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You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.
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There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.
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Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.
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PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.
Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)
The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.
So even if you think it isn't enough, remember that donating even as little as $1.35 helps! It's $1.35 they wouldn't have had otherwise. So donate if you can. 🇵🇸
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This is one of the fundraisers on Palestine Asdiqa's linktree, so it has been verified. Please donate and share widely.
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virgolioness · 23 hours
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27 March 2024
Journalist Wadea Abu Alsaoud reports that his home has been destroyed by the occupation. Instagram user emilsulaiman provides a full English translation:
Marabaha. For over 6 months I report to you the news. Today, I am the news. Today my home was leveled to the ground completely, and this is what remains of it: the keys to my home and my car.
My home is not rubble, my home is memories and warmth. I live my childhood and my adolescence.
My memories of the first day of my marriage, my firstborn, and his first day of school. In my home there were so many priceless things: Family gatherings with my siblings. Photo albums of all our memories. Everything is gone, and this key is what remains, as a reminder of my home. Allah knows better. Alhamdulillah.
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virgolioness · 1 day
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27 March 2024
“The patients are dying slowly, and we are dying with them.”
Nurse Mohammed Saeed shares a messsge he received from a colleague at Al-Shifa Hospital. The speaker describes the extremely difficult and dangerous conditions under which the occupation keeps them. The IOF is depriving them of food, water, and medications. She says the spread of disease among the staff and wound infection among patients is catastrophic. They are exhausted, miserable, and terrified.
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virgolioness · 2 days
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She-Ra wouldn't rest until Palestine is free 🍉
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virgolioness · 3 days
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virgolioness · 3 days
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Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.
I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.
I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.
I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.
Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.
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virgolioness · 3 days
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my take on shipping aromantic characters is that if you're aro you get to do whatever you want and if you're not you have to write me a three page essay 12 pt font times new roman double spaced explaining in detail why you believe entering a romantic relationship would be an interesting and worthwhile storyline for the character and how you believe their aromanticism would affect the way they experience said relationship
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virgolioness · 3 days
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not to sound like your dad but if your not having a great time rn you might legitimately be playing too many video games or being on that damn phone too often, or at least without any necessary activity buffers
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virgolioness · 3 days
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a LOT of kink content on tumblr is fantasy and does not reflect what kink should actually be like. it is totally ok to be turned on by these fantasies and it's good to incorporate them into your sex life in safe ways. however a lot of the hot hardcore kink scenarios that make it seem like everything was spontaneous are not necessarily lying to you, but they are leaving out the "before" part. kink requires a LOT of discussion and communication. you should not forsake this part of kink because you wanna get to sex immediately because the before and after of kink are just as important, if not more, than the during.
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🇵🇸 From Friend of Al-Aqsa (FOA):
What exactly is Coca Cola’s role in Israel's occupation? Coca-Cola has a factory in Atarot, an illegal Israeli settlement built on stolen Palestinian land. Palestinian communities are forcibly removed for illegal Israeli settlements like this to be built. These settlements are illegal under international law. By having an Israeli franchise in the illegal Israeli settlement of Atarot, Coca-Cola is ignoring international law and profiting from the illegal occupation. There are currently up to 750,000 Israeli settlers living in at least 250 illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jeruasalem. By drinking Coca-Cola, we as consumers are turning a blind eye to the illegal occupation of Palestine. In 2022 American food company General Mills announced it was divesting from Atarot as a direct result of pressure from human rights groups, activists and others. Let's keep up the pressure on Coca-Cola to stop operating in Atarot! Join our call to #BoycottCocaCola until it stops operating in Atarot illegal Israeli settlement. Make a pledge to boycott Coca-Cola until it stops operating on stolen Palestinian land.
For more info, check out FOA's webpage.
If you're in the UK, they have several upcoming campaign and events you can participate in.
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virgolioness · 3 days
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This is a friendly reminder to never, ever publish your book with a publishing company that charges you to publish with them. That is a vanity press, which makes money by preying on authors. They charge you for editing, formatting, cover art, and more. With most of these companies, you will never seen a cent of any royalties made from sale of your book. A legitimate publishing company only makes money when you make money, they will never charge you to publish with them. If a company approaches you and says "Hey, we'll publish your book, just pay us X amount of money," tell them to go fuck themself and block them.
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virgolioness · 3 days
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what's so striking to me about younger queer generations rn isn't the lack of knowledge about queer history, but the complete unwillingness to engage with it, when confronted with an identity or history they haven't heard of before they react with disgust rather than curiosity. (for example) instead of asking where the leather pride flag came from and what the leather community is and represents they immediately question the need for something like that to exist, not even willing to listen and learn from both elders and peers. this is also more broadly a problem in leftist spaces in general, being reactionary is somehow the default now, and anything that's different or unknown must be an attack and bad. really hoping y'all manage to grow out of this deeply conservative way of interacting with the world.
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virgolioness · 3 days
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i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!
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