luthienne:

luthienne:

What makes a state obsess over its desire to totally dominate a whole people, to own their bodies between servility and expulsion? What makes an overwhelming majority of a people consign another to oblivion, cut them off from the outside world for decades, mutilate their image and their being into superfluous nonbeings? What people obsess over severing another people from their olive trees? How deadly the olives? How did Israel get here? How different was the beginning? It is time you ask this question without blaming the Palestinians. Look inward, deeply, kindly, in true mirrors, and win back your heart.ALT

Fady Joudah, from A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

The task of the Palestinian is to be palatable or to be condemned. The task of the Palestinian, we've seen in the past two weeks, is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it. To earn it. In the past couple of weeks, I've watched Palestinian activists, lawyers, professors get baited and interrupted on air, if not silenced altogether. They are being made to sing for the supper of airtime and fair coverage. They are begging reporters to do the most basic tasks of their job. At the same time, Palestinians fleeing from bombs have been misidentified. Even when under attack, they must be costumed as another people to elicit humanity. Even in death, they cannot rest — Palestinians are being buried in mass graves or in old graves dug up to make room, and still there is not enough space.ALT
If that weren't enough, Palestinian slaughter is too often presented ahistorically, untethered to reality: It is not attributed to real steel and missiles, to occupation, to policy. To earn compassion for their dead, Palestinians must first prove their innocence. The real problem with condemnation is the quiet, sly tenor of the questions that accompany it: Palestinians are presumed violent — and deserving of violence — until proved otherwise. Their deaths are presumed defensible until proved otherwise. What is the word of a Palestinian against a machinery that investigates itself, that absolves itself of accused crimes? What is it against a government whose representatives have referred to Palestinians as "human animals" and "wild beasts"? When a well-suited man can say brazenly and unflinchingly that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people? It is, of course, a remarkably effective strategy. A slaughter isn't a slaughter if those being slaughtered are at fault, if they've been quietly and effectively dehumanized — in the media, through policy — for years. If nobody is a civilian, nobody can be a victim.ALT

Hala Alyan, from The Palestine Double Standard

12/07/23 

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12/07/23 

meowlgbt:

doctor said i need to be kissed hard. for an hour

7/06/23  me... 

movietonight:

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Alan Alda // The Bear - S1E8 Braciole // Jane Hirshfield - Da Capo // Big Eden // Joy Harjo - Perhaps the World Ends Here // Peder Severin Kroyer - Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

7/06/23 

doughy-doughnut:

Daisy Rock Girls’ Heart Shaped Electric Guitar + Acc

6/20/23 

tuileries:

A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011

“A girl sleeping in a hospital bed in her A.F. Vandevorst dress. But here, the girl as well as the mattress and pillow are made out of candle wax. Once lit, what starts as a perfect image will slowly melt and perish during the biennale.”

6/17/23 

aridante:

the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth, morgan parker // the truth the dead know, anne sexton.

6/12/23  w 

harpoonn:

Cool cat somewhere in the hills of Onomichi, Hiroshima.

5/29/23 

fairycosmos:

does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse

4/30/23  w 

snailspng:

Vintage pinback button PNGs, part 3.

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4/30/23  fav 
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