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Brokeback Mountain, 2005 // dir. Ang Lee

You Are Jeff // Richard Siken, Crush

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Richard Siken Crush / Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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China, 1979, Eve Arnold.

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Melodrama World Tour

By Jake Chamseddine

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subwayhands + reading

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the song of achilles, madeline miller

sex education, s2e8

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atlas: two, sleeping at last

a portrait of a lady on fire, dir. celine sciamma (2019)

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Dior | Spring/Summer 2020 Couture

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The Other Side, Dean Cornwell, 1918

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Reporter: What’s your name?

Hong Kong Protestor: Lee Chun Hei! I won’t commit suicide!

Police: 

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I’m still trying to write this damn essay on food systems but I’m very tired and at this point I mostly just feel like screaming about how fucked up and bizarre and unethical it is to treat food as an economic commodity??

It’s bad for farmers, whose livelihood rests on a knife’s edge that is unlikely to survive as little as two years of bad luck Which then also forces farmers to make decisions about land use, crop rotation, pesticide and fertilizer use, etc. which are motivated by an economic bottom line, rather than by what’s good for the land or the environment

It’s bad for grocery stores, which run on a likewise terrible profit margin because they have to waste a massive amount of food as a consequence of having everything avaliable all the time (eg, the only way to guarantee always having apples is to always have more apples than you can sell, so you never sell out, which means some will go bad and be wasted) Which is Also bad for the environment, bc it means production must be accelerated even more than the actual need for food would demand

It’s bad for people who eat food, aka everyone, because being able to eat well becomes a cost-based luxury and people’s ability to take care of themselves food-wise becomes subject to a whole crapfuck of market forces that are beyond their control

It’s bad not just locally, but globally, as the stability of local food systems everywhere is destabilized by what happens to be cheap on the global market

And what’s cheap on the global market is grains subsidized by the US government, which in theory gives farm subsidies to try and protect farmers from the issues in point 1, but the subsidies are so badly structured that the vast bulk of the money goes to the people who own corporate megafarms in the midwest, and produce massive quantities of grain which floods the global market and undercuts all other food prices, and actually further destabilizes the farmers even within the US who are most as risk

It’s honestly astonishing we’ve gotten this far down this godforsaken rabbithole but how do we get out

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saying your names, richard siken

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Lo so, siete a bocca aperta. L’opera è di Darian Rodriguez Mederos, classe 1992, artista cubano di cui sentiremo parlare ancora.

via Jacopo Veneziani