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Imagine waking up to the sound of explosions, your children trembling with fear as they clutch onto you in desperation. The home you built with love and dreams is now rubble, and the memories of joyful celebrations and laughter have been replaced by the cries of hunger and hopelessness.

Images: Mahmoud and his three children—Retal (12), Joud (11), and Nageh (8)—have lived through the unimaginable hardship of surviving in a war zone.

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This is the heartbreaking reality for Mahmoud Al-Sharif, a 34-year-old father from Gaza. Mahmoud, his wife Soha, and their three children—Retal (12), Joud (11), and Nageh (8)—have lived through unimaginable hardship. Before the most recent devastation, Mahmoud had completed his life’s dream: building a business that would provide a future for his family. But war shattered everything. Their home, his workplace, and his ambitions were obliterated. Now displaced, they live in a makeshift tent, struggling to protect their children from cold nights, malnutrition, and disease.

The trauma doesn't end there. Mahmoud bears the physical scars of past wars, including a severe eye injury and damage to his hand, making it extremely difficult for him to rebuild his life. His children face worsening health issues due to contaminated water and food, and inadequate living conditions, and the family is haunted by the ever-present threat of violence.

Despite the destruction, Mahmoud remains determined to provide safety and a brighter future for his family. With your help, they can afford the costly evacuation from Gaza to Egypt, access life-saving medical care, and begin the process of healing and rebuilding their lives. Every donation, no matter the size, brings them one step closer to hope.

Please consider donating to their GoFundMe  [HERE], or sharing their story so others might help. 

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I do want to note that the whole "women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers" thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:

People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.

This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.

And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it's just normal and natural that people don't see women "dressed like men" as ridiculous.

The Marriage of Figaro has what's called a "breeches role" which is a woman wearing men's clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.

Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.

They mocked the "new woman" in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.

This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:

Sorry but you're erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.

Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it's framed as "people just don't find it as weird when women dress masculine."

Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It's normalized because people struggled to normalize it.

And it's not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it's still illegal for women to wear pants. Sudan, Saudi Arabia.

Even in the US, it's forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.

We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we're trying to build theory here but you can't build solid theory on a foundation of lies.

Dammit it nailed me

thanks for the tag @fairyheart 🩵 i had fun making mine!

post your picrew and the most recent song you listened to!

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little guy maker / ちっちゃいメーカー my third picrew :0 (first two were years old, ive since deleted them) please credit @reelrollsweat on tumbl

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This is something everyone seems to forget

a devout christian cis woman has been experiencing increasingly intense cramps during her menstrual cycle. she makes an appointment with a gynecologist.

i’m sorry, the gynecologist says. you have a medical condition that makes pregnancy unsafe for you. i recommend an IUD or other form of long term birth control to ensure you won’t get pregnant.

that’s okay, says the woman. god loves me, god has a plan for me, god will not let me get pregnant.

she goes home and tells her husband and he gets worried.

i don’t know, he says. maybe we should use condoms from now on.

it’s okay, says the woman. god loves me, god has a plan for me, god will not let me get pregnant.

they have sex for the first time since her diagnosis and her husband suggests the morning after pill to be safe.

it’s okay, says the woman. god loves me, god has a plan for me, god will not let me get pregnant.

a month and a half after that she’s missed a period and is feeling nauseous sometimes in the mornings. she takes a pregnancy test and it’s positive. she goes back to the gynecologist.

i’m sorry, the gynecologist says. but it’s very unlikely that you’ll survive this pregnancy. i recommend that you terminate and again take some form of long term birth control.

it’s okay, says the woman. god loves me, god has a plan for me, god will not let me or this child die.

at 20 weeks she goes into early labor. her husband rushes her to the hospital but the baby is born too early to be saved and the woman bleeds out as the doctors try to save her.

when she gets to heaven she asks to speak to god and she tells him:

i don’t understand. i was a good christian. i prayed. i trusted in you. i didn’t get an abortion. why did you let me die

and god says i sent you a warning from the gynecologist, condoms, the morning after pill, and the option for an abortion. what are you doing here?

All these people trying to be nonchalant and mysterious while I am very much chalant and an open book of a person 🧍‍♀️

getting dishonorably discharged from the idgaf war for giving af

if youre fine with sharing(and can even describe it), what does it physically feel like to have cancer?

Cancer is a terrible disease. Not only does every bone in my body ache, I hear and see things as a permanent side effect of the first chemotherapy regimen I was on. It sucks every bit of energy from you, even though you just want to go out and be a 27 year old again. You physically can barely move.

It robbed me of my job. I was a successful social worker working at a children’s hospital. I can barely feed myself (on the days I wish to have something small) because it stole my financial security. Now I live on disability making $800 a month. I’m not saying this to make people feel bad, I just want people to know how astronomically cancer destroys lives.

It robbed me of stable mental health. Nowadays I just cry because most of my friends prior to cancer have given up on coming to see me. They have given up normal conversations about my interests and made it about pitying my situation, yet not putting in any effort. I now have clinical depression and severe anxiety from going through so much treatment and trauma. My partner broke up with me near the beginning of my journey because they found it was too much. When we talked about it at the end, there was no consideration about how I felt.

It robbed me of doing anything a 27 year old should or could be doing. One of the biggest things it has robbed me of is going to the Eras Tour to see my idol @taylorswift live or meeting her one day. It has robbed me of going to see My Chemical Romance live. It gets to the point where you can’t do anything but lay in your bed and just hope one day things will change.

It has robbed me not just of my physical health, but my livelihood. That’s so important to acknowledge when talking and/or loving someone with cancer. Thank you for asking. ❤️

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