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a loser’s elegy | Free Palestine

[🇵🇸 cleo isaac 🇵🇸 @pepsimasc]

A google doc has been put together by Operation Olive Branch. It contains direct donation links created by/for families in Gaza who need medical aid, to evacuate etc
Please donate anything you can, it’s continuously being updated with more families. 🇵🇸🕊️

https://t.co/v8LJQgjeHp

[Kit Wilson @kitwilsonwriter]

RIP Peter Aldington, whose Turn End is a lovely example of perhaps my favourite architectural style — Kettle’s Yard Modernism.

[Fatima Menâl Akin 🍉 @FattumaMannul]

🎬 Gelin size Hollywood filmlerinde kamera ne zaman Meksika’ya, 'Ortadoğu’ya', Güney Asya’ya ya da Afrika’ya dönse ekranın neden aniden tozlu bir sarı tona büründüğünü anlatayım:

Sinema literatüründe "Yellow Filter" (Sarı Filtre) olarak bilinen bu uygulama, aslında sadece sanatsal bir tercih değil, modern bir oryantalizm ve sömürgeci bakış açısıdır. Breaking Bad ve Traffic’te Meksika’yı, Extraction ve Slumdog Millionaire’de Hindistan’ı, Black Hawk Down’da Afrika’yı ya da pek çok ajan filminde İstanbul’u ve “Ortadoğu’yu” sanki üzerine sarı bir sis çökmüş gibi görmemiz tesadüf değildir.

Bu görsel manipülasyon, Edward Said’in bahsettiği "Öteki"ni inşa etme sürecinin en kestirme yoludur: Batı dünyası parlak ve "soğuk mavi" tonlarla rasyonelliğin, ilerlemenin ve medeniyetin merkezi olarak sunulurken; "Küresel Güney" olarak adlandırılan ve tarih boyunca sömürgeciliğe maruz kalmış coğrafyalar sarı filtreyle boğularak "kaotik, tehlikeli ve durağan" birer suç mahalline indirgenir.

Bu durum, kolonyalizmin kurduğu o üstenci görsel hiyerarşiyi her karede yeniden üretir. Sarı ton; kuraklığı, fakirliği ve "eskiyi" sembolize ederek izleyiciye bu bölgelerin modern zamana ait olmadığı ve "ıslah edilmesi gereken, kirli bir geçmişte takılı kaldığı" mesajını bilinçaltından fısıldar.

Hikaye anlatma biçimi olarak bu filtreyi seçmek, o coğrafyanın gerçek renklerini ve modern dokusunu yok edip Batılı izleyicinin zihnindeki stereotipleri beslemektir. Sonuçta sinematografi, burada bir sanat dalı olmaktan çıkıp dünyayı "medeni merkez" ve "egzotik/vahşi çevre" olarak ikiye bölen politik bir araca, yani sömürgeci zihniyetin görsel bir mührüne dönüşür.

[Abby @Abbywabby01]

"Everybody wants third spaces until a homeless guy shows up"

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— update: it’s over 500+ films now on my ‘vintage black films of old hollywood’ list, y’all! i dug DEEP for these, even finding some lost black cinema! more material for us to appreciate & me to talk about in archives. enjoy! 🥰🌹🏛️🎞️https://t.co/KA2JCMuoJ1

[🇵🇸 cleo isaac 🇵🇸 @pepsimasc]

@PalpzHRoids @cutteroo @Fetes2022 @SamanthaTaghoy You are so incredibly racist, on so many levels. It’s beyond hateful and ignorant.

[K. @kafkaex]

No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window, watching a city that doesn't need anything from you.

It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the world is bigger than the walls you built around yourself back home. That the life you've been living is just one version of a life, and there are others, and they're not as far away as you thought.

At home, you're fixed. Known. You fit into a shape that other people recognize, and after a while, you forget you're even in a shape at all. But here, alone, somewhere new, the shape dissolves. You could be anyone. You could be more of yourself than you've ever been. No one is watching to see if you stay consistent.

[🇵🇸 cleo isaac 🇵🇸 @pepsimasc]

@TrungTPhan Where’s the art?

[The People's Letters Bookshop @PeoplesLetters]

✨OUR CROWDFUNDER IS LIVE! ✨

We’re crowdfunding to help sustain our worker-owned cooperative bookshop and community space that opened in October.

Early support & shares mean everything: https://t.co/Iw3j3kzJ5O

[🇵🇸 cleo isaac 🇵🇸 @pepsimasc]

@PJaccetturo Very soulless

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

Start that physical media collection NOW.

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

🚨 Islington Council sent bailiffs to evict a man with incurable cancer. He was turfed onto the streets with just the clothes on his back and his crutches.

They then disposed of his belongings including medication.

He told me he has to wash in McDonald’s toilets and sleep on night buses whilst having chemotherapy.

[dilara @kauljade]

does anyone have north american indigenous fantasy or paranormal book recs

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

[❄️ Snow 🔻 Himbo ☭ @SnowHimbo]

DO NOT FORGET:

[cez @cezthesocialist]

After a caller spoke about his experience becoming addicted to heroin under criminalisation at just 13, Carole Malone blamed him for his addiction because “he wilfully took drugs”.

This isn’t ignorance, it is hatred. And it is the result of society’s demonisation of drug users

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

“Palestine is a thankless cause, which if you truly serve, you get nothing back but opprobrium, abuse, and ostracism. How many friends avoid the subject? How many colleagues want none of Palestine’s controversy?"

— Edward Said

[Eleanor Penny @eleanorkpenny]

You can't reach people with a neutral mass economic appeal if they'd burn down their own house rather than share it with an immigrant. Race is a fundamental lens through which people conceive of their class interests and if you try to ignore or indulge that you empower it.