🍉 Hard to believe it's been over a hundred days of relentless genocide in Gaza. Here’s the latest update from Crips for eSIMS for Gaza, a project in partnership with
@pipagaopoetry
&
@thellpsx
We raised enough to buy 1900 eSims!
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Everybody talks about men and abusers needing therapy but few people acknowledge the frequent and real opportunities for abusers to weaponize therapy language and their therapist against you.
Within Chinese marriages you don’t take on the other person’s last name (patriarchy says that children take the father’s last name), so whenever ww married to Chinese men change their last names I’m like 🙄
We're still rolling and if this week isn't enough to convince you that this is a genocide and Palestinian lands are being stolen, I don't know you
A project in partnership w/
@pipagaopoetry
&
@thellpsx
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why is the headline "people aren't addicted to wearing masks they're traumatized" and not
"people are still wearing masks because there's still a pandemic and masks work lol why am i a headline this should be obvious"
Over the past year, we’ve seen an increase in acts of racism against Asian Canadians. This ignorant, violent, and discriminatory behaviour has no place in Canada - or anywhere in the world. We must continue to stand united against it.
I worry about youth who are encouraged to take on highly arrestable direct actions who don’t have the genuine backing of community around them but that dynamic is also related to climate catastrophe I guess.
what if the headline was "iphone factory workers rise up against exploitative conditions" and "everyday people stand up against draconian state control and police brutality under the guise of zero covid"
*sigh*
i'm han chinese & grew up in mainland china. it's not sinophobic to critique the PRC, which runs a hyper-capitalist, imperialist, Islamophobic regime.
anyone who's able to zoom out knows that the US-China axis of power shit produces two versions of the same fascism.
i'm recovering from a (public) meltdown that has had... :/ social consequences and it's very odd. it really makes me feel like most people don't entirely understand what a meltdown is and how it interacts with PTSD/CPTSD.
if friends are feeling helpless (like i am!) about what's happening in atlanta, you can support the work of:
1. SWAN Vancouver
2. Butterfly in Toronto
3. Red Canary Song
one day white women nurses and the healthcare system will understand that "trauma-informed care" does not mean treat the client like a young child and put the onus on them for accessing additional care but it won't be today :')
i genuinely really enjoy doing the mask mutual aid stuff, but uh, this work is being done because the government doesn't care and because predominantly non-disabled people are not masking up in public indoor spaces.
For
#WorldPoetryDay
I am submitting eSIMs for a Free Palestine. 💕
We spent almost $300K CAD on eSims since December 2023. If you donate even a dollar to us you are contributing to
#ConnectingGaza
.
I feel so needlessly pedantic for bringing this up but this makes me think about what happens when people negotiate different cultural traditions within marriage. Why does the European way take precedent?
this is just to say tomorrow is Disability Day of Mourning. let's remember all the disabled people killed by their caregivers, and also Aaron and others like him who were abandoned and abused by their families.
“This traumatized him deeply, partially because he had to maintain that while grappling with his neurodivergence that interfered with his ability to perform tasks well. He had to learn to mask very young and felt that his childhood was stolen from him.” 💔
i still can't get over how the sky in shanghai was blue for the first time in my life in 2008 because of the olympics, demonstrating the very real power for governments to stop climate crisis effects at any point they wish. . .
Okay so I got permissions to share this:
The psych ward took away a friend’s wheelchair and glasses while they were in holding.
Can you imagine? Some nurses taking away your eyes and legs.
#vanpoli
#bcpoli
We can get 2000+ eSims! 😭🪁
Crips for eSims for Gaza, a collab between
@thellpsx
,
@SFdirewolf
, and myself, helped activate 437 eSIMs and counting in just a month.
QR code should work again but here’s the chuffed as well:
Abbreviating this bell hooks quote on my bedroom wall:
“The widespread assumption that ethical behaviour takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.”
after 5 months, Crips for eSims for Gaza, a collab between
@thellpsx
,
@SFdirewolf
& I, with the support of all of you, have spent $556K CAD on 10,621+ eSims & top ups, & there's less than $10K CAD left!
#ConnectingGaza
help us keeping going here:
“This traumatized him deeply, partially because he had to maintain that while grappling with his neurodivergence that interfered with his ability to perform tasks well. He had to learn to mask very young and felt that his childhood was stolen from him.” 💔
"My friend Aaron was kind, compassionate, and principled, sometimes to the point of being annoying, and he was incredibly reflective and willing to change to meet my needs in our relationship. He was one of my quickest and best friends."
Let it be known that we in the Asian diaspora, who are settlers, who are refugees, who are filled with ancestral rage,
are multigenerational, multilingual,
extremely gay,
and ready to fight for
#WetsuwenStrong
.
I wish B.C. would wait for at least 14 days of no COVID deaths (and even no new cases) before they open up. The economy will never be more important than people’s lives.
Things I want:
- community mentors
- reciprocal friendships that have nothing to do with work
- political education at my own pace
- not worrying about housing & healthcare & income
- meaningful projects & working towards better communities
An N95 mask mandate should have been the standard the moment we realized that COVID is an airborne illness.
Eternally grateful for
@SFdirewolf
’s advocacy and also let’s keep supporting her the way she has asked us to.🧧✍🏼🖊️📝📧
As of today, summer solstice, after 9 months of an amplified genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza has raised half a million USD and has spent over 95% of it, activating over 5000 eSIMs across six months.
#ConnectingGaza
Trying desperately to help
#ConnectingGaza
to replenish their supply of eSims this morning without freaking out my credit card company.
Please boost and if you would like to help us purchase with the funds we raised and are based in Canada, hit me up!
it angers me when north americans on the left engage with chinese politicians just because they're dissing u.s. politicians in this tit for tat way.
all queer content and groups are banned in china now so can we be in solidarity with queer folks in the PRC or no.
Hey everyone, Trudeau is eating at Bagheera (518 Main St.) in Chinatown. Genocide Justin should not get to eat and drink in peace while funding mass bombing of Palestinians.
I had the honour of presenting it at City Council in recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Violence and to acknowledge the devastating impact of femicide and intimate partner violence. 62 women and girls died in Ontario from femicide this year.
fyi i'm non-binary! i never really came out to everyone in my life because there are times when i hold onto older parts of me because i'm afraid of what i would lose when i let them ago. i am also a woman.
The OP erases everyday experiences of poverty in the PRC extensively and is also incredulous to why homelessness is so widespread in NA. This does a disservice to the state of poverty in both places IMO!
after crunching some numbers, i figured out we spend on average $110K every single month. thanks so much for supporting us to keep going.
#ConnectingGaza
The horror continues even with talks of a ceasefire. Help us buy eSims for Gazans so they can communicate and connect with the world
A project in partnership w/
@thellpsx
&
@pipagaopoetry
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It’s frustrating cuz this video is made for white folks & USians/North Americans who are likely ignorant of the nuances of issues within Chinese class structures and erases the realities of disabled poverty, non-Han Chinese poverty, migrant labour struggles, rural poverty, etc.
BTW: Crips for eSims for Gaza raised over $200k to purchase eSIMs for Palestinians
3 people,
@thellpsx
@pipagaopoetry
, and me, unaffiliated w/ any org & w/o any institutional support made this happen thanks to the community
#CripTheVote
i sent more than 700 eSims and 366 top ups of data (close to $65K CAD) myself and am asking anyone* who would like to help spend our funds to join us in light of the ongoing internet blackouts in Gaza: email cripsforesimsforgaza[at]gmail[dot]com 🍓
@SFdirewolf
@thellpsx
Does anyone else want to not work for five years and recover from what has been a brutal two years and decade? I am unable to do that any time soon but like, the idea of having a “successful career” right now seems like the opposite of desirable.
"young people protest state violence and draconian policies that kill people in apartment fire in a region that is committing mass violence against non-Han people"
smack your attacker with a wooden board and donate all the money people send you back to community is basically the energy i want to embody when i'm older ALTHOUGH i will probably keep at least a couple thousand dollars to purchase an electric massage chair.
taking a break this weekend but i have several people helping me purchase still. i'm really glad and relieved 53 of the 340 eSims we sent are now active.
for others wondering: the Holafly 20 days unlimited data is the most used one, and they cost around $86 CAD each.
I mean, I’m personally not super up to date about what’s going on rn and am basing things from firsthand experiences from roughly when I was born to around 2016* and reading up on news. But saying the police will take care of people in the PRC, LOL. 🤡
I've created a google doc to support heritage speakers in Chinese to talk about what's happening on the homelands of the Wet'suwet'en people to folks who mainly speak Chinese in our communities.
DM for the link if you have scientific/linguistic/technical expertise to offer.
I can't believe the Crips for eSims for Gaza project, which started the end of last December, raised over 500k CAD!
This week an IDF airstrike killed 2 children & several others in a refugee camp in Rafah. Don't look away or forget
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am i the only person who thinks it's absurd that people have to apologize to dr. bonnie henry for speaking the truth and criticizing her?
i'm so tired of the politeness of whiteness.
okay so:
it's *not* just organizations, it's also trans people themselves. their personal accounts are being banned, their phones are being deactivated, hormones are being denied.
it angers me when north americans on the left engage with chinese politicians just because they're dissing u.s. politicians in this tit for tat way.
all queer content and groups are banned in china now so can we be in solidarity with queer folks in the PRC or no.
When people make fun of diaspora poetry about dumplings or whatever mundane sources of joy some of us like to cultivate I can’t help but think about how mundane so much racism is.
it's pride! let's please put the funds we'd otherwise put into events for people like Hamza who need to get proper treatment after being bombed and buried under the rubble!
there's no pride without a free palestine!
Please consider sending funds to support Hamza who needs to evacuate Gaza to seek treatment for injuries in Egypt. He's an English lit student and aspiring journalist and author of this article:
latest numbers are 88 eSims active, and 428 sent because we have been busy! 🫶🏼🫒
thanks to my friend bill and co for showing up in a big way this weekend!
i have a therapist who does not let me say what she wants to hear.
i very much had no idea how much i need to work with practitioners who are good at cutting through the "good client" dilemma that a lot of us fall under.
I’ve increased the goal for our fundraiser because that is how great the need is.
We must do everything we can to stop this genocide & this is one way we disabled people are doing so, to keep people in Gaza connected to one another & to us.
@hausofriya
only speaking to the japanese imperialism part but the soft cultural power of japan is one factor and the way diasporic cultural institutions are used to safeguard that power and beyond
Uh, this is after talking to my friend who works in a health-adjacent field:
The healthcare system in BC has basically collapsed…
I’m really hoping none of my friends who have COVID now develop long covid. There won’t be supports in the future, it’s absolutely disgusting.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
LAND DEFENDERS, NOT PROTESTERS.
Breaking: Good morning from People's University of Gaza.
Students at UBC and across campuses in the Lower Mainland have launches an encampment in solidarity with people of Palestine.
saying this with love:
cafes aren't safe to be in without masks on. i want to do it: it's relaxing, it's familiar, it's cozy, and i concentrate better.
but it's not safe. we don't want to get a breakthrough infection, even when we're triple-vaxxed.
There isn’t any reason for a Chinese person to feel superior relative to the US. If anything those who have the class mobility to coming over here have the responsibility to learn about global imperialist history and present and not conflate issues.