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rather than legalized i think the better word is "uncriminalized" with the sort of support that any workers have. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights was a good read that helped me gain more understanding

fellow border abolitionist! i recommend people to read Borders by Thomas King. Borders are not real. It's past time for land back

it's so upsetting to me that so many people don't realize how bad things are (even with all the proof in the world) UNTIL they are directly affected. so upsetting

if you are interested in books for the mostly ignorant may I recommend instead: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide by Ben White

Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappé

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi

For more on israel's crimes: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Shourideh C. Molavi

Gaza Unsilenced edited by Laila El-Haddad and Refaat Alareer

you may have heard of Refaat Alareer, a prominent Palestinian writer and poet who was assassinated (very much the same way Ghassan Kanafani was) in December 2023. There is a collection of his poems and writings released in memory of him in 2024 called If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose that is also worth a read. There are also way more books, fiction or nonfiction, by Palestinian authors that are very much worthwhile once one gets a better understanding of the history of settler colonialism.

GOOD FOR THEM. I AM SO PROUD OF THEM

Perfect Victims And The Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

I have not read this book myself but it is pretty funny the kind of books that are allowed to be published in China. Books on censorship, dictatorship... I literally saw 1984 being advertised with the line "one more person reading 1984 means one more person who's free" like who are you lying to 😭 in CHINA?!

Absolutely nothing that criticize the current leadership or reveal things they want to keep under the wrap though like the cultural genocide of the Uyghurs.

I relate to this

THANK YOU for mentioning startpage! I have not heard of them but I haven't liked using DDG very much so I've begrudgingly using google in private mode (and then I always forget to switch back and forth)

How to be an antiracist, The Palestine Laboratory, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (a translated version instead of the original text and I question my decision every day) and The Dos and Donuts of Love.

And yes I'm a huge mood reader

For bopomofo LIME IME seems promising. On its website it says it supports pinyin but I couldn't get it to work for me :(