Charlie Squire, “Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic,” evil female (Substack), 2023.
"If you did crack open Irene's head and asked her to give a monologue, I think it would be a lot of lies, honestly. [...] The only way to do it filmically, to try and let the audience slowly realize the subtlety of what's going on, is to drip-feed them these gestures. Hands, longing, how Irene perceives the world, the fuzziness of it, the unreliability of it, then of course the black and white, which is the biggest irony of all, because nothing is ever black and white." - Rebecca Hall
Ruth Negga as Clare and Tessa Thompson as Irene in Passing (2021). Dir. Rebecca Hall
who is she because She Knows
4real who is she???!!!
she needs a residency at an ibezan club ASAP
DJ PATTI KANE
Here’s an article in conversation with DJ Patti Kane from 2020, she often goes viral for her wonderful sessions but few know she’s also founder of an organization to help elevate and equalize the playing field for women who are DJ’s called Women on Decks!
this photo was in a series of pictures from China in the 1980s (which I’ll post in a sec), but I liked it too much by itself. Gorgeous. By Ren Shulin
（摄影师：任曙林）
Iranian photographer Hossein Fatemi, offers a glimpse of an entirely different side to Iran than the image usually broadcasted by domestic and foreign media. In his photo series An Iranian Journey, many of the photographs reveal an Iran that most people never see, presenting an eye-opening look at the amazing diversity and contrasts that exist in the country.
Mark Granier
On An Empty Can Rolling In The Night A Week After Your Death
i.m. Anthony Glavin
Something scratches and scrapes
a hole in my dreamscape,
like one of your once-in-a-black-moon
distress calls to summon
a human voice. What wakes me now
is a mouthful of wind, a hollow
with nothing to tell, old friend,
unless your ghost can bend
its will, rewire the silence,
kick some kind of sense
(hard love that had no use
for the easeful half-truths)
into a can’s life-in-death rattle
that cannot, should not, be still.
for the first time i heard some parents to scare their child with police and not some other random classic💀💀
a girl was jumping too fast and her mother started shouting “there are cops ahead there are cops ahead you better wait there are cops right around the corner"😭😭😭
selmers-coded (talking about the poetry in my notes app)
having a moment💋🫀
One of the most disgusting things I watched recently is the Toronto TV investigation into the real estate market in Mariupol. What kind of real estate can be in a city russia bombed to dust, you may wonder? Quite booming, as it turned out! Plenty of russians find no problem moving into a city that was freshly genocided by their army because "they want to live by the sea 🥺🥺🥺". A house that is located just next to a mass grave? Not an issue! The entire street has been levelled by russian tanks? "That's even better, that means it won't be so crowded!"
And to think that I got slammed when I called those people cavemen. Is that behaviour okay for y'all? Would you, also, be happy to live in the house that had corpse parts melted into its foundation? Of people who were living, laughing, enjoying their life just a year ago?
But "russians are just as much victims of putin regime as ukrainians are", for sure