Ward
@roseward.bsky.social
she/her. Muslim Trans Palestinian, trying to support myself and people in learning to live in truth. Previously at Kawaakibi Foundation. Picture made with https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/644129
Writing at https://thetalkening.substack.com
Writing at https://thetalkening.substack.com
Finland is abandoning a treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines.
Estonia abandoned it recently too, and a few other nations, citing developing security concerns. I felt like that was a load of bullshit, so I decided to do a little reading:
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Estonia abandoned it recently too, and a few other nations, citing developing security concerns. I felt like that was a load of bullshit, so I decided to do a little reading:
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Do anti-personnel mines still have military utility in modern warfare? - Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog
Five States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention have recently submitted instruments of withdrawal, citing national security and military necessity, while at least one other has taken ste...
blogs.icrc.org
January 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Finland is abandoning a treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines.
Estonia abandoned it recently too, and a few other nations, citing developing security concerns. I felt like that was a load of bullshit, so I decided to do a little reading:
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Estonia abandoned it recently too, and a few other nations, citing developing security concerns. I felt like that was a load of bullshit, so I decided to do a little reading:
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Ya Allah!!
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Ya Allah!!
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READ: With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer with the Sameer Project tells Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
Gazans are taking matters into their own hands by launching community reconstruction efforts
With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an…
mondoweiss.net
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
READ: With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer with the Sameer Project tells Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
Why are you polyamorous?
Wrong answers only:
To be able to book half a row on flights or a whole row on trains
Wrong answers only:
To be able to book half a row on flights or a whole row on trains
Why are you polyamorous?
Wrong answers only:
To form the Megazord.
Wrong answers only:
To form the Megazord.
Why are you polyamorous?
Wrong answers only:
I always wanted to have a high ranking position in a death cult
Wrong answers only:
I always wanted to have a high ranking position in a death cult
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why are you polyamorous?
Wrong answers only:
To be able to book half a row on flights or a whole row on trains
Wrong answers only:
To be able to book half a row on flights or a whole row on trains
I have been dissociating to dangerous levels for the past two years following October 7. It has made it hard to express, write, communicate. Even doing basic tasks is a drain. I can only begin to imagine the scale of mental damage inside Gaza and Palestine. I have only watched what they live.
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I have been dissociating to dangerous levels for the past two years following October 7. It has made it hard to express, write, communicate. Even doing basic tasks is a drain. I can only begin to imagine the scale of mental damage inside Gaza and Palestine. I have only watched what they live.
Love as Politics
Politics should not be cold and cruel.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I deactivated Twitter, finally
December 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I deactivated Twitter, finally
I have turned so many things like food or YouTube into crutches ever since October 7... Constsntly cycling between running from the pain and facing it. The kind of choices one has to make when dealing with transphobia, dysphoria, and sheer trauma at the same time are not fun.
May 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I have turned so many things like food or YouTube into crutches ever since October 7... Constsntly cycling between running from the pain and facing it. The kind of choices one has to make when dealing with transphobia, dysphoria, and sheer trauma at the same time are not fun.
Wie kann man nach 1,5 Jahren Genozid einfach aufstehen und weiter leben, ohne unzählige Trauma-Schaden zu bekämpfen?
April 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wie kann man nach 1,5 Jahren Genozid einfach aufstehen und weiter leben, ohne unzählige Trauma-Schaden zu bekämpfen?
I fear expressing anything about Palestine. How can I do justice to it? How can I do justice to the people? I never saw the land, barely know the people. Besides what I inherit of culture or food, etc., all that I experience organically... is suffering.
April 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I fear expressing anything about Palestine. How can I do justice to it? How can I do justice to the people? I never saw the land, barely know the people. Besides what I inherit of culture or food, etc., all that I experience organically... is suffering.
The more I deal with Muslims in Jordan the more I realise how much patriarchy is steeped into our minds through weakly construed fiqh and badly conceptualised/non-existent understandings of how a society functions.
December 21, 2024 at 12:09 AM
The more I deal with Muslims in Jordan the more I realise how much patriarchy is steeped into our minds through weakly construed fiqh and badly conceptualised/non-existent understandings of how a society functions.
Wallah if I could exist free, in a free MENA, be irrevocably Muslim, and undeniably a trans woman, I would never think of leaving.
Yet it is the Palestinian legacy and the current reality of this region that we have to make stability out of nothing and carve out of stone the right to exist.
Yet it is the Palestinian legacy and the current reality of this region that we have to make stability out of nothing and carve out of stone the right to exist.
December 12, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Wallah if I could exist free, in a free MENA, be irrevocably Muslim, and undeniably a trans woman, I would never think of leaving.
Yet it is the Palestinian legacy and the current reality of this region that we have to make stability out of nothing and carve out of stone the right to exist.
Yet it is the Palestinian legacy and the current reality of this region that we have to make stability out of nothing and carve out of stone the right to exist.
Existing in the MENA has become untenable even to those who used to benefit from the extant social contracts. Repression has never felt more in the air. As someone who has to hide who I am 24/7, it's more noticable to me, but even an "average" person feels it more than ever.
December 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Existing in the MENA has become untenable even to those who used to benefit from the extant social contracts. Repression has never felt more in the air. As someone who has to hide who I am 24/7, it's more noticable to me, but even an "average" person feels it more than ever.
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If Palestine is just a nationalist cause, purely, and doesn't represent those values people claim - then go ahead and bemoan the Assad regime and its patrons in Tehran.
It's really one or the other.
It's really one or the other.
December 12, 2024 at 6:23 PM
If Palestine is just a nationalist cause, purely, and doesn't represent those values people claim - then go ahead and bemoan the Assad regime and its patrons in Tehran.
It's really one or the other.
It's really one or the other.
Hear, hear
Justice heals.
December 8, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Hear, hear
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This is from the Alawite-majority city of Tartous - supposedly the regime's heartland.
F**k all the Syria "experts" who said Syrians supported the regime. They lied to you for years. This regime was despised by the vast majority who suffered its tyranny.
F**k all the Syria "experts" who said Syrians supported the regime. They lied to you for years. This regime was despised by the vast majority who suffered its tyranny.
December 8, 2024 at 10:18 AM
This is from the Alawite-majority city of Tartous - supposedly the regime's heartland.
F**k all the Syria "experts" who said Syrians supported the regime. They lied to you for years. This regime was despised by the vast majority who suffered its tyranny.
F**k all the Syria "experts" who said Syrians supported the regime. They lied to you for years. This regime was despised by the vast majority who suffered its tyranny.
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ISIS had no chance of growing in Syria were it not for the destruction and widespread suffering caused by Assad. He was bombing rebels who were fighting ISIS at the same time as ISIS was on a rampage against Syrians.
December 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
ISIS had no chance of growing in Syria were it not for the destruction and widespread suffering caused by Assad. He was bombing rebels who were fighting ISIS at the same time as ISIS was on a rampage against Syrians.
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The worst actors benefited from Assad. The Arab absolute monarchies were normalising or already did. Iran was backing him. Erdogan was normalising. Israel had its most peaceful ‘border’ as Assad was not a threat to them.
December 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM
The worst actors benefited from Assad. The Arab absolute monarchies were normalising or already did. Iran was backing him. Erdogan was normalising. Israel had its most peaceful ‘border’ as Assad was not a threat to them.
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Just as you cannot understand the growth of Hamas without understanding the Israeli occupation you cannot understand why secular Syrians were cheering on the HTS offensive against the Assad regime. You don’t have to ‘like’ any of the actors to understand why they exist.
Again, please grow up.
Again, please grow up.
December 8, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Just as you cannot understand the growth of Hamas without understanding the Israeli occupation you cannot understand why secular Syrians were cheering on the HTS offensive against the Assad regime. You don’t have to ‘like’ any of the actors to understand why they exist.
Again, please grow up.
Again, please grow up.
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You can even look at Jolani. That’s not his name. His name is Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a. Jolani is his nom de guerre.
What does Jolani mean? It means ‘from the Golan Heights’. Jolan is how we pronounce it in Arabic. Why would he pick such a name? His family is from the Jolan.
What does Jolani mean? It means ‘from the Golan Heights’. Jolan is how we pronounce it in Arabic. Why would he pick such a name? His family is from the Jolan.
December 8, 2024 at 9:25 AM
You can even look at Jolani. That’s not his name. His name is Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a. Jolani is his nom de guerre.
What does Jolani mean? It means ‘from the Golan Heights’. Jolan is how we pronounce it in Arabic. Why would he pick such a name? His family is from the Jolan.
What does Jolani mean? It means ‘from the Golan Heights’. Jolan is how we pronounce it in Arabic. Why would he pick such a name? His family is from the Jolan.
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To look at what Israel is doing and manage to blame Syrians for wanting to be free is wild. Blame your own governments for backing that genocidal state and covering for it. Syrians have had no say in anything Syria-related since 1970. That was the whole fucking problem.
December 8, 2024 at 9:22 AM
To look at what Israel is doing and manage to blame Syrians for wanting to be free is wild. Blame your own governments for backing that genocidal state and covering for it. Syrians have had no say in anything Syria-related since 1970. That was the whole fucking problem.
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And it is insulting to ask ‘what about Palestine?’ as if Bashar wasn’t the one to destroy Yarmouk or torture ppl for the CIA post-9/11 or Hafez wasn’t the one to invade Lebanon in 1976 to crush the Palestinians and Lebanese or the one to give up the Golan Heights in 1980
Grow up
Grow up
December 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
And it is insulting to ask ‘what about Palestine?’ as if Bashar wasn’t the one to destroy Yarmouk or torture ppl for the CIA post-9/11 or Hafez wasn’t the one to invade Lebanon in 1976 to crush the Palestinians and Lebanese or the one to give up the Golan Heights in 1980
Grow up
Grow up
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Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.
December 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.
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ما أجملهم.
عقبالك يا فلسطين، وعقبالك يا السودان.
عقبالك يا فلسطين، وعقبالك يا السودان.
And so comrades, I ask that you forgive us for seizing this moment to express joy in our plight and its revival. We know that the world has abandoned you, you too deserve justice, and we will stand with you until you achieve it.
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December 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
ما أجملهم.
عقبالك يا فلسطين، وعقبالك يا السودان.
عقبالك يا فلسطين، وعقبالك يا السودان.
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In these monumental moments, as Syrians in Syria and across the world celebrate the end to 54 years of tyranny, I can't help but think of the Palestinian people, the children of Gaza, who have endured unimaginable horrors, horrors that we as Syrians know all too well.
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December 8, 2024 at 4:10 AM
In these monumental moments, as Syrians in Syria and across the world celebrate the end to 54 years of tyranny, I can't help but think of the Palestinian people, the children of Gaza, who have endured unimaginable horrors, horrors that we as Syrians know all too well.
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