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I am Falestine, Jad Al-Haq, I am 37 years old, married, and I have a eight-month-old child named Youssef. I gave birth to him during the war during very harsh conditions that no human being can bear. I moved from the hospital immediately after giving birth to the tent in which we were staying after we were displaced to it after the Israeli bulldozers completely bulldozed my house. and my suffering did not start from here. Rather, it began since the beginning of the war, and I am still suffering. I cannot provide enough milk for my baby or diapers. Even medicines and vitamins are not available.

I ask you for your urgent help in disseminating the link to my family and communicating it to people interested and able to help us.  I didn't want to do it, but the tragic situation we are living in is what pushed me to do it.  I feel sad and helpless, after we had everything, we are now homeless on the streets, living in a tent next to a dilapidated public toilet and there is sewage, dirt and waste everywhere, we sleep on it!  We suffer from terrible heat, insects, scorpions, the danger of death, bombs and missiles, in addition to hunger of course, the danger of pollution and terrible diseases, especially the digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems!

.  My father and mother could not bear it any longer. My father had a stroke after losing his home and his place of work, and my mother suffers from chronic diseases and needs treatment.

  Do you have the right to imagine that when you spend your life building for yourself and your children to live a decent life, all of this disappears in the blink of an eye, and now when you reach the age where you should rest, you are forced to start again!!?  But the most important thing now is to try to survive and protect your children from all the factors of death that surround us!  I ask everyone who has humanity or conscience to feel our situation and put themselves in our place.  How can someone who has lived with dignity all his life accept this?  We are slowly dying every day.

Your donation, no matter how small, can have a big impact.  It can provide a meal for my little one, a clean bottle of water, or a moment of safety under these difficult circumstances.  Every donation brings with it a ray of hope, alleviating our suffering and giving us the strength to face a new day.

I ask you to donate and support the steadfastness of the Gazan people, and share this campaign with your friends and families.  Together, we can make a difference and help my family get through this ordeal.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support.

Warm greetings,

Falestine

Tumblr-only (and irl friends) breaking news sneak peek:

Samples are done for natural fiber skirts and I will have them in hand SOON. Y'all wouldn't believe (or if you've been here a while, maybe you would. lol) what I've been through to get to this point and how long it's taken. But. We're here now! FINALLY! POTENTIALLY VIALBLE NATURAL FIBER SKIRTS! I'm going to cry 😭😭😭🙏 Pls let this work outtttttttt

Update: 2 of 3 samples have arrived! Bamboo and rayon are here, cotton is still on the way but should get here in a couple more days. Both of the samples I have look AMAZING!! So far bamboo is at the top of the running because it looks great, feels great (SO SO BUTTERY SOFT), and seems quite durable. We'll see how cotton compares once it gets here but it'll have to outdo bamboo in some number of ways to become the winner because it's a bit pricier. Regardless of the final fabric decision though I will definitely be moving forward with a full production order of these skirts!! After years of trying and hitting various brick walls, finally!!! We will have a natural fiber skirt ✋😭🤚!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cotton skirt sample arrived yesterday, and it's also very good!! I'm gonna test them both out for a while to see how they hold up to washing & wearing and then make a final decision in a couple of weeks.

Here's some stats/info on both fabric options:

Bamboo- ultra soft, more flowy, better drape & twirl, slightly lower cost. Midis in this fabric would retail for approx $120-135 (can't make an exact price promise until I find out how much shipping will be at production scale)

Cotton- also soft but not in that buttery/silky way, thicker & likely more durable, slightly higher cost. Midis in this fabric would retail for approx $135-150

Both are machine washable on delicate, but NOT recommended for tumble drying

With all that in mind please let me know your thoughts! I'm leading towards bamboo right now because of the feel and the lower cost, but we'll see how the durability tests go because they may push me towards cotton instead.

Regardless of which choice I make tho, I'm so excited to put these out there soon!!!

hte real april foule… was you.

for thinkjghing I did not care abou you.

my friende.

The kind of things FR just lets us do to our dragons now would have been completely mind-boggling when I joined in 2014

Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

Today I met happiness

Good news that we deserve 😌

for people who can’t watch the video: THE AMYGDALA CHANGES TRADITIONALLY FOUND IN MOTHERS SHOW UP IN ALL PRIMARY CAREGIVERS REGARDLESS OF SEX

Changes in this part of the brain were previously used to previously used to argue that women are the ideal primary caretakers of children in all cases. And apparently, it’s false. The reason they found these changes in women was that women were already the primary caretaker in almost all cases, not because there’s something inherent to women that makes them better parents.

this is big news for SAHF and single dads!

This is also big news for adoptive parents and queer couples! Many people try to argue that adoptive parents aren't real parents because of biology and blah blah blah. Bigots will also argue this case against queer people. So, to all my traditionalists: it's not science! It's bigotry and sexist!

singing house of the rising sun at the pub last night and when the song ended the musicians just kept playing while people ad-libbed more verses about various pubs they knew

(with ominous hurdy-gurdy accompaniment): "there is a pub in walthamstow, it's called the fox and mole, but we don't go there (long pause) any more. Because the manager is an arsehole."

Unbelievably fucking cool

Between that and new preventative shot, we might be able to eradicate HIV in the near future.

This is the worst Eid I have ever experienced in my entire life. I lost all my friends in the war and I am left alone here suffering from the pain of loss. I used to go and visit my friends, but today I went to their homes and found their mothers collapsing from crying and grieving over the loss of their sons. We used to meet and go out and spend a pleasant time together, but unfortunately today I went and visited them in the cemetery and sat next to them all day crying from the intensity of my pain and regret. How difficult this feeling is for me and I cannot bear it!!! 😭

Please help me and my family by donating so we can escape this war and genocide and start a new, safe life!!🥺

Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

The three year rule is a misreading of advice from the nineties, but it is embedded in linraries now it is impossible to dislodge. Go to the library and borrow the books you want to be there. It is the only thing that sticks.

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When I tell them it really is about practice, not talent.

ready 4 bisque!!

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