i don't have a recommendation beyond having connections outside america that would then spur you to decenter the usa then doing the whole we are human and connected and have a shared struggle thingy. like there's no point in joking about learning about american politics against my will, i have loved ones there and my local politicians get inspired by their us counterparts all the time.

god ok. so. the paper i read isn't even focused on the act of self-immolation itself but rather how language oppression is linked to death. in the context of necropolitics, the ways in which a government controls how people die (extreme simplification)(the 'killing' of a language and its deleterious effect on the speakers being above's thesis), ccp state surveillance removes typical avenues for protest such that people find themselves disappeared, jailed and/or extrajudically killed and their message erased, which is where self-immolation comes in as an act arresting enough to defy that. see here also. there's more to be explored in whether you see the act as violent or non-violent re buddhism and the ethics of its reproduction in how we (whether inside or outside of tibet/china) report on it and talk about its effectiveness.

not to crying emoji now but i'm not prepared to write an essay on this because i definitely haven't done all the reading and always feel lacking when asked to write. i hope i am making sense

yeah, i'm only the normal level of mad about the americentrism rn (more peeved). necessarily as someone outside the us and in asian spaces, the majority of suicides in protest i know have been related to tibet.

i've only read one paper (of the many existing ones) on self-immolation in tibet but simplifying them as "cheap an quick" really glosses over the oppression happening on multiple levels where a voice in actual tibetan can't even be heard

this coming from mint press news which is russia-funded? right sure

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in a pay as you earn country so that's on my employer

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twinsies i had a falafel wrap for lunch from the syrian restaurant near work today

i'm forgetting something and it might be in my forgotten to do list but no, i can't remember if it is

nonbinary people in the line to get romanticised, stay in line

WATER GOES IN THE KETTLE

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built different

jane bennet, everything the same but set in the regency era

yea! one of my faves

that's the plan once i stop hoarding to cope

the coating is tacky but it's still pretty solid

should i just take the entire glob in one go. it's like a dozen pills

you say this but the pills in my wellbutrin bottle circa 2016 have melted themself into the side

subbed in hontsuyu and soy sauce

thumb: bleach; pointer: filtered water; middle: vinegar; ring: sunscreen; pinkie: premium unleaded gasoline

creating chlorine gas everytime i do the thumb & middle finger mudra (￣▽￣)b <-- that's bleach

the dentist told me i had gingivitis and i was actually shocked so i don't think i'm a good judge here (TдT)

her tiny desk concert is very good

beverage posting to breach the tea coffee schism??

but you're still awake at 4 am