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Writer, educator, co-host of #WorthNoting, editorial assistant @JacarandaBooks 💛 Enjoying my quiet little culdesac of the internet 🍉🍉

Joined September 2012
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Somewhere in 2020/2021 a cartoonist/illustrator was on here talking about the problematics of drawing Black characters exclusively with light or green eyes. I am desperately trying to find that very thorough, thoughtful thread. Anybody know who it was?!
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She really is an incredible example of how to use your platform for good.
Ms Rachel at the Woman of the Year awards wearing the art of children in Gaza.👑
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THE SEQUEL OF MY BLACK VAMPIRE SERIES IS OUT TODAY 📣🤩 In Eternal Ruin, you’ll find: 🩸vengeful fmc 🩸pov from vampire love interest 🩸power and its corrupting nature 🩸what does it mean to inherit a family legacy get it online or in stores! linktr.ee/tigestgirma
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my father was one of the whistleblowers of the Darfur genocide—there’s been a bounty on his head since before i was born. my uncle was denied asylum every year until his murder. years before you noticed us. our siblings in Gaza know we’ve lost so much more than “jobs” #sayDarfur
Do you notice how nobody's losing their jobs for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? How mainstream western politicians are able to call out the RSF and the UAE without having their careers nuked by high-powered lobby groups? How the western media aren't churning out op-eds concern trolling about the possibility that anyone who opposes the el-Fasher massacres is actually a closet Nazi? How opposition to mass murder in Darfur isn't being algorithmically hidden by Silicon Valley plutocrats? How anyone who posts footage of an RSF war crime online isn't being swarmed by an army of full-time trolls making excuses justifying the atrocities and accusing those who criticize them of being hateful bigots? How western governments and institutions aren't doing everything they can to stomp out all speech that is critical of this particular humanitarian crisis? That's the difference, right there. That's why many westerners have been paying special attention to Gaza. For the last two years anyone who publicly criticized Israel's genocidal abuses in the Gaza Strip would be confronted by hasbarists saying "Why are you paying so much attention to Gaza instead of Sudan? You must just HATE JEWS!!" No, dipshit, I'm paying more attention to Gaza because my government isn't trying to make it illegal for me to criticize the RSF. Every major western institution isn't dedicated to facilitating genocide in Sudan and crushing all speech which opposes it. My rulers aren't backing a genocide in Sudan and commanding me to support it. The ongoing nightmare in Sudan is largely a product of the abuses of the western empire. The UAE is an imperial client state who the US and its allies recently supported in its years-long genocidal war on Yemen in partnership with Saudi Arabia. There are all kinds of threads you can trace back to western allies and partners in this genocide, as is the case for most of the worst things that happen in our world these days. But it's clearly different. Clearly. The evidence for this is in the extent to which western institutions have been protecting the genocide in Gaza versus the genocide in Sudan. Israel's abuses are much more intimately interwoven into the guts of the imperial machine than those of the RSF, who Washington will take a blowtorch to the instant it becomes geopolitically advantageous. Israel's abuses are completely inseparable and indistinct from the abuses of my own government. I've been focusing more on Gaza than on Sudan for the same reason I'd be more concerned if I knew my husband was murdering hitch hikers than I would be about reports of a serial killer in Brazil. It is right and good that the world is turning against the UAE, opposing western backing for that malignant state, and standing in firm opposition to what is happening in Sudan. But the complete lack of institutional resistance we've been seeing to this opposition shows that this genocide is much less dear to the heart of the empire than the genocide in Gaza. Opposing the genocide in Sudan is about saving Sudan. Opposing the genocide in Gaza is about saving ourselves. Saving our free speech. Saving our political systems. Saving our hearts. Saving our minds. Saving our soul.
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My god, the situation in Sudan does not get the attention it deserves. May Siham rest in power. 😪
Siham Hassan a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community Kitchen’s to feed the hungry and starving in her home city of Al Fashir was executed by RSF militiamen earlier today. انالله واناالیه راجعون
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friendly reminder findhelp.org is a database that can help you find your local food banks (and a plethora of other resources). if you’re in need locate them. if you have the means, donate to them. we need each other more than ever right now. please share!
Cancelling SNAP benefits during the holidays is crazy.
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Shifa, someone I care about deeply, was kidnapped & held w/o due process alongside other activists is being threatened with torture. What Ben-Gvir threatened is just a fraction of what they do to Palestinians. We need intl pressure to end the Genocide & release ALL prisoners.
Shifa Abdi, a Somali woman holding Finnish citizenship, has been confirmed among those abducted by Israel forces during an aid flotilla attempting to break the blockade on #Palestine. #Gaza
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Ms Rachel has a message for you @VanJones68
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does the general public understand that the people of gaza are shot at by iof cretins simply for trying to fish?
The fisherman of Gaza got a chance to fish because the Israeli navy what’s too busy blocking the Sumud Flotilla Look at the joy on their faces
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video was filmed on February 4th 2025, as this Facebook reel can demonstrate: facebook.com/Khawater.CC/vi…
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“Move with their belongings” to describe an actual picture of ethnic cleansing.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as smoke billows during Israeli strikes in Gaza City
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Israel exterminated Yara and her entire family in Gaza today. Yara was not a combatant. She was a Palestinian medical student and volunteer at Al-Shifa Hospital — she saved lives. So Israel murdered her. Deliberately.
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For those who don’t know, Workday is actively being sued because the AI it uses is trained to deny Black people’s applications
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Unbelievable. The Holocaust museum LA *apologized* for sharing a general anti-genocide post, because it might be “misinterpreted” to include Palestinians. Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from “never again,” apparently their genocide is the exception.
Speechless. No words for this.
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When you remember the little lovely girl Hind Rajab, don’t forget the medics who were killed trying to save her: Yousef Zeno and Ahmad al Madhoun.
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Palestinians are so dehumanized that Israel can kill dozens every single day, without a whisper from Western media.
BREAKING: At least 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave's hospitals told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4aikcf
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“To empty” What an insane way to describe a war crime.
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“A Hamas camera” Israel said they BOMBED A HOSPITAL because they were targeting a camera and Western media repeats this nonsense like it’s a normal day.
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They targeted the spot that journalists have used for 23 months to connect to the WiFi because they want to murder without the world witnessing. 'The last selfie.. Nasser Medical Comolex Massacre Khan Yunis 25 August 2025'
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He was a Palestinian journalist known for his fearless reporting, he was a father of two, he was 28 years old. And you helped kill him by protecting his murderer and whitewashing their genocide.
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