The Virgin Mary By José Luis Castillo

Give me your attention.

Please read this as if i were a member of your family. Maybe your sister, your daughter or your friend. As if my family who is going through difficult circumstances is your family.

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azhar University in G@za P@lestine. I truly appreciate you taking a moment to read my story. As you reading my message, myself and my family, “my mother, father, three sisters, and my little brother,” are trying to survive under all kinds of suffering including but not limited to fear, instability, and starvation, thirst, and poverty in northern G@za.

After 448 days of suffering, I am writing to you today with a heavy heart, in desperate need of your help. I cannot describe how harsh the situation we are living in is. My family is suffering from the biting cold of winter, and we are facing a severe shortage of food and clothing. Every day feels like a lifetime, and every moment makes me feel helpless and hopeless. 💔

After the prices went up so crazy, I created this campaign to help my family provide food, water and essential needs. I know for sure that you can't help all families that want your help but at least you can help those who come across your life.

Every simple thing makes a difference in changing the situation we are in. So please don't hesitate to help us 🙏💔

It's your time to help and make a difference, Will you?!

Thank you for taking a minute to read this.♥️

gofundme.com

Donate to Ola's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis, organized by Nesma Khazendar

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azh… Nesma Khazendar needs your support for Ola's Family Call for your S

My campaign has been vetted by:

@90-ghost here, @northgazaupdates here, and @el-shab-hussien and @nabulsi 's spreadsheet of vetted campaigns #205.

@7bitter @ot3 @amygdalae @turian @communistchameleon @komsomolka @neptunerings @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @heritageposts @watermotif @mavigator @lacecap @determinate-negation @deepspaceboytoy @paper-mario-wiki @kibumkim @chilewithcarnage @sayruq @turtletoria @emil @vampiricvenus @finalgirlabigailhobbs @ghostofanonpast @akajustmerry @briarhips @mahoushojoe @sar-soor @rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife @catcrumb @wolfythewitch @imogen-mangle @soon-palestine @acepumpkinpatrick @gothhabiba @tamarrud @tamamita @taqoou @wolfertinger666 @prisonhannibal @nyancrimew

you punch nazis!

(requested by anonymous)

Uh, this is probably important. You all matter. You're all beautiful. It's fine to be hurt and messed up from time to time, but there are people who love you. Even if you don't love yourself, they love you. You matter more than you'll ever know. You're beautiful. Internet stranger who may be reading this, you matter. So, uh, Internet hug to all of you reading this, to all of you who need to learn that you will always matter and that you are loved by at least one person. You matter, and you are not unlovable. You are worth it.

please don't ever think that no one cares about you

I work in an ER and we see suicides all the time. And we get at least 3 suicidal ideations a night. We all care about you. I promise, we do. A team of complete strangers who have worked 3+ 12 hour shifts this week who are being screamed at all day and night and probably haven’t had lunch and trust me, we still love you and care about you.

We had a 16 year old patient last night who we couldn’t save. We were in that room with this patient for over an hour, we did everything we could. And let me tell you, we all cried. The EMT’s, the nurses, the doctor. We all huddled together in the doctors dictation room and cried.

I went through the rest of my shift with smudged mascara and tracks on my cheeks.

I remember the names of all the patients that have taken their lives on my shifts.

I remember squeezing the hands, smoothing the hair, kissing the foreheads, and wiping away the blood and the vomit of every patient that has left me too soon.

I can still see every face that I have zipped into a body bag.

Trust me, someone cares about you. You have never met them yet. You don’t ever think about them. They are never remembered when you talk about heroes and role models.

But someone loves you.

a lot of people on tumblr and Ao3 seem to think Christianity (mainly Catholicism) is just a cool and sexy esthetic narrative force to make your characters guilty and repressed and I'm just like...

hey what about the grace? the grace of God? the grace God gave specifically so we wouldn't need to be guilty and repressed? God's grace? that grace? do they have that grace?

Let’s say a prayer for

Someone that is currently contemplating suicide 

Someone that has just attempted suicide 

Someone that is fighting for their life in hospital after a suicide attempt 

Someone that has recently heard that their family member / friend / partner has attempted suicide 

Someone that has recently heard that their family member / friend / partner has lost their life due to a suicide attempt 

Someone that has died due to a suicide attempt

Someone that is struggling to access mental health resources 

Someone that is struggling to have the people in their life take their mental health conditions seriously 

Someone that is currently struggling in a psychiatric ward (or similar) 

Someone that has recently been diagnosed with a mental health condition

Someone that is struggling with side effects from new medication for a mental health condition

Someone that is facing workplace discrimination because of a mental health condition

Someone that is facing discrimination at school/college/university because of a mental health condition

Someone that is experiencing financial difficulties due to having a mental health condition

Someone that is struggling with self harm or an eating disorder

every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year i’d like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa

romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone

we still face oppression. what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma

the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.

we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.

we’re the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, we’re forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.

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the suffering never ends

clark reupload

edit: forgot the sweater comic