List of Palestinian Evacuation Fundraisers

Last Update: 05/06/2024

All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($10,439/$62,500 goal)

Hayam Taha and family (€8,718/€30,000 goal)

Deyaa and family (€7,764/€20,000 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr5,085 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($6,776 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€5,960/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($240/$15,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr20,168 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€1,032/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($3,772/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€400/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shara ($445/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr137,402 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€5,767/€25,000 goal)

Said Tanani and brothers (€30,935/€50,000 goal)

Donia Tanani and family (€67,538/€100,000 goal)

Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($8,042/$40,000 goal)

Mohammed Shamia and family ($15,020/$35,000 goal)

Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€1,772/€15,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($18,365/$80,000 goal)

Child Mohammed (€6,420/€10,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£19,668/£50,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($23,050/$95,160 goal)

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($5,151/65,000 goal)

Ibrahim Almofty and family ($535/$40,000)

Hamdi Hejazi and family ($10,236/$25,000)

Mohammed and family ($7,620/$25,000)

Many of the families that have reached out to me, families on this list, are in Rafah or have family members in Rafah. It is imperative and EXTREMELY urgent we fill these fundraisers as swiftly as possible, the IOF is planning to invade any day. Please, I urge you, to donate whatever you can. People’s lives are at stake.

Fun Fact if you like niche films and/or electronic music: this month The Criterion Channel is streaming 13 films about the Black electronic music underground. The collection is curated in collaboration with Dweller, a music festival and platform centering Black voices in dance music.

The Importance of Studying Queerness in Context.

when studying queer history, one always has to keep in mind two seemingly contradictory things: firstly, that queerness and queer people have always existed, but at the same time, that queerness and queer identities have not always existed the way they exist today.

Modern queer terms and identities did not exist to queer people in the past. They would not have thought of themselves as "gay" or "trans" or even "queer." While these modern terms may seem to fit certain historic individuals, these individuals would not have thought of themselves as such, and it would not be a part of their lived experience. To apply the modern identities of queerness to history is to erase the lives and experiences of queer people in history, and care must always be taken to understand queer history within the context of its time.

When looking at queer history online, there is a *lot* of misinformation and misidentification out there simply because people are eager to apply modern queerness to history, often in places where it doesn't belong.

A lot of old photos get misidentified as gay because they show two people of the same sex showing some level of physical affection towards each other. Okay, I'll admit that the open-mouth kissing photobooth pictures are probably actually gay, but an old picture of two men or two women holding hands or with their arms around each other, or even kissing on the cheek, were common shows of platonic affection.

I hate to break everyone's gay little hearts, but without explicit documentation saying so, assuming that these couples are all gay is putting modern queer identity in places where it simply didn't exist. The women in the final picture are sisters. The "not married" boys are bachelors interested in marrying women.

In the silent film Wings, the emotional climax of the film comes in the form of a kiss exchanged between the characters played by Jack Powell and David Armstrong. It often gets attributed as the first gay kiss in cinema history. In fact it is almost always called the first gay kiss in cinema history, even on the fucking YouTube clip I found:

Except it isn't gay. The two men spend the whole film fighting over who gets to be Clara Bow's boyfriend. When Richard Arlen's character is fatally wounded, his dear friend rushes to his side and kisses him goodbye, because in the 1920s, that was considered the ultimate show of friendship. The movie ends with Jack Powell falling in love with Clara Bow.

Similarly, a kiss shared between Lillian and Dorothy Gish in the 1921 movie Orphans of the Storm often gets attributed as being queer, but it wasn't.

They were sisters playing sisters. None of this was considered unusual.

Pooh-poohing on all of these images that so many people on the internet breathlessly and joyously laud as proud gay history isn't fun. It makes me feel like I'm fucking Ben Shapiro. But if misinformation is allowed to flourish, it allows people like Ben Shapiro to come in and make the argument that queerness is a modern invention and queer people didn't exist in the past.

Everyone loves to see queerness represented in history, but the fact is that none of the stuff in this post would have been seen as explicitly gay and thus shouldn't be called gay today. If we are to understand queer history in its fullness and richness, it is absolutely crucial that we get it right. We owe it to our queer ancestors to recognize, honor, and not embellish the actual lives they lived.

also a lot of photos of actual queer couples are far less affectionate-looking:

Charlotte Cushman (seated) and Matilda Hays, probably 1850s

Oscar Wilde (standing) and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglass, late 19th century

Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge (not sure which is which), 1920s

Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, early 19th century- there would be literally no way to even SPECULATE that these cutouts depicted a lesbian couple if you didn't know. But they were effectively married. There's a whole book about it.

This could be because they had more to hide than straight people being photographed in affectionate poses, if they were public enough figures for their identities to still be known today? I'm not sure. But it's a common theme

I would also beg people to remember that crossdressing photos were a popular novelty theme in the late 19th/early 20th century. and that, in particular, women were known to play male roles onstage regardless of sexuality:

This specific photo gets passed around a lot as an "Edwardian lesbian couple." It's actresses Lily Elsie (standing) and Adrienne Augarde in a 1907 publicity still for the play "The New Aladdin." As far as I've been able to discover, neither woman is presently known to have been queer.

Unfortunately, without knowing the identities of the subjects or seeing a clear pride/gay bar/gay erotica/etc. context, it truly is impossible to tell if a photo depicts a gay couple.

Medieval ceremonial saddle decorated with motifs of elegant couples and Saint George standing over the defeated dragon, Bohemian, ca. 1400-1420

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

yoshitaka amano, 1993

Eartheater and Yves Tumor for Anonymous Club

Everyone wanted to be thicc but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wanted the dad bod but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat. Everyone wants to be a bear but not like, an actual fat bear. You get what i’m saying

Everyone wants the mistique of fatness or use the language of fatness to denote hotness without actually being fat or acknowledging that fat people or fatness can just be hot.

This is just to say

Willem de Kooning, used pink, And really well, also yellow, and which, you knew probably, however, I ponder, it often, I don't know, he painted, it so lovely

seven years ago in the name of tolerating free speech from all political perspectives my nasty ass evil university let an army of tiki torch wielding nazis shouting jews will not replace us march through grounds threatening the lives of students and community members with zero police presence. and today they retroactively changed campus policy around tents so they could send in the cops to bust up the gaza memorial vigil. genuinely fucking stomach turning

state troopers just showed up in full riot gear prepared to brutalize people for violating a university policy the university changed an hour ago specifically so they could arrest them. i am sick.

tear gas and mass arrests happening against student protestors and onlookers in charlottesville rn. not one iota of this force was used against the nazis and klansmen in 2017. situation still escalating. insane. if you’re so inclined brbf is seeking support⬇️

— Brian Eno

A couple weeks ago my roommates and I ended up (via some poor coordination) getting a large amount of groceries. I jokingly declared it a feast week and we ate to our merry contentment. And yet since then I feel things have changed… the countertops are bustling with fruits, endless supplies of fruit, the shelves full of many loaves of bread, the fridge has two whole containers of yogurt, and it feels like just about every night there’s some new pastry and meats. … I fear the logic of the feast suffuses this apartment now in a way that has become inextricable, essential, a kind of habitus. I am not sure what developments will follow.

Everyone’s reblogging this to celebrate, but you all don’t understand the terrible logic unfolding here. At the time I joked that the problem is, if we’re able to declare a feast week then we’re also able to declare a famine week… and then it happens. You get a week where everybody’s busy, nobody goes grocery shopping… everyone’s just scraping by with a slice of bread or a bowl of cereal here or there. You eat out now and then, you go over to some friends houses, you forget about it… Then you realize it, the famine has set in, there’s not even oats anymore. You’re digging into parts of the fridge you’ve never even seen before trying to find something edible…. The precarity of this world… Enjoy your feasting while you may.

In the 1950’s drug stores not only filled your prescription, but there was usually a food counter, ice cream and coffee. My Great Uncle Angelo worked as a soda clerk in the New York suburbs where a man named Bill would come in and flirt with him.

At a time when being gay could cause you to be arrested, Bill and Angelo, fell in love and began their lives together by renting a home in Fire Island where they could escape on weekends.

They soon built a home and life together as part of a migration of gay men from NYC that was beginning to happen. It was a quieter time, decades before Stonewall or the heyday of the "gay 70's".

As time passed, they helped to build a growing gay community there, where men were free to be, share, and discuss life. They would reminisce about the days when sharply dressed gay men went to the Bon Soir to hear a 20-something Barbra Streisand.

My great Uncles Angelo and Bill were never legally married. Bill died of cancer before he could see gay marriage legalized. But they lived together their whole lives, spending winters in Manhattan, and summers in Fire Island.

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