snnneeeeeak preview of one of the 7 prints I’ll start releasing in a coupla days
Just as general info:
starting on the 29th, I’ll be releasing a new print design every day until i release all seven prints
On that seventh day, I’m gonna trigger the store-wide holiday sale that I do once a year to encourage folks to get their orders in time for the holidays since I do need to ship out of Canada (snail mail)
This sale will last one month, until the first week of december or so, the last hope of getting your order in on time.
Each design’ll be a surpriiiiiiiiiise but know that some of these I KNOW yall’ve been asking for ;)
anyways, instead of focusing all your energy on calling out Succession and the Last of Us for being anti-palestinian, here’s some of my favourite media made by Palestinians 🇵🇸 and their allies…
Salt of this Sea (2008). Dir. Annemarie Jacir. Heist film set in Palestine about 2 Palestinians who help a Palestinian American woman rob a British bank who refused to give her the money her grandfather left her.
Netflix original series, Mo, created by Mo Amer. Dramedy about Mo, a Palestinian American without papers, trying to stay out of trouble until his US citizenship is approved (he’s already been waiting for 12 years). This just got renewed for a second season!!!!
Farha (2021). Dir. Darin J. Sallam. Coming of age story about a 14 year old girl trying to survive the Nakba in 1948. Tw: settler colonial violence.
In Between (2016). Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud. A film about 3 Palestinian women, one of whom is queer, in their 20s living under occupation. Heart-warming story about friendship, solidarity and revenge. Tw: sexual assault.
In Vitro (2019). Dir. Larissa Sansour. Breathtaking short scifi film set in a future where Bethlehem has been destroyed by an ecological disaster and two scientists from different generations are trying to remember what happened. This film is pure poetry and I think about it constantly.
It Must Be Heaven (2019). Dir. Elia Sulieman. A charmingly absurdist film about Elia Sulieman seeing parallels to Palestine everywhere he goes as he tries to make a film about his homeland.
The Crossing (2017). Dir. Ameen Nayfeh. Short film about Palestinian siblings trying to cross an Israeli checkpoint to visit their grandparents.
Ramy. Episode 3 of season 3: ‘American Cigarettes’. Far and away the best episode of TV of 2022, and also directed by Annemarie Jacir. Ramy goes to occupied Palestine to make a diamond deal with some Israeli brokers, but his horniness takes him to The Other Side. I think about this episode almost everyday, it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. A book of interviews and essays conducted by Angela Davis on how systems of racism and colonial violence are all connected, and how solidarity between communities of colour are vital, using the long-standing allyship between Palestinians, Aboriginal peoples and Black Americans as case studies.
As fine and good as it is to call out Zionism in media, rmr to also support Palestinians, their work and their art. Feel free to suggest more ❤️
Under communism the wait staff will not ask if Pepsi is okay. You will not even find out that’s its Pepsi instead of coke until you take your first sip. Unless you train like me, to know the difference from the sound of the Fizz alone, that is the only way we can beat communism and I can teach you. Take my hand. Not like that you grabbed it gay. Stop. Giggles. I SAID STOP
Just want you all to see this as an example of what happens when you don’t put your phone away while on recreational drugs, you make masterpieces.
I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something
And for people who do not have children - 20 years from now you will only have an empty space where wonderful time with your friends, your partner, and yourself will be. You won’t remember (or likely profit from) the Very Important Thing your company needed you for. You will be poorer for it, because in that space and time you could have had concerts, dancing, being there for friends that needed you, reading a great book, learning a new language, trying a different recipe, drinking wine and sharing your thoughts with someone you love.
Live your life for yourself and the people that love you - not for a corporation or a company.
THIS APPLIES TO TEACHERS TOO! EVEN THE STUDENTS WHO CARE THE MOST ABOUT YOU DO NOT OVERRIDE YOUR TIME WITH LOVED ONES, OR EVEN YOUR NEED FOR TIME ALONE.
