UCLA launched their Gaza Solidarity Encampment today. Their demands are as follows:
1. DIVEST: Withdraw all UCLA Foundation funds from companies & institutions that are complicit in the israeli occupation, apartheid, & genocide
2. DISCLOSE: Provide full transparency to all UC-wide & UCLA Foundation
3. END POLICING: End targeted repression & policing of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus, & sever all ties w/ LAPD
4. BOYCOTT: Sever all connections to israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, research partnerships, & UCLA’s Nazarian Center.
5. END THE SILENCE: Call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and end to the occupation and genocide in Palestine.
Whoever said "you can't make being gay your whole personality whoever says that is homophobic" has clearly never had a conversation with a white gay person.
Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.
Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?
Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.
Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!
so many queer ppl will be like "deviating from social norms is part of who we are" and then gleefully participate in fatphobia/diet culture and nearly make being skinny an entire ideology and identity