Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March)

You deserve to feel joyful, rooted, and safe. I'm here with trauma recovery & queer history/community. Home of Bi+ History Month! Pronouns are gem/gems/gemself.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

Trying to find that one thread about bi/pan+ history, the "bi lesbian" label, statistics on ace oppression, what trans medicalization vs informed consent really means, etc?

Here's a thread of threads. Sort of a table of contents for this Twitter account.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@barryandwillis1 @VerminusM There were protests even before that. There's an entire movement against Hamas, in Gaza, called We Want To Live. It's just that before, Hamas was able to brutally shut down dissent.

https://t.co/NUjKIOkgcH

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@barryandwillis1 @VerminusM Yes, they absolutely are.

There have been several multi-day protests against Hamas, in Gaza, just over the past two months. There were protests in November too.

https://t.co/XQS9bDIABx

[أحمد الفلسطيني HAMAS is ISIS @Ahmad4ISRL]

“The people want to topple Hamas”
Another protest out of Gaza
There’s hope

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Why does #JudithButler think that rape is a form of resistance?

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@EMaclaine1 @khalidi79397 the eyewitness testimony of gang rapes and sexual mutilations from multiple survivors that's been coming out since just days after the massacre? the testimony of this Jordanian doctor who went to Israel to examine the bodies herself?

https://t.co/AZxjk10zVV

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@EMaclaine1 @khalidi79397 ...you mean like the videos of hamas fighters stating that they were ordered to commit mass rape? the multiple humanitarian aid workers tasked with collecting the bodies who have said Hamas seemed obsessed with genital mutilation? the NBC investigation? https://t.co/utqoVo2oTX

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@khalidi79397 NO BUT FOR REAL THO. She goes to my synagogue and I'm honestly scared to go in-person now.

Not Oct 7 scared. But definitely "is someone going to say something retraumatizing" scared.

Going to synagogue should not feel as dangerous as opening social media.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@fricked4lyfe @airambulancedoc @BabaSubeaux @laraaaMD Regardless of whether this one person's opinion is objective or not, I really really wish my fellow Westerners would listen to people in Gaza once in a while. Hamas is not popular in Gaza; it treats Palestinians like dirt.

https://t.co/NUjKIOkO2f

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@Rantcentric @airambulancedoc @BabaSubeaux @laraaaMD The OP is talking about the West Bank.

Hamas controls Gaza. Ramallah is in the West Bank.

A lot of people in Gaza do think Hamas is even worse. Many speak out against both.

https://t.co/NUjKIOkgcH

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@Rad_Centrist_ @imshin Imshin always has a lot of good info, IMHO. So do @khalidi79397, @moghaoui, and @PeaceComCenter. I also hear a lot from @afalkhatib and @HowidyHamza, activists who've fled Gaza but talk to people in it a lot, and @BassemEid, who is from the West Bank.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@Rad_Centrist_ @imshin I honestly don't know what the status is right now. But I will note that if the only info you get is that there's no internet, you probably have the same problem I had: a lot of misinformation passed around in your political circles, and no info from people on the ground in Gaza.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@feliscatusgigi @imshin How much time do you think starvation takes from your schedule, though?

Personally, if I'd cooked someone food and they said it was tasty but there wasn't enough, I'd consider that pretty high praise. They like it and they want more; what else can you ask for?

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@imshin I am super cynical these days.

I will just be going around reminding people that they can hate Israel AND help feed people in Gaza.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@imshin Also, Americans will be most of the people saying, "eeew, this isn't food." We are nothing if not judgmental.

And the American left is getting far more Hamas propaganda than everyday Palestinian voices. So actually feeding people is not our goal; it distracts from hating Israel.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@JulesJudea @imshin Ok, I get this reaction. But none of these are actually carcinogens, and people are starving.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@3Sideofthestory @imshin Fair, but I don't think there's a way in the US to get Halal meat in a ready-to-cook form like this.

You CAN get Halal meat here, but even getting enough (regular raw or cooked Halal meat, not MREs) for airdrops on the population of Gaza would be impossible on short notice.

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@laraaaMD @airambulancedoc @BabaSubeaux Something being legal doesn't necessarily mean it's moral.

If international law supports using systemic mass rape, torture, and mutilation in an attack, then Hamas's attack may have been legal. But it's not the kind of law I can support.

https://t.co/AZxjk10zVV

[Infinite Glitterfall (formerly Unicorn March) @UnicornMarch]

@DanielBrasilia @BabaSubeaux @NabilAlTikriti Part of the problem is that Westerners treat Palestine like one unified place. Nobody here knows Hamas kicked the Palestinian government out of Gaza in 2007, and has essentially run it as a dictatorship ever since. There are joyful defiant queer people there too, but it's harder.

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

Someone on Reddit asks "why don't we hear more about kids with long COVID?"