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Crips for eSims for Gaza – Disability Visibility Project
Lots of good things on this page, writings from Palestinians and activists, info about esims, donation links, and more
#free palestine#free gaza#i stand with palestine#palestine#gaza#palestine resources#esims#connecting gaza#solidarity
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Hey do you by chance have that link on hand for the charity you can send money to that buys esims without all the extra steps? I think you were who I saw it from. I'm sure I reblogged it, so don't worry if you don't, but I'm about to have some extra money next month and I ideally want to split payments between Care for Gaza and esims
This one?
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As disabled people around the world and as disabled diasporic Asian queers, we have been grieving heavily and finding as many ways we can to be in solidarity with Palestinians during the last 80 days of the genocide against Palestinian people.
We want to get money and resources directly to Palestinians in Gaza, however, as many people know, the blockade has made it almost impossible to get cash and resources into Gaza. One way that is possible is getting people eSims.
The Israeli Occupation Forces have attacked wifi and cellular service over and over again, which stops people from being able to get information, be in touch with their families to let them know they’re alive, and for people to get the word out about bombings and conditions in Gaza. The several times that Israel/the IOF cut off all wireless and cellular service have been chilling and also provided sites where harsh damage, murder and atrocities could occur without media coverage, period, and by the heroic young citizen journalists whose social media accounts are some of the only ways that accurate, up-to-date news has been getting out of Gaza.
On October 29th, 2023, Egyptian writer and activist Mirna El Helbawi founded #ConnectingGaza to get eSims directly to people in Gaza, with updated information about which carrier is most needed. A few weeks later, poet and organizer Jane Shi decided to sell her remaining “Immunocompromised people are worth protecting” stickers to raise funds for eSims as well as for Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto’s Community Defense Fund after her friend Divya Kaur (@soft.kaur) suggested fundraising for eSims with art and after her friend Vivian Ly and co-organizer at Masks4EastVan linked Mirna’s instructions in a group chat. Doing so was quick and easy, as her stickers were already listed on her Big Cartel page from when they were previously sold to fundraise for fires and floods impacting predominantly Indigenous families in so-called British Columbia.
Like many others across her social media feed, Jane was floored when she saw that one of the eSims she purchased, which lasts 20 days and has unlimited data, was activated, meaning that it is currently being used to connect Palestinians in Gaza to the Internet. She excitedly sent the screenshot of the activated eSim to a bunch of her friends and community members, hoping to offer some respite against the high stress of protests, social media posts, and ongoing organizing.
Amidst the onslaught of violence, criminalization of protest, egregious censorship, and grief, including for the assassination of English professor and poet Refaat Alareer, the small blue “Active” offered a glimmer of hope, however small, however inadequate.
Poet Rasha Abdulhadi, a disabled, queer Palestinian Southerner, invites us to do everything in our power to refuse the genocide against Palestinian people and in so doing, encourages us to make connections between our struggles and theirs. In their bio in The Offing and elsewhere, they share, “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it’s a handful, throw it. If it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” As disabled people we owe our disabled kin in Gaza to get in the way.
In the spirit of many disability justice crowdfunds, like Stacey Park Milbern’s collective fundraiser to buy the Disability Justice Culture Club in 2019, we are organizing this disabled (and ally) crowdfund to buy a shit ton of eSims.
Anything you can contribute helps. There is power in numbers. We know that as disabled/ sick/ ND/Deaf people we are often poor or broke, but we can pool our money to collectively make a big difference. We also know that there is a rich tradition of poor and working class people donating more than middle class and rich people in general, and of poor and working class disabled people sharing what we have as a form of collective access and solidarity. We also call on people with access to money and/or wealth to contribute as you can.
We are also looking for disabled orgs and collectives to connect with and move money and resources to as asked—we have listed some below. We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath.
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ALT TEXT: Illustration with a light blue background featuring pieces of watermelon cut into triangular shapes and watermelon seeds. In the center against a white square background, text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza.”
#crips for esims for Gaza#disability visibility project#alice wong#free gaza#free palestine#solidarity#cripple punk
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Hello I want to provide more links for anyone to share or support, even if your not financially stable to help the greater and better thing to do is share, amplify or follow them ✨
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studyblr / langblr intro *ੈ✩‧₊˚
🌿 about me *ੈ✩‧₊˚
he/they + two-spirit
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afro-indigenous [ojibway & ethiopian]
from: treaty 4 territory
currently in: coast salish territory
🌿 languages *ੈ✩‧₊˚
mostly just studying my heritage language anishinaabemowin [nakawemowin/western dialect]
used to study korean, mandarin, & nehiyawewin [plains cree]
hoping to start casually learning arabic [palestinian/levantine dialect]
🌿 school *ੈ✩‧₊˚
2nd year standing in indigenous teacher education [3rd yr overall]
specialization: secondary [high school] history & social studies
my program is kinda weird but it's basically a 5 year dual degree in education + the equivalent of a double major in history & social studies
academic interests: turtle island history, african diasporic identity, indigenous communism, settler-colonialism, philosophy of identity, revolutionary hope, 20th & 21st century genocide studies, etc
long-term goal: becoming a history teacher and librarian
🌿 current classes *ੈ✩‧₊˚
teacher practicum
communication [in education]
indigenous studies [in education]
language & cultural continuity [based on xaat kíl, aka the haida people's language]
🌿 other random facts and things *ੈ✩‧₊˚
i'm a director of a queer library and also work at the only indigenous academic library in my country !
i have mutiple disabilities
i play bass & electric guitar
i'm in a t4t relationship with a smart biology girly
my favourite music genres are conscious hiphop, alternative metal, and kpop
🌿 my other blogs !! *ੈ✩‧₊˚
@punk-by-the-book ~ main blog (v active)
@rileys-archive ~ writing & photography (not super active)
#studyblr#studyspo#chaotic academia#dark academia#light academia#teacher education#kpop studyblr#black academia#study blog#study inspo#study motivation#autistic studyblr#queer studyblr#college#college studyblr#university#college student#college life#histblr#indigenous languages#indigenous langblr#langblr#arabic langblr#education studyblr#university life
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been thinking a lot abt how the woes of lesbian longing on social media have gotten caught up in the thralls of ytness. to elaborate, i would say most lesbians experience alienation on the basis of queer attraction (& gender fuckery for some of us) which boils down to misogyny + lesbiphobia. this manifests through faulty community networks or — ostracism +/mistreatment from family, friends, romance, work relationships, and other support systems which is “punishment”(read: part of the oppression designed and assigned by the cisheterosexual-patriarchal regime)for decentering men.
but, i would also say: while most-all lesbians experience longing (of irl community, friends, lovrs, familial-like ties. xpression of desire, increased opportunities for romance, friendship, presentation & expression free of homophobic+transphobic ridicule, etc), some of us also experience disillusionment with our relationship to belonging in lesbian spaces bc our diasporic ties to race, religion, (dis)ability, transness and their simultaneous socio-political affect. the ways our experiences of oppression interlock into a form that taints our ability to enjoy lesbian spaces is smthn that needs regular attention. like dressing and checking on a fresh wound.
i say allat 2 say, my experience of longing is so distant from the longing that has been popularized on social media. specifically, lesbian yearning 2. my loneliness is far more lonely.
i long for my family 2 love my queerness as much as they love their blackness bc they are inherently related, to never be separated. i long for disability conscious lovers that don’t shame me for where i “lack” due to physical disabilities. i long for a lesbian social media experience that talks more abt fatness, transness, and lesbianism. i wish i had more fat femmes and fat studs + butches in my life. i wish i could be acquainted with that familiarity yt lesbians have in their unity, belonging. i wish lesbians from where im from weren’t terfs that attempt to separate transness from the black lesbian experience. i wish my race didn’t erase my nonbinary gender. i wish my nonbinary transmascness didn't erase my femmeness.
i wish my access to care was not reliant on belonging.
(tagging posts like this ‘genderfckd rants’)
#trans lesbian longing#lesbian yearning#lesbian desire#wlw yearning#sapphic yearning#black femme#black lesbian#disabled#butchfemme#lesbianism#queer theory#black transfeminist theory#genderfckd rants
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wip tag
thank you,@thenicestthingiveseen and @takearisk-ao3 for tagging me!
List the titles of your top five priorities for WIP updates (link your fics for new readers!)
An upcoming scene, event, or detail in each fic that you're looking forward to writing
Bonus: make a poll for your followers to vote on which top 5 WIP they are most excited to see an update on!
Then tag 10 writer friends!
for the first time in a while, sans any inbox prompts, i have no fic wips. wild. anyway -
THE MIDWEST HORROR IDEA: a half-vampire collides with a figure from his past at college, creating new risks as they explore the Bridgewater Triangle with their friends. [Adult, supernatural/horror, M/M main romance, still has no outline and only vibes]
DARK ACADEMIA GHOST IDEA: a young girl returns to her boarding school after surviving a near-death incident, but learns that the place is haunted by vengeful ghosts who want to use her. [YA, mystery/occult, F/F main romance, has an outline]
SIR ORFEO RETELLING: a photojournalist is trapped inside a gothic manor with a cursed soldier and his very good dog as something old lurks beneath the land. [New Adult, romantasy/gothic, queer M/F main romance, somewhat outlined]
SPARROW SHORT STORY SEQUEL: the continuing adventures of a grumpy witch and her possessed crush in Brooklyn [New Adult, paranormal romance, queer M/F main romance, somewhat outlined]
LESBIAN TAM LIN: three girls are drawn into the mystery of their town that forces them into a dangerous reenactment [YA, urban fantasy, F/F main romance, first draft is around 50k words]
what i'm looking forward to -
anything, really. i've dabbled with horror, and as a fan of buffy the vampire slayer and supernatural, it's great to dive deep into the genre. it's one-part love letter and one-part exploration of monsters and trauma! i'm also craving more disabled queer romances!!!!!!!
other than waiting to see how many people realize that i borrowed heavily from amherst college for the setting, i want to show why i love the trope Came Back Wrong. it's a metaphor for mental health, a tool to explore characterization, a way to haunt yourself!
i love twisting tropes, especially when it comes to gender! the usual romantasy archetypes are turned around - the girl is dark-haired and tormented while the guy is young and naive
i'm excited to explore more of the magic because i've drawn a lot from diasporic practices. i have growing sources about plant use, exorcisms, and more! i love research!!!!!!!!!
i wrote this draft back in...2019. it was my first full story in ages, and a lot has changed since. i know if i look at it with clearer eyes, it would read like holly black fanfic...
tagging: open to all!
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Code switching.
magz english, carribean english, aave, standardized englishes.
Somewhere overlap between race, diasporic cultures, class, n disability...
#still dont knlw how peoplerly spell Caribbean carribean#there were some points where was easier do aave n carribeans than standard while brained bc familiarity.#n extra effort in code switching n doing 'good language' in both disability n scrubbed of race was difficult#n theres a potential essay in that#text post#o post
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crossposting what i wrote on fb here i guess idk who will see it or care in either/both places
I don't really use Facebook tumblr much anymore but Life Update! TL;DR, I am Jewish now.
This is something I've been personally working toward for a few years now, and it took a lot of learning, reading, community and temple activities, as well as introspection and emotional growth, to reach this point. In many ways, I feel as if I've really been Jewish for a while, and immersing in the mikvah was just a formality -- for instance, I have celebrated Passover with Josh's family for years, and have attended enough synagogue services to become familiar with several Hebrew blessings and other rituals -- but in some ways it is still new and overwhelming to call it part of my identity (and my intentions for life).
I converted through the Reform movement, and have found a lovely and progressive community here in Chicago that welcomes young, old, queer, trans, black, brown, disabled, neurodivergent, and all kinds of Jews. I am interested in a Judaism that emphasizes social justice and radical acceptance. A big part of what drew me to Judaism is its focus on lifelong learning, simultaneously intellectual and unpretentious, embracing constant questioning and wrestling with diverse perspectives. I am not particularly in favor of extreme rigidity or prescriptivism of tradition -- tradition is very often meaningful and special, and the beauty of ritual is another aspect that attracted me, but it all must be balanced with compassion and finding interpretations of those traditions that are productive and conscious. I am also, to put it lightly, certainly not a fan of the state of Israel's frankly despicable actions against the Palestinian people, who deserve a safe and peaceful homeland. Diasporic Judaism has thrived for a long time despite antisemitism, and while I don't feel particularly connected to Israel itself (and find much of Zionism's history actively distasteful and contradictory to my understanding of Jewish values), joining this people is both empowering and humbling. I look forward to continuing to be active in my local community and making meaningful connections through rituals, holidays, music, activism, and other shared but diverse experiences.
I've always had a very hard time opening up about personal things and putting feelings into words. But I have lots of thoughts about Judaism and why it's part of who I am, so feel free to challenge me with questions -- I've tried to keep this short but it just scratches the surface. I haven't even gotten into the question of what "God" means or what I believe on that front, but spoiler: there's no one single answer. One Jew, countless opinions, the rumor is true. That's what I like about it -- I don't have to settle on any one belief, I get to continue to debate and wrestle with nuance all I want! But now, sleep. Had kind of a big day.
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Anything you can contribute helps. There is power in numbers. We know that as disabled/ sick/ ND/Deaf people we are often poor or broke, but we can pool our money to collectively make a big difference. We also know that there is a rich tradition of poor and working class people donating more than middle class and rich people in general, and of poor and working class disabled people sharing what we have as a form of collective access and solidarity. We also call on people with access to money and/or wealth to contribute as you can.
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A letter to diasporic Muslims and South Asians
Stop defanging your language at a time when unconditional support is needed for Palestine
To all the Muslims hand-wringing about Hamas, swearing you’re “one of the good ones,” and crafting your Instagram story calling for ceasefire and peace: let’s break this down, shall we? I’ll cover some of the most common liberal refrains that ultimately detract from how monumental this moment is and how revolutionary we need to be. Stop self-censoring and defanging your language pre-emptively in a time when unconditional support is needed for Palestine.
Full text under the cut.
“Why haven’t Palestinians tried non-violent means?”
They have. And they were brutally slaughtered. During the Great March of Return in 2018-2019, non-violent Palestinians protested along the fence separating Gaza from Israel. They were met with Israeli soldiers firing bullets with intent to kill or severely disable Palestinians (if you’re interested in disability politics and Palestine, I highly recommend Right to Maim by Jasbir Puar, who if you know me by now I am a super-fan of her and her work).
Palestinians both mainland and diasporic have also organized for “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS), a similarly non-violent method of protest, which have been met with doxxing, death threats, and blacklists.
“I stand with Palestinians, not Hamas”
Okay, but Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006. And when they did, Israel and the West used armed force to overthrow the election results.
Hamas’s attacks are not inexplicable or random. The resistance cannot be understood without the preceding decades of Israeli aggression, brutality, and land theft. The violence did not begin on October 7, 2023. It began 75 years before, with the occupation and dispossession of Palestine to Israeli settlers. But Western propaganda will make haste to manufacture consent. They will feed you lies and remind you that those brown people deserve massacring because they are “animals” and “savages” and “terrorists.” Every resistance force that has ever existed has been labeled “terroristic.”
“Revolution is not a dinner party. The resistance fighters in Hamas and other factions will be labeled ‘terrorists’ regardless of what they do. All their lives they have endured the settler-colonial terror that is zionism. When these guerrillas strike back at the foot soldiers of colonialism—the euro-settler masses stealing Palestinian land—they are denounced for targeting ‘innocent civilians.’ Settlers are not innocent, they are invaders.” —Lal Morich Bari and Third World PAISA
Is it not unfettered violence to steal homes that have belonged to Palestinians for generations? Is it not terroristic to hold 2.2 million Palestinians hostage, unable to move freely and without surveillance? Is it not diabolically evil to uproot and burn down native olive trees, cut off water and electricity, and bomb any convoy that attempts to bring food or health aid?
“It’s clear that the international community and the Western world has no problem with violence. Only a problem with the perpetrators of that violence,” says Mohammed el-Kurd.
The same people who want you to call Hamas “terrorists” are the ones for whom violence is quotidian, abetted, and entirely acceptable.
The delegitimization of Hamas comes down to colonial logic. The violence of Hamas will always be illegitimate because the violence of the colonized will always be uncivilized and backwards, while the colonizer can make a claim to “civility”, to “freedom” and “reason” —via onapittance on Twitter
Hamas, and the rest of armed Palestinian resistance, are the only ones keeping Palestine from being obliterated off the face of the earth. And it is not our place to criticize how the oppressed resist their colonizers. Palestinians can and should and will revolt the way they see fit. Where Hamas uses hang-gliders and garage-made rockets, Israel uses its billions of U.S. dollars in military training and weaponry to obliterate Palestinian life as they know it.
“If history is our guide, it clearly records that nothing of any great value has ever changed hands without a struggle, or at least a show of, or threat of, violence. Men simply don’t surrender what they think of as their privilege and property except by force. History itself is economically motivated class struggle.” —George Jackson
“But if I endorse these things, I’ll be subject to violence.”
Israel itself does not discriminate between Hamas and Palestinians in its ruthless bloodshed. Israel has targeted children’s hospitals, vehicles traveling along “safe routes” supposedly “protected” by Israel, and has self-proclaimed that they have no intents of precision, only mass destruction.
“the ‘condemning hamas’ ‘distinguishing hamas from palestinians’ is actually politically useless when the zionist state apparatus, for the past week, made no attempt to discriminate when mass spreading the most white supremacist tropes to manufacture consent for genocide.” —Joshua Briond
Your mild, tempered words will not save you from the indiscriminate, sweeping violence of your nation-state. We are already witnessing post-9/11 levels of mass hysteria and unbridled violence.
We bear witness to the violent, tragic murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six-year-old boy in Chicago, and the critical injury of his mother Hanaan Shahin, at the hands of their landlord in Chicago. He stabbed Al-Fayoume to death, screaming “you Muslims must die!” In Michigan, a man was intercepted for a threat of terrorism, asking on social media if anyone wants to “go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians.”
These threats are not exclusive to those who are visibly Muslim and Palestinian. The beating of America’s war-drum necessitates a nebulous definition of the enemy, which means all people who are politically brown are subject to violence. This means South Asians, Sikhs, Hindus, Arabs, and anyone who is perceived to fit that schema. On October 15, a Sikh teenager was assaulted on a New York City bus, in which the assailant attempted to tear off the young man’s turban and punched him repeatedly.
“Fine, Khalid. I get it. So now what? I’m feeling hopeless. Nothing I say or do matters.”
As non-Palestinians, it is not our place to lose hope, when Palestinians stand against the Israeli killing machine with unshakeable, unwavering love for their land and their people. They sustain hope against every odd. We must stand in solidarity with them, in our faith, in our actions, in our engagement with the movable masses.
Actionable solidarity can look like many things. Organizations like Democratic Socialists of America are running virtual phone-banks to call U.S. representatives urging them to halt funding to Israel. Cities across the world are organizing protests, teach-ins, seminars, and relevant film screenings. Consider reading websites like Decolonize Palestine and following Subhi Taha and Mohammed el-Kurd for succinct geopolitical analyses in video format. Connect with like-minded friends and family to organize locally, whether that looks like a debrief session, a vigil, a reading group. The information is overwhelming, yes, but so is the suffocating genocide of Palestinians. The least we can do to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our siblings is to swallow our pride and approach learning with curiosity and humility.
By giving in to despair, we’d reject the immeasurable gift Palestinians remind us of every day: that in the face of overwhelming, unfathomable odds, if we struggle, we might just win. The Palestinian people are unbreakable, and their resistance inspires me every single day. They continue forward, surviving, with a fraction of comfort and necessities that we have. It is our revolutionary, moral responsibility to embrace hope and not succumb to nihilism.
#palestine#diaspora#khalid text#anti colonialism#settler colonialism#decolonization#muslim#south asian
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STOP GAZA GENOCIDE: Take Action Now! Tool kit 🇵🇸 🔴⚫⚪🟢
Short url: StopGazaGenocide
Accounts to follow:
byplestia (Tiktok, Instagram)
WizardBisan1 (Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram)
Anat.International (Tiktok, Instagram, Tiktok)
Motaz Azaiza (Instagram, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter)
Maryam Muhammad (Instagram, posts videos about Palestine in ASL)
Al Jazeera (all major socials and website)
Quds News Network (Twitter, Linktr.ee)
Abdallah Alattar (Instagram, Telegram)
Nurse Conner (Instagram, Linktr.ee)
Lets talk Palestine (Instagram, Linktr.ee)
Hind_Gaza / Hind Khoudary (Instagram, Twitter)
Sim Kern (Instagram, Linktr.ee)
Tovahsfine (Instagram, Linktr.ee)
Mai Rajab @/MaiGazan (Twitter, Go Fund Me)
*Warning, videos and photos shared likely graphic*
Esims
Mirna El Helbawi, founder of 'Connecting Gaza' & in collab with Connecting Humanity org
Boycotts:
Apps
iOS:
Android:
Admin notes: Do not tone police any of the people risking their lives to share information from Palestine with the world. They are surviving genocide. And do not tell them how to feel. They don't have to smile, not be angry. Have some respect and compassion. What they're sharing is intimate, traumatizing and horrifying. I am saying this because yes there are people doing this.
#Gaza#Palestine#Gaza Genocide#Palestinian genocide#Israel#Toolkit#Get involved#Current Events#Admin#Mega post#Global strike#Bisan
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Please consider giving to this fund for eSims. Most of us in the disabled community are broke, but little bits add up. Just talking about it helps.
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Most of us in the disabled community are broke, but everything adds up, even a little bit helps. Even just talking about it, reminding people that there are things we can do that help even if most aid is blocked from getting in.
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