One radish, please

Hey guys, I had a conversation with Mahmood here. I've been able to get all the information I need to verify that this is completely legit.

Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.

The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.

It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:

The Rafah invasion would be so catastrophic that even Biden momentarily called it a red line, though of course he walked it back.

i see it more and more and as an adoptee it makes me sick because most of the time it’s by bio spawn.

if it were common for adoptees who are not out of the fog and/or in general have complex feelings about their adoption and wish to process those things by having fiction in which the characters have agency and autonomy, reinforcing the idea of choice, then my opinion would be different. but no, it’s pretty much always kept people ignoring the “families of choice” and “found family label” in order to romanticize the act of being adopted, something they have not experienced while having zero knowledge of how adoption actually works. there’s always this underlying aspect of adoption means love when that is statistically and narratively untrue. but they don’t know that and don’t care to look further because they love the trope more than they’ll ever love an actual adoptee who is out of the fog and sees the adoption industry for what it is.

instead, they think of it closer to pet adoption than to human adoption, making it cute and fluffy and looking at the savior complex through rose colored glasses. they use adopted in the theoretical sense, like how bio spawn people use it in real life, ignoring how adoption is a legal process, something that causes trauma, something that costs lives.

and on top of spinning our trauma into an idealistic fantasy that ultimately ends up being a nuclear family with extra steps, they ignore actual adoptees. they ignore our stories and our voices and continue to consume and create media that completely disregard how we actually feel about our experiences and instead turn it into a borderline fetishized (and sometimes actually fetishized) dynamic that makes them feel good.

people will really say things like “they’re the mom friend of the group” and know exactly what it means but then have absolutely no idea how to envision a dynamic in a fictional group of people without taking it to mean literally. like come on….

"Dear germans, stop making Palestinians pay for your parents crimes"

too many dreams cut short 🍉

bashar is just one of many palestinians you can help continue their lives, dreams, futures, but time is running out and every second counts

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