Somewhere Behind the Morning

I blog sporadically and incompletely.

[cherishedwifey]

some of us need to see this.

[improvisedliturgy]

Emotions tell us a lot about time; emotions are the very ‘flesh’ of time. They show us the time it takes to move, or to move on, is a time that exceeds the time of an individual life. Through emotions, the past persists on the surface of bodies. Emotions show us how histories stay alive, even when they are not consciously remembered; how histories of colonialism, slavery, and violence shape lives and worlds in the present. The time of emotion is not always about the past, and how it sticks. Emotions also open up futures, in the ways they involve different orientations to others. It takes time to know what we can do with emotion.

Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

[rhetoriques]

[uglyfairies]

Jenny Holzer 

Inflammatory Essays (series)

 c. 1982

[applauseforsally]

"people will treat you the way you allow them"

"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

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Is this relationship my fault? Is this situation where someone makes me feel uncomfortable and unhappy constantly something that I allowed into my life? When I thought I was asserting myself, I got pushback. And my response to the pushback was and still is...a reaction. Rather than deciding that it's not okay and acting on it. I sit there and take it. Revert back to passiveness. People pleasing? I hate rocking the boat. I don't like being on people's bad side. I don't like being seen as the bad guy to other people. I want to stand in it, but I can't. I fall to the other's whim, opinion, influence....the hypnotizing lure of his louder interpretation of the story...of me and my intentions.

But...I'm allowing it. Everytime I wince through it. Everytime I give in and play nice. Go along with how he wants to move forward in the aftermath. Follow his lead. Unwilling to deal with the consequences of saying I'm going to turn in the other direction....

....I'm enforcing that this is how things go. I'm communicating that it's okay.

I'm allowing it.

[riinasawayama]

gabrielle richardson x kobe wagstaff: a love letter to the queer community of black and brown femmes and non-binary people of LA

[worldscoolest]

[sivavakkiyar]

John Berger quoting Rosa Luxemburg, from his “A Gift For Rosa Luxemburg”

[occasionallysubtle]

happy sunday :) just resharing some of my faves in case they land for ya today

[apocryphics]

yeah

[wovi]

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

carl jung girl you were so right about avoidance

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

“if we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. if I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. a neurosis is a much greater curse! in general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. one cannot do more than live what one really is. and we are all made up of opposites and conflicting tendencies. after much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result-because avoidance is much worse.”

[funeral]

Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (The Tavistock Lectures)

[funeral]

There is a type of person for whom life is a more insurmountable problem than for others, for whom the burden of anxiety and fear is almost as constant in his daily breath. Rank used the term "neurotic" for one type of person who was without illusion, who saw things as they were, who was overwhelmed by the fragility of the human enterprise. . . . [ The neurotic ] is the "realist" that William James talked about when he said that the right reaction to the horrors of organismic life on this planet is the psychotic one. But this kind of "realism," as Rank said, is the most self-defeating of all.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

[geopsych]

April sunrise: blossoms and fog

[pastel-pink-psycho]

[thebristolboard]

“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

[spaceraptor]

Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

[pennamerequired]

Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

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I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

[batboyblog]

I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry

Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.

[recoiled4]

[lesbian-moon-gf]

FINALLY some Black mental illness memes

[innerchildabortionclinic]

learning your friend who shares your political views has a loser boyfriend who mistreats her is like 9/11 for feminists