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tagged by @hyperculture @igneousbody @blissfullybisexually to share four recent non-selfie pics <3
tagging @nicholasbritellhive @cnnrp @phenakistoskope @handsworthsongs if you would like to!
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🚨Urgent and important appeal🚨
‼️‼️The crossing is closed‼️‼️
I'm Wasim from Gaza, as you know the crossings are closed and the situation is very difficult, everything is expensive, we cannot afford any food or gas and we are in the holy month of Ramadan and we fast for 15 hours and we cannot break our fast because of the high cost of food...😭😞
As you can see, we do not have cooking gas because the crossings are closed, and we suffer a lot when cooking...😔😭‼️
My mother also needs medicine and vitamins, but she cannot buy them because they are expensive due to the closure of the crossings and the scarcity of the quantity.😭
‼️Help us and donate so that we can break our fast in this blessed month and so that my mother can receive her vitamins...😔🤲🫂‼️
Campaign Link ⬇️⬇️⬇️
✅️Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #290 )✅️
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🚫Beware of PayPal links🚫 Scammers steal all the information and images and create a PayPal link.
🍉 The ceasefire was stopped 🍉
⚠️ don’t ignore my text ⚠️
I am Mahmoud from North Gaza, studying computer engineering. I was working in a programming company during my studies. I got married a day before the war started and I was living in my house with my wife, but because of the war, things changed and I lost my house, my job and my father. 💔
It is very unfortunate and now my family has no breadwinner, so I desperately need your help. My wife is pregnant and we are suffering from famine. My child is my only hope in this world. I am asking you for a small donation so that I can provide food for my pregnant wife, please
✅️UPDATE 17/01/2025✅️
After the ceasefire in Gaza, hope has returned to us once again, giving us the strength to rebuild our lives.
now my wife is five months pregnant. She requires full care, including medications, vitamins, and medical attention.🤰👼
I beg you to help me and save my first child.🫀
My hope is for my child to come into better circumstances than these.
It is incredibly difficult for a child to be born in a tent, in the worst conditions, surrounded by insects and germs.
Please, help me build a new hope for this small family 👨👩👦
any amount will make difference to us
Reblogged handsworthsongs
one of the reasons immigration remains a relatively popular policy for trump despite the fact that he is carrying it out in ways totally antithetical to what many conservatives claim to stand for (in violation of due process, 1A, etc) is because the way he is carrying out is explicitly creating a hierarchy in which the white conservative american is the only full citizen (which is to say someone who enjoys all the rights and protections under the law) in the united states
and everything else aside, this is a very appealing concept to his base because it rewards them for nothing more than existing. trump's immigration policies, unlike his undiscriminating economic policies which really impoverish everyone except select billionaires, are the main vehicle that enshrines a formal political prioritization and exceptionalism of the white conservative. so of course they're popular. even if they end up targeting citizens on ideological grounds, which they will, they will continue to be popular. because they are not about immigration at all, but rather about defining american identity along racial and ideological lines, and then sanctifying the american for being american
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a friend just tipped me off about Fund a Kitchen in Gaza, a free tool that helps you locate and donate to community kitchens currently serving some of Gaza's most vulnerable!
this lets you choose a region (south, central, north) and see which kitchens operate in that area, then donate to as many as you can.
as a reminder, community kitchens try to buy and cook in bulk, which makes ingredients last longer & sustain more people in the conditions of extreme scarcity that Israel is imposing right now. they are also able to serve people on the ground who may not have the means to reach out online.
so, whether through this tool or not, please do support community kitchens, as well as mutual aid groups that cover additional needs, such as the Sameer Project (meals, tents, cash aid, medical aid) and Dahnoun Mutual Aid (meals, tents, baby supplies, cash aid, winter clothes).
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Icelander Ragnar Axelsson, one of the North’s most in-demand photographers, has long been observing climate change with the greatest concern. For more than 40 years, he has been documenting the dramatic changes to landscapes and habitats on the margins of the inhabitable world, travelling to the most remote and isolated regions of the Arctic, to Inuit hunters in Northern Canada and Greenland, to farmers and fishermen on Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and to the Indigenous population in Northern Scandinavia and Siberia.
His information comes first-hand from the people on the ground. Axelsson will go to great lengths to be able to visit them over and over and spend time with them. For this reason, and because he shares their often arduous everyday life, he enjoys their trust. That, in turn, allows him to freeze moments in photographs of their lives and write up their narratives — thus, he becomes the ambassador to their existence and their changing living condi- tions. The other major topic that thrills Axelsson is the force of the elements and the grandeur of Nordic nature. His impressive photographic landscape portraits are testimony to this.
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Some pics from his reportage book "Andlit Nordursins - The Face of The North" published in 2016.
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Ginkgo chair by Claude Lalanne
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This is such a good time to be an America hater bc this shit is done for like pack it up and hand over the keys
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“It’s 2003, just two years after the U.S. invasion and the end of the first authoritarian Taliban regime in Afghanistan. A blond woman haggles with a young man in a stall in Kabul. With the documentarian Liz Mermin’s camera rolling, the woman explains that she’s a hairdresser from New York who founded a program “to open the beauty school for the women,” an initiative underwritten by the giants of the U.S. fashion industry. The six hundred afghani he was charging would equal about six dollars for the American, but by this point she is thronged by curious passersby, and the camera captures the impassive young shopkeeper dropping his price to five hundred afghani. He reminds her in parting that Afghanistan has been at war for the last twenty years, to which she responds, “That’s why we’re here, to help.” The blond beautician works for Beauty Without Borders, an American nongovernmental organization made possible by “development aid” and cooperation among the fashion and beauty industries, U.S. military, and newly created Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs. The famed Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s support was allegedly decisive in securing the project’s financing. In her article “The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminisms in an Age of Terror,” the cultural scholar Mimi Thi Nguyen describes how the initiative viewed itself as providing a form of idealistic humanitarian aid that helped people help themselves. There was also the convenient allusion to Doctors Without Borders and the medical aid it provides, with this initiative providing a universal beauty “without borders” exported by means of a training program for hairstylists and makeup artists. The women and their beauty salons were meant to serve as an “oasis amid the ugliness of war,” Nguyen writes.
Beauty Without Borders wasn’t “just about providing lipstick,” project director Patricia O’Connor insisted in an interview with ABC News. “It’s about restoring self-esteem and independence.” Another cosmetician, Deborah Rodriguez—who would later write a best-selling book, Kabul Beauty School, as well as novels including The Zanzibar Wife and The Moroccan Daughter—opens her classes with similarly preachy language about her notions of beauty. In Mermin’s 2004 film The Beauty Academy of Kabul, we see Rodriguez admonishing Afghan women to remember the connection between their appearance and the future of their country: how could Afghanistan be expected to change and develop a modern look if the women didn’t change, themselves?
In an Australian news feature on the school, we meet Wajma, who is enrolled in the program along with her aunt Jamila. She is doing the training, she says, because given growing demand, beauticians earn more than doctors in Kabul. Like many of her classmates—single mothers, widows, or women whose husbands are sick or out of work—Wajma is the breadwinner and hopes to open her own salon. The beauty business is booming, after all. In preparation for that future, trainees are given practical guideposts: How long should different cosmetic chemicals be left on? How much makeup does a modern woman wear?
Nguyen argues that the promise of beauty as freedom coincided with the United States’ imperialist war. What exactly was the beauty school promising if its promises were linked both structurally and ideologically to military objectives and the destruction of Afghanistan? While the Americans coordinated drone strikes elsewhere in the country, U.S. Army officials guarded the Beauty Without Borders graduation ceremony. The ethnologist Julie Billaud writes in Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan that Beauty Without Borders was one of many projects from that period with the shared goal of creating the “new Afghan woman,” to show the world that Afghanistan had the capacity for being civilized and modern. In so-called developing nations, Billaud explains, projects like these were as common as participation in international beauty pageants, the countries’ aim being to demonstrate to a global audience how progressive and liberal they were by showcasing their women. In the case of the American beauty academy, however, the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs retracted its support after only a year. Its cooperation with the Western project was compromising its own fight for women’s rights. Billaud cites the Afghan press and relates how growing criticism of the U.S. occupation was also changing the perception of liberal body practices among Afghan women. The ways women styled their hair and how much skin they exposed were interpreted as the direct result of foreign influence and women’s corruption by the occupiers. Kabul Beauty School failed because the beauty it sought to import is not, in fact, universal (though organizers claimed otherwise) but imperial; as such, it does not exist without borders (as those same organizers hoped) but as part of a military front—a front that advances on the bodies of Afghan women by way of white face powder and a hem exposing a bare shoulder.”
—Moshtari Hilal, Ugliness