“The great day has come” “Milan rises up against nazi-fascists”

While the city was being freed from the regime, the CLN (National Liberation Committee) broke into the newspaper office to print these first antifascist pages.

April 25th 1945 - Italian Liberation Day

Tři oříšky pro Popelku - Václav Vorlíček - 1973 - Czechoslovakia/East Germany

such constant barrage of bad news and i feel like i need to be saying something about it to keep at least the handful of people following me from assuming that ukraine is doing alright but i just have nothing to say anymore

you know the funny thing is that in these past 2+ years there has never been a single day when ukrainians felt secure or confident in our quote-unquote "allies". there has never not been an underlying fear that they're gonna get tired/bored of us any day now, they're gonna be too scared to help, they're gonna choose the short-term profits from doing business with russia over the long-term benefit of sticking with us, they're gonna be too enamoured with that high culture ballet intelligentsia chic to listen to some poor mail bride folks, they're gonna get offended that we don't kowtow in gratitude enough, they're gonna get annoyed that they've given us so many bananas but we keep insisting we need apples, etc.

and we were right on every point, and we keep asking for apples because there's literally no one else on planet earth to ask, and we keep cooing about the whole "civilised democracy western values" nonsense (yes, it's cringe to hip lefty people, i know, i am a hip lefty people too) to maybe flatter them into moving their asses, very aware that if they think we're losing they'll dump us because it's a waste to help us but if they think we're winning they'll dump us because there'll be no sense of urgency to help

and all people internalised was this "the west has past tense helped ukraine" narrative, whether they bring it up to pat themselves on the back or to """point out the hypocrisy""" and say that it's time to move on to something else

no the fuck you didn't. you were in the middle of helping, then you changed your mind and dropped your hand, and so far it seems that no amount of bleeding and carnage will shock you into lifting it up again

tonight we die as a family, mohammed el-kurd

[english on the left as published in the poetry review & translated into urdu on the right by @/smuntahaali on instagram]

Uncredited Photographer     Greek Jewish Anti-fascist Partisan Fighter Sara Yeshua, Known as Kapetanissa Sarika to Her Fellow Partisans in the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS), the Armed Wing of the Communist National Liberation Front (EAM)     1944

Embroidered towels and inlaid clogs sent to a Sephardi bride for the hammam (Ottoman-era Jewish bath in Thessaloniki), Rhodes, Greece, 19th century

Jewish bakery in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1913

Jewish wedding in Kastoria, Greece. 1937. From the collections of the USHMM.

Currently thinking about Nauta’s post and the way that fandoms are increasingly using revolution inspired rhetoric and throwing themselves into inconsequential movements as a means to romanticise fighting for a cause and to feel like they are a part of an actual revolution because that is far easier and more black and white than having to shut up and show up and do research and be uncomfortable and accept their privilege and look at things that scare them and do things that scare them and put actual energy into fighting to help real people

Cyanotypes. Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil.

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems; “Passion Fish”

I trust him to solve dog crime

summer morning by hugo grenville

I've seen several sites mention this, it's real.

Do not make the MISTAKE of thinking you need to put your side forward. The Guardian is transphobic as fuck, and will twist your words. DO NOT ENGAGE.

By the way, this is in the aftermath of the Cass Report, and the goal will be to make Trans DIY something that needs to be regulated or stamped out. DO NOT ENGAGE.