Freelance illustrator, book enthusiast. she/her
Flower Mound, TX
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Simini Blocker retweeted
My god
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine.
Read our new cover story now: trib.al/14EyFWS
Simini Blocker retweeted
just imo but i think a crucial sticking point in public discourse over there last year is many many people’s inability or unwillingness to get into their heads just how many palestinians are imprisoned by israel who have literally not done anything wrong
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy describes the conditions in which 61-year-old Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar is being held by Israel. She is in total isolation. She has been accused of no crime since she was arrested a year ago.
'Her cell has no windows. There is no air, no fan, only a concrete bed and a thin mattress as well as a toilet that has no water most of the day. This week she told her lawyer that in order to breathe a bit, she lies down on the floor and tries to draw in a bit of air from the crack under the cell door. She doesn't drink much, in order to avoid having to use the toilet, which emits a horrific stench.'
More here: haaretz.com/israel-news/twil…
Simini Blocker retweeted
People are pointing out that public infrastructure shouldn’t be expected to make a profit. But the point of this post is that we frequently expect transit and even walk/bike projects to justify themselves by farebox recovery or economic activity and never expect this of highways.
Simini Blocker retweeted
Americans need to see this so they can understand that Israel isn’t “fighting for its life,” Gaza’s destruction isn’t an “unavoidable consequence of urban warfare,” but that Israel is systematically wiping a city of two million people off the face of the earth block by block.
Simini Blocker retweeted
Doctor: “All of the disasters I’ve seen combined, 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes. All of that combined doesn’t equal the level of carnage I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza”
Reporter: Is it mostly children?
Doctor: Almost exclusively…
June update for Patreon! I'm taking another pause in July, but if you join, you can still get these fun pool party/ beach reader stickers! patreon.com/posts/june-artwo…
Simini Blocker retweeted
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" disturbingly resonates 180 years later.
3 of 5 ppl in the US are one missed paycheck from being homeless. The odds of someone you know being prison labor for simply being poor just shot up--as did stocks in private prisons today.
Simini Blocker retweeted
Please please help donate to this campaign & share widely if you can. This is to help the family of a brilliant writer we published with @Mizna_ArabArt recently & I really hope people help boost & give to this 🇵🇸🍉
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Simini Blocker retweeted
On Monday, USAID contractor Alexander Smith resigned after being threatened to choose between resignation & dismissal for preparing a presentation on Palestinian maternal health.
This administration is evil - absolutely evil.
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Simini Blocker retweeted
While I welcome the Trump conviction, this also is undeniably true:
I have some bonus rewards available on my patreon currently! Join now to get some Pride month items now along with a vinyl sticker or vinyl sticker + sticker sheet at the end of June ✨💕🌈
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Simini Blocker retweeted
I’ve seen three images in the last few minutes that’ll be with me for the rest of my life. To bomb a refugee camp is an unimaginable horror. Every hand has to be turned to stop this.
Simini Blocker retweeted
slave labor in Oregon with prisoners for $0.05 per hour.
now ask again why our politicians are criminalizing addiction and mental illness and homelessness and poverty...
burn it all down.
Simini Blocker retweeted
Everyone keeps leaving out 1985 when students took over Hamilton Hall, renamed it Mandela Hall, demanded the school divest from South Africa over apartheid. It was the longest siege--nearly three weeks-- of the university in its history. No riot police then, either.
reuters.com/world/us/columbi…
Simini Blocker retweeted
Today is one of those moments where we have to remember that the cops were not actually defunded in 2020. The ruling class actually doubled down on funding them, to repress us in moments like this.
Simini Blocker retweeted
We are being asked to be horrified and disgusted that people in this country are protesting this.
We are being told - by organizations, institutions, the news media, the Biden administration - that the real threat are those who stand & resist against this depravity.
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🥰🥰 Yay!! I'm so happy with how this one turned out! They'll be in my shop eventually. But in the meantime... If your into romance, the patreon theme this month is Regency ball! Poll for the vinyl sticker going up this weekend... patreon.com/siminiblocker
