03.31.25
Insanely grateful to @christopherstreetproject for hiring me to shoot their Transgender Day of Visibility rally in DC on Monday. This was an incredible experience and gave me a really valuable opportunity to get some more experience with my new camera (Fujifilm XT-4). Will likely post more photos in the coming days!
🌃New Yawk babey🌃
If I try to actually curate the pictures I choose I will spend hours on this post so I'm not going to do that, follow @sabocatphotography for the good shit.
This experience was honestly life changing and I have many people to thank for that fact, primary among them, @aaron_bo02 , for offering the opportunity to me and organizing the whole 10+ days of classes and experiences.
I usually reserve displaying my political "interests" to my story on here and the rants many of you have heard before, but I felt the need to post these pictures I took last Wednesday now more than ever.
In the early hours of this morning, the DC police (MPD) attacked the encampment at George Washington University, arresting over 30 students and brutalizing even more in the process. To anyone paying attention, the motive was obvious: the Mayor of DC and the MPD Chief were being called to testify before a Congressional Committee today, this exact day, over their initial refusal to destroy the encampment. Now, following this attack, that hearing has been cancelled. The Mayor of DC had over 30 young people arrested to save face, it's that simple.
That's the context, the reason why I'm actually posting these pictures is because of the propagandistic slander and libel being spread about encampments across the country, largely by billionaire and reactionary-controlled media, who feign concern at an imaginary spector of anti-semitism that supposedly haunts these peaceful demonstrations against genocide. I won't go into so much detail as to completely deconstruct this inaccurate narrative, this is an Instagram caption and people much more educated than me have already done so before, if you want resources, reach out to me privately.
I just want to show the real side of this story, the encampment itself. The positivity and happiness, alongside the inherent grief attached to the events being protested. The people at this encampment are not violent. They are not hateful towards their Jewish brothers and sisters, many of the organizers being Jewish themselves. The act of forming this encampment did not hurt anyone. What does hurt people, thousands of people, is the type of police brutality we have seen on display across the country in response to these encampments. And even more so, there is no greater violence than the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people by the Israeli state, which has received billions in aid from the United States without a single requirement for any restraint on the mass murder being committed in Gaza.
That is all.
