Hannahver

“The society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life, which is exclusively dominated by the concern “to make sure of survival” in the face of discontinuity. This is a slave’s life. Concern for bare life, for survival alone, strips life of all vitality…”

...rituals as symbolic techniques for making oneself at home in the world.

sometimes this’ll get a burst of notes and that is strange. it’s nice, too, but it’s strange. i wrote and drew this at three am on a school night, right on the precipice of leaving high school, fearing change and fearing growth, because they were not things that had ever been kind to me. i decided, instead of panicking, i’ll draw a bear. and then, instead of trying to make the bear look perfect, i’ll draw a bird.

I’m sorry I’m needy.

I have an old friend who is a capital-A Activist, and she’s organized a training of trainers event for things like responding to ICE raids, organizing protests against the ICE detention facility they want to build around here, etc. In my ongoing efforts at finding the least glamorous ways to #Resist, I helped organize food, and am hanging around all day making coffee, setting up snacks and drinks and whatnot.

I think it must’ve been the same artist who painted a different and arguably even better one