Here We Go Again

Marriage in Gaza has many facets: it has hardship, it has longing, it has sadness and pain, it has fatigue, laughter, and playing with what we cannot change and what we are trying to live with, it has the smells of time and the memories of my grandfathers and grandmothers, the generation of the first displaced people in Palestine. 💔🇵🇸

Gaza is resisting, the people of Gaza are resisting, the child of Gaza is resisting, the sheikh of Gaza is resisting, the women of Gaza are resisting, and every race in Gaza is resisting. do what you can for me 💔🇵🇸 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Damn the rat be fast

I'm just gonna assume that everyone got the Zoro tag

The GA (Gender Affermation) Surgery in Jess's universe must go fuckin hard

yeah

Not sure what I'd be more afraid of, the knife for obvious purposes or the spatula for the less obvious, but more embarrassing purposes

I can't donate (I'm poor, sorry), but the least I can do is spread the word

Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

(vetted by association by @/bilal-salah0 (relatives), & Bilal was vetted here, #132)

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The few good things that f@c3b00k offers is not even from them, it's from the people.

Saw this on one of my rare visits to Facebook hell. Thought y'all would want to know

"I can't dude! He chapped my lips!"

All seriousness, I've never had this much interaction on Tumblr (good or bad), and all this from posting that I was gonna make the LeBlanc Special.

Thanks for interacting :)