The mass media continues to uphold White Supremacy Culture and silence our community’s stories.
A colorful drawing of a girl with purple hair and a red dress eating noodles with chopsticks. The noodles are coming from the cut-out top of a skull, with the word “MEDIA” written on its forehead. Blood, or hot sauce, drips from the noodles. The girl sits in front of a green circle with the words: “END STATE SANCTIONED SILENCE” handwritten in white.
Justseeds artist Saiyare Refaei interviews author Thaer Husien about his debut novel “Beside the Sickle Moon,” on grassroots community organizing, writing, and resistance.
One of my most favorite annual events in Tacoma, Washington is Tacoma Wayzgoose. “Tacoma Wayzgoose is a community letterpress, printmaking, and book arts extravaganza. Meet local printers and view their…
…Our panel on Saturday morning “Art for the People: Sustaining Community Practices from the 60s to the Future,” was composed of Diane Fujino, a. e. hunt, Justseeds artists: Kill Joy, Jess X. Snow, and (myself) Saiyare Refaei, and moderated by Chad Shomura. We wanted to share living proof of how radical collective imagination shows up in the art and cinema within social movements…
“We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings in Gaza and those among our community who are directly and indirectly affected by the current war and genocide by the Israeli settler-colonial regime. Passive observation of the horrors of bombings, genocide, and prolonged apartheid is not our way. We must rise and firmly proclaim that Palestinian Liberation is a Feminist Imperative.” – Feminists for Jina Seattle