Fedi, I have a friend who needs money. Nur is a beloved Pamiri and Muslim organizer, educator, and artist who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Out-of-pocket costs are projected to be $90,000. Nur and her partner are already struggling to make ends meet. The exorbitant cost of treatment is impossible to afford on their own.
Nur is a comrade of many exceptional talents and I'm so grateful to know her. Please donate and share to help Nur say #FUCKCANCER!
“We refuse the instrumentalization of our queerness, our bodies, and the violence we face as queer people to demonize and dehumanize our communities, especially in service of imperial and genocidal acts. We refuse that Palestinian sexuality and Palestinian attitudes towards diverse sexualities become parameters for assigning humanity to any colonized society. We deserve life because we are human, with the multitude of our imperfections, and not because of our proximity to colonial modes of liberal humanity. We refuse colonial and imperialist tactics that seek to alienate us from our society and alienate our society from us, on the basis of our queerness. We are fighting interconnected systems of oppression, including patriarchy and capitalism, and our dreams of autonomy, community, and liberation are inherently tied to our desire for self-determination. No queer liberation can be achieved with settler- colonization, and no queer solidarity can be fostered if it stands blind to the racialized, capitalist, fascist, and imperial structures that dominate us.”
~ An excerpt from the Queers in Palestine statement (https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/), which can be found in this new zine “Queer Voices from the Fight for Palestinian Liberation” https://breakingpatterns.noblogs.org/files/2023/11/queer-voices-from-palestine-print.pdf
(SQP did not make the zine—just sharing!)
“We refuse the instrumentalization of our queerness, our bodies, and the violence we face as queer people to demonize and dehumanize our communities, especially in service of imperial and genocidal acts. We refuse that Palestinian sexuality and Palestinian attitudes towards diverse sexualities become parameters for assigning humanity to any colonized society. We deserve life because we are human, with the multitude of our imperfections, and not because of our proximity to colonial modes of liberal humanity. We refuse colonial and imperialist tactics that seek to alienate us from our society and alienate our society from us, on the basis of our queerness. We are fighting interconnected systems of oppression, including patriarchy and capitalism, and our dreams of autonomy, community, and liberation are inherently tied to our desire for self-determination. No queer liberation can be achieved with settler- colonization, and no queer solidarity can be fostered if it stands blind to the racialized, capitalist, fascist, and imperial structures that dominate us.”
~ An excerpt from the Queers in Palestine statement (https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/), which can be found in this new zine “Queer Voices from the Fight for Palestinian Liberation” https://breakingpatterns.noblogs.org/files/2023/11/queer-voices-from-palestine-print.pdf
(SQP did not make the zine—just sharing!)
The Israeli military bombed the Anglican-run al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday massacring hundreds of people. Estimates range between 500-1000 dead, but that number may continue to climb.
sticker from QUIT! quitpalestine.org
(photo shared by @/Eric.A.Stanley on twitter)
sticker from QUIT! quitpalestine.org
(photo shared by @/Eric.A.Stanley on twitter)
“Qahr (قهر) is a powerful Arabic word. It expresses a deep and painful feeling of frustration and resentment, often tinged with anger, at the existence of cruelty and injustice.
The Palestinian people have long known what it is to feel qahr. Our agony over what has been and continues to be taken from us has animated our resistance against Zionist colonization. This agony does not come from a place of hopelessness. Rather, it comes from a bone-deep conviction that we and our children deserve to live lives of freedom and joy, and that we have not given up on making this a reality.
We deserve to give birth without fear of the hundreds of checkpoints that have created a "social geography of horror…marked by violence against the birthing journey," where women have been forced to give birth and have miscarried at devastating rates. After our children are born, they deserve a healthy stable environment—not to be "unchilded," or have their right to live and exist as children systematically denied as they instead witness countless atrocities. Forced to grow up in this manner, throwing stones at invading soldiers becomes one of the few things in their control. It is considered a "security" crime under Israeli military law, though we know it to be a form of resistance, a rejection of oppression and the status quo.
So we resist this hostile political reality, where every aspect of life—be it biological, cultural, or material—is put at daily risk in what constitutes a "death zone." As Palestinians, we resist this death zone in a thousand different interconnected ways while being told we're the ones obsessed with death.”
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/abolitionist-palestine/
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