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KASHMIR MASTERLIST

Background

Sites to check out

To read

  • Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces
  • Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination [available on libgen]
  • Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies [excerpt]
  • Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation [available on libgen]
  • Of Occupation and Resistance - another collation of stories of Kashmiris living under state repression
  • On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)
  • Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems

Social media

To watch

  • Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle [filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit]
  • Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people
  • Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties
  • In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance

Human rights violations (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

A note: The list of readings is not exhaustive. It is only an introduction to the history of the occupation. I know annoying "Desis" are going to see this and bitch and moan about how Kashmir is actually integral to their country out of a sense of colonial entitlement. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will entertain neither dumbfuckery nor whataboutism. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the state enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally & linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the way Kashmiri women are fetishised... yikes). It's not just a bilateral issue between the two nations over land, it actually affects the people of Kashmir

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I think we should do weddings withiut the weddings. Like forget about the religious and legal stuff just have a celebration of being couple / throuple / however many people and talk about their love for eachother

And also forget about the whole "inviting the family of one of the mother's colegues" thing. We can get rid of that aswell

Like in my life I only ever had fun at one wedding: the one of my uncle and aunt. Because I know them, because I love them!

And I really really like in fiction where theres weddings because I love the characters! I love celebrating love!!

So why won't we just get rid of all the bullshit and have a sappy celebration of people we love, or us, being inlove with someone or someones?

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.

I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH I'M JUST STUPID AND FORGET THAT FEELINGS NEED TO BE EXPRESSED IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE FELT

chick fil a is to fast food what harry potter is to literature and fnaf is to video games.

that is to say it sucks but people with a limited outlook on the medium will make it their entire personality long past the point we know the owner uses the fan money to fund hate groups

Amid the rubble, hope rises. Despite the devastation, there are those who pick up the stones to rebuild, not just with walls, but with determination and resilience. This picture is not just a scene; it is the story of a people resisting, dreaming, and rebuilding their lives from the rubble.

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تضامنوا، تبرعوا، وانشروا هذه الرسالة. لأن الإنسانية لا تُقاس بالكلمات، بل بالأفعال.

Just muttered to myself "there is something not cis afoot" about a character at 2:30am, felt my eyes glaze over, and this image slowly appeared before me in my mind

reminder that it dosent matter how much you sugarcoat it, bigots only objective is to make you stop existing, thats everything the alt rigth wants, for the minorities they blame everything on to just disspate into thin air thinking itll solve everything in their lives

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