I’ve had a chat with a woman named Suad and she’s trusted me to share her story with you all.
Suad is a young engineer from Gaza who was excelling in her field, and had recently been told that she is pregnant. She had a bright future ahead of her until disaster struck and Israel and their constant bombings destroyed everything she holds dear.
She and her husband are now living out of a tent like many Gazans now. They have had to struggle to find food and water, and not only this, but Suad is also trying to nurture an unborn baby without access to adequate food and the prenatal care that a pregnant mother needs.
She is fundraising now to get herself, along with her husband and their family members out of Gaza. They require $20,000 to get out of Gaza and an additional $8,000 for transfer costs and living expenses in Egypt.
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As of right now, they have made only $2,732 of their goal and their situation is urgent. Suad is now nearly 9th months along and will be giving birth to her child very soon in very dangerous conditions for both herself and the baby.
Please donate whatever you can to this fundraiser, and if you cannot donate, I urge you to share!
listen i have no real attachment to this phrase but if you can’t understand that it’s a fucking metaphor you’re the dumb one
there is a long history in feminism of association with the witch as a powerful outsider, it is not and has never meant to be wholly historically accurate more in the sense of the way women have been treated when they dared to step outside their roles, that phrase means the opposite of what you’re implying it means patriarchy will never be able to murder and subdue every woman who fights against it, this is a pretty basic sentiment
but as usual you people seem to think women are too fucking stupid to use a metaphor and chomp at the bit to explain to us why we are wrong,, no one uses it thinks witches are real or anyone murdered for witchcraft deserved it like what are you actually talking about? go outside, for $1 name a woman
remember according to tumblr dot edu no women have EVER faced misogyny, a fake form of oppression that is thousand of years old and exists globally because it makes them feel bad about their favourite white man :(
I don’t know how to put this without sounding patronising, but I couldn’t see this point in the notes anywhere: In Britain at least, “We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” is a TERF slogan. So that’s why people are pushing back against it so much.
Neither “the magic is going away” nor “the magic is just beginning” but “the magic has been around for fifty years and society has only partly adjusted”
I haven’t been talking much about Doctor Who on this blog recently but I’m very impressed by the new season. (Apart from “Space Babies”. Just not for me, that one.) “Dot and Bubble” is a very clever episode, with the most hateable main character Doctor Who has ever had, and yeah I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t work out until RIGHT before the twist that this was a planet of racists. It’s so obvious when you look back at it (Lindy immediately blocking the Doctor, Lindy saying that the Doctor looks “stupid”…) but I didn’t notice. So I guess this episode indicates I too have a bubble of sorts.
gazafunds.com – Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don’t know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)
Help provide tents (urgent):
The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)
Food, cash & essentials:
Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)
Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)
Water:
Gaza Municipality’s water project: The officialMunicipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it’s still only at 15%!)
crips for esims for gaza: If you don’t know how to buy esims or don’t have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly
Medical Aid
Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.
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