Rebageling again because... what gets me most about this interpretation is the softness. When I read the poem, I read it as exultant and fierce. The tiger within was the tiger burning bright of another poem’s fame. The tiger destroyed his cage, and who knew what next now that he was out.
Here, we’re given an answer. The tiger steps out and is surprised by the soft grass under his feet, delighted, goes wide-eyed with wonder, and leaps into the meadow. Here, the focus isn’t the cage’s destruction, but getting out, being out, so that the last glimpse we’re given is the tiger now tiny (and joyful!) in the distance, surrounded by the wide green expanse of freedom.
"A Child’s View from Gaza" was an art exhibition showcasing drawings created by the children of Gaza.
"The captioned illustrations were created by Palestinian children who lived through the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008-09. The pictures were drawn as part of an effort to help children deal with the horrors they had experienced. A Bay Area nonprofit, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), arranged to display a collection of these pictures at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. However, under pressure from the Jewish Federation of the East Bay and other organizations, the museum backed out of the agreement at the last minute."
Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:
More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))
Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?
i was out with my ex once when three *very* young queer kids, like thirteen years old, came up to us and asked us “are you guys, you know…” and did the limp wrist thing at us. one of them loudly exclaimed that it was so cool to meet other queer people in real life. this was in public in an unbelievably conservative area - we didn’t even feel safe holding hands because we were surrounded by Mormons. we got lucky that day, but I’m begging y’all to remember that the world doesn’t work like the internet. other queers are real fuckin people. don’t do this shit. OP is right; tell me you like my jacket, or my patches, or the rainbow spokes on my wheelchair, but don’t out either of us!
This used to be standard operating procedure not even ten years ago: NEVER OUT OTHER QUEERS, even if they’re supposedly already out. Never assume that it’s okay to let third parties know that so-and-so is queer. Ever. You never know when you’ve found the one uncle with the heart condition that they can’t bear to risk telling, or the one neighbor who’s just threatening enough that they don’t mention it around, or even the grandma that they haven’t gotten around to mentioning it to yet. You might have just ruined a very important milestone for someone, or you could have put them at actual risk of harm.
Also… stop freaking assuming. If you don’t see a pride flag on them, please don’t just assume. You can’t tell ANYTHING about a person’s gender or partner preferences by what they’re wearing on any given day, what their hair looks like, or whether or not they’re using makeup. You legit cannot, and you look like a jerk when you try.
Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr.
https://archive.li/YUKrn <- paywall-free link
> “The world is falling apart under Biden,” said Spencer Weiss, a 53-year-old electrical substation specialist in Bloomsburg, Pa., who supported Mr. Biden in 2020 but is now backing Mr. Trump, albeit with some reservations. “I would much rather see somebody that I feel can be a positive role-model leader for the country. But at least I think Trump has his wits about him.”
God this is depressing. Feeling compelled to vote for Donald Fucking Trump of all people, a coked-up pussy-grabbing buffoon who's been impeached twice and is currently facing felony charges, because at least he doesn't look like he wandered out of the dementia ward. The deciding issue for Leader Of The Free World is whether they belong in a shut-up-and-eat home.
> nearly twice as many voters said economic issues would determine their 2024 vote compared with social issues, such as abortion or guns. And those economic voters favored Mr. Trump by a landslide 60 percent to 32 percent. The findings come after Mr. Biden’s campaign has run millions of dollars in ads promoting his record, and as the president continues to tour the country to brag about the state of the economy. “Folks, Bidenomics is just another way of saying the American dream!” Mr. Biden declared on Wednesday on a trip to Minnesota. Voters clearly disagree. Only 2 percent of voters said the economy was excellent.
It reminds me of the Hillary campaign all over again. Being completely blind to economic issues, insisting everything is fine when people clearly don't believe that, being so self-assured in your victory that you don't bring anything to the table other than not being the other guy. The Republicans offer the wrong solutions, but the Democrats offer no solutions at all.
> That said, Mr. Trump will be more in the spotlight in 2024, including his criminal trials, a growing presence that could remind voters why they were repelled by him in the first place.
This is how the article ends. That same damned cocksure progressive-liberal smugness, that all they need to do is not be Trump, and that sooner or later you'll realise their innate superiority. The American voter doesn't need reminders. All the media has been doing since 2015 is reminding the American voter of how repulsive Trump is. That's honestly part of why people vote for him, resentment more than anything. Because the democrats just lord their superiority over you from their ivory tower and scoff at you for expecting something more than the privilege of gazing upon its majesty. The American voter seems resigned to the idea that voting won't make their lot better, so all it's good for is wiping that lofty grin off of the liberal's face.
It should be clearer than ever before that electoralism is a blind alley. The US government is the bourgeois dictatorship of bourgeois dictatorships. To anyone still in America I would recommend joining a union, a tenant's union, a socialist political organisation (I'm not too familiar with socialist orgs specific to the US but Freedom Socialist Party seems like the best one), the SRA/John Brown Gun Club, anything to get some fellow working-class comrades to have your back. And read Marx, of course, because understanding the mess we are in is the first step to getting out of it. Nobody is coming to save you. You must save yourself.
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