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It is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
And I have some big feelings, as a part of the diaspora. Remembrance Day is an inappropriate title for a time in which Armenians still face genocidal forces. Just last year, Azerbaijan, armed by Turkey, ethnically cleansed over 280,000 Armenians from Artsakh. The illegal colonizer state of Israel, currently in the midst of their 6+ month-long genocide against the Palestinians, has placed the Armenians who call Jerusalem home under threat and siege.
The Armenian struggle and the Palestinian struggle are deeply linked.
In his rise to power, Hitler is quoted to justify his actions against the Jewish, Roma, Queer, Disabled, and other victims of the Holocaust, to say "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
Echoing these chilling words, Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish wrote:
Who Remembers the Armenians?
I remember them
and I ride the nightmare bus with them
each night
and my coffee, this morning
I'm drinking it with them
You, murderer -
Who remembers you?
The trauma sustained during a genocide is not limited to the people experiencing it right now. The echoes of that trauma leak forward into the next generations, passed down through survival, and that is so insidious. My grandmother got to live, but did so believing that her parents did not love her, because the trauma they endured prevented them from expressing it. Abuse and unhealthy attachment were passed down because that starving hunger for love and acceptance was passed down. It is so deeply cruel and unfair that our oppressors get to reach through time and hurt our children's children.
We need to band together and stop the present-day abusers, the genocidal monsters that oppress the people of Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and so many others.
We need to uplift art made by those who survived, and by those who are surviving. Art is always targeted by the oppressor to erase cultural identity, to destroy legacy, and to break spirits. Support Palestinian and Armenian poets, and artists, and writers.
If you are one of the many who never learned about the Armenian Genocide, learn today. Ask yourself why people worked so hard not to educate you on this piece of history.
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“Floating Weeds” (1959) by Yasujirō Ozu
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As the veneer of democracy starts to fade / NME, 21/28 December 1985.
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On September 13-14 36 year old Anush Apetyan and Armenian woman who wanted to fight for her country she was captured near Jermuk by Azerbaijanis and they tortured her to death and did so many inhuman things to her body she was the mother of 3 children who now lost their mother her name was Anush Apetyan she needs to be remember and have Justice
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Fred Moten, Sound in Florescence: Cecil Taylor’s Floating Garden
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Listen/purchase: Toratolion by Eddie Marcon
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The experience of eros is a study in ambiguities of time. Lovers are always waiting. They hate to wait; they love to wait. Wedged between these two feelings, lovers come to think a great deal about time, and to understand it very well, in their perverse way.
— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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National Poetry Month
April holds a flaring match
to the end of her cigarette
Her hands don’t shake – too much.
She says, “I’ve lost everything –
nothing scares me now.”
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R.A.P. Ferreira - ASIATIQUE BLACK WIZARD LILY FUNK
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What Color Is Love - Terry Callier (1972)
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En 1991 el fotógrafo mexicano Antonio Turok registró esta imagen del eclipse solar, desde Chiapas, México.
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The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (Sarah Fishko, 2015).
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The Potential and Limits of International Law in Achieving Accountability in Gaza by Noura Erakat
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