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Jennie Kermode
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Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and DEI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
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As those cold rains begin to fall all over Gaza, Waseem is racing against time to construct a waterproof tent in the ruins of his home. He needs another $500 for materials. Can you help him to protect his family? gofund.me/35fdca7d @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #Gaza 🍉
A Palestinian man is hard at work constructing a timber frame beside a mound of rubble.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Samaa is lucky to have solid walls and a roof to protect her, but the recent loss of her GoFundMe account and funds make her situation precarious. Please help if you can to keep her young family off the streets. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #MutualAid #Gaza 🍉
A double rainbow over the ruins of Gaza City.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This is what is happening to tents on account of the storms. people pile up their few possessions to try to save what they can, but it's difficult to do successfully. once caught up in this it's really hard to get dry and warm again, which creates a risk of hypothermia as well as disease. #Gaza 🍉
An image shows the interior of a flooded tent, with five centimetres depth of brown water across the floor and possessions stacked up at one side, fabric and cardboard barely above the water level.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The winter storms have come to Gaza. Huge numbers of people are still stuck in makeshift tents, often with no waterproofing. If you've ever helped people in Gaza with direct donations, please do so now. Aid still can't reach them and for malnourished children, exposure to this can be deadly. #Gaza 🍉
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Just as things were getting better for Aya and her family, one of the screws in Majd's leg has moved. it's causing him severe pain and he's on antibiotics, but he may need further surgery. Please help. gofund.me/2f942387 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #MutualAid #Gaza 🍉
A Palestinian man standing on sand in an area full of tents, with his three young daughters.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Here's some good news: Nabil is going back to school! After two years away, he's very excited and ready to work hard. It costs $200 a month so please donate if you can. gofund.me/35fdca7d @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help @slimyswampghost.bsky.social #MutualAid #SkyAid 🍉
A young Palestinian boy stands on sandy ground in front of a pile of rubble. He is wearing black clothes and a blue rucksack, and glowing with happiness.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Shout out to everyone who helps Samaa and Baha - they have lost their GoFundMe account and, with it, funds they were depending on. They have a new account at chuffed.org/project/1575... @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @slimyswampghost.bsky.social Please help if you can. #MutualAid #Gaza
A Palestinian woman holding a baby, accompanied by a three-year-old girl in a frilly white dress, standing on sandy ground beside a wall.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Winter rains are due to hit Gaza this week. Last year they sent cold water running across the floors of the tents, and the thin fabric did little to resist them. Please, if you can, help Waseem to get his children somewhere warmer or buy warm clothes. gofund.me/35fdca7d #MutualAid #SkyAid #Gaza 🍉
Two rows of flimsy tents, made from thin fabric, are pitched in sandy ground. A small Palestinian child stands in the space between them. There are windswept palm trees in the distance and plump greyish clouds drifting overhead.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Aya and Majd are thinking back to happier times and feeling more positive as they get close to their funding goal. Every donation now brings them closer to security with the food, medicine and shelter that they need. gofund.me/2f942387 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉
A smiling Palestinian girl in her school clothes, wearing a pink rucksack.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Big thanks to everyone who contributed to help Samaa create this new home for her family. It's simple but much better than being in a tent. All she needs now is a large rechargeable battery so they can have lights on at night. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #Gaza 🍉
A long room with a scrubbed concrete floor and white plastic sheeting lining the walls. There are two large rugs on the floor and three mattresses with cushions, plus a small stand for a coffee pot and, in the foreground, a partially visible chest of drawers.
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Julia is happy about the move to a home with solid walls where she and her baby sister can keep warm this winter, but her parents are exhausted and worried about the cost of daily essentials. Can you help them? gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #MutualAid #SkyAid #Gaza
An extreme close-up of the face of a smiling Palestinian girl.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Today I'm sharing a interview I did with Ellen Rodnianski and Abigail Pniowsky, the director and star of 'American Baby', a film about teen pregnancy in a small town. Abigail is an astonishing new talent but I don't think she grasps that at all. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... 🎬
A pregnant teenage girl, silhouetted against a thinly curtained window.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This video shows how Heba's tent is falling apart. Ten people live in it. They need a replacement along with warm winter clothes and blankets, and one boy needs medicine. Can you donate, or share this? gofund.me/ef391201 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #MutualAid #Gaza 🍉
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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It has been hard for Samaa, Baha and Julia to see their home city in this state, but if you look among the ruins, you'll see several groups of people rebuilding homes and even businesses. Please help this family's efforts if you can. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social 🍉
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Another piece I wanted to share today is my interview with Mickey Reece, who is one of the most talented filmmakers working today, and criminally neglected. Here we discuss his recent thriller 'Every Heavy Thing' and the challenges of breaking with formula. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... 🎬
A white man with a bloodied face kneels on the ground, a woman standing beside him.
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It's getting colder in Gaza at night now, and little Taym and his brothers are shivering and struggling to sleep. Waseem needs just another $200 to upgrade their tent. Can you help? gofund.me/35fdca7d @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help @slimyswampghost.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉
A Palestinian man stands outside a tent holding a small boy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Talia is one of the world's most peaceful babies, totally relaxed about the move to her new home in Gaza City. Her parents still need help, however, to make it safer for her and keep paying for essentials like her milk. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #MutualAid 🍉👶🍼
A Palestinian baby girl dozes in her crib, snuggled up under a floral blanket.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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In the meantime, @bsky.app, how about giving us our flag?
The intersex flag: a purple ring on a yellow background.
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.
A purple circle on a black background, with the words 'Intersex Day of Solidarity' written over it in yellow.
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Post you from a different era. Here's me in the 'seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties and 'zeroes, back when I could walk and do all sort of things.
A two-year-old white child with blond hair in a bowl cut, wearing a red apron and doing something with flour on a kitchen worktop. A young white teenager with short, floppy blond hair, red trousers and scarf and gloves, and black woolen coat and leather ankle boots, laughing and messing about on the edge of a canal. A white woman with shoulder-length red hair and a black Dead Can Dance jersey sitting in the corner of a wood-paneled pub beside a table covered in beers, with a thin white non-binary goth who has long blond hair and is wearing fishnet tights, a black lace skirt, a red and black lack corset with similar gloves, and spidery eyeliner, and is drinking a pint of Guinness. A smiling white non-binary person with hip-length blond hair, a short black velvet jacket, and a long tiered blue satin and black lack skirt, and carrying a red zebra-pattern velvet bag and a dark wooden walking stick. They are standing against a stone wall, with a street sign further up which says 'Doom gate'.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Heba's husband is injured; his brother was killed, so she has eight children to care for. Her tent recently collapsed and is barely holding together. Can you help her afford shelter and food? gofund.me/ef391201 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #MutualAid #SkyAid #Gaza 🍉
A tired-looking Palestinian woman rests her head on her hand.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Baha and Samaa are doing their best to insulate their new home in Gaza City. Donations are helping to make it more liveable. They have a proper toilet for the first time in months gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @slimyswampghost.bsky.social #MutualAid #SkyAid #Gaza 🍉
A Palestinian man perches on a stepladder at one end of a long room, attaching plastic to the walls. The ceiling is bare concrete and there is rubble and dust on the floor.
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Soad is still unable to get online to talk to her supporters, but she and young Omar continue to depend on donations. With the borders still blocked, just getting the food and medicine they need day to day is difficult. tinyurl.com/ycxdtddx @mommunism.bsky.social @gorangligovic.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉
A small Palestinian boy lies on a rug.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Waseem's kids are excited to be back home in the north, but they don't actually have a home to shelter them, and they've had no donations recently. Can you help them to afford a tent and some food? gofund.me/35fdca7d @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @gorangligovic.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉
A Palestinian man stands in front of a large pile of rubble with two young but determined-looking boys. A third boy, too young to understand their situation and grinning with excitement, sits on his shoulders.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Julia is helping with the packing as her family prepares for the trip to their new home in Gaza City. Big thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. Any further help would still be welcome, to cover expenses. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉
A small Palestinian girl diligently helps to carry small items as her family's belongings, including plastic water containers and brightly coloured crates, are stacked up in a sandy area surrounded by trees.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM