An incomplete timeline of why there's famine in Gaza (compiled by an acquaintance, updated by me):
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October 2023: Israel imposes a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip, vowing that “no food, no water” will be allowed to enter the territory or reach its 2.3 million inhabitants. Israel's National Security Minister excitedly declares that “the only thing that should enter Gaza is hundreds of tons of air force explosives, not a gram of humanitarian ... read more
Kerry J. Marshall deserves so much better than to have one of his most iconic paintings used for an album is weak as this.
A beautiful collection of sonnets for the misfits, the underclass, and the despisers of empire. I wish I had known about Chucky Blk before my radicalization tbh.
Dev Hynes managed to do it again.
7 years after his 2018 masterpiece 'Negro Swan', Blood Orange returns to us not in a state of pride in his black humanity, but in a much more vulnerable form. In this stunning array of vignettes, Hynes lays bare the press of his own mortality upon coming back home, which in turn forces him to contemplate what it means to be "home" and even what it means to have one.
All this, accompanied by his choice of dance-pop rhythms, indie folk ... read more