...multiple cases of preteen children who had been shot in the head or chest in Gaza. ...nearly universal psychiatric distress in young children and saw some who were suicidal or said they wished they had died. ...children suffering from easily preventable infections, some of whom died from them.
“Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”
While you're at it, you can also order this book, in which I have the closing essay. All royalties are going to a queer youth center in South Korea! bookshop.org/p/books/bang...
Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection's contributors--who include ar...
Bookshop has free shipping today so you should order my partner @guante.bsky.socialbookshop.org/p/books/not-...
OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS?An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wa...
On October 7th, 2024, I want to repeat Edward Said’s advice to us all: “Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.” Heads up. Hearts open. We can build a better world.
Calling all DISRUPTORS! Meet us at We, the People: a virtual rally featuring movement workers who will inform and provide calls to action, poets who will recite/perform poetic medicine, and an artist painting live! Sat Oct 12 3pm CDT Register in advance bit.ly/TheVirtualRa... Come through!
"We must recognize our despair, and name it, to prevent its bottomless darkness from transforming our activist spaces into toxic places of harm... A genocide has threatened to erase Palestine, but it has ensured that Palestine now lives in each one of us, immortal." - Noura Erakat
Day by day, for a year, the Israeli military waged an unrelenting campaign of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. Day by day, people of conscience tried to stop it.
The horror is relentless. (And so is the effort of humans to build a better world, I tell myself.)
It's still Bandcamp Friday for a few hours; one last pitch to consider checking out our climate crisis concept album about cultivating hope in grief and collective action: bit.ly/adunf@destinyad.bsky.social.
I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive.
"Get that ready because it could save your life or your community's lives," says Asheville organizer Sarah Nuñez.
ahh thank you. I should put you on the guestlist for how supportive you've been, but one of those indie artist catch 22s is that the most supportive people so often end up buying tickets anyway, haha. Either way, thank you.