For people asking "why a Van Gogh painting if it's about climate change?":
A climate activist literally SELF-IMMOLATED in front of the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT BUILDING & y'all didn't talk about that an EIGTH as much.
Scholars of racism have outlined this in their work for years, how one doesn't have to be the direct target of a racist act to still experience its harmful impact. The "weathering" of racism. There are many examples, with varying gradations, that Black folks experience every day.
I bring this up because I, quite literally, felt the impact of that moment in my body for hours after it happened. I couldn't shake it. While the venom had not been oriented directly at me, I experienced the debris of that woman's language in ways that I felt in and under my skin
Since Sep 11 2001, the US has displaced an estimated 59 million people across eight countries and have dropped an average of 46 bombs per day as part of its "war on terror"
$32 million an hour has been spent fuelilng this.