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White Gays: “I can’t believe I got accused of racism after calling that person a racial slur! I mean, I know what racism looks like because I’ve been discriminated for my sexuality. How is me being racist even possible? I’M GAY!”

The photograph is by Terry Evans and captures a trumpeter swan specimen, preserved for more than a hundred years at the Chicago Field Museum. The swan, its neck curved back upon its body, is bound with a wide swath of coarse cotton, which is unevenly secured by random stitches. An aged tag attached to the bird’s foot with a thin, twisted wire is the only touch of color in the otherwise black-and-white composition. Evans photographed hundreds of specimens from the drawers of the Chicago Field Museum. In a quest to understand the wildlife of the prairie, scientists gathered plants, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Turning her lens on the subjects sometimes unsettled Evans, whose parents were dying as she worked on this project. When I asked her about the image of the swan, she told me, “It is hanging in my living room. Its beauty and sadness sum up everything I thought about the specimens that I photographed. I found it extremely sad to realize that the swan had to be killed in order to study it, but I also was moved by the care in the way it was prepared. I think of that muslin that wraps it as a shroud.” (architectural digest)

The Gulf War was a war from 1990 to 1991 between the United States and Iraq. American pilots bombed an Iraqi convoy. Many US media declined to publish the photograph above. War is often romanticized in media. In reality, it is brutal. Here’s a thread where people have commented with their experiences in war or a relative’s experiences. (Thread)

America in 4 pictures

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