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David Walker’s paper clip collection

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Naomi Nakazato

screenprint on seaweed (laver), 7.5 x 9.5 in.

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A truth window (or truth wall) is an opening in a wall surface, created to reveal the layers or components within the wall. In a strawbale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales. A small section of a wall is left unplastered on the interior, and a frame is used to create a window which shows only straw, which makes up the inside of the wall. Many designs exist for truth windows. Glass may be placed over the window, or an openable wooden panel, or it may be a simple framed opening.

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Somalia. Literacy teaching. 1974.

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Samfya Women Filmmakers filming Hidden Truth

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How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction? 

 I didn’t mean to, but when I submitted pages of “stuff” to a graduate program its utter lack of intelligibility fused with my wordwhoriness and knack for transcribing speech drenched in a regional accent – cast my lot with poetry. I learned to more or less arbitrarily arrange the material into free verse stanzas and affix a title. Very rudimentary. Once I encountered the poetry of Frank Stanford, I at least glimpsed what I was aspiring to–something tender and wild and hard to categorize.

(12 or 20 questions: with C.D. Wright)

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Helena Minginowicz: Heart Shaped Book for Myself (2024)

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sophie calle birthday ceremony

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perfume by samuel richardson, 2024, acrylic, colored pencil, ink, pull chain, & stain on framed canvas, 14.25 × 17.25 inches

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A kilogram of flour in Gaza costs more than 100 shekels, equivalent to $30, and is unavailable. A 25-kilogram bag of flour costs more than $1,200, and with a 50% commission, the price of a bag of flour becomes $2,400.

Your donation helps us provide flour.

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Hey guys! Mahmoud Qassas needs some help urgently for his wife's treatment for lung cancer. She has been transported to Egypt for urgent medical treatment and needs some funds for it. Please don't hesitate to help.

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Passport Office by Susan Williams

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this teen vogue article on necropolitics still relevant

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“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”

— Thomas Merton

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