[archivesofmyheart-blog]

يؤتكم خيرا مما أخذ منكم

He will give you [something] better than what was taken from you. 8:70

[jeremiu]

Akihiko Miyoshi, Artist Statement, 2004

[plumslices]

sword bookmark i missed out on 💔

[abudinges]

lam yabqa fi qaws sabri minza’: my patience is at an end (lit.: there is no arrow left for the bow of my patience)

[gouged-doll]

robert morris, untitled (passageway), installation, 1961

[odieum]

[percona]

I’m for no one

[zamaaanawal]

Female members of Egypt’s ‘liberation battalions’ train in the desert for guerrilla warfare against the British, 1951.

نساء مصريات ضمن “كتائب التحرير” يتدربن في الصحراء على العمليات الفدائية ضد البريطانيين في منطقة قناة السويس

[telkqadeya-deactivated20250626]

الاحتلال ما بستفزك؟

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

my 5 year plan is to get back my joy

[lascitasdelashoras]

Hannah Arendt’s syllabus for her 1974 class on Thinking isn’t much easier.

[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

[percona]

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Palestinian artist mona hatoums 1984 performance “variation on Discord & divisions”

[percona]

[percona]

[whentherewerebicycles]

“We need to tell each other stories of different ways you can live, different ways you can be; predicated not on how close you get to the life you were assumed or expected to have, but on the queer wanderings of the life you live. I would have liked to have known there were other ways of living, of being. I would have liked to have known that women do not have to be in relation to men.”

— Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life