International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945. Today we remember millions of victims of the Nazi regime, including those that have often been missing when talking about the victims.
Gay men, lesbians and trans people were sent into concentration camps, marked by the pink or black triangles, tortured, kept in inhumane conditions, worked to death and exterminated, along with jewish people, romani, disabled people, socialists, communists, Slavs, and others.
On these slides we will quickly cover queer prosecution by Nazis, as well ways in which for them the discrimination didn't end with the Holocaust.
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That was the hardest thing I had to learn since you left, I've missed you every day since then, and I've cried sometimes more than I thought I could cry, but I know you are better now, so... my dear friend, my best friend, and favorite person in the world, bloom again and again throughout the universe, shine as only you could, cause I'm sure that one day... we will meet again.
i love mixing medias specially non traditional ones. makes me wonder and understand deeper potential individually as well as working together.
I was trying a new media on top of the first drawing, giving it a new life since it's first was not to my liking.
the colour pencil application on top of the gouache allowed it to have a shy but visible shine to the insects without contrasting with the base language ^^
nothing like giving it a try when you feel ready <3
a cosy Saturday on your end*
>>Music>> Anna Mieke - Parallel >
I started this piece back in 2022 but it sat in my WIP folder for several months. This made the recent "Snow White is WHITE! It's in the name!" comments going around online due to Disney's new live action film particularly funny to me because...umm...no?
Snow White was a name the Grimm Brothers titled their version of a story that can be found throughout history; generally dubbed a "Beautiful Daughter" tale. These stories always featured a beautiful step daughter in danger of being killed by a wicked step mother, though the name and features of the heroine changed depending on where the story was being told. Many other aspects of the story would remain quite similar, even if the two versions were from vastly different parts of the world.
For example in many European versions of the story the wicked stepmother tries to kill the heroine by offering to comb her hair with a comb covered in poison. In some African versions the stepmother offers to comb the heroine's hair but rather than attacking with the comb itself, jammed a nail into her head while her back was turned. (which seems way more brutal to me!?)
Anyways, after reading a collection of "Snow White" style stories from African countries I really wanted to make an artwork for my Fairy Tale calendar that featured a black Snow White. I never could have guessed that a couple of months later my random readings of diverse Snow White stories would be so relevant! 😅