Listen, sometimes a ship is less about wanting them to kiss or have sex or whatever, and more about needing them to be so endlessly intertwined and connected to the point where they might as well be one creature.
I think so many people forget making the world a better place isn’t just about having all the ‘correct’ sociopolitical opinions and beliefs and knowing all the theory it’s also hugely about actually being a good person… everyday acts of kindness and empathy, going out of your way to help others, small moments of connection in a cold world, loving thy neighbour all that
If you have some spare funds, my coworker Emily is really going through it. The gofundme hasn’t been updated in awhile but since this was originally posted, her cancer has come back TWICE. She’s had major surgeries and is set to start chemo soon. However, her appendix ruptured last week so she is currently in the hospital until it’s safe to have it surgically removed. Seriously it’s just one thing after another, and since she just started a new job at my library she’s out of leave and doesn’t qualify for FMLA. Emily does not advertise what she’s going through, so I want to give her gofundme a boost! Emily is a fantastic person, a great friend, a mom to 7 cats, and a kickass librarian 💕
1 Colour screen print (black) on white cardboard , 19.5 x 30 cm.
Anonymous:
this website - the "everyone here is notoriously already broke" website - has been funneling thousands of dollars to various gaza gofundmes. and then the "required" amount per person got raised, and then gofundme and the finance sites wouldn't release the money, and then the crossing got destroyed and no one can get through. and even when something reaches its goal, I've never actually seen a "success story" about someone getting out or getting their family of rafah because of it
serious question, has any of this mattered? did anyone actually get out because of a fundraiser? have we been doing anything at all other than laundering money for corrupt border guards? is this a better use of donations than, say, the esims? or donating to aid orgs? or any other way of trying to help?
"and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming"
here's the thing. fuck being overwhelming, fuck getting exhausted seeing the fundraisers every day, none of that matters. my only question is, have people actually been benefiting from it? not in a "I think someone is impersonating people and scamming us" way (I trust the verification work people have been doing), but in a "is this actually going somewhere" way. if every single "$5000 x number of people" fundraiser got filled up to the maximum, would it make a single bit of difference?
most of the families that made it to egypt before the border was destroyed by israel did so through funds raised by gofundme, including ahmed @90-ghost on tumblr, at least four people i know personally, and maybe hundreds more i know through acquaintances or i’ve seen on twitter. if you donated to these campaigns you would know this because they usually post updates saying “good news! we were able to get x out of gaza, but now we’re trying to get the rest of our family out, so we’ve upped our goal to x.”
most of the campaigns remain open because they will try to get the most vulnerable members of a family out first, after which they will try to get the rest out.
since the border was destroyed right now people are being displaced internally, which means instead of the money going to corrupt border guards it is used to buy tents, buy medical supplies, buy food, or rent some of the few units still standing in different areas within gaza. basic foodstuffs in gaza now can cost up to 200USD. and it is only getting worse and more extreme.
they also consistently close the single humanitarian corridor, kerem shalom crossing. yesterday it was open to deliver 80 bodies of unidentified dead palestinians to be buried in a mass grave, today the “humanitarian route” is closed until further notice.
if the border was still open, you would have more feel-good stories and you would be confident your money was going to evacuate people (also known as ethnic cleansing. i hope you understand that this best-case scenario you’re referring to, this hope you want to cling to, is forced displacement of people who have lost their homes and who may never be able to return.)
but israel destroyed the border. people are still raising money to register their families for once it does open, but there is no guarantee of when that will happen, and most of the money ends up used so they can survive their current displacements within gaza.
there’s a lack of feel-good stories because it’s a genocide. that’s all. this has been nothing but ten months of torture and slow death and closing every avenue for survival to gazans. now you know what that means.
I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.
THIS IS URGENT!!! IF YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED YOU ONLY HAVE 2 DAYS TO REMEDY THIS!!!
Please, no matter where you are, if you are a US citizen check your voter registration. If you live in Ohio, this blatant attempt at voter suppression will be final on 7/22/24. This number represents 1 in every 50 registered voters in the state. They are- allegedly- purging everyone who has been inactive for 4 years. Which in of itself is farcical, because plenty of people only vote every 4 years in the Presidential. But I have seen people say they’ve been incredibly active and voted in the most recent local elections and still been purged. Please, do not delay in checking. If you have been removed, register again right away or you will not have a vote in November.
America. America. Please. Register to vote and keep the fascist dictator out. Please. And if you’re already registered, check to make sure you were not removed.
We’re rooting for you. We’re depending on you. Every one of his followers are going to show up to those polls. You have to keep this man out of office.
