Nadia Shammas 🇵🇸
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Palestinian-American writer and game dev. Award-winning wretch. T1D. Writer on THIRSTY SUITORS. COMICS(MOSTLY): SQUIRE, WHERE BLACK STARS RISE, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT
Brooklyn, NY/Toronto, ON
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very proud to have helped with the writing on THIS IS NORMAL, a short free educational game about Self-Managed abortions with pills at home. Hope this helps de-mystify the process during a crucial time. Dedicated to Fawn Fitter, rest in power.
mobile and steam versions to come!
Me and
@Nadia_Shammas_
just released This Is Normal, an edugame that teaches you about Self-Managed Abortion. It’s 10 minutes - please check it out and learn how abortion works, and how it is normal, safe and common healthcare! Play it on itch!
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This is literally the most beautiful pizza box I’ve ever seen
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this is what every non-rich person supporting NFTs sounds like to me
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me eating inside a place for the first time post-vaccine
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there will be a day when the most famous photos of Palestinians won’t be of us carrying our dead kids, of anguish, debris and screaming. When everyone knows about our stories, about our good food, about how goddamn funny we are. Our culture is so alive, it can’t be extinguished.
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I genuinely believe we are witnessing the birth of new civil rights and labor movements and we should be absolutely prepared for attempts at squashing and destabilizing this unified momentum
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when I was a child everyone told me I had an old soul but it was just depression
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sorry to be mean but “I don’t know enough” is also a massive colonial privilege since the average Palestinian has to be able to recite every detail of their own history and apartheid law in order to defend themselves from racist baseless accusation and propaganda fueled ignorance
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during the Nakba, my grandmothers sister buried her jewelry under her home before she was forced to leave. I wonder constantly if it’s still there, under the feet of the settlers comfortable in their lives above her heartbreak.
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Palestinian children are not the only innocent Palestinians dying.
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As a Palestinian Christian I can promise you they don’t treat us any different or any better, they destroy our sacred holy relics too, they shoot us too, and also if you are trying to make a separation in Christian and Muslim and Jewish Palestinians you’re an Islamaphobe
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I have lost so much respect for peers who have been in my life for years and have spoken up on everything but this. I’ll remember you forever. I’ll remember that when you said you “loved me&my work” you played in my face about my own humanity, all you saw was a dog doing a trick
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I wish we didn't have to constantly show you our dead and dying for you to acknowledge us. I wish you could see our humanity and our right to existence by merit of that. I wish when you thought about Palestine you thought about our beautiful culture, not our pain, we deserve that
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People who are afraid of land back and reparations in practice, have you considered that despite your violent and limited imagination, the people you oppressed robbed and murdered might not immediately want to do that to you but instead rebuild their lives and communities?
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instead of asking Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims in America why we won’t vote democrat anymore, ask the Dems why they are deciding to nuke their entire party’s future to continue assisting in the ethnic cleansing of civilians over any use that actually helps the American public
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rationing insulin when I couldn’t afford it was one of the most painful agonizing periods of my life, one which sealed my decision to leave the country, and I still am dealing with health issues from it. I cannot express the physical pain, and I can’t stop thinking about this
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I want to hear non-Palestinians to hold the same faith in their heart as we do that Palestine will be liberated. I dream of a world where, when it’s too painful to keep faith, I can rest knowing they’ll believe it just as hard for me, that they’ll carry it for me just as firm
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The biggest lie ever told was that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is ancient and unsolvable. It’s not normal, it’s not always been like this. My grandmother is older than Israel. And what I would do to show her the liberation of her home in her same lifetime.
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Hey I know it’s becoming cool to like twilight now but let’s not forget that it was very racist, weirdly Christian, and normalized abusive behavior as romantic. Yes, as a culture we do undervalue things teen girls like but let’s not champion this one too hard huh
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Israel is not defending itself. Israel is inflicting violence on Palestinians who then take their incredibly limited options to do what they can to fight back. Israel then escalates and the media laments “both sides violence, using “scariest” pic of a young Pali man they can find
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MTA be like: give us our $2.75 for barely functioning service or we’ll have the cops fucking kill you
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the fact that the McElroys were able to joke their way into the Trolls 2 movie in real life means that my life strategy of "keep bothering everyone until something happens" is JUSTIFIED none of you can stop me
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Some guy at my moms work keeps trying to hit on her by sending her pictures of flowers and after like days of this nonstop she just responded with “pathetic, send cash”
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Your discomfort with the methods Palestinians use to resist ethnic cleansing is not more important than their lives. Civility is a tool of oppressors, and it too is a form of violence.
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Every NFT corporate announcement now is like “we’re doing an environmentally friendly version so it’s like burning down 1 mile of forests instead of 100 per transaction” as if that’s anything. It’s still harm and a scam. I still see so many artists saying their work was stolen
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Killing Palestinian elders so our cultural history and memory is lost, killing our babies so that our future is gone, killing every possible witness in at attempt to cast doubt on everything that happened. Erasing us, erasing evidence of us, so no one can hold them accountable
The analysts, the journalists, the doctors, the grandmothers and grandfathers, the women and children - an entire civilization is being erased.
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This line specifically comes from being Palestinian-American, growing up in the states, knowing taxes went to weapons used against my family and kin back home, most things i buy were made by corps who donate, buying phone cards for my parents and knowing how my comfort cost them
Sometimes people pull quotes from SQUIRE and I’m like damn that’s a banger who wrote that
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When Daenerys says people oppose her rule because they don't like women's rule thats kinda bullshit its probably because they don't like being roasted alive by tyrannical foreign leaders with magic nukes at the slightest resistance
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for myself and anybody else who needs this today: the endless wisdom of Eizouken
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Thick thighs save lives? Not mine. Speak for yourself. My thighs are here for vengeance
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Now more than ever we need to directly support creators because between the lack of convention sales and the increasingly vanishing ethical platforms to sell work online we are going to see a lot of the most vulnerable and brilliant creators choked out of the scene
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For the fun Islamophobic people who keep accusing me of shit, I’m a whole ass Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem and my dads side of the family is Assyrian and most of them were slaughtered during the Armenian genocide. And yet! Idc you can’t make me turn on my Muslim siblings!
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BATMAN SPOILER (light)
Unironically when the Riddler put on his best YouTuber/Twitch streamer voice to thank his online followers for liking and subscribing I was losing it in the theater. There were so many tiny moments of hilarity played completely straight, it was fantastic
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Palestinians are risking their lives to tell the rest of the world what is happening. The retaliation is overwhelming. Palestinians deserve to live freely, to celebrate Eid without fear. They did not choose this. It was never in their hands. This violence is not their making.
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All I’m going to say is, never mention Gal Gadot to me, never talk to me about the Wonder Woman movies, I will not be kind.
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Yeah this has been an ongoing tactic, anyone remember the IDF cat girl on tiktok lol
israels propaganda isnt working anymore so they brought out the white girls to post thirstraps lmao
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Removing our history so that later they can claim it was never there. Destroying our ecosystem so, afterwards, they can bring non-indigenous plants and say the desert bloomed. They’ll push farmers and fishermen into the desert with the hopes they’ll never remember otherwise
The ancient Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, a significant historical site dating back to 425 AD, has reportedly been struck by Israeli airstrikes. The church bears the name of Saint Porphyrius, the bishop renowned for introducing Christianity to Gaza during his tenure
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People are talking about Palestinians as if we’ve all already died. Every life extinguished in Gaza is a universe gone, the tragedy of it is immeasurable. Yet, there are Palestinians on every end of the earth & if you want to help you can support some locally, I bet they need it.
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What now. What’s left to debate, or discuss. What’s left
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I cannot believe I've managed it but I've finished writing the script to my first graphic novel!
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Fuck it. In 2018 when we were pitch SQUIRE, this was one of the first responses I got. I had to sit in meetings assuaging the fears of potential (white) editors. We had to fight to keep Arabic in the book, despite pubs putting out tons of Zionist work without a blink. I’m sick.
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I’m sorry but I do not fear industry reprisal when the poets I looked up to are dead, their accounts memorials. I have watched massacred bodies carrying white flags stained with blood. I know my tax dollars fund it. I know my family there could die any moment. What’s left to fear
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reminder that cyberpunk is more so defined by its philosophy of dehumanization and worker's rights more so than an empty aesthetic
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Im so glad to see the overwhelming support that Ukraine is getting, and that support must continue. Im also glad I no longer have to extend grace or education to people who have previously said occupying powers are a complicated matter. It’s clear you all get it, actually.
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I do not understand the pushback on people from a culture asking to be in the writers room when stories about those cultures are being written. It feels like common sense that it would make better stories. What is the problem.
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It is very disheartening to see how many people value Intellectual Property over the actual people who make your favorite stories. We all love these characters but for the most part comics creators are underpaid, overworked, and not sure how long they can stick this out for
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“Ceasefire” was too big for almost every “left-leaning” person in the public eye to say (including most of my creative peers!) and now we’re here, bombs dropping on the remaining population of Gaza, children’s limbs hanging off buildings
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My grandmother told me that during the Nakba, she had a sister living alone in another city that they had heard was about to be attacked. Her sister buried her most precious items under the floor and fled, believing she would return for them. Settlers live there now.She never did
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I literally put subtitles on everything I watch to make sure I'm not missing anything. My English-challenged mom needs subtitles. Many hearing-compromised people need subtitles. Stop saying "everyone hates subtitles"
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When all you see of Palestinians are images of war and death, you lose the ability to imagine us outside of that. Exorcise their vision of us from you. See the future with us, fight for it with us, actually believe that we deserve it without conditions. Run ahead, not behind
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Does Spider-Verse mean we can have MORE animation and less live action remakes please
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complete victory is the annihilation of all Palestinian life, agriculture, and infrastructure in Gaza so that Israel can build settlements over it. there is no intention of stopping, or of saving hostages. Israel cares more about destroying Palestinians than saving Israeli lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects an offer from Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza, insisting that Israel's goal of "complete victory" is within reach
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@vivafalastin
And to see it reinforced in fiction like “this is the natural order of things, our hierarchies are the only thing keeping us from committing atrocities” no this is a you problem
it’s all preemptive justification to institutional violence
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during pride month I like to say something for those who cannot safely be out, those of us who know we'll never be out to family, and those who need privacy to figure it out: there's no right way to do pride. it can be isolating celebrating silently, but it's still your month too
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Thinking out loud about something I’ve been trying to hold myself to recently: you can’t be a people-pleaser through your art. If you start thinking more about how people are going to respond to your work than the work itself, you’ve already derailed.
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Once again I cannot stress enough how much this language relies on white anxieties. Bombing every piece of Palestinian infrastructure and then saying we never had it, we could never make it, we’re inferior here’s the proof.
It’s the same justification for all colonial projects.
Netanyahu on CNN: "We're doing everything in our power to.. destroy Hamas because without that, none of us have a future. It's not only our war, it's your war too. It's battle of civilization against barbarism and if we don't win here... Europe is next. You'll be next." lol what
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i've said it before and I'll say it again, there's a whole second "coming of age" that happens in your mid-late 20s that I desperately want more stories about
plus, a lot of queer folks who come out during this time experience "queer adolescence" and I want those stories too!
more books about characters in their late teens and early twenties!!!!! publishing thinks you turn 17 and disappear until you're 30
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I’m seeing some of you reaching the “ally fatigue” stage of caring about other people, and once again I need to remind you that Palestinians cannot check out of this, this has been our lived reality our entire lives. Israel hasn’t even stopped killing daily. You cannot look away.
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Palestinians had explained that Netanyahu was not the problem, just an agent of the true problem that is Zionism, and instead everyone just pretended a new head of government meant they could stop paying attention. This escalation is not ending. We need loud support for Palestine
Israel launched air raids on Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday, less than a month after Israel’s 11-day bombardment of the besieged enclave in May
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my mom told me, in Bethlehem during the first intifada, they memorized revolutionary poetry when it was outlawed and copies were destroyed, so that they could recite it to each other. Our memories are long, and our love for the land is unconditional across every end of the earth
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Every Palestinian is a living history and testimony to our people and we will be here long after our murderers are gone, long after their fascist regimes fall, and we will remember this along with everything else. Your foundation of death only ensures your own. Palestine lives.
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I'm seeing a lot of comfortable people posting about victory and the desire to rest after this, and getting mad at BIPOC who are making skeptical tweets about their mixed feelings. If you find yourself angry at brown and black folks expressing their mistrust, interrogate that
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I'm very sorry to everyone who knows me because this is literally all i've been talking about for 10 weeks
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Furthermore the distinction between an “innocent” Palestinian or a not innocent one is absolute bullshit once again wrapped up in the narrative of “Palestinians aren’t allowed to resist their own ethnic cleansing”
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it's "yeah, Free Palestine!" until somebody doesn't like your tone or you get any pushback at all
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There is no Palestinian victim who will ever be pure enough to be publicly and universally decried as one. If they made dark jokes, they called for atrocities. If they refused to engage in bad faith arguments, they supported terrorism. If they were infants, they aren’t mentioned.
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Hey women in any field ever make some noise if you’ve ever been given outdated advice you didn’t want and didn’t ask for from men whose work you don’t care for
Paul Ryan: AOC Wasn’t Too Interested in His Advice; Didn’t Listen ‘To a Thing I Said’
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When textbooks talk about history, it’s presented like a natural progression. everything ended up the way it was always going to end up, this is the order of people and power.
But these structures aren’t natural or inevitable. We must liberate the world that could be from them
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This is unacceptable, it was unacceptable with Habibi and I hope the industry has gotten to a place where we can loudly and firmly denounce it
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Sooo those of you who know me know I love Arizona Iced Tea and sneakers and they’re doing a collab soooo which of these designs should I aim for
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I had/have multiple family members who spoke Aramaic as well as members of my family who lived and died in service of the Church of the Nativity. Im literally from Bethlehem, my teta has medieval icons in her garage, yet people are shocked to find out Christian Palestinians exist
Not only are 10% of Palestinians Christian, it also happens that Palestinian Christians are genetically indistinguishable from ancient Israelites as confirmed by modern DNA analysis. They're the direct descendents of the same people Jesus walked with in the Holy Land.
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I’m so happy to finally announce that I’m doing SQUIRE, a Middle Eastern fantasy YA graphic novel with
@TheFoofinator
for Harper Collins! Thanks to
@ComicsisPeople
for his endless support. I can’t wait!!
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It’s not just about condemnation (which is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) for non-Palestinian allies but I want hope from y’all too. I want belief, unshakeable, that the subjugation will end, the apartheid will end, it is inevitable.
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Zionism is a recent political and philosophical movement, and lately it has implemented the language of indigenous justice to use against Palestinians by calling them Arab colonizers. Arab refers to the language spoken,not an ethnicity. Palestinians are indigenous to their land.
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massive institutional crackdown on ANY speaking up for Palestine is a clear fear tactic because Palestine is the final linchpin of settler colonialism on which all “powerful” countries are based on. If masses refute this, it threatens ALL their injustices and foundations of power
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every part of genocide is completely preventable, and the agony of how obviously, transparently preventable all this death and destruction was should drive you mad. it's not normal. the false news reporting, starvation, devastation, clear since october. we didn't have to be here.
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Thinking about Edward Said and the acclaim&credibility his work brought to Columbia University, reminded again that innovation of the most marginalized brings way more to these old, dying institutions than anything they can offer. They make it feel like a favor, but they NEED us.
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we are seeing people being so slow to recognize pro-Zionist propaganda and anti-Palestinian racism in themselves because it is so baked into our media and culture that it's become completely invisible and socially acceptable to publicly express. that's how we got here.
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Peace cannot come at the expense of Palestinian liberation and sovereignty. If you are calling for a peace that doesn’t include decolonizing Palestine and the right to return, youre working for your own comfort so you don’t have to acknowledge our suffering anymore, not allyship
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Pain alone doesn’t sustain our movement. It’s hope and joy and revelry in our practices, in our food and dance and our art and our land and each other. It’s the danger of showing us like this-human, happy, because it enters a new world order into the imagination, and then reality
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This. There have been concerted efforts to criminalize and weaken BDS across the United States for a reason, it’s because it actually works. If you want to be a good ally, please learn and implement BDS into your life
more effective than donating to Palestine is boycotting products from Israel. support the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement
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It’s the same playbook every 20 years. more land taken, more Palestinians killed/displaced, their histories buried under the rubble to be built over. In the 1967 war, my mom + sitti hid in a East Jerusalem basement, emerging in 6 days to find dead neighbors and stolen houses
Netanyahu just announced in his press conference the Israeli intention to occupy
#Gaza
sector indefinitely and that he will not allow any Palestinian authority there in the future.
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It shows how little they think of Palestinian ingenuity. Never considering our intelligence could have us figuring out major tech issues (including the handgliders) because they make sure we have no resources. Despite that, we do what they can’t imagine, what they could never.
the internet was restored by palestinians themselves by repairing the damaged infrastructure under a rain of bombs falling on them. amidst falling buildings, amidst children pulled out of rubble, amidst digging mass graves.
you cannot beat this will. victory is theirs.
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Colonialism is an institution that did not have to come into being, and does not need to exist. Apartheid is the same. Slavery is the same. Our borders aren’t naturally occurring, someone with a specific purpose drew them. None of it has to be like this
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at this point if you do NFTs its embarrassing for you. you are showing your entire ass. I'm humiliated just looking at you
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horror is so nice and personal because half the time it's the creators putting their most horrible nightmares and deepest fears on the pages and being like "please enjoy" ☺️
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A tool of “violence” in the hand of a Palestinian,a rock, is not the same as a tool of violence in the hand of the IDF, riot gear and a gun paid for probably by the American government. These things are not the same no matter how much the media insists on it, because we have eyes
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it’s harrowing watching everyone move on with their lives. I feel like Palestinians live in an alternate dimension. I feel like I don’t exist
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Mohammad and Muna El Kurd quickly became the face of Palestinian resistence to many people in the west, and any Palestinian knows becoming visible against Israel is incredibly dangerous. They are in danger as long as we stay silent. We must speak out for them
#freemunaalkurd
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BBC, CNN, and other media orgs who purposefully mistranslate do so not because they think Arabs/Arab speakers aren’t watching, but because they assume people won’t believe those people when they speak up with corrections (this is proven more true by the day!)
A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."
She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet
@BBC
translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."
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Immunocompromised people continue to be punished for simply existing as governments refuse to take precautions. chronically ill folks have no choice but to be careful. We’re seen as disposable and everyone else rides the waves while we’ve been isolated for 2 years now
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nothing has changed. Only Arab peers and close industry friends have even said anything to me. How are Arabs supposed to feel safe creating in an industry where we’re treated like we need to be put on a leash?
A note we got was that Arabic is an “inherently political” language
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it is, to be frank, very fucking annoying and not quite the neutral position you think it is when, again, USA makes some of the weaponry used against Palestinians and also uses tax dollars to fund the IDF. It’s not your personal fault, but it is your personal responsibility
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Israel did not make the desert bloom, they used bulldozers to destroy Palestinian farmland and centuries old olive trees and then said we didn’t know how to care for our own land, showed decimation they created and said it was like that the whole time
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so if Batman is like 35 in this movie he definitely listened to MCR right
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