marikees
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feeling very normal about this
Upside-down fig tree in Bacoli, Italy.
"No one is quite sure how the tree ended up there or how it survived, but year after year it continues to grow downwards and bear figs."
Credit: ArchaeoHistories
they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight
that moment when you're talking in a language and you use an idiom but then you can't remember for your own life if the idiom is correct in the language you're speaking or if you just translated it literally from another language-
The economies of the US, Canada, and the European Union depend on immigrant labor. As Harsha Walia documents, the purpose of the border regime is not to stop immigration but to control and terrorize it. When Germany decided in 2015 to take in over a million refugees from the Syrian civil war, it was only because the largest association of German employers had just declared that the national economy faced a shortfall of millions of skilled laborers. But at no point did the German government allow direct flights from Turkey or Lebanon, where so many of the refugees were warehoused. Instead, they obligated refugees to make the expensive and perilous journey over the Aegean Sea, through the Balkans, under and over razor wire fences, through police truncheons and tear gas, past violent, xenophobic crowds, so that finally they would arrive with almost nothing, willing to accept any labor conditions and bureaucratic controls. It was a journey that cost on average several thousand euros, on top of the steep psychological price, effectively ensuring that primarily only members of the university-educated middle class would be able to make it.
Peter Gelderloos, The Solutions are Already Here
Hi,
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Donations! Donations!
by shriveling
this is insane and wildly unconstitutional and prisons are really really really evil
Guido Mangold, Hommage to Edward Hopper, 3rd Avenue in New York, 1985
“‘How does one hate a country, or love one? […] I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness. (via booksnippets)
Who are we? We are the global South, that large set of creations and creatures that has been sacrificed to the infinite voracity of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and all their satellite-oppressions. We are present at every cardinal point because our geography is the geography of injustice and oppression. We are not everyone; we are those who do not resign themselves to sacrifice and therefore resist. We have dignity. We are all indigenous peoples because we are where we have always been, before we had owners, masters, or bosses, or because we are where we were taken against our will and where owners, masters, or bosses were imposed on us. They want to impose on us the fear of having a boss and the fear of not having a boss, so that we may not imagine ourselves without fear. We resist. We are widely diverse human beings united by the idea that the understanding of the world is much larger than the Western understanding of the world. We believe that the transformation of the world may also occur in ways not foreseen by the global North. We are animals and plants, biodiversity and water, earth and Pachamama, ancestors and future generations—whose suffering appears less in the news than the suffering of humans but is closely linked to theirs, even though they may be unaware of it.
— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir; EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH: JUSTICE AGAINST EPISTEMICIDE
Lorde, A. (2003). The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Feminist postcolonial theory: A reader, 25, 27.
The concept of assemblage—an open-ended entanglement of ways of being—is more useful. In an assemblage, varied trajectories gain a hold on each other, but indeterminacy matters. To learn about an assemblage, one unravels its knots.
The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Tsing
it’s that time of the year where u go outside and some are wearing tank tops some are wearing turtlenecks some are wearing a jacket and a coat and some are shirtless and you can’t blame anyone because it represents exactly how the weather is
by james_films
To live with precarity requires more than railing at those who put us here (although that seems useful too, and I’m not against it). We might look around to notice this strange new world, and we might stretch our imaginations to grasp its contours. This is where mushrooms help. Matsutake’s willingness to emerge in blasted landscapes allows us to explore the ruin that has become our collective home.
— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
arontphotos
We expect humans to live on Mars in the near future, yet we haven’t even dared to inhabit Antarctica
like EXCUSE ME
Tired of self-care. How about a little bit of government care. political care. infrastructural care.
~ @caraellison
“Each of us, I suspect, cherishes a particular landscape that outwardly reflects some all-too-invisible condition within. Its very topography gives colour, contour, dimension to otherwise inaccessible areas of inner reality. Endows them with palpable configuration.”
— Gustaf Sobin, from Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc (University of California Press, 1999)
The whole notion that women didn’t work is pretty much about upper class white women’s experience because historically poor women of color have always worked and get exploited and literally so many aspects of feminism is like claiming that it has paced ways and given rights to women but its actually only beneficial to upper class white women. Women from third world countries have always worked and fought in war. We just never got the proper credits for it or anything.