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FYMA: A Lesser Key by Ezra Rose
FYMA: A Lesser Key by Ezra Rose
after half a year of work, my academic zine on the history of antisemitism & appropriation in western occult movements is done 🖤 a 22-page PDF full of citations, illustrated with historic & public domain images, pay-what-you-want (or FREE!)
#itchio#zine#antisemitism#pdf
·ezrarose.itch.io·
FYMA: A Lesser Key by Ezra Rose
Against Grief as Political Currency
Against Grief as Political Currency
"Under ordinary circumstances, we consider grief a personal and private response to loss, an inherent fact of life. When loss happens at a sociopolitical level, however, we feel compelled to politicize grief."
#timeline-2020s-2024
·mentalhellth.xyz·
Against Grief as Political Currency
Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content
Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content

A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle. Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content.

Claire, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, has never known a life that doesn’t include a camera being pointed in her direction. The first time she went viral, she was a toddler. When the family’s channel started to rake in the views, Claire says both her parents left their jobs because the revenue from the YouTube channel was enough to support the family and to land them a nicer house and new car. “That’s not fair that I have to support everyone,” she said. “I try not to be resentful but I kind of [am].” Once, she told her dad she didn’t want to do YouTube videos anymore and he told her they would have to move out of their house and her parents would have to go back to work, leaving no money for “nice things.”

When the family is together, the YouTube channel is what they talk about. Claire says her father has told her he may be her father, but he’s also her boss. “It’s a lot of pressure,” she said. When Claire turns 18 and can move out on her own, she’s considering going no-contact with her parents. Once she doesn’t live with them anymore, she plans to speak out publicly about being the star of a YouTube channel. She’ll even use her real name. Claire wants people to know how her childhood was overshadowed by social media stardom that she didn’t choose. And she wants her parents to know: “nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.”

#privacy#labour
·teenvogue.com·
Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content
The land fights, too
The land fights, too
A poem on steadfastness written amid the Gaza genocide by Nour Khalil Abu Shammala
The earth yields its fruit, Defying siege and hunger, Defying the occupation. Tomatoes sprout, Peppers and eggplants, Despite cut-off water, Despite forbidden shells. Mint and basil’s fragrance wafts, The scent of homeland In the land of peace. Despite the tents’ heat, Children’s displacement, And loss of dreams, The earth yields its fruits, Feeding its children, North and south, Refusing starvation. The earth brings forth vegetables, And fruits, Watered by martyrs’ blood. It fights with its soil, Holding warriors’ remnants, Steadfast in death, Defying weapons, Defying steel. Our people plant, And eat from our land’s soil. The earth fights side by side, With its sea, with its brave resisters. It grows patience, Quelling children’s hunger, Silencing mothers’ tears, Easing men’s burdens. Only in Gaza, The earth fights alongside its people.
·electronicintifada.net·
The land fights, too
American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British
American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British
Nepotism in the UK differs to nepotism in the US in the same way that Ricky Gervais’ The Office differs to Steve Carrell’s: It’s subtler, nastier, and arguably more effective in achieving its aims
·vice.com·
American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British