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Distopia. the Undercommons. Researching Liberatory SpaceTime.
Lis Lange.
09.11.2025 12:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Doing some research for an essay and it struck me that what we are dealing with goes far beyond criminality and corruption, as heinous as the depth of that has transpired to be. No, what we are witnessing is widescale treason.
09.11.2025 04:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The rap / Mamdani crossover my heart health needed π
***MamDAAHnieeee*** π«Ά
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
05.11.2025 02:37 β π 15234 π 1997 π¬ 119 π 64billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they donβt want us to be equal.
04.11.2025 02:10 β π 1033 π 256 π¬ 13 π 7
Powerful Afrikaans poem about masculinity and the power of vulnerability, from Herman Wasserman's poetry collection βWatermanβ.
"ons sal saamhuil en saamsing
totdat elke boytjie dit weet:
water kan ook rotse breek"
Painting in an assured but slightly loose style depicting a Moka coffee pot sitting against a blue wall, upon a table cloth with an ornate blue, yellow, black, and white pattern.
Painting in an assured but slightly loose style depicting a Moka coffee pot sitting against a pale pink wall, its metal sides reflecting blue and teal stripes on the table upon which it rests.
Painting in an assured but slightly loose style depicting a Moka coffee pot sitting against a yellow wall, its metal sides reflecting pink and teal stripes on the table upon which it rests.
Painting in an assured but slightly loose style depicting a Moka coffee pot sitting against a blue wall, its metal sides reflecting thin red and white stripes on the table upon which it rests.
Paintings by American artist Kenny Harris, 2020s, from his Moka still life series.
22.10.2025 15:25 β π 47 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
To our friends in Jamaica: your beautiful island is loved across the world. Our hearts are with you as you face nature at its most destructive.
28.10.2025 13:36 β π 1788 π 265 π¬ 8 π 12America being run as if the president is a hostile foreign agent.
Oh wait.
Several (dozens of) other sovereign nations suffering that fate as well. Huh. What a time to be alive.
CFP: Literature and Aesthetics, thematic issue: Time of the Wolf
https://arthist.net/archive/50953
Arrangement of pink and blue stoneware sitting on a green shelf on a white wall, with a blue textured clay circle hanging above.
Arrangement of yellow and pink stoneware sitting on a yellow shelf on a yellow wall.
Arrangement of blue stoneware sitting on a blue shelf on a red wall, with a red rectangle hanging above.
Arrangement of tan and yellow stoneware sitting on a circular stand on a white setting, with a textured clay open circle hanging off the tallest vessel.
Sculpture by Chicago-based Danish artist Marie Herwald Hermann, 2020s, who creates still life tableaux with stoneware, shelving, and other objects.
01.10.2025 15:06 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
21.10.2025 14:46 β π 37298 π 7830 π¬ 2919 π 667
Hind Rajab Foundation takes 24 Israeli soldiers to ICC over killing of six-year-old - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-takes-24-israeli-soldiers-icc-over-killing-six
21.10.2025 16:35 β π 54 π 35 π¬ 1 π 4
The passing of the pioneering South African writer and critic leaves behind a body of work that challenged racial mythologies, unsettled identity politics, and grounded transhistorical vision in the particulars of place. africasacountry.com/2025/10/zoe-...
20.10.2025 12:57 β π 10 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base donβt even know thatβs what it stands for.
11.10.2025 23:10 β π 21625 π 6512 π¬ 455 π 375Registration is open. Register for in-person and online.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
06.10.2025 19:45 β π 11717 π 3504 π¬ 494 π 193#WarRavagedPortland
08.10.2025 11:23 β π 36459 π 11343 π¬ 1288 π 1829π£ Free to attend online Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage. October through December!
arthist.net/archive/50799
Very cool!
Attendance free.
arthist.net/archive/50784
Photo of a young Black man wearing a long dark tunic and orange head wrap, holding a dodo bird, with an assortment of fruits and gourds around his feet. A large gold circle floats behind him over a black background.
Photo of a young Black man repeated three times, all wearing a purple cloak and blue head wraps, posing in a cluster with brightly colored birds perched on their hands and flying around them, along with tropical flowers at their sides.
Photo depicting the same Black man repeated several times, all wearing different suits and hats, standing together with serious expressions and hands in their pockets amongst green grasses and loose papers, against a black background.
Photo of a young Black man wearing a pink tunic and colorful patterned over cloth and yellow head wrap, standing in a straight-backed pose with his hands up to his chest holding a yellow and orange running sneaker. He is set within a green oval, surrounded by an intricate floral pattern frame.
Works by Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, 2010s-20s, whose performative photography practice engages with European colonialist history and cross-cultural experiences within the African diaspora.
05.10.2025 15:20 β π 21 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation, will discuss "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" with Dr. Uahikea Maile, a Kanaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from OΚ»ahu.
Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT
Comment stating "We told him not to drink their water".
Meanwhile
01.10.2025 16:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A cool story.
www.citizen.co.za/highvelder-n...
From Gaza to Africa, colonial cartography has turned land into property and people into populations to be managed. True liberation means dismantling this order, not redrawing its lines. africasacountry.com/2025/09/redr...
17.09.2025 16:54 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
