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The beginning.
actually IIRC this was the first photo with a specific type of camera or equipment “cos THE progenative shitlord of cat memes was Harry Pointer. And around 1870 he decided that Au Naturelle photos of cats weren’t gonna cut it, and started doing shit like this:
then he realised HE COULD CAPTION THEM
and thus the dignity of the feline was forever destroyed.
The first cat memes.
Someday we will find cat memes painted on the wall of a cave
For the moment, we have pottery shards:
And they are GREAT pottery shards
me @ myself every single time
I’m sleepy.
And I think most of us are.
We grew up thinking that edgy photographs and a qwerty keyboard are more important than real life relationships.
Guess what?
We were right. Internet friends are dope as fuck. Although sometimes I wish I could go do some blow with you irl
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This entire article is another gem as to why this song and this thing overall is A Straight White Mess but here are some incredible excerpts:
The closing is the best part tho:
“As Constance Grady writes for Vox, “Swift is playing one of her worst games here: She’s linking criticism of her as a celebrity and as a musician with homophobic and anti-feminist bullying, and she’s suggesting that they’re all equally wrong.”
Ultimately, “You Need to Calm Down” is a lot like rainbow-branded Listerine for Pride Month or a feminist T-shirt: a well-intentioned item whose societal benefits are muddled by its status as a for-profit consumer good.
There will never be a world in which Taylor Swift, by virtue of being very famous, is not the subject of criticism, and it’s fair to argue that there are better things to criticize her for than performative work as an ally. But Taylor Swift, by virtue of being Taylor Swift, is always trying to sell you something, and there are better ways to spend your queer-supporting dollars and attention than on her.” [x]
There’s a post going around wholeheartedly praising Taylor Swift… so I’m going to reblog this again.
Unless Taylor Swift donates the full profits of her pro-LGBTQ song, I’m not interested in hearing about how great an ally she is.
hot takes on AOC saying that the United States government is operating concentration camps:
WARNING: This post contains references to gruesome human rights violations. It is not for everyone.
76 people in a cell designed for 12.
155 people in a cell designed for 35.
41 in a cell for 8.
Don’t look away.
900 people total, or or more than seven times the 125-person capacity of the El Paso Del Norte immigration processing center.
If it weren’t for the white boxes shielding the faces of dozens of men and women stuffed into the overcrowded cell, it would be difficult to count the people in the photograph, since their overlapping limbs make it impossible to see where one body ends and another begins.
Standing room only cells, where people are held for weeks. Limited access to showers and clean clothes, resulting in those held wearing soiled clothing “for days or weeks.”
People standing on toilets just to find air to breathe. 24 deaths while in ICE custody.
Johana Mediana Léon, 25 years old. Transgender. Passed away four days after release from custody after complaining of chest pains.
Mergensana Amar, 40 years old. Removed from life support after committing suicide in custody.
Efrain De La Rosa, 40 years old. Committed suicide in custody by self-inflicted strangulation.
Roxana Hernandez, 33 years old. Transgender. Passed away in custody after experiencing cardiac arrest.
300,000-500,000 individuals per year in custody. Acting ICE director Mark Morgan’s response? Plans to increase large scale raids.
Don’t look away.
They’re not “centers.” They’re not “facilities.” They’re not “processing areas.” Let’s call them what they are.
The United States government is operating concentration camps. And we must act.
Memos surfaced by journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s failure to provide medical care was responsible for suicides and other deaths of detainees. These followed another report that showed that thousands of detainees are being brutally held in isolation cells just for being transgender or mentally ill.
Two weeks ago, the Trump administration cut funding for classes, recreation and legal aid at detention centers holding minors — which were likened to “summer camps” by a senior ICE official last year. And there was the revelation that months after being torn from their parents’ arms, 37 children were locked in vans for up to 39 hours in the parking lot of a detention center outside Port Isabel, Texas. In the last year, at least seven migrant children have died in federal custody.
Don’t look away.
It’s certainly been helpful for the Trump Administration that nobody has called them concentration camps until this week, when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came under great fire for doing so.
It may well be a testament to the media machine that is the Trump administration. Look away! He wore an ill-fitting tuxedo to meet the Queen! Look away! He won’t acknowledge that the Central Park Five are exonerated! Look away! He fired pollsters for giving him numbers that he didn’t like!
Don’t look away.
It’s helpful to the President that the media covers these human rights abuses intermittently instead of as what they actually are: proof of a racist administration, unchecked by the law. It’s helpful that there’s so much else to look at right now. But more than anything else, it’s helpful that the places where these people are being tortured and left to die are hidden. They’re locked away from the eyes of journalists and concerned members of the public. They’re misleadingly named.
That’s what a concentration camp is. And the immediate outrage to AOC calling them that is the right response. Hearing that the government is running concentration camps is something one should feel scrupulous towards. A concentration camp isn’t the same as a death camp. We don’t have those yet. But when Hitler ran his, they started as the former, extending to the latter.
Don’t look away.
Hannah Arendt, imprisoned by the Gestapo and interned in a French camp, wrote about the levels of concentration camps. Extermination camps were the most extreme; others were just about getting “undesirable elements … out of the way.” All had one thing in common: “The human masses sealed off in them are treated as if they no longer existed, as if what happened to them were no longer of interest to anybody, as if they were already dead.”
Is that not what we were doing?
I hesitate to speak for my own ancestry, for my family members killed at Neuengamme camp along with more than 43,000 others. But I can’t hesitate long enough to sway my thinking away from confirming what AOC already said.
It’s easy to think of the Holocaust only in terms of the final outcome. But there was a beginning.
Don’t look away. It started with fear mongering. It started with ghettoization. It started with hidden camps. Then, the pogroms. Then, the extermination camps.
Mass detention isn’t new. But this president has made it a centerpiece of his rhetoric and his agenda. He’s perfected the extreme language that dehumanizes immigrants. At a rally in Florida last month, Trump was bemoaning migrants’ legal protections when someone in the audience suggested they should be shot. The president laughed and made a joke.
Through overcrowding and dehumanization, concentration camps became self-fulfilling prophecies. The culture of abuse leads to frustration and violence, thus “justifying” their incarceration after the fact. Other citizens become desensitized to the dehumanization of a group of people and thus implicitly give approval for concentration camps by our lack of pushback.
Do you see it?
It’s happening now.
Don’t look away.
Happening right now in Hong Kong - the police is firing rubber bullets and using batons, pepper spray, tear gas and water cannons on peaceful protesters who took the streets to protest against the passing of a controversial law which would allow China to extradite people.
Protesters set up camps, gave out snacks and surgical masks before all of this started. Tanks are apparenrly out in the streets as well and people are being hurt as I write this, but they are not backing down.
Most of the protesters are young people, university students, even high schoolers.
The police are now stopping ambulances trying to help the injured and are taking people out of the ambulances and arresting them insteading of letting them get the help they need. This could cost people their lives, their vision (they aimed the rubber bullets in the heads of the protesters), etc. It’s like those police officers forgot what their jobs actually are and lost their humanity in the process.
The man covered in blood and lying on the floor in one of the photos above is a journalist and the police shot him in the head! The protesters moved to let the ambulance pass through and directed them to the man and let them pass to the hospital freely, clapping at the ambulance workers all the while. The man has since lost consciousness and his condition is reported as being serious.
Meanwhile, the police had since blocked other ambulance vehicles from passing through and arrested the injured.
A video of the journalist being shot was captured and is currently spreading on social media - in it, you can see that the man was just standing there and didn’t do anything to warrant being shot whatsoever.
approx. 10 riot police beating up lone protester while journalists (in yellow vests) film
earlier (approx 5:30 HKT 12/6/19 (dd/m/yy)) a protester was shot in the face ; not sure if its by rubber bullet or bean bag
TW BLOOD
Video of a man coughing blood
Urgent medical supplies the protestors need:
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Films by or about people of colour directed by women*
Some notes on the list:
This list is non-exhaustive.
The movies I counted as “starring” poc of colour have at least 1 poc as lead or co-lead.
I respect the fact that some people do not want to see movies about poc as told by white women and have separated these movies accordingly.
Some of the directors who are woc who have directed the movies starring woc are not the same race as their casts.
What counts as a woc in the western world is not what is necessarily counted as a woc in the countries that those women are from. I have created my international list based on my own western perspective.
American films directed by WOC starring POC
13th (Ava DuVernay) Documentary Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan) Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash) Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons) Everything Everything (Stella Meghie) Farah Goes Bang (Meera Menon) Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin) I Will Follow (Ava DuVernay) It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting) Love and Basketball (Gina Prince-Blythewood) Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins) Pariah (Dee Rees) Peeples (Tina Gordon Chism) Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay) Mississippi Damned (Tina Mabry) Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair) Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero) Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso) Saving Face (Alice Wu) Selma (Ava DuVernay) Something New (Sanaa Hamri) Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloe Zhao) Yelling to the Sky (Victoria Mahoney)
Directed by WOC starring white people The Republic of Love (Deepa Mehta) D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson) Vanity Fair (Mira Nair) Jennifer’s Body (Karyn Kusama) Last Night (Massy Tadjedin) The Invitation (Karyn Kusama) Equity (Meera Menon) Shake It (Hella Joof)
International WOC
At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmabaf) Iran Belle (Amma Asante) UK Bend it like Beckham (Gurinder Chada) UK Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf) Iran Bollywood/Hollywood (Deepa Mehta) Canada Dil Dhankande Do (Zoya Akhtar) India Double Happiness (Mina Schum) Canada` Earth (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India Fire (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta) Canada Jean of the Joneses (Stella Meghie) Canada Lipstick Under my Burka (Alankrita Shrivastava) India Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) India Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud) France The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert) Brazil Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair) India A Simple Life (Ann Hui) Hong Kong Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) Japan Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy) Martinique Sweet Bean (Naomi Kawase) Japan A United Kingdom (Amma Asante) (UK) Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour) Saudi Arabia Water (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India The Wedding Party (Kemi Adetiba) Nigeria
Directed by white women starring POC
2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy) 35 Rhums (Claire Denis) American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Ayanda (Sara Blecher) Black Panthers (Agnès Varda) documentary Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron) The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) Frida (Julie Taymor) Girlhood (Céline Sciamma) Honeytrap (Rebecca Johnson) Itty Bitty Titty Committee (Jamie Babbit) Mi Vida Loca (Allison Anders) No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis) Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston) documentary Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke) documentary Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier) The Wedding Song (Karin Albou) Whale Rider (Niki Caro) Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
*I know people will want to add onto the list and I appreciate that, but before you do please check whether a film is directed by a woman. This blog and list is in support of women directed or co-directed films. Please respect that.
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Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. Place on a tiny side street I go to any time I’m there. Wish I could remember the name!
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