in a few years, we'll probably be discussing how gfm and paypal are stealing from a population that is already suffering from a genocide.
ive seen so many gazans who've had their fundraisers shut down for no apparent reason. all of them were depending on that fundraiser to afford necessities. how does one afford to buy basic necessities (that are scarce and expensive) when their singular source of money has been unjustly closed?
my friend suad is a mother of a little baby boy, khaled. her son was born in the current genocide and has known nothing but the sound of bombing. he has respiratory issues. suad's gfm was unjustly shut down. she's moved to chuffed to ensure that she can raise money to ensure her child's well being.
it would mean a lot to me if you guys could donate to her and her baby. her fundraiser has been verified (#279).
please donate here
“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
— Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,“ 1936 (via infiniteradius)
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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
-James Baldwin