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[beexlaura]

HELLO I HAVE NOT LOGGED ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME

THIS BLOG IS JARRING

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[cluster123456]

Milan Grygar, from the ‘Tactile drawing’ performance, photograph by josef prošek — 1969

Milan Grygar’s work is inspired by the rhythmic taps and scratches that attend the making of marks on paper. His drawings capture the sonic existence of the emerging image, its acoustic coming-into-being. For Grygar, the “acoustic event” would “from that point on be stronger for me than color.” Sound is then the juncture between hand and the space it moves through, between the drawing tool (be it a hand alone or an object driven by a hand) and a sheet of paper.

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[kitduckworth]

Leonora Carrington, from The Milk of Dreams

[thepuppyclub]

diet culture has ruined our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, it passes the discomfort with our own bodies as natural, it makes our hatred common, we punish ourselves by eating or not eating, by guilt and resolutions, but no one seems to care, not even those who love us.

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Tokyo June 17

[formschon]

lemaire, spring 2018

[nobrashfestivity]

Georgia O’Keeffe in Santa fe, by Tony Voccaro and Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945

[istmos]

Otto Piene, untitled (Eye), 1963 

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Davi Kopenawa, Shaman and leader of the Brazilian Yanomami. from “Children of the Land (Mother Earth)”, Brazil 2000 by Vincent Carelli

[jjjjosh]

You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.

The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 198-99 (via jjjjosh)

[formschon]

The High Cost of High Fashion

Campaigns against “fast fashion” scapegoat working-class consumers while doing little to improve the conditions of garment workers.

There’s more to the discussion, obviously. But the core of the article remains useful.

What fast-fashion critics miss is that all apparel companies are enmeshed in a system of global capitalism, and all are subject to its profit-driven logic. Worker exploitation and health and safety violations plague the entire industry.

Invectives against the amorality or stupidity of fast-fashion consumers (predominantly but not exclusively working-class and poor people) misses this entirely, while giving a pass to elite consumers whose clothes are just as likely to be produced in deplorable conditions. Anti–fast fashion messages end up blaming poor people — the victims of global capitalism — for the ills of global capitalism.

Urging working-class and poor people to shop at Barney’s instead of Forever 21 suggests that the least powerful consumers are responsible for fixing the depredations of capitalism. But buying more expensive clothes based on some misguided code of ethics does nothing to reduce global capitalism’s racially gendered divisions of labor, opportunities, and rewards. Fashion cycles — crucial for turning the wheels of capitalism — will roll on even if poor people go into (more) financial debt.

[litafficionado]

“[…]people talk about isolation, but you’re only isolated if you think that the norm is to be integrated. Integration into the central contract isn’t necessarily the be all and end all. And if you decide not to be integrated in that way, it just means your way of connecting with the world is different. Over time you do attain an awareness where that very embodied life becomes profound, quite fulfilling and sustaining. And that’s exactly what interested me in my stories, a sense of a person on their own. We’re uncomfortable with that culturally, and have been, historically, especially with females. I suppose in literary history the lone figure of the man has many archetypes, for instance with the beat poets. And there’s always a spiritual thing attached to it, which is often quite dubious; it might just be a guy eschewing his responsibilities. Anyway, there is this context, and somehow it has been accepted, but the lone woman is something that is still uncomfortable for many. Often she is described in terms of what she lacks, e.g. she’s single, or she’s childless.” -Claire-Louise Bennett, on writing Pond

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Better by manjitthapp / instagram /// ((don’t delete my caption))

[jasper-rolls]

there’s a difference between “just do a little yoga it will cure your depression forever :)” and “going for a run won’t solve your problems but it will make you feel a little better and that’s the first step” but this site seems to treat them as the same thing

[c-bassmeow]

Me an environmentalist: dame menos gasolina !🔥🔥🎤😫