making art

a picture of a brown arm with many bangles

if you see me like this, i am at a wedding or a public meeting

they are already up!!

women notice when the people who like your commentary are other men, when your clients are mostly men, when your "comrades" are men

when you are the harbored abuser

the networks of sharing notes are so deep, it's no wonder men want to characterize women's communication as rumoring

it's because we're telling secrets about your very bad behavior

if a man is only able to operate with other men around, there is at least one reason

when we talk about systems in chicago, we almost always erase kids with disabilities and i think that's wrong

these schools are violating kids with disabilities by not providing services and then when they have a compensatory education meeting, they determine a kid was not harmed

chicago public schools harms a kid with a disability then refuses awards to make them whole

let's see if we can move the system

YELL YELL YELL but also i hope you get some fun things to read, i always enjoy being a judge in the science fair :)

have funnnnnnnn

a violation of child find is a huge thing!

Lala Har Dayal around 1914.

Lala Har Dayal (1914):

"I hold that a man should try to excel both in thought and action. My contribution to thought will be a synthetic presentment of the ideal of freedom and development. My contribution to action has been, is, and will be organization of the Indian revolutionary movement ...."

i am taking issue with people who are on here arguing their point which essentially boils down to see, we told you ai was bad

war isn't a place to make the i told you so

i am taking issue with people who are on here arguing their point which essentially boils down to see, we told you ai was bad

war isn't a place to make the i told you so

i just want to be really clear that the problem isn't that AI is selecting targets, it's that there is war

on unions and laws

"women and men belonged to different categories, where one group was able to protect itself through organised labour, while the other was in need of government protection, at the same time it held special value for the nation state as a potential producer of coming generations"

locals said this at the time

‘And it is precisely in that that its historic punishment lies: to be condemned, returning to it as though driven by a vice, to chew over Hitler’s vomit.’

Cesaire on europe

"it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for Arabs of Algeria, the 'c—' of India and the 'n—' of Africa."

—Césaire

"For my part, I make a systematic defense of the non-European civilizations." -Césaire

"to go further, I make no secret of my opinion that at the present time that barbarism of Western Europe has reached an incredibly high level, being only surpassed—far surpassed, it is true—by the barbarism of the United States "

-Aimé Césaire, 1955

it was really nice that she asked and i'm glad she's in my life ❤️

a person i know asked me today how i am doing and if my family is okay and all i could say was, we haven't heard

does the CTA blue line division stop have a bathroom in it

if not, why not

in my experience with something like that is classified as a public good, it will now be the site of intense scrutiny and surveillance to ensure "good" use

Chicago’s 1st City-Backed Public Restroom Will Open In 2026, Alderman Says The free restroom will open next year in a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the 1st Ward, said Ald. Daniel La Spata.

a self cleaning bathroom lol

or, we could have fully operational 24 hour bathrooms in our park district buildings along with midnight basketball

and the labor to staff it

i am not articulating either/or

i am making an observation about the principles of those in power and their choices

this new infrastructure will be subsumed into the regular policies to criminalize unhoused people because we are not dealing with that as a city

it won't be a public bathroom

it matters that while {some} chicagoans herald the coming of a time limited, closed overnight public bathroom that does not include a plan to halt criminalization of using the bathroom

it is still

a bathroom that will still operate to criminalize precarious people so it is not a public bathroom

the history matters and people in this town remember when public bathrooms did exist

the slide to criminalization matters, the enclosure matters

i think it shows the underlying principles of the people with power

Ald La Spata has done nothing to push back on Carlos's criminalization of unhoused people in parks

we have bathrooms and labor in this city and i think it's telling that the answer is making new infrastructure instead

the bathroom will have a time limit and won't be available overnight, it's not friendly for unhoused people

i think it's a choice to move toward this version of public bathroom while still criminalizing use of bathrooms at park district buildings

the bathroom made to ensure poor people cannot use it