On FB twice I've seen a Frida Kahlo meme quoting her about love and blemishes. Maybe it's saved on the FoolPhone somewhere or will pass by again when there is leeway to post it into the Fediverse. In the meantime here are other discoveries... I should look for Japanese translationns of her words. When I get students to put drawings and sentences together I should "Picasso Time!" "Georgia O'Keefe Time!" "Frida Kahlo Time!" but no one seems to know who the women are...
> “Nothing is more valuable than laughter.”> “From the most evil year, the most beautiful day is born.”
> “Choose a person who looks at you like maybe you’re magic.”
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> a strong claim to being the most ambitious American film ever made. According to its director Herbert J Biberman and screenwriter Michael Wilson, it was the "first feature film ever made in [the US] of labour, by labour, and for labour". More than that, it was "a film that does not tolerate minorities but celebrates their greatness".
theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/…
#SaltOfTheEarth #SaltOfTheEarthMovie
Salt of the Earth: Made of labour, by labour, for labour
Sixty years ago, a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of US workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American leftSukhdev Sandhu (The Guardian)
> The workbook we created was in the final editing stage when Trump started exaggerating property destruction at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles to justify his own illegal power-grab. As Daniel writes in the introduction, “When dictators want to crack down on people speaking out, they hope for chaos. They want to make us look dangerous. They win when the story is about broken windows instead of broken systems.”...
> Some peacekeepers need to be reminded that it’s not their job to convince anyone, just defuse situations that could undermine the action’s goals.
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/…
#WagingNonViolence #BrokenSystems #BrokenWindows #PeaceKeepers
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