Ghost in The Shell Vol 1 - Masamune Shirow

Untitled (Saithiya Baul Sampradaya, Birbhum) by Amalnath Chakladar, 1965-1986.

Photography by Daniel Hsu

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.” - Alice Walker Living by the Word

Mark Krzepis (Canadian, 2001) - Toronto Love Line 1/2/3 (2025-2026)

The academic world runs on plagiarism. It still happens today because it is beneficial to these institutions. Without plagiarism institutions such as Cambridge and Yale and so on would never be considered the primary and most reputable producers of knowledge. Thats only possible with the uncredited and poorly compensated labour of many people these sides of the world.

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

Several of the academics who harassed this man into suicide do not seem to have suffered at all in their academic careers. Actually, Dave Harris, who lost his Emeritus title for his racist behavior back in 2024 (something the news only call "criticizing Critical Race Theory", instead of "sent racist emails to fellow black academics"), was defended by Plymouth University, where he used to work, and fucking got the title back earlier this year.

The rest of the story unfolds pretty much as described. And he was a fucking Sociologist studying racial equity in schools and academia. They publicly bullied a black autistic man to suicide for being imperfect whilst asserting a place for blackness in academia.

Atlas of My World (2001) and Dividing Line (2001) by Zarina Hashmi, these are, in my opinion, her most powerful pieces

Omg that’s literally what happened to me

Tracy Chapman — Crossroads (1989)

The Creator (Der Schöpfer) by Paul Klee, 1934. Oil on canvas, 16 x 21 inches. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.