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On WOC & Writing

The Guardian: What is some advice you have for women who want to write online?

Ayesha Siddiqi, EIC of The New Inquiry: The voice is your head that’s asking how dare you is the voice produced by an environment that’s going to be challenged by your daring. The risk of undervaluing what you have to offer, especially for women of color, is so much greater than the risk of overvaluing it. Your contribution may not be grand, but its absence is going to be deeply felt and be part of a much greater void in our culture and history.

Ay Galeano.

Eduardo Galeano.

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Brooklyn Bridge Sunset

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There’s red on the ceiling and red on the floor, red dripping from the window sills and red globules splattered across the walls. It looks like the artist Anish Kapoor has been let loose with his wax cannon again. But this, in fact, is what the making of Christmas looks like; this is the very heart of the real Santa’s workshop – thousands of miles from the North Pole, in the Chinese city of Yiwu.

Our yuletide myth-making might like to imagine that Christmas is made by rosy-cheeked elves hammering away in a snow-bound log cabin somewhere in the Arctic Circle. But it’s not. The likelihood is that most of those baubles, tinsel and flashing LED lights you’ve draped liberally around your house came from Yiwu, 300km south of Shanghai – where there’s not a (real) pine tree nor (natural) snowflake in sight.

Christened “China’s Christmas village”, Yiwu is home to 600 factories that collectively churn out over 60% of all the world’s Christmas decorations and accessories, from glowing fibre-optic trees to felt Santa hats. The “elves” that staff these factories are mainly migrant labourers, working 12 hours a day for a maximum of £200 to £300 a month – and it turns out they’re not entirely sure what Christmas is.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/dec/19/santas-real-workshop-the-town-in-china-that-makes-the-worlds-christmas-decorations

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

So true, our generation has been deprived from being still and compassion.

"Apolitical art does not exist" Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo exhibition in Genova, Italy

Violeta Parra, Árbol de la Vida (Tree of Life), 1963

“Hispanic” Heritage Month centers a very specific type of Latinx & too often erases & conveniently forgets about AfroLatinxs.

I always get nostgic for not having the opportunity to explore my wonderful and beautiful homeland. But I take that back. I will be back, one day I will. 💓

Tiger moths mating by Andreas Kay Via Flickr: from www.facebook.com/EcuadorMegadiverso