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Second poster of the day for Artists Against Apartheid. The text is from this sermon by Reverend Munther Isaac. The photo is of Inas Abu Maamar and her niece Saly, taken by Mohammed Salem (Reuters). Here is a link to a folder with PDF, PNG, PSD, and Procreate files of the poster, as well as an image description. Again, feel free to edit/repost/print and distribute the poster, but I ask that you include the alt text/ID for accessibility.

Keep striking and keep fighting. 🇵🇸

Yesterday began a global general strike for Gaza. Today, the strike continues in light of today’s UN General Assembly vote on a humanitarian ceasefire. I am spending today making posters to submit to Artists Against Apartheid, who have released multiple posters for people to print and distribute in their local areas, as well as a wheat pasting guide in their toolkit section. I’m also going to leave my own link to a folder with PDFs and PNGS of all versions of the poster, as well as PSD and Procreate files that can be edited directly, and a copy of an image description like the one below. Feel free to redistribute these posters however you like, but I must ask that you include an image description for accessibility when reposting/posting your own version. I encourage my fellow artists to close up shop to honor the strike and spend today doing the same.

In honor of Refaat Alareer’s work as a translator, many people have been translating “If I Must Die” into their own native languages. The blank version of this poster is meant for people to add their own translations of the poem.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

[Alt text: a black and white poster of the poem, “If I Must Die,” by Refaat Alareer. Around the image is a keffiyeh patterned border. The main image shows a black background with a drawing of a white kite and the poem in all caps. The second image is the same poster, but with OpenDyslexic font used for the text for accessibility purposes. The third is a textless version meant for others to add their own translations of Alareer’s poem in honor of his work as a translator. Transcription:

If I must die

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself—

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up

above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

— Refaat Alareer

Martyred 12/6/2023

home is where your heart is, finn / and where is your heart, finn?

Alt text: a sketch of the smoker on the balcony in makeup and hair resembling Alan Cumming in Cabaret: dark lips, smoky eye shadow, and thin arched brows. He has earrings made of dangling chains and a pin holding his bangs away from his face. two dark dress straps are also visible. He tilts his head back and looks at the viewer with a slightly sad expression. End alt text

[Image description: two rough digital pencil sketches. The first is of Klaasje Amandou. She is seen from the bust up, glancing over her shoulder. She’s topless and her arm is resting on a surface. She’s smiling slightly but her expression looks tired and unhappy.

The second sketch is of Klaasje and Ruby the Instigator. They are naked. Ruby is lying on her back and Klaasje is on top of her. Klaasje’s posture is stiff and her face is obscured by her hair. Ruby is looking up at her and reaching up to touch her. End description.]

image description: a partially inked revolutionary girl utena fanart. kiryuu nanami stands with kiryuu touga behind her and tsuwabuki mitsuru in front of her. all are in their duelist uniforms. nanami holds her knife to tsuwabuki’s throat. touga holds a fork and knife. akio’s hand rests on touga’s right shoulder, and his father’s hand touches his hair on his left. touga, tsuwabuki, and the hands are blacked out silhouettes, but nanami’s face looks shocked and alarmed. there is a frame around the piece like the rose frame from the anime, but with nanami’s egg in place of rosebuds. end description

i haven’t forgotten abt this btw (also touga would in fact eat a mouse)