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Experience Ana Mendieta’s Visceral, ‘Neolithic’ Work in a Major Survey

please look through the hiroshima peace memorial museum's august 6 exhibition and the stories of victims and survivors. today, august 6, is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima, and saturday is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of nagasaki. please consider these events not only as a series of numbers or even a single day in world history but as the living hell they created for hundred of thousands of people. i realize a lot of people in the world probably don't know as much about the actual circumstances experienced by the people of hiroshima and nagasaki, as well as the indigenous people (downwinders and marshallese) affected by nuclear arms testing by the us, so instead of getting any more angry about how people talk about it (and how they dont talk about it) i just want to share. the images in those links are hard to look at but it's important, if you're in a safe place, please take the time to sit with them and what they say to you, it would mean a lot to me. all of the peace museum's permanent exhibitions are accessible for free online, i strongly recommend exploring them. & free palestine

...Islands such as Barbados now have a “rebranded plantation economy built for leisure instead of sugar”, says Fiona Compton, a St Lucian artist, historian and founder of the Know Your Caribbean platform. She highlights how most of the region’s hotel chains, cruise lines, airlines and booking platforms aren’t owned locally. For every dollar spent in the Caribbean, 80 cents will end up overseas, thanks to large foreign firms repatriating their profits.

Like this but with big fluffy hair with white streaks

Oh my god

Collection

If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.

The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.

Delightfully ingenious travel journal which uses “hieroglyphic” plates to recount an 1814 voyage to the Caribbean: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815

For people in the US, you can also contact your elected representatives, make sure you're registered to vote, and vote in the midterms.

Ftr, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Project HOPE, and World Central Kitchen are still actively helping survivors; those links are to their respective donation pages fyi. A lot of other NGOs have gone home. I'd strongly suggest donating to MSF specifically because the healthcare and sanitation infrastructure in the affected areas is basically decimated and disease is a very real danger.

Photographed by Nikos Economopoulos, 2014

Jellyfish mosaic tile piece, Havana, Cuba. From Great Houses of Havana.

Happy Emancipation Day 👏🏾❤🇯🇲

We remember you on this Emancipation Day. Wi nah figet.