Even if Imane Khelif were transgender and/or intersex, she shouldn't be dissected and discriminated against.
It’s great that a lot of folks are defending her, but don't let your empathy end there.
Trans and intersex folks deserve dignity and respect as well.
Trans people and their advocates have been saying for years that transphobia will easily be weaponized against cis and intersex women who don't conform to trad femininity, threatening all women in the process. And that's exactly what is happening
"I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction."
Remembering James Baldwin, who was born on this day in 1924.
The full quote is important.
"It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do" The distraction is in forcing us to prove we are good enough, civilized enough "objective" enough
Israeli propaganda January 16, repeated by all of Western media: "Hamas killed hostages including Yossi Sharabi."
Israeli media one month later: "Yeah ok we actually killed him ourselves, exactly like Hamas said originally."
no mention in Western media
I continue to think the bigger threat of deepfakes is not in convincing people that fake things are real but in offering plausible suspicion that real things are fake
not a day passes where i havent thought of this video, the fact that each one of those are individual lives is literally unreal. visualizations like these really magnify the severity to an even greater level
Israeli soldiers sang "there are no uninvolved civilians," then shot people waving white flags. Israeli civilians rush to Gaza to block aid from the starving. "War" simply does not explain that: it is the settler's existential, genocidal struggle to clear the land.
The origin of the term "tree-hugger" is pretty wild
Amrita Devi proclaimed: “A chopped head is cheaper than a felled tree.” As each villager hugged a tree, refusing to let go, they were beheaded by the soldiers. This voluntary martyrdom continued until 363 villagers were killed.