alien superstar

^ is a zionist

can’t criticize plastic surgery as an institution because it’s none of your business if a woman wants to “fix” her insecurities. can’t criticize the makeup industry or beauty standards because some women feel good when they shave and wear makeup. can’t bring up the challenges women face in the workplace because some women want to be stay at home wives instead of working. everything a woman does is automatically feminist and we shouldn’t stop to think about the context surrounding her actions because that would be misogynistic. here’s what i had for girl dinner. according to my girl math the barbie movie was a revolutionary piece of feminist media. i may not show it but i feel the life slowly draining from me day by day.

fuck the dc pride parade, they let israelies not only wave their flag of genocide and apartheid, but one of those devils was even marching with a sign that read "WHEN IS THE PRIDE PARADE IN GAZA AGAIN?"

queer liberation will NEVER come from the systematic murder of 20,000+ children. it will NEVER come from intentionally starving 1.9 million people. it will NEVER come from bombing hospitals schools churches graveyards and residential complexes. none of us are free until all of us are.

DC is home to a Palestinian museum filled with material about the nakba and before the nakba. There arent many palestine museums in the US. So yeah, an extra layer of insult.

I hope DC pride is deeply ashamed of themselves. This pride is definitely not safe for Palestinian queers and you should let people know that. If DC pride wants to put out a statement condemning this, I'll gladly take back my words.

This is the important part

We're going to see A LOT of pro Israel propaganda in the media in late June. More than usual I mean.

We need to be prepared to combat it all especially with the current invasion of Rafah killing and displacing thousands

I'm not here to tell Zionists that they're on the wrong side of history, they're well aware of that and they don't care.

It's been seven months and all they've done since then is double down on their horrid fucking behavior.

These folks will go out of their way to brag about being pro genocidal lunatics because they don't view Palestinians or Arabs as people. And if they see other westerners call them out on their shit, they'll just play the antisemitism card.

[original post that sof's library (@/folkoftheshelf) is reacting to: Globe Eye News reports: "White House says no "genocide" happening in Gaza." May 13, 2024]

some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

"I would suggest that we are well-trained to like "unappealing" male characters-- so much so that I would imagine anyone who wanted their male character to be truly and deeply unlikeable would face quite a challenge.... Conversely, we are not well-trained to like anyone other than the basically virtuous and proficient female protagonist." Rivka Galchen

Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability,” The New Yorker, May 16th, 2023

An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks With Claire Messud (the og interview)

A quiet mosque in Palestine, 1926.Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic Creative

getting second hand embarrassment on the dash tonight

Families are on SIDEWALKS and streets in Jabaila because of these bombardments. There is NO where safe in the Gaza Strip. This also isn't the first time they attacked Jabaila -hundreds of Palestinian people have been genocided during those strikes and after having been stuck under the rubble for so long. It's beyond horrific -these are places of REFUGE, and none of these war criminals in the IOF are being brought to face their crimes. The IOF must be held accountable.