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Sade Magazine Covers

[theorderovdeath]

Kate Bush

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[distantvoices]

Hao Zeng's Series "Portraiture"

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Photography by Andrew Thomas Huang

Hair / Makeup / Nail Art: Nena Soul Fly

Models: Jas Lin, Stella Deng, Aus Wang

[nitrosplicer]

Today I am watching Shinjuku Boys (1995) in my quest to read more and watch more narratives which take up non-US-centric trans experiences. This is the first video in a multi-part series, which you can view by clicking through the uploader’s profile on YouTube. This cinema verite styled documentary follows three transmasculine individuals in Tokyo, who use the term onabe to describe both themselves and the night work they do: more on the term below.

Here’s the description from Kanopy: “This film introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don’t usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism.”

“The term onabe literally means a type of pot commonly used to cook stews in. Unsurprisingly, many consider it an offensive term. A sentiment that has grown significantly as transgender men have begun to become more visible and accepted within the country — after a hard-won struggle, the Supreme Court set a precedence when they ruled on December 10, 2013 that a transgender man can legally be the adoptive father of a child born to his wife through artificial insemination, and the rise in popularity of boy band Secret Guyz and comedian Yukichi. Though the term onabe was coined not that long ago as the female equivalent of the older and more established expression, okama — which is a blanket word for everything from gay man to transgender woman to female impersonator — most people now prefer the term FTM, or “female to male.”Yet the term onabe has survived in the enclave of night work, where transgender men use their formerly female status as a selling point to entertain in bars and clubs.” from this (already somewhat dated) article from 2016

While this term is not necessarily one I’d use cavalierly, I wanted to include the context with this documentary, as I don’t like to detach such terms from context (and the term is connected to a particular subset of night-time entertainment, which I want to respect).

[theleoisallinthemind]

Lighthouse in Saint Joseph, Michigan

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Kate Bush by Guido Harari 1989

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Le Bout du Monde / The End of the World (1948) by Léonor Fini

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i know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING. and here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots. 

here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.

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I don’t have the words to properly explain how horrifying this is. In April, the advocacy group Freedom For Immigrants published a report about unsanitary conditions at the detention center, where the immigrants were made to clean the facilities with only water, or shampoo. According to their report, there were sick detainees there - possibly with COVID-19, but it’s unclear since they weren’t being tested - and the conditions could easily lead to a situation in which the virus exploded among those there.

The guards are spraying this disinfectant in retaliation for the report. To be clear - HDQ is an industrial-strength disinfectant, which according to the manufacturer is “harmful if inhaled” and “causes severe skin burns and serious eye damage.” The guards are spraying it on everything every 15-30 minutes, according to sources, and immigrants in the center have already experienced severe symptoms including blisters, rashes, bleeding, fainting, breathing difficulties, headaches, stomach pain, and nausea.

And let’s be real - ICE doesn’t give a shit, either about protecting these people or about preventing a COVID outbreak. ICE, according to their own reports, currently has 25,911 people in custody, of which only 2,670 have been tested. 1,392 of those were positive. In simple terms - less than 10% of detainees have been tested. Of those, more than half are positive. We cannot estimate how many sick people ICE is currently holding, or how many more will get sick without any kind of prevention or care.

ICE is killing people through neglect, and when they dared complain - they started gassing them.

Unfortunately, with Trump in the white house, petitions aren’t doing much. What we can do, however, is donate to the advocacy group that is bringing these things to light, allowing them to continue their work and hopefully free more immigrants. Their donation page is here. Please spread this.

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 2020 by Mindy Lee

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Kawanabe Kyōsai aka Kyōsai Kawanabe aka 河鍋 暁斎 (Japanese, 1831-1889, b. Koga, Japan) - Ichigo with Jigoku Taiho (地獄太夫と一休), 1871-89, Japanese Paintings: Ink, Color on Silk Scroll

[davidhellman]

My comic about why we should all be activists. Made possible by my wonderful patrons at patreon.com/davidhellman Please share, and get involved in your local community!

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I was thinking about all the stories of exploited workers explaining that they can’t leave work even if they’re sick, prompted by coronavirus concerns & I was thinking about when I was a *part time* librarian at a community college and was made responsible for making ALL college IDs for students and staff and how once I called in sick for 2 days (unpaid because no benefits but I took the pay cut to stay home) and when I got back I had panicked emails from my boss who had gotten panicked emails from their boss who had gotten a swarm of panicked calls from people who hadn’t received IDs cause no one took any photos or processed or printed them for a week (cause I was only scheduled like 3 days a week to begin with) & therefore people couldn’t register for classes or in some cases even get in the building, and an emergency meeting was called where I had to explain how I got so far behind. Because they had no one else who knew how to perform this vital function to the college except a part time, unbenefitted person working in the campus library, and just relied on the assumption that I would never call in.

I’m sure none of the students realized how absolutely dysfunctional their college was. They probably thought the delay was some sort of disorganized bureaucratic nightmare, which would have been a valid theory. But no, it was 1 worker who was sick for 2 days and it brought the whole functioning of the college down.

People really don’t understand how precarious literally everything is. So much relies on the sacrifice of exploited labor, and the precarity only reveals itself when someone in that position refuses to provide that sacrifice

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hm its good that ppl are talking abt britneys conservatorship situation but it seems to be often phrased as "this is a thing for ppl who Cant take care of themselves and she obviously Can so this is fucked up bc She's not disabled/mentally unstable like the Other ppl who are rightfully under conservatorship" and it seems very fucking useless to me to like talk abt it in that way, conservatorship r pretty fucked up in general imo no matter how disabled and /or mentally unstable someone is and having this conversation without talking abt what it means actually to be deemed too mentally unstable/disabled to make your own decisions and how thats used to strip ppl of any agency, and why the concept of conservatorship is rotten at its core. Is fucking useless!

[psikonauti]

Kay Nielsen (1886 - 1957) 

“East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon”,1914

[alisonzai]

video series