this place is not a place of honor

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[43nils]

Ismo Hölttö Skibotn, Norway 1967.

[samarashoot]

[photo of an elderly person wearing knit mittens and holding and kissing a cat]

[cyancees]

i think that every day after work big man goes home to an even bigger man

[cyancees]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[junglejim4322]

It’s crazy to watch people in one colonial state think they’re better and morally superior to people in other colonial states you need to get a grip severely

[fairycosmos]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[m3atbuff3t]

i coul dnever be the captain of a ship. everyday id be like third lieutenant ..... do a backflip lol

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[metanarrates]

all women should be more hairy and sweaty and eat more food and laugh more loudly. my stance as a feminist and also my stance as a lesbian pervert

[kayfabeoutcold]

"I didn't want the last sound heard in my music school to be the sound of bombs and missiles."

Musician Hamidreza Afarideh plays the kamancheh in the rubble of his music school in Tehran.

[wiigiwaamcore]

Hot take here but how about everyone shut the fuck up and actually read Indigenous authors from Abya Yala rather than use them as a rhetorical weapon against people you don’t like on the internet

And I’m happy to go first with the recs but I’m on my phone rn so it’ll have to wait

[wiigiwaamcore]

Asterisks mean I'm pretty sure they have English translated work available. Don't be lazy google it yourself

Contemporary writers (mostly nonfiction)

*Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

*Ailton Krenak

*Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Arysteides Turpana

Aiban Wagua

*Pedro Cayuqueo

Eliane Potiguara

Carlos Macusaya

Decolonial Feminists

*Aura Cumes

Lélia Gonzalez

Emma Chirix

*Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj

*Gladys Tzul Tzul

Queer creative writers

Elvis Guerra

*Manuel Tzoc

Daniel Nizcub

Ivonne Coñuecar

Juão Nyn

[grimdr]

revised/expanded version of my original addition of translated stuff:

poetry

Humberto Ak’abal (K’iche’) has had a bunch of books translated into English, including Here Was Paradise, If Today Were Tomorrow, and In the Courtyard of the Moon

Jaime Luis Huenún Villa (Mapuche) (ed.), Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology

Marcella Lewis (Garifuna), Walagante Marcella / Marcella Our Legacy

Miguelángel Meza (Guaraní), Pyambu / Dream Pattering Soles (tr. Elisa Taber)

Irma Pineda (Zapotec), Stolen Flower (tr. Irma Pineda and Wendy Call)

Basil Rodrigues (Lokono/Arawak), Uncle Basil (biography + poems)

Mikeas Sánchez (Zoque), How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (tr. Wendy Call and Shook)

Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul (Nawat), My Woman Card Is Anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths

Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul (Nawat) (ed.), Two-Spirits Belong Here: An Anthology of Works by Two-Spirit Transgender, Intersex, and Gender Non-Conforming Native American Artists

Víctor Terán (Zapotec) has also had several collections of poetry published in English translation, including Poems / Diidxado’, The Spines of Love, and The Thorn of Your Name

Manuel Tzoc (K’iche’), four poems, tr. Paul M. Worley

fiction

Daniela Catrileo (Mapuche), Chilco (tr. Jacob Edelstein)

Pergentino José (Zapotec), Red Ants (tr. Thomas Bunstead)

Mikel Ruiz (Tsotsil), Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children (tr. Sean S. Sell)

nonfiction

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Mixe), “Languages and Nation-States” (tr. Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco)

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Mixe), This Mouth Is Mine (tr. Ellen Jones)

Emil’ Keme (K’iche’), Le Maya Q’atzij / Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala

María Fernanda Leyva (Yaqui), Au Te Waate / We Remember It: Hiaki Survival Through a Bitter War

[voiceofaboud]

ISRAEL JUST KILLED MY AUNT’S CHILDREN.

They went to check their home and were killed. In seconds, her whole world was erased.

[voiceofaboud]

[voiceofaboud]

My aunt is now completely alone. Today’s donations are for her. Please don’t leave her alone in this pain.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

[voiceofaboud]

She heard the news while sitting next to my mother in the ICU. We are shattered. Please share this and let people know what is happening to us.

[thegenderdruid]

walking down the street and saw someone walking the other direction with a pig in a harness and leash and I stupidly asked, "is that a pig?" and he replied, "I sure hope it is, it was a pig when I left the house"

[hagiomoto]

Please consider setting up a recurring donation to Project Muhammad.

Help the people in Gaza

From the heart of besieged Gaza, where life has become a daily struggle for survival and childhood has lost all its basic protections, the E

[strawberry-crocodile]

i used to really resent people who loved pokemon gen 1 but as hoenn and sinnoh and unove get pushed further and further back into the history of the franchise and forgotten and i care less and less about what's new and modern i do have to admit that gen 1 has a real je ne se quois. the watercolor sugomori art. the theme of urban decay. the way that the franchise hadn't yet settled on that utopian near-future aesthetic that solidified around gen 5.

[strawberry-crocodile]

do you remember people talking about the Great Pokemon War? how that was like a big fan thing in the 90s and 00s? and like... i do think it's a bit of fandom watsonianism, but Generation 1 genuinely takes place in the mid 90s of japan, right after a major economic crash and still in the shadow of war and imperialism. there's an American GI there, mystics using whips, burglars, straight up organized crime, half the monsters you fight can poison you... it's a Mons game, these are Monsters, like you would find in Final Fantasy or Wizardry- slimes and carnivorous plants and dragons, transplanted to a modern setting! being able to catch and befriend them is a twist!

one of the setpieces in the game is an abandoned power plant! even by Ruby and Sapphire, eight years later, the equivalent abandoned power plant is, like, one eccentric guy's half-finished hobby project. in Red and Green there just... is an abandoned power plant, and it doesn't need explanation. if you were living in japan in the mid 90s you saw abandoned industry in your day to day life.

it's just so hostile and of its time and different from the rest of the series. the elements that do get picked up of technology and friendship are there, but there's also just an edge that had been sanded away by the 2000s. and looking back now, as an adult, as someone whose childhood was defined by that shift from the last dregs of the 90s to y2k and the Bush administration in the US... its all so rich and nostalgic and historical and fascinating!

[quixoticanarchy]

the author’s poorly disguised unchallenged ideas about how the world works, what is natural, what should go without saying

[quixoticanarchy]

or sometimes just: the author's increasingly blatant racism

[ceruleanheaven]

trying to figure out if a memory of mine actually happened or if its a hallucination a dream i had or a lie i told a bunch of times and forgot was a lie

[hagiomoto]

Each person being killed by American bombs in West Asia right now contains a universe within them, whether they have credentials or not. It astounds me to see that people in countries not being bombed mourn only those whom they consider “civilized” (people with professional degrees, dual citizenships with western countries and so on).

[jellyamp]

HEYA! DO YOU SEE THE THREE BLOGS IN THIS SCREENSHOT?

they are just a few of over 30+ different TMA users who WERE JUST DELETED

that number is STILL GROWING AS WE WRITE THIS POST

many of them have been getting emails from tumblr about their blogs being deleted and the most common email seen is an "internally generated report" (meaning staff intentionally took the action) and the only explanation given is a reference to tumblr's tos that says:

"WE MAY CHOOSE TO STOP PROVIDING SERVICE TO AN ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, OR NONE AT ALL"

several users hadn't been posting anything that could remotely be a TOS violation and the only commonality they could find was that they were mutuals with one or more of the other deleted blogs

STAFF IS EVIDENTLY BANNING TMA USERS BY ASSOCIATION NOW

could everyone who has been raising the alarm over tumblr's shit reblog changes this week maybe also RAISE THE ALARM ABOUT THIS TOO?!?

this is transmisogyny plain and simple

these girls do not deserve to be removed from the platform (and with not even the barest attempt at an excuse from staff either)

it is completely unacceptable