Notices by it's kat! 🇵🇸✊ (kathimmel@mstdn.social), page 3

#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

'o, these kids & rock & roll - this is just sped up rhythm & blues. i've been doing that forever.'
#art #history: sister rosetta tharpe (born #otd in 1915) was simply epic! you should probably go to your favourite video platform & search for her 1964 performance in chorlton-cum-hardy (a vignette of which was featured in the 2001 film, 'amelie', which was when i first became aware of her majesty). it influenced jeff beck & keith richards. enough said. #sisterRosettaTharpe #illustration #music

#art #history: double diaboliques for connoisseurs of french cinema - & particularly simone signoret (born #otd in 1921), who was never afraid of risking her career to stay true to her endeavours in left-wing activism, human rights & social justice. she & her husband, yves montand, often showed solidarity with activists & striking workers by physically turning up to demonstrations to support them. [A SHORT THREAD]
#france #simoneSignoret #solidarity #activism #cinema #illustration

#art #history: in 1939, billie holiday - born eleanora fagan on this day in 1915 - threw a punch with the release of her recording of 'strange fruit' - &, if she'd not persisted, it may not have been released until much later. columbia refused, at first (‘they won’t buy it in the south’), to let billie include it even though it had been a central & permanent pillar of her repertoire during her tenure at cafe society.
#billieHoliday #music #illustration #philadelphia #antiRacism #strangeFruit

'let me fight my monsters.'
#art #history: these words, a plea from teenaged rachel corrie (born #otd in 1979) to her mother. in 2003, she went to #palestine & by the 16th of march, the monsters had killed her.
rachel's death was deemed accidental by an israeli investigation & the soldier who crushed her was exonerated...because of course he was.
brave doesn't touch the sides. read rachel's emails at https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel/emails to fully appreciate her soul.
#rachelCorrie #illustration #ceasefireNow

glasgow showed up for palestine again today. central station knows. #ceasefireNow #glasgow #scotland #freePalestine #boycottIsrael #endApartheid

#art #history: somebody mentioned 'mississippi goddam' &, geography aside, it perfectly expresses my feelings about today's unholy balderdash - which makes it serendipitous that nina simone would have celebrated her 91st #otd.
she needs no drivel from me. you all know how phenomenal she was & what an indelible mark she left upon the world of both music & activism. just put some records on & raise a tipple to eunice kathleen waymon!
#ninaSimone #illustration #music #activism #northCarolina