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— Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser” | Time is a Mother 

[Text ID: “No, not beauty—but you & I outliving it.” End ID]
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🇵🇸 Happening right now in Malmö, Sweden.

A huge crowd of pro-Palestine protests have gathered ahead of tonight's Eurovision semi-final in Malmö, where Israel will be one of the participating countries.

Israel's representing artist, Eden Golan—who was initially supposed to perform tonight with the song "October Rain," before the EBU forced Israel to rewrite it into the little less overtly genocidal "Hurricane"—has promised that the first thing she'll do after returning from Eurovision, is to join the IDF:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

And if you're in Malmö, please join the protesters!

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There are snipers on the roofs

Eurovision would rather see snipers and massive protests than kick out the genocidal apartheid state

#current events
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In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing. Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (30th anniversary edition); Translated by Myra Bergmann Ramos

“Especially among young people, the new media together with the erosion of old concepts of authority open the way to acute awareness of this new bondage. The young perceive that their right to say their own word has been stolen from them, and few things are more important than the struggle to win it back. And they also realize that the education system today—from kindergarten to university—is their enemy. 
There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes “the practice of freedom,” the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of the world. The development of an educational methodology that facilitates this process will inevitably lead to tension and conflict within our society. But it could also contribute to the formation of a new man and mark the beginning of a new era in Western history.”

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (30th anniversary edition); Translated by Myra Bergmann Ramos

#watching the protests has been beautiful
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For this reason, Michel Foucault's distinction between liberation (conceived of as a momentary act) and practices of freedom (conceived of as ongoing) has been key for me, as when he writes, "Liberation paves the way for new power relationships, which must be controlled by practices of freedom." (...) This is Brown's point when she says that freedom to self-govern "requires inventive and careful use of power rather than rebellion against authority; it is sober, exhausting, and without parents."

—Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

#to read#essays and criticism
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The Epistemicide of the Palestinians: Israel Destroys Pillars of Knowledge
Palestine Square
Institute for Palestine Studies

Epistemicide can be broadly defined as the destruction of knowledge systems and the knowledge that they generate. The Latin American sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel explains how epistemicide played a crucial role in Europe's colonization of the rest of the world, including the settler colonization of the Americas. It granted European philosophy an “epistemic privilege,” allowing it to become the “new foundation of knowledge in the modern/colonial world.”

In other words, it created a world in which only knowledge produced by European colonists and settlers was deemed legitimate, while colonized societies were compelled to construct new systems from scratch — often mirroring those of their colonizers — because their own systems had been destroyed. As a result, the structural conditions of knowledge production that facilitated the mechanisms of their colonialization also imposed constraints on their liberation.

#palestine
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