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“Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. Sadness becomes a seizure. Empathy demands another kind of porousness in response.”

- The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison

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At the Gates of Dis (Oils) by Kim Jakobsson

This artist on Facebook // Instagram

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Frida Kahlo, Retrato de Luther Burbank (detail), 1931

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“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.”

— Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859

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Know the difference

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Chinese Communist woman guerrilla fighter south of Yangtze River greets a PLA woman soldier after PLA had crossed Yangtze River in 1949. They posed for Soviet documentary film maker Vladislav Mikosha.

Source

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“Rather than returning to the family in the face of its destruction under capitalism, we should seek to create a world where the haven of the family is not necessary. Rather than a society full of broken families, we need a society where someone without a family can thrive as well as someone with family intact. This is what “abolishing the family” truly means: to end the economic relations of dependence of wives and children on the patriarch so that kinship is based on voluntary relationships of genuine love and community. This would entail not ending the ability of parents to raise their children, but instead giving children the option to leave their families if they are abusive, while retaining support networks beyond the misery of foster care. It would mean ending the unpaid domestic labor of women that reproduces the nuclear family, by socializing this work and removing its gendered connotations.”

— Donald Parkinson, Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left

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Some animals are illiterate, 1973, Max Ernst

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“Traumatized people are often afraid of feeling. It is not so much the perpetrators (who, hopefully, are no longer around to hurt them) but their own physical sensations that now are the enemy. Apprehension about being hijacked by uncomfortable sensations keeps the body frozen and the mind shut. Even though the trauma is a thing of the past, the emotional brain keeps generating sensations that make the sufferer feel scared and helpless. It’s not surprising that so many trauma survivors are compulsive eaters and drinkers, fear making love, and avoid many social activities: Their sensory world is largely off limits.”

— - Bessel van der Kolk “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and the Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Art by Zeen Chin

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The Fall of Icarus   -      Willem den Ouden, 2010

Dutch,B. 1928-

Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

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Cover art by Ralph Steadman for the 1972 edition of HUMAN IDENTITY IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT.

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“Genetic punning aside, the question of nature versus nurture - or, as it is sometimes more ponderously phrased, biological versus social determinism - remains a hotly debated topic. Although many of the arguments explored in subsequent chapters of this book are posed in this either/or fashion, some scientists and social theorists (myself included) no longer believe in the scientific validity of this framework. Such thinkers reject the search for unique “root causes,“ arguing instead for a more complex analysis in which an individual’s capacities emerge from a web of interactions between the biological being and the social environment. Within this web, connecting threads move in both directions. Biology may in some manner condition behavior, but behavior in turn can alter one’s physiology. Furthermore, any particular behavior can have many different causes. This new vision challenges the hunt for fundamental biological causes at its very heart, stating unequivocally that the search itself is based on a false understanding of biology. The question, “What fraction of our behavior is biologically based,” is impossible - even in theory - to answer, and unanswerable questions drop out of the realm of science altogether, entering instead that of philosophy and morality.”

— Myths of Gender, Anne-Fausto Sterling

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Lo so, siete a bocca aperta. L’opera è di Darian Rodriguez Mederos, classe 1992, artista cubano di cui sentiremo parlare ancora.

via Jacopo Veneziani 

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[transl.] “I know, it’s jaw-dropping. The painting is by cuban artist Darian Rodriguez Mederos, born 1992; we’ll hear more about him soon”