[one-time-i-dreamt]

[arianagrandre]

cancel/callout culture can be really toxic because it leaves no room for the person to grow/improve and honestly no one is unproblematic so stop setting unattainable standards for human beings maybe

[reginasphalanges]

[remade-lol666]

[havingfurrythots]

this fish is what we should be remembering on memorial day

[the-sapphic-raven]

[faeparrish]

nobody:

wlws, completely unprompted:

[we-the-anon-family]

Atena Farghadani is a 28-year-old Iranian artist. She was recently sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for drawing a cartoon.

This cartoon, that she posted on her Facebook page last year, depicts members of the Iranian parliament as animals. It was drawn in protest of new legislature in Iran that will restrict access to contraception and criminalise voluntary sterilisation. Atena’s charges include ‘spreading propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting members of parliament through paintings’.

Last August, 12 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard came to Atena’s house, blindfolded her and took her to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. According to Amnesty International:

“While in prison last year, Atena flattened paper cups to use them as a surface to paint on. When the prison guards realised what she had been doing, they confiscated her paintings and stopped giving her paper cups. When Atena found some cups in the bathroom, she smuggled them into her cell. Soon after, she was beaten by prison guards, when she refused to strip naked for a full body search. Atena says that they knew about her taking the cups because they had installed cameras in the toilet and bathroom facilities – cameras detainees had been told were not operating.”

She was released in November and gave media interviews and posted a video on YouTube detailing her beatings, constant interrogations and humiliating body searches. She was then rearrested possibly in retaliation for speaking out and has been imprisoned ever since. In January, Atena went on a hunger strike to protest the horrible prison conditions. Her health suffered dramatically, and after losing consciousness and suffering a heart attack in February, she was forced to eat again.

The quote used in the comic is taken from the speech Atena gave at her trial. It has been translated into English by the Free Atena Facebook page. You can read the whole thing here.

Time is now against her, she has just two weeks to lodge an appeal. Michael Cavna, comic journalist for The Washington Post, has launched a campaign appealing to artists to help bring awareness to Atena’s case by creating their own artwork in support of Atena and using the hashtag#Draw4Atena. Can a bunch of artists and a hashtag really make a difference and put pressure on the Iranian Government to release Atena? Probably not. But just remember that Atena is currently in prison enduring horrible conditions, and if her appeal isn’t successful, she will be there for another twelve years. FOR DRAWING A CARTOON AND POSTING IT ON FACEBOOK. Don’t we owe it to her to at least try?

Alot worse actually happens out there.. once Being a soldier (which turned me into an activist) showed me..

Signal boost.

[artzandmusiczloverstuff]

This definitely deserves a boost

[worldpeaceinformant]

Just nasty….

[scary-monsters-and-super-creeps]

#IF YA WENT HARD FOR CHARLIE HEBDO YOU SHOULD GO HARD FOR THIS

[thisiswhiteprivilege]

i was just about to mention that charlie trash

[bethanyactually]

On May 3, 2016 Farghadani was freed again and the charges against her were dismissed.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

[purposelessnessismypurpose]

Not to mention devaluing the absolutely essential work that sanitation workers do.

[thegirlinthebyakko]

Sanitation workers are true unsung heroes -they do jobs others want done but don’t want to do themselves.

[smitethestate]

[meowie]

[surprisebitch]

initails

[lordofseagulls]

[sandersstudies]

Man I remember when I was a kid and my mom would take me to the library and I'd come out with a stack of books like a foot+ tall - sometimes the librarians had to override the computer which told us we were checking out Too Much. And I'd get home and I'd plow through like three four five six chapter books in an afternoon and then I'd emerge for dinner only to go back for one more book, which I was still up reading two hours past bedtime and like damn those were the days huh.

[catgirlwarrior]

Goddamn throwback to when I had an attention span

[thewalkingnerd]

If you heard of writer’s block, get ready for reader’s block. You want to read. You have time. You know what to read; how have a pile of books ready to be read. You cannot sit still and focus enough to do so or you can’t even open the book.

[liberal-memes]

[flanneldragon]

who enchanted this tweet

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

reblog to cast

[997]

in 2O2O yall better feel the rain on ur skin! NO ONE ELSE can feel it for u. period

[sweetbodz-deactivated20190604]

i found my copy of diary of a wimpy kid do-it-yourself book from when i was 9 and found the absolute BEST thing ive ever written

[deeptheon]

i was the most excited for you to come. 

[beyunseh-deactivated20211016]

Just middle-aged women yearning for one another.

Carol (2015); Disobedience (2017); Vita and Virginia (2018); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019); Atomic Blonde (2017)

[pacificgaea]

okay i have not been on this site for a bit but what does tumblr think middle aged means now because this surely isn’t it