The YEARS

[thisispaper]

Koji Aono lives a contemplative life through photography

[odonianpoet]

Three ladies of Lyon picking fruit by Professor Fernand Arloing (c. 1910)

[psikonauti]

Elaine de Kooning (American,1918-1989)

Sitter (Self-portrait #3) , 1946

Oil on Masonite

[halalchampagnesocialist]

Between the people who will need to leave Gaza to get medical care due to a lack of functioning hospitals to people who will be homeless as entire neighbourhoods are destroyed, it's hard to fathom the significant toll that will still be impactful for years to come. Never mind the trauma children will continue to have or even Palestinians who can never do what they love again due to becoming disabled... I just cannot stop thinking about it.

[bundibird]

Even if Israel stopped their assault right this very second and withdrew all their troops and turned the electricity back on and opened the borders into gaza, letting in unfettered aid, the unfathomably huge crisis currently in progress there would be ongoing.

So many roads are destroyed that aid convoys would struggle to get very far into the Strip, even once they made it past the tens of thousands close to the edges who are currently starving to death.

Many of the hospitals and medical centres have been either destroyed or severely damaged. Even without the damage to the buildings and equipment, they would be short-staffed, thanks to Israel's relentless targetting of medical staff. The handful of hospitals that would theoretically be operational if the power was turned back on would not be nearly enough to cater to the (at minimum) 61,500 people who have been injured.

And as OP said, where do the people go? Two thirds of the buildings in northern Gaza have been completely destroyed. A quarter of all buildings in the south. Gaza was already one of the highest density cities in the world before this, and now they have over 1.2 million people who have to fit into VASTLY fewer houses.

The temperature overnight in Gaza at the moment is dropping down into single digits. What keeps all those houseless people warm at night? A tent? There are currently 1.8 million homeless people in Gaza. Where do they all go for shelter?

There are now, as a direct result of Israels 100+ days of bombing, over 25,000 orphans in Gaza. Many haven't just lost their parents, but their whole families. The assault in Gaza has necessitated the creation of a new acronym: WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. Who looks after them? Who makes sure they're cared for, fed, housed, kept warm, loved? 25,000 orphans in the span of 100 days. That's unspeakably fucked up.

And how much psychological damage has been done to every single citizen there? How many horrific scenes have they borne witness to; how many loved ones have they lost; how many terrors have they endured? How do they even begin to recover from that?

The amount of damage Israel has done is unfathomable. And Israel don't give a fuck. Israel wants to create MORE damage than they already have. Create more wounded, more orphans. Destroy more homes, starve more people. The damage they've done will already take decades to recover from, and Israel wants to keep going. Wants to keep destroying, killing, maiming, torturing.

Their evil is unparalleled. The people of Gaza and Palestine are on my mind every single day. Do not stop thinking abut them; do not stop talking about them. And when all of this is over, do not stop helping them in whatever way you can.

[sealskin]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/41pu2j0alrvmmqq/AADcNEo2K-fsdlacFfuXnKtva?dl=0

Above is the link to an audio file with Palestinian music, read-aloud poetry, storytelling, and excerpts from speeches on history and liberation. It was gathered by Radio Al Hara, an internet radio station broadcast from Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Amman in Jordan, founded during the pandemic as a way to connect during isolation. “Al Hara” means ​“the neighbourhood” in Arabic. From the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I'm finally reading South Africa's application to the ICJ against Israel and damn they really came with those receipts!! Must read document if you not only want to understand how Israel is committing genocide, but the situation in Gaza more generally also

[women-loving-art]

Violet Oakley Terrace of Cogslea / Two women at Cogslea, tending flowers / Roses in Cogslea garden

[biladal-sham]

West Bank, Palestine, 2003 // Alessandra Sanguinetti

[dame-de-pique]

Josef Sudek - Spring in the Seminar Garden, 1950s

[cor-ardens-archive]

1. Strolling Along the Seashore (1909, Joaquín Sorolla) 2. Death in Venice (1971, Luchino Visconti)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949)

[gothhabiba]

The thing about hand-wringing about people over-using the concept of "boundaries," being "too ready" to cut people off, being "too" willing to isolate themselves or other people, being "too" ready to interpret conflict as abuse, &c., is that the validity of the criticism always rests on the specific examples cited & the specific contexts in which the complaint is mobilised.

It is just as possible for someone to misuse the complaint "people are misusing the concept of 'boundaries' as an abusive or isolationist tactic" as it is to misuse the concept of "boundaries." People who abuse or otherwise mistreat others are often very good at manipulating any discourse they like to their own ends.

[evsalyn]

it's just so pretty

[vintagehomecollection]

The candlelit dining room is glimpsed from the central courtyard.

The Los Angeles House, 1995

[olreid]

oh i'll go NUTS

[hedgehog-moss]

hmmm I think we need a list of les bouquinistes qui valent le coup please 👉👈

Top 3 places to buy secondhand books in Paris according to me:

I love the bookshop on rue Lécuyer in Saint-Ouen (the North of Paris—it's in the Marché aux Puces but it's a proper shop so it's open including on days when the flea market is closed.) It's really big, with lots of old leather-bound books that are actually affordable.

Boulinier on boulevard Saint-Michel is another favourite, although they recently moved to a new and smaller location (on the same street) and I really miss the old bookshop :( It had a dark basement which was a cool place to browse books... But I'm glad they didn't close altogether. They renew their stocks quite often and have lots of very cheap books, 20 to 50cts.

And on weekends, the Old Books Market is a cool place to visit and browse books, I used to pop by almost every weekend, it was heaven to me when I was a kid! There's a park next to it where you can buy a crêpe and sit in the grass to read your books afterwards, it's a nice Sunday afternoon activity.

[gothhabiba]

do you have like an antipsych masterpost or reading list? ive been meaning to get more people into it but dont know where to start

Here's a short reading list I made last week, including a link to a much longer reading list (The anti-psychiatry bibliography and resource guide) broken down by category ("the mental patient experience," "the politics of sanity and madness," "psychiatry and the law," "psychiatry and women," "alternatives to institutional psychiatry," &c.).

The bibliography and resource guide also includes brief passages that elucidate the history of anti-psych movements, as well as summaries of particular thinkers' views. This article provides a quick rundown of some of the people and movements that coalesced under the banner of "antipsychiatry."

In terms of antipsychiatry as a 'field', David Cooper's works are seminal. R. D. Laing is also influential, though he considered himself an advocator for psychiatric reform (and would also go on to collaborate with the Church of Scientology, under an "enemy of my enemy" principle).

For shorter readings from the perspective of a patient, I'd recommend Wren Ave's blog.

This post (based on this one) was my attempt at an "introduction" to the topic of antipsychiatry.

Basically, I'd recommend finding a topic that interests you (the history of psychiatry? patients' testimonies? underlying logics of pathologisation?) and then find something in the anti-psych bibliography that sounds promising. Anti-psych has quite a few different "prongs" to it and it's best to start out with a topic you feel drawn to.