Langston Hughes

i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

daily reminder that you can talk to the people who have boots on their necks too, that with enough people you can [kindly remind] landlords, politicians, police, and employers that you have the capacity to [peacefully refuse to comply] and that their own systems buckle under their own weight more easily and often than you presume

I think it has just always been easier for people to look at things that do not scare them, i.e. university students protesting in tents, rather than see the real, unsettling, horrific, true images coming out of Gaza and internalise them as a REAL event that is happening to REAL people.

A genocide is never going to be easy to stomach, but you have to bear witness anyway

The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - 7x04 Take Me Out to the Holo-Suite

The Lantern Bearers, 1908 by Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966)

It's insane how casually the calls to end a genocide, not just the students in Columbia University but pro Palestinian views in general, are labelled as terrorists. The audacity to still publicly support Israel's actions even after the horrific bombings these last months and then turn around to say that the ones who oppose it are violent anti semites is just baffling

I have been listening to the Hobbit audiobook while working. Bad idea. I didn't work, I drew Bilbo and his fancy home ♥

turn up that fucking hurdy gurdy

taking 2 hrs off of the protest b/c i have a work meeting & need to eat. & i am sooo physically sick i feel like i'm gonna pass out but also they need ppl to stay all night and i was planning on doing that. but the cops won't let us sleep at the encampment & if i don't get a good night's sleep tonight i might seriously perish

the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah

people who are only capable of viewing the world through fandom or have books-are-just-for-entertainment brainrot should be physically restrained from reviewing dark/slow/literary books that actually have something to say... *sobbing* you are all so stupid...