Notices by it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧 (kathimmel@mstdn.social), page 2

@MediaActivist it's a powerful & necessary read. got a (non weather-related) chill.

@MediaActivist nail after depressing nail, decisively hit with your hammer of lucidity here, jay. superb analysis.

@FlashMobOfOne thing is, i don't think there's been much enthusiasm for starmer/starmer's labour. people are simply desperate to get rid of the tories. i'm feeling no optimism whatsoever. this sucks.

if it's true that the SNP will only win 10 seats, i think they should just do a sinn fein & refuse to take them. #ge2024 #scotpol #ukpol #SNP

any no dig, veganic gardeners here - specifically in europe? how does your garden grow? pics encouraged to illustrate the possibilities to this novice gardener. #nodig #bloomscrolling #veganic #gardening #vegan

your (mostly) friendly neighbourhood sustainable packaging perv, here, & today i want to introduce you to my deodorant's packaging. it's made from potato starch & is fully compostable. imagine how much healthier we all & the planet would be if we packaged everything we possibly could in this way.
#sustainability #vegan #packaging #compostable

#art #history: tristesse.
i loved the air of melancholy (that sometimes seemed to seep into the saturnine) that surrounded her & infused her music. for these reasons, i celebrate françoise's life & death. thoughts for jacques dutronc.
#francoiseHardy #zardy #françoiseHardy #music #illustration #france

‘not everyone has the same colour, the same language, or the same customs, but they have the same heart, the same blood & the same need for love.’
#art #history: i couldn't decide which image i'd draw to celebrate the birth (#otd in 1906) of the glorious josephine, so here are two. if anyone merits multiple illustrative odes, it's la baker. why? [A THREAD]
#josephineBaker #illustration #france #music #film #stLouis #resistance #civilRights

#art #history: marilyn could have been celebrating her 98th today - & she might've made it if the world had treated her with the gravity she merited.
here are my three favourite things about the MM everyone knows but didn't really:
- she would pay boys who gathered pigeons for NYC restaurants so that she could set the birds free
- marilyn went to see ella fitzgerald every time that ella performed at the mocambo club so as to ensure ella's residency there. [cont...]
#marilynMonroe #illustration

@MediaActivist i'm an atheist, but 'hallelujah!' seems the appropriate response to this.

'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
#art #history: poor #malcolmX, sharing a birthday with another firecracker.
i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand (i do realise now how chalk bourgeois we were) & have been intrigued ever since by its writer, lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930). the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy. [THREAD]
#lorraineHansberry #literature #illustration #chicago

**aged 34, she died of pancreatic cancer.
james baldwin said, ‘it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man’.**
**although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir’s ‘the second sex’ & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant. **
**#lorraineHansberry #literature #illustration #simoneDeBeauvoir #jamesBaldwin**

**she wrote, ‘if by some miracle women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.’ so revered was she that paul robeson & MLK jr, amongst others, eulogised her. lorraine was also godmother to nina simone’s daughter, lisa.**
**#lorraineHansberry #ninaSimone #art #literature #paulRobeson #liberation**

genocide is ecocide.
#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #gaza #rafah #ecocide #war
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/ecocide-gaza-environmental-impact-israels-war

sobbing sick& shaking at what people in #rafah are going through right now. terrified & in despair for dear hearts i've come to know through their posts & their magnanimous action to help others as best they can. dread to think who might be missing come tomorrow. fuck. fuck. #allEyesOnRafah #ceasefireNow #freePalestine

@aral
she popped up in my mentions & insinuated that i'm antisemitic when i posted about falastinvision. really going hard for a genocidal apartheid state. odd.

happy #globalStrike4Rafah day!
- don't work
- don't buy
- don't use credit/debit
let's each do our bit &
SHUT IT DOWN FOR #PALESTINE!
#rafah
#gaza
#ceasefireNow
#globalStrikeForRafah

working class history reminded me that it was #otd in 1967 that muhammad ali refused the vietnam draft. he was right then & he's right now.
#muhammadAli #ceasefireNow #freePalestine #vietnam #history

the statement from the emory university protestors is nothing but pure fire. every word. fierce.
#emory #georgia #palestine #ceasefireNow #freePalestine
EMORY IS EVERYWHERE.
THE PLACE FOR DIVISION IS NOWHERE.
WE INVITE YOU TO STRUGGLE WITH US.

#art #history: on this historic day, it seems fitting that angela davis celebrates her 80th birthday. she's always seen the parallels between the struggles of the palestinian people & ALL subjugated peoples - & she's made her solidarity material by visiting #palestine. her outspokenness on the subject has resulted in the withdrawal of a civil rights award (what?) & an attempt to remove her name from the lycee saint denis. #angelaDavis #ceasefireNow #gaza #blackPanthers #illustration #vegan