what is this, it’s the Abigail Adams collage you didn’t know you wanted
(Source: marthajefferson, via threewordstogether)
I picked up Tom Ryan’s debut YA novel Way to Go and it’s great, honest and refreshing. I zoomed through it! Highly recommended.
It’s hot as the dickens! Have a favorite winter holiday song, Meaghan Smith’s “It Snowed” from A New Kind of Light
(Source: SoundCloud / El Music)
Aaaaaa this twitter is horrifying aaaaaaa
To all you young artists out there: this sort of thing is likely to come your way at some point! Don’t be fooled, rare - RARE - is the job where the “exposure” is worth a lack of/very little pay.
Most of us can only do little things, right? But it still counts. Click through.
If you aren’t totally quaking in your boots at the news of millions of bees dead, yet again, you’re nuts.
you knew Adrienne K. would not disappoint with a review!
Here is a bigger version of my Best American cover! You’ll be seeing it pop up again in October when the book comes out.
If you live in the Bay, and are not choosing to be willfully ignorant, you probably already know that gentrification is a huge problem here. San Francisco’s proximity to Silicon Valley has attracted a lot of techie-type young professionals who are pushing out SF’s previous residents, especially those that are low income people of color. Those displaced are often moving to the East Bay, pushing the East Bay’s low-income residents of color out into far-flung suburbs with little of the resources the “inner-city" provides, such as public transit. Nothing I’ve said so far is anything that hasn’t already been said over and over again.
Resistance to gentrification takes many forms. Some, like Causa Justa and the Right to the City Alliance organize against evictions and foreclosures. Others, like local Barry Jenkins, make thoughtful films like Medicine for Melancholy, a love letter to the city of San Francisco lamenting the fact that many people of color can no longer afford to live there. And then you have Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik.
When I first saw Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik perform at Marga Gomez’s Comedy Bodega at Esta Noche in the Mission, I knew immediately I was witnessing something amazing. As someone who wrote my undergraduate thesis on the power of queer and trans people of color’s performance art, I recognized the performance of “Google Apps" as protest art, the likes of which I had never seen before. Even as I watched the performance, I didn’t feel like my mind was open enough to fully comprehend what I was witnessing. Which is why I’m really glad they made a video.
Though the slowly atrophying academic part of my brain is tempted to do a close reading, I will not interpret every line for you. That would be like reading a choose-your-own-adventure book where all your adventures are already chosen for you. I will say that I disagree with the interpretation of the video/song’s message as xenophobic. It’s pretty clear to me that Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik don’t want to be white, they just want to be able to stay in their homes.
What else can I say about this video? It’s hilarious, it’s obscene, and it’s poignant. Though thousands more words are sure to be spent explaining and opining on the housing crisis in the Bay Area, perhaps none will do so more successfully or succinctly than “Moving to the East Bay/Living life the broke way/SF keep your money/F*** your money!“
Someone give a comedy performance award to the performer who delivers the line "I don’t know?”
Hiuaz Kairovna Dospanova (1922-2008), the only female pilot and navigator from Kazakhstan to serve during the Second World War,
From May 1942 she served as navigator, and later became the head of communication of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment—commonly referred to as the Night Witches, a nickname they were given by the Germans that they terrorized in their nightly raids.
Dospanova made more than 300 combat missions and was seriously injured in April 1943 while making a landing in blackout conditions; she survived the crash but fractured both legs. Three months later, she returned to the regiment to continue fighting, going all the way to Berlin for the victory.
For her courage and bravery, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals for the defense of the Caucasus, for the liberation of Warsaw, and for victory over Germany. Four years before her death, In December 2004, the President of Kazakhstan decreed that Dospanova was to be awarded the title of National Hero for her heroic actions.
she looks way cool
National Hero!
(Source: demons, via roses-and-railways)
Up for pre-order! With a cover by this guy right here.
So, my comic “Masterplasty” just went online here. Now in colour! Click
James’ mad drawing skills blow everyone away as usual. Be sure to click that link.
I once made the mistake of looking up “feral children” as thing that might be interesting, and if you ever do the same be prepared to cry your eyes out from some really sad stories.
Lose yourself for a bit in the archives of Codex 99
-“Codex 99 is either an occasionally updated weblog or incrementally expanded website about the history of the visual arts and graphic design”
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