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Happy birthday to Nan Goldin, who uses her personal life as raw material for her photographs.  

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement for having an expired tube of toothpaste, an issue of Vanity Fair in which transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner describes living openly as a woman, the U.S. Senate report on torture and other “prohibited property” in her military prison cell.

“Manning is being threatened with torture,” First Amendment attorney Carey Shenkman told Democracy Now! “There is an international consensus that indefinite solitary confinement is torture.”

Germen Crew, Urban Renewal

In a fantastic attempt at urban renewal, the government of Mexico recently collaborated with a group of local street artists called Germen Crew to paint a 20,000 square meter mural across the facades of 209 homes in a low-income district in Pachuca, Mexico.

HANDMADE COLLAGES, JOHN TURCK

Artist John Turck creates otherworldly collages by hand that seamlessly blend elements from pop culture, nature, and architecture. 

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

SURREAL GIFS, NICOLAS MONTERRAT

Tumblog Un gif dans ta gueule… was created by French photographer and animator Nicolas Monterrat. He brings surreal scenes to life adding a bit of humor to historical photos, paintings, and other borrowed imagery.