QUEER AND DISPLACED IN LEBANON.
Mosaic (@mosaic.mena ) is a queer organization in Lebanon that opened up in 2014 to serve the queer community in the country. While the organization typically focuses on mental health, offering one-on-one therapy or group therapy to disenfranchised or struggling queer people, it has had to change tack recently. Israelās escalation in Lebanon has forced Mosaic to turn itself into an emergency shelter for its queer community whose homes are located in destroyed neighborhoods.
I was invited to visit Mosaicās first displacement shelter, and meet the new residents who are (literally) running from Israelās aggressive onslaught. Mosaic is doing important work and is meeting the moment in Lebanonās crisis.
Thank you to Yasmin Almokhamed Sarkisian for the art that helps keep our sources safe, and Moritz Wiesel for the expert edit. Thanks to Jihad Jneid and Mosaic for supplemental footage. And of course, please donate to Mosaic directly at their GoFundMe which you can find here:
https://gofund.me/8addfeb6d
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Israelās wave of attacks on Lebanon are the deadliest conflict in the country since the 1975ā1990 civil war. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 1,000 people, 118 of them children, and displaced 1 million others. Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah but has consistently struck residential buildings in the south and east of the country, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and, recently, parts of central Beirut as well. ā
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Nowhere seems safe, especially for those whose apartments are in evacuation zones that encompass nearly 600 square miles, according to the United Nations. As of mid-March, as many as 1 in 5 people in Lebanon have been displaced by Israeli military operations. @afeefness walked the streets of Beirut to learn their stories.ā
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Read more from Afeef Nessouli and @thrasherxy at the link in bio.ā
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Inshallah every advocateās voice, inside Gaza and outside of it, collectively breaks the siege and stops this genocide NOW.
Israelās occupation, forced starvation, genocide and eradication of Palestinians has fed off of incredible misinformation and PR, but with every earnest voice we raise, we resist. With a wave of truth telling anything is possible. We need that possibility to turn into Palestinians staying alive and thriving in Palestine.
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REPORTED ON RAPE OF PALESTINIANS A YEAR AGO
I posted this interview we (@glia_intl ) did in Gaza with Nurse Said about how he was sexually assaulted a year ago. Palestinians have been saying theyāve been being raped for a long time. Happy the New York Times decided to write about itā¦although it was relegated to the opinion section, it had a lot of sourcing. #instagram #insta #foryou #journalism
We could listen to @chiosse talk about his childhood in Brooklyn all day. Catch the full episode at the link in my bio.
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