Labor Day + Troye for Gap + 19 Years Since Katrina + An Oasis Reunion + Medo Halimy + Tara Colon's Gospel + Yolanda "Yeehaw' Hadid + Phil Donahue
My plans this weekend? Scroll down to the bit about Yolanda Hadid and understand that I’m now rethinking and overhauling my entire life. I’m asking Honey for patience and understanding for the time being. No walks, no Labor Day hot dogs, just Pinterest and fabric samples until further notice.
That’s all!
(Also, please don’t try to scam Chase bank this weekend).
King Twink Troye Sivan For Gap (Harpers Bazaar)
LA’s Alimento To Close Sept 7 🍝💔 (TheEastsider)
Beyonce Launches “Sir Davis” Whiskey Brand (PR Newswire)
Tell a millennial friend to tell a millennial friend ….they’re baaaaack (TikTok)
Sent Out On Hollywood’s Iceberg (The Weekly Work)
LA’s Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA Launch Joint Collection (LACMA)
Telegram CEO Arrested in Paris (Reuters)
#BieberBaby (Instagram)
Boeing 101: How to turn a 9 day trip to 9 months in space (***)
Fatman Scoop Dies After On-Stage Collapse (***)
Kevin Federline’s $40K/Month Child Support Expires In 12 Days (X)
Is This The Cop Who Killed Mike Jones? (DestineeStark)
August 29th marked the 19th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, and nearly two decades later, the horrors experienced by residents across the Gulf at the hands of the government in her aftermath are still coming to light. What the residents survived and the stories they carry — especially Black Americans — are, as author Beverly Kimble Davis describes, a “holocaust.”
Buy her book here.
“Resistance has so many forms and what I’m doing is one of them.” - Medo Halimy
Content creator Medo Halimy spent the last 10 months documenting the very mundane functions of his new life as a civilian surviving under Israel’s targetless genocide. The near impossible tasks of being able to simply shower, do laundry, cook (and find the water to any of those) became the heart of his content. Last week, while meeting up with friend and collaborator Talal Murat at an internet cafe (a makeshift tent with Wifi), he was killed by an Israeli airstrike. A constant face across my timeline, and, speaking as a creator, a peer whose stories I followed and whose life I feared losing.
This summer, he began planting and nurturing a vegetable garden. “Resistance has so many forms and what I’m doing is one of them,” he said his goal was to bring life to earth as Israel worked to take it away.
Another young person, speaking to us in near perfect English, dressed in Nike and Levi’s, filming their content with their iPhone, blown to death by American billions.
A GoFundMe meant for Medo and his family remains open to donations, with proceeds now going to surviving family members. (GoFundMe)
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