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Hey. Don't cry. Weird teenage girl somewhere out there reading Frankenstein for the first time. Ok?

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bro, does this party have perfectly ripe summer heirloom tomatoes or do we need to pregame?

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“The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go “off the reservation, into Indian Country.” So what is that messaging that is passed on? You know, it is basically the continuation of the wars against indigenous people. Donald Rumsfeld, when he went to Fort Carson, named after the infamous Kit Carson, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Navajo people and their forced relocation, urged people, you know, in speaking to the troops, that in the global war on terror, U.S. forces from this base have lived up to the legend of Kit Carson, fighting terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan to help secure victory. “And every one of you is like Kit Carson.” The reality is, is that the U.S. military still has individuals dressed—the Seventh Cavalry, that went in in Shock and Awe, is the same cavalry that massacred indigenous people, the Lakota people, at Wounded Knee in 1890. You know, that is the reality of military nomenclature and how the military basically uses native people and native imagery to continue its global war and its global empire practices.”

— Winona Laduke - Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth. She has just published a new book, The Militarization of Indian Country. (via kenobi-wan-obi)

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1000 year old helical step well with 8 staircases twisting from 8 shrines, hidden for centuries, found in Maharashtra, India

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born myself by 박인주 (park inju), 2023, unknown materials, unknown dimensions

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Shiso leaf bandaids

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Nina Beier, Scheme, 2014, Online organic vegetable box scheme, delivered to the gallery at timed intervals

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Romeo + Juliet dir. Baz Luhrmann | 1996

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It is so much more interesting to be inspired to think abstractly and existentially and investigatively and playfully in conversation than to be trapped into boring corners talking about practical daily matters. For example, I'm a little obsessed with making money right now, but I don't want to talk about it. I pay my phone bill, grocery shop, there is rent every month, but I do not care about that because we all do it. Who cares. Not interesting. Stress at work? Just another day. I love when my true mind can show itself. A genuinely amazing conversation is so soul-restoring.........I will start to dream of you

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Fresh mangos off the tree

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I love the salute emoji. Im your loyal something

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Unknown Source - (Unknown Date)

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A Lebanese woman using an abandoned Israeli tank as a washing line. South Lebanon, 2000.