"Are politicians ultimately here to get themselves elected, or are they here to try to help their communities. Some may argue that you have to get elected first in order to help the community.
Kat dared to ask, why not both?"
all due respect to Chairman Mao but some days it seems like women are holding up a lot more than half the sky.
NYC Mayor Mamdani observed Ramadan publicly at a time when many politicians and activists on the right are voicing hostility and in some cases open bigotry toward American Muslims. n.pr/4rFpaUr
thank you, same to you. i completely agree, and great analogy here. every time i get COVID, my brain completely craps out for about 2-3 months.
i also feel like we’re seeing the research on the long term neurological damage play out in real time (with a clear example being in music and arts)
Accessibility is not a feature you add at the end. It is the foundation you build on from the start. Wrote about how I approached it during the redesign process of my personal website — focus traps, skip nav, ARIA semantics, reduced motion, and more.
juliasolorzano.com/blog/2026/03...
The King In Black. 2025. Digital mixed medium. A human figure facing left wearing a long black robe standing against a textured wall that's shades of red and green from top to bottom. Their head resembles a burning ember and has a crown of flames and billowing smoke.
This piece, "The King In Black", is something of a self portrait in that it's a visual representation of living with Long Covid and its impact on me. It's a milestone in my progress to regain my creative and technical skills as an artist LC had damaged or wiped out.
public health awareness and caring for those most health disparaged brings change, brings life, and brings the collective power to survive.
wear a mask, stop acting like this pandemic is old news because you continue to ingest anti-mask propaganda and embrace ignorance.
goodnight.
that scares me, because who will be left when everyone is exhausted and too chronically sick to keep resisting? what happens when violence heightens and our health just backfires/plummets?
wear a mask. take care and remember that masking and boosting is first line to community work.
whats the point of protesting unmasked? at the very least, use it to obscure your identity and to protect your goddamn health from burnout.
why do we keep endangering everyone in our movement? what’s the hold up? it’s been 6 years, yet we still normalize mass death and disablement. still?
so much of my community has died this year and i almost died of COVID twice in the past few months. the lasting impacts it has on my brain are horrific and cost me my career. give a shit. learn to mask.
what are your politics if it doesn’t include public health and community protection?
for #longcovidawarenessday i request mass realization that COVID impacts every tissue, every organ, hinders the brain, and overall, it attacks every part of your body. it is so fucking important to mask, to stop ignoring it/using past tense language…and to care enough to not infect others
a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture
get weirder 🫵
oil, collaged text on wood panel 10 x 10"
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Painted in 1935, soon after Hungarian Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil returned to India from her studies in Paris, France, this work is often described as a turning point in her career. She moved away from European academic finish toward a more distilled, modern language shaped by Indian subjects, compressed space, and broad zones of color. The painting is also known as “Three Girls” and has been discussed under related titles, including “The Three Women.” Three young women sit close together against a spare, warm background, their skin modeled in soft brown and clay tones. Each wears draped clothing in earthy reds, creams, and muted pinks, with dark black hair parted and smoothed back. The figure at left turns slightly inward, her face lowered and contemplative. The central girl sits upright with her expression still and distant. The figure at right leans subtly forward, her head inclined, her body wrapped in a deeper red-orange garment. None of the three meets our gaze. Instead, their downcast eyes and quiet poses create a shared mood of inwardness, gravity, and emotional restraint. Sher-Gil flattens the space so the women feel pressed near the picture plane, emphasizing their presence over setting or anecdote. Rather than idealizing youth, Sher-Gil gives these women dignity, weight, and psychological depth. Their closeness does not read as cheerful intimacy. It feels like shared silence, perhaps even shared burden. That emotional seriousness is part of what made the painting so powerful in the history of modern Indian art. It won a gold medal from the Bombay Art Society and remains one of Sher-Gil’s defining images of South Asian women’s interior lives being depicted with empathy, modernist clarity, and unmistakable force.
“Group of Three Girls” by Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian Indian) - Oil on canvas / 1935 - National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #art #artText #arte #AmritaSher-Gil #AmritaSherGil #SherGil #Sher-Gil #NGMA #IndianArt #NationalGalleryOfModernArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
Yanar Mohammed, 65, Iraqi Women’s Rights Advocate, Is Killed by Gunmen www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w... breathtaking
watched bugonia last night and it left me with nausea and depression. really beautiful horrific film but i…am never watching it again.
the depictions of the underbelly of late stage capitalistic hell, poverty, and extreme conspiracy/Qanon/ incel/4chan shit is its strength tho
more b-52s inspired tunes in the current wave of post punk please and thank you open.spotify.com/track/5gHCiE...
angel olson and sharon van etten kissing on stage at mission ballroom in 2022
thinking about the time i saw angel olson live during a flood storm and she kissed sharon van etten emulating ian fucking curtis after a performance of Like I Used to. women am i right
angel olson music never gets old because it allows you to cry about mother grief and being queer at the same time
i have completed the 33 credits required to graduate, just taking time away from thesis work to reorient, figure out the best path forward, and get a job to support myself first
i also have SPSS, Stata, website, and data design experience. located in Denver. worth a shot networking on here
professors and sociologists of bluesky, anyone looking for an RA that mastered IRB by myself, is my own PI for qualitative research, has a ton of data and evaluation experience, worked in R and REDCap primarily, but loves anything on the backend of research? #sociology #sociologicalresearcher
correction: $260 included 6 hours of actual work despite being owed the full 107 hours and wow would’ve been nice if my supervisor didn’t go on paid time off every other month
i had 107 hours of FAMLI leave according to my W2 form btw and i got about 38 which was $260. christ. how do i get over ableism in the workplace? please help
hr departments be like “ADA who?! what’s that?! FAMLI leave huhhhh? nah” fucking a, they knew exactly what they were doing and my supervisor just straight up lied to cover her ass.
getting a new decent job is taking forever
