i've got great news. timezones means it's always a goodnight for somewhere and even if it isnt it just makes the sentiment even funnier

also spoke to an older lesbian professor. i was asking her all these questions about marches and protests and summits and infighting and rallies and “what was it like what did this mean to you what was it like to experience that?”

and she kinda stared at me for a bit and said, “you know, it was a lot. and it was big and it did feel revolutionary. but also at that time i was mainly focused on getting my heart broken in a bar.”

and like. yeah.

another thing my dramaturg told me, from the perspective of a gay man who lived through the 80’s, was that whenever a young gay person asks him what the dating and play scene used to be like, he answers:

“we went to rallies and funerals.”

our persistence in our continued existence is big and scary and revolutionary, and the grief stretches on and the losses hit hard.

and because of that, i think it’s important to remember the dumb drama, and the first loves, and the first heartbreaks over beer. i think it’s important to go to rallies and vigils, and also dive bars and game nights.

it’s all so big and so small.

Those dilapidated warehouses being demolished and turned into a restaurant or an apartment complex is not gentrification

No, that man with a metrosexual haircut wearing airpods on the bus is not gentrifying your neighborhood, he is a person, not the American socio-economic landscape

@clearancecreedwatersurvival You'd be surprised how many people fail to grasp this

Like people will see affordable housing being built and say "Gentrification" because it's a 5 over 1 and has modern architecture

@timelineman-of-titors-edge A 5 over 1 is this bitch, the most hated architecture in the nation:

They are incredibly cheap to build apartment buildings with the current building codes. They are called 5 over 1's because they are 5 floors with wooden frames over a concrete base

Shout out to someone finally getting the point of this post

“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”

• part of kayapó’s speech during this event

also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:

This is extremely important, y'all. They're trying to Hyde Amendment trans care for people of all ages.

Medicaid and Medicare coverage would go away, no matter what state you are in. ACA plan coverage would go away. Hospitals would fully just have to stop offering trans care, full stop, or lose their federal funding.

I know we hate the phone but we absolutely can't sleep on this. If you have a Democrat rep, you absolutely have to tell them to hold the line against this.

If you haven’t seen a Bontecou in person, this picture doesn’t quite do them justice. It’s kind of cool honestly how much this particular angle and lighting flattens the piece- if the materials weren’t in the attribution I’d forgive you for thinking it was a pastel drawing on an oddly shaped canvas.

Here’s the same piece at a different angle.

Continuing to experiment with this, trying out some renders in my 8in crt

oh was it made? by a person who lives within a social system? using time and/or money? oh then its production has a political economy. hope this helps