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Vi ved, hvordan døden ser ud i Gaza. Hvad med livet?

I Gaza sameksisterer: “Krigen har taget alt, hvad der er menneskeligt ved at leve. Jeg plejede at have smukke drømme: om fremtiden, sjove drømme. Det eneste, jeg drømmer om nu, er død” med: “Vi elsker livet [...] Vi skaber liv.” og andet umenneskeligt menneskeligt.

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"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in a preview of LARB Quarterly. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-rest-is-history/

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal."

"Samtidig rammer de lave ydelser børnenes trivsel og fremtidsmuligheder hårdt [...] Den økonomiske ulighed fra barndommen fører til et samlet samfundsøkonomisk tab, som langt overstiger de kortsigtede besparelser, staten opnår ved at sænke ydelserne."

Nordea bruger Putin som argument i gigantisk klima-kovending Nordens største bank, Nordea, melder sig nu klar til at finansiere oliejagt i sårbare havområder i Arktis. “Det mest ansvarlige at gøre”, lyder forklaringen fra

Klimakovending fra Nordea: Danmarks største bank melder sig nu klar til at finansiere oliejagt i sårbare havområder i Arktis:

"dozens of instances of institutionalized abuses of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, including but not limited to systematic and widespread acts of severe and arbitrary violence, sexual assault, humiliation and degradation, deliberate starvation, forced unhygienic conditions, sleep deprivation"

“I think we're beyond words… What the medical teams are now reporting is that especially... the wounded children are not healing after surgery, because their bodies are incapable of healing.” Conflict Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah spoke with DAWN about what he’s heard from colleagues in Gaza.

For ti år siden blev jeg i MS-regi introduceret for vores store idol Marshall Ganz, som stadig er vis og relevant.

Eksperter: Forholdene på Udrejsecenter Ellebæk minder om tvangsarbejde Frihedsberøvede udlændinge arbejder for en løn ned til seks kroner i timen, så de kan ringe til deres familier. Eksperter sætter spørgsmålstegn ved arbejdets frivillighed. Kriminalforsorgen afviser…

Frihedsberøvede udlændinge arbejder for en løn ned til seks kroner i timen, så de kan ringe til deres familier. Eksperter sætter spørgsmålstegn ved arbejdets frivillighed. Kriminalforsorgen afviser kritikken, men vil justere flere forhold.

Den israelske regering har annonceret, at den vil etablere 22 nye bosættelser på Vestbredden. Det dækker over en legalisering af ni allerede eksisterende såkaldte udposter samt opførelsen af 13 nye bosættelser, som ifølge international ret er ulovlige.

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents.

Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

"Pope Transis" 💀

Kampen for LGBT+-rettigheder skal aldrig tages for givet. De skal beskyttes konstant, fordi som man ser i Storbritannien, kan de nemt fjernes igen.

"Hadet mod muslimske befolkningsgrupper er vokset i en sådan grad, at vi har love, der sirligt og helt ublu er udformet til at ramme netop disse borgere i Danmark. Overalt i Europa er partier og politikere vundet frem ved at dyrke fremmedhadet rettet mod muslimer og indvandrere."

Obduktionen viser, at Ahmad døde af sult, dehydrering og infektioner som følge af alvorlig underernæring og derudover havde utallige tegn på vold, inklusiv fysiske traumer på indre organer. Som 17-årig er han altså i månedsvis blev udsultet og udsat for gentagende vold, til det kostede ham livet.

Virkelig fin, grundig - og yderst aktuel i tidens politiske landskab - gennemgang af misvisende mediedækning, komplet mangelfuld faktatjek og skævvreden kontektualisering af "anti-woke"-bevægelsen.

Foruden at have kæmpet for sin egen og sin families overlevelse, har Abdalrahman det sidste år udleveret livreddende vand, mad, modersmælkserstatning, hygiejneprodukter og små ‘Eid-kager til børn til tusindvis af mennesker i det (af Israels bevidst) afskårne og nødlidende nordlige Gaza.

Donate to HELP ME & MY FAMILY REBUILD OUR LIVES IN GAZA - Abdulrahman, organized by Jenny Hart Hello, my name is Jenny Hart, I live in California and I'm orga… Jenny Hart needs your support for HELP ME & MY FAMILY REBUILD OUR LIVES IN GAZA - Abdulrahman

Mens bombardementer atter er taget uforståeligt umenneskeligt til i Gaza, er der foruden angreb også afskåret vand, el og nødhjælp. Norden er atter blevet afskåret. Abdalrahman er én af de to millioner, der utallige gange er flygtet med sin familie.

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What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025 A Primer for Allies & Comrades

A while ago, I made an IG post to explain some of the material threats to life and wellbeing that trans people are currently facing - just cross-posted to Substack since I heard some folks are finding it useful to share

What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025 open.substack.com/pub/kaicheng...

Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right-the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.

I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.

Bodies of first responders recovered from mass grave in Gaza THE bodies of first responders have been recovered from a mass grave in Gaza as Israel has been accused of bombing them in their emergency vehicles…

Israel systematically targeted and killed first responders and aid workers, then buried them with their ambulances and fire truck.

The mass grave was marked with the emergency light from one of the obliterated vehicles.
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The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Gaza’s stolen childhood: The thousands of children Israel killed A child is killed in Gaza every 45 minutes. That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.

Over 17+ months, Israel has killed:
- 825 babies under the age of 1
- 895 1-year olds who hadn’t taken their first steps
- -3,266 preschoolers
- 4,032 children between the age of 6-10
- 3,646 middle schoolers
- 2,949 children between the age of 15-17

"I interviewed a lot of kids. Some of them told me they just want to die. But they want to die in one piece. They're scared of being... shredded." #GazaCrimes

'We Don't Need Saviors—We Need Solidarity.' The Fight for Women’s Rights in Post-Assad Syria A determined feminist movement is emerging from the shadows to help lead a new era in Syria.

"This is not just about activism. It's about creating real change and making sure women have a seat at the table."

Renee Davis reports, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile, on the Syrian Women's Political Movement, fighting for women's rights and equality in post-Assad Syria:

As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s My best friend blushed easily, loved our Gaza neighbourhood, and hoped to become a nurse to look after sick children.

"Who fired that lethal bullet at Malak? Why did they kill her? Was she a threat to the soldiers while she slept? Did they fear her dreams of returning to Ramla?"

As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️

Men havde du spurgt mig som 15-årig ville det nok være:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dave Eggers
Naja Marie Aidt
Josefine Ottesen
Svend Åge Madsen

Og dermed passe ind i en skræmmende statistik af rent hvide, straight ciskønnede forfattere, primært mænd.

Skulle jeg i dag tænke tilbage på, hvilke fem forfattere, der har gjort mig til den person og læser, jeg er i dag, ville det dog nok være:

Toni Morrison
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Mahmoud Darwish
Virginia Woolf
Ocean Vuong

Mens jeg det sidste årti har læst langt mest af kvinder og gender queer forfattere samt i øvrigt mangfoldigt ift. geografi, kropskapabilitet, etnicitet, seksualitet, religion, kønsidentitet etc., er der ingen tvivl om, at de største læseoplevelser som 10-15-årigt alle var hvide og nok 75 % cismænd.

‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’ | Nadia Abu El-Haj Mahmoud Khalil has been a public face of the pro-Palestine student movement at Columbia University and Barnard College since last spring. I have known him

“Let us be clear: Mahmoud has been abducted and detained for his political speech.” —Nadia Abu El-Haj