voshchev

on the day of the thirtieth anniversary of his private life, voshchev was made redundant from the small machine factory where he obtained the means for his own existence. (note: not an absurdist protagonist, just very tired and very angry)

[supersonicart]

Sickboy, “Make It Last Forever.”

Opening this Friday, July 24th at The Outsiders in London, England is British street art pioneer Sickboy’s solo show “Make It Last Forever.”  This will be Sickboy’s first gallery show and it will feature his outlandish, boldly colored work on canvas as well as installation pieces.  See more of Sickboy’s work below:

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[michaelswaney]

Brad Phillips, FOR ALL WOMEN BUT MAINLY FOR SEX WORKERS & SINGLE MOTHERS, 2013

[khubaani]

european dude: *struggles to speak english with a heavy accent*

everyone: omg how adorable!!!

south asian dude: *struggles to speak english with a heavy accent*

everyone: uh wow lol go back to your country

[mscoolcat]

"Stylizing the worker: Gender and the commodification of language in the globalized service economy" by Deborah Cameron

[morevulcans]

All pedophiles are trash, no exceptions. There is no “Kink-shaming” about it. Protect survivors at all costs.

[fromobscuretodemure]

Mariana Idzkowska by Laurence Laborie for Glint June 2013.

[osea-no-seas-maricon-deactivate]

Forget the room of one’s own - write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or on the welfare line, on the job or during meals, between sleeping and waking. I write while sitting on the john. No long stretches at the typewriter unless you’re wealthy or have a patron - you may not even own a typewriter. While you wash the floor or clothes listen to the words chanting in your body. When you’re depressed, angry, hurt, when compassion and love possess you. When you cannot help but write.

Gloria Anzaldúa (via osea-no-seas-maricon)

[brudesworld]

Perseus on Pegasus Slaying Medusa by John Singer Sargent, 1925

[fromobscuretodemure]

Franzi Mueller and Irina Kulikova in Alexander McQueen, photographed by Kai Z Feng for Elle UK August 2014.

[socialismartnature]

We should all be with the people of Gaza tonight now that the Israeli brutal operation began. I think we all can support the Hamas terms for a ceasefire and not fall to the western narrative that Israel accepted the ceasefire and the Hamas did not. This is 1947 all over again, Israel ‘accepting’ the partition resolution and the Palestinians rejecting it and 2000 again Israel makes a generous offer and the PLO rejects it. The Egyptian-Israeli ceasefire offer is to continue the siege, the starvation, strangulation and the ghettoization of Gaza. No decent person should accept such a dictate for being incarcerated when the only offence he or she committed is being a Palestinian in Gaza. We were trying this evening all over Israel to stage demonstrations and what we received was a bloodthirsty response from a society that thrives on militarism, fanatic nationalism and racism. The time will come when deeper work from within will bear fruits, but now we need, as never before, a strong BDS campaign and a insistent demand from our politicians and media to show a modicum of decency after more of a century in which they ignored the Palestinian suffering and provided Zionism and Israel immunity for their policies against the native people of Palestine.

Ilan Pappe, Israeli-born anti-Zionist Jew

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[hellyeahblackmodels]

"Fall’s Best Option" - Harper’s Bazaar US August 2014

[voshchev]

The real trouble with Black English is not the verbal aspect system which distinguishes it from other varieties of U.S. English, or the rhetorical strategies which draw such a vivid contrast, it is simply this: AAVE is a tangible and irrefutable evidence that there is a distinct, healthy, functioning African American culture which is not white, and which does not want to be white. James Baldwin, who wrote and spoken so eloquently of the issues at the heart of the racial divide in this country, put it quite simply: “the value [of] a Black man is proven by one thing only – his devotion to white people” (Baldwin 1985b: 5).

Rosina Lippi-Green, English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States (pg. 209)

[billy-blue]

We Are Pro-Choice - Nancy Spero (1992)

[tabbylewington]

The civil rights movement demanded access, and access has been granted to some. The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded. This is the only way the promise of freedom can be extended to the masses of people

Angela Y. Davis

[jeremiahjossim-deactivated20240]

Jean Michel Basquiat

[kamustakanamare]

For everybody who couldn’t go to Angela Davis’ talk at the Southbank Centre on Sunday. (Hear also: her lecture at Birkbeck School of Law earlier in the week, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities.) At the Southbank Centre, Davis spoke more generally about the collaborative imagination of the political; the psychogeographical—and not only temporal—sense of the revolutionary movements of the sixties; her wariness of feminism as operating for white middle-class women more concerned with the glass ceiling than with intersectional (Kimberlé Crenshaw) liberation for all women* (much to my joy, and much to the visible discomfort of her white woman interlocuter); on the way in which the gender binary is violently enforced by the state, especially through the prison-industrial complex; on the foundation of the civil rights movement being lesser-known women, i.e. the poor black women (domestic workers, cooks, cleaners) who refused to ride the segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and without whose resistance the Montgomery bus boycotts would not have been possible (“Dr. Martin Luther King, who was a new minister in town, simply became a spokesperson for that movement, that was primarily organized by women, and primarily participated in by women—and this is the story we rarely hear”).

Re: personal observations: as usual, more white people laughing obnoxiously to deflate the indicting power of what they’re listening to. Davis mentioned that bombings in black homes and churches were so frequent in Birmingham, that the city was often called “Bombingham.” Hahaha, went the crowd. Because virulently racist terrorism is so amusing when it comes with a nickname? It reminds me of Xavier Luis Burgos’ recent article, "Junot Díaz and the White Gaze," on similar instances of deflective white laughter:

Everything asked to Díaz by the facilitator and crowd was met with a purposeful and targeted response that nudged at the underlying racism inherent in the questions. And when he grew tired of the participant’s unwillingness to truly grasp his complex engagement, he was vocally – but calmly – direct. “Save the clapping for your fucked up politicians,” was one comment that shocked some. “White people need to shut the fuck up,” was another. But the crowd still laughed. Ha. Ha. Ha…

As for moments in which white folks weren’t taken off the hook: during the Q&A, a white dude tried to ask Davis about homophobia in African and Afro-Caribbean cultures and in terms of state policies. It was yet another instance of a white person trying to suggest that communities of color, and black communities in particular, are more homophobic than white communities, which Davis skillfully pointed out and dismantled: “I think it’s really important that South Africa became the first country in the world to include something in the constitution in opposition to homophobia.” I was sitting in front of a white queer couple, and throughout the talk, we’d been nodding at more or less the same moments. Then Davis said, “And it’s also important to recognize the extent to which these ideologies are so insidious. I think it’s wrong to say that black people are more homophobic than white people, which is often what is said. White people are just as homophobic.” Now I was nodding alone.

My favorite question was asked towards the end, by an older black woman, on the Royal Society of Medicine’s abolishing of the Black & Ethnic Minority Health Section, a forum for discussion health issues in black and ethnic minority communities. As someone whose lifelong chronic illnesses (and often inadequate diagnoses and treatment) have been inextricably bound up in the history of U.S. imperialism as well as the influence of both the modern U.S. medical-industrial complex and the interests of multinational corporations in the Philippines (recently I read that according to American and British studies, the communities within that show the highest instances of eczema, respectively, are Filipino and Jamaican), I was really grateful to hear this question posed. Davis responded: “Without health there is nothing! And so attack on the health of communities of color are the worst form of racist violence. And I think it’s so important to defend the right to have such a commission or organization within the—what do you say, the Royal—I’m not used to royal things. [laughter] Without health there is nothing else. And there are so many aspects of racism that are insidiously bound up with the assault on physical and mental and emotional health. And I think it’s important for people, whatever their ethnic or racial background, to support efforts to elevate the health of black communities.”

[blinko]

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

Bell Hooks