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Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You
[image description: text that reads, "I think what I value most are people who love me enough to be angry at me then come back and still love me. People who are patient with me when they have no right to be. People who know me well enough to know that I am a collage of failures with some really good intentions."]
my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella
here is a zine called "helping your friends who sometimes wanna die maybe not die," a recent, excellent find of mine. perfect for those interested in harm reduction + community care in relation to suicide and other forms of mental/emotional crisis.
"helping your friends who sometimes wanna die maybe not die" by carly boyce is available for free download here. read and share.
and here is a webinar on anti-carceral crisis intervention, presented by the author!
“But, how do a stateless people engage with anarchism, a term that implies opposition to some form of state as a condition of its existence?”
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Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating Anarchism in a Colonized Country
In Palestine, elements of popular struggle have historically often been self-organized. Even if not explicitly identified as “anarchism” as such, “People have already done horizontal, or non-hierarchical, organizing all their lives,” says Beesan Ramadan, another local anarchist, who describes anarchism as a “tactic” yet questions the need to attach a label. She continues, “It is already there in my culture and in the way Palestinian activism has worked. During the First Intifada, for instance, when someone’s home was demolished, people would organize to rebuild it, almost spontaneously. As a Palestinian anarchist I look forward to going back to the roots of the First Intifada. It did not come from a political decision. It came against the will of the PLO
The Palestinian case has been further complicated in recent decades. The landscape of largely horizontal self-organization in the First Intifada, was displaced in 1993 with the signing of the Oslo Accords and the top-down Palestinian Authority (PA) they created. “Now here in Palestine,” Ramadan observes, “we don’t have the meaning of authority that other people defy…We have the PA and the occupation, and our priorities are always mixed up. The PA and the Israelis [are on] the same level because the PA is a tool for the Israelis to oppress the Palestinians.” Nimer also shares this view, arguing it has now spread much more widely and that many now see the PA as a “proxy-occupation”.
“Being an anarchist doesn’t mean having the black and red flag or going black bloc,” Ramadan points out, referring to the established anarchist protest tactic of wearing all-black clothing and covering faces. “I don’t want to imitate any western group in the way that they ‘do’ anarchism…it is not going to work here, because you need to create a whole consciousness of the people. People don’t understand this concept.”
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For Ramadan, nationalism also represents a significant problem. “People need nationalism in times of struggle,” she concedes, “[But] it sometimes becomes an obstacle… You know what the negative sense of nationalism means? It means you only think as Palestinians, that Palestinians are the only ones who are suffering in the world.” Nimer also adds, “You’re talking about sixty years of occupation and ethnic cleansing, and sixty years of resisting that through nationalism. That’s too long, it’s unhealthy. People can go from nationalist to fascist, quite quickly.”
This is relevant to most Indigenous resistance movements
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Found it in IAS
I saw a meme about onions tonight and I was so captivated by the beauty of the humble red onion I knew I had to draw one immediately
[ID: A detailed painting of a red onion against an orange background, with a watermark below the onion reading "Marlowe-art". The onion has a red papery skin that is starting to flake off, and it leans to the left, where leaf stalks have begun sprouting from the top, starting purple, then turning deeper green. End ID.]
Dr Refaat AlAreer was just murdered by israel (12/7/23)
His last tweet:
[image description: text art with a cream background and dull gold letters, unevenly spaced as if pasted on. It reads, all in capital letters, “Shout out to all the versions of myself that I outgrew. Thanks for doing your best with the tools you had at the time.”]
HANIF ABDURRAQIB
[ID: A photo of the prose poem "When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan" in the book The Crown Ain't Worth Much. The poem proceeds from the title seamlessly and reads:
"what I mean is that my father can tell a bunch of cool stories about back in the day when I was truly great. there is a mountain of gold that has gathered dust in the corner where I used to sleep, and look at all of these pictures. in this one, I am wearing rainbow shorts and hurling rocks at a shoreline. in this one, I am smiling in the glow of 13 lit candles pushed into a sheet of dark sugar. you may ask why I allow my face to drown in less and less joy with each passing year and I will say I just woke up one day and I was a still photo in everyone else's home but my own. or I will say I promise that my legs just need another season, and then I will be who you fell in love with again. and then probably just I'm sorry that there was once a tremendous blue sky and then a decade of hard, incessant rain."
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You can also listen to this read by the poet here.
bdsm enjoyers r onto something. i think we should incorporate aftercare into just hanging out. i need a buddy to hold me and say “that was really fun and you seemed normal”
perhaps it's autism but i do this and you can too. same as with dates! a quick "hey i enjoyed that and would love to do it again" between friends goes a long way toward everybody being on the same emotional page
ohhh fuck off. someone learned my summoning ritual again. ill be right back
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he's the star
[Image description: two pictures of a sketchbook depiction of a figure on his back. His palms are on his chest, where orange light emanates. There are yellow stars/bursts of light above the figure, and wavy lines in orange and red below. The first picture is a close up; the second picture shows the whole illustration, spread across two pages. End ID]
oh little coffee drink we're really in it now
I know this is about capitalism but it's also about my knees
[tweet from @AthertonKD says "Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?"]
Ellen Starr Lyon - Winter Foliage, 2023
[Image description: a painting of tropical plants sitting next to a slightly foggy window, the bright greens, pinks, and oranges of the leaves juxtaposed against the cool wintry colors seen through the glass. A lime green pothos cutting sprawls out of a glass container, next to a large croton plant cutting, its own green leaves woven through with sunset-colored highlights and beginning to sprout a drooping vine of yellow flowers. On the right, green and pink leaves sprout out of a deep blue pot, and on the left, red and green leaves grow amidst small white flowers. On the table sits a sand dollar and ornately-decorated box. /end ID]
"Interstate 55 carries 10s of thousands of abortion seekers out of southern states to Illinois, where abortion is legal. I-55 is covered with horrific, shaming billboards. Shout Your Abortion put up 6 good ones, to show love & affirmation to those making the journey." x
[Image descriptions: three billboards in black with white bold letters, reading, "God's plan includes abortion", "Abortion is okay, you know what's right for you", and "abortion is okay, you are loved". /end ID]
black cat & lilies
[ id: a digital, realistic, detailed painting of a black cat surrounded by white flowers, stretching its paw forward as it stretches and twists its body in the upper right corner. Its eyes are icy blue and glow. The background is blue. There’s a pink glow on the flowers that reflects on the cat. /End id ]