micha cárdenas

Priorities.

Digital art Illustration of two women in a tender embrace in front of a arched window. Both women are Palestinian and wearing elaborately decorated traditional thobes. The woman to the left has a deeper skin tone and a tender smile. Her braided black hair is decorated with silver ornaments towards the bottom. The woman to the right is wearing a heavy coin headdress that has chains leading down to her waist. Her face has subtle tattoos that match those on her hand. In the arched window behind them there are palm trees in the distance and foliage that coveres the bottom of the window.

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge.

palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...

This is almost as funny as real life, where the cops said anarchists are hard to infiltrate because they read too much

Total Recall of the Heart #1 Fight Club meets the Matrix in the first issue of a brand new queer cyberpunk romance comic series.

We're 76% funded, and less than £500 away from our goal - with one eye on stretch goals if you'll help us get there!

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Project 2025? Nah, help us imagine and launch Project 2052: A collection of speculative fiction and art in the world of Everything for Everyone!!

We need your help pay authors and artists! You can give whatever feels doable or sign up as a monthly sustainer in the link below.

The Sameer Project is a donations-based aid initiative in Gaza led by Palestinians. Their multiple campaigns serve families across Gaza with medical supplies, food, tents, and other necessities. linktr.ee/thesameerproject.

The Sameer Project is a donations-based aid initiative in Gaza led by Palestinians. Their multiple campaigns serve families across Gaza with medical supplies, food, tents, and other necessities. linktr.ee/thesameerproject.

for those in europe waking up to this, i assure you this is abnormal and an abuse of power. with 3.5 years left of this…

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.

We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!

www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 ♨️ 🛰️ Dramatic situation in #Greece in the peak of the #heatwave. On saturday 26th July, multiple #wildfires have started and are growing fast. ⬇️meteosat-12 at 16.10UTC: from #Evia island and the #Attica,to #Kythira and #Crete Evacuations are ongoing.#ClimateEmergency @volcaholic1.bsky.social

‘Apocalyptic’ Turkey wildfires spread as 14 killed in blazes sparked by 50C heat Over a thousand firefighters are battling flames outside the country’s fourth-largest city Bursa

Wildfires have claimed 14 lives near Turkey's fourth largest city as a record 50°C heatwave grips the country.

white women need to keep doing this shit.

One of Israel's most powerful groups believes the Gaza and Iran wars herald the Messiah ***

🚨This is End Times Fascism 🚨

"One of Israel's Most Powerful Groups Believes the Gaza and Iran Wars Herald the Messiah's Coming"

"The security discourse has given way to talk of miracles, and prominent rabbis are anointing Netanyahu as a messenger of God"

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

When Andrew Jackson sent Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, it was a policy choice.

When the British diverted food away from the Irish during The Great Hunger, it was a policy choice.

The starvation & death in Gaza is no different. This is a policy choice & our government is complicit in it.

lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"

Whoa! If you haven’t heard about this, you need to.

Epstein’s ex-girlfriend just described his relationship with Trump.

Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model who briefly dated Epstein, says Trump and Epstein were “bros”, and that Trump groped her in 1993 in front of Epstein.

Composite image of Cassiopeia A supernova remnant showing X-ray and infrared data. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/D. Milisavljevic (Purdue Univ.), I. De Looze (UGent), T. Temim (Princeton Univ.); Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, J. Schmidt and K. Arcand

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jul 23, 2024)

A stunning composite of Cassiopeia A, showcasing X-rays from Chandra and infrared from Webb.

flic.kr/p/2q5T4Li

BREAKING: At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks while waiting to receive food aid in southern Gaza's Rafah.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/img1q1

A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023

USAID food for nearly 30,000 hungry kids to be destroyed: Official Senior US official calls destruction of 500 tonnes of biscuits a ‘casualty’ of the USAID shutdown.

Senior US official calls destruction of 500 tonnes of biscuits a ‘casualty’ of the USAID shutdown.

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Gray Area Festival 2025
September 11–14
Gray Area / Grand Theater

Speakers:

Alice Bucknell
micha cárdenas
Miriam Simun @michacard.bsky.social‬
Salomé Chatriot
Shane Denson
Stelarc @stelarcstelarc
Sydney Skybetter
Viktoria Modesta
Xiaowei R. Wang
Xin Liu
Zach Blas

Full lineup coming soon!

Possible first steps toward asylum in Canada for queer folks facing persecution in the US.

Trans people make up 1-3% of American society depending on definitions (nonbinary, trans, etc).

That is enough to swing multiple close swing state elections.

Democrats should not nominate an anti-trans Democrat.

Un libro imprescindible de Oscar Montero: Erotismo y representación en Julián del Casal. Una contribución fundamental para entender la cultura cuir latinoamericana y caribeña del siglo XIX.

#CaribbeanStudies #LatinAmericanStudies

ChatGPT use significantly reduces brain activity, an MIT study finds
archive.ph/hZ9cT
“When participants used ChatGPT, their brain activity especially in areas related to attention, planning and memory decreased significantly. Just minutes later, they struggled to remember what they had submitted.”