hey so the male gaze is about how film and other visual media cultures assume their average audience member is a straight man and therefore frame female characters as sex objects or maternal figures with little in between it’s not about what kind of pretty someone is
all i can say is live. you have to live. if you’re trans, queer, a woman, bipoc, disabled, an immigrant: you must live. we have to support each other. we have to be visible and loud if and when we can. and above all else we have to live
You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.
Violence against Israelis is “horrific” — but violence against Palestinians isn’t. What’s going on?
@SanaSaeed explores how moralizing language strips Palestinians of their humanity while upholding the humanity of Israelis.
"The United States is not the champion of freedom; but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population."
Che Guevara
For anyone still “standing with Israel” or trying to inject false nuance into the Israeli genocide of Palestine, this thread is for you. These are the things you won’t be shown on the western news. Look at them now. It’s not too late to adjust your perspective.
this means a bomb every minute and a half. for 6 days straight. in a place with about a million people under 18. in a place with no military. how does this not make you sick to your stomach? how do you stand with israel and live with yourself?