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"Poster published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) showing a map of the Middle-East layered over an image of two fighters." Lebanon, 1972. The text can be translated as: "Oh my intractable wound, My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am not a traveler, I am the lover and the land is the beloved, Hail the people of Lebanon who remain steadfast in the south". The lines "Oh my intractable wound… the land is the beloved" comes from the poem "Diary of a Palestinian Wound" by Mahmoud Darwish.

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In 1988, ACT UP protested the FDA withholding HIV treatment due to requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

In 2024, trans activists protested promoters of an NHS-funded report requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

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november recap genuinely most insane month of my life possibly all time

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you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

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the 26 year old pdf reader. i just read an article about that. yeah ive read a few papers on the subject. that reminds me of this really interesting report i read recently.

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Luci Shaw, "What to Listen For," Angels Everywhere

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https://twitter.com/onlyyagirl_

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painted this while procrastinating my various responsibilities 😔 tempera on paper, 19 x 27 cm. sold

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RE-WIRE YOUR BRAIN. TAKE CONTROL.

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Mao and Fanon and Guevara all saw clearly that the people had been stripped of their birthright and their dignity, not by any philosophy or mere words, but at gunpoint. They had suffered a holdup by gangsters and rape; for them, the only way to win freedom was to meet force with force. At bottom, this is a form of self-defense. Although that defense might at times take on characteristics of aggression, in the final analysis the people do not initiate; they simply respond to what has been inflicted upon them. People respect the expression of strength and dignity displayed by men who refuse to bow to the weapons of oppression. Though it may mean death, these men will fight, because death with dignity is preferable to ignominy. Then, too, there is always the chance that the oppressor will be overwhelmed. Fanon made a statement during the Algerian war that impressed me; he said it was the "Year of the Boomerang," which is the third phase of violence. At that point, the violence of the aggressor turns on him and strikes a killing blow. Yet the oppressor does not understand the process; he knows no more than he did in the first phase when he launched the violence. The oppressed are always defensive; the oppressor is always aggressive and surprised when the people turn back on him the force he has used against them.

Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide

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From Here To There: A growing map of Manhattan made only of directions from strangers on scraps. 

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iw ant to post my poems here so bad

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Six pieces of recent work. Trying to keep things stitched down, coping with uncertainty.

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Phil Ochs, Sing Out 15 no. 4 (1965)

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LGBTQ+, ACT UP protests in New York City, late 1980s to 1990s