I cannot believe there are people who genuinely believe that ethnic groups living in deserts walk around half naked to “deal with the heat” and that we actually wear typical bellydancing garb casually…orientalism truly has rotted your brain
Good point and it’s cool to see the beautiful clothing these cultures wear but let’s not forget about the San people of the Kakahari desert:
As June has just started - an unfriendly reminder that there is no community to be had with pinkwashers or tolerance of pinkwashing and you shouldn’t be throwing lgbt Palestinians under the bus to support genocide - happy pride!
i saw someone say on twitter that it doesn’t matter that israel doesn’t have same-sex marriage, because even if it did, it would still be a settler-colonial ethnostate. and while i agree with that on principle i wanted to point out that same-sex marriage can’t be legalized in israel, because we have no civil marriage. family law and the institutions concerned with it was entirely ceded to religious leaders in the status quo agreement before the founding of the state. that’s why israel doesn’t have interfaith marriage either: to marry you have to turn to the religious institutions you’re affiliated with, and the recognized religious institutions require that both parties be of the same religion. all of this is to say, the same institutional structures that uphold ethnic segregation are the reason israel will not have same-sex marriage. changing the theocratic components of israel is impossible as long as it exists in its current (zionist, settler-colonial) form and in fact things may be getting worse than before, seeing as the old secular elite is being replaced by a religious zionist elite
