Sanna Charles
LightNews LightNews
banner
sannacharles.bsky.social
Sanna Charles
@sannacharles.bsky.social
59 followers 120 following 18 posts
Artist
www.sannacharles.fun

English and photography teacher for teens in Norway. Anti-fascist. Everything is connected. Everything is equal. F**k your patriarchy.
Supporter of 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 & indigenous rights.
She/her
Posts Replies Media Videos
sannacharles.bsky.social
Explained: Egypt’s $53bn plan for Gaza reconstruction
www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-eg...
Explained: Egypt’s $53bn plan for Gaza reconstruction
The five-year scheme seeks to bring back Palestinian Authority rule to Gaza and redevelop the enclave
www.middleeasteye.net
March 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
miafarrow.bsky.social
Disgusting & consistent with Trump’s greedy, transactional cruelty that, as Pres.Zelensky asked for US help in ousting Russian armies,Trump’s response was to demand 50 % of Ukraines mineral resources. This would massively exceed the value of aid that has been sent to Ukraine. Zelensky declined.
February 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Even the dog just wants to sleep through February. We all find our little pleasures and she knows how to get hers.
#whippet #movinghousesucks #februarysucks
Whippet dog laying in her bed on the floor in a sunny spot
February 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
mptmagazine.bsky.social
lift your chin

and smile

don’t forget that you’re being recorded

'Big Data' by #Mexican poet Martín Rangel, translated by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social

From MPT 'If No One Names Us: Focus on Mexico'
Big Data everything passes and we are all passengers of the same suicidal vehicle never trust your instincts please take your elbows off the table li your chin and smile don’t forget that you’re being recorded Martín and I met in the Canadian Rockies, when we both took part in the Banff International Literary Translation Centre residency in 2017. I was working on my translation into English of the Equatorial Guinean writer Trifonia Melibea Obono’s novel La Bastarda. Martín was the Mexican student fellow (the programme invites one student each from Canada, the US, and Mexico each year) who was translating into Spanish the alt-lit American poet Mira Gonzalez. Martín, in his early 20s, had already published four poetry collections, and also released sound performances under the name R V N G E L, although this was the fi rst book-length translation project he was undertaking. One night a week, members of our group gathered with snacks and drinks and listened as we gave readings from our own writing. O en someone from the group would translate the work into English, Spanish and French (which were the working languages at BANFF) so they’d be read in both the original and at least one translation. It was at one of these nights that I fi rst heard Martín (who usually comes across as quite timid) and his electrifying performances, and when I fi rst started translating some of his work into English. While I started translating his poetry, the fi rst of my translations of his work to be published was prose. When Sabotage Reviews announced the anthology Verbs that Move Mountains: Essays and Interviews on Spoken Word Cultures Around the World, edited by Claire Trévien, I told Martín about the project and he wrote about the Mexican spoken-word scene. These poems come from a collection forthcoming from Broken Sleep on the last day of this year, and are the first poems from it to be published.
February 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Moving house becomes a kind of installation as stuff which had a certain value or purpose turns into piles that the light catches in dreamlike ways throughout the day. If I had my way our CDs and tapes would stay like this forever.
Installation of CDs and tapes stacked in piles on the floor with sunlight shining on them from a window. Colour photograph.
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
sannacharles.bsky.social
My talented friend and artist Lucie Red in her kitchen at home in London. Hand processed at my home in Norway #luciered #ilfordHP5 #analogue
Black and white portrait of Lucie Red sitting at a kitchen table gazing out of a window, surrounded by houseplants.
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
kimkelly.bsky.social
A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate.

The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Morning 💙
January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
eladn.bsky.social
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.
January 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
“I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.” -David Lynch 🖤
January 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Full moon sunset blast
#sunset
#norway
January 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
beetlemoses.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 9:31 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Second Life
‘Second life’ poem page 1 ‘Second life’ poem page 2 ‘Second life’ poem page 3
January 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
artistsatrisk.bsky.social
Don’t miss AR-Alumna Kholod Hawash’s solo exhibition at Turku’s Critical Gallery. Hawash’s intricate, hand-stitched textile works transform Iraqi landscapes and narratives into bold allegories of freedom.

KHOLOD HAWASH: 10.1.–23.2.2025
Read more: tinyurl.com/yv6wx8tt
January 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
teenvogue.com
Trump has promised to target ‘the radical left’ — what could that look like?

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Trump Has Promised to Target ‘the Radical Left.’ What Could That Look Like?
Activists are preparing for the worst with Trump’s second term.
www.teenvogue.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
hahauenstein.bsky.social
My interview with Nan Goldin about the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin debacle is now available in English. @hyperallergic.com
hyperallergic.com/973848/nan-g...
Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Censorship of Berlin Show
"I felt disavowed by the museum," the artist said of the Neue Nationalgalerie in an interview published for the first time in English in Hyperallergic.
hyperallergic.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Reposted by Sanna Charles
penelopetrappes.bsky.social
UK people. Let’s care for each other… please sign (and share) if you can✨❤️

“Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards”

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
petition.parliament.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Artist Taru Kallio in her studio in Oslo

#tarukallio #artist #blackandwhite #120film
Artist painter seated photographic portrait in black and white
January 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Mike Kelly 💚✨🧪@tatemodern.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
sannacharles.bsky.social
Poem excerpt #1 Dark Knight

I hear voices floating on air so humid you could chew it
gusts through the window over
and under
Your deep bre ath s
A laugh brightens the night that surrounds your shape so dark that even the light from my phone can’t make you out.
December 23, 2024 at 9:18 AM