kathysujin

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” - Mark Twain

Fetishization is not a compliment. It’s not flattering to have your humanity reduced to one aspect of your identity and to only be considered attractive to someone because you’re a member of a particular group. Fetishization is dehumanizing, disgusting, disrespectful and violent. There’s nothing cute about it.

i get that tumblr is filled with unattributed images but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that this particular picture has been removed from its (very significant) original context. this is from an installation by aida sehović that commemorates the bosnian genocide. it was exhibited in sarajevo in 2004, with every cup corresponding to a victim of the genocide identified and buried that year. this context is important

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