Naomi Campbell at Vivienne Westwood FW 95

Cucculelli Shaheen

More from the article that I thought was important:

“Just as populations indigenous to the Americas would not be expected to instantly renounce any relationship American lands they aren’t original to, but where they were forcibly relocated via colonial violence such as the Trail of Tears, so too might we develop a necessary grace for Black people who did not choose to live under an anti-Black state here. Rather than demands that Black folks here leave and “go back to Africa” immediately in the name of decolonization—a demand that should sound very familiar—we could collectively work on solutions to the problem of colonization that leave all of us more liberated from whiteness, rather than only some of us.”

fuck it. mina murray in a bicycling outfit.

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It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage, but you'd look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two...

Esther Samuel at The Blonds SS 24 Backstage

hey is it just me or should we be making a huge fucking deal over tumblr staff deleting a video that debunks IOF propaganda

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(and while I'm at it here is the YouTube link to the video also. ive been trying to save/access it in the wayback machine to link that instead for archiving purposes but I'm having difficulties so I'll try and add it later but if anyone else is able to add it sooner it's appreciated)

excellent work by marc

Clarification: Marc Lamont Hill lost his job at CNN in 2018 for simply saying "free Palestine from the river to the sea" at a UN meeting. He has since become a mainstay at Al Jazeera English.

Just typed up a transcript of the video excerpt posted above:

Marc Lamont Hill: The UN said that the humanitarian situation quote, "will only deteriorate exponentially, and that crucial life-saving supplies, including food, fuel and water, must be allowed into Gaza.” So the UN is saying: you must do this. You are saying… you’re not going to do this. Um, how do you…

Danny Avalon, Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister: No, we’re not, we’re not saying that.

Hill: He’s saying, do it immediately.

Avalon: No, no —

Hill: He’s saying, do it immediately.

Avalon: I — I got you. I’ll tell you exactly what we’re saying. We’re saying: we will do everything for the Gazan people. Once and now we demand immediate surrender, unconditional surrender of Hamas. If Hamas people come out with their hands up and clear their weapons, believe me, everything will be restored to Gaza. It is Hamas — in Hamas’ hands.

Hill: OK, now I understand. Thank you for clarifying that, sir. I think we’re actually on the same page here. You’re saying that once Hamas leaves, you’ll grant the Gazan people food, shelter, fuel, electricity, hospitals, schooling. And if they don’t… "if Hamas doesn’t leave, then you’ll continue to starve, and die in hospitals." You are defining, for the international community right now, collective punishment. You’re saying, until Hamas acts differently, the 2 million people in Gaza are going to be treated this way. And once Hamas acts differently, these 2 million people will be treated better. That is exactly what collective punishment is. You’re holding them accountable for the actions of others. That is the textbook definition of collective punishment. Now, you may accept that that’s what you want to do, but this is absolutely in contravention of international law.

Avalon: Well, I’ll tell you exactly — no. Had we pushed people to the wall, but we’re not pushing them to the wall. We want to open a humanitarian corridor so they can leave. But if Hamas, if Hamas —

Hill: So that who can leave? Who can leave? Citizens?

Avalon: …

Hill: You’re saying civilians can leave? But only through the Rafah border, correct?

Avalon: At this point, yes. Because, where else?

Hill: YOUR COUNTRY! They could come into Israel!

Avalon: … I’m telling you, uh, one more thing I want to tell you…

Hill: No no no, I want you to address that point. Don’t just smile, sir. Respectfully. You’re saying…

Avalon: I’m not…

Hill: You’re making a corridor. They can go to Egypt. You’re bombing them. You say you want to save them. But they can’t come in.

Avalon: … I’m … (stumbling) … first of all, I’m not smiling, I am crying in my —

[video clip cuts off]

i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.

how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!

i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it

i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!

another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!

I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!

People whose native language is heavily gendered often apply gendered pronouns to English words that don't have them. For example, my Brazilian sports coach referred to my knee as "she" instead of "it". It's even more interesting when you realise that Old English did have gendered nouns, much like German, and we've essentially lost that entire element of our language.

HAMAS TRIED TO RELEASE HOSTAGES AND ISRAEL REFUSED

[ID1: Al Jazeera screenshot from the 20/21 October liveblog (link). Timestamp is 19:36 GMT 21 October.

Hamas: We tried to release two captives – Israel refused them

Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida says he informed Qatar it was going to release two Israeli captives, but Israeli authorities refused.

“We informed our Qatari brothers yesterday evening that we would be releasing Nourit Yitshaq and Yokhefed Lifshitz for humanitarian reasons and without expecting anything in return. However, the Israeli occupation government refused to accept them,” he said on Telegram.

Al Jazeera contacted the Israeli military and prime minister’s office but did not immediately receive a response.

On Friday, Hamas released two American hostages, Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie Raanan. They were the first captives freed since fighters from the Palestinian group carried out an attack on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking about 200 others back to Gaza.

ID2: tags from an unidentified Tumblr user.

"Israel would rather they 'accidentally' kill their own hostages / because the moment a hostage can come back and speak for themselves / the propaganda Israel has been feeding people about the savagery of the Palestinians falls apart / and you've seen it with previous rescued hostages who testified about being treated humanely / in direct contradiction to Israeli government reports / but if a hostage dies as a result of an Israeli air strike then they can be used as evidence of Palestinian cruelty / 'look how they use innocent Israelis as human shields' / <- prev / this isn't new in the current situation either. 'Israel' has always done this". end IDs.]

i am not afraid to keep on living. etc

me after one bagel sandwich