"Q: When does a constructed world become a cage? A: A constructed world is a cage." ... "a cage in search of a bird" Franz Kafka, Aphorisms

The bittersweet story of the real-life peaceful bull who inspired one of the most beloved children's books of all time www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/09/f...

I haven't felt this way about a podcast episode in years. Trauma explored without melodrama, and the adults those children became trying to move past it. And yet, it's hopeful and beautiful.

"The absence of authority in the face of obscene criminality prompts delusions that noble actors are fighting the good fight but Must Keep Silent for Reasons You Will Understand in Time." --THEY KNEW (2022) www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words for what we feel but cannot name, such as maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”) and apolytus (“the moment you realize you are changing as a person") www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay

"I am searching here in the fog / for something escaped from the fog" – Philippe Jaccottet

@safety.bsky.app Why has Sarah Kendzior been suspended?

"Sita", circa 1893, Odilon Redon

Flood, 1981 by British landscape photographer Fay Godwin #WomensArt

'The Mountain Keepers' by contemporary printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon

Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.

“The validity of the world we find ourselves living in has its origins in the uniformity of our nervous and sensory systems, not in its intrinsic objectivity.” - Anne Truitt, (from her book Yield)

A German newspaper commissioned an article from Ai Weiwei but then refused to publish it. You can now read the artist’s original reflections in full on Hyperallergic.

What plenitude; what a rich, generous world is on display at MoMA in “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective.” It feels like an aquarium of light and space.

“Let Gaza Breathe” - Turkish national athlete Şahika Ercümen sets a new world record descending 107 meters (351 feet) on a single breath that lasted 3 minutes and 21 seconds. After she broke it, her and her team unfurled a Palestine flag and a banner reading “Let Gaza Breathe.” Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong #womensart #Autumn #Fall

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland. 'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Portland Frog gets it

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...