NELLIE NERVOSA

Daria Pleggenkuhle by Mark Segal for September 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar UK

I’m glad so many people have discovered Judith “Judy” Heumann through this silly little gif set. I am sorry to say she has died at the age of 75. She was known as the mother of disability rights. In 1970 she sued the Board of Education to become a licensed teacher and she won. In 1977 she was one of the organizers of the 504 Sit-in, a 24 day protest for disability rights. You can learn more about her story from her book Being Heumann, the picture book Fighting for YES! or the documentary Crip Camp.

Judy Heumann believed in the inherent value of each disabled individual and would never back down on what she thought was right. Her friends and fellow activists remember her as a strong leader.

Judy Heumann

December 18, 1947 - March 4, 2023

May her memory be for a blessing.

Donna Tartt visiting William Faulkner’s grave, photographed by Maude Clay.

BeReal - 6h 54 mn late

Gerda Wegener The Crinoline from serie The Pleasures of Eros 1920

Karel Thole - Wölfe in der Stadt, 1973

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I do think that love is very often about sacrifice. I mean sacrifice as in choosing, as in effort. I mean choosing as in the allocation of time, and energy, and the making of space and the setting aside of prejudices and the keeping of an open mind. I mean leaving the last half-slice of cake in the fridge; working late into Thursday evening to spend Friday evening together; picking them up at the train station even though they’ve long memorised the route to your flat. Even when it is a sacrifice happily made, a choice readily chosen, it is still the giving up of one life in favour of another. And I think it’s important to recognise that. I could be living a different life but I am choosing to live a life with you. It is a sacrifice. The stakes are that high. And I do it anyway. I do it because it’s you. I do it because I love you.

Sue Zhao

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Vladimir Tretchikoff (Russian,1913-2006)

Dying Swan II, 1951

Oil on canvas

the list of arms and ammunition that the US has sent to Israel (which Biden is trying to hide from the public) has been leaked

• 2,000 Hellfire missiles for Apache attack helicopters. The Lockheed Martin precision-guided Hellfires are being used more and more extensively by Israel now that its ground operations in Gaza dominate the war.

• 30mm chain gun ammunition, also for Apache attack helicopters. General Dynamics manufactures the latest ammunition.  

• 57,000 155mm shells for artillery guns

• 400 120mm mortars 

• PVS-14 Night Optical Devices 

• M141 shoulder-fired bunker-busters, officially “bunker defeat munitions,” the Western equivalent of Hamas RPGs and designed to engage targets at short range. “Bunker buster” as described in the news media is a bit misleading as the munition is used at 250 meter range to attack above-ground fortifications.

• 75 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, manufactured by Oshkosh Defense.

• 300+ Tamir interceptors, used for Israel’s “Iron Dome” system, and manufactured by Raytheon (RTX) in cooperation with Israel.

i;m like if you made a girl but had to make a lot of substitutions in the recipe

— Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 6th, 1926