Claire Keane
ojovivo
RMH
DEAR READER
KIROKAZE
cherry valley forever
Show & Tell
Misplaced Lens Cap
Sweet Seals For You, Always
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Andulka
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Three Goblin Art
Origami Around
Sade Olutola
Janaina Medeiros
we're not kids anymore.
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#extradirty
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@samani-burns
O Allah, make my spine a pillar of sincerity, my words a fortress for the vulnerable, and my work a shade of protection that outlives me. Let every line of code I secure, every warning I whisper, and every boundary I help draw be an act of remembrance of You—The Protector (Al-Hafiz), The Guardian (Al-Wakil), The Truth (Al-Haqq). Forgive my stumbles, for I approach not as a scholar, but as a lover reaching through the work of my hands. Ameen.
Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
My next Black History Month request:
Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!
Tranquility of Makkah
sandy__skies on instagram
L. V., excerpts from a past life
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.
My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - "Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?"
I shook my head, incredibly confused. "Uh. That's. Not my jurisdiction. I'm good." Boss nodded but was sure to add "Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan."
@vangoggles THAT WHAT I WAS SAYING .
And I was finally on a shift with this guy. We were both sitting in silence because we had the ass-crack-of-dawn slot.
Over my coffee and twirling my Magen David necklace around my finger, I say "So. Ahmed. Ramadan.
And Ahmed over his energy drink, sighs - "don't you say shit about that."
#what's the bet Ahmed was just asking for certain shifts during Ramadan and Boss got excited and was like “just take the whole ramadan off!”#“don't even worry about it! we support you! take the time you need!” I'm scheduled to work with him tomorrow morning so will find out then 🫡 .We're both STEM majors who use the early empty hours to study so I will report if I get more than a grunt out of him about it.
another stupid-early morning, and between our respective course loads- him organic chemistry and me pathophysiology- I asked for the full story in how he got all of Ramadan off.
He sighed, and let me know that he did indeed try to explain to our manager that all he needed was to get shifts not around sunrise or sunset. But that in him explaining what Ramadan was, the plot very quickly got lost into this unhinged confusion where our boss was trying to google how people could survive an entire month without food or water.
So halfway through, he decided to pivot and go along with it, expecting less shifts in March because that's a difficult academic time anyway. Then, he had to keep a straight face when the end-product was the entire time off with paid leave.
So, now, he's in a hell partially of his own making where his boss genuinely believes he doesn't eat for a month and is trying to offer all non-Christian workers March off. I offered him time off for Hanukkah. He hit his head against the desk, and groaned.
Israel's attacks have been relentless since the eve of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, May 26. Just yesterday the head of anesthesia at Al-Yafa Medical Hospital was killed in an attack that injured three others. Over 50% of hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctional. Even when Palestinians survive attacks, treatment is limited and medical bills are expensive.
This targeting of healthcare workers and infrastructure is the reason my friend Fadel needs to raise funds for medical evacuation to a hospital outside of Gaza to surgically remove shrapnel that embedded in his body during the Israeli airstrike that destroyed his home while he was inside.
Fadel (@fadel-dani) is currently struggling to afford his hospital bills. He is being treated for severe anemia and malnutrition as a result of long term food insecurity and being unable to afford his monthly medication to treat his blood disorder. He suffers from frequent fainting and collapses unconscious, leaving his family terrified that he has died from starvation. Please help him.
trying to actually use some of my hoard of traditional art supplies. this is maybe my fourth attempt?
Australian Magpie
4X6", gouache
(Ref photo by Robert Lynch)
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
-Lao Tzu
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Charles Bukowski, "young men," from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk through the Fire
Waiting for your du’a to be accepted can feel heavy, especially when days turn into months and nothing seems to change, but Allah is never ignoring you. He hears every whisper, every tear, every silent plea you make. Sometimes the delay is not a denial but protection, preparation, or something better being written for you. You may be counting the time, but Allah is arranging the outcome with perfect wisdom. And one day, when the answer finally comes in the right way and at the right time, you’ll realize the waiting itself was part of the mercy.
get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all
& Allah said: I am with the ones whose hearts are torn.
[Hadith Qudsi]
most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.
like this
Henry Corbin
