@laziah.bsky.social lives in Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan with a group of trans + queer folks. Meeting basic needs like meds+clean drinking water are a daily struggle, +they are targeted for who they are. I donated $25 - can you meet 1/2 of that? Can you commit to a coffee weekly or monthly?
QR code with link to linktr.ee/LandAction
The SAAs 🏺 are only a few weeks away and you know what that means... it's time for my annual SAA Land Action list! You can include this QR code on your land acknowledgement slide to back it up with a call to support local Indigenous orgs from Yelamu (SF) and the Bay Area!
If you want to know more, @transnews.network is pretty much the only news org taking the Catholic Church's total trans healthcare ban and its devastating impacts seriously.
In-depth coverage here: transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nig...
And here: transnews.network/p/u-s-cathol...
ISRAEL BOMBED NEXT TO UNESCO SITE OF TYRE AGAIN
For over a year, my little dream and little posts have been their lifeline. None of us want it that way, but they're on the brink of famine.
21 families + the model of recurring giving—so they can rely on having shelter & a bite to eat for their kids. Join 280+ members: chuffed.org/project/hope...
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep tehir families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. More than ever, they need our sustainable support. Click weekly to join: https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
Hunger is escalating - help six families & a camp eat!!
Prices are going up, the crossing is still closed, these pledges are disappearing, and our sustained attention matters.
The best way to help is by clicking “weekly/monthly” on a coffee or spare change: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open.
I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!
This week is slated to be the lowest support since October.
A photograph of Earth seen from space against a black background with faint stars. The visible hemisphere prominently displays the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the large brown landmass of northwestern Africa, and swirling white cloud formations scattered across the globe. A thin, bright blue atmospheric glow traces the top left curve of the planet.
Earth, from Artemis II.
Everything you've ever done, everyone you've ever known, all that you have traveled is contained in this picture.
Thank you for all the work that you do
If you are in the UK and you want to help, use Dr. Divya's link. If you elsewhere, check out this link (same fundraiser) and sign up to donate monthly!
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Dr. Divya suggests we sign up for the cost of a coffee (~$7 if you're in the US) each month. One coffee = one eSIM!
A white ceramic jar made in the shape of a human face, with a wide nose and flaring nostrils, two whiskers protruding from the nose, a small closed mouth, and large wide eyes with two thick eyebrows and small ears and little hands on either side.
🏺 I hope you all can enjoy this friend-shaped Bes jar from Late Period Faiyum, now at the World Museum in Liverpool. 📜
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/bes...
i vetted this to make sure it wasn’t ai so you could enjoy it fully
reactivating to share this. trans voices are barely heard even while we're busy being kicked around for political clout by abject weirdos and/or fascists. so shares are appreciated 🙏
Eid Mubarak to everyone...except those profiting off of Sudanese, Palestinian, Congolese, Haitian and Indigenous (and all other oppressed people's) death and destruction. May this year bring you ruin and may your wealth be redistributed to those you stole from.
This is the real takeaway from the Parable series — that we should find our people and organize our lives together.
Not, "Octavia Butler predicted the future."
Delightful Egyptian #hedgehog. 🥰🦔🥰
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
"[T]he Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally."
Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"
The field of archaeology was developed as a tool of imperialism and settler colonialism and every attempt to depoliticize archaeology is an abdication of our responsibility to actively undo the harms of our predecessors through reparative justice🏺
Artwork on a residential wall in Khartoum of a woman holding up a stick usually used for cooking. The text says A woman's place is the resistance in Arabic المرا مكانا المقاومة.
One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).
The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.
He is waving goodbye to his mother.
I’m now hearing up to 80 students. I’m sure those kids will be presented as threats somehow, but they’re little children with hopes and dreams and people who loved them and they're the exact people who are used tokenisitically in demands for regime change.
solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas.
you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.
NEW: Hundreds of Palestinians gathered 800 meters from the yellow line at Abu Hussein School in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip to celebrate the first day of Ramadan together despite what Fouad Al-Mallah said was "the hardship, confinement, and lack of resources we face."
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
In a recent interview, I was asked about the British Museum as a site of public history. I replied that I'm not sure that that's what the BM is engaged in. The British Museum is about power, and power frequently seeks to obscure history.
