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• Arts & culture for, abt, by us on the margins • Land Back 🍉

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Free Mahmoud Khalil

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

Mask up w/ me , friends: I'm tabling at EBABZ Fest on Sat, 12/7, at the Brower Center in Berkeley, CA! Swing by my table for zines & tings that raise funds for HB, the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, & mutual aid axns in Filastin, Sudan, & DRC.

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

@kikutowne And then there's the way people tell you about their idea in the form of "we should" when what they actually mean is "you should make this happen for me." To which I've learned to respond, "That's a great idea you should totally work on!"

Which they don't.

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@haymarketbooks The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, & To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her own words

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

I'm tabling at OC Zine Fest on Sat, 9/7, at the Anaheim Central Library! Swing by my table for sweet zines, buttons, & crochet tings that raise funds for HB, the Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation, & mutual aid axns in Filastin, Sudan, & DRC. https://t.co/QfwkdwLc7T

[Terisa Siagatonu @terisasiagatonu]

“Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Yemen. Free Hawai’i. Free Guam. Beyond a ceasefire, we need an end to the occupation. It’s deeper than this. I need everybody that’s here right now, everybody that’s watching to step up: to use their voices.” —@Kehlani 🥺🫀🙏🏽

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

Next up: Vending #zines & tings on 8/10 to raise funds for Gaza Sunbirds, Pious Projects' Sponsor an Orphan in Gaza campaign, Sudanese American Physicians Association, Friends of the Congo, Indigenous Regeneration, & Hello Barkada. https://t.co/cx7ZzvVOS6

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

Excited to be joined by @jazmine_joyner @chuckspear @victoriaying @jacobysalcedo at #ComicCon for a convo abt organizing for & protecting community care in the pop arts. Add FROM BURNOUT TO BRAINSTORM, Jul 28, 12:30pm, Rm 10 to ur #SDCC24 MySched: https://t.co/N6wI2KxRJr

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@AngrygirLcomics The way they lean into arguing abt accessibility to make art like pencils, scraps of paper, time, and effort don't exist.

Demanding free access to and use of works made by someone's skill and labor is some dark, exploitative sh*t.

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@haymarketbooks Rifqa by @m7mdkurd
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black by the late Lorraine Hansberry

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Spot on @chromosphereLA @TropicoMall @kikutowne. https://t.co/XSee1ymsEf

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@mintycel @toastasaurus Yes and, I feel like many GNs categorized as middle-grade or YA *are* appealing to adults, but many adults aren't practiced in considering them. To name many: Squire, Frizzy, Flamer, Hungry Ghost, Nayra & the Djinn, This One Summer, the New Kid series, American Born Chinese...

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

@toastasaurus @bulgilhan @ssbcpunk @DiskettePress @pocketini @01FirstSecond Yes and would like to mention @DandQ as the other big name doing good work. Also, BTS, it feels like :01 and D&Q are pubs more likely to inc book promo in budgets so that creators aren't completely paying out of pocket to tour their recent works.

[Jennifer Jajeh @jenjajeh]

Our friend Susan Abulhawa got into Gaza and her org is accepting donations for on the ground aid. Make sure to note it’s for GAZA AID. RT widely #feedgaza https://t.co/yJTAAFAqjl

[Mizna @Mizna_ArabArt]

Mizna is pleased to co-present the official book launch of "Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets" with Tamaas

When: March 2, 2024 at 12pm CT
Where: Zoom, RSVP required for link!

Head to https://t.co/IIN9XUCevp for more information and to RSVP

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

@wondermann5 They are giving me Dorothy Dandridge vibes in this shoot. 💕

[✊🏾🇵🇷Vita Ayala🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @definitelyvita]

What has been made clear is that my tax money goes to:

Bombing Palestine
Bombing Yemen
More cops
Paying for lawsuits against police
A bailout for chain stores that made up a shoplifting panic

but NOT:

Libraries
Schools/teachers
Feeding or housing those in need
Eradicating debt

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

@explodingarrow Yup. Periodical journalism does not cleanly correlate with texts about comics. So much of the remit/focus of texts abt comics considers them in larger sociohistorical/sociopolitical contexts. Ya, journalism may inc. such to frame, but it largely reports on comics in real time.

[Hello Barkada @hellobarkada]

They had me at "inaugural" and "grant." Check it!

#comics

[Comics Advocacy Group @ComicsAdvocacy]

The inaugural Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grant is open! This application will close on 12pm EST on January 15th, 2024.
🔗https://t.co/Q58g3OrTsQ