The Scenes Coming Out Of Rafah Are Nothing Short Of Horrific.

The scenes coming out of Rafah are nothing short of horrific.

This is Israel relishing in its impunity. Israel knows that no matter the level of atrocities it commits, it will never be challenged or held accountable by those in power.

Your role still matters though. Keep advocating for Palestine, amplify Palestinian voices, find a protest near you - whatever you do, make your stance known.

Everyone is all for sex positivity until aroallos want equality, huh?

Everyone is all for stopping the sexualization of women until they’re ace, hm?

Everyone is all for community and openness until cishet aces or aros want to be rightfully recognized as queer, right?

Stop the aphobic bullshit and take a step back. Look at your biases. Look at the language you use and realize how mean you’re being. Learn from your mistakes and become a kinder person.

I used to be aphobic. I didn’t understand how someone could feel little to no romantic attraction especially, and it was because I am very alloromantic. But that is exactly how homophobes look at the rest of the queer community. Since they don’t experience the attraction we do, the choose to believe it’s not real.

Just because you don’t fully understand what it’s like to be aspec doesn’t mean you should be hating aspec people. They are queer too. Fucking treat them as such.

Viewing this post made a click in my head over something earlier today.

Basically, it was a drag queen (a white one, specifically) talking about a recent situation, where a black braid maker would willingly box braid a white girl's head (it is worth remembering that this situation occurred in Brazil, a country where the work of braid maker is not as valued, due to its black origins).

In short, she took away all the racial context of the cultural appropriation discussion and just said that cultural appropriation only happens when it comes to media/corporations (which is something that the braid maker also said).

And I knew that something about that video wasn't right, something was off and I couldn't tell what was it, specially because many people were agreeing with her in the comments. But your post, thank you lord for your post.

In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

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BREAKING

Qatari Foreign Ministry:

“Israel agreed to the ceasefire proposal, and we received a positive signal from Hamas.”

Post: https://x.com/aja_palestine/status/1753108223807332807?s=46

WE WANT PERMANENT CEASEFIRE, NOT A PAUSE. COMPLETE DISSOLUTION OF THE ISRAELI STATE.