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melodymason1100

9 months ago

*September 1st on Tumblr*

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SPOOKY TIME BITCH WOOOOOOOO

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melodymason1100

8 months ago

it makes me so fucking angry. Why do palestinians trying to escape genocide have to ask how you are. Why do they have to apologize for sending asks. Why must every message stast with saying they wish the reader well, they they hope you're doing okay, that they're so sorry to bother you. Do these people have to act nice and sweet for anyone to care? Do they have to make sure you're doing well before they have the right to ask for anything? Its horrific.

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melodymason1100

10 months ago

Amidst all the images coming out of palestine of death and destruction created by the zionist occupation, i think it is important that we take a moment to remember palestine as it was- seen and captured through the eyes of talented photographers like Shahed @shahednhall and remember exactly what was senselessly lost in the past few months.

This is Al-Azhar university, where Shahed used to study. She was an exemplary student, and used to get regularly invited by her teachers to give lectures.

Since the university was bombed and destroyed by the IOF, all she has left are these pictures. Even through all the violence and death around her though, she still makes sure to keep up with her studies through the university's online programme.

This is a shop Shahed had visited only some time before october. She told me it was run by an artist who painted these beautiful home items, and engraved them by hand with customers names. Shahed had photographed them because they were so eye-catching and beautiful, and had sent the woman her photos so she could use them to promote the shop.

Shahed has told me this shop isnt there any more. She is currently trying to get in touch with the woman who used to run this shop again, but shahed doesn't know if she is even alive or not.

Shahed has an eye for beauty in all things, and it shows in her work and in conversation. It has taken on a different meaning now when so much of everything she knows has been stolen by the occupation from her and other palestinians like her.

In her own words:

"As you know, I like to photograph a lot, everyone liked my photography. I was filming everything because a memory can never come back again. This sentence is not understood by many. I am happy because I photograph everything."

What had been a hobby of collecting moments for her has now become something of an archive of all the things in Palestine that have been lost to the zionist occupation.

Shahed's outlook on her photography tends to colour our conversation as well. She finds it is more productive to talk to me about her hope for a better future, rather than all the bleakness around her right now.

"Yes, because I see inside every picture of new hope, I feel a great motivation that I will survive to see that life is more beautiful than what I live at the moment. I seek to return to a life that is more beautiful than the one we live now, a very difficult life because it has turned black and white."

I don't know how anyone can look at her photos and think of anything but hope

The mainstream media in the west and elsewhere can lie all they like- but we will know always that palestine was and is a land full of beautiful people. Never forget that the death, illness and destruction in palestine today was something imposed upon them by the colonizers, and has been imposed upon them for decades.

Shahed doesn't like to share images of misery with me, but please remember that she and her family are suffering right now. The happy children in the pictures, her little sisters, are suffering from severe hepatitis and are no longer recieving treatment due to overcrowding at what hospitals are left in gaza. Shahed herself has been weak and ill for days, narrowly surviving multiple massacres in just the past few days while trying to get food for her family. They all got displaced just last week due to the intense bombing in khan younis, and in doing so have lost precious funds that could have gone into food and clean water. They are starving.

Shahed is only 21 years old but the responsibility of taking care of all 17 of her family members rests solely on her shoulders.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT. PLEASE HELP SHAHED EVACUATE HER FAMILY TO SAFETY.

She has only gotten $47k/80k, and she needs to get to $50k within this week.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Shahd in Gaza!, organized by Shahed Muhammad

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H

This gfm was verified and appears on hussein @/el-shab-hussein and nairuz @/nabulsi list of vetted fundraisers (#224) so please dont hesitate to donate whatever you can, and please keep sharing!!!

Take this as a call to action, please repost her her fundraiser in your discord servers, in your whatsapp groups. Repost her photgraphy and share her story on whatever social media you have reach, so that people can help because i really cant get her to her goal in time alone.

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melodymason1100

1 year ago

Theres just some stuff you’re more comfortable telling your friends about than your own family ya know 👀 some stuff is-a private!

Anyways, finally drew my sweet Daisy. Also finally colored a comic. And i can’t wait to never do that again fjfnfnf

Like my art? Please consider tipping!

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melodymason1100

6 months ago

Hope in a time of genocide: a Palestinian journalist's perspective on Gaza fundraising
Journalist and former charity worker Siraj Abudayeh discusses ever-changing conditions in Gaza, social media fundraising, and why, since the beginning, he has fought for his right to stay Palestine.

There have been many coordinated groups led by Palestinian diaspora and pro-Palestinian activists abroad who are all dedicated to raising money for families such as yours. Beyond raising money, what effects do you think these organized campaigns have had on Palestinians in Gaza?

These groups work despite the great challenges. They make a great effort for the Palestinian campaigns. They have had a great impact in alleviating the suffering of needy families in light of the ongoing fierce war on the Gaza Strip. Thanks to these campaigns, many families have been able to provide many of their needs that they could not. Providing it in light of the lack of a source of income and high prices.

I've noticed that, unlike other people who are fundraising for evacuation, you began this journey trying to rebuild your family home. What was your thought process in choosing to rebuild instead of evacuate?

If we all evacuate from our country, the Zionist occupation will easily control it and steal our land. I make it my goal to stay in my land, build my homeland, and prevent the occupation from controlling it. The homeland, to me, is a sacred place and represents something big for me and my family. We want to build our homelands and not leave them and grant The occupation has the opportunity to control and steal it, and, God willing, Gaza will be liberated from these Zionists.

One day I will remove the rubble from the house, I will decorate it again with the Palestinian flag, with peasant embroidery, with antique accessories, with pottery, with the scent of thyme, oil, olives, dukkah, and Nabulsi. I will gather with my family around another hearth, but on our land, which we love, and on our soil, which we love like henna, and breathe like air. Today, tomorrow, a month later, or whenever God willing, we will return I love my country with an eternal love that has no cure or cure.

What you describe here - the efforts of volunteers, your own commitment to rebuilding your life despite the occupation’s effort to tear it down, even refusing to leave when they try to kick you out - all sounds like resistance to me. What is your perspective on resistance to genocide, in all its forms? To you, what does it mean to resist?

We are not just resisting the resistance that the world knows...

We resist while getting a living. We resist [in] queues for bread, water, oven, and cell phone charging.

We are struggling with the tent that melted from the heat of the sun and was torn apart.

We resist memories that shatter us a thousand times a minute.

We resist insects, rodents, flies, mosquitoes and sand.

We are resisting a resistance that cannot be counted or counted.

But nonetheless..

Gaza will not be left, if it leaves us, Gaza is inside us, growing inside our hearts, inside our soul. Gaza is not a city! Gaza is the mother of the whole country, the last of the walls. I will not get out of it even if my soul does.

link to the article

siraj's tumblr blog

siraj's gofundme

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melodymason1100

9 months ago

i genuinely hate how people have to sit and write a post that stands out while boosting a fundraiser because most people won't bat an eye at the misery and inhumane conditions Palestinians are living in.

i see people making art and telling others to use it because fundraisers with art are generally reblogged more often. i see people using colored text in order to make the post more eye catching.

palestinians on instagram are using popular audios and stitch trending reels at the beginning to make the world pay attention to them. imagine having to make something look entertaining in order to survive.

they are living under constant threat of israeli airstrikes, bombing, scarcity of food and disease. many have lost a lot in the past few months.

palestinians on tumblr are posting their pictures and the horrible conditions in which they are living. they travel long distances for internet connection only to be called a scammer by some privileged ass who cannot locate gaza on a map.

here are some verified gfms. please share the linked posts. it's the bare minimum we can do from the comforts of our home.

@amjadshiltawu: link to the post

vetted

@dima96yousef: link to the post

vetted

@tamer200333: link to the post

vetted

@ahmed8311: link to the post

vetted (#161)

@saratahrawi: link to the post

vetted

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