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I’m a Black, Siksiká, & Apsáalooke, nonbinary person living with cancer & lupus. Help is always appreciated. C*shApp: $SiksikaChica V*nm*: @SiksikaChica

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 years

@photon_barrier Any white person, including leftists, who isn’t specifically working towards Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty is useless in any struggle I’m participating in. I’ve seen too many leftists who gloss over how they want to continue benefiting from settler colonialism.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

In a retweet, I saw someone criticize the “able bodied men” in the video, because they weren’t helping carry the two babies. I’ve been angry and trying to get it out of my head, ever since. Westerners really have no clue about the logistics of genocidal mass displacement.

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The super mom She kept pulling her 2 kids for more than 5 hours which is 14 km From Gaza coast to the middle area

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bint al-shamsa

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This is the difference between cultural appreciation and cultural theft.

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RIIVERDANCE QUEEN VEE

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Excusssee mee?! These are gorgeous!!

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Learning about this years ago was what completely disabused me from the notion that Israel was meant to be a safe haven for Jewish people. It’s a sham and nobody knows that better than the Holocaust survivors living in enforced poverty under the modern state of Israel.

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@_Maria_Hossain_

6 months

@lgbtanime Israel treats its holocaust survivor citizens abysmally. They're mostly poor and have to scavenge from almost rotten vegetables to afford them and feed themselves. Here's a video of it, including an anonymous interview:

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

There will be no revolution without trans people. There probably never was. I can’t imagine the steel will and love of beauty and righteousness that it takes to do this.

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

Good morning, y’all!

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

When you’re on foot through a conflict zone, do folks have any idea how easy it is to get separated and never ever see each other again. If shooting starts, everyone scatters and you just have to hope that you’ll see everyone from your original group at the planned destination.

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bint al-shamsa

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Tying her babies to her is that mom’s best chance at keeping them safe and together. Children that age may not even know the names/faces of whatever distant relatives the mother may hope to find where she’s fleeing.

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bint al-shamsa

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Even if some stranger carrying a baby separated from their parents wanted to return them to their relatives, how could they without the baby being able to tell them where to bring them? Do folk’s know how many children end up in refugee camps with no known relatives?

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

6 months

Please stop sharing this. Y’all, this “DNA testing” doesn’t work like y’all think. These tests were ALWAYS junk. They can not tell you what ethnic groups you belong to nor do they have the power to determine what nation you’re a part of or what nations your Ancestors were.

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Lauv✌︎

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You guys omg, they are actively erasing palestinian bloodlines from dna testing. If you are Palestinian and you get a dna test they are actively eraising that part of you to make it seem like Palestine never was. Do not trust 23&me for dna testing. Fuck 23 & Me

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bint al-shamsa

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Sudan, Congo, and Tigray have been experiencing and fighting genocide all this time y’all have been acting like you didn’t know your Western governments are actively funding the slaughter. Your silence indicts you.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

This is why I say that Western forms of Christianity (e.g. Roman Catholicism and the bajillion Protestant churches it birthed) are basically not even the same religion as the Miaphysite Orthodox Christianity of the Eastern world.

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@Africa_Archives

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Ethiopian Bible is the 0ldest and most complete biblè òn eàrth. Written in Ge’ez an ancient language of Ethiopia, it’s nearly 8OO years older than the King Jàmes Vèrsion and contains 81-88 books compared to 66. It includes the Book of EN0CH, Esdras, Buruch and all 3 Books of

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Thinking about this last night, I half remembered a story in the Christian bible. Jesus’ parents and entire community were traveling to Jerusalem. Nobody was chasing them. It was just a happy religious occasion. He was an adolescent, but he still managed to get separated.

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bint al-shamsa

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@QueenMab87 These are exquisite art pieces, honestly. I want to both lick them and put them in a picture frame. What made me happiest is that she shared how to make them so Black people don’t have to just get them from her. She contributed to our community instead of profiting from it.

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bint al-shamsa

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His parents had to trust that he was somewhere safe with other family members, because you can’t stop an entire caravan for one person, even if you want to. Even at the destination point, Jesus’ parents couldn’t find him. That’s not surprising given the circumstances.

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bint al-shamsa

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I don’t know who made this. But there are no safe places for Black and Indigenous people under settler colonialism. This is an ongoing genocide and it’s kind of frightening that some people still think settler colonialism offers us anything other than death.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Here in Bulbancha, hundreds of thousands of people crowd into the city for Carnival every year. That sudden temporary swell shuts down nearly every social service in the city. That’s even with the benefits of modern highways and hotels and police departments.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Imagine if, instead of using cars and planes, everyone of those foreigners were trying to travel to the city on foot. That’s the kind of conditions the Jesus’ story describes. Ultimately, Jesus’ parents eventually headed home to look for him. That didn’t work either.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

They had to travel against the tide of people headed back home and return to Jerusalem once the city was a lot more empty. Then they found him and had to go back home together again. That’s what it took to give that fiasco a happy ending.

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bint al-shamsa

9 months

Tourists don’t see the Indigenous people of their vacation destinations as humans. They expect every local to perform for & serve their every whim, simply because they spent a lot of discretionary funds to gawk & gasp over the cultures poor Indigenous people struggle to maintain.

@eviIeIf

nīele 🤡 they/them/ʻo ia

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Having an extremely hard time stomaching serving tourists at work these past few days. A man told me “smile love!” and when I said I’m grieving Maui he told me “but you’re on oahu”

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Having incurable cancer and still living long enough to see Kissinger die before I do feels like such a flex, tonight.🥰

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bint al-shamsa

5 months

Tomorrow marks the 23rd year since I was diagnosed with incurable bone cancer (chondrosarcoma). I’ve managed to see George Bush Sr., Rush Limbaugh, and Henry Kissinger bite the dust. Inshallah, I’ll live long enough to see the collapse of the USA and all other colonial states.🥰

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bint al-shamsa

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You can always tell who has and hasn’t actually studied the Holocaust. When even Hitler outright stated that he got his inspiration and strategies from what the USA had done to Black and Indigenous people, there’s no way to claim they aren’t of a piece.

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Steven Campbell

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This thread pops up every few months and tbh it always feels like a perverse american exceptionalism"no see we were actuallyresponsible" Not everything is about you.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

I think I accidentally broke the thread.😰

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Now imagine if bullets were randomly being fired at the caravans as Jesus’ parents were trying to move within and against the flow looking for a child who may not even be staying still in one place. Those around you may not even be able to keep track of their own kids.

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bint al-shamsa

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My grandmother used the Meals on Wheels program for a while after my grandfather went to be with his Ancestors. She needed food, but also didn’t want to be bombarded with people in her home as she adjusted to her new life. But leftists never did anything to help.

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leftist: disabled ppl who use doordash are exploiting workers and they’re evil disabled ppl: well actually here’s an idea for a new system that is not exploitative and is inclusive of disabled needs leftists: no you don’t get it we want you to STARVE

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bint al-shamsa

10 months

If Europeans had stayed on their continent instead of being the absolute most destructive group on the planet, Americans wouldn’t even exist. Please come pick up the rest of your stragglers off our lands so we can get back to enjoying them.

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🇪🇺✨tea✨🇪🇺

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@mclmp46 Can we ban americans from europe im like serious

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

They were SO close, but ultimately decided to go with classic European antisemitic conspiracy theory. Israel doesn’t control the US Congress. It’s the other way around, actually. The US Congress is what makes Israel able to exist.

@cjwerleman

CJ Werleman

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Criticizing US isn’t Christianphobic. Criticizing India isn’t Hinduphobic. Criticizing Saudi Arabia isn’t Islamophobic. Criticizing China isn’t Sinophobic. But criticizing Israel is antisemitic, according to US Congress. So, explain how Israel doesn’t control US Congress?

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bint al-shamsa

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@Bubs_27 Yes! Even now, my child is an adult and we still hold hands when walking through crowds.

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bint al-shamsa

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These colonizers simply can not accept that they don’t understand Indigenous relationships with our lands. They refuse to even see or hear us. They’ve convinced themselves that we’re just a lesson from the past for them to learn from.

@CommieC0n

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National Parks and the general idea of "conserving" land, cordoning it off as "unspoiled nature", is incredibly counter productive to maintaining those ecosystems as this practice has been part of the destruction of the land and the indigenous people that lived with it.

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bint al-shamsa

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These “DNA test” companies should be illegal everywhere, because they’re completely based off of pseudoscience. They are not the same as paternity tests and people’s beliefs that they are the same has them buying into racist blood quantum ideology.

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bint al-shamsa

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You can’t put the responsibility for the horrors of Gazans like this mother on the heads of her fellow sufferers. They, too, have to prioritize in absolutely horrific ways that will traumatize them for the rest of their lives. This is 100% on the heads of the colonizers.

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bint al-shamsa

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Whites gonna white. They’re so disconnected from the rest of the planet that they can’t even acknowledge the non-human animal suffering of colonialism. For those who don’t know, this is a picture of bison skulls. The animals weren’t slaughtered by us for food.

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@atheopagan

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did you know that the scale of industrial factory farming is so incomprehensibly evil that it's demonstrably worse than the history of colonialism repeated one thousand times over? thanks to my privileged wh*te vegan perspective, i can utter these universal moral facts.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

5 months

Please stop listening to colonizers trying to opine about who’s actually responsible for colonization. Irish people weren’t driven to Turtle Island. They chose to come here so they could participate in colonialism and gain a similar status as the British had in Ireland.

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James D'Amato

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I think there are some people in my audience who could use a quick history lesson. I believe it will help clarify some important things. Likely most of what you know about "The Irish Potato Famine" is propaganda meant to conceal an intentional genocide.

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bint al-shamsa

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I’m glad this person said it, because the proclamation has such grisly underpinnings. It amounts to saying that the only way you’ll do what Bisan needed is if she can culminate your use of her struggles as trauma porn by dying.

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“If bisan dies I will riot” Riot NOW while she’s alive. Do not wait for more Palestinians to die until you do something. Fight for her now, fight for everyone now. They deserve to live to see a free Palestine. They deserve to see your allyship

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bint al-shamsa

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Now imagine if bullets were randomly being fired at the caravans as Jesus’ parents were trying to move within and against the flow looking for a child who may not even be staying still in one place. Those around you may not even be able to keep track of their own kids.

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

@gyrosteddybear @iraexe Knowing that someone willingly paid money for that outfit just makes me believe that more people deserve to be mugged.

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bint al-shamsa

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Looking for another person’s children could mean a death sentence for your own and everyone knows that. At university, I had a course where we studied lifeboat ethics principles as a part of medical ethics discussion of allocation of healthcare resources.

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bint al-shamsa

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I roll my eyes every time I see stuff like this. It reveals a real lack of understanding regarding settler colonialism. “Your” tax dollars have always been for the sole purpose of propping up the genocide of Black and Indigenous people via capitalism.

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bint al-shamsa

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That was one of the most dismal period of realizations in my young adult life. I can’t sum it up in tweets, but it made me understand that having a right to live doesn’t mean someone equally bad (or worse) off has a responsibility to make sure you live.

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bint al-shamsa

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She deserves all of the trench foot, ringworms, and COVID that nature can rain down upon her just for being out there destroying the environment. Those braids are a crime all by themselves. The destruction of her scalp will be well earned.

@bett_yu

Betty Yu

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Tens of thousands of people are stuck at Burning Man after Friday’s rainstorm. Bay Area resident @CirqueDuClee shared her experience navigating the muddy playa and more @KPIXtv 11 pm #BurningMan2023

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bint al-shamsa

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“Palestinian” and “Israeli” are nationalities, not races. A nationality can include people from all sorts of racial and/or ethnic backgrounds. These are not monoracial communities. They’ve never been monoracial. So no DNA test can scientifically sort one from the other.

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bint al-shamsa

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This is why no one can gaslight me about anti-Blackness in the Arab world. Open slave markets filled with Black people are so common that people like her don’t even think twice about “jokingly” auctioning off the little “samara”/“choclata” baby in her arms.

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sai

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It’s 2023 and Egyptians still think it’s funny to joke about slavery. Mind you, we’ve been talking about how Sudanese people are treated in Egypt in recent years online so this is very intentional. I want her to let go of that baby immediately.

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bint al-shamsa

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Actual genetics has shown that Jewish and Arab communities share common ancestry. Regardless of how anyone feels about it, these groups all descend from the same general region.

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Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry

Clashing groups are Y chromosome cousins

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bint al-shamsa

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I mean, this isn’t just a failure to realize the goal of Jewish self-determination. This is intentional cruelty. When you dump food on the dirty ass ground, knowing your own impoverished Elders need it, you clearly don’t see them as humans.

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

We’re 2 Black & Indigenous disabled folks. We live in New Orleans. We evacuated, but can’t go back because there’s no electricity. I don’t know how long we’ll have to stay in this motel. Please feel free to donate or share this. V*nmo: @SiksiksChica C*shApp: $SiksikaChica

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@bittrfridgetrol Yes. In that situation, whatever happens to my child is also going to happen to me, because I’m not going to be able to live with myself without hir. I’d think this stuff would be obvious to everyone but there are people who live so selfishly that they don’t understand.

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

I was thinking about sharing some pictures of what hematoma and anemic bruising looks like on brown skin, because I hate how medical racism means that internet searches really only show how these things appear on white or extremely light skinned people.

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bint al-shamsa

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By the way, it seems she made it to the safer zone.

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bint al-shamsa

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Western leftists never resist an opportunity to be raging ableists and eugenicists. This shit is also steeped in White Saviorism. Leftists have the absolute audacity to sit on other people’s Indigenous lands and claim the authority to tell folks how they should live.

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bint al-shamsa

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THIS is the dehumanization of Jews. This is what you’re saying you think Holocaust survivors deserve. No group that doesn’t absolutely cherish their Elders deserves to exist. That applies to everyone and every community on the planet.

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bint al-shamsa

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It’s amusing how many TERFs don’t understand what cosmetic medicine entails. The majority of people who get cosmetic chest surgery are cis.

@SimSilverAgatka

SilverAgatka

@SimSilverAgatka

1 year

Nothing says “enjoying your body” like disassociating from it to such a degree you get organs surgically removed for a cosmetic effect in your feeble attempt to mimic the bodies of your own oppressors. #wokemisogyny #sexnotgender #transthegayaway

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bint al-shamsa

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White leftists love Holocaust jokes. Seriously, never in my life have I found any political group that makes more antisemitic and anti-Black genocide jokes. These are the folks who feel entitled to dominate our homelands. White entitlement has no limitations or ethics.

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bint al-shamsa

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@OtakuJackal @DarkPatu Right. It’s art using edible ingredients. I don’t think I could bear to eat them if someone gifted them to me.

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bint al-shamsa

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When Western forms of Christianity use bibles that are missing an entire 25 percent of what the oldest Christian bibles includes, it’s not surprising that its adherents have followed very different paths. The Orthodox churches in Africa remain land-based.Western churches haven’t.

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bint al-shamsa

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This is so funny to me because she and I were friends before she even had a following on here. She blocked me after I pointed out that every racist white trans person I encountered on here was one of her followers.

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bint al-shamsa

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I’m looking at the number of leftists who are loudly announcing that they genuinely think this word was just creating and seeing just how many self-described leftists have absolutely no knowledge about the history and mechanisms of fascism.

@YessicaYesOrNo

Yésica or Nosica 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@YessicaYesOrNo

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Feeling very autistic right now because the ableist are big mad that I used a term they never heard about.

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bint al-shamsa

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@Katherine_Mel_B @_MAEXimum_ I love how y’all interpret the need to address white supremacy as an act of spite.

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bint al-shamsa

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People have a right to name their oppressors. Oppenheimer CHOSE to participate in the genocide perpetrated on the Indigenous people here. The right to kill Black and Indigenous people is a key part of whiteness and colonialism.

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bint al-shamsa

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Years ago, I first heard a Zapatista principle. “Para Todos Todo. Para Nosotros Nada.” It roughly translates to “Everything for everyone. Nothing for us.” Look at what’s first. It’s caring for others. It’s putting their needs first. It’s living as a community, in kinship.

@a_h_reaume

A. H.

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If your leftist organizing is more focused on telling disabled people they should ‘sacrifice’ fundamental needs for the cause rather than… ensuring that their needs are met — you’re the one who has the more capitalist politics.

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bint al-shamsa

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The entire planet itself yearns for Indigenous liberation. It will always respond more favorably for those whose Ancestors carefully nurtured it for thousands of years.

@imzpali

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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The fact that the Palestinians in Gaza figured out how to extinguish the white phosphorous by putting sand on it. Ya Allah I’m at a loss for words

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bint al-shamsa

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I finally finished it! It’s called Apsáalooke and the Blood Moon. It was made with 3,660 miyuki cylinder beads and fireline threading. I’m so proud of it!

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bint al-shamsa

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Black girls really do have the whole weight of the world on their shoulders. Copeny has been working for her community so long that it’s easy to forget how young she really is. She should be happily celebrating her 16th birthday instead of having to try to save the world.

@LittleMissFlint

Mari Copeny

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Yes I cried on National tv. People tend to think I am always happy, but people sometimes are not nice. This year has been so hard to fundraise and even with the toy donation we still need to get closer to my goal. I have under a week to fundraise.

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bint al-shamsa

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@alucardsgf @satanicrite I felt like it was gross how she basically treated sexual grooming of a baby as a natural and beautiful process. I mean Jacob and Renesme? So in her world, Indigenous folks just hover and dominate their chosen partner until they reach sexual maturity. 🤢

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

Plot Twist: I am actually protesting America, too.

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Von Drake Institute Of Social Pathology

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

Y’all ate mummies. You don’t get to tell us anything about what it means to be civilized.

@GregVidua

Vidua

2 years

@carrchristmas @lilbabygandhi If indigenous culture involved cannibalism, would you prevent them from practising it when living in urban environment, in the centre of civilisation?

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

@Katherine_Mel_B @_MAEXimum_ You don’t get to decide what’s the best way for Black trans people to talk about white supremacy. If we listened to y’all, we’d never get to speak.

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bint al-shamsa

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Remember this the next time someone tries to claim that Black and Indigenous people are not experiencing genocide on Turtle Island. This country is chock full of mass graves and actual concentration camps. And guess who makes up the majority of those inside of them.

@The8BitIdiot

8-ʙɪᴛ™

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Hey remember how they said there were 251 hidden bodies burried behind the prison in Mississippi? Well it's actually 671 bodies.

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bint al-shamsa

5 months

I hate when people talk about Indigenous communities as if they don’t still exist. Ainu people aren’t extinct. This tweet also uses the now outdated “hunter gatherer” narrative that is constantly used to position Indigenous communities as primitive and, thus, inferior.

@archeohistories

Archaeo - Histories

@archeohistories

5 months

Japan, like any other nation, is an ocean of diversity, home to multiple minority groups. One of these groups is Japan's indigenous people or Ainu. These hunter-gatherers worshipped nature and animals, spoke a language unrelated to any other, and had unusual customs like

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

8 months

@D1s4sterDr3w Oh I know these are nothing I could just casually create. Every art medium requires a body of knowledge to get things to look like how the artist envisions. I’m just going to respect her skills and know my limitations.☺️

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 months

Leftists focus almost entirely on the working class. Their ideology doesn’t account for the existence of any class below that. It’s where many disabled people are societally positioned. We are kept outside of those who are allowed to exist through their labor.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 years

@dusserita @themelaniedione Look, I’ve been talking for decades about how this government forces you to utterly degrade yourself to get Social Security Disability. You are also legally forced to live below poverty level just to remain qualified.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

7 months

Good morning! May every colonial force topple within our lifetimes.

@itsavryhappyday

Oncorhynchus Canucksha

@itsavryhappyday

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

6 months

By the way, these churches are commonly referred to as Oriental Orthodox churches. But “oriental” is a term with very problematic connotations and I prefer not to use it without regard for the impact it can have. I’m only using it here for those who want to go learn about them.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

2 years

@El__tigrenegro @tristang300 That’s worse. You do get that, right? It means that people are living so economically marginalized that they have to give their children to those who are more affluent. The supposed benevolence of the wealthy doesn’t negate the inherent exploitation involved.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 years

Here’s a friendly reminder that I almost lost my middle finger to MRSA after Hurricane Katrina. My dad got boils under his arms and my niece had to have parts of her lungs removed. Even after the flooding recedes, do NOT touch anything that was in the water and avoid the fumes.

@TethysNoodler

Eva Cantor: Le Big Sticky Mess™

3 years

Emmi is right. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Floodwater, especially in an urban environment, will give you kinds of sepsis you didn't know were possible. "I'm sorry, we have to amputate" kinds.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 years

Marriage is still the only way to get certain legal protections. So, with the way marriage laws are currently set up, severely disabled people are purposely kept from having equality.

@liberaljanee

Liberal Jane

3 years

✨ there’s no marriage equality until people with disabilities can get married without losing their income, benefits or health insurance. 💓

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

Anyway, you’re never going to find someone from these churches, on another continent, proselytizing or antagonizing people seeking reproductive health. Their dietary practices, their holidays, and their clergical hierarchies are entirely different from Western Christianity.

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bint al-shamsa

4 months

I hate how many people truly believe that tourism is benign and the only way to physically engage with other parts of the world. It’s not a coincidence that the most popular cheap tourist destinations are on extremely exploited lands.

@childeonmain

月 || Yue

4 months

I am SICK and Im TIRED of people coming to seasian countries and using it as some cheap getaway because our currency is low. You are not helping us with the tourism you are pushing people out of their homes. The same thing happens in Hawaii, and currently Bali

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bint al-shamsa

7 months

This is the history of every land colonized by Europeans, really. People can point to Jacob as despicable and then make every excuse in the world for why it’s okay for them to live on Indigenous people’s lands here on Turtle Island. It’s the exact same dynamic.

@BonsaiSky

Nader

7 months

The history of Palestine in 18 seconds.

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

@jmclen @TalbertSwan Racists always think it’s a bad time to talk about their anti-Blackness.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

@ezratherealist I’m disabled and mobility impaired. I can’t even walk 2 km without first taking all of my meds and stopping to sit, several times. What these folks are doing is more than hungry, tired, and frightened people should be expected to survive. No one should criticize them.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

As with Judaism, they’re ethnoreligious but do allow converts. They really fascinate me because their approach to sacred texts and traditions contrasts so much with Western dogmatism.

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

Honestly, seeing a Sikh with a kirpan makes me feel safer than being in a building with a cop. At least the devout Sikh person is acknowledging a responsibility to protect others, while the cop is just there to maintain white supremacy.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

3 years

Colonizers are free to quote tweet this: I owe no allegiance to anything other than Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. I worship neither deity nor man that would stand in opposition to those things. I am loyal to those who fight for these things with me. Only them.

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bint al-shamsa

7 months

I know I’d be feeling some type of way if I heard the life of my bubbe referred to as “mendacious propaganda” by her own government.😬

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@AJEnglish

Al Jazeera English

7 months

Israeli PM's office has confirmed that Israel declined to accept two Israeli hostages from Hamas, stating that they will not address what is considered to be "mendacious propaganda" by the group. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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bint al-shamsa

10 months

The only thing the white trans community loves more than pasta is being virulently racist and antisemitic on the internet. It’s every day with these folks.

@roslyntalusan

roslyn 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

10 months

the definition of making up a scenario in your head and getting mad at it

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

I really just want to get on here and be Black and Indigenous, talk about beading, pokémon, wuxia/xianxia series, and vibe with other disabled folks. But, instead, I have to explain why genocide, racism, colonialism, and antisemitism are still unethical, over and over again.

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@bintalshamsa

bint al-shamsa

2 years

@laurenoriginals @mchvllnprncss Etsy is hurting sellers who also rely on their sales. No one is stopping you from continuing to sell on Etsy. Your tantrum won’t make people want to buy from you.

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bint al-shamsa

6 months

I’m grateful to @Raantuva for dropping some books y’all can read to get a better understanding of this issue.

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bint al-shamsa

2 months

It’s not like there aren’t already models for how to provide food for those who live in isolation for various reasons. Western leftists just don’t think our Elders and disabled kin matter enough to be worthy of care and support.

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bint al-shamsa

8 months

@carrchristmas @QueenMab87 Yes. I’m hard to impress, but this time…she did that!

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bint al-shamsa

3 months

We’re supposed to ignore Motaz being virulently anti-Black and chuckling over aid meant for the dying people in Sudan being sent to Gaza instead. Arab anti-Blackness is only a side issue for those who want to keep benefiting from Black suffering.

@tootahalata

Toota says KeepEyesOnSudan🇸🇩

3 months

a while ago there was a video of aid trucks that were meant for sudan but instead were rerouted to gaza. im not gonna speculate as to why but what made me itch were the reporter’s comments. they were extremely casually racist against sudanese. european level subtlety. (1/2)

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bint al-shamsa

10 months

This might be the funniest and most incredible example of Black and Indigenous pop art I’ve seen in ages!

@Rightturn_only

OK Violated Tribal Jurisdiction for 113 years

@Rightturn_only

10 months

@Deoliver47 Seeing Afro Indigenous folks making beaded and fringed folding chair earrings is incredible 🤣🤣🤣

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

Don’t call Black and/or Indigenous people goyim. I shouldn’t need to explain why that shit is a problem.

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bint al-shamsa

2 years

This was a very conscious act of solidarity. It was sacrificing something valuable for the sake of others who were being harmed. They’d have been perfectly justified in continuing to use this symbol, but they showed that the lives of living people mattered most to them.

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bint al-shamsa

8 months

@Beystawr She paid attention to the details!

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bint al-shamsa

7 months

The way people in the quote tweets are reacting to this shows that Black pain is invisibilized across the planet, but especially in liberation movements led by predominantly non-Black people. It breaks my heart seeing this, because I’ve gone through it too.

@stillnotziora

wannabe maxine shaw🪐

7 months

yeah imagine

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bint al-shamsa

3 years

Veganism is a branch of Colonizer Christianity. Prove me wrong.

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bint al-shamsa

1 year

I shouldn’t see anyone I know following this racist, pedo, fetish account.

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bint al-shamsa

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They were slaughtered by the forebears of white vegans. They were killed to keep us from eating sustainably on our lands and force us into unsustainable farming of vegetation for the benefit of white people.

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