using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

Hello everyone, if you can please share and donate to the Shehab family’s campaign to support them through displacement and famine. Sahar, her family of eight (five of whom are children), and extended family (three are children) need funds to survive as food, water, formula and baby products become more and more scarce and expensive. All donations will go towards evacuation funds, and to help them recover afterwards and build towards a brighter future once more. Please keep this family in your hearts and minds, and show them your kindness through sharing and donating, thank you. @danashehab is one of the accounts for the family who contacted and asked me to make this post for them.

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I’d say this is the most dangerous decade to be a refugee or immigrant. Everywhere is becoming more regressive. Whether in the semi-peripheries or the imperial core, it doesn’t seem to matter. We have failed everyone and fallen for the false promises of borders and land-based ideologies.

White people will watch some idiot’s ugly cartoon and then commit a hate crime if you aren’t into it

it's so hard to be socially conscious and also maintain a friendly relationship with people i work with

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit” - Edward Said

What Survival Left Behind, art exhibition for young Palestinians at al-Bareij refugee camp in Gaza city
Middle East, Palestine; May 2026

Qita Mish Bilqa describe themselves as "a youth visual art initiative and exhibition from Gaza led by young artists reflecting the rise of art from the rubble into light and creativity." via instagram.

if you’re frightened about the viability of art as labor and your survival and fulfillment you should want to turn those feelings into a critique of labor itself and of capital. rushing to defend the survival of a petit bourgeois artist class as something integral to the existence of art is ultimately probably not going to save you and the expansion of property based law that paradigm is bound in is simply further restricting art to value production

Hello everyone.. I am sorry for the barrage / I am sorry for remaking my shops post.. but I miscalculated how much my severance would be / they did not take my w-8 ben into account which meant I will pay taxes both in the philippines and the US.. I was left with almost nothing... I am the sole caretaker of a family of four in the global south.. I have a job lined up but theyll only start paying in two months if they like my work.. I am posting again because I have a life limiting disability which puts my life at risk if I am not medicated (I do not have a thyroid and need to be on synthetic thyroid hrmones.) I also have diabetes which is so close to remission.. under my care is my mothwr who is not independent and has a brain injury from sepsis.. and my sister, our two beautiful cats.. I do not have any other family who will help outside of my partner.. my only other family who are willing to help are incapable of.. Im asking folk who are in a more fortunate position to come please give me a boost, rb this, pick up prints or give me a tip if you so would like.. thank you so much

You can pick up prints here! I priced them the lowest inprnt would allow me to.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/littlestpersimmon/

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/littlestpersimmon/

You can subscribe to my patreon for only a dollar a month!

You cand give me a ko-fi if youd like! (Venmo does not work in the philippines)

Thats it.. thank you so much.. I swear to god I will give back to the community asap when I am in a better position..