more meme than man

Kellen | late-20s | USA | he/him | Ojibwe & white | header art by @mayakern | FKA @deathsquawk

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complex pet portrait commission

✨ get yours here

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yarrow!

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Gentle notice that “highbrow” and “lowbrow” are eugenics/race science terms and it may be better to just quietly retire them in casual discussions of art

[kuttithevangu]

Prev tags yes absolutely stop saying “degenerate”!

Just a point of historical clarification though, degeneration theory is much older than nazism: it originated in Enlightenment philosophical theories about society and nature, with some significant points of crystallization in the late 18th century by Immanuel Kant, mid-19th century by Benedict Morel, and by Max Nordau in 1892.

The Nazis were a PRODUCT of the prestige philosophy that believed in racial degeneration, the ideas that led to genocide were current throughout Europe and the Americas and were used to justify colonial genocides throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

I think it’s important to understand how deeply rooted this is in European philosophy and social theory because it helps counter the idea that Nazism was some kind of unique aberration. If we recognize the patterns that gave rise to it we have a better chance of responding effectively to those patterns

Social degeneration - Wikipedia

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Reading resources to start with!

Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Haunted by Empire edited by Ann Laura Stoler

Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock

How Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin

[neshamama]

anishinaabe house (container), c.1885-1910, birchbark, porcupine quill and dye

[tepkunset]

May 5 is the Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. (Also known as Red Dress Day.)

Show your support and pass on your strength by wearing red on May 5, and raising awareness. And if you have never read the Reclaiming Power and Place report, you can do so here.

Additionally, while the day is typically centred in Turtle Island, let us also not forget our international cousins, especially in Palestine and Sudan.

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Herbert Bayer - Chromatic intersection, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 101 x 101 cm

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pasta art

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That is. Not the caption I was expecting

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PSA

This is not fabric

This is pasta

[oldpaintings]

 Aurora Borealis, 1865 by Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826--1900)

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*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

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Ausencias por Gustavo Germano, sobre las víctimas de la desaparición forzada durante la dictadura argentina (1976-1983)

Ausencias (in English Absences) by Gustavo Germano, about the victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's dictatorship (1976-1983)

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Jie Song (Malaysian, b. 1982, Malaysia, based Kuala Lumpur, KL, Malaysia) - Flourish in Radiance, 2025, Paintings: Oil, Acrylic on Canvas

[zegalba]

Great hand forged snake window guards on a home in California

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cheese sits on the toilet while we take showers, and i like to stand on my tip toes and draw his silhouette in the steam from a high angle, then stand back to see how warped it is from his actual shape

oil and acrylic on masonite

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Do you ever see something that makes you laugh so hard that you have to buy it

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when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.