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Almost all of my feed today has been of dead Palestinian children; mothers hunched over the bodies of their children, families wailing, fathers holding their dead infants singing lullabies to them. It’s horrific.
The UN reports that almost 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.
The same report states that children aged 5-9 account for most verified deaths in Gaza.
Investigations show that 335 bullets were fired by Israeli forces at a family car where 6 year old Hind Rajab was trapped and killed.
Doctors and nurses testified to the overwhelming number of children who were killed by sustaining gunshot wounds in the head or neck by Israeli snipers.
NICUs have been a specific target of strikes and destruction, to the point where today there are only 54 incubators remaining across all of Gaza.
Israel is waging a “war” against a besieged population, of which nearly 50% are children, and yet they try to convince everyone that this is anything but a war on children? This is a genocide in every sense of the word, where the past, present and future are being actively annihilated.
Reblogging this to add the findings of a study on the extent of the psychological harm of Israel’s genocide on Gaza’s children, which found 96% of the children surveyed feel their death is imminent, while 49% have expressed a desire to die.
This is a devastating war on children and its implications are going to last for generations to come. We shall not rest until every war criminal responsible faces consequences. And that’s the very least we can do.
how do you choose who to donate to? it always feels like such an awful choice, everyone needs it so badly but i can only give to a few people at a time with what i have. how does anyone choose who to help, or how much to give each person?
I would like to try a “what language family is your first language in” poll but wrangling english speakers who don’t know english is germanic would be too much of a hassle I think
what language family is your first language in? (people with multiple first languages pick your favorite one I guess)
*NOTE: in this case, phobia refers to a very strong irrational fear, not being a little scared of something. if you can handle snakes but they make you nervous, that’s not a phobia.
huge thank you to people reblogging and talking about their phobias in the tags. it’s genuinely super nice to hear that im not alone in this and im not super irrational for being scared of things. <3
I’m gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don’t even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!
Former president of the Navajo Nation, Joe Shirley, giving an address in Navajo.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer telling a story, “Raven and Deer”, in Tlingit.
Albert White Hat, a well known Lakota teacher, translator, and activist, speaking Lakota.
This YouTube user, Grahm Wiley-Camacho, has uploaded a bunch of videos in Colville Okanagan Salish, but I’m not sure who all the speakers are.
Multiple people speaking Cherokee and talking about revitalization of the language.
This guy speaking Yucatec Maya (guest starring: adorable small child).
There’s a ton of material in Greenlandic on YouTube, but it’s hard for me to find, because the titles and other metadata are also in Greenlandic! Of course, this represents a huge win for the language, since this is a biproduct of being in vibrant use by a community of speakers. Greenlandic has been an official language of the territory of Greenland since 1979, and the sole official language since 2009.
Here are some proceedings of the Greenlandic parliament, the Inatsisartut, which are conducted in Greenlandic.
Here is a radio show in Greenlandic, from Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa.
And here is a video of Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, Greenlandic MP in the Danish parliament (Folketing), causing some upset by speaking in Greenlandic instead of Danish.
Conversation between Loran Thompson and Francis Boots in Mohawk.
Interview with Yup'ik elder Raphael Jimmy about qaneryaraq “words of wisdom/right living”.
