i hate la

searching for 1 olivia dean ticket for any california date (SF or LA) plssssss i need to see her

My favorite James Baldwin line: "There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend."

just like Israel's genocide in Gaza showed us the extraordinary beauty and courage of Palestinians, this war of unprovoked aggression on Iran is showing the world the profound beauty of Iran and the courage of her amazing people.

There's one striking difference between the present and the Stone Age: there was no oil or gas being pumped in the Middle East back then. Are POTUS and Americans who put him in office sure that they want to turn back the clock?

“you handled that so well” no i didn’t, my friend listened to me rant about it for 4 months straight

and perhaps you like a thing but it is not good for you.

Important texts I send my 12 year old nephew.

oh to be loved like a habit and not a chore. oh to be loved because loving you is their default state of being and not something they have to perform like a duty. oh to be loved because they don’t want to live a life where loving you doesn’t exist. oh to be loved truly

Eid Mubarak calls from our martyred Gaza’s armed resistance fighters. Eid Mubarak, everyone. ❤️ x.com/Ju_qass7/statu…

Palestinians in Palestine, as well as those living in exile continue to show an unbelievable level of restraint in the face of almost 100 years of settler colonial violence and oppression. This unfair expectation of grace and patience - for them to always be “perfect victims” is what’s despicable, actually. Personally, I wouldn’t even condemn a Palestinian for violence towards an Israeli, let alone simply calling a genocidal Zionist, who is quite literally living on top of their host society, to feed off of it and destroy it, a parasite. A more accurate term to describe Israelis frankly does not exist.

🚨Amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, children in Southern Gaza Strip are turning to music to cope with the trauma. A newly formed girls’ choir is singing among the ruins, using their voices as a small act of hope and resilience in the face of a war that has not stopped

Almost 10 years of practicing as a therapist, and no textbook has ever taught us how to conduct therapy in the middle of war. No module explains what to do when, in the middle of a therapy session, the sound of enemy warplanes tears through the sky and both you and your patient freeze, convinced a bomb has just fallen nearby, only to realize few minutes after they are dropping threatening flyers instead. There is no clinical guideline for how to continue holding space for this, and it’s not surprising because modern psychotherapy was developed in the West, where war is studied, analyzed, and theorized… but outsourced to the rest of us. So therapists in places like #Lebanon, Gaza, Sudan, and beyond are left practicing therapy inside the very trauma we are helping people survive. This is why conversations about decolonizing mental health matter. So let’s be careful when we talk about international frameworks/guidlines/best practices as universal truths, that can be simply exported to us. The future of global mental health will not be written only in Western textbooks, but in places that have been surviving war for generations.

everyone quit your job and meet me in the park

we stand on the shoulders of the women who came before us, our grandmothers, mothers, the community of women that surrounds us—they all suffered their set of challenges and often suffered in silence, did everything and asked for nothing. let’s not forget that.

To the endless maternal, material, and economic labour of women that sustains the world.

@iiwasinthee212 brokey

It’s pretty disgusting, but not surprising, to watch Western journalists and media respond to the bombing of an elementary school full of little girls in Iran with detached curiosity asking “Why this target? What was nearby?” We have nearly two decades of televised, well documented war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan showing that civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, repeatedly ends up bombed in Western backed military campaigns and Israeli operations. This is not a mysterious anomaly that requires forensic speculation every single time it happens. It is a pattern. A well-established one.

Your walls will turn to dust under the weight of the flood. No barrier can stop the inevitable. No bomb can defeat this spirit. No bullet can break this will.

all they know to do is kill children