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asaltysquid · 2 months
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By Rachel Schragis
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All of these things are true. Denying the truth of any of them will not help anyone.
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asaltysquid · 3 months
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award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:
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"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"
some of baraa's illustrations:
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this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
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this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
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"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"
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asaltysquid · 3 months
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I have been… biting my tongue from saying things. 
Partially because I’m not “really Jewish” (on the way to it via conversion), and because I didn’t want this blog to be political. 
But I realize I want this page to be a safe space. If anyone takes issue with what I’m about to say, I don’t want them on this page. 
I joined the college jewish community very shortly after 10/7 and was immediately welcomed in. There was no separation between me and the girl who had gone to orthodox shul all her life and was the head of the state youth group. I was told explicitly  “you are one of us. And together, we are mourning. We have lost our people and so have you.” 
Still I felt no authority to speak on things as insidious as antisemitism until recently. But how many times do you have to experience an antisemitic incident until you get to stand up? 
Six. The answer is six. 
Since explicitly aligning myself with Jewishness, I have lost friends who told me I have “dual loyalties” in so many words. I’ve been ostracized in events because we were singled out . I’ve been followed back to my dorm room from events by people hurling genocide accusations at me- white girls wearing keffiyahs who don't know anything about the Nakba when I try to connect with them about how awful it was.
My face was used in a local “fight jew hate” campaign” where I’m in a group of people with clearly middle eastern descent. But what circulated around my campus was my blonde hair and blue eyes, with people using laughing emojis.
“This is who we’re supposed to be defending!? Bitch please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣” 
(Which is perfectly ironic because they singled out the person who wasn't ethnically Jewish and focused on her. )
Campus security and the disciplinary office knows me quite well from all the reports I've filed whether for me or other people.
I leave campus for breaks. Even though I’m returning to my highly Catholic conservative family, I breathe a sigh of relief. I don't have to look over my shoulder constantly or check myself in the surroundings I'm in. I already feel the dread about returning in January.
What hurts is the blindness- the lack of nuance- that is being given. Every single Jewish person at my school is not a self described zionist, other than that they acknowledge Jewish indignity to the land, and that there was a reason for the creation of Israel- not even justification in the current state or the matter it came about.
But they- and we- shouldn't have to prove ourselves. We shouldn't be debating if we should fundraise for Gazans (we are) in case someone accuses us of "lying about our intentions" or if we'd be pointed out as "the good jews!" They shouldn't have to have a tab open on their computer for Israeli passports, even though they desperately don't want to leave the United States. I shouldn't have to wonder whenever I'm at a synagogue "If I get killed here in a terrorist attack before being immersed in the mikvah, will I get a Catholic or Jewish funeral?"
But that never mattered. Our voices never did. Unless the antisemitism came from a high school dropout neo-nazi with a shaved head and swastika jacket, it's never going to matter.
I will never forget- even as I advocate for Palestinians, call for a ceasefire, and donate. Or any other cause where I'll be marching besides these activists I can never call well meaning.
I could go on and on about it. But I won't be able to write it out in this post.
All I know is when the counsel of rabbis ask me if I'm ready to be apart of an unpopular group, I'm going to have to fight myself from laughing at the question
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asaltysquid · 3 months
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I love you trans masc Jim Hawkins lovers. Every time one of you comments on this my heart grows three sizes.
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💫To Be A Man💫
Thrilled I get to post my part of @ghostsharkpress ‘s transology zine before pride month ends. Our prompt was to recontextualize a formative childhood cartoon through the lense of transness/gncness.
These are thoughts I’ve had spilling around in my head for a while and seeing how important Treasure Planet was for me as a kid I thought it would be perfect. I always struggled with the fact I don’t really have any older male guide or figure to learn myself from so as a kid I tried to mimic the masculinity of shows or my peers. Growing older and wanting to step out of boyhood has really been a journey of self discovery and self worth and I’m really proud of the person I’m becoming.
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asaltysquid · 4 months
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asaltysquid · 4 months
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I'm on Bumble for Exposure therapy with my ROCD but lately it has just been a fun way to meet some cool queer people! (I have a platonic bar date with a drag queen soon and I'm very excited)
That being said if I WAS looking seriously and let this be a PSA:
Girl/Boy I don't care how rocking your rack is and how well you can quote the office
If you golf that's an instant left swipe for me.
One of my top date ideas is in fact absolutely obliterating your local golf course.
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asaltysquid · 5 months
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Trying out lil slice of life comics. Anyhow love letter to the Arowana at the pet store I work at. He's a master of side eye and listening to me bitching.
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(the moment we realized he'd gotten big enough to need to be housed by himself)
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asaltysquid · 5 months
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So my best friend in my building is a 50 something divorced Butch lesbian who moved in to take care of her mother and y a l l
We ran into each other today and she excitedly told me for easily a half hour how she just got a new girlfriend who is teaching her about bondage and kink. Only recently did she go to her first ever LGBT kink event. Also this is a first time she's ever had a girlfriend really give her gifts and show her tenderness and just...MAN.
Life is hard but it's beautiful and that doesn't dwindle with age. I have more in common with her than I do a straight cis peer in their 20s.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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We need peace and safety, Israeli and Palestinians together in the region. What we don’t need is westerners cheering on their “side” while they sit in safety and our blood soaks the ground.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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Grub appreciation post
Love my birdsnakelizard son
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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israel has now retaliated and is bombing gaza, as we suspected they would. 198 palestinians have now been killed. if we believe retributive justice is not justified when palestinians do it, we must also believe it is not justified when israelis do it. gaza is entirely urban and there is no way to attack only military installations without also murdering civilians. this cannot be the answer.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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Also to add to this if I may
There's such a notion within the cisheterosexual Christian culture that the sex/cheating is the problem and that's why the relationship fell apart when cheating tends to be the symptom of an already existing issue. It's just that for a lot of people cheating (and reasonably so) is the deal breaker.
When you're Poly and feeling hurt by something you very quickly learn to look past the act of sex as the thing that's causing you pain and examine deeper.
Example:
"My partner hooked up with their partner and I'm feeling angry/jealous about it. But it's ok for them to be sleeping with that person so why am I feeling angry/jealous?"
"Oh. I've realized I've been working hard all week and have had not much free time to enjoy with my partner so I'm feeling a bit emotionally neglected. I should communicate that."
Polyamory is the constant establishment and re-establishment of boundaries with people that you hopefully trust deeply to understand and work with you to find a way that's ethical and enjoyable for all partners. With that comes a lot of growing pains and surfacing of things that without polyamory could have possibly been ignored but now there's no way to ignore it and it has to be addressed in a healthy way.
Polyamory is hard and my experiences have been very up and down but when you find the right people that stone of difficulty is worth carrying when it can be forged into something beautiful.
“polyamory is just cheating with extra steps” tell me you don’t understand why cheating is actually bad without telling me you don’t understand why cheating is actually bad
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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The face of a criminal
Can't believe I let this middle aged conservative live in my apartment rent free.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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Relevant again this week damn.
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Just musings on my OCD and the idea of being ripped away from yourself by your brain.
All people with ocd have my love but a special shout out to my fellow queer ocd havers whose brain decided to be an obsessive fundamentalist Christian about it.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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I think at the end of the day this post is about bootlickers and transmasculine people who I also think still have alot of bioessentialism to work through. From my own experience the transmascs who really don't view Terfs as a threat to themselves also tend to be weird around trans women.
So yes I do agree with you and while I do think trans masculine and trans feminine people definitely share and differ in their struggles my additions to this post were not to start infighting about what side of our spectrum struggles more. It was merely to address a problematic view point myself and other transmascs see in our community from other transmascs.
I also bring up the violence fascist women bring against the community specifically to transmasculine people because historically they have used their status as women to hide behind. Essentially don't feel safer around fascists JUST because they're women. Fascist women crave the power of fascist men and will enact cruelty to those they view as beneath them in accordance. I don't mention this to say that women have just as much power as men in the patriarchy. Simply put a fascist is a fascist no matter the gender.
I hope this clears up some of the confusion/questions you had! I am really not here to try and divide our community.
All power and all love to every trans person
truly i dont want to hear anymore about how terfs are so nice to transmascs from people whose only interaction with terfs is reading their propaganda online. like some of you are earnestly like "wow, do you really think an anti-trans hate group would do that? just go on the internet and tell lies?"
i had a terf physically assault me in the bathroom of a bar because she recognised me from some stupid facebook post where i disclosed my gender identity (wasn't even a man then! just a """theyfab"""!) and after she was done smashing my fucking head against the wall and groping my crotch she told me so smugly that "no one will believe you" about the assault. isn't that so funny.
and no, she didn't "mistake me for a trans woman". she very angrily informed me that if i thought i could "escape what it means to be a woman" that i had another thing coming- that thing being corrective sexual assault and a concussion, it seems.
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asaltysquid · 6 months
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Saying this in very good faith and an even tone just in case my bluntness sounds like I'm angry or attacking
Of course it is all for all and no one here is denying the way that trans women are demonized but this post is specifically about real life and the false perception that terfs are somehow "kinder" to transmascs.
Yes online they use Trans Fems as a shield and their primary political weapon to scare people who may be less aware of things to come to their side. It is the same way they champion protecting the innocence of daughters from being mutilated and sullied.
But in real life they do not care. If someone hates trans people and they perceive you as trans we are all the same collective blight in their eyes.
truly i dont want to hear anymore about how terfs are so nice to transmascs from people whose only interaction with terfs is reading their propaganda online. like some of you are earnestly like "wow, do you really think an anti-trans hate group would do that? just go on the internet and tell lies?"
i had a terf physically assault me in the bathroom of a bar because she recognised me from some stupid facebook post where i disclosed my gender identity (wasn't even a man then! just a """theyfab"""!) and after she was done smashing my fucking head against the wall and groping my crotch she told me so smugly that "no one will believe you" about the assault. isn't that so funny.
and no, she didn't "mistake me for a trans woman". she very angrily informed me that if i thought i could "escape what it means to be a woman" that i had another thing coming- that thing being corrective sexual assault and a concussion, it seems.
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