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Imagine you must survive 

without running? 

- Ada Limón

Whole Against The Sky

 

Two narratives that skillfully and beautifully weave together girlhood, womanhood, motherhood.

Iranian Fisherwomen

Countering notions of what women can and cannot do in present day Iran, these women fish ocean waters and rivers to provide for their families. 

Paying Homage

 

I love that Cop Shiva invited his mother to play with him on these vibrant homemade sets for his current photo exhibition in Bangaluru-- childhood nostalgia beautifully indulged.

Inspire/Expire

It is snowing!

I see it through a hole

On the paper door

All I can think of

Is that I am lying

In a house in the snow.

- Masaoka Shiki, d. 1902

John Green has written a beautiful book about a horrific reality, namely that we have let 150 million people die of tuberculosis since a cure for the infectious disease was discovered in the 1950s.

"Your pleasure signals our death."

- Sukanta Bhattacharya, d. 1947

Adulting

 

It's been a minute since I was in my twenties, but becoming an adult is hard. That truth is forever.

The Middle Passage

 

Over 12,000 ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean carrying approximately 12.5 million enslaved Africans to the Americas. 

Of those kidnapped people, an estimated 1.8 million died on the journey west, their bodies consigned to ocean waters. 

The Slave Wrecks Project unites institutions and people from around the world-- scholars, archeologists, photographers, divers.

Their efforts help bring this history up from the depths and into the light.