the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate.
I hate it so much.
The idea that it’s “creepy” to interact with an artist’s old work from a while back is especially stupid since we have entire buildings filled with the old works of various artists for the explicit purpose of creating public interaction with them, and they’re called museums.
and libraries
and archives
Also it’s honestly nice to be reminded that I did something a long time ago that people still like. It can help a person get over feelings of doubt and discouragement.
I’ll tell you what’s problematic about being over 40 and being friends with someone under 25: if you say “but I am le tired” they do not understand that they are supposed to say “well have a nap AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES”
memes that did irreparable damage to my vocabulary
On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.
Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia’s first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.
The children killed were named Katricia Dotson (Tree), Netta, Delitia, Phil, and Tomasa Africa and the adults were Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John Africa.
In April 2021, it was revealed that anthropologists at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania had the bones of one of the children, unbeknownst to the families.
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I reblog things about the MOVE bombing whenever I see it because NOBODY taught me about it. The first time I heard about it I thought it was disinformation, because it sounded so horrifying. Learning that this happened in the Northeast in 1985 and it somehow isn’t in every American history curriculum was a watershed moment in my view of education and racism.
haven’t been on tumblr in a long time (find me here) but i’m proud enough of this to come back & share it here too. thinking about making prints - if/when i do, they’ll be available on Six of Hands. sending strength & solidarity to my Jewish community, especially my fellow queer & trans Jews, & love to anti-fascists of all kinds fighting for our lives.
ETA: fixed a wrong letter in the Yiddish - thanks twitter folk! people are asking for shirts so i’ll see what my options are - i’d love to do real screen printing but if i can’t get that worked out i can always put it on my redbubble.
reblogging to add some context for folks asking: “mir veln zey iberlebn” (we will outlive them) is a Yiddish protest song from 1939 that has become a modern Jewish anti-fascist rallying cry. the creatures pictured here are the Leviathan & the Ziz, two mythical monsters from Jewish tradition that i’m using to represent the enduring survival & power of the Jewish people & our stories.
this image is now available on shirts, stickers & prints here!
Jews are always a little late. It’s a rule of our culture that if you’re going to a Jewish event, you have to expect that it’s going to start late, because there’s always going to be a crowd of people who need an extra ten minutes. The Jewish relationship with time is a complicated one.
In fact, I can think of lots of examples–Nazi Germany most notably–where the Jews were even late to realizing that someone was really serious about coming to kill us. We often figure out, only just as the mob is showing up at the synagogue door, that they weren’t kidding.
For a clever people, we are sometimes slow on the uptake.
In history’s narrative, the Jews are seldom the mob. You’d think we’d have figured out by now that we’re usually the ones the mob is coming to burn and kill with its torches and pitchforks.
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