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Bleeding hearts.

Series of mixed media collages using pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and paper. (ko-fi)

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You Are Not An Island - Vanishing Twin / The Age Of Immunology (2019)

we are side by side, side by side

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Total offense but many people dont respect October 7th as the true militant uprising it is and refuse to learn from it. Palestinians brought a military and technological superpower that is backed by the US imperial government to heel with a lot less manpower. It was obvious that it took years to plan. I blame this all on the humanitarian lens in which people have been looking through at Gaza. Direct action is one thing but militant action is another

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a tribute to the classic evil lesbian and all her psycho bloodthirsty obsessive perverted sisters. i love and miss you ❤️

(films in order of appearance)

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I first scanned this image from the Revolutionary Girl Utena Chiho Saito Illustration Collection in July of…2001. It took three scans, as the page is huge, and each scan took over an hour. (Yes I butchered the book for this.) My computer hung up for 20 minutes when I’d open them in Photoshop. The output of hours of computer processing time and image stitching (a thing Photoshop couldn’t automate back then) was a 1350px wide, 96 dpi image. This was truly comical in size at the time.

In 20 minutes I just produced a 7500px, 1200dpi scan of the same image. Get the full size here, in the Gallery. (It’s like 15mb LMAO.) While the print moire is unavoidable at this size, I left it mostly intact to also preserve the loving artistry with which Chiho Saito renders such a completely gay as all hell image. 

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My friend Fadel ( @fadel-dani ) relies on asking strangers for money in order to survive. It is an extremely vulnerable and precarious position for anyone to be in, even in otherwise stable conditions. But he does not have the privilege of living within otherwise stable conditions.

He is a young man with a chronic illness for which he cannot afford the medication.

He survived Israel bombing his family's house, leaving him homeless and severely injured.

Shrapnel is still deep in the tissue of his body, causing chronic pain, because the medical infrastructure in Gaza is decimated and he must travel outside the country to receive surgery as soon as possible.

The availability of food has dropped and the price of food has raised dramatically as the people of Gaza endure a genocidal famine.

During all of this, Fadel has spent his very limited energy building relationships with strangers in the hopes that enough of us can help him to raise the money he needs to get to a hospital for surgery and treatment. He got his campaign vetted by @gazavetters list (#197), @90-ghost, and @a-shade-of-blue to make sure that people would trust him.

He raised nearly 50% of his goal, only for GoFundMe to cruelly delete his fundraiser with no warning or explanation (something this company has done to many Palestinians trying to survive genocide) and he was forced to start over with a new campaign. Despite GoFundMe's deletion of his first campaign automatically returning all donations to the donors, most people who previously donated have not taken the time to send that money back to him.

Today as I write this (May 25, 2025) he has only raised 23% of his goal, just under half of where he had been a month ago when his previous campaign was deleted.

Please, please send some money to Fadel. Every campaign by someone surviving genocide is urgent, everyone is trying to escape to safety and avoid bombing. Fadel has been bombed already and desperately needs medical care for his injuries. He is a generous, compassionate young man, and I have no doubt in my mind that were positions reversed and you were in his place, he would help you to survive. Please offer him the same compassion.

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Current news about Gaza: An expected 60-day ceasefire.

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Rico Nasty photographed by Jesse Draxler for DIY Magazine (2021)

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By unexpected reader I mean someone who was not remotely imagined—maybe not even imaginable—by the creator of that artwork or anyone in its scope; someone who was not included as the “people” of a certain book or certain author, in Handke’s phrasing. [...] When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, that they’re really saying is: I have always been the expected reader. A reader like this is used to the practice of reading being one that may performatively challenge them, much the way a safari guides a tourist through the “wilderness”—but ultimately always prioritizes their comfort an understanding. [...] Committing to being an unexpected reader means committing to the knowledge that what bonds us together is neither the sham empathy that comes from predigested ethnographic sound bites passing as art in late capitalism, nor the vague gestures at free speech that flatter the tenured powerful and scold their freelance critics—but the visceral shock, and ultimately relief, of our own interwoven togetherness and connection. Readers do half the work of a book’s life; that means we must do half the heavy lift of its project. I write books about Filipinx people because that is part of my work, and there is no part of my work that is not in some way intertwined with another’s. There is no way of writing about Filipinx Americans that is not also writing about America; there is no way of writing about Americans (or indeed, Austrians, or New Zealeanders) that is not also about its many genocides and empires.

Elaine Castillo from "Reading Teaches Us Empathy, and Other Fictions" in How to Read Now (2022)

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Sylvia Wynter, circa 1972.

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“Ultimately, preservation of the non-human is a very personal crusade, a rejection of the homogenization of the world that threatens to diminish all, including the self. There is no such thing as an individual, only an individual-in-context, individual as a component of place, defined by place.”

— (my hero) Neil Evernden, “Beyond Ecology”

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“The logic of anthropocentrism is also militarized through racial hierarchies that further distance the white settler from blackness and indigeneity as animalized sites of tragedy, marginality, poverty, and primitivism. That is, black and Indigenous bodies are dehumanized and inscribed (and continually re-inscribed) with animal status—which is always a speciesist rendering of animality as injuring—to refuse humanness to people of color and colonized subjects. This not only commits a violence that re-locates racialized bodies to the margins of settler society as non-humans, but also performs an epistemic violence that denies animality its own subjectivity and re-makes it into a mode of being that can be re-made as blackness and indigeneity.”

— Billy Ray Belcourt, “Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought”

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This was crazyy of emily. Imagine receiving a letter like this in the 1850s from your best friend that you have a homoerotic relationship with

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patti harrison stuns at peacock original event

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By Stephen Millies

Philadelphia, May 13 — Two hundred people gathered here at Cobbs Creek Parkway and Osage Avenue this rainy late afternoon to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the nearby house of the MOVE organization. 

On May 13, 1985, police fired “over 10,000 rounds of ammunition in under 90 minutes at a row house containing children,” according to the Philadelphia Special Investigative Commission. High-pressure fire hoses and tear gas were also used.

Police then dropped a bomb made from C4 plastic explosives on the house at 6221 Osage Avenue at 5:27 p.m., creating an inferno. Both the Pentagon and FBI helped make the bomb.

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if you've been hearing less about gaza lately, it's because most of the journalists are dead. hassan eslayeh, who was murdered yesterday in his hospital bed by israel, had 351 videos archived on tiktokgenocide.com (an online archive of israeli atrocities i recommend you browse). this single journalist alone had contributed 351 videos. the same database lists that 252 journalists have been killed in gaza since october 7th. the cpj's archive of journalists killed is 178. they have a more conservative and less accurate estimate since they have less information on those media workers who work with local outlets.

regardless of the exact number, the number of journalists killed is so high that it is markedly affecting the footage and documentation we have coming out of gaza now. let me prove it to you: 70 people were killed today, May 14th 2025. did you know that?