#testing grounds

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More visual inspiration for the Testing Grounds Installation

Work by Dana Trippe (photographer) of Jesse Jo Stark (musician).

I do not own these images

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Long notes held until the four-part harmony was perfect enough for their deeply loved flesh.

Beloved

Toni Morrison

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Listen to the sound through one another’s skin. Preserve the sound through membrane and water, to find our form in corresponding.

excerpt of Hand up to your ear

From Little Edges by Fred Moten

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Toni Morrison on a panel

referencing from 35:00

[gothicseverance]

It is no mere coincidence that the cult of gothic fiction reached its apex at the very moment when gender and sexuality were beginning to be codified for modern culture. In fact, gothic fiction offered a testing ground for many unauthorized genders and sexualities, including sodomy, tribadism, romantic friendship (male and female), incest, pedophilia, sadism, masochism, necrophilia, cannibalism, masculinized females, feminized males, miscegenation, and so on.

—Queer Gothic

[ghostowlattic]

Extermination Nation - Mr. Fish

The Israeli Defense Forces are preparing to place dozens of weapons systems across the West Bank that can be operated automatically or remotely. 

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Israel uses weapons that vaporize human bodies in Gaza, says director of Palestinian Health Ministry

Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health has accused Israel of using unknown and banned weapons in Gaza to vaporize hu