don't the sky look pretty up here?

hans-peter feldmann, "pictures of car radios taken while good music was playing," 2004 (via)

DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION 4.19, “Moonlight Desires”

And suddenly I became a part of the past.

immigration officers arresting citizens is not worse than immigration officers arresting noncitizens, but turns out weirdly enough 'citizens' is a category with a lot more political power than 'noncitizens' and so it's strategically useful to get them opposed to immigration enforcement. so that might affect which things you talk about how much.

Should "This marginalized group is being hurt by [thing], so we should stop doing [thing]" be enough of an argument? Sure! But for a lot of people, it's not. And until we get to a point where it is, I'm going to keep using curbcutter arguments when I need to, because sometimes that's what it takes to get the problem fixed. And fixing the problem is the important part.

Luckily, the result of getting into activism is often that your perspective broadens in exactly this way because when ''the marginalized group" becomes "my buddies who always help with the protest" or "that medic that was there for me when I as hurt", caring about the marginalized group becomes a lot more instinctive.

And the crowd goes wild. Saunders, Saunders.

saving.

Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song