DIRTY STORIES

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I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

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Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)

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Magda Romanska, “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - Virginia L. Blum

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The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie (ebook free to download this month 06/2020)

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out. Julie Dash, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson, Leslie Harris and Theodore Witcher on a boom that went bust, and what’s different now. - Reggie Ugwu

[diabeticlesbian]

You can now search and browse every edition of Spare Rib online!

(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)

How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.

What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin

“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata

How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Solidarity Cinema

Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto

Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)

Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold

“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear - Toni Morrison

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My Withered Legs - Sandra Gail Lambert

Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)

You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy

The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.

A Man and his Hoe

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans

May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews

Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80

A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute

5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman

“Feminism was not invented by American women.” Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay - Katherine Blouin, Monica Hanna, Sarah E. Bond

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Glass, Irony and God (The Gender of Sound) - Anne Carson

The Archivettes: A Sinister Wisdom Conversation with Megan Rossman (video)

‘I am not a pretty woman. And that’s never felt like more of a crime than in 2020.’ - Katie Scoble

Girls are cruelest to themselves: The Glass Essay - Anne Carson

Social media can be bad for our self-image. Could marking photos as edited help? - Paulina Jayne Isaac

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

Joan Nestle in Conversation with Cheryl Clarke @ Sinister Wisdom (video)

Decreation - Anne Carson

New World Order: The scream’s a good weapon. - Sarah Nicole Prickett

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GAY LIBERATION FRONT: Looking Back At The Revolutionary LGBTQ Group 50 Years On - Cliff Joannou with Dan Glass

Ceramic Review Masterclasses videos)

Gay Pride 1979- Inside Story (Documentary)

15 Songs About AIDS - Sal Cinquemani

“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic - Clarity Haynes

Revenant Journal Archives: Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird.

The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1937)

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh

Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar - Maria Bustillos

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. Why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on TV? - Caroline Kitchener

HoneyHands Magazine

Some Women’s Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of [U.S.] Legal Reform - Terri Nilliasca

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. - Mychel Denzel Smith

Possession (1981)

Have You Seen This Bird: The Emotional and Ecological Ramifications of an Obsessive Kinship with Frank, a Neighbourhood Scrub-Jay. - Elisabeth Nicula

Painting Ghosts: Running into the cold, restorative waves with artist Nicole Eisenman. - Andrew Durbin

Nevada - Imogen Binne

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Child Pageants and the Performance of Gender. - Lisa Wade, PhD

The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo - Bess Lovejoy

Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

The beautiful language of bookplates - Alexandra Hills

Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along - Riva Lehrer

The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins - Roberta Smith

The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men. - Kate Handley

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin

‘A fair chance for girls’: The law of periodicity and the Viavi system - Lalita Kaplish

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

The sickness in the wellness industry - Gwendolyn Smith

‘Unsettling the men’: the representation of transgressive female desire in Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948) - Paul Mazey

Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses - Christine Ro

How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap - Ryu Spaeth

A Symbol of a Lost Homeland - Yasmeen Abdel Majeed

Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - Bethan Bell

Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies. - Rachel Bennett, Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland

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Interesting Papers for Week 32, 2021

The geometry of neuronal representations during rule learning reveals complementary roles of cingulate cortex and putamen. Cohen, Y., Schneidman, E., & Paz, R. (2021). Neuron, 109(5), 839-851.e9.

The Motor Representation of Sensory Experience. Cont, C., & Zimmermann, E. (2021). Current Biology, 31(5), 1029-1036.e2.

Nicotinic regulation of local and long-range input balance drives top-down attentional circuit maturation. Falk, E. N., Norman, K. J., Garkun, Y., Demars, M. P., Im, S., Taccheri, G., … Morishita, H. (2021). Science Advances, 7(10), eabe1527.

Evidence for Quasicritical Brain Dynamics. Fosque, L. J., Williams-García, R. V., Beggs, J. M., & Ortiz, G. (2021). Physical Review Letters, 126(9), 098101.

Brief Sensory Deprivation Triggers Cell Type-Specific Structural and Functional Plasticity in Olfactory Bulb Neurons. Galliano, E., Hahn, C., Browne, L. P., R Villamayor, P., Tufo, C., Crespo, A., & Grubb, M. S. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(10), 2135–2151.

Integrating new memories into the hippocampal network activity space. Gava, G. P., McHugh, S. B., Lefèvre, L., Lopes-dos-Santos, V., Trouche, S., El-Gaby, M., … Dupret, D. (2021). Nature Neuroscience, 24(3), 326–330.

Structure and function of a neocortical synapse. Holler, S., Köstinger, G., Martin, K. A. C., Schuhknecht, G. F. P., & Stratford, K. J. (2021). Nature, 591(7848), 111–116.

Oscillation-Driven Memory Encoding, Maintenance, and Recall in an Entorhinal–Hippocampal Circuit Model. Kurikawa, T., Mizuseki, K., & Fukai, T. (2021). Cerebral Cortex, 31(4), 2038–2057.

Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster. Leung, A., Cohen, D., van Swinderen, B., & Tsuchiya, N. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(2), e1008722.

Hypothalamic-Extended Amygdala Circuit Regulates Temporal Discounting. Li, H. E., Rossi, M. A., Watson, G. D. R., Moore, H. G., Cai, M. T., Kim, N., … Yin, H. H. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(9), 1928–1940.

Temporal Prediction Signals for Periodic Sensory Events in the Primate Central Thalamus. Matsuyama, K., & Tanaka, M. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(9), 1917–1927.

Distinct roles of dorsal and ventral subthalamic neurons in action selection and cancellation. Mosher, C. P., Mamelak, A. N., Malekmohammadi, M., Pouratian, N., & Rutishauser, U. (2021). Neuron, 109(5), 869-881.e6.

Volitional learning promotes theta phase coding in the human hippocampus. Pacheco Estefan, D., Zucca, R., Arsiwalla, X., Principe, A., Zhang, H., Rocamora, R., … Verschure, P. F. M. J. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(10).

Modulation of intercolumnar synchronization by endogenous electric fields in cerebral cortex. Rebollo, B., Telenczuk, B., Navarro-Guzman, A., Destexhe, A., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2021). Science Advances, 7(10), eabc7772.

Past experience shapes the neural circuits recruited for future learning. Sharpe, M. J., Batchelor, H. M., Mueller, L. E., Gardner, M. P. H., & Schoenbaum, G. (2021). Nature Neuroscience, 24(3), 391–400.

Pupil dilation indexes automatic and dynamic inference about the precision of stimulus distributions. Silvestrin, F., Penny, W. D., & FitzGerald, T. H. B. (2021). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 101, 102503.

Orbitofrontal State Representations Are Related to Choice Adaptations and Reward Predictions. Stalnaker, T. A., Raheja, N., & Schoenbaum, G. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(9), 1941–1951.

Sustained neural rhythms reveal endogenous oscillations supporting speech perception. van Bree, S., Sohoglu, E., Davis, M. H., & Zoefel, B. (2021). PLOS Biology, 19(2), e3001142.

Top-down coordination of local cortical state during selective attention. van Kempen, J., Gieselmann, M. A., Boyd, M., Steinmetz, N. A., Moore, T., Engel, T. A., & Thiele, A. (2021). Neuron, 109(5), 894-904.e8.

The Cellular Electrophysiological Properties Underlying Multiplexed Coding in Purkinje Cells. Zang, Y., & De Schutter, E. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(9), 1850–1863.

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You all have to watch “5 to 7”

[readyokaygo]

The Palestine Reader

The following is a collection of articles, essays, and books on Palestine. These are not introduction texts to the question of Palestine or the Palestinain-Israeli “conflict”. If you need one read The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Gregory Harms and Todd Fery. Further, this is not an “unbiased” or “neutral” readng list. Everything listed below is counter-hegemonic. I feel absolutely no need to provide anything from the Zionist or Israeli point-of-view when that is the dominant narrative. With that said, I believe this provides a diverse, but in no means comprehensive, overview of the discourse on Palestine. A continuously updated page of this list can be found here.

On Theory

Orientalism by Edward Said

Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward Said

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Reading Said in Hebrew by Ella Shohat

Notes on the “Post-Colonial” by Ella Shohat

On History

History of Palestine by Dr. Mohsen Mohammed Saleh

Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Peace and its Discontents by Edward Said

On Being Palestinian

What It Means to be Palestinian by Dina Matar

A Narrative of Palestinian Dispossession by Samia Costandi

The Palestinian Exile as Writer by Jabra I. Jabra

My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

Memoirs, 1948 Part I by Fauzi Al-Qawuqji

Memoirs, 1948 Part II

Palestinian Identity and the Performance of Catastrophe by Ihab Saloul

On Zionism

Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said

Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims by Ella Shohat

Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler

The Invention of the Mizrahim by Ella Shohat

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky

Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak

The Ends of Zionism by Joseph Massad

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question by Joseph Massad

On Imperialism and Settler Colonialism in West Asia by Jamil Hilal

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman

How the Zionists Took Over Palestine by Adel Safty

Imperial Israel and the Palestinians by Nur Masalha

After Zionism by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor

On the Holocaust

Respecting the Holocaust by Howard Zinn

The Holocaust: Learning the Wrong Lessons by Boaz Evron

The Victimhood of the Powerful by Jennifer Peto

On Media

Propaganda, Perception, and Reality by William A. Cook

Israeli Cinema an interview with Ella Shohat

Israeli Cinema by Ella Shohat

Palestinian Cinema by Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi

On Al Nakba

The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Saga of Deir Yassin

The Fall of Lydda by Spiro Munayyer

Returning to Kafr Bir'im

How Palestine became Israel by Stephen Hallbrook

The Palestinian Exodus of 1948 by Simha Flapan

Why Did the Palestinians Leave by Walid Khalidi

Selected Documents on 1948

The Limits of the New Israeli History by Joel Beinin

On Genocide

Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians by Kathleen and Bill Christison

Israel’s Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Steve Lendman

Ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Gideon Polya

The Lessons of Violence by Chris Hedges

The Brutal Siege of Gaza Can Only Breed Violence by Karen Koning AbuZayd

The Olive Trees of Palestine Weep by Sonja Karkar

Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust by Richard Falk

Gaza is Dying by Patrick Cockburn

Israeli Immunity for Genocide by Andrea Howard

Palestinian Misery in Perspective by Paul De Rooij

A Slow, Steady Genocide an interview with Tanya Reinhart

Gaza’s Holocaust by Dr. Elias Akleh

Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion by Adi Ophir

The British in Palestine, A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust by Robert Fisk

European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide by Omar Barghouti

Genocide in Gaza by Ilan Pappe

Genocide Among Us by Curtis F. J. Doebbler

Bleaching the Attrocities of Genocide by Kim Petersen

The Rape of Palestine by William A. Cook

Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus by Jonathan Cook

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing by Uri Avnery

Disappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook

The Problem With Israel by Jeff Halper

Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

Drying Out the Palestinians

Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza by Norman Finkelstein

To Gaza I Did Not Go by Gideon Levy

Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison by Noam Chomsky

The Most Humane Little Checkpoint by Amira Hass

On BDS

BDS: Winning Justice for the Palestinian People

Why Boycott Israeli Universities?

The Necessity of Cultural Boycott by Ilan Pappe

Companies Supporting Israeli Occupation

On Solutions

Two-State Illusion by Ian S. Lustick

Relative Humanity: The Essential Obstacle to a One-State Solution by Omar Barghouti

Where Now For Palestine? by Jamil Hilal

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The History of Loneliness

Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonel

what an article. here are some of the parts that stuck out to me most:

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Why cities should be designed for birds

Habitats that are good for birds are good for people, too.

Beyond just reducing hazards we need to recognize that cities can be a positive force on behalf of birds, and for the conservation of biodiversity more generally. Cities can play a significant role and serve as an important counterbalance to the loss of habitat elsewhere. Every design and building project in the city should be seen as the chance to make room for other species of life, especially birds. Habitats that will be good for birds will be good for humans as well.

Our city planning must change to better take the movement of birds and other animals into account: Ecological networks and connectivity will be essential. Most city plans rarely mention birds or take them into account. I think that should change, and we should usher in the era of bird-centric planning. When we do what is necessary to accommodate and make room for birds, we support many other animals as well. Cities should follow the example of Vancouver preparing a bird strategy and appointing a standing Bird Committee. We need to give more explicit attention to the interests of birds in the governance and planning of cities.

Cities can also be a force for the conservation of essential and intact ecosystems essential for many bird species. Cities can join together to support the many migratory birds they share in common, working both to protect habitat at home but also the habitats and environments they will travel through or spend time in during their lifecycle.

Architects, builders, elected officials, and others must recognize an ethical duty of care to protect birds and to minimize their pain and suffering. If this happens many things will change, and cities will see the adoption of bird-safe building standards as a moral imperative on a par with efforts to protect human health and safety.

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Abundant bird life is the secret sauce for soul-nourishing cities. Birds matter tremendously, and their presence near to us in cities delivers delight and awe. It is hard to be lonely when birds are nearby. Our lives are richer, our days fuller, when we hear their magical voices of the fluttering energy and blur of color that birds provide. They make cities more interesting, infusing urban neighborhoods and spaces with a life force.

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my favorite poems

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i am in severe distress. i am vibing. i am king of the world. i am bored. i am lost at sea. i am making coffee. i am foraging in the forest. i am making tea. i am chasing pigeons. i am napping in a chair

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Elf ear cuff by LotsofSunn

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i love letterboxd because there are so many lists that cater to very specific, yet somehow universal moods. here are my favorites:

120 lesbian films to watch before saying all lesbian cinema is the same

the absolute beauty in everyday's mundanity

add spice to your romance

autumnal harvest - movies that give you that warm feeling of fall and its surroundings

befriending the lyrical loneliness...

candy cinema

chaos, loneliness, madness, and desapair in the apathetic world of capitalism

crises of childhood

distinctive films that fill the void when you're lonely or completely destroy you when you're happy

film recs: female character studies

films that are kind

girlhood

horror as a vehicle

melancholy as a breathtaking aesthetic emotion

movies where female friendships are the scariest concept on earth

"nothing happens" yeah but the vibes

quiet little female character studies

quietly brilliant

snuggly wuggly flicks for anxiety driven chicks

soft horror

two lost souls find comfort

what we talk about when we talk about love

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Whitten Sabbatini

[wintryblight]

do you have any poems about queer desire?

hi anon! thank you so much for sending in this request since this is one of my favourite subjects in poetry. as a result i have a few more than i usually include in a compilation, so please enjoy!

Ocean Vuong, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” | For hunger is to give / the body what it knows / it cannot keep.

Joseph O. Legaspi, “Vows (for a gay wedding)” | I vow to love you in primal ways. / I vow to love you in infinite forms.

Richard Siken, “Little Beast” | He had green eyes, / so I wanted to sleep with him

Meg Day, “10 AM is When You Come to Me” | It’s Sunday—or so you say with both hands / on my chest—& hot breath is the only hymn / whose refrain we can recall.

Danez Smith, “The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar” | i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayety / i want to raise a city behind his teeth for all boys of choirs & closets to refuge in.

Sjohnna McCray, “I Do” | two-thirds of me is certain: / este infierno vale la pena / This hell is worth the risk.

Timothy Liu, “Winter” | How long will the bed that we made together / hold us there? Your stubbled cheeks grazed my skin / from evening to dawn

June Jordan, “Poem for My Love” | How do we come to be here next to each other / in the night / Where are the stars that show us to our love / inevitable

Sappho, “One Girl” | Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough

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Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938), Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas, 235.5 x 374 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Wikimedia Commons.

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Alain Fleischer - Dans le cadre du miroir, 1984

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Sayuri Ichida - The Lost Notes, 2018

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i just. love this video sm