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“I want my poems to name what kills and still find joy / I want my poems to be the long dance in the streets after a funeral.”

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, for Amy King’s “Young Poets Bare All: What Is a Culture?”

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yearning to not create anything

no words no thoughts no emotions, to be empty without wanting fulfillment

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Ghassan Kanafani teaching exiled Palestinian children in the hills of Lebanon, early 1970s.

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A man plays piano in one of the palaces of ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad

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“I thought I would be understood without words.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to Theo Van Gogh

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We’ve seen that tweet where the person is like “Stop trying to be content creators. We need electricians”. She’s right but it bugs me.

It’s not that young people aren’t going into the trades because they’re not grounded in reality and they’ve been seduced by the idea of being a star. I mean, it is, but let’s look closer. I think what we’re missing is healthy personal connections to members of our actual, physical communities. Like young men aren’t thinking they wanna be like their dad or their uncle or their church elder who’s a plumber or an electrician and they wanna do what he does because he’s important and they respect him and he’s cool and they wanna be like him. We don’t value that labor. That work isn’t only not glamorous, but those men don’t make enough to make up for how that work destroys their bodies. Plus people don’t really have those connections that much. Young people want to be like their favorite content creators because that’s who was there for them. Capitalism has taken the individuality and the joy and the dignity out of blue-collar labor and commodified looking up to someone. It sucks. It’s destroying our lives. I want to become a musician and write songs about it.

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Li Xianglong - Gonna get a tattoo today what should I get, 2022

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‘Sun to Sun’ by Partel Oliva

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) dir. Jaromil Jires

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Girls That Never Die, Safia Elhillo