Katherine Squier, 2009 bremser
arrested for swimming on “whites only” beach, Georgia, 1963 bremser
A Three Minute Hero (via agi500)
Dorothea Lange, Japanese store, San Francisco, 1942; Japanese children awaiting “evacuation bus” to internment camp, Hayward, 1942. bremser
The meaning of immigrant settler colonialism.
“What this Israeli government is doing is eating up — stealing — the land that is allocated for the Palestinians: that is the meaning of settlement.
… Netanyahu told you that he would have a settlement moratorium. I think, if you should accept this, you should change the definition of ‘moratorium’ in the Oxford English Dictionary. Because when he continues to build 3500 housing units, to subsidize settlements with tens of millions of dollars, to add public buildings, thousands of housing units in Jerusalem, confiscating Palestinian land, that’s undermining the whole concept of two-state solution.”
Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, joins Sir David from Ramallah to talk about the effect that settlement building in the West Bank is having on the Middle East peace process.
Frost over the World - Saeb Erekat - 18 Dec 09 (via AlJazeeraEnglish)
Lucien Herve, Boulevard de Reims et Rue de Courcelles, Paris, 1951 bremser
she’s in her mid to late twenties, wears heels all day and pretty things while everyone else wears sneakers and flip flops. she dresses up for work like work is on her way to somewhere sexier and more important.
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I watch her, like a student, I watch her take care to take care, speaking rapidly to her coworkers, laughing at their jokes, making her own. she occasionally laughs with me, asks me how I am but is mostly quiet, firm with the filing, cutting and buffing of my nails. firm but gentle with it too. knowing in a way that comes with repetition—like I know my poems, she knows my nails.
the last time she did my nails, when she was done, I looked at the masterpiece of my nails and beamed, “you’re the best!” she responded, “I like it when you say that. because it’s true.” lily got that undercover swagger like what!?!
me? I love butches like some of y’all like your coffee black, no sugar—strong and undiluted. y’all know this. but. but there’s something subtly hypnotic about her, quiet and lovely. charming and laid back. femme. feminine in this sweet way that brings softness to my eyes.
a dyke of a certain caliber: I think I’m having an affair with my manicurist
