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[forsythiahill]

Beautiful sunset over the Virginia mountains with the winter moon perfectly placed.

[thehappyspaceman]

Interview: The Falsies at Fridays After Five (4/19/24)

Carter, Lance, and I were interviewed on our local station NBC29 in preparation for our show at Fridays After Five! You can watch the interview above.

Bonus pics:

[floraandthefauna]

coming to charlottesville’s queerest DIY space next weekend!!! DM for the address

[joearf]

2023.06.01: Selvedge Brewing - Charlottesville, VA

[chasowens]

[lolgen792]

returning to the dear place I called home

[misskatieleigh]

[formiadesign]

Oh I love the colors of this 😍 Tanzanite and diamonds honoring families birthstones! Custom order in time for a big birthday! @formiadesign . . #formiadesign #customjewelry #tanzanite #tanzanitejewelry #diamonds #birthstones #birthstonejewelry #birthstonenecklace #goldsmith #tanzanitediamondjewelry #cville #madeincville #charlottesvillejeweler #cvillejewelry #jewelrydesigner (at Formia Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7ltJnuMQN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[montymontgomeryart]

Visuals of the “Geo #139” mural which was recently completed inside the new @brazostacos located at Barracks Road Shopping Center in @charlottesvilleva . • • Thanks so much to @griesar and the Brazos crew for commissioning me to create at this new, beautiful space. A huge thank you as well to @swebbyofficial for her support and ideas, it was so fun sharing design visions to bring this piece to life! I can’t wait to see where she takes other elements of the project. • • If you’re in the “C-Ville” area, cruise by soon to grab your Brazos margaritas and tacos! This spot will be opening this Spring. See you there! . . #brazostacos #charlottesville #virginia #cville #cvillelocal #visitcville #muralism #mural #muralist #hardedger #geometricart #abstract #geometricabstraction #montymontgomery #montyart #montymontgomeryart #montanacans #loveva (at Charlottesville, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpF2wnCOQTg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[emerald-asteria-tats]

Some flowers I did on my lovely friend from high school! First is three days heal second is two weeks healed! #tat #tattoo #tattoos #tattooartist #rvatattoo #richmond #richmondartist #rvatattooartist #flowers #flowertattoo #cvilletattoo #cville (at Charlottesville, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmWTz7u6H3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rosalinastan]

[forsythiahill]

Daffodils, just getting started in Virginia! A few of my beauties in the garden on Forsythia Hill in Charlottesville.

[visenyaism]

so….the robert e lee statue, thoughts ?

i ask because i recall you mentioning being both southern and a historian — so if anyone is qualified to give a nuanced analysis on the matter i figured you’d be the best candidate. i am broadly against iconoclasm of all kinds but i (a European) am not well versed in the particular history of this period or the statue itself.

mayhaps you can help.

many thanks

sure. so for people who don’t know, today, the Robert E. Lee statue formerly installed in Charlottesville, Virginia, was melted down so that a local Black public history organization can use the material to create new community art.

Luckily for you, Confederate statue removal isn’t actually a nuanced issue at all. This is unequivocally a good thing!!! it’s what the community, a substantial portion of which is Black, wanted! This was the same Robert E Lee statue whose potential removal sparked the unite the right rally in 2017, where white nationalists and nazis holding tiki torches attempted to intimidate the community into keeping the statue up. Eventually, we finally got it removed in 2021, and there was like live music and extremely loud cheering as they took that thing down.

To describe confederate memorials in the south as just iconoclasm is to me a little reductive. They are unambiguously racist. Putting up a statue of someone who fought and sometimes died to continue the mass enslavement of african-americans is racist. The history of these statues is clear: they weren’t installed during or shortly after the Civil War, when the Confederacy was still in living memory. Most of them were put up in the 1890s, during the origin of the jim crow apartheid governments, the 1920s, which saw a huge national revival of white supremacy and KKK racist terrorism, and the 1960s, with the racist backlash to the civil rights movement.

Most statues, including the Charlottesville Lee statue, were put up specifically in front of courthouses and in town squares: the goal was not to celebrate any kind of southern history, but to intimidate Black defendants going to Jim Crow court or Black residents trying to live their lives in white spaces. The message that Confederate statues were intended to send is that the community is not for African-Americans, and to remind them of the legacy of white supremacist violence inflicted against them. They are hateful and all of them need to be taken down.

Today is a great day for Charlottesville and the realization of 7 years of community activism. There are thousands of statues still left across the country to work on next.

[floraandthefauna]

northbound train by flora & the fauna, live at chinchilla cafe in charlottesville on 2/4/24

[joearf]

2023.06.02: People at Work/People at Lunch - Chick-fil-A, Barracks Road Shopping Ctr, Charlottesville, VA

[folk-lore-emporium]

In the shop now: Spectacular vintage, mid-century modern, gravel art of two jousting knights. Excellent vintage condition.