iran has the right to defend itself
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After they run away together, Marwa and the Djinn make like tourists through modern day Iran! I wish I had the energy to do a more detailed background bc every ref of Iranian street markets was so colorful and full of STUFF, extremely overwhelming, no wonder Marwa had to ask him to stop buying everything she looked at. SIMP.
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ID: 1. Marwa and the Djinn in an outdoor street market somewhere in Iran. Marwa is wearing a loose green halter dress over a long sleeve yellow shirt with brown leaf patterns. She has a yellow belt at her waist and a dark puce hijab over her hair. She is leaning down to look through a telescope for sale, cooing with interest, "Ooh, this one is nice, as well!" Behind her, the Djinn, wearing his usual rumpled brown suit, jumps to attention and instinctively clicks his pen. A "sold" tag poofs into existence on the telescope.
2. Marwa turns to the Djinn with a confused smile, reminding him, "You don't have to conjure everything for me..." The Djinn grabs the wrist holding his pen with his other hand, shaking with effort as he tries to lower it forcibly. "Sorry," he grimaces, flushing red.
3. Later, the market now closing as night settles and the full moon rises in the sky, Marwa and the Djinn walk side by side. Marwa has a leather satchel strapped over her shoulder and is happily munching on a stick of Jigar, flowers floating around her head. The Djinn walks next to her, holding his own empty stick in one hand and a load of shopping bags in the other. His expression is vaguely dazed as he gazes past the viewer, flowers also floating around his head. Text pointing to him reads 'best day ever' /end ID
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Everyone at work is either joking or confused about the situation with Iran, Isreal and Gaza and its like.... Are yall okay? You know that people are being killed explicitly and Iran is actually trying to show the world that this cannot continue and shouldn't be happening????
I genuinely dont understand how insane people are when it comes to people outside their own country.
Fuck
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There is no such thing as too much or too little you can do for Iran right now. Talk to your friends, tell your family - mainstream news is barely covering this, and people without social media are unlikely to know much. Sign and share petitions, create and promote content, do not stop talking. Write to your local parliament, and attend protests in your area. If you don't have any, see how you can get involved in organizing them. From what I understand US sanctions make it impossible to donate money, though.
This is overwhelming for everyone, but we owe it to the people of Iran to not close are eyes now. They don't have the luxury of ignorance. We must be their voices while they're being silenced. We can't let the world forget them.
If all you can do is share, do that! Do that! Don't underestimate how much the smallest things help, and remember that anything is better than silence.
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Shortlist of the issues I care about / support:
Movements that are part of the Milk Tea Alliance:
Free Hong Kong
Taiwan's struggle against Chinese encroachment
Thailand Protests
Myanmar anti-coup protests
Free Tibet
East Turkestan Independence
Black Lives Matter
Woman, Life, Freedom
Ukrainian resistance against Russia
Free Palestine
If you're asking me why I'm supporting Palestine, that's because I believe human rights should be for everyone in the world and not just for people who are like me. Whoever is under oppression and needs help, I will stand with them.
And my support for Palestine will not diminish my support for these other movements that I'm already getting behind.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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when will we stop the on and off separatism discourse and on and off “am i a radfem if i-” discourse and the goldstar discourse and the motherhood discourse and the children discourse and is transition mutilation discourse and instead start focusing on the real issues? you guys can discourse like your lives depend on it when it comes to things that’ll ultimately only matter to us and not 99.9999% of women worldwide but when it’s something that DOES affect most women, you give it less attention. when will that stop? can we not just agree to disagree after hashing out such topics to a ridiculous extent and start focusing on things that matter more instead?
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fun fact, my Jewish grandma who's a 7th generation in Israel, who's family escaped from like half of the Arab countries in the world, is also Palestinian. because that was the name of Israel before we got our independence in 1948 and the people who lived here were Palestinian. which is my way of telling you that just because there's something before 48 that says palestine, doesn't mean it's evidence that the Palestinians were here before the Jews because Jews who lived here were also, shocking, Palestinian.
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The media blackout on what is happening is Iran Is utterly disgusting and I am mourning for every colonized country on earth that has integrated Islamophobia into their culture.
Tens of thousands of women and protesters will be executed and not one country is doing anything about it, let alone talking about it.
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Hey, fellow Timothee Chalamet fans, remember this?
The Afghanistan charity hoodie he designed with Haider Ackerman.
The female face on it is the Iranian actress Gol Farahani. She now lives in France and is very supportive, outspoken and active on Instagram regarding the current revolution in Iran.
Follow her to learn and witness what's happening in Iran right now!
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Podcast w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi, link + transcript above ↑
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Yeah, I’m not really understanding where this idea that every muslim-majority country has “morality” police, or mandates all women (even non-muslims) to wear hijab, is coming from???
No. The majority of countries with a large population of muslims don’t force women to wear the hijab.
I’ve literally lived in and visited more than a dozen Arab countries, and it’s not uncommon to see non hijabis everywhere.
More Muslim women are punished for choosing to wear the hijab, actually.
More countries (or at least regions of a country) have bans or restriction on hijab, then countries that mandate hijab.
In fact, many muslim majority countries actively try (through media, tv shows, movies, etc...) to subtly (and often not too subtly) spread islamophobic messages, and most of the dictatorships in the Middle East have an islamophobic agenda.
This is not me saying women who are forced, or live in the country where they have no choice shouldn’t be heard, or that it’s “not as important” because they’re the minority, I’m just saying stop spreading false information.
I’m seeing way too many people be far too comfortable equating Iran and Saudi Arabia with every other Middle Eastern country, which makes no sense.
People are really out here acting like the word “Middle East” or “Muslim-majority country” is a synonym to Iran, when it’s not the case.
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if i see any posts that are supporting hamas, i am going to instantly report the blog to tumblr as glorifying terrorism. i dont expect anything to be done, but im sick of the one sidedness of the goyim of this website, and at least theyll be blocked from me.
i will not stand for anyone supporting a group that forcibly makes jews, hindus, druze, buddists, atheists, zoroastrians, sikhs, jains, and christians pay a jizyah, convert, or die.
thats what hamas is. go learn about arab colonialism.
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To anyone who may be following me, to any of my mutuals who happen to see this,
I've posted a few articles about Iran, because I've become increasingly concerned about the situation over there. There was legislature proposed last July about a permanent internet shutdown, and as feared, it really looks like the Islamic Republic of Iran has since pushed it into law, or they're about to, despite having many Iranian citizens opposed to it.
There have been many protests in Iran over the insane increases made to prices of food products such as wheat and dairy, going far back since the beginning of May up til now, and not only has the government shut down the internet entirely during those weeks, but it's also been "cracking down" - as in, beating protesters on the street, throwing tear gas at them, and even opening fire at them (gun shots were heard).
And the internet shutdowns make it nearly impossible for Iranians to post videos documenting this on social media, and expose the regime's corruption and abuse of power. Their internet is heavily monitored by the govt. - certain websites are outright banned (such as Tumblr). They're not allowed to post their own opinions, or anything pro LGBTQIA, let alone even the slightest criticism of the regime, and the punishments they face for doing so are extremely severe. Against-human-rights-level-of-severe. As of now, these people are literally being silenced.
Before I continue, I just want to state that I don't know everything that's happening over there, far from it in fact - this is just from what I've read, and I might even have gotten a few details wrong. It's why I've been posting links to various articles, because I'd rather not have people solely take my very limited knowledge on the situation. If you can, please read some of the articles I've posted, or look into Iranian current news on your own.
If anyone is wondering about why I'm writing about something happening across the world from where I live: well, for one, this is something we should all probably get into the habit of doing, if only because Iranian people deserve our attention. So many posts were made about Ukraine and the devastating war over there, and rightly so, but Iranians are no less important than Ukrainians, and what's being done to them by their own government is genuinely horrific. Awareness needs to be brought to what's happening in Iran right now, we all should be spreading this as much as we can.
But another reason why I'm writing this is because... I know there have been many Iranians who have used Tumblr. Despite the regime's control, despite the banning of this site and many others. Iranian people have been on Tumblr, have been within our fandoms. Have played a huge part in those fandoms. There's a high chance you're following an Iranian person's blog right now, or are even mutuals with some. There are Iranian people who have posted beautiful fan art and written deep, poignant fanfiction. Iranian people who have written the most insightful meta of your favorite movies, shows, and characters that you've ever read. You're probably subscribed to them on AO3. And if you're like me - you've probably befriended them.
Which brings me to the heart of why I'm writing this at 2 am in the morning - bc they're not just random people on the other side of the globe - they're our friends! They're our favorite writers, and artists, and even outside of fandom, there's a chance you may have interacted with them, joked with them, sent them asks, shared shit posts and memes with each other. There's a high chance you know an Iranian person on this site, and you may have even noticed that they haven't posted in a while.
Because they can't. Because they're literally being silenced right now.
And what's the point of being on this site, what's the point of befriending all of these amazing people if we aren't even going to... make an effort to see how they're actually doing? To spread awareness to the infuriating injustices they're facing right now? Bring a light to all of the horrible things this damned regime is doing to them? Especially when they are literally being forcefully prevented from doing so at this time. We can't just ignore them now, while they're being silenced by a totalitarian regime.
And tbh... I'm not sure if this will actually impact anything in the end. I don't know if this will actually help them, I don't know if spreading the word will even do anything. I'm almost afraid that it might not. But it's the least we can do. Instead of just remaining blissfully ignorant, or worse - apathetically shrugging it off and just going about our day. We should at least try... we owe it to them to at least try, if nothing else.
We owe it to the people of Iran.
We owe it to our friends.
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Can we stop having conflicts and genocides that force survivors to flee their homes and become refugees in a strange land, k thx
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