i love it when ryoko kui draws the gang in a modern setting but they still have their armour on
like this one specifically. jacket over plate and chainmail armour. sweatpants. hiking boots. i wish people dressed like this for real
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a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.
There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.
People don’t become inured to what they are shown–if that’s the right way to describe what happens–because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The state described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. But if we consider what emotions would be desirable, it seems too simple to elect sympathy. The imaginary proximity to the suffering inflicted on others that is granted by images suggests a link between the faraway sufferers–seen close-up on the television screen–and the privileged viewer that is simply untrue, that is yet one more mystification of our real relations to power. So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To what extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent–if not an inappropriate–response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may–in ways we might prefer not to imagine–be linked to their suffering, as the wealth of some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark.
–Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
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I like how Kabru tends to strategically adjust his attitude depending on the person he's talking to
Teresa Margolles, Vaporization, 2002 — a room filled with disinfected water vapor from cleaning bodies in morgues in Mexico City — part of the exhibition Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, MOMA PS1, Queens
this work plays on ideas of the “invisible dead” a subsection of the “less dead”.
According to Professor Steven Egger, the less dead “are considered less-dead because before their deaths, they virtually ‘never were,’ according to prevailing social attitudes. In other words, they are essentially ignored and devalued by their own communities or members of their neighborhoods and generally not missed when they are gone.“
examples of the less dead include sex workers, addicts, migrant workers, refugees, AIDS patients, the homeless, victims of conflict on foreign soil… in vaporization, viewers are invited to walk among fog created from water that cleansed the lesser dead. their presence fills your nose, your mouth, your ears, dampens your clothes and coats your skin. the separation between you and them ceases to be. horror is in proximity made visible and the broken taboo of intimate touch by the ‘unclean’.
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abandonedshops
stop it youre SCARING him!!
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A fundraiser for Ze and her two elderly parents who need help escaping Sudan. They have been displaced 4 times in the past year, all of their possessions have been stolen, and they no longer can find work to sustain themselves financially. In addition to this, Ze is outspoken across social media about the impacts of the war and the ethnic cleansing occurring in Darfur, and due to her online visibility it has become a direct danger to her life to remain in Sudan any longer.
They have currently collected about 75% of their goal, let’s donate and share so they can leave as quickly as possible!
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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine
this beautiful baby is the son of ibrahim abu raida, the 25 y/o executive director of the al nasser charity in gaza, an organization working to distribute food to the displaced. they have many different ways to donate linked on their instagram (linked above) and also have a personal gfm to help with their own rebuilding efforts that is over 80% of the way to its goal.
good. weve narrowed it down
Thank god they brought back An Amount Of Daylight That Makes You Want To Live. It was getting a bit scary for a minute there.
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T.G.I.F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank guns im friday. Last night.My husband went missing in the darkness but i found him flat on his back in a field. And all around him chunks of dirt were missing from the ground. Shephards pie for dinner
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this one goes out to all you sickos on tumblr at 10 am on a monday
Harbinger
2024, quilted jacquard weaving, cotton batting, thread
illustration-turned-weaving-turned-quilt, inspired by elm bark beetle feeding galleries in fallen elm trees I often see on my hikes. They are responsible for spreading the fungus that causes dutch elm disease. I traced the pattern with my free motion foot to quilt, and the puffiness of the shapes turned almost topographical in the process.
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Scratching your vaginer through your baggy jeans pocket #yes
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Watching some of the supplements to the pink flamingos criterion and this performer in the movie, Elizabeth Coffey was pre-op while filming, and if you’ve seen the movie you know she famously or infamously exposes herself on camera. Fast forward 50 years to a retrospective of John waters in 2022 in a Baltimore art museum, and I guess they’d made their bathrooms gender neutral somewhat recently and also named the bathrooms after John waters. So John invited Elizabeth Coffey who is also still alive and an advocate for trans seniors to come and be the first person to piss in their newly gender neutral bathrooms lol which seems like a very John waters thing to do lol
Here they are at the bathrooms lol