Award-winning Palestinian Children's Illustrator Baraa Awoor Writes:

award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

I rarely have a visceral reaction to a TikTok but this one... this one got me

POV: you are Mark Hoffman and you have just been chained up in the very bathroom that your captor once was locked in, where he had to saw off his own oot for survival

I love the scene in saw 3D where Lawrence just looks at his foot. ITS LITERALLY HIS SEVERED FOOT AND HE JUST LIKE GLANCES AT IT-

I've never watched Glee but I assume that guy is what all of them look like

listen im not stupid i wont just walk into a trap for no reason. i got places to be you know? but if you put a little candy bar in a cage well then i consider the transaction a fair deal. i get a treeat AND i get to be your pet