This news surfaced yesterday and I just want to say this isn't new. This happened and has been reported more than once. There are also the Yemeni Jewish children who were kidnapped from their mothers by Ashkenazi "nurses", who claimed that the baby is dead, and diagnose the mother with hysteria/mental disorder after.

The lack of regard for people of color in Israel shouldn't come as a surprise at all. How many poc do you see in the government/ knesst despite the number of Ethiopian and Yemeni jews?

They're creating an all white country, this is colonizer behavior 101, the world just turned a blind eye.

"We want to protect children!" okay. What about trans kids? What about palestinian kids? What about lgbtq+ kids? What about poc kids?

PSA: There is no such thing as a "white Jew"

There are Jews who have European backgrounds and *some* of them have benefited from eurocentrism or being white passing, but in moments of crisis or need the social tides that create white privilege have never seen Jewish people as part of that group. Whiteness is a social category which has changed with time and attitudes and, at least for now, it has never and still doesn't include Jewish people.

Continuing to use the term "white Jews" is ignorant at best and harmful at worst. Even converts once converted are othered and can no longer rely on any previous white background to save them if they are identified as Jewish.

[ Non-jews please reblog]

Trans people exist in every culture and background across the world and throughout history ❤️

An illustrated print collaboration by @zandegoop and margot fink available at

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"I don't have a religion therefore you can't either" isn't any less colonialist than "my religion is valid and yours is not", by the way, people.

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Hazbin Hotel’s representation

On today's news of no one fucking surprised.

For my lovely followers - and all people in STEM

You can do it!!

"Beauty Within" by renLo 

If you’re positing that something is fact, the burden of proof is on *you* and not the other person to “do their own research”.

In legal practice and in science, the burden of proof is always always on the person making their assertion they believe is the truth.

This is the most lazy form of “activism” I’ve seen. It isn’t even activism, but idiocy and cowardice where the person states a claim and then responds with “do your own research. It’s not my job!”

What this tells me is you’re not educated nor willing to actually give a good answer as to the proof of your claim which you say is “factual”. Seems as if you don’t have your own thoughts and don’t have any real idea as to what exactly is good evidence to what you’re saying!

It’s not helping your cause.

What I see when I see this is someone who has faith in a particular dogma but has absolutely no proof to back up why this faith is real.

As per my “faith” comparison: if a Christian tells you that Jesus was the Messiah, then is the burden of proof on you to find evidence that he was the Messiah? Of course not. Wouldn’t you hate them telling you to do your research for their claimed truth instead of telling you what they believe is fact and then presenting their evidence? It’s on the Christian making the claim. In fact, there’s an entire discipline dedicated to defending various religious doctrines: apologetics. Even religions dedicate ways to provide evidence for their beliefs, so why can’t you?

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim, not the person disagreeing with the claim.

This helps us to understand!

I was thinking about how in middle school I used to wear my natural hair in twists. It’s was back when my hair was really long. Everyday I’d have classmates coming up to me to tug on my hair and watch it bounce. Sometimes they’d ask first, most of the time they did not.

By high school I cut my hair and had an Afro. People would often touch it and usually mess up how I styled it that morning.

Now I’m in college and I constantly get questions asking me if my hair is real. People call my Ice Spice to my face and while laughing secretly, even tho I can still hear them. Mind you I look nothing like Ice Spice, we just happen to both have afros. I’m much darker than she is.

I guess my point is that most do not know how to be normal about black hair. Sometimes it’s balanced out from the amount of compliments I get on it. But it’s exhausting when the majority of people either see my hair as a toy to be played with or the butt of a joke.

A charadesign client that ended up not liking my propositions ! So, here they are, would be a shame to have them disappear into the abyss.

Hey folks! Reviving a server i made with my husband a while back.

If YOU are an adult, a disabled person of color, and you want a place to chat, hang out and make friends with other spoonies of color, you might like to join this server!

(NO white folks or able-bodied people allowed!! But other than that, all 18+ disabled people of color are welcome!!! especially folks with "invisible"* disabilities!!!!)

(*"Invisible" here meaning "invisible to able-bodied folks")