the eras tour in melbourne

Billie Eilish wears an "Artists for Ceasefire" pin on the Oscars red carpet. Photo credit: Alberto Rodriguez / Getty (March 10, 2024)

BILLIE EILISH — at the 2023 MET Gala (May 1, 2023)

🇵🇸 … “I never wanna hear any organization in the world speak of human rights they have all failed everyone including themselves.” …

Moataz Azaiza! … 🇵🇸

@hrexach — IYKYK!!

forever…

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Motaz’s latest story post… I have no words. I’m shaking after seeing it and yet I feel so guilty because whatever I feel is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to what people are going through in Gaza. That horrific, horrific picture of someone crushed to a literal pulp by an israeli tank, with indents from the tracks plastered into their remains… that should be shown to every single politician and person who supports or is complicit in this genocide. You are guilty in this. I hope you never find peace. Free Palestine.

you will not convince me that the current twitter drama over bisan and motaz is anything but an attempt to get people to turn against two people that have been our primary source of information out of gaza since the beginning of the genocide. there is no solid evidence backing up the claims made against them outside of one mistranslated video (as far as i can tell). it's manufactured outrage feeding off the internet's parasociality and...well, it's cancel culture. this is why cancel culture is bad—not because it makes right wingers mad that gen z doesn't like them, but because it's so fucking easy to use it to drive people apart and tear down social movements if they're all chomping at the bit to mass dogpile the most well-known activists in the movement.

honestly, i have had a suspicion nagging at me that the same thing happened with the claudia de la cruz situation, because it was incredibly suspicious how everyone jumped on her bandwagon and then suddenly she was cancelled and no one cared about her and her party anymore. like...the timing was concerning. and i don't know how to feel about it.

but my point is: we need to be careful about claims made against well-known activists in our movements. people are far too quick to toss out the most valuable people to the movement just because of a tweet that sparks a wildfire of rumors and debate; and even stuff that seems like solid evidence + long-winded essays of "proof" aren't infallible. we're in an extremely precarious place in the world right now, and the people who benefit from the system aren't just going to let us have our glorious revolution or whatever you think this is all leading to without major interference. and if you think you know how to spot that kind of interference, you're wrong. if you think you're smarter than it, you're wrong.

be careful. think critically. check your priorities.

I've said this before in tags and I will say it again.

Basic Human Rights is NOT and SHOULD NOT be conditional.

Thank you.

Plestia was forced to evacuate, now Motaz has to evacuate too. I’m grateful for their safety. but these people are being chased out of their home literally, and i think what we should collectively feel is not relieved but angry that they can’t have safety im their own homeland. It’s outrageous. It’s not normal is what i want to say. It shouldn’t be normalized

the fact that none of the night at the museum movies were rated over 50% by critics is a reminder that some ppl don’t know how to have fun. the first two movies were flawless. a night watch guard has to babysit museum displays that come to life, complete w old school villains and endless historical crossovers? incredible concept, incredible execution

Free Palestine till its backwards 🇵🇸