soracities:

“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

fallahifag:

This year marks the first Ramadan without the Jenin camp msaharatis

  • The martyr, Abu Ali Al-Sabah.
  • The martyr, Mahmoud Al-Saadi.
  • And the prisoner, Mounir Salama.

A msaharati is the person responsible for roaming the streets while drumming and chanting in order to wake people for their pre-fast meal during Ramadan before the break of dawn.

The specific chants being done in this video translate to

“Oh mother of the martyr, your son didn’t die, he is missing from the world, but he’s living a better life [presumably in heaven], oh mother of the martyr.”

“Oh mother of the martyr, oh mother, hold me close to your chest, hold me. Hold me close to your chest, hold me. Tomorrow, we’ll meet again, mother (yumma), in God’s heaven”

true detective crash x marty fanmix but it’s just the only time on a loop for eighteen hours

IN THE NAME OF GOD AND FLANNERY OCONNOR if you tag your fic “southern gothic” it better BE southern gothic and if you don’t actually know what that means then DON’T

acelessthan3:

acelessthan3:

Posting faggot and queer like 2am gunshots to keep property values on my blog low and scare away assimilationist LGBTs who want to replace my empty lot full of native wildflowers with a 5-over-1 because they’re too traumatized by their upbringing to accept the reality of our diverse marginalized community

The dykes and trannies in the notes have informed me they would like to be included in this commentary on the homogenizing forces of gentrification within the queer community as represented by language discourse around “slur” reclamation

zegalba:

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Cai Guo-Qiang: ‘Sky Ladder’ (2015)

The artist created a 500 meter (1,650 foot) flaming ladder that took him 21 years to realize. The artwork was a gift to his grandmother who turned 100 years old, and to the rest of his family and hometown of Quanzhou, China.