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jess

@sardinemasc / sardinemasc.tumblr.com

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he/they / 21 / white / autistic / t4t gay nonbinary transmasc
COVID IS NOT OVER! FREE PALESTINE! FREE SUDAN! FREE CONGO! LIBERATION FOR ALL!

i'm jess : ]

about me:

  • he/they
  • white
  • nonbinary transmasculine (tme/transmisogyny exempt)
  • gay, t4t
  • 21 y/o
  • autistic

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i do commissions sometimes, i will post about it when they are open! you can usually find this under #commissions! reach out if you're interested!

my digital drawings are done with procreate on an ipad mini!

you can find me on bluesky, ravelry, as well as cara, which are the only places i'll be posting crochet & drawings (for the most part) from now on due to tumblr partnering with generative AI training models. i no longer feel comfortable posting my drawings on here. this blog is extremely anti AI.

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i would hope i don't have to say this, but the obvious: NO racists, zionists, ableists, homophobes, transphobes/terfs/truscum, transadrophobia/transmisandry truthers (misandry doesn't exist lmao), p*dophiles, ppl who condone inc*st/p*dophilia/r*pe (proshippers etc), ETC. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

also, i am extremely COVID-safe. the pandemic is ongoing and it is all of our responsibilities to protect one another--especially disabled & immunocompromised people--by wearing the best mask we can access (ideally N95 or better) indoors AND in public outdoor spaces, avoiding crowded spaces and events (concerts, large social gatherings, public dining, etc.), and staying home when sick. covid is not over. if you call yourself a community member dedicated to disability justice, show it. mask up, stay home, stop the spread. stop participating in eugenics.

thanks! : )

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Anas has gastric cancer.

Anas (@dr-anas96) is severely suicidal and is dying on the inside in every sense of the word. Mentally he feels his life is over, and physically he's barely moving anymore, only occasionally coming to consciousness and vomiting blood.

I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart not to let my friend die. This entire time, during this genocide he's living through, he's been:

Now, with some reprieve for Gazans seemingly so close, he is dying. I don't use this word lightly because I don't want to believe my dear friend is dying. I am only saying it because I have no escape from believing it

But I still have hope that we can carry him through this so he can see the end of this difficult road. I am not giving up on him and I'm begging, begging, begging, begging you all not to give up either. We're so close.

I didn't want to share some of the more graphic photos Anas sent me, but his campaign goes days without donations, and he insisted I share these photos. CW for blood under the cut.

To all Tumblr users 🪦

He sat in the dark, cold corner of the ruined room, his stomach empty, his heart heavier than the silence around him. Days had blurred into nights, and hope had long dissolved into despair. Just when he thought the end had truly come, a soft knock echoed on the broken door. A kind stranger, with warm food and a gentle smile, reached out a hand. For a moment, the world seemed to shift. He ate, he smiled, he slept without fear for the first time in weeks. He even dared to dream again.

But the knock returned , this time it was louder, crueler. Fire rained again. The stranger was gone. The little peace he’d clung to was shattered in seconds. The night grew darker than ever before, and this time, even dreams felt like betrayal.

This story mirrors our reality in Gaza. When the temporary truce was announced, our hearts bloomed with cautious hope. We embraced moments of stillness, started to believe that perhaps the nightmare was ending. But when the ceasefire ended, the bombs returned, louder, harsher, more merciless than before. The small light we held onto was ripped away, and the sorrow that followed was deeper than the one we’d known before hope ever dared to visit.

555 days of the war on Gaza, we live what no one can live, if you feel me and can help me, this is my fundraising campaign and my family, you can donate here any amount you can donate

Hello everyone, I am Ahmed and this campaign that was helping my family despite all the attempts, but I could not secure my family's needs in light of the difficult situations when we were displaced in southern Gaza, but today we are in northern Gaza and I also could not secure the basics and resistances of life. I hope you donate to my campaign to support me again and share my campaign to reach the donors. Thank you all.

My campaign has been verified by ayesh ✅

My family and I are now very tight and there are no donations in my account for a long time. I hope you understand the matter and who can donate can donate and support my family in these difficult times.

Hossam Al-Qazzaz and his family were finally able to move into their newly rebuilt tent... And now, it looks likely they will be displaced yet again.

Images: Hossam Al-Quzzaz rebuilt his family's tent after it was destroyed in an airstrike on the night of March 17/18, 2025.
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Written by @rumiandroses

In the early hours of March 17/18, 2025, the ceasefire in Gaza collapsed. Airstrikes lit up the dark night, killing over 400 people.

Sleeping in their tent in the Khan Kunis displacement camp, the Al-Quzzaz family had a nightmarish awakening: their tent collapsing on top of them, their belongings catching fire from the blast.

Hossam, his wife Hanan, and their four children—Bashar (9), Hani (8), Diana (4), and 4-month-old Habiba—managed to scramble out of the wreckage.

Video: Clip from a ten minute Al-Jazeera video, featuring Hossam, as he recounts the night his family's tent was destroyed in an airstrike.

Original Video: [LINK]

"Miraculously, we survived," Hossam wrote to us the next morning, assuring us he and his family were unharmed. The tent, however, was completely destroyed.

“By the grace of the Creator, we were not physically harmed, but we are psychologically and morally broken,” Hossam wrote in the March 19th update on the family's GoFundMe page. “... our hearts are still trembling until now, because we have lost everything. Our tent was completely destroyed, just as our house was destroyed before, and we are now homeless, without food, without clothes, without money…”

The devastating blow was softened a little by the kindness of others; thanks to everyone who donated to the Chuffed campaign our founder, Bethany Grace, created to help the family rebuild, we were able to send the Al-Qazzaz family $788 (€697.48 after conversion)—enough to start constructing another shelter out of sturdy materials.

Hossam, skilled in construction, has been hard at work for the past few weeks, clearing out the debris and reconstructing the family's shelter with materials he was able to obtain.

Every day, Hossam toiled to rebuild his family's shelter. And every long night, the family could barely sleep as brutal airstrikes continued to light up the night.

“The sounds of bombings are everywhere,” Hossam wrote to us one evening. “And the planes fly at a close distance. And fires everywhere.”

A few days ago, the family was able to move back into their shelter together.

But today, Hossam sent us a message that made our blood run cold:

“The tanks are approaching and are almost a kilometer* or a little more away. If [they] come any closer, we'll get out of there because we'll be within range of [their] fire.”

*Kilometer = 0.62 miles

This precious family, already displaced multiple times for over a year, now might be displaced again, under threat of fire. With no stable income and essential supplies priced beyond reach, the Al-Qazzaz family is fighting a daily battle just to keep their children warm, fed, and safe.

The Al-Qazzaz family is one of countless in Gaza enduring wave after wave of trauma, displacement, and loss. And yet, through it all, they have held onto their dignity, their love for each other, and their will to survive. The support of the online mutual aid community has been a lifeline for them—allowing them to feed their children, find temporary shelter, and begin again each time everything is taken from them.

If you are moved by their story and wish to help, the family has a GoFundMe campaign that directly supports their daily essentials—food, medicine, and immediate needs. Every donation, no matter the size, helps them meet the most basic requirements to keep going in impossible circumstances.

Additionally, a Chuffed campaign, organized by the founder of Gaza Giving Tree, is helping to raise funds specifically to aid the family in either rebuilding yet again or evacuating to safety if that becomes possible. This effort is aimed at long-term stability and survival—a future where the children can sleep without fear.

Please consider contributing to one or both campaigns. Your generosity can be the reason this family has a chance at life beyond war and rubble.

The Al-Qazzaz family's campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters and is (#287) on their list of verified campaigns.

Currently €5,304 raised of €55K goal on GFM, $1,112 Raised of $55,000 on Chuffed

You can enter my necklace raffle (2.0) if you donate to this fundraiser!

Since the first week of the war, we were forced to leave our homes and Gaza City, seeking refuge in the south. Since that day, we have been dreaming of the day we can return to our city and neighborhood. Although we lost our homes and everything we owned, we still dream of going back.

According to the terms of the ceasefire agreement, we can return to Gaza City within two weeks. Unfortunately, we do not have the money to cover the cost of returning.

The transportation needed to move us and our belongings will cost approximately $1,000, an amount we do not have.

Will this amount stand as a barrier to fulfilling our dream of returning to the rubble of our homes?

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Traumatized in Ireland While my Family is Facing Death and Starvation in Gaza

Note: Vetted by:

1. @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi # 151 on the spreadsheet of Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List]

I contemplate the happy faces of people around me here in Ireland and reminisce about the happy normal life my family and I had before the war. A life that turned into a distant memory for us and was replaced by an unending series of horrible nightmares.

Unlike my family in Gaza, people here have access to drinking water, all types of food, electricity, and a roof over their heads. Above all, they are safe, and I cannot help but wonder if they genuinely do appreciate these blessings in their lives enough.

People seem relaxed and laughing wholeheartedly around me in Ireland. I wish I could laugh too, but I am crushed way beyond recovery on the inside. I was evacuated by my Irish college after five months of living the horrors of war in Gaza. I hope you will never know what it feels like to live in constant fear and worry and be horrified by the most sickening and scary nightmares every single night while you are far away from your family in such circumstances.

When did my people in Gaza cease to be human beings worthy and deserving of a normal life? Has it become normal now for my family in Gaza to be starved and killed while the whole world is watching the genocide? If that is the case, then you will have to excuse me if I seek every avenue to bring them to Ireland and start a new normal life like all people here around me.

I was assured by the Irish Reugee Council (IRC) and lawyers in Ireland that there is hope I can reunite with my family in Ireland. In difficult times, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For me and my family, you are literally our light and hope for a better life.

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Please consider boosting my campaign.

Please boost our campaign and spread the word. Time is running out from my family. We’re hoping to evacuate the very second there is a way out of this hell! at 79% of our final goal and progressing slowly!

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Isnad (vetted here) is an initiative that aims to provide 30 students with the means to pursue their degrees remotely. Genocide is not only through killing and starvation, but also through robbing an entire generation of their futures and their dreams.

With the donations collected through fundraising through Tumblr, Isnad has been able to provide rooms, internet access, stationery, and power supply to these students.

But just as the most recent group of students have been accepted into the initiative, Tumblr terminated Isnad's blog.

Even if you're not doing the killing yourself, if you're denying a besieged population the chance to support themselves, you're complicit in genocide.

As we try to look into getting Isnad reinstated here, please continue to share Isnad's fundraiser. I would hate for all this hard work to be lost due to staff's predictable bigotry.

After deleting our main account from the program administration, here we are back to posting from our other account, as a reminder and to continue the educational process for our students in Gaza, we must obtain $2,000 before the end of the month to pay the rent and administrative costs.

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With the systematic destruction of Gaza's education system, the problem of scholasticide in Gaza is really concerning! Education is not only important for students' future, but also for the future of a society! Please support this fundraiser!

Currently $2,587 Raised of $67,500

You can enter my necklace raffle (2.0) if you donate to this fundraiser!

Hello everyone. These are Fatima’s children. The child holding the bag is Fatima’s daughter, Manar. Manar was expecting to go kindergarten. But due the lack of funds and state of Gaza, she couldn’t.

Imagine being in Fatima’s family, having to start from the beginning because of something that was out of their control.

You might be asking, “well what can I do?” To my response, they are a lot of ways that you can help. You can start by going to their campaign and donating a minimum of $5. Even the smallest amount of change can help them out.

If you can’t donate, just share this post and their blog as much as you can. @fatoam232.

Don’t lose hope in the people in Gaza. They still need you.

Hello everyone. These are Fatima’s children. The child holding the bag is Fatima’s daughter, Manar. Manar was expecting to go kindergarten. But due the lack of funds and state of Gaza, she couldn’t.

Imagine being in Fatima’s family, having to start from the beginning because of something that was out of their control.

You might be asking, “well what can I do?” To my response, they are a lot of ways that you can help. You can start by going to their campaign and donating a minimum of $5. Even the smallest amount of change can help them out.

If you can’t donate, just share this post and their blog as much as you can. @fatoam232.

Don’t lose hope in the people in Gaza. They still need you.

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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

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I miraculously escaped death because I was in this place when they killed these innocent people. Imagine what we are living. I was going to search for food for my family and I almost died. Death is crazy and terrifying everywhere. Help me to stay alive. All I want from this life is to live in peace and security.

My friend, help me with your donation to save my family's life. Save me. Donate as much as you can. My family is dying.

Save me and my family from death. The occupation is throwing papers wanting us to evacuate the place and I do not have enough money to leave. Help me evacuate my family and buy a tent. My life is in your hands. Save me.If you send $100 or whatever you can donate it will help me evacuate my family. Evacuation is very expensive. I need you by my side, my friend. Please.

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I lost my husband in the war of extermination on Gaza, leaving our children alone to face the harsh life. Every day we spend under constant bombardment, the sounds of explosions surround us, and fear fills the hearts of my little ones. There is no safe shelter, no sufficient food, and no medicine for those who need it. My children are fighting for survival, and I see in their eyes indescribable fear and merciless hunger. We are trying to cling to life, but we need a helping hand. Your donations, no matter how small, can save us, give us another day of hope. Don't leave us alone in this hell... Your compassionate hearts are our lifeline. Save Mohammed and Hala from death 🙏🙏🙏🥺

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The war has returned after 15 months of death and genocide. We have never rested. We are losing people every day, most of them children and women... The bombing is everywhere. Our children are afraid...The sound is frightening.😭

There is no food, no drink, no medicine, the crossing is closed and everything is expensive.

‼️We don't want to die. Please donate and help us so we can buy food and medicine for my mother and save ourselves from death. Just donate. 😭🙏😞🫂‼️

🌑DARKNESS, DEATH, STARVATION 🌑

I hope you are all well, I am Rewaa from Gaza, I am in dire need of donations please, we live in tents, my house was bombed and we narrowly escaped death, I am a mother of two children,we cannot buy food, milk and diapers because of the high prices, there are no clothes for my children, the situation is very difficult, I am in dire need of saving my children's lives from death, I want you to support my campaign for me to protect my children from the dangers of the war we are living between death, destruction and the smell of blood, please help me for my children, I hope with your humanity, kindness and doing good for my children, they die every day, I cannot see my children suffering greatly, suffering and displacement, we have been displaced several times, our tent was destroyed due to displacement, I cannot provide the minimum needs for my children. Please do not let me down. I need your support and donations so that I can collect and secure travel expenses and survive from death. Please help me, I will be very grateful🇵🇸🙏🥹.

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