Amie Kirby (she/her)

#OtD 25 Sep 1903 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist Mark Rothko was born in a working-class, Jewish town in what is now Latvia. Moving to the US, he got involved in radical politics, including attending @IWW meetings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9785...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Now 18 hours to go, please share ⚠️

We are sending out funds as rapidly as possible to help eight families evacuate from under fire in Gaza City (waiting on updates; internet is poor but at least one family has made it)

Your belief matters. 87/1000

The 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition is now open 🎉 Come down to Bloc Projects in Sheffield and take a journey through the last century of volunteer-led film!

There is a very special sacred place in my heart reserved only for Bombay Bicycle Club's first album

The record cover for Goblin's Suspiria soundtrack (1977)

Is there a more perfect film score to save for a rainy day?

I've seen first hand, working there since March, how supportive and amazing the VA community is.

By helping to push our refurbished studio to completion, you'll be making space for artists to have all they need to reach their potential ❤️🔥

Donate - Venture Arts

It's my birthday next week & would mean the world to me if you can chuck a few spare pennies into this fundraiser!

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@venturearts.bsky.social does incredible work to support learning disabled & neurodivergent artists to shine.

Wearing a smashing pumpkins shirt to work and listening to the broad black brimmer on the bus because 😌 I contain multitudes 😌

I have shared and will try to donate what I can ❤️ bless you. I am so sorry.

We are a trans-led organisation distributing accessible toilet keys in the UK to help people who dont fit gendered stereotypes to evade harassment and abuse when using gendered facilities following the latest news.

We have seen a massive uptick in applications in the last 48 hours.

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Ghassan Kanafani: Words of Liberation "The words of Ghassan Kanafani are stronger than a desert storm...”--Yunclas My introduction to the idea that Israel was a colonial nation was when a

“The essential facts of Palestine’s struggle have not changed. Consequently, neither have the essential tasks of the resistance.”

Ghassan Kanafani, edited by Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Folks, we have TWO days to make this goal. A bit of food, water, shelter for six families & support for a mutual aid team serving fifteen displaced families. Simple.

Anything helps—especially clicking “weekly” + taking action. 1567/1900 by end of Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Last night All About Eve was on BBC 4 and I watched it while I cooked a hearty Bolognese and I felt like an ADULT. Between this and asking for massage vouchers for my birthday I think I'm reaching my most evolved self

Ahmad has had to make yet another new account. All he wants is to escape starvation and feed his family, and getting donations is the only way to do that. It's scary to see him so thin. Please help him if you can. gofund.me/69f962fc @mommunism.bsky.social @fairshare.help #SkyAid #MutualAid

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

3 days left on our emergency famine/shelter drive. Mohamed is displaced without shelter, but we can still help with a little food & water, especially for his ailing parents—especially paired with bold action offline.

Give/find their link here. 3074/4100: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Reproductive Coercion Is State Abuse, Argues Kylie Cheung "Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."

"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."

Read an excerpt from Coercion by @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com:

Recommend supporting this initiative to support farmers in Gaza if you can. Food sovereignty is a vital part of surviving famine and these folks seem to have a good system in place despite the blockade and bombardment. apnature.org/en/gaza

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

2/3 the way there on this emergency drive for food/shelter. Every minute is an emergency. Manufacturing urgency in what is already urgent, what already demands our every action, shouldn't be necessary.

Keep six families alive. 2724/4100 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

The Working Class Movement Library’s exhibit on The Big Flame was so moving. Produced by 18-25 year olds who have managed to continue the spirit of the group, interviewing past members and creating their own banners. It is a youth led masterpiece!

If you’re based in Manchester it’s a must see.

The audience peruse the exhibition, which has four red cases in the centre of the room and panels around the outside.

❤️‍🔥 KEEP THE FLAME BURNING ❤️‍🔥

A comic called Brother Goose which takes aim at Tory unemployment policy. The comic was produced in 1980 and features funny images with quotes about workers eg "work shy" and about state policy, eg "why when we can send men to the moon and kill 600,000 people with a single bomb".

Excited for our Big Flame exhibition? Here's a post written by volunteers Ally, Lucy, and Jack to get you hyped!

Just in time for Wimbledon…🎾

This 1980 Brother Goose comic was part of a series that featured in the Big Flame newspapers.

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