Alien - Season 1, Episode 4: “Video Games”

my heart does kind of die a little when people gender children who are too young to communicate that determination for themselves. it's so normalized as to be practically universal but it's also the first in a long line of decisions taken away from every trans child

"it's safe to assume they're cis" do you not conceive of their transness as a real possibility? if they do turn out to be trans, they now have to make that assertion against what the dominant authorities in their lives have been saying since their brain was at its most impressionable

I miss when this was still even a discussion on the table. I miss when I thought I could look forward to a future where children like me wouldn't have to languish for so long before being able to be our authentic selves

at every step of the way we live in a world that refuses to account for us, and it falls to our shoulders to push to be respected, considered, accounted for. it's exhausting, it's isolating, it's terrifying, and increasingly it seems like fewer and fewer people are willing to come to our corner

Ethnic cleansing is not just the active removal of a people by force, it is also creating conditions that necessitate their displacement. Every single Ghazzawi who has been displaced to Egypt or elsewhere as a result of this genocide is a victim of ethnic cleansing unless their unconditional right of return is afforded to them, which likely it will not be. Keep that in mind.

I just get weary of every time a Palestinian family is helped to flee Gaza seeing that framed as a ‘success story’ or a happy ending. These people were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Israel. That is a tragedy. It is only a ‘success’ in that they live to see another day. The conditions which were manufactured specifically to make their displacement an existential necessity should’ve never been imposed upon them in the first place. They should not have had to flee their homeland with the likelihood they will never return to escape a holocaust. I need you all to understand that. It’s a happier story, yes, but it’s still a fucking tragedy.