i wanted to bring a sign that represented how i feel this pride as a queer trans Jewish, who sees how my identity is being used to pink wash a genocide. according to
@GothamFC
there were multiple reports that my being against genocide was violent/threatening 1/
that
@GothamFC
was not hosting a political event… which begs the question, what is the purpose of a Pride game if not to show support for and fight for liberation for ALL queer people, including Palestinian queer folks - many of whom are being bombed by “israel” in Gaza 4/
i was told my sign could be construed as political, to which i pointed out that Pride itself is a political event with origins in the fight against police violence towards queer people, with Pride being led by Black and brown trans folks, to which I was told
@GothamFC
3/
i also want to note that during the course of this conversation, EVERY SINGLE
@GothamFC
staff member I interacted with (~ 5) misgendered me, including after i corrected them. when I suggested they receive training, i was dismissively told “possibly.” at the PRIDE game 7/
oh! & lastly i just want to say that every fellow fan (from
@GothamFC
&
@weareangelcity
) who spoke to me directly shared support for my sign. multiple fans supported me as
@GothamFC
sent my sign to upper management to confirm they wouldn’t let me keep it. i love soccer fans. 12/
i was told i had to either give up my sign or leave the stadium. i am unwilling to be told, at pride, that i cannot participate as my full self and so i refused to give up my sign and
@GothamFC
escorted me out. 2/
I am beyond disgusted with
@GothamFC
and their claims of progressiveness and support for pride while not taking a stand against genocide, telling queer fans they cannot honor pride the way that feels authentic to them, and misgendering fans. 10/
me missing a soccer game is disappointing, but has me questioning if i even want to be affiliated with this team in anyway despite the joy i feel amongst the vibrant fan community (thank you
@Cloud9GOTH
). it’s
#FreePalestine
every day until the occupation & genocide ends. 11/
as i had been told that my sign was “violent and threatening,” i asked if
@GothamFC
believed that supporting genocide was more violent than being against genocide to which they refused to comment but said that they had to listen to the reports. 5/
@lesbianoir
not a lesbian but truly accepting my queerness/transness really did entirely make me rethink what i wanted out of relationships… turns out i want them lol
i also pointed out that being against genocide was not, and should not be, a political issue as it is a moral issue. an issue about whether or not we ALL have the right to live. i was told that it “could be construed as political” 6/
i was asked to give a statement then and send a written one, which I will do once i’ve had time to… get home and decompress. as of now i was told most likely this will not impact my season tickets (no commitment). 8/
i have a great portion of this recorded on video and/or voice notes, which will hopefully be audible tho the
@RedBullArena
was loud. i’m happy to share these with anyone. 9/
not to be a flulapalooza stan (even tho i low key am) but like they literally practiced how to give mass vaccinations in a day. why can’t that model be set up around the country? i thought this was what they were practicing for!
really cool meeting
@S10Bird
and i’m glad she stood with my queer jews say no pride in genocide sign at today’s
@GothamFC
… now for her to put out her own statement against the occupation? maybe even? renounce that “israeli” citizenship sometime soon?
@kristoferthomas
@WrittenByHanna
his instagram popped up in my suggested months later… made it pretty clear it was in fact ~his~ bachelor party he had been on
you probably can’t tell I’m smiling since I am wearing my mask (!!) but this is the first time since late May when my OCD really flared up that I was able to go for a walk entirely on my own, with no prompting from anyone else so I am feeling really proud of myself!!
thinking about how a big reason I got through college despite my depression was because at the time
@VanderbiltU
provided access to food, and thinking even more about how this lack of access starting November 22nd will hurt currents students who are like me
to bring this back to what its all about,
@palestineasdiqa
connected me with the Al-Halimi family help them fundraise to evacuate Gaza safely. if you read about what happened at the
@GothamFC
game today and it upset you, pls donate (if you can) &/or share!
i wanted to bring a sign that represented how i feel this pride as a queer trans Jewish, who sees how my identity is being used to pink wash a genocide. according to
@GothamFC
there were multiple reports that my being against genocide was violent/threatening 1/
Jewish
@NWSL
fan here… why are you only mourning the loss of Israeli life? where is the concern and hope for the safety of Palestinians who have remained under a genocidal occupation for decades?
my copy of one last stop just arrived & i’m beginning to read it the only place that feels right - the subway! sadly not the Q but we’ve got to make do with our local lines
@casey_mcquiston
update they called me back. they currently can’t do this at Vanderbilt/Nashville because they don’t find out their weekly allotment early enough. because this is a consistent issue across the country, their experience isn’t currently duplicatable.
not to be a flulapalooza stan (even tho i low key am) but like they literally practiced how to give mass vaccinations in a day. why can’t that model be set up around the country? i thought this was what they were practicing for!
the chancellor is speaking in my class. I forgot and walked in late, snapchatting. so obviously unsure of what to do, I gave him a slight head nod and then finished my snapchat.
As a Jew who was raised in a family like this, people who identify as such tend to say they support Palestinian liberation but somehow always find issue with the way Palestinians work towards liberation. “Supporting” Palestinian liberation w/out listening to Palestinians 1/5
My point is that many Jews consider themselves Zionists, oppose what Israel is doing, and support Palestinian liberation. The word means something different to everyone who says if
@O_lanta
@SuperMacarioWrl
@juhrman
also am i the only one incredibly uncomfortable by her referring to her wife/former player as an old soul when she’s known the wife from 15 years old? like with the age difference + power dynamics?
BREAKING: Georgetown and 15 other top schools are being sued for alleged antitrust violations, according to The Wall Street Journal. The suit claims the schools engaged in price fixing and colluded to limit student financial aid. More to come.
it’s sitting weird to me that I’m receiving what are clearly mass texts from orgs like the women’s march about organizing vigils for RBG when in Judaism we don’t hold funerals or memorials on Shabbat or holidays like Rosh Hashanah 1/?
the director of Vanderbilt Hillel told me, an antizionist alum, that Hillel was exclusively for zionist Jews. this was on a conference call full of parents, alumni, and current students. saying Hillel supports ALL Jewish students simply is not true.
truly rude that vandy’s alumni version of 2020 elections turned off the participant chat because I was truly looking forward to the shitshow that was going to be
nothing quite like the repairman showing up halfway through your first religious school staff meeting of the year, and having your
@DollyParton
mask be the only clean one so you have to go through the rest of the meeting like this
ran into my friend’s abuser at the women’s march so here’s another not so friendly reminder that we must also constantly examine feminist spaces to actively rid them of toxic men bc those sneaky fuckers will try to slip in
The only time the crowd has broken the “no clapping” rule was when
@KarlFDean
and
@craigfitzhugh
said they would sign onto in-state tuition for DACA recipients in Tennessee. This is something Tennesseans want.
#EduForum18
okay update for some reason they decided to wait until 5:58 on a friday the week after decisions were promised, but i got in!! sorry my dramatic self-hate!
my sister just had her male friend over for the entirety of a seder w/out a single person asking them if they were dating. is heteronormativity finally dead?
i’ve decided to pay someone to deep clean my new apartment before i move in and honestly i was worried i was spending too much $$$ on this move but actually the amount of peace this decision gave me is worth all my money
despite my mental health’s better instincts i’m going to zoom into v
@ndy
hiIIel’s call regarding their recent statement/antisemitism/zionism. should i’ve livetweeting or do y’all want formalized notes? i’m guessing it’s gonna reveal some shit.
MY PARENTS JUST GOT THEIR FIRST DOSE OF THE VACCINE. I am so fucking relieved, they aren’t super old but my dad has MS and my mom & his aide (who also got the vaccine!!!) are his caretakers and I’ve just been so worried about someone contracting it and giving it to him.
working for a Jewish nonprofit is all fun and games until your boss berates you for not being productive enough DURING A WHITE SUPREMACIST COUP like I’m sorry S****n the nazi flag flying in the capitol made it a little hard to focus on work
anyway went back on private for this
I don’t even know how to describe the feeling of finding out RBG died while eating the erev Rosh Hashanah meal... None of our heroes are perfect, and that is true for her too, but this really stings & is scary as shit.
this is beyond unacceptable AND it points to why many of us choose to bring up Palestine in football spaces. because the upholding of an occupation, of supporting a genocide, takes place in FOOTBALL SPACES.
Palestine Football Association president denied entry into Australia ahead of World Cup qualifier in Perth.
Australian government is clearly strategically using sports to display a political message here — by banning the wrong people.
if you’re a praying person, whatever you believe in, and you’re willing to keep my grandpa in your healing prayers i’d deeply appreciate it. i am hopefully being overly proactive but i’m also really fucking scared.
i'm teaching 6th graders @ religious school this year & we shared rosh hashanah wishes for the world & truly the range! one kid said "i want covid to end because there's nothing to do" & then the next kid goes "i hope scientists develop a better understanding of consciousness"
@GothamFC
@weareangelcity
I’m fundraising with
@palestineasdiqa
to help the Al-Halimi family safely evacuate Gaza. if you can please donate and/or share the Al-Halimi family, and so many other families and individuals, are why we fight to end this genocide
@literally
everyone (including other college seniors), please stop prefacing asking college seniors if we have a job for next year with “I hate to ask but...” if you really hated to ask you just wouldn’t be asking k thnx bye
my great-grandparents (both immigrants) met in their adult english language class and promptly got kicked out on my great-bubbie's 3rd day for passing love notes & I just think that's peak romance
also they were socialists ♥️
omg not to make this a m*tt c*lleran hate account but i just remembered when he showed up to class on election day 2016 wearing that trash shirt w/ the date obama would be leaving office. anyway any vandy alum working in a big money job wanna send him one with trump’s last day?
everyone working at my local covid testing site liked my mask and we had so many laughs so stay safe, get routinely tested, and wear your silliest mask to cheer people up xoxo me
I looked cute today (ask my bubbie she likes my hair again!) and anyway now if any of y’all care to tell me I am cute now is the time I like sweater season
just got myself the best birthday present, and it was totally free, so now i have a shiny new covid-19 vaccine appointment next monday. yes i am internally freaking the fuck out!
I’m looking back on my four years at vandy and the only conclusion I’ve made is that I should Venmo request all the people who’ve made me cry for the pain they’ve caused.
nothing new here but a drunk girl started screaming at me “cute skirt, cute skirt” and that’s the kind of love & support I want to follow me everywhere
I gave a presentation on OCD from both a scientific and personal experience as part of a PowerPoint party and I was VERY nervous but it went well and people were nice and I’m very happy
you can learn a lot about my personality from the fact that my doctor at student health and I got emotional while saying goodbye at my appointment today
dude why is Rick Santorum on CNN telling people to give Tr*mp time because losing the presidency is emotional?? this isn’t a high school breakup, he lost the presidency and there’s law & precedent around this
i was able to sit down and speak to my (dead) gramma and grandpa, and then while still at
@BrooklynBotanic
i came across the plant. it was a sign that exactly who i am, my gramma gives her blessing & love. gramma and grandpa, i love you today too.
@_pem_pem
holy shit. i’ve been trying to describe brain zaps to my doctors for years and i never realized there was a term for it, and my doctors never caught it. i’ve been on (currently) and off ssri’s for over a decade. i’m about to cry.
New York isn’t a ghost town and it’s not dying!! People are supporting their communities in new & vibrant ways!! You want arts & music? My block has covid safe live music every night! Just because you can’t go be hoity toity with your rich friends doesn’t mean it’s dead!!
I’m at an airbnb and the kind, wonderful, caring hosts left out pads in case anyone needed some and wow they’d be getting a five star rating even if everything else was terrible (it wasn’t) b/c I have never seen that and I should be seeing more of it
it's my last class of undergrad so of course I took a screenshot on my computer only to realize the sound was not turned off at the same time the rest of my class realized the same fact
you got it! it’s gonna need a little hemming due to me being a shorty but I love it. also if you see this and think I look hot... I’m insecure please let me know
sarah fuller kicking ass & making history while vanderbilt still loses should be a reminder that vanderbilt has good sports programs they just waste the most money on the won it’s the worst at