[toiich]

Taste of Cherry (1997), dir. Abbas Kiarostami

[lyle-and-erik-menendez]

We really need to stop putting people on pedestals. It is harmful and dehumanizes all involved. Putting someone on a pedestal is not caring for them. It is not love. You can love, admire, adore, learn from, or follow the leadership of someone without putting them on a pedestal. Putting people on pedestals is part of the binary of how we categorize people into “good” and “bad”. They are two sides of the same coin and they contribute to our collective inability to understand, identify and respond to harm. We demonize people or we put them on pedestals. As we work to be free of a culture of punishment/revenge, we also have to confront the other side. We have to acknowledge celebrity culture and how it stretches well beyond formal celebrities and into our movements, organizations, groups, relationships -- just as punishment does. A punitive culture teaches us we have to be “good” or “bad”. It erases away our humanity: our human complexities and contradictions; our human capacity for growth, change and transformation, our human capacity for both harm and love.

Mia Mingus

[lesbianboyfriend]

If you love someone very much and they want to destroy you, that is enough to destroy you.

People in Trouble, Sarah Schulman

[lesbianboyfriend]

If you love someone very much and they want to destroy you, that is enough to destroy you.

People in Trouble, Sarah Schulman

[pollyj]

Ladakh

Pie Aerts

[peerzadafaizan]

If you have been going through your worst, just know:

Indeed with hardship comes ease. (Ash-Sharh 94:8)

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The Poetry of May Sarton

[victusinveritas]

The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) was founded Nov. 17, 1983 in the Lacandon Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico by three indigenous and three non-indignous members of its parent organization, the Forces of National Liberation (FLN).

[kafk-a]

June Jordan, ‘Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.’

[cloudswamp]

poet of an ordinary heartbreak, chris abani

[emilyfuckingb-deactivated202503]

[weltenwellen]

June Jordan, from "Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.", Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan

[liminalweirdo]

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Screenshot of a flyer with black text on a white background.

In the top left corner is a black face mask with a smiley face on it, and in the top right corner is a white face mask with a smiley face on it.

Text reads:

Thank you for masking!

Disability oppression is intertwined with Israel's settler-colonial project in Palestine.

Did you know?

Israeli officials refuse to distribute Covid vaccines in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, instead destroying critical sanitation infrastructure necessary to fight the virus.

Covid continues to spread unchecked in Palestine today without any available antiviral medication or medical care, further contributing to the genocide.

Covid is still a global struggle, both in Palestine and here in the United States. Millions of people have died and been disabled by Covid just since the start of 2024.

Please mask up in class, on public transit, in stores, and at medical facilities.

Disability justice & anti-imperialism include wearing a mask beyond the encampment."

In the bottom right corner is an instagram QR code.

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download this distribuatable flyer from clean air club

[firstfullmoon]

Alex Dimitrov

[lilium--bosniacum]

children’s dreams / al-yarmouk, palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria 

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al khatib 

[metamorphesque]

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

[metamorphesque]

— Anna Akhmatova, The Sentence