"Don't ever give up beauty. We're fighting so that we can have things like this, so that we can have beauty again."
I've been thinking about the state murder of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1920, victims of right-wing politics & anti-immigrant sentiment. I've been thinking about David Wojnarowicz & the AIDS crisis of the 80s. I've been thinking about the millions of women who've been assaulted by men. I've been thinking that at one time or another immigrants, gays, women, POC always get the heady idea that they are people. Sometimes they become people—Italians, for example. But more often than not the PiPs (People in Power) shitcan them back to the Age of Cruelty.
Fight, lose, fight, win, lose, fight. It never ends.
We have no choice to be fight, but sometimes it's tough to remember that we are people.
[If you can't read the text, it's from the Wojnarowicz show. He told Zoe Leonard, who worried that her work seemed or was apolitical, "Don't ever give up beauty. We're fighting so that we can have things like this, so that we can have beauty again."]
Fight, lose, fight, win, lose, fight. It never ends.
We have no choice to be fight, but sometimes it's tough to remember that we are people.
[If you can't read the text, it's from the Wojnarowicz show. He told Zoe Leonard, who worried that her work seemed or was apolitical, "Don't ever give up beauty. We're fighting so that we can have things like this, so that we can have beauty again."]