RAFFLE FOR PALESTINE

Hey everyone!

Apologies for the bad photo (phone is not good and I have a tremor). I am running a raffle for Palestine that will be drawing on Dec 1st. I can ship anywhere in the so called us or canada. All go have to do to enter is donate to one of the three fundraisers linked to this post and send me proof. Two are very underfunded, one is close to completion and is someone i know/dm directly! That one accepts paypal as well.

$5 = 1 Entry

$10 = 4 Entries

$25 = 15 entries

$50 = 50 enteries

Included is a zine on sustainability, a zine about chronic illness, a bracelet (admittedly small but could be used as a keychain etc) that says Free Palestine Forever, Two Stickers, an original drawing of mine (usually 40+ on it's own and a painting of mine (usually 60+ on its own)

i was rly bummed out and then i saw this picture and im cured now

Fuckibg superb you funky little kirby

forgot what day it was

The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz. 2016 edition.

The middle class husband was raping and forcibly impregnating the middle class wife and the law endorsed it until the 1990s but the left doesn’t like it when we talk about misogyny so instead we get to sit around and emphasise the relative privilege of these women while utterly erasing the fact that they legally weren’t allowed to leave, in order to teach a lesson to young Mormon women on the internet who were groomed into one of the West’s last vestiges of that society. “Protected” my fucking ass.

Edit: none of those women, including the middle class one, were allowed to vote. I hate libfems.

The Way We Never Were is a book written in 1992 by a well respected female historian about the dangers of American nostalgia and how it is ahistorical - a topic that should excite feminists I would think, and this is but ONE out of context paragraph out of an entire book that does discuss sexual assault. It is bananas to me to call yourself a feminist and be itching to sneeringly call out other, esteemed, educated women as, uhmm, "libfem" at any moment. What about this paragraph is "libfem"? Do you guys even know what you're talking about when you say "libfem"? It seems the issue is that, god forbid, Coontz used the word "protected" in this paragraph, despite us not having any previous paragraphs ready to understand what context "protected" is being used in. I really can't stand this shit, learn to respect female scholars and learn to google shit before yapping in the name of discrediting a woman over nothing, over imagined ideas you're projecting on to her.

Yeah I read this and I immediately got the point. We today are sold a certain picture of the past that working class women today imagine themselves robbed of living a life of no work and all glamour that was never theirs to begin with. I agree with the commenter about marital rape and other stuff, but it’s not relevant to the point of OP because sometimes we’re having a conversation WITHIN feminism where a straight WASP woman does in fact have power and privilege over the other races and classes of women. It’s not slapping that woman in the face to point it out, it’s being honest. These types of women clung to whatever privilege and power they could scrape together under patriarchy and wielded it against those lower than her by race, class, etc… They are not purely innocent in all this.

In fact, in context Coontz is being sarcastic about the concept of the "protected" family as envisioned by the conservatives who have never particularly studied the reality of American family history. This particular paragraph is taken from the first chapter, in which she is discussing the various faces of the "traditional American family" as envisioned by her students.

Incidentally, by the time this paragraph appears early in chapter 1 in my edition, Coontz has already briefly discussed marital rape and the beginning of its challenge in the 1970s in the introduction. The subject returns several times as she interrogates the difference between legislating in favor of real families and in favor of imagined families. Because this is a book, from which I excerpted one paragraph, there is mysteriously room to talk about lots of things without them appearing in this except.

ETA: mysteriously when I glance at unsentimentaltranslator's blog, it is soaking with TERF bullshit. who's surprised?

Slightly lateral but also: They are not purely innocent in all this.

Please, for me, for the love of any god you choose, let go of the idea that "innocence" is something that exists in history or in real power structures and that what's most important is figuring out which class of people are or aren't innocent enough to be the focus of concern, or whatever it is you're doing.

Because this is also what the TERF-y upset poster above is doing. This is the same logic they are using; it is the same perspective from which they are interrogating history and current systems. It's why they're so upset: because for them, they have already established a comfortable order where women (whatever their definition of women is) = innocent and that's the position they address morality from and so any information that threatens this as an absolute idea is an attack and must be attacked in return, regardless of what it is, because it can't be true, because they've already decided truth, and . . . .etc.

Because if the class/category of thing that is "women" is ever anything less than perfectly innocent, then (for them) the moral structure they've built crumbles around them.

Here's the thing: clung to whatever privilege and power they could scrape together

Every kind of human does this. Like you're absolutely not wrong! But this also happens within the world of the sweatshop girls, within the world of the boy mining along with the other men and boys, within the worlds of the racially segregated workers, servants and even slaves (depending where you were in the world) - hardship does not inculcate perfect generous hearts in mutual solidarity. Humans, by and large, cling to whatever power and yes even "privilege" they can scrape together to attempt to maintain what levels of comfort and security they can. Of course we do!

Sometimes that is amazingly, incredibly little. Sometimes the mechanisms of that power and status do not line up with those that operate for the dominant/more well known parts of society - different shit comes into play. But that doesn't stop the drive. It might be that the only bit of power and influence and whatever you have is that within the hierarchy of the abused domestic servants you are the one who gets to hand out the tasks and determine the conditions of work and maintain that ever so important line of rigid demarcation between the House Staff and the Outdoor Servants, but by gods has that been the fiercely defended patch of a domain for hundreds of years in some societies.

And within that generalization there are always millions of individual actual human beings whose specific lives and specific choices and specific interactions with that precarity and threat and shitty part of living as humans in an unjust system are going to be specific to them.

But much like there is no ethical consumption in an unethical economic system*, there is no innocent existence in a brutalizing society.

That doesn't mean "everyone is evil, we must all repent". It means "this is not a super meaningful or useful way to look at this problem, or thing to focus on when trying to erase the false, idolized image of shit being 'perfect' back then as opposed to 'corrupt' now."

It means going "huh look all the ways this system was Fucked Up and turned everyday living into this ugly mutual struggle that dehumanized everyone involved, even those supposedly living the good life out of it, so what do we take apart or reimagine, what effects is that having on us later, how do we actually fix this based on what actually existed, on what really happened and is happening?"

It means one of the most powerful things one can do is manage to get through a message of "has anyone noticed how this whole setup is fucking everyone and maybe if we managed common cause in solidarity of some kind we might make shit better for everyone?"**

But the faster that one stops thinking that you can dig around in human structures and find the "innocent" party or class or rank or whatever, and the faster the part where some group or the other has, absolutely, tried to maintain what security (and this is almost always synonymous with power/status/etc) they can with at the most a kind of solidarity with their immediately-recognized "we", stops being the point where we write them off as awful (and thus something we have to lie to ourselves about if we're not wiling to do that), the faster you can understand and work with, around, and in mindfulness of the pressures that drive actual scared human beings who are trying to handle existing.

In this context, when talking about large groups, the baseline human capacity for participating in abusive systems is limited only by our literal access to power. And by and large we will, as a general group, take as much as we have access to and be incredibly unwilling to take steps that to us, make us feel less secure and more precarious.

The good news is we can figure out how to deal with and work around and answer that human tendency, to widen the circle of "us" so that we're demanding more and more actual justice and mutual benefit out of our systems, but fixating on innocence vs whatever else is an impediment to that.

(*"capitalism", originally, but the reality is there are many more systems to which it applies equally)

(**I'm not saying that's EASY, nor am I saying that trying to maintain that idea of "no actually better for EVERYONE, not just you, $person/group . . . " isn't really really hard. That's why the first tactic of any group that wishes to keep the status quo or to insert a new power structure that just amounts to "also a brutalizing system, but with us at the top of it" is to find another group that they can split off by offering just enough improvement - or threatening just enough risk from letting the 'other' side win - that that group decides they're better off joining up against everyone else than taking their chances.)

(also isn't kiefbowl the OP of that many-notes post about how it's good actually to never check OP blogs for context? the one that weirdly enough means something different in than out of the context that the OP is a TERF?)

💔Evacuation of the entire city of Rafah💔

😔New displacement😔

😭New fatigue and hardship😭

🥺What did we do for all this?🥺

This campaign is vetted

This campaign has been reblogged by @/90-ghost here

(I am not a vetter, I am just passing on the information I have found)

Sami asked me to create a post on Tumblr because he is in dire need of help from everyone here on Tumblr, whether it be a donation, a share, or a like. His family and children are in real danger because of the unjust war on Gaza. Don't forget them. You can change the painful reality of Sami and his innocent children's lives.

Here's the story:

the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

Or if you're in Canada, Chatters is also good for trans people. They've given me women's haircuts without an issue, and I don't pass at all, and had no issue going off reference photos of women for what I want.

They charge by hair length, and don't gender their cuts at all. Highly recommend it

Chatters London near masonville is SUPER accepting!!!

Martina Cassatella - Catturare le lucciole XXI, 2025 - Oil on canvas

Help Raghad's Relatives with Housing Costs – $4,000 in needed in the next week!

Current progress: $20,124/23,966 CAD (short term goal)

With the help of the funds raised through the campaign, Raghad has been able to evacuate several of her family members. Those family members are now trying to find employment, but they have lost the paperwork they need to apply for jobs and must go through the costly and time consuming process of becoming recertifed. Without a stable income, Raghad's relatives have had remain reliant on her for support with their living expenses.

Those family members currently need help with rent. This includes Raghad's aunts, cousins, and elderly relatives. She is trying to raise $4,000 by the end of February to help them with housing expenses. The update announcing this was posted to the gfm on Feb 14th. Since then, only $158 has been raised.

I was extremely late in seeing the update and I am trying to help amplify it. Please share so that this can reach more people who can donate. If you yourselves are capable of giving monetary support, please give what you can.

I am unaware of any official vetting for Raghad's campaign. However, @/transmutationisms has been in contact with a family friend of Raghad's and has expressed they are confident in the campaign's legitimacy. Additional information can be found in transmutationisms' original post about Raghad's family.

$20,289/23,966

No progress for 3 days!

No change has been made. Raghad is behind on rent payment so please donate and share to keep her family sheltered! Let's reach the 20.5K mark ASAP! There is $211 left to go! You can match me. I have given $10, but you're more than welcome to give any amount! [Make sure to pay attention to the currency exchange. $10 USD = $14 CAD!]

Still no change! It has been 4 days since the last donation! Please donate and share!

you will not replace me

and then they cat napped together 🙂‍↕️

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Tag with the Blorbo that would drive this car

Sick and tired

(Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)

Can we bring back Palestine Academy as a resource, I fear a lot of people are forgetting to go back to the basics and simply learn about what is happening in Gaza and what HAS BEEN happening for the past 76 years