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Jupiter's Moon IO: Jupiter's fifth moon, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Io's surface temperature averages about minus 202 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 Celsius), resulting in the formation of sulfur dioxide snowfields. But Io's volcanoes can reach 3,000 F (1,649 C). Io is often referred to as a celestial body of fire and ice. (source)

beauty in horror - raw intent by antony micallef / The Magnus Archives episode 32: Hive / two part by rghayati / I am in Eskew episode 1: Correspondence / oda jaune

Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945.

Harry Fonseca — In the Silence of Dusk They Began to Shed Their Skin  (mixed media on canvas, 1995)

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

some recent mentions of love from my journal

Good advice spotted west of Avon, Montana

OH, THE PLACES WE WILL GO

THE THINGS WE WILL SEE

THE PEOPLE WE WILL MEET

my favorite part about not doing anything ever is

fuck you aphex twins!!!! you've murdered my family!!! Goddamn it you got me again!!

Frank Lloyd Wright. Drawings and Designs.

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Resources for non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness

How Anti-Blackness Affects my South Asian-American identity

What Solidarity, ‘Selfishness’ and Anti-Blackness Look like from a Queer Desi perspective

Baltimore Riots Reveal Blatant Anti-Blackness in the South Asian Community

On Confronting and Resisting Anti-Blackness in Ourselves & In Our Communities

The Revolution Starts with my Thathi: Strategies for South Asians to Bring #BlackLivesMatter home

Bringing it Home: South Asians Talking to Our Parents About Sureshbhai Patel, Police Brutality, and Black Lives Matter

The Need for Black-South Asian Solidarity by Lavanya Nott (1/14/2016)

Freedom to Dissent from Delhi to Ferguson by Meghna Chandra (2/16/2016)

Vijay Prashad’s chapter on South Asians & anti-Blackness in The Karma of Brown Folk

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad

Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness and Global Race Consciousness by Nitasha Sharma

Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj

The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity by Anirvan Chatterjee

Why Black Lives Matter in Pakistan by Junaid S. Ahmad & Darakshan Raja

South Asians for Black Power: On Anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and Complicity

We Too Sing America; South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

Afro-Dalits of the Earth, Unite!  by Vijay Prashad (JSTOR)

It Starts at Home: Confronting Anti-Blackness in South Asian Communities — A Facilitation Guide by the Queer South Asian National Network

Towards a “Selfish Solidarity”: Building Deep Investment in the Movement for Black Lives

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I copied this from the Google Doc bc I am afraid of losing these links! Credit goes to the original creators, not me! 

Layla Al Attar (1942-1993) was one of Iraq’s most respected and influential painters in the 1970s and 80s. Layla was murdered alongside her husband by a U.S Missile attack that targeted the house she resided in, which was her sister Suad’s house, and several other civilian homes in her neighbourhood in Baghdad in 1993. Although the attack was considered to be accidental, many people believe the real reason behind the air-strike was due to one of her provocative pieces; which was a mosaic portrait of George H. W. Bush on the floor of the main entrance of Al Rasheed Hotel with the phrase “Bush is Criminal“ written beneath it.

The attack was ordered by Bill Clinton in retaliation for an attempted assassination on Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Most recently however, such claims of a targeted attack on Layla’s residence have been refuted by several members close to Layla’s family due to the simplicity of the thought and the improbability of a powerful government targeting a simple artist. This has also been refuted because according to several resources Layla didn’t create that mosaic of Bush, but she was rather a manager at the Arts Institute that commissioned an artist from Diyala/Baqubah to create it.

The details of Layla’s and her husband’s death might never be known, but one thing that should be realized from this event is the amount of disrespect and abasement the American administration had and continues to have until this day to the lives of Iraqis.

Photos from the book ‘My People Shall Live’, London, 1973

The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Spanish: Organización de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina), abbreviated as OSPAAAL, is a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights.It publishes the magazine Tricontinental. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of leftist delegates from Guinea, the Congo, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Syria, North Korea, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile and the Dominican Republic.

One of the main purposes of the organisation is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the Third World; for example, OSPAAAL strongly supported Hugo Chávez. Social development, which the organization says is a human right, is a recurring theme in OSPAAAL publications.

From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly coloured propaganda posters promoting their cause, however, financial difficulty and ink shortages forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, in 2000, these posters began to be printed again.

These posters, as they intended to be internationalist, usually had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba, these posters were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tricontinental, so that they could be distributed internationally. This allowed OSPAAAL to send its message to its subscribers around the world.

Doves No. 2, Hilma af Klint, 1915

oil on canvas

Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood, Group IV   (oil on canvas, 1907)

Hilma af Klint, 1915-1917

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Agnes Pelton (1881-1961), Challenge, 1940. Oil on canvas.

Agnes Pelton - Ahmi in Egypt, 1931

Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) — Mother of Silence  (oil on canvas, 1933)

Yoshitomo Nara. cover for Absynthe Minded, There Is Nothing, 2007

Habitation des Azteques frente al Pabellón de México en la Expo Universal de París, 1899 x J. L. Charles Garnier

Great Basin

moonlight, 2020.

fungi fetish

Gustav Klimt - Il bacio

Gustav Klimt, Judith II (1909)