@ChaserHazmat Omg I’m about to be that film person that asks about the camera but… what’s the camera you’re using? Also: who do we talk to about a daytime Emmy nomination?
I wish if I had never spent any time or energy on politics in this world of hate & division.
I wish if I'd remained in the world of mathematics, engineering & poetry.
I chose none of this. All I did was get born on the wrong side of the apartheid fence for my life, my childhood & my loved ones to be stolen from me.
I count my age by how many Israeli wars I survived, how many times I almost died, how many times my family's been displaced... My earliest childhood memory is an airstrike, my second earliest memory is checkpoints, IDF soldiers, shouting, cursing, pointing guns at us... children!
My conversations with Gazans friends, even before Oct 7, are almost always about how their lives have been ruined & their future robbed from them. How they fight everyday the hardest they can to just live, but get crushed every time. How they are terrified of dying before ever having gotten one chance to experience living, just living!
My entire being is under assault. I have to maintain an encyclopedic memory of facts, dates, numbers, names, historical milestones, article headlines, page numbers in books, verbatim quotes at the tip of my head at all times, to fight the vilest of propaganda & the worst of racists, or else I'll be dehumanized & blamed for everything they've done to me.
I have to keep calm at all times, be a moderate, a peacenik, a pacifist, a perfect victim to earn the right to speak, to earn mere crumbs of sympathy, or else I'm a radical extremist who "deserves it"! (There's never such a thing as a perfect victim. A victim is a victim no matter what until the oppression done to them ceases).
I tell myself after this war, I'll either do a Gaza-centred Phd to spell everything in my head out on paper or I'll become an organic farmer & never look back at politics.
But I know, with Israel undeterred, coddled, flooded with arms, celebrated, & blinded with arrogance & a sense of invincibility, there will be another war & another one & another one...
Generations of us destroyed b/c of politics. The very thing I hate. The very thing imposed on me. They very I'm stuck with... until when?
@day_natomy@ErnestBorgTen@johntheboyc@emm_a Shitty is that you refer to your brother as having contributed nothing to society. Ever taken a more aspirin for a headache that wouldn’t go away or had 1 glass too many at dinner? Slippery slope for drawing such hard lines when we are willing to see ourselves there too.
Tell @melaniejoly: Stop shipment of explosives to Israel! Canada should not be complicit in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. https://t.co/dSwMltv6nK
I’ve signed the petition, will you, too?
🎙️ This week we speak to @karenrestoule, a member of the Dokis First Nation & a self-described Zionist, for her take on what national liberation movements mean & how anti-Israel groups have sought to hijack First Nations terms for their own benefit. ⤵️
https://t.co/VG3dzd9VJH
@ZoeDodd And yet - those with a DEFINITE AND VISIBLE conflict of interest are given the platform to decry the years of evidence from the comfort of their summer homes to whip out an Op Ed which is given top billing as gospel (which it is: proselytizing via personal accounts)
Dis gus ting
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