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Photos of Nancy Valverde, a Chicana gender nonconforming lesbian who was routinely arrested for violating L.A.’s cross-dressing ban throughout the 50s and has been credited as helping overturn the ban. Valverde died at the age of 92 in March of 2024.

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Living with my partner in the bay area for a few months and i had to clean his kitchen properly i mean i cleaned the fridge and threw out old food with best before dates from 4 years ago and washed the fridge shelves and drawers and outside door and handle of the fridge and stove and stove dials and countertops and reorganized the pantry which had granola bars and flour and couscous that dates back to before my partner was diagnosed with celiac disease and things that were sticky but shouldn’t have been sticky and unidentifiable powders in unlabeled bags…..not judging exactly, i think it’s easy to become blind to ones own squalor especially when you live by yourself. Anyway it’s very satisfying to clean things he thought were permanently filthy lol i’m using baking soda to its fullest potentials

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Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

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A Palestinian refugee. She is wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the image of the revolutionary Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani.

Ein El Hilweh Camp, 1982- 1989

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Life in Sinkiewiczy (Сінкевічы, Belarus). 1935-1938.

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The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117

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Bukharan Jewish silk dyers in Margilan, eastern Uzbekistan, early 20th century

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Gentrification is the new colonialism

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Vanessa Bell’s studio, Charleston, Sussex

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Clarence River Floodplain, Northern NSW Australia [OC] 2587 x 3449 - Author: Stu_Murphy_Artist on Reddit

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don't make me get a substack

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious