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Hello Barkada
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Community-backed arts & culture org & platform for, abt, by us on the margins • Run by Founder Christine Pasalo Norland (she/her) • Free Filastin,DRC,Sudan,+++ • https://linktr.ee/hellobarkada
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And what I want Black creators to remember, and Palestinian creators to remember, and trans creators to remember, is that you were chosen because they finally looked. And when they looked at your work, they saw what they had been missing.

Something GOOD.
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I haven't heard of her before this. That she's pub'd by Fantagraphics is likely why. It's telling to me that they continue to accumulate stats for investing in cartoonists who eventually show themselves like this.
May 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not to mention that the comic feels like a racist co-opt of Everett's work.

And for folx to understand the historic undertones of the harm of her comic and her double-down, I highly rec Ruby Hamad's book.
May 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Done!
April 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
WE REMIND YOU: HIV & PALESTINE by HIV Doula Work. drive.google.com/file/d/18zHM...

See all of their downloadable zines: hivdoula.work/downloads
WeRemindYou20240425.pdf
drive.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Start DLing/archiving what you can from the National Library of Medicine's digital library NOW before DOGE infects it, too. www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/a...
AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic
AIDS Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic looks at visual materials in the collection of HIV/AIDS ephemera at the National Library of Medicine that have spurred commu...
www.nlm.nih.gov
April 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Somehow, I've still been able to track down direct links to PDFs previously available through a Google search. But it may just be a matter of time before those PDFs are deleted.
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Why Handala by martyred Filastini cartoonist Naji Al-Ali is inc this post—

"[Handala] is an icon that stands to watch me from slipping," said Al-Ali in an interview pub'd in 1984. "And his hands behind his back are a symbol of rejection of all the present negative tides in our region."
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We'll talk about what it means to be storytellers from the margins in a global culture that's targeting our communities w/ more suppression & exploitation, ways to find & stay rooted in community & collective care, & how readers can continue advocating for & bldg spaces centering diverse stories.
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM