this artist is an open fascist sympathizer and a war/invasion supporter btw

shoot me a dm if interested ! (please)

--surprise readers with it because they wouldn’t want to be surprised by it.”

That blew my mind. She is so right.

“If an author has first hand experience with self-harm or thoughts of suicide, or attempted suicide, then they’ll make sure there’s a content warning because they know what stumbling upon that content can do to someone who has been through it. They won’t want to--

--disclosed because the author considers them “spoilery”) then those concepts are almost always used for shock value and as trauma porn, and are furthermore not represented authentically or realistically within the story.
She then went on to say the following--

--that those topics won’t be used for shock value or as “trauma porn” in the story, and will be dealt with authentically and realistically.
But, she said, if the book doesn’t include the content warning (and if the book has those concepts within, but they aren’t--

For authors, re: trigger and content warnings.
My middle kid and I were talking about content and “trigger” warnings in books. She said, from her perspective, if someone includes a trigger warning for something like suicide and self-harm, she can pretty much take for granted--

This is why you always wear a mask.

Bloc up. The university can't suspend students they don't know where at a protest. The cops can't charge a person they can't arrest & don't have on camera.

Bloc needs to be standard. Doesn't always need to be black bloc, but Grey bloc works

I have never seen anything like this happen before at Columbia. There is no fear left among students. Organizers were arrested en masse & when I got out of jail, I was told students occupied another lawn on their own. Hundreds are willing to risk arrest. I am so filled with hope.

Congress is set to Ban tiktok on Saturday in a secret vote.

Wait. This is incredible. People are blocking the NYPD mass arrest busses from carrying Columbia students and legal observers away.

mustafa's f/undraiser is also very close to goal!

gofund.me/50cdf7f3

Need ng listahan?

Pristine de Leon
Marian Pastor Roces
Koki Lee
Carlos Quijon
Carlo Paolo Pacolor
Alice Sarmiento

do your due diligence and start reading Filipino critics

read a review of the recent art exhibition near you, find and read the work of thinkers and critics around you.. game reviews, food criticism, scholarship on architecture, fashion crit. music and film
borrow from all of these if that hasnt been clear already?