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ceruleanheaven

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

ceruleanheaven

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

ceruleanheaven

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

closet-keys

Last Thursday, there was heavy rain in Gaza. Israelis bombed a residential block very near to where Mahrah and her parents are sheltered. Panic gripped her family.

Her brother Mahmoud posted about this on tumblr from the account they share, and then staff immediately banned their blog as part of a broader racist campaign against Palestinians.

Mahrah and Mahmoud are now using the blog @palestinian95. Please donate if you can afford to do so, and share this post to help them to reconnect with their followers!

closet-keys

Mahrah family's sole source of income is their fundraiser vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan. Unfortunately, they have not received as many donations lately. This makes affording food and healthcare difficult, because prices continue to increase.

Any money you can spare will be the entirety of their grocery budget for the week. Please send them enough to survive. I can personally promise anything you send will make it to them. My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts the campaign and transfers donations directly to Mahrah.

kropotkindersurprise

An Irish far-right streamer attempts to interview an antifascist. Sound on. [video]

kropotkindersurprise

Update from the Twitter account of the hero in that video:

orteil42

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

nessimaki-deactivated20141106

dialupmodern

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

meowdys

due to personal reasons i will be snuffles

meowdys

Snuffles,

crabussy

man come on. it's colours

crabussy

THIS IS OUR RADIUM. you're absolutely right

keepcalmandcarriefischer

How it feels to use any tool, app, or website right now

baddywronglegs

Worse, it's our asbestos. It's being put into things we're going to have to keep using long after everyone has to finally accept it was a bad idea, in such a way it will be almost impossible to remove.

Radium suppositories and asbestos might both be in museums but the radium's in the exhibits, the asbestos is in the walls.

matumnaples

Before June I have to share one of my favorite tiktoks

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

catchymemes

They supporting

everythingfox

A paid actor

butch-king-frankenstein

Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man