vangoghcore:

by shriveling

its-not-how-it-looks:

lamignonette:

Women and Cats, Kees van Dongen, 1912

palipunk:

Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

• Palestine 101
• Rainbow washing 
• Frequently asked questions 
• Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

• Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 
• The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 
• The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

• Al-Nakba (documentary)
• The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)
  
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)
• Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)
• The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)
  

Donations and charities: 

• Al-Shabaka
• Electronic Intifada 
• Adalah Justice Project 
• IMEU Fundraiser 
• Medical Aid for Palestinians 
• Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 
• Addameer
  
• Muslim Aid
  
• Palestine Red Crescent
  
• Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

• A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine
• The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
  
• Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
  
• The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine
  
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
  
• From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948
  
• Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
• Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
  
• Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
  
• Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948
  
• The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback
  
• Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
  
• Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
  
• The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  
• A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996
  
• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
  
• A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples
  
• Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution
  
• Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times
  
• Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East
  
• The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock
  
• The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
  
• Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
  
• The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
  
• Ten myths about Israel
  
• Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
  
• Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition
  
• Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State
  
• Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
  
• Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
  
• Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
  
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Palestinian Culture:

• Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
• Palestinian Costume
  
• Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution
  
• Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora
  
• Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)
  
• The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)
  
• Falastin: A Cookbook
  
• Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen
  
• Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions
  
• Palestinian Culture before the Nakba
  
• Tatreez & Tea (Website)
• The Traditional Clothing of Palestine
  
• The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity
• Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing
  
• Palestine Traditional Costumes
• Palestine Family 
• Palestinian Costume
  
• Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia
  
• Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

• Jenin, Jenin
• Born in Gaza
• GAZA 
  
• Wedding in Galilee 
• Omar
  
• 5 Broken Cameras
  
• OBAIDA
  
• Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)
  
• Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

• AL NAKBA
• Gaza Lives On
• Gaza we are coming
• Lost cities of Palestine 
• Stories from the Intifada 
• Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

• Muhammad Smiry
• Najla Shawa
  
• Nour Naim
  
• Wael Al dahdouh
  
• Motaz Azaiza
  
• Ghassan Abu Sitta
  
• Refaat Alareer
• Plestia Alaqad
  
• Bisan Owda
  
• Ebrahem Ateef
  
• Mohammed Zaanoun
  
• Doaa Mohammad
  
• Hind Khoudary
  

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

• Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)
• Defense for Children in Palestine
• Palestine Legal 
• Palestine Action
• Palestine Action US
  
• United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)
• National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
  
• Times of Gaza
• Middle East Eye
  
• Middle East Monitor
  
• Mohammed El-Kurd
  
• Muna El-Kurd 
• Electronic Intifada 
• Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)
• Mariam Barghouti
  
• Omar Ghraieb
  
• Steven Salaita
  
• Noura Erakat
• The Palestinian Museum N.G.
• Palestine Museum US
• Artists for Palestine UK 
• Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

whitedogblog:

ferrralit:

Heathers of Pentlands, Scotland

(Source: instagram.com)

dirtytransmasc:

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry “the innocent women and children” to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other’s arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don’t have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they’re threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

tendermimi:

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief

stillmissing:

sometimes i’m like i’m the luckiest girl in the world and then an hour later i’m like .. someone cursed me cause no way that’s how that was meant to go

heavensghost:

god is real to me in the same way a caterpillar makes a chrysalis not knowing what happens next, living for the hope of it all

feral-ballad:

June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”

[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]

artemisiasea:

Everything I’ve done this year has strengthened my heart tenfold.