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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU dir. Gil Junger, 1999

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The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice a community of support. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.

Johanna Hedva, "Sick Woman Theory" from How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

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Vincent Van Gogh, Chestnut Tree in Bloom, 1887, oil on canvas

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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

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INTERSTELLAR (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

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Ocean Photography by Rich Stapleton

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it is occurring me thaf i can only take so much. just kidding im the strongest girl alive and can withstand any thing

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+ bonus

THE HOLIDAY 2006 — dir. Nancy Meyers

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Hossein Borojeni

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museums should be open till like midnight, i don't want to go to the club i want to go look at art or fossils.

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Anastasiia Mihaylova

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Give ‘em hell, Rydell! GREASE (1978) dir. Randal Kleiser

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Art can’t forcibly induce a change in behaviour. It’s not a re-education pill. Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read War and Peace. It’s work, for which art can, however, provide us with radiant materials. Art can’t win an election or bring down a president. It can’t stop the climate crisis, cure a virus or raise the dead. What it can do is serve as an antidote to times of chaos. It can be a route to clarity, and it can be a force of resistance and repair, providing new registers, new languages in which to think.

Olivia Laing, Feeling overwhelmed? How art can help in an emergency

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Flowers in Her Hair

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