The Salt Den

I love not playing along

“ how do you expect to catch a man at your age?” “Rope”

Hole in the ground camouflaged with leaves

Image description: Four individuals (white Femme presenting person in trans flag dress, Black masc person with blond dreads, tan femme person in a wheelchair and white hairy masc presenting fat person) are being denied entrance by a white bouncer to a club titled 'The Gayest Most Woke Fandom Club.' A speech bubble from the club door says "WHAT IF... AND HEAR ME OUT...TWO BOYS KISSED?! AM I THE FIRST ONE TO THINK OF SOMETHING THIS OUT OF THE BOX?!?!". On the wall behind the people there are posters that say "Black people in fantasy settings: the end of the world as we know it", "Two skinny white boys kiss the movie", and "queerbait show with no female characters fan club meeting tomorrow" End ID.

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

remember! when someone vents about racism instead of using their post to confess your sins you can simply☝️ Shut The Fuck Up

okay im not done. Like. Sure. I get the urge to confess stuff too in similar situations, I have OCD, I get it, but you gotta remember 1. this person did not ask for that information 2. you are only burdening them with the heavy implication they are there to absolve you which is not something they should ever have to do (why should they?) and 3. kinda making it about you, you know? that's not cool. And so you must harness the power of Shutting the Fuck Up.

The artist in the image is Charlotte Zhang featured at the Alice Gallery

link to the exhibition

@21st-century-minutiae something for your blog?

Woag they put me in the rhetoric museum

this is an epic exposure of how propaganda functions.

Always worth watching, even if you've seen it before, bc its a great refresher for how propagandists like Kirk work.