Wandering Dreamscape

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“Six Palestinians escaped from one of Israel’s highest security prisons before dawn.

This act of self-liberation is an incredible feat. It dispels the aura of impenetrability around Israel’s surveillance and criminalization systems. It shows other Palestinians, and allies around the world, that even the most (seemingly) technologically-sophisticated occupier is no match for Palestinians who are determined to be free. Anything is possible

The sheer determination of these freed prisoners makes sense when we consider that most of them had been sentenced for life and all have likely been subject to torture and abuse for years. Plus, the Israeli government’s mass incarceration of Palestinians from the West Bank — which is illegal under international law — has had a devastating impact on the Palestinian population at large (swipe left). But today, many of those people are celebrating.”

@fadiquran tweets "But the fact this escape happened under such dire circumstances has millions of Palestinians waking up in awe. The ethos in the street is now: If they can escape from the severest prison in the land & attain freedom, then nothing is impossible."

Tweets from disorientalist @princessmlohia raad "It's important to know that Israel's incarceration of Palestinians from the West Bank is all illegal under international law. Israel has no jurisdiction to be operating prisons on occupied land, or to be extraditing Palestinians across the border into Israel proper.

Still, it does both regularly: so much so that an estimated 20% of the Palestinian population (and 40% of Palestinian men) have seen the inside of Israeli jails. Imagine the destructive impact this has on a community. Every jailed Palestinian is a political prisoner."

Atlanta photographers Regis and Kahran Bethencourt think of themselves as “dream makers.”

That’s because the couple makes kids’ wildest dreams come true in portrait shoots. The results are conceptual, highly stylized photos of children dressed as visions plucked straight from their imaginations.

The Bethencourts hope the portraits transcend the typical images of beauty.

“We get so many amazing ideas,” Kahran told NPR’s Morning Edition.

Jhene Santana Brown, 15, a client from Providence, R.I., wanted to become a fairytale lion.

“I just loved lions and my favorite movie is Narnia,” Brown said. “So I wanted it to be fierce but also soft and kind.”

Twelve-year-old Whitcliff McKnight, a client from Smyrna, Ga., had a session that involved three distinct costumes. The inspiration: “renaissance man.” That’s what his mom calls him.

“The first [portrait] comes from my love of travel and foreign languages and the arts,” McKnight said. “The athlete theme comes from the sports I play, including soccer and basketball. And the futuristic type of theme comes from my love of video games.”

Mermaid: Alaya Barton                                

The shoots are affirming, says Dr. Terica Barton of Tampa, Fla, whose 8-year-old daughter, Alaya, transformed into an underwater mermaid for her portrait. 

“I think it’s absolutely important for little African American children and children of all races just because it shows them and highlights their beauty, it highlights their difference,” Barton said. “And sometimes it’s difficult in this country raising children that aren’t the majority and instilling in them the beauty and their differences and making them celebrate their differences and their culture.”

General: D'Zion Thompson                                

(left to right) Drummer: Evan “Jazz” Wright Futuristic Girl: Raine Douglas Futuristic Girl: Legend Pearl                                

Albinism Awareness Activist: Ava Clarke                                

That beauty is encapsulated in Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty, which features more than 100 photographs.

“We really wanted to shatter the conventional standards of beauty for Black kids. We highlighted a variety of kids across the African diaspora,” Kahran said. “We bring to life past, present and future visions of Black culture.”

Each child in the book has their own unique backstory: an 8-year-old who is already a neuroscience expert, a 10-year-old DJ and a little girl who learned to read at the age of 1.

Activist: Trinity Simone                                

Baroque Princess: Zoe Polley-Flowers Dolls: Naija Alcantra & Aileen Vasquez Lion’s Mane: Farouk James                                

Futuristic Girl: Nevaeh Camara                                

Cajun Barbie: Koryn Moore Reading Doll: Nailah Stallworth Little Miss Flint: Mari Copeny                                

Pilot: Aa'Zion Dawkins   

“We were noticing all these kids that we were running across on a daily basis who just didn’t have the platform,” Kahran said. “And so we definitely want to be able to use our platform to highlight them and highlight their excellence and highlight everything that they’re doing so that the world can see kind of this Black excellence on display.”

@crystal-kayos

Ok so basically people were talking about the Fae and how dangerous they can be. A young witch was like “we should just hex/kill them then” and that caught fire like you wouldn’t believe apparently. After that drama, it was immediately followed up by a group of witches seeing the attention that got and said “we could get that too” and decided to hex the moon.

Now I am not a witch but even by their rules this is flat out impossible, as the moon is a celestial body and also has forms in several deities and beings. That’s like deciding to tear down a building and thinking that throwing a pebble at it would do the trick. However it could still affect PEOPLE and mildly annoy deities of the moon

This however caught fire and now a lot of witches who have Moon Patrons are screaming about their patrons being hurt by this and other witches are calling bullshit and now they’re arguing with each other and apparently bad things are a-brewing

i think even if the moon was a rock with no deities, connotations, or power,,,,,

maybe it’s just me but i think we should still not??? hex the moon??? just because

i-

it just gives me bad vibes to hex the moon i think that the moon is probably

just

the moon is

sorry i think the moon is trying to intercept my brainwaves so i don’t share the secret of what the moon is bc it keeps slipping my mind every time i go to type it so ig i’m right but uh

well yeah the moon’s..,.,.,,...,,,,,

And here’s a video of Portland police officers shoving a random passerby off their bike and arresting them for the crime of…being on the road next to where the sweep was occuring:

And here’s a picture of the armored vehicles they’re bringing in to suppress the protests:

The only news outlets covering this are local and state:

https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/16/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-president-trump-is-invading-portland-as-an-election-stunt/

https://apnews.com/95ed013d58a00db0d85ddfd14ab51d2c