Uk Peeps!! Let’s Get This Going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

interact with this post if you believe aspec identities are queer

trying to prove a point (not forced!!)

The occupation erased an entire family from the civil registry in a new massacre this morning after bombing a barracks housing displaced people at the entrance to the town of Az-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

Their names:

1- Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (45 years old)

2- Bushra Sabri Al-Ajla "Al-Malh" (73 years old)

3- Hanan Fawzi Al-Ajla "Akheel" (44 years old)

4- Safaa Adel Al-Ajla "Abu Al-Qambaz" (38 years old)

5- Hadeel Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (22 years old)

6- Bushra Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (20 years old)

7- Lina Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (17 years old)

8- Muhammad Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (16 years old)

9- Lana Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (16 years old)

10- Hassan Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (14 years old)

11- Lian Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (11 years old)

12- Madeleine Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (9 years old)

13- Nadine Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (11 years old)

14- Dana Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (10 years old)

15- Rital Sami Jawad Al-Ajla (2 years old)

Death to israel

It’s okay to have low pain tolerance.

It’s okay to cry because your pain is at a 2 out of 10.

It’s okay to have higher tolerance for certain types of pain and lower tolerance for others.

It’s okay to be upset that your pain makes you dissociate, but not know any other way to deal with it.

Chronic pain is awful, period. Everyone who deals with it deserves compassion.

Save us from the Gaza war

I am Diab, a medical student from Gaza. I was steadily moving toward my dream of becoming a doctor, studying diligently despite all the difficulties, dreaming of the day I would wear a white coat and treat patients. But suddenly, the war came, sweeping away my dreams as it did my home. I lost everything; all I have left are my books and a few papers. Today, I live in a tent amidst the devastation, trying to cling to whatever remains of my hope.

Life in Gaza is no longer possible, not only because of the destruction, but also because the future here has become uncertain, and completing my studies has become almost impossible. I appeal to those with compassionate hearts and humanitarian organizations to help me leave Gaza and complete my education in a safe environment, where I can realize my dream and one day return to serve my people and my family.

My father had a frozen food shop where we made a living. Now, there's nothing we can do to make ends meet💔💔🍉

We're living in a crisis. There's no food or healthy drink. Everything is expensive. There's nowhere to go amidst this war. We live in a tent💔💔.

Any help, no matter how small, could be the step that saves my future. If you can help or know someone who can, please don't hesitate to support and share.🍉♥️

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Donate to Help a family survive!, organized by Lana Awwad

See update below! Hi, my name is Lana and I live in Canada. As we start Ramadan this year, I wan… Lana Awwad needs your support for Help

Donate to us, even if it is a little.🍉

Thank you♥️

if you miss lucien and martin, just spawn a whole bunch of them back to life!

the martins will run away though

and i love reading them but let's face it

what I was working on yesterday a few hours before my tablet broke my heart

Basically Phoenix worked on a very bad case which reminded him of what happened to Miles and Trucy so he's a bit... you know. The whole comic is just poetic stuff and cuddles. I am not joking.

...And Miles' goofy nightcap. Anyway I was planning to have it done and publish it on ko-fi on June 1st (you might guess why!) hopefully it'll still go that way, but it might be late depending on the tablet situation.

The second one MIGHT not seem a wip but 1. the cover is going to have a back, which you aren't seeing here and 2. if you notice the text at the bottom it's *black*. I will never use black on anything that isn't a comic page 🤣 ...That's one of my rules. (godot voice) btw basically what I did was. I was working on the second panel (the one of the feet) and I saved to have dinner. I had dinner. Around 9:00 PM I went to turn the tablet on. You know the rest.... 😅

As someone who has worked in the queer community for a long time, you need to be careful of the people who stretch the reality of scarcity in our community to fit their agendas of making money off of our community.

A major sign of snake oil salesmen is someone saying they are not just the best, but the only option. This is made more believable in marginalized communities, where we are genuinely seeing a lack in resources, but a lack is not the same as an emptiness. As someone who studies queer history, let me say this: queer people (and other marginalized groups) have been fighting to provide for each other and their future for much longer than you'd expect.

There are resources. They aren't always spread equally or easily accessible, but there are more resources than some people want you to believe.

Don't let less get mistranslated into absence. Generation after generation of queer people have fought to make sure there was something for us. Do not let someone disrespect this work by claiming they are the first and only queer person to do something. If someone claims to be a first or only, fact check that. While firsts deserve celebration, we should be grateful to live in a world where they are more rare than they used to be.

"They are fighting over me" vibes

The thing I was thinking the most while watching Conclave was actually a classmate I had in uni who is a nun. She talked about the role of women on the church and how there should be a woman pope. And like, years ago she was given a scholarship to study philosophy in Rome, except she couldn't. Because the nuns had to perform all the domestic labor for the priests and the workload was too big, add to that stuff like how no one could leave the dinner table before the archbishop and he liked to talk so sometimes he would make everyone stay until late at night and ofc the nuns had to clean up after that, or when the priests wanted to give the nuns an easy day they would decide they would have a picnic, but the nuns still had to prepare their picnic. My friend just couldn't find the time to study, so she dropped her scholarship and came back to Mexico.

And Conclave does such a good job of making this work visible, even when if only Sister Agnes speaks, there is always shots of nuns working. For everything the priests do, it's always shown how the nuns make it possible. Benítez standing out early on for being the one person to thank them. The film ending on a seemingly unrelated shot of nuns walking.

It's a very poignant statement given how reproductive labor is often invisibilized.