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excerpts from julia doubleday’s billionaires at davos dont think covid is a cold

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Memes to convert 4 year Olds into liberals

#@political comms directors

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#ghost adventures

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The Armenian, Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic alphabets done in Trchnakir (Armenian bird writing) by artist Seeroon Yeretzian

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Excerpt from Soviet-Armenian film Nahapet Նահապետ (1977) directed by Henrik Malyan. Based on a novel by Hrachya Kochar, the film depicts the Armenian genocide of 1915. Nahapet is a survivor who tries to rebuild his life after the tragic loss of his family. The scene is accompanied with Armenian folk song “Dle Yaman” Դլե Յաման, which became a hymn of the genocide, here it is sung by Melania Abovian.

One of the recurring scenes in the film involves scores of red apples falling from a tree, rolling into a river, and floating en masse downstream. The scene is a painful symbolic reminder of the multitude of Armenian bodies thrown into the Euphrates by the Young Turk regime during the genocide. (x)

An apple tree on the lakeshore, with countless red fruits rolling down towards the blue water, is how Malyan, the ‘lyricist’ of Armenian cinema, pictures the huge loss sustained by his nation. Yet like all true metaphors, this image is multi-semantic and means not only loss but continuation, the prospect of reaching the shore one day. […] ‘salvation’ and ‘revival’ of the apple tree symbolize the rebirth of a massacred nation. (x)

powerbottomsonic

learn about the armenian genocide

wikipedia

20 voices (heavy in flash, has autoplay. consists of eyewitness accounts)

armenian national institute

new york times

history channel

united human rights council

100 lives (100 stories of survivors and those who helped them)

genocide1915.org

recognition + denial:

near a century later, US yet to recognize armenian genocide – genocide watch

a century after armenian genocide: turkey’s denial only deepens – new york times

armenian genocide recognition – wikipedia (includes a list of countries that recognize the genocide)

genocide recognition – marchforhumanity.org

turkey’s [president] erdogan condemns EU, pope francis over armenian ‘genocide’ label – wall street journal

PLEASE feel free to add more sources+do your own research

April 24, 1915. Never forget.

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this is really important, as someone who is part Armenian I think this deserves so much more attention than it gets, especially since Turkey continues to deny this and try to erase it. I’ve flown out to visit the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, and the photographs and testimonies were truly devastating. Please reblog this to spread awareness.

harminuya

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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pollyj

Nouvart Dzeron, a Daughter of Armenia By Ralph Elmer Clarkson (1861 - 1942) 1912 Oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago.

I am pretty sure the Nouvart Dzeron depicted in this painting is the singer Nouart Dzeron-Koshkarian. Who was Nouvart? Here’s an essay by Amy Weber.

The painting depicts a full-length portrait of a young woman dressed in [what was thought to be] a traditional Armenian dress [that is actually an Ottoman style dress (sent to her by her grandfather).] Her palm faces upward with the object—[actually prayer beads, tzbekh (Armenian) or tasbih (Turkish)]—dangling from it. It is made out of beads with a gold piece that ends in a large red tassel. There are no signs or symbols on it. This ambiguity points to the unimportance of its actual meaning. It has value only in its visual identity. The Orient was easier to (mis)understand when one could place a part of it in one‘s hand literally or figuratively and only see it as a part of a large category of ―other.

Dzeron fastidiously ignores the object and viewer. The necklace‘s straightness and immobility mirrors Dzeron‘s physical stability and braids that hang to the same length. These two objects are pinned into the same corner for others to view them. She is confined to the corner of a room, with a shadow that intersects and pins down her wrist and leg, seemingly staying her in the pose. There is no surrounding background that serves to place Dzeron in a setting; nothing is there to detract the viewer‘s perusal of her. The awkward nature of her pose and profile heightens the connection to the idea of display. It does not matter in what capacity foreignness is encapsulated; all that matters is that it and she are not Western.  The generic Orient—and not the specific Armenia—is further conveyed by the costume that Dzeron wears. Her blue coat is long with gold trim. There are decorative detailing patches near her ribcage and near the bottom of the coat. Wide blue and gold-starred pants that mimic the fabric of her dress that hangs down to her white stockings. Her feet have light blue slippers with a red pompom atop each. The coat, shoes, hat and pants state that she is wearing are not typical Midwestern dress, but also are not overly unusual. But any definable Armenian characteristic is not shown. The subject’s Western white undergarment is exposed, indicating that she is wearing a costume and highlighting dual identities of the West and East, the former she is shown concealing with the latter.

harminuya

I am so scared.

konoko

steveandbucky

in any case, we are still here, and we need your help.

due to relentless bombing for more than 40 continuous days, much of our cities and villages in Artsakh have been destroyed. houses, buildings, streets, churches, cultural centres. on top of the destruction and death this war has brought to my people, we are struggling to cope with covid - number of new cases have been steadily increasing since the war broke out, for obvious reasons. Armenians of the diaspora have been donating since the war broke out (and even before that, because it is with our donations that we built Artsakh after the first war 30 years ago). we are a small country, with limited resources, and this war and pandemic has put a strain on us. we were struggling before, but now we need all the help we can get.

donations are desperately needed - you can donate here: himnadram.org or here: armeniafund.org

other ways to support:

https://helparmenians.carrd.co - a really useful page with plenty of resources, you can learn about armenia/artsakh, there’s petitions to sign, and donation pages

@armenianblog also has a lot of posts with helpful infographics to educate yourself and others on the subject.

you can buy System of a Down’s newest album - proceeds are going towards the armeniafund (alternatively, you can stream the songs on Spotify or Youtube)

watch this YouTube video (beginning to the end, don’t skip ads, don’t mute the video, don’t play it on a loop) all proceeds are being donated

Armenian jewlery maker, all proceeds are being donated

Armenian creator on Etsy, all proceeds are being donated (link to tumblr post you can reblog)

My redbubble shop - all proceeds for November and December I will donate to himandram.org (redbubble is currently having a sale of 20-60% with the code GIFTS60, fyi)

if you know any other creators who are donating proceeds from their works, please add them on this post. let’s create a masterpost and boost each other’s efforts.

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Ara the Rat, all proceeds made from items on this page are being donated.

Telo Jan, all proceeds made from their ARTSAKH IS ARMENIA, DEFEND ARMENIA and RECOGNIZE ARTSAKH designs are being donated (and at least 10% is being donated from everything else). There are other items where 100% of the proceeds are being donated (shown here), but if you go through their Instagram or Facebook page I believe other items have been included since the October 6th post.