Tonight (March 17 2021) In Atlanta, At Least Eight Workers Are Dead After A Series Of Targeted Shootings

sir, that’s my emotional support imaginary world

One third of GoFundMe campaigns are for necessary medical expenses. People are “donating” their vacation days so that a new mom can stay home with her baby. A college-educated homeless man stood on the street handing out resumes in desperation, begging for a job, any job. Multiple posts about parents buying teachers necessities like a car and school supplies went viral.

Twitter and the media highlight these stories as heartwarming examples of “sacrifice” and people “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.”

I call bullshit. Only in a dystopian society would we feel anything other than horrified at the thought of people crowdfunding their most basic needs.

Grace Jones | Love Is The Drug (1980)

Love is enough

“They preyed on each other and one of them ate the other. He has no words for what is revealed to him”

—

Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form; A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.

I cannot unclench my fist from the shape of a bullet.

—Olivia Hu, “Mistaking Ground for Feet”

hair, a love language

credits: 1. hair salon in gabon (bruno barbey, 1984) / 2. navajo nation, arizona (leonard mccombe, 1948) / 3. combing the hair (edgar degas) / 4. unknown source / 5. via @cxogunt / 6. clifford prince king

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See you in the beginning.

Broche “Pensées” de René Lalique en or, émail et diamants (circa 1903-04) à l'exposition “Végétal” orchestrée par Chaumet à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, juin 2022.