OSCILLATE WILDLY

Colin - Perth Based Artist (he/him)

[pearlsgf]

when kim chi actually got the theme right and looks better than 99% of the celebrities attending the met gala 

(photos by Eli Rezkallah) 

[maybethereissomething]

Leon Golub,  1975

[70sscifiart]

John Schoenherr

[amare-habeo]

[jjspot]

Vladimir Kozhuhar (Russian, born 1963)

Crocodile, 2003

Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

[heavenfacedmp3]

Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung on set of Happy Together (1998)

Photos by Wing Shya

[teacuphumans]

“The United States Government is offering you a piece of land of your own.”

“We have our own land.”

“No, it’s not yours. It’s the US Government’s.”

S1E6 - “Pride, Pomp and Circumstance”

[badromantics]

Nonnatives were reblogging this without the caption. Keep it. Read it. Acknowledge it.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Hilda Palafox aka Poni (Mexican, b. Mexico City, Mexico) - 1: Luna III, 2020  2: Luna II, 2020  3: Mujer Sobre Roca, 2020  4: Contramarea II, 2020  5: Mujer Acostada, 2020  6: Mujer Sentada En Silla, 2020 from exhibition Cuando Baja Le Marea (When The Tide Comes Down), Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

[ithankthevirgin]

I thank the Virgin for having cured me.

Juan Jose

[ithankthevirgin]

One night a bat got into my room and started flying around. I was afraid it would bite me and turn me into a vampire. But my cat wasn’t scared, he caught the bat and ate it. I thank Saint Nino, patroness saint of tutors, because I managed to raise such a clever and brave cat.

Vera, Saint Petersburg, 2010

[knuckle]

@white allies: because i see constant self-deprecation based on your whitness, here’s a detailed explanation of why it’s not helping us (or you).

if you continously go on about how horrible white people are, you may rot your own brain into thinking that these shortcomings are a natural state of being rather than a manufactured supremacist system which is simultaneously widespread, evil, and capable of being dismantled. 

recognizing that you have the same human compassion capabilities as everyone else, regardless of how alienated from them you have become, is the first step toward becoming a better person capabable of helping other people (of color).

don’t mirror the way that PoC talk about you as an oppressor class. the context is different, and the mindset that you develop from it is different.

don’t fall into a mindset where you (act as if you) are a morally compromised being for being white. the ultimate end of antiracism is to denaturalize racial hegemony, including virtuous moralization of the “oppressed”

evaluating your engagement in racism & the benefits you receive from white supremacy is only one piece of this process. the other piece is interacting with other people (of color) as if they are indeed the same species as you.

so instead of demoralizing yourself, look at your actions to determine if they are compassionate. academic stuff aside, this is often a good litmus test for racism; even the unintentional you will soon realize was often a failure to conceptualize how your actions would affect others- not a failure by some innate aspect of your race but by the normalized lack of consideration whiteness may afford you

[bossymarmalade]

- urs fischer, “untitled” (2011): paraffin wax mixture, pigment, steel, wicks

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[ithankthevirgin]

I thank Buddha for meditation and his help in my intents to control my mind and thus not go insane during my time in jail.

July 14–31, 2019 Malmö, Daniel G.

[leflambeur]

By Harley Weir for Re-Edition Magazine

[ithankthevirgin]

I pray to the Virgin of Zapopan, please take good care of my cat because he likes to sleep in the garden and I’m afraid that one night the aliens will take him away.

June 2020

[writeswrongs]

If you're not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it's incredible.

Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as "kettling."

Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can't retreat or escape from. In American protests, it's often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can't retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.

It's not a dispersement technique, it's the complete opposite -- it's a technique of intense aggression, and it's controversial because it's seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.

Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.

Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.

Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.

You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:

Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah

Meka from the 307: https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703

And you can read Marcella Robertson's coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul's speech to media this morning: https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob

[catchymemes]

When a random guy with a saxophone shows up to the club

[kittenoftheinternet]

they let him have a solo this is so wholesome!

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Oh man and then they dropped the base for him