On this year women's day, all we could think about are Palestinian women in Gaza.
Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.
“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.
Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.
Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.
Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.
According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.
There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.
There have also been repeated cases of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian women by posting videos and pictures of themselves rummaging through personal belongings in Gaza homes, making derogatory comments and posing with women’s underwear.
Every time I read the news trump has broken yet another law, tried to murder a baby, did something horrifically stupid and unemotionally funny, or talked about doing something that’ll bring harm to everyone for literally no reason
Somebody sedate me for four years, please
what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the actual fuck
you guys ever go seem a movie on a whim and it just fucks you up in the craziest way possible with no warning
- Nikita Gill
1.
Fly into the sun, defy anyone who tells you that you cannot love Him.
The ocean will break your fall. even if it is by drowning you.
(You knew he would burn you, Icarus you simply thought he was worth the risk)
2.
Get stolen by a God away from the meadows you once knew, wood nymph.
Become Queen of the Underworld. Turn the land of the dead into home.
(You knew didn’t you, Kore? How to survive you would become Persephone?)
3.
Turn yourself into an echo of the person you used to be, then fall in love with him.
And when he doesn’t notice you Instead falls in love with himself, pine away.
(Narcissus could never love you, dear Echo. Not the way he loved himself.)
4.
Become an indestructible monster. Become the thing that warriors speak of in hushed breaths in terror.
When you finally do die at someone’s hands make sure it is glorious.
(Theseus was the only end worthy of you, Minotaur.)
5.
When the Sea God assaults you, turn people into stone. Turn Gods into stone.
Turn anything that threatens you ever again into stone.
(Medusa, Athena turned you monster to protect you. She took your beauty to give you power.)
6.
Adore her so much that the world grieves with your broken heart’s song.
Almost save her from the Underworld. Almost.
(Orpheus, all you had to do was not turn to look at her.)
7.
Marry a God King.
Watch him betray you over and over again. Become bitter and cruel.
Recognise he will never respect you. Promise to make him suffer till he does.
(Hera, I know why you couldn’t leave him, it was all for love, it was all for love)
8.
Become an undefeated warrior in a war where you lose everything you love.
Even the one you love most of all. Don’t realise it. Keep fighting.
(Achilles, Patroclus’ love would have made you immortal anyway.)
9.
Be unhappy in your marriage. Find a dangerous Prince who promises you a real love.
Run away with him
Do not think of the consequences.
(Helen, you didn’t just launch a thousand ships you set kingdoms ablaze.)
10.
Destroy everyone you love in a murderous rage.
Go on a journey hoping it will kill you
(Hercules tell the truth, you hoped those tasks would be your destruction didn’t you?)
Addendum:
Don’t become a myth. Stay human.
Stay mortal.
It is less wounds.
I promise. It is less wounds.
I’m going to get high and write lesbian hate sex with so much imagery and symbolism while at the beach, try and stop me
personally i’m a fan of when a story is like. the love was there. unfortunately. this all could have actually gone a lot easier for everyone if the love hadn’t been there but here we are
KILL ME IF IT'S WORTH IT; ON FLESH.
silas denver melvin // ethel cain // george bataille // blythe baird // margaret atwood // nicole homer // emily palermo.
I have about 12 unfinished fics because of this (I’m trying to finish them I swear, i swearrrrr)
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
I hit my fucking nose ring again, after it had almost completely healed from being hit in August, I’m gonna fucking die
Every so often I think about how screwed up the mental health care system is because it took me so long to find a therapist that I stopped being suicidal because I therapized myself (I talked to myself in my own head until it worked) months before I got an actual meeting.
Sapphic_terror on ao3 queer and nonbinary (any pronouns)Yall I may be losing it a little but at least I’m writing a lot of fan fiction (that’s a slight lie but I’m trying I swear)
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