Living with my partner in the bay area for a few months and i had to clean his kitchen properly i mean i cleaned the fridge and threw out old food with best before dates from 4 years ago and washed the fridge shelves and drawers and outside door and handle of the fridge and stove and stove dials and countertops and reorganized the pantry which had granola bars and flour and couscous that dates back to before my partner was diagnosed with celiac disease and things that were sticky but shouldn’t have been sticky and unidentifiable powders in unlabeled bags…..not judging exactly, i think it’s easy to become blind to ones own squalor especially when you live by yourself. Anyway it’s very satisfying to clean things he thought were permanently filthy lol i’m using baking soda to its fullest potentials

Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

A Palestinian refugee. She is wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the image of the revolutionary Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani.

Ein El Hilweh Camp, 1982- 1989

Life in Sinkiewiczy (Сінкевічы, Belarus). 1935-1938.

The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117

Bukharan Jewish silk dyers in Margilan, eastern Uzbekistan, early 20th century

Gentrification is the new colonialism

Vanessa Bell’s studio, Charleston, Sussex

Clarence River Floodplain, Northern NSW Australia [OC] 2587 x 3449 - Author: Stu_Murphy_Artist on Reddit

don't make me get a substack

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

All People with AIDS are Innocent

Gran Fury, 1989

On that note, who are the queer tattooers in the sf bay area?

When people ask me what my tattoos mean i say they mean i went to art school