Blackwork Print, C. 1620.

There is no harmless form of Zionism. It's possible to fantasize about, but it could never exist in reality. There was never going to be a way to establish a Jewish state without destroying Palestinian life.

I see the sentiment that non-Jewish people made Zionism into a bad word, and they really didn't. The Zionist movement did that, Israel did that, all through actions.

There's the quote "the purpose of a systen is what it does." It's been decades, generations of Palestinian suffering and struggle, if this was not the intent we had time to change course. But somehow judging Zionism through the reality it created and continues to maintain is misunderstanding it. Don't look with your eyes, listen to my sweet gentle definition of it.

And even with the gentler definitions, I keep thinking about an ask I saw a Palestinian person getting, probably around a year ago (yes with Gaza being bombed), where the anon said "but you have to understand why Jewish people would want their own place" and it hit me so hard that they're essentially saying "you have to understand why they want a reality where you don't exist and can't be in the way." Those definitions just focus on the desire and not on the actions that are required to achieve it.

Jewish women's bath in the Sar Chal neighborhood of Tehran, Iran, 1970s.

James Baldwin, A Transition Interview, 1972

Drum Bridge at the Japanese Tea Gardens. location: San Francisco, California, USA

“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

I’m curious what are you learning these days?

I’m back in school for 3D art, I’m interested in coding/rigging tbh. but, I love modelling buildings too.

aside from that I’m reading or working on my illustration/painting skills. I’m gonna make time to work with oil paints again soon.

my new baby monstera

📷 IG @yesimshay

photographs taken on leica brand cameras pictured in 'laica photography,' july, 1952.