i am so serious when i say we as young adults are so starved and deprived of community
cockroach gossiping
valentines woes
i think some of you guys need to block more people im so serious
Illustrations from Pierre Louys’ Les Chanson de Bilitis by Georges Barbier (1922)
Albina Tsybikova (Buryat, 1951-1998)
Self-portrait with a model at a winter window
Elizabeth Huey (American, b. 1971)
The Getaway, 2018
Acrylic and Oil on Wood
Big bird with big boot
Rodel Tapaya (Pilipino, 1980) - Untitled (2008)
Belkis Ayón (Cuban, 1967-1999) - Desobediencia (1998)
The romanization of Hawai’i only tightens America’s grip on my people.
We are not the land of Lilo and Stitch. We are not a paradise.
We are a nation suffering.
There are only around 600,000 Native Hawaiians left. Only around 200,000 of them live in Hawai’i.
Hawai’i has the second largest homeless population in the nation, falling just behind New York. There are 19 million people in New York. Hawaii only has 1.4 million people. Yet their homeless rates are neck and neck. A majority of those experiencing homelessness in Hawai’i are Native Hawaiian.
Tourism destroys sacred land. Mountains are moved to make room for telescopes. People live in tiny concrete apartments that cost $2k a month because the rich move to the islands to carve their own paradise. My people spend every night praying we can afford to eat the next day
The Navy poisons the water over and over. They lie and say it’s safe. People fall ill. Then they dump the waste into the ocean and promise to do better. They lie.
End the romanization of Hawai’i. There is no paradise under American occupation.