“Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.”
—Doris SalcedoIn a new previously unpublished interview with Doris Salcedo, the artist discusses how people’s experiences of war, displacement, and imprisonment form the foundation of her sculptures and ephemeral installations.
READ: Doris Salcedo: Variations on Brutality
IMAGE: Doris Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2000. Installation at Palace of Justice, Bogotá, Colombia. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York. © Doris Salcedo.
John Oliver talks to gun lobbyist Philip ‘Gun Control Doesn’t Work’ Van Cleave. This was an incredible segment. His logic is shot to Hell.
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Glenda Jackson Literally Rips Into Margaret Thatcher’s Mouldering Corpse During Parliament Memorial
So here is legendary thespian Glenda Jackson, who is also a Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn, tramping the dirt down on Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, and their effects on Great Britain.“As a friend of mine said, during her era London became a city Hogarth would have recognised. And indeed he would.
“But the basis to Thatcherism — and this is where I come to the spiritual part of what I regard as the desperate, desperately wrong track that Thatcherism took this country into — was that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice — and I still regard them as vices — under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. They were the way forward.
Watch it not only for the speech, but also for the outraged mutterings of Conservative MPs, and keep watching through the “Point of Order” from Sir Tony Baldry, a Dickens character who objects to Jackson’s defilement of a “tribute to a person who has been deceased” which is calmly swatted away by Speaker John Bercow, who pretty much says, “Nah, mang, actually, we’re cool with denigrating the old bat, no point of order here.”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/511217/glenda-jackson-literally-rips-into-margaret-thatchers-mouldering-corpse-during-parliament-memorial#v0BTBKoVi0y0YjDD.99
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Stacey Campfield is a villain from a Dickens novel.
This makes me so mad I can’t even KSDJFKSDJFKLSJDF!!!
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This week, superstars Beyoncé and Jay-Z celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary with a trip to Cuba or, as the informed refer to it, ‘the island prison.’
While dining, partying, and enjoying the best Havana has to offer, Beyoncé and Jay-Z not only legitimize and support the repressive regime, with both their presence and their cash, but turn a blind eye, cruelly, to the perils and languishing of the Cuban people.
Both stars are proud African-Americans — yet, curiously, chose to vacation in a country notorious for relegating its black population to second-class status, or worse.
… As a Cuban-American myself, I am privy to first-hand accounts of the many I meet who have recently escaped to the United States. Racism, they say, is widespread and expected, and state-posts, government jobs, or positions in the tourism industry are often allocated on the basis of skin color. Take a look at the top office holders in Cuba. See any black faces there? No.
… But why stop Cuba’s racism, and its atrocious human rights record, from getting in the way of a good time? After all, Jay-Z is the ‘artist’ who famously raps: ‘Welcome to Havana, smoking cubanos with Castro in cabanas!’
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AJ DELGADO, writing for Mediaite, “Useful Idiots: Beyoncé And Jay-Z Ignore Cuba’s Racism With Havana Trip” (via inothernews)
BECAUSE THE USA IS PERFECT AND THERE IS NO RACISM ANYWHERE, EVER.
Did you know “IN THE CLOSET” is a sexual orientation but asexual is not?
This segment was great. Taking the survey now!
I was snarky as fuck on this survey. Fuck this terribly reductionist bullshit.
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Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC logo as their profile photo this week
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable platform for communication,” but also like, Facebook fights are dumb, I’m supposed to be an adult now.
So here’s the thing that got me all het up this week: gay marriage.
Specifically, these goddamn things:
Good read
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