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Dolce & Gabbana -Spring 1992 RTW

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Helena Christensen @ Chloe Spr/Sum 1998

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Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

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Afternoon dress, 1848, unknown designer

At the beginning of the 1840s, the skirts were supported by numerous petticoats. However crinolines were invented in the mid 1840s, which allowed skirts to get wider and wider.

This dress can be found in: the metropolitan museum of art

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'Parade'. Audrey Helen Weber. 2017.

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what was done to adrianna smith was undoubtedly horrific, but let’s not dehumanize her further by calling her a corpse.

yes, she was brain dead, but she was not physically dead. she was a human being whose body was used, against her will and without her or her family’s consent, as an experimental living incubator.

she was not a “corpse”, she was not just some “thing”, she was, at that point, still a living human being whose body and spirit deserved to be treated with dignity and respect. but instead she was violated and treated AS IF she were just a thing, some object for experimentation.

disrespecting and desecrating a dead body is a horrific thing to do, but what happened here was not that. she was still technically alive— you wouldn’t say that someone who raped a brain-dead woman raped a corpse, would you?

give adrianna the basic dignity of being called a person.

Well they did it. The US has delivered a baby from a woman's corpse.

Adrianna Smith, a 30 year old Black woman and a nurse who was failed by the very health care system that ignored her medical needs, was nine weeks pregnant. She was legally declared brain dead and the hospital doctors decided to keep her body functioning on life support to full term so they could "save her baby" because of Georgia's abortion laws.

Because of this her family was unable to put her to rest as the hospital basically held Adrianna's pregnant corpse hostage for this experiment to play out.

Now her son was cut via C section from her corpse. Only 1 lb in the NICU.

Do you know what this means? It doesn't matter now if you're dead, they'll get that baby out of you somehow, fetus or not.

Another Black woman in America/US forced to be a lab rat just like Henrietta Lacks and many others unknown.

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The degree to which American-centric goggles color everything is astonishingly irritating, but I guess it's not that surprising; for all that American Leftists like to claim they're against US Imperialism, they're really quite ready to impose their limited worldview on other people's geopolitics.

So.

Having finally hit my limit on this, a list of things I've personally witnessed American Leftists claim Israeli geopolitics are "like", presented as rebuttals.

No, Palestinians are not like Native Americans.

No, Palestinians are not like African-Americans.

No, Israelis are not like American Settlers.

No, Gaza and the West Bank are not like Native Reservations.

No, the situation in Israel is not like the Western Settlement.

No, Israeli aid to Gaza is not like smallpox blankets.

No, Zionism is not like Manifest Destiny.

No, there is no plan for "Greater Israel" like there was for "sea to shining sea".

No, there are no "Indian Schools" for Palestinians run by Israel.

No, the Nakba was not like the Trail of Tears.

No, the Gaza Border Fence is not like the Texas Border Fence.

No, Palestinians coming in to Israel to work is not like Latinos coming into America to work.

No, fearmongering about Latinos by Republicans is not like the well-substantiated fears about Hamas terrorists crossing the border.

No, the border checkpoints are not like ICE.

No, Palestinians do not, generally speaking, want to become Israelis.

No, Palestinians are not being "blocked from Israeli citizenship".

No, Palestinians are not being "prevented from voting in Israel", because they're not Israeli citizens.

No, the conflict with Iran is not like Trump threatening to invade Mexico to attack the Cartels.

No, the conflict with Iran is not like Bush invading Iraq to deal with nonexistent WMDs.

No, Israel's attack on Gaza is not like America's post-9/11 attack on Iraq.

No, Israel is not attacking either Gaza or Iran for oil.

No, the "states" in a "two-state solution" are not like American states.

No, the medical care Israel gives to Palestinians is not like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

No, Arab Israelis are not living under anything like Jim Crow.

No, the Israeli prime minister is not like the American President.

No, the Knesset is not like the US Congress--they have more than two parties, for starters.

No, "Al-Quds" is not like Mount Rushmore... at least, not in the way you think it is.

I'm done for the moment, but if anyone else has any to add to the list, feel free to toss them in.

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger LUCRETIA

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Source

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if you pronounce iran and israel like "eye-ran" and "is-ree-al" i should not have to listen to any of your opinions concerning either country

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Some of y’all (Americans) are so obsessed with colonization (and how all Jews and Israelis are “evil colonizers”) that y’all forget that you are on stolen land… just saying (and this is coming from a Jewish/Native American person- so if the haters wanna start something- try me)

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Moel Fodiar, View towards the Clwydians - Sarah Carvell , 2023.

British , b. 1964 -

Oil on canvas , 70 x 60 cm.

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Your parents ended up emigrating to Israel in 1988 when you were in university. You wore a yellow pin honoring the October 7 Israeli hostages at The White Lotus premiere in February.

I always wear it if I’m on a red carpet and a press line.

Public sentiment on Gaza seems to have shifted a lot since then. I wonder where you are right now on the issue?

Where I am is either a full magazine or no comment about it, because two or three sentences in a profile are not enough to deal with the issues. I wear the hostage pin because there are innocent people who were taken from their homes. Most of them are peace activists who lived in border communities where they were ferrying sick kids to hospitals and working with people from Gaza constantly. There are Holocaust survivors, there are children who were taken, there are people being starved and tortured and raped who have no access to the Red Cross. People are rightfully talking and thinking about all the civilians that are in danger everywhere else. But those people in tunnels, it’s now 600 days they’ve been there, they’ve been forgotten entirely. And so I wore the pin once and the hostages’ families got in touch with me and they thanked me enormously. I now am aware that they are watching me and that it matters to them. If my son or sister or daughter or father was being kept in a tunnel somewhere and weighed 25 kilos now, or may have been strangled or shot, and it felt important to me that some actors somewhere wore the yellow hostage pin, then who am I to not wear it?

So when it comes to more nuanced arguments about Netanyahu and the right-wing lunatics in the cabinet, or whether the IDF is or isn’t doing things, or this new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is or isn’t handing out food correctly, or whether Hamas’s press releases should be printed as fact, and whether there aren’t journalists in there — there are so many complicated arguments. It isn’t a place to dip one’s toe or to have a simple quote on it. What I wish for everybody, obviously, is peace. Who doesn’t? I don’t know anybody, apart from the extremists on all sides, who want either continued war or tension.

The argument that you make for the ribbon is a humane one. Why don’t you think more actors have worn them?

Because just for wearing it, I’ve been called a Zionist baby killer, a Zionazi. Even a yellow hostage pin for innocents is deemed political, which it isn’t.

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Butterfly Bush - Barbara Winrow

British , b. 1950s

Acrylic on canvas , 61 x 76 cm.

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Tide Pool - Jeremy Miranda , 2023.

American , b. 1980 -

Acrylic on canvas, 29 9/10 × 35 2/5 in. 76 × 90 cm,