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Harms Committed@harmscommitted· Feb 17

🌀Which Artworks Are in Your Profile?🌀 David Wojnarowicz's 'October 22, 1980 Postcard' and Hank Willis Thomas' 'Spiral' are the artworks featured in my profile. Learn more about each artwork in the alt text. 8/8 🧵

Intertwining love with criminalization, this postcard is one of many sent by David Wojnarowicz to his lover, Jean Pierre Delage, between 1979 and 1982. David Wojnarowicz's "Dear Jean Pierre" compiles these postcards. You can find this collection here: https://primaryinformation.org/product/dear-jean-pierre/.

Description: David Wojnarowicz's face is positioned in front of a shooting target. He is wearing a horizontally striped Breton shirt. The target consists of four circles. Similar to a nesting doll, each circle is slightly larger, moving further from the center. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are scattered across the target. Wojnarowicz and the shooting target are black and white; the postcard is otherwise yellow.

This description of Hank Willis Thomas' 'Spiral' is from The National Museum of African American History and Culture: "A quilted work composed of decommissioned prison uniforms and United States flags. The piece juxtaposes the blue and white striped fabric of the prison uniform cloth with the red and white stripes of fabric from the American flag. Various sized pieces of each are layered and stitched together to form a graphic, square-shaped spiral pattern with the prison uniform cloth on the proper right side and the flag fabric on the proper left. There is a narrow strip of red and white stripes along half the long edge of the blue uniform side and a corresponding narrow strip of blue and white stripes along half the long edge of the flag side. The prison uniform fabric shows many stains and signs of wear and white sections of the flag stripes have yellowed with age."

Harms Committed@harmscommitted· Feb 17

🌀Search Instructions🌀 1. Desktop: Click on a hashtag. Mobile: Click and hold. 2. Click 'See # posts by user.' You can practice here: #USA #Palestine Hashtags can also be combined to generate more precise results by clicking '...' in the top-right corner of my profile, then 'Search posts.' 3/13 🧵

This image displays what you see after clicking on #USA.

The image is divided into four lines. The first line includes hashtags: '#USA #Gaza.' The following three lines show the available options after clicking on #USA. The second and third lines read 'See #USA posts' and 'See #USA posts by user,' respectively. To generate a curated feed of independent journalism about America, click on 'See #USA posts by user.' The fourth line reads 'Mute USA.'

Harms Committed@harmscommitted· Feb 17

🌀Posting Format🌀 Each Harms Committed post follows a standard format. Posts include a link to an article about state violence, along with quotes and hashtags. The hashtags indicate topics and locations relevant to the article. Find a representative example here. ⬇️ 2/13 🧵