a stick and a stone

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

raising $208 for my partner to get laser to be safer in the world. i'm on disability and supporting her while she's in her fourth year of waiting for a court date to get on disability. we're both trans, disabled, without a family net, currently living out of my car. account.venmo.com/u/astickanda...

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YouTube video by cassandra gillig June Jordan -- "A Menace to My Enemies"

I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies, June Jordan
youtu.be/L898_qsfv7M

Hope isn't a lottery ticket Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency; hope should shove you out the door, 'cause it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, annihilation of earth, the grinding down of the poor. Hope calls for action -Rebecca Solnit

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

danez smith - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542...

"What flag can we wave?
I wave the flag of stone and seed,
table mat stitched in blue."
-Naomi Shihab Nye

how we talk about genocide isn't "nitpicking over words" (as i was recently told when i corrected someone who called it a "conflict.") words carry weight and substance; materialize into thoughts and actions, protect or erase bodies. no one just "ends up" in a mass grave.

💥Standing with Belarus workers, fighting authoritarianism
3 years ago, Belarus union leaders jailed for opposing war and dictatorship. 30+ are still behind bars— labelled “extremists” just for organising.

🔗 Support campaign 👇 labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

#Unionism_NOT_exstremism

there is no emergency at the border:

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thinking about this franny choi poem today: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

James Baldwin print

A new work from Carlos Barberena in the shop today- Artists Are Here To Disturb The Peace! justseeds.org/product/jame...

If you truly want trans people to be free, then you would understand that Palestine must also be free. If you truly care about immigrants, then you would understand also that disabled folks must have agency and access.

"Dissonance is harmonious to me. Melody sometimes wears me out. In music, I want geometric streaks that cross in the air and form a disharmony that I understand..."
-Clarice Lispector

“I never wanted to build a ‘body of work,’ but to preserve these, our bodies, breathing and unaccounted for, inside the work.” -Ocean Vuong

“We are in an imagination battle... Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
-adrienne marie brown

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

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Kyiv mural by bkfoxx