it’s so insane we have to just keep showing up for work. no matter what is happening globally, locally, personally, you’re supposed to show up and act like the formatting on a report is actually really important and demands your attention.
able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society
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I’m actually so physically sick reading this. These Palestinians were malnourished, sick, frail. They just wanted sustenance for themselves, for their children. And Israel knows this. It knows it has created a fish bowl where people are starving every day, where they’re so desperate for the smallest morsel of food that they’re willing to go anywhere to get it. So they deliberately—on purpose—planted aid in a certain location, stayed waiting while Palestinians all rushed over for this promise of food, and then they opened fire. Now 104 Palestinians are dead, and the footage of this is so heartbreaking it actually made me wanna throw up. I am so incredibly tired of Arab lives being dispensable, or fodder for shock value videos. And with the UN having cut entry for aid trucks, I don’t know what the surviving Palestinians will do. It’s hard living with the fact that people care for Arab people so little, they’re willing to watch this and do nothing. Why are we not human to you?
It’s wrong to even say “Now with x Palestinians dead hopefully people will wake up,” because Palestinians are not out here trying to be some sort of symbol for anybody. They just wanna live, and they deserve to live, and they shouldn’t be framed as some means to an end. But even in saying that, it’s not as if Palestinian slaughter has stopped anyone anyway. People said Hind’s death would mobilize a change, but that did nothing. People said the threat to invade Rafah would mobilize a change, but that did nothing. A man self-immolated days ago, and that caught international attention—and yet it did nothing. I just want these people to live. I can’t stop thinking about the Arab families still in northern Gaza and the hell they’re going through just to stay alive. It’s too much.
We need to keep advocating for Palestine. Defeat is no better of an alternative. But it just amazes me how long Arabs have been begging and pleading with you to humanize them, to take their plights seriously, and how even with these stacking atrocities it changes nothing. Not even the horrific footage is moving anyone who can actually do something to do it. Arab lives have always been dispensable.
actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it
