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Hello???? Suggestions????

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women with deadpan humor get behind me. a man is about to miss your joke and explain that what you said is not accurate

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brian molko gay little table flip at the 2002 kerrang! awards monday

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sorta funny how many cis people seem to think being an ally just means like. not actively commiting hate crimes. "i'm an ally i'm just worried that hrt is dangerous and i dont like when they shove pride right in our faces and i think all this sjw stuff in movies is unrealistic and im worried about the children-" okay. so i dont think you know what that word means,

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Paantu Festival, Miyako Island, Okinawa.

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Russian silver gilt & clam shell powder compact c. 1950s

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'Distant Night'. Hanno Karlhuber. 2000.

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Merab Abramishvili - Pomegranate, 2003.   Tempera on plywood, 215x110cm.  

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really valuable little piece from a 17 year old poet and writer in gaza about the reality and indignity of relying on foreign aid solicited online. this has been the reality for gazans since the beginning of the genocide when a lot of people lost their jobs. while a lot of discourse around online fundraising understandably centers the necessity of this aid (or, less sympathetically, the feelings of westerners who object to the knowledge of our position of power that gazan fundraisers reveal) i really think the perspectives of the palestinians who do the e-begging has been lost.

notice how his post never once suggests you should /stop/ aiding gazans through donations or even deprioritize it. what he is asking is explicitly solidarity, not charity. while it cannot undo the hierarchy inherent to the practice, radical charity is a thing and i think we owe it to people like yazan that we do not see gazans as a helpless population (or a horde invading our attention) but people in their own right using the tools available for them, as we use the tools available to us to help keep them alive.

this post was taken from @abolishtheusa on instagram, and yazan's instagram is @yazan._.mohammd. here is his chuffed fundraiser.

here is the linktree for the sameer project, a which also relies on donations and is running seriously low on funds

here is the website for workshops 4 gaza, which sells radical books and tickets to exclusive workshops in exchange for donations to the sameer project and other fundraisers

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80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War—Artist LuDanling on Twitter

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Zhou Jieqiong for Nylon China January 2025

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i dont understand how people manage to do a million other things after getting off work??? i cannot fathom having that amount of energy

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Orientalism and After. Ambivalence and Cosmopolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said by Aijaz Ahmad (1992)

Orientalism and orientalism in reverse by Sadik Jalal al-’Azm (1981)

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One of the most important documents in recent chinese history: Lesbian kiss at Tiananmen, 2006.

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A huge statue of Lenin on the top of a dam (1965).

Istaravshan, Tajikistan.

© Roberto Conte (2023)

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It feels like so many (even "leftist") people in the USA are desperate to skirt around the objective fact that Military service is voluntary. They wanna come up with every reason under the sun to not have to acknowledge that it's a conscious choice to sign up.

"Oh but recruiters-" military service is voluntary. this is not a situation where it's *legally* voluntary but people are basically forcibly conscripted. It's a situation where the lives of other people are seen as less valuable than the financial enrichment of US citizens.

you are not adding "nuance" by saying (debunked) shit everyone has already heard. you are refusing to acknowledge the fact that military service is voluntary because then you'd not be able to present yourself as the victim.

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we’re getting reports that her whisper is the lucifer