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▪︎ Ewer and Tray.

Date: 4th quarter of the 16th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (around 1585 - 1615)

Place of origin: Gujarat, India

Medium: Mother-of-pearl, shell.

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I am honored!

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

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trialectical materialism, there's three things now fucker!

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i saw a tweet about the swan maiden myth and i realize it parallels kanej quite nicely, and made me think about you saying how kanej reminds you of the selkie wife myth (i guess they’re kind if the same story).

There are definitely thematic parallels, in my opinion!

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#you know Kaz thinks it would be awfully romantic if she murdered him <- the thesis of every good ship tbh linny

Truly a very delicious flavor of Stupid Ways of Being in Love, and it is so delightful imaginatively arranging for all the almost-murders that it allows for!

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I wanted to do some portrait sketches of the Locked Tomb characters, and decided to start with Camilla Hect, because I would die for her but she wouldn’t let me and I think that’s beautiful

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bLEH

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biting your forehead friday

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maybe its because im an asylum seeker but i am of the opinion that even if immigrants and asylum seekers contributed nothing to a nation that nation should not have the right to deport them.

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I’m sure everyone already knows this but: some crossings into Gaza are open now but there is no credible guarantee that they won’t be slammed shut tomorrow, and it is imperative to get as much food as possible in and into people’s hands, as soon as possible. UNRWA is the traditional best conduit for that (that’s who your .01 cents go to when you do the “click to support Palestine” thing) but they’re currently in danger of being denied entry by the Israeli government so you might want to go with WFP or IRC instead/in addition.

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kate kretz, une femme d’un certain âge, 2014

(grey hair of many women, hand embroidered on black cotton)

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pssst the Monterey Bay Aquarium workers are unionizing and you can show your support 👇

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Inside the Bakersfield raids that showed how Trump’s immigration policies will sow chaos

On Jan. 7, the phones of immigration advocates in Bakersfield began lighting up with calls from immigrant farmworkers. The messages said the U.S. Border Patrol was conducting an indiscriminate dragnet in the area, pulling over vehicles presumed to be carrying immigrants to work and taking dozens into custody.

[...] Rather than “targeted” enforcement, the Border Patrol conducted “random stops of vehicles exclusively founded on racial profiling of individuals,” Ambar Tovar, director of legal services for the UFW Foundation, told me.

The officers raid locations where they knew they would find farmworkers gathering — such as at a Home Depot, where immigrant laborers come to seek day work, and along California Route 99, the highway traveled by immigrant farmworkers heading to their jobs. At some spots, where they were asked to show warrants naming targeted individuals, the officers simply drove away without answering.

[...] One aspect of these raids elicits broad agreement: Their effect was to sow fear.

[...] Creamer estimates that about 25% of immigrant workers in the area stayed home from work in the first day of the raids, and 75% afterward. That continued until Jan. 10, when word spread that the Border Patrol had left the county and gone back to El Centro.

Until then, he said, “the raids sent shock waves through the entire Central Valley,” the breadbasket of California and of the entire country. [...] It’s hard to overestimate the impact that raids like these could have on California agriculture, which, like other states, is highly dependent on immigrant labor. The raids occurred as the harvesting of California oranges, mandarins and lemons was entering a peak period for fresh fruit. California accounts for about 90% of the domestic supply of oranges, mandarins, lemons and grapefruit.

About 20% of the estimated 24,000 citrus farm employees in California work in Kern County, Creamer says. In this case, he adds, the immediate impact was muted because the raids occurred over only four days and the schedule of citrus harvesting can be somewhat flexible.

[...] What struck immigrant advocates about the raids was the sheer thuggishness of the operation, which dovetailed neatly with the uncompromosing rhetoric about immigration sounded by Trump during his campaign and in his inaugural speech Monday.

Agents transported detainees from Bakersfield to El Centro, a drive that can take as long as six hours, instead of processing them locally, where they would be available for local legal advice and representation. Detainees said they were released in El Centro without transportation home.

[...] Agents in an unmarked car pulled over Ernesto Campos, the owner of a Bakersfield gardening service who was naturalized as a U.S. citizen more than 10 years ago. According to a video Campos shot on the scene and that was aired on Bakersfield TV station KGET, the agents demanded that Campos’ passenger, an undocumented employee step out of the truck. Campos informed them that the passenger already had an asylum hearing scheduled. Campos shut off his engine and gave the agents his driver’s license.

Nevertheless, according to an exchange captured on the video, an agent slashed Campos’ truck tires, which can be seen deflated on the video. When Campos asked why the agent had immobilized his vehicle, the agent replied, “I’m not going to argue with you, bro. You did what you did, I did what I did.” He verified that Campos was a U.S. citizen, but he was arrested on suspicion of “alien smuggling.” Campos was released about four hours later. The border Patrol didn’t respond to my request to identify the agent and explain his conduct.

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LGBTQ+ couples and activists celebrating the legalization of gay marriage in Thailand, which takes effect January 23rd. Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia, after Taiwan and Nepal, to legalize same-sex marriage. (via AP)

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Ji Lee

Redundant Clock 2017