هل تعرفون قصة "أثواب الانتفاضة"؟ شرعت نساء مخيم قلنديا وقرى الخليل، في صنع "أثواب الانتفاضة" خلال انتفاضة عام 1987، وفي الوقت الذي كان يصادر الاحتلال الأعلام الفلسطينية، ويمنع رفع أي رموز وطنية، بدأت النساء بتطريز العلم والخارطة وغيرها من الرموز على أثوابهن. وحين ارتدت النساء تلك الأثواب، جعلن من أجسادهن سبل مقاومة، فمن يستطيع انتزاع العلم في المظاهرات، لا يستطيع انتزاع الثوب عن أجساد من يرتدينه.

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

Fly the flag high and proudly.

it's vital to stay reminded that palestinians who are with us today won't be with us tomorrow. it's happening every second of every minute of every hour, and it's relentless. somewhere in gaza a little girl is losing her mother, a little boy is watching his siblings bleed to death, elderly people are infirm with starvation and illness, palestinian women and girls are being sexually assaulted and kept in cages, fathers are leaving tents to find food for their families and not coming back. this is all happening right now, and it's a direct result of the west's complacency. it's a direct result of their not seeing arabs as people worth saving.

i do understand that many of the people engaged in this conversation don't come from multicultural backgrounds, let alone an arab one. that's where i start to find some of the things these people do w respect to a genocide bizarre, like handpicking their palestinian blorbos. they're so privileged and insulated from it all, they actually are struggling to reconcile their feelings with the severity of the ongoing genocide.

hi it’s me again asking for help; i was able to pay up until next month for yet, got promoted to full(ish) time for my job and still looking for another. but it hasn’t been enough for the moving expenses I’m abt to incur because I’m likely about to be evicted

please help a black and disabled bisexual for the tailend of BHM. if it also maybe you feel better, next month is my birthday month and it’s already shaping up to be kinda shit so this would take so much off my plate

setting my goal high for another security deposit, and first months rent + getting moved + food, etc

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pp or z: please inbox me!

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My friend was given NO notice for the house he’s renting being sold, he was literally supposed to be out of the house today but he has nowhere to go, and he’s under a LOT of stress. He doesn’t have a particular goal rn but literally anything helps. PLEASE help my friend stay housed. He prefers I take donations and send them to him, I will post proof that it was sent. Heartemojie on cashapp + venmo, paypal.me/13thead

Please don’t offer unsolicited advice, his dad is a landlord tenant attorney or whatever so they are doing everything they can already. I’ll try to update if we have more concrete plans or anything but I also need to respect his privacy 🫶🏽 thank you