star(et al, did system) + she or he + 24 + hard of hearing, [more wip]. tagging system is being reprocessed. my posts are under #personal - expect a lot of thoughts - writing... transformers... among other things. mostly runs on queue. emoji in tag = alter posting. prev url: touchastar.

@flotationtoywarnings is my secondary blog. i have more sideblogs. @13blues13moons is a writing one.

i block gimmick/poll blogs.

i like photography. working on collecting all of my photos into one place. [one] / [two] / [three]. some of my photos can be found under #my photography.

Kashmiri men take a break to chat while selling their produce at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. Photographed by Umar Mehraj.

Eve Arnold (Magnum Photos) - A Black girl and a white girl apply makeup in the ladies room before an โ€˜integration dinner partyโ€™ during the civil rights strikes, Virginia, US (1958)

Eve Arnold was the first female photographer who was accepted to Magnum (as a nominee in 1951, and in 1957 as the full member of this legendary collective).

can non natives stop acting surprised and performatively jokey "uhh what lol!" about ice going after native americans. theyve been doing this for years and it ramped up last year and i had to hear all the stupid "uhhhh where will u deport them to ๐Ÿ˜œ silly republicans!" comments as if its not always been about detaining torturing murdering using as slave labor scattering communities through fear and intimidation etc. be an adult and act with maturity please. its not quirky or confusing its directly in line with americas racism and white supremacy to make sure native americans are eradicated

I think it's notable also particularly in the Minneapolis context that of the 6 or so (US) Native people I have heard of being detained in the past few days there, at least half were unhoused. This context is important esp given the recent history (I can't remember the year but starting sometime when I lived there from 2016-2020) of police violently dismantling encampments of Native unhoused people. the Native population in Minneapolis is like 5% but Native people make up almost half the unsheltered homeless population, iirc. the ICE harassment of tribal citizens is not of course limited to unhoused Natives but I think it's important to see the connections of how these developments are connected to previous and ongoing violence against unhoused people

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