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I received a lot of asks from people in Gaza requesting help with their fundraisers in these past months I've been off tumblr and I was thinking we could do a matching game. I'll donate $ 10 dollars to one fundraiser in this list and you guys can match my donation for more or for less, whatever you can. I really hope we can get traction and encourage donations this way. If you're going to reblog, please think about giving at least one dollar to a fundraiser. It takes less than five minutes.

  • Dina @dina-my-family - vetted here: Dina's a 25 years old mother from Gaza. She has a 2 years old baby girl and a 3 months old baby boy. She was pregnant and gave birth during this war and is fighting desperately so her kids get their basic necessities and manage to escape.
  • Maysara Shaquro @maysarashaquro: Maysara is a 21 years old with a heart condition. He evacuated to Egypt but he's still in dire need of support for his health and living expenses. He's very close to his goal.
  • Ghada Nabil Al-Anqar @ghadanabil2 - vetted here (#6 on the list): Ghada is a 32 years old student who's fundraising to evacuate himself, his father and younger brother. He's very low on funds right now.
  • Muhammad @mohamed-reesh09 - vetted here: Muhammad is fundraising to provide basic needs and means to escape for his wife and three babies. If you click on his profile, you can see videos of his youngest running through the rubbles of Gaza. His middle child has contracted hepatitis and Muhammad is in dire need. This campaign is extremely low on funds.
  • Doaa Jad Al-Haq @dodoomar12 - vetted here: Doaa is a mother of a 5 years old autistic boy. Doaa managed to escape to Egypt but she is having a very hard time providing for him and herself, having lost her means of survival in the war. She's also fundraising to aid her family still in Gaza, who she was entirely separated from.
  • Aseel Mohammed Jad Al-Haq @aseelo680 - vetted here: Aseel is a 28 years old from Gaza. She's fundraising to evacuate her parents and the weight of providing for her family is making an already miserable situation even worse. Her mother is chronically ill and her father had a stroke due to the heartbreak of losing so many family members. She's asking for help to get a tent to face the winter.
  • Salman Helles @salman-1990 - vetted here: Salman is fundraising to evacuate his family, including his four little boys. He's extremely low on funds and his posts have very little traction.
  • Mohammed Atallah @mohammedatallah - vetted here: Mohammed is a teenager from Gaza who was shot by an explosive bullet. He needs bone grafting surgery to reconstruct his arm and regain use of his hand. The funds will be donated to his surgery and the rebuilding of his family home. Mohammed has been the target of smear campaigns for months now but hasn't even raised a quarter of his goal.
  • Ahmed Hellis @ahmedhelllis - vetted here: Ahmed is looking to evacuate 20 family members. He's only a fourth way to his goal. This is a matter of keeping his whole family together when they evacuate.
  • Ola Ferwana - vetted here (#60 on this list): Ola's husband had traveled to Egyt to get medicine for their children before October 7th. She has been separated from him since then, and has faced every hardship by herself. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl during the war and her husband hasn't met her yet. She's very low on funds.
  • Fadi Ayyad - vetted here: Fadi is only 18 years old bearing the weight of fundraising for his family's evacuation. His father @mayadayyad81 is a very well respected English teacher from Gaza and lost all means of providing when the war hit. They're very close to their goal.
  • Mohammed Al-Habil @mohammed-alhabil - vetted here (#166): Mohammed is a father of three. His little boy, only 2 years old, has undergone eye surgery and now needs special care in terrible situations. He's desperately asking for help in the face of the upcoming winter.
  • Ramez Hilles @ramezderar - vetted here: Ramez is fundraising to evacuate his ten family members, including his seven small children. He's in dire need of help, his posts barely get traction and he's being harrassed by a zionist in the notes of almost all his posts. This is very low on funds.
  • Mohammed and Haneen @haneenmohamaad - vetted here: Haneen and Mohammad have been married for four years now. Haneen suffered a miscarriage during the 2021 bombings and now she has lost another baby. They're raising money to evacuate Gaza along Mohammed's elderly parents. They have less than 1k raised.
  • Mahmoud Ayyad @amanyayyad11 - Mahmoud unfortunately hasn't been able to vet his campaign yet, since it was created very recently and most bloggers have temporarily stopped the vetting process, but the pictures of his family clear on Google reverse. He's barely surpassed a 10% of his goal in three months.
  • Aya Almajdoub @aiamaher: Aya is a 27 years old bearing the weight of her family's future. She's fundraising for eight people, including her three years old baby boy. Her campaign hasn't broken past $3k out of $55k.
  • Abeer Salem @abeersalem - vetted here: Abeer is a mother of two who had to escape from danger in Gaza City. She wants help to rebuild her home and provide for her baby girls. They're currently extremely low on funds (less than 1k).
  • Muhammad Ibrahim @2malakmaloka - vetted here: Muhammad is one of the direst campaigns I have seen. He hasn't reached even 1k yet. He's fundraising to help evacuate his three little girls, you can see pictures of them with their pets in his GFM.
  • Fayez Al-Kafarma @fayez-al-kfarna - vetted here (#355): Fayez is the father of a family of three. His fundraiser, if you check the link, is organized by a 16 years old teenager who his family took under his care during the war after she was separated from their parents. Fayez was hit by shrapnel and is currently in need of medical care. They're very very close to their goal.

Been listening to so many samba enredos lately like its crazy that they just put out these beautiful epic tales told on the background of an entire drum school coordinating the most beautiful rhythms hailing african religions and languages and then entire communities parade down a huge avenue with beautiful rich cars and dances and costumes every year its like Fernanda Torres says we want the recognition of the global north but also we feel sorry for what they've been missing out on like I truly dont know if an usamerican can understand the beauty of this song I think when they listen to it they think it's silly because racism and xenophobia has wired them to hear latin rhythms as comical like mariachi bands and Im truly sorry because this makes my eyes water lmao SALGUEIROOO na sutileza dos teus versos todo o encanto do universo e da divina criação mistérios da imensidão gaiaaaaaa terra viva a riqueza gira mundo meu cenário relicário de beleza templo sagrado de olorum salve a grandeza de oxalá guardiões da natureza é a magia dos orixás OXUM

need to string together my thoughts more on this but reeeeeally interesting to see the influx of media - severance, the substance, mickey 17 - centered on the idea of a double/expendable iteration of yourself.

the dehumanization of workers by the way of non-livable wages, unsafe working conditions, and identity based discrimination (and the current removal of dei initiatives), all drive a wedge between our personhood and the value we are prescribed as a member of the workforce. something something the effects of ai and deepfakes already putting people in danger, the way we live and present our lives online vs in reality, there’s a lot to unpack here. but it’s fascinating to see this trope so widely translated as a storytelling vehicle for these ideas, and that this is the story that people are interested in telling.

as pastoras e os pastores vem chegando da CIDADE DA FAVELA para defender as suas cores como fiéis na santa missa na capela SALVE O SAMBA SALVE A SANTA SALVE ELA

you could post just the word “bush” (kate? george w? hw? vegetation? pubic hair?) and someone will reply “well i shave because of sensory issues” regardless

in response to prev tags

Cis men DO have sensory issues in relation to this. You don't hear about it because you haven't looked and you didn't listen. And plenty of cis men shave a bunch too. Have you SEEN swimmers??? The automatic assumption that a group goes not experience a thing because you 1. Haven't heard of it yet and 2. Assumed it only affected one group is a common issue in activism. Anyway, shaving isn't just something done so you "look nice". It's done in solidarity, it's done pre surgery, it's done by swimmers, pre tattoos, it's done for a plethora of reasons and I'm tired of pretending it's always just "I'm a girl so I have to shave". Get out of here with small minded perceptions like that

ok this i do have to point and laugh at sorry

The Oscar presenter joking with I'm still here talking about how his wife wishes he had disappeared like Rubens Paiva like come on man you could joke about anything other than the brutal kidnapping and torturing of a father

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Couldnt make it to a single pré Carnaval this month and my city DIES during Carnaval because most people enjoy the holiday to go down to the beaches and Im soo upset about it if I dont manage to go out from friday up to ash wednesday Ill kill myself

If Im not drunk on the streets as gay people blow glitter in the air singing CADÊ TUTACAMOM AKHAENATON from the top of my lungs by saturday stat I'll kill myself

Couldnt make it to a single pré Carnaval this month and my city DIES during Carnaval because most people enjoy the holiday to go down to the beaches and Im soo upset about it if I dont manage to go out from friday up to ash wednesday Ill kill myself

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Looking back at the falcon and winter soldier show its crazy how clear the US propaganda was man they outright say the villains are wrong because they want a world without borders. Didn't even try to make an argument or anything

And it's specially foul they do this to Anthony Mackie. Placing the blame of your franchise failing on a black man when your content has morphed into boring ultra right propaganda movies is sickening lmao. They didn't even try to argue for like a "democrat" point of view (I dont believe there's much of a difference there beneath posturing) its just full on build the wall shit

Looking back at the falcon and winter soldier show its crazy how clear the US propaganda was man they outright say the villains are wrong because they want a world without borders. Didn't even try to make an argument or anything

So many people live in such fear of being called a bigot they literally refuse to have opinions or state harsh truths even if it’s at the expense of peoples lives. Some claims of bigotry are not true and will be used as a deflection it’s not the end of the world if someone wields this against you if you genuinely believe it not to be true you can say that. Put your big boy pants on and stop living in terror of having a Yourfaveisproblematic wiki page because you denounced genocide

Black Israelites (for anybody who is stupid im not referring to black Israelis im referring to the extremist ideology of black Hebrew Israelites) will call you racist if you denounce them, hindutvas will call you racist if you denounce them, zionists will call you antisemitic if you denounce them, terfs will call you misogynistic if you denounce them, so on and so on and so on. This is a level 1 tactic to protect the interests of fascism and make it impossible for other people to even speak on it. Dont fall for it

i know that life isn't a race and that everyone does things on their own schedule and that i shouldn't compare myself to other people who haven't lived the same life that i have and overcome the same obstacles i have. BUT

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