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Art by Erin Hanson

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Art by Erin Hanson

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"These faggots kill fascists"

Sticker found in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Pieter Withoos, Sheet of Studies with Five Butterflies, a Wasp, and Two Flies, 1680 - 1692

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James Baldwin.

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The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

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I've seen little about it so, Just an FYI what's been unfolding in England today. Far-right protestors are literally trying to kill asylum seekers in hotels.

In Rotherham, Yorkshire fascists have tried to set a hotel on fire with migrants staying there. Some signalling cut-throat gestures at the people staying in the rooms.

In Tamworth, Staffordshire the very same thing is happening. Another hotel has been set on fire with asylum seekers still inside alongside racist graffiti.

Other similar protests that are going uncountered are happening in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stoke-on-Trent and many more areas, chances are there will be one somewhere by you if things keep going the way they are. Nazis are literally strolling about unchallenged and these people are marching happily with them. There are more sensitive videos online which I won't share here but there are groups of nazis chasing down and circling black people in cities and beating them up, indian and chinese takeaways being targetted, turkish barbers being set alight and there have been incidents of muslims being assaulted and even stabbed.

BUT... There are success stories from UK cities where riots have failed due to no turnout or due to antifascists driving far-right pricks out of the city.

Cardiff, Wales - About 5 fascists turn up compared to 500 conuter-protestors. They failed to get anyone here despite trying two times.

Liverpool, Merseyside - A significant EDL mob is marched out of the city and fought against. Counter-protestors form a ring around a mosque being targetted.

Bristol, City of - antifascists block the entrance to a hotel that nazis are trying to get into as well as a fierce citywide push against the EDL and racism.

Nottingham, East Midlands - A huge antifascist counter protest outnumbers EDL and the far-right, preventing a riot from occuring.

There are many many more of these riots planned. If you're in the UK get organised and be prepared to fight alongside the people who make our communities stong and resiliant and make our country and cities a wonderful vibrant and friendly place to be. Help by whatever means you can. If you are not from the UK then please signal boost this because this needs to stop this nastiness from spreading and to make nazis afraid again.

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We Change the Map by Kerrie Hardie

This new map, unrolled, smoothed, seems innocent as the one we have discarded, impersonal as the clocks in rows along the upper border, showing time-zones.

The colours are pale and clear, the contours crisp, decisive, keeping order. The new names, lettered firmly, lie quite still within the boundaries that the wars spill over.

It is the times.

I have always been one for paths myself. The mole’s view. Paths and small roads and the next bend. Arched trees tunnelling to a coin of light. No overview, no sense of what lies where.

Pinning up maps now, pinning my attention, I cannot hold whole countries in my mind, nor recognise their borders.

These days I want to trace the shape of every townland in this valley; name families; count trees, walls, cattle, gable-ends, smoke-soft and tender in the near blue distance.

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Having your main anxiety response be Avoidance is crazy cause you'll think you're chillin and then one day you're like waitttt I've been paralyzed with fear this whole time. Damn

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Bertolt Brecht, Stories Of Mr Keuner

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I wish growing up I'd heard more about butch/masculine trans women.

I'm talking about something like wanting to be another girl's prince charming, or her knight in shining armor. You wouldn't think twice about hearing that from a cis butch lesbian, but it's not at all the relationship with gender you usually hear about trans women having.

A lot of my exploration of my gender identity was tied to my gender expression. Trying on makeup, "girl clothes," that sort of thing. And that felt good. But what was working about that for me was that it made me feel "more like a girl," and just being a girl was the thing I wanted. I didn't want any of the rest of it. I was always more comfortable bare-faced in a flannel or tank top than I was in makeup and a dress, but I was never comfortable being a man. It just took me years of exploration and time with people who were not only accepting but supportive to get to the point where I could identify that feeling. I want a female body, but I want to dress it in a suit. Sue me.

If you're that little trans girl reading this and it doesn't make sense to you yet, that's okay. I wouldn't have understood it at the time either - I would've said "well if it's not about my body and it's not about my gender expression, then what is my gender?" If you're asking that question, I think some day you'll find the answer.

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going to start researching sheep breeds that are like endangered or need conservation and then seek out their wool to use, preferably buying directly from the herders, so i can support them

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“I find the sea to be both a natural expression of our human world, and a healing balm for it.” By pastel artist Jeanne Rosier Smith.