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L ETTER F ROM THE EDITOR Dear friends, Happy cozy szn, and welcome to the fourth volume of our zine! This time around, we thought it would be fun to center our content around the theme shifting currents. A current involves directed movement generated by a number of forces. Alter one current and you redirect everything around it, thus creating a completely new landscape. In the context of life, it’s the decisions, mistakes, and coincidences that come together; the way they add up, create ripples and explosions, and ultimately shape our realities. Our collective members have been reflecting on the transitions they’ve experienced recently. These are more than blips - they’re directional changes that have the potential to shift our personal lives and professional trajectories; our artistic goals; our relationship with ourselves and community; and so much more. Whether it’s layoffs or new jobs; moving out or buying a home; grieving loved ones or exploring new relationships, we’ve all had to grapple with new normals. I’m in awe of the artistic and emotional vulnerability between these pages. This issue is the product of many hours of introspection, heart-to-heart conversations, workshop sessions, and family dinners. It’s angsty, but it’s also playful, vibrant, and heartwarming. Thank you to our contributors for working so hard and sharing so much of themselves. And thank you to our readers for handling these stories with care. Sincerely, Brenda
CONTRIBUTORS ANDREA MANOLOV she/her
BONNA DABALA he/him IG: @bonanegatives
BRENDA TRAN she/her brendattran.com IG: @brenda.thuytien
KIA LEE she/her IG: @kiaclee
MADDY OSMON she/they
METI MEKONEN she/they IG: @queendivinejustice
PACHIA XIONG she/her pacheetah.com
QUINESSA STIBBINS she/her quinessastibbins.com IG: @nessiestibbs
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OCEAN CURRENTS: A PLAYLIST PACHIA XIONG THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE VOL. 3 WEIGHED DOWN PACHIA XIONG ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRIEF KIA LEE SMELLS LIKE THE CITY BONNA DABALA AND JUST LIKE THAT... I WAS LIVING ALONE MADDY OSMON GOD VS EVE METI MEKONEN EVERYTHING IS SCARY ANDREA MANOLOV PROTECTION TO THE PEOPLE QUINESSA STIBBINS INSPO FOR WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH IT
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A playlist for those angsty days. Curated by Pachia.
THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE VOL. 3 FEBRUARY - NOVEMBER 2023
S So far this year, we’ve hosted eight open studios!
During Studio Sundays, visitors are welcome to use our workspace and equipment free of charge, and are encouraged to join us for some communal artmaking.
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We’ve had some memorable sessions - from sketching, crocheting, and collaging, to a fall photo walk and pumpkin painting.
Collages created during our Art-A-Whirl Studio Sunday
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In May, the collective participated in its first Art-A-Whirl weekend, an annual open studio tour in northeast Minneapolis. The weekend’s activities included a pop-up market, live performances, and an open studio. Our featured vendors included Casper Warren, HawwaBe Comics, Sunshine Gao, Love Rainie, The Moon and Her Flowers (Wennicha Yang), and Sophie Wang.
Special thanks to Dangerous Man Brewing Company for donating a portion of their sales from the weekend to us.
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Our performers included John Jamison II, BakiBakiBaki, Phrol, Human Error, Filthy Kittens, Alicia Thao, and 5ifthhouse.
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Our Art-A-Whirl programming was a team effort! Event planning team: Brenda Tran, Justin Ofori-Atta, John Jamison II, Myles Dickens, Madelyn Osmon, and Meti Mekonen Art direction: Meti Mekonen and Brenda Tran Graphic design + socials: Brenda Tran Video: Justin Ofori-Atta and Brenda Tran Set design: Meti Mekonen, Brenda Tran, and Gino Sahagun Art installation: Myles Dickens, Meti Mekonen, and Gino Sahagun Front of house team: Madelyn Osmon, Andrea Manolov, Blongsha Hang, Thuy Le, Myles Dickens, Bebe Namnakhone, and Ally Kann
Open studio team: Kia Lee, Zeb Thoj Sengsoulichanh, Madelyn Osmon, Thuy Le, and Brenda Tran
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Set up/tear down: Madelyn Osmon, Andrea Manolov, Blongsha Hang, Thuy Le, Myles Dickens, Ally Kann, Lissa Vo, Brenda Tran, and Justin Ofori-Atta
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BIG SPOON
Over the spring, Banana Leaf Collective collaborated with La Bang Studio on a product photography shoot for the launch of Big Spoon, a non-alcoholic beverage brand. For most of us, it was our first foray into professional product photography. Because of our inexperience, there was a lot of researching, troubleshooting, and learning on the job with this gig. Despite the unforeseen obstacles we faced, it was a fun and valuable learning experience! Thank you to Christina Vang for taking a chance on us, and for her mentorship through the process.
Photography: Meti Mekonen Photo assist: Brenda Tran, Lissa Vo, Pachia Xiong Photo editing: Brenda Tran, Christina Vang Creative direction: Christina Vang
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IN THE CAMPS
From late August and through September, Brenda worked as designer, marketing lead, and assistant stage manager for In the Camps: A Refugee Musical by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay. It was here that Brenda learned that community theater is extremely chaotic, exhausting, fun, and wholesome.
As part of In the Camps festivities, Brenda organized a Southeast Asian pop-up market at Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center. Banana Leaf Collective participated as a vendor, along with our friends Garnet Star by Jenny, Uprooted Coffee, MF Macramé, Spring Rolls, and papaya.bb.
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WEIGHED DOWN BY PACHIA XIONG
Born with the face of deceit; Or was it, Conditioned to be a clown– With a mask only you can see But also one that many share Born to please Born to be responsible But somehow that is never enough I am traumatized I am stained with hurt I am exhausted with expectations I had to let go So I can be something for me
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This series of illustrations depicts my internal states of being while experiencing multiple life transitions in my mid-twenties, including the loss of my mom and grandma. The emotions I felt were so confusing and overwhelming that I couldn’t find the words to articulate how I was really doing. Images of the pain I felt began to appear in my mind, which I've depicted here. In my grieving process, I’ve learned that my upbringing, generational trauma, and society at large never prepared me to handle grief. At the same time, I learned that our society doesn’t teach us how to be there for those grieving. Grief is a natural and common response when parting ways with people, places, and parts of yourself, yet it is often avoided as a feeling and altogether as a topic. This explains why I was often living in between paradoxes, feeling lost and frustrated about it. While my world was crumbling, I was trying hard to keep up with the rest of the world that continued moving on. I kept showing up to work despite the lack of motivation. I put on a smile in front of friends and family even on days I had spent hours crying alone. When I felt slow, groggy, and weighed down by reality, I was floating light as a feather in my dreams. I originally intended for this piece to be about my journey adjusting to these life transitions, but soon realized the journey has always been about building a home for my grief. A place where I provide safety, security, love, and care to myself in moments when I fall back to those dark places of crumbling, sinking, and floating. by Kia Lee
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Smells Like The City
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Your environment often plays such a large role in your daily life. All of the noises around you that you hear, the buses driving, people taking phone calls, dogs barking because they want to talk with the dog across the street. All of the visuals around you, the street lights telling you to go, the large puddle telling you to stop, your neighbor asking you for change, and your phone ringing in your pocket telling you there are two missed calls.
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Meanwhile there is an array of distinct smells of the city floating to your nose. Smells of Banh Mi wafting from the corner restaurant, lingering exhaust from the cars nearby, and trailing cigarette smoke reminiscent of childhood.
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And just like that…
I was living
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In my first weeks living alone, I wrapped myself in tv drama. I started watching Sex and the City for the first time while I was packing, and I steadily finished seasons three through six after moving in. As I settled into my one bedroom apartment, my phone followed—resting behind the bathroom sink; gracing half-empty kitchen shelves; and settling inches from my face as I sprawled on the couch. Neglected and annoyed, my cat occasionally tried to headbutt it from my hands.
I have always made friends through persistent proximity. Social anxiety pulses through my veins and I’m not great at making instant connections. I’m friendly, of course, but can seem pretty closed off. If you’re into astrology, we could talk about how I’m a Cancer Rising. If you’ve experienced Minnesota niceness, we could open a whole other socio-cultural can of worms.
I tend to give a lukewarm first (second, third, forth, fifth, etc) impression. But if I After living with friends for almost a like someone and, of course, if they’ll let decade, I never desired my own place. me hang around, I really shine in the long People say that living with friends can be run. Persistent proximity. Familiarity and difficult. Logically, I understand that—I’ve friendship built up over long periods of harbored mild resentment over dirty dishes time. a hundred times—but emotionally, I can’t wrap my head around it. I first met Brenda—my ex-roomie and forever bestie—in middle school. I liked My roommates have all been or become that in gym class she asked me whether some of my closest friends, confidants, or not I’d brushed my teeth. Maybe I just and collaborators. They’re the people that smelled bad (most middle schoolers kinda I feel most at ease with. The people I feel do), but the question struck me as weird most empowered to be myself around. I and genuine and kind. Still, we didn’t really could explain this with a little birth forge our friendship until we were close to chart analysis—*cough* Leo Moon graduating from high school. *cough*—but will spare you. Living together, especially through the Earlier this year, Brenda—my roomie of pandemic, we were so involved in each five years—started her solo house hunters other's daily routines and care that her arc. I didn’t want to live alone, but I also questioning whether or not I’d brushed my never took any proactive steps to find a teeth would have felt like the most normal new roommate. I have a way of passively thing in the world, very much in line with accepting change. However, that doesn’t “Did you eat breakfast yet? How was your mean I’m not melodramatic about it. The poop?” prospect of no longer living together brought up anxiety about the state of our I loved sharing meals and crossing the friendship and fears of loneliness. It also hall to share a TikTok or vent after a Zoom catalyzed reflection on how to nourish meeting. I enthusiastically tagged along friendship into adulthood and embrace with many of Brenda’s wide-ranging time spent with myself. interests—I developed a green thumb,
alone*
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learned how to read tarot, attempted to skateboard, and watched shonen anime. All of these things, even the ones I wouldn’t seek out on my own, felt joyful to share.
chocolate cake just for herself. They ring each other when they have spicy news or want to make plans for brunch.
Although it’s known for sex and romance, the show also depicts four best friends living alone and “encountering small moments of pleasure in their daily routines.” Each of their apartments is beautifully (and economically completely unrealistically) curated to reflect their individual personalities and tastes. We watch Carrie guzzle Perrier and write the worst takes on dating. Miranda bakes a
I didn’t want to live alone, but in this moment it actually feels most right. Acknowledging that is an important reminder to myself there will always be change that feels scary and undesirable until I’m on the other side of it. This move came with loss, but also opened up new joys and possibilities.
Emerging from under my blanket of content, I began romanticizing my new As we prepared to move out, I felt the loss solo living space. Most of the windows are of our intertwined time and space. Despite east-facing and for a while I made a habit all reassurance otherwise, I worried that of waking up to watch the sunrise. I rebuilt Brenda’s desire for this change revealed my IKEA bookshelves and filled them with some kind of failure in our friendship. I all the memories and intentions of my past wondered if untangling our shared living selves. I framed photos of my grandmas, space also meant we’d begin to grow apart. art prints gifted from friends, and my own silly collages. I watched youtube tutorials Moving into my own place represented a about how to make macrame plant shift in my relationship to Brenda, but it hangers. I cooked meals for myself and also represented a shift in my relationship left dirty clothes in the bathroom. I burned with myself. I was about to have a lot of candles while I read on my couch. I’m a new time and space with me, myself, and I. Libra Sun—it’s all kind of coming together Aloud, I worried I would be lonely. Quietly, now, right? I was concerned about the person I was being left with. I’ve also spent a lot of time with friends and family, including Brenda. It’s actually During my Sex and the City binge, I was, really nice to know that this time is of course, trying to get into the discourse something mutually chosen and not and came across a review titled “Here’s a function of our living arrangement. why flawed hit ‘Sex and the City’ is still a Persistent proximity works, but I’m worthwhile watch.” The writer talks about learning that adult friendships also need finding comfort in the show’s theme of directness, intentionality and vulnerability solitary pleasure. to flourish.
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Referenced: Burbank, Megan. “Here’s Why Flawed Hit ‘Sex and the City’ Is Still a Worthwhile Watch.” The Seattle Times, 30 Nov. 2021, www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/for-all-its-many-flaws-sex-and-the-city-showed-women-the-pleasure-of-being-alone/.
We officially opened up our space for event rental this summer!
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Since then, we’ve hosted several festivities, including a birthday by one of our very own members, Pachia. To celebrate her special day, she held a pottery class with an intimate group of friends and family. Folks got to make and paint their own mug in this self-led, private session. We love the creative ways our 1,000 square feet space has been used for! If you’ve got an idea in mind for your next gathering, visit our site for information on pricing and amenities: www.bananaleaf.co/spacerentals
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GOD VS EVE
EVERYTHING IS
Welcome back to Andrea’s horror column! On a fall afternoon after school, when I was eleven years old, I was flipping through the 20 free stations on my family’s box tv. At this point in my life, my favorite shows featured cartoon animals learning to make friends and resolve conflict on PBS Kids. I had yet to experience any kind of serious horror media. And I wasn't exactly seeking to. But despite the familiar line-up of educational and age-appropriate content awaiting me on TPT, adolescent gall was beginning to propel me into the unknown waters of daytime programming on ABC, NBC, CW, and most intimidatingly, ION. (Yes, I understand this is a joke to the 80% of yal who grew up with cable.)
glimpses of strange, eerie, or just plain fucking traumatizing moments on a random screen can crystallize into core lifelong fears. This season, Banana Leaf Collective members shared which pieces of horror media left a lasting impression on their psyches.
Kia:
For me, it was the movie It. The original version scarred me for life, and made me develop some irrational fears. Like, I hate dreams. Because of that one scene with the kid in the sewer. And for the longest time I hated the sound of toilets flushing. I still do. And there was that one bathroom scene where It creeps up on a kid. The shower starts and blood begins to pool from the drain. There was something about the toilet, too - I just remember it was traumatizing. And obviously I’m scared of clowns, too, now. Watching Modern Family has since helped me redefine how I view clowns, One of my favorite conversations but I was terrified of them. to have with friends is sharing It was one of the horror movies what pieces of horror media that my cousins would force we incidentally stumbled into me to watch when I was being during childhood. And how short naughty. Chucky and It were the
movies they would force me to watch when I was being a bad kid, and that’s probably why I don’t like horror. I was six or seven when I saw these.
Maddy: Film posters. My family and I would go to CineMagic, which was just a basic suburban movie theater, and they had these posters of old movies. There was Titanic, Gone with the Wind, and Jaws, which lived rent free in my head. I was kind of a rule follower, so I wasn’t watching scary movies until high school and college. I was just really fascinated with the posters. As a kid I knew what Jaws was because I had asked my aunt and she explained the plot to me. And she would do the dundundundun… so I knew the music, too. My aunt and I would go swimming together, and she would do the song, and I’d be like, Mary, don’t do the song! I really believed there’d be a shark at the bottom of the pool. Those memories of swimming with Mary, I think that was first or second grade.
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Blongsha:
As a kid, I would watch a lot of spiritual Christian media about people who would sin and go to hell. One of the shows was Supernatural. I internalized a lot of that. For example, there was a guy who was stung by a jellyfish and then went to hell, and it was super traumatic and stuff. And I’d be like, Oh my gosh, this is real! And I hate jellyfish! But yeah, watching that throughout my childhood made me believe in it. And it made me fearful, and ashamed. Anything I would do, I would feel like I was being watched. If I had any thoughts that would be against the religion (my family’s religion), I would be like, I cannot be thinking these things. What’s wrong with me. I also saw a lot of rapture movies, like the Left Behind series. That really made me afraid as a kid. I sleep in a room with my sister, and if she ever wasn’t in our room, I’d be wondering, Has she been raptured? Have I been left behind? That was a genuine fear I had. I think the main takeaway, that I’m still dealing with today, is allowing myself to live and have experiences that our religion would deem as wrong. For example, I went to a club over the weekend. My mom left a voicemail that was like, You haven’t been going to church, and you’ve been staying out late, this is wrong. It made me really anxious. I would think to myself, What if they are right? What if I’m doing such a horrible thing by listening to secular music and dancing. All those feelings came up, even though I know I shouldn’t feel wrong for living my life.
Silence of the Lambs. I had heard of the movie being good. But this really brought another level to the tropes of horror cinema. Clarice Starling was such a badass. Her character was so well developed. It takes a lot for a protagonist to have gravitas, to have substance. And her character was compatible in a real and awkward way with her counterpart, Hannibal Lecter. He was creepy to me because there are actually people like that. That movie made me crawl under my skin. I felt uncomfortable in ways that modern horror movies try to do, by making it flashy. But this movie was like, no. The horror was just clear cut. I still get chills from the one scene with the dude who was keeping a person in the well, and he makes clothes out of peoples’ skin. That’s just janky, like, internally. It was 2016 when I saw this movie, I was in my mid-twenties.
it’s something that hangs over everyone. To me, it’s a very real horror. But people experience that horror daily. Prior to these movies, horror just felt supernatural. Ari Astor does a really good job of getting performances out of the actresses, in a way that shakes you as a viewer. Both movies have an immediate sequence where there’s a moment of loss, and it cuts to the main character in a state of shock and grief. In both movies, I get goosebumps every time I watch those scenes of them crying. And I think about how that performance, in and of itself, was impacting all of the people in that room - the directors, the camera person, other actors. I think it probably resonated with them. It’s a really cool performance to get to see.
Thank you to the pals who made my day by sharing some of their long-standing impressions with me :) And my apologies to Myles, whose interview recording I Anand: lost in the chaos of Scorpio Hereditary and Midsommar season. Next time, the Horror from the same director, Column will survey friends and Ari Astor. He explores a lot of fans to explore feelings of the thematic elements of grief horror (inclusive of shock, and loss. Really tremendous losses in peoples lives, portrayed disgust, anxiety, disorientation) in… r e l a t i o n s h i p s. in the worst possible ways. And not just romantic! Seeing the main characters in both of those movies, the ways they grieve and react to that loss <3 Andrea is kind of - it adds a sense of gravitas. It feels serious. That sense of grief and loss, I think that’s a human thing I tend to think about. The way that I grieve, or think about the threat of losing someone,
Protection to the People By Quinessa Stibbins
Content warning: police brutality, descriptions of bodily injury In May 2020, the Minneapolis Police Department murdered George Floyd. I felt a level of fear I have never felt before. My name is Quinessa and I am a fashion designer. I left Minnesota at the end of that summer to pursue my Masters in Fine Art in California, but my friends kept marching. How was I supposed to help? I was just a fashion designer 2,000 miles away. Maybe this is corny but it’s the truth. Clothing design has a reputation for being superficial and politically disengaged. In actuality, there is a rich history of apparel design being used to convey political messages, create visual uniformity, and shape public perception. I decided to embrace this and take it a step further. I created a look that is both practical and symbolic through a combination of prototyping and research into critical and visual histories of protest clothing.
Locally, a retrospective study was conducted at two major Minneapolis hospital
These findings aligned with reports from local and national news outlets. The Star Tribune reported major injuries to the eyes, face, feet, and head. Other reported injuries included neurological issues, concussions, and PTSD. The LA Times reported major injuries including a brain bleed, broken teeth, a ruptured testile, facial lacerations, impacts to the limbs, stomach, buttocks, chest, bruising and welts. Protest needs to remain a protected act. My research was used to create a two piece look that works as a functional and protective solution for protesters. This included a helmet-type hood using silicone padding, a KN95 layered mask and knee, elbow and chest padding. Providing protection in the form of knowledge, a guide on what to do if you’re arrested was added to the lining. Many design choices were informed by research on historical protest movements and the apparel worn by their participants. These choices were made for symbolic reasons, as well as practical ones. From the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s, I adopted a casual appearance and strategically placed pockets for distributing leaflets and information. From the Black Panther Party, I took the infamous turtle neck and turned it into a sleeve that could hold a KN95 mask. The all-black garments on the outside are inspired by the Black Bloc movement of the 1980s.
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One aspect of my research focused on the violence experienced by protestors around the world. Weapons deployed during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 included tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bang grenades and long-range acoustic devices (LRADs). Although they are often described as less lethal, these weapons can have devastating effects. In 2017, a review on kinetic impact projectile (KIP) related injuries was published in the British Medical Journal Open.1 The study included events in Israel, Palestine, the United States, UK, Northern Ireland, South Asia, Switzerland and Turkey. The study found that rubber bullets used for crowd control are inappropriate due to their significant morbidity rate, including their ability to cause “penetrative injuries, trauma to the head neck and torso”, disability and death.
systems on injuries following the protests of the murder of George Floyd.2 The study was limited to folks that chose to seek medical attention. Out of a total of 89 individuals, 51% sustained injuries from projectiles, 36% from chemical irritants and 13% from both. A significant number of the injuries treated were to the eyes, neck and face. These included eye trauma and traumatic brain injuries.
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aesthetic so as not to draw police attention to activists. While the original context of this research centers anti-Black violence and protester protection, the increase in public hate crimes, school shootings, and similar acts of civic violence has widened the market for civilian protective street apparel.
THE FUTURE: While this prototype is complete, I am far from finished with this work. Since the garments are being designed specifically to address violence against the body, it was inappropriate to incorporate human testing within my constraints. It is also important to note that since this project centers protesters, activists, and on the ground individuals, they should be a part of wearability and fit tests. Looking ahead, swapping out the man-made materials and planning for more strategic pattern placement to eliminate fabric waste would be ideal, in order to make this project more environmentally friendly. The most difficult physically protective aspects to include in this look were hearing and eye protection. Incorporating these aspects is a top priority due to the number of reported eye based injuries and potential hearing loss made possible by less lethal weapons. The challenge lies in trying to also prioritize the streetwear
As constant fear and fighting became part of the zeitgeist, my path as a designer shifted to one of determination to use my skills to better the world. This work has opened my mind to the opportunities I have when it comes to helping my community and putting my skills to good use. I can’t say I’ll never doubt the influence of design again, but I now have proof of my abilities and strengths as a designer. My goal in sharing this work is to remind others that healing comes in many forms and we are always more powerful than we think. Footnotes 1.Haar, R.J., Iacopino, V., Ranadive, N., Dandu, M., Weiser, S.D., 2017. Death, injury and disability from kinetic impact projectiles in crowd-control settings: a systematic review. BMJ Open 7, e018154.. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018154 2. Kaske, E. A., Cramer, S. W., Pena Pino, I., Do, T. H., Ladd, B. M., Sturtevant, D. T., Ahmadi, A., Taha, B., Freeman, D., Wu, J. T., Cunningham, B. A., Hardeman, R. R., Satin, D. J., & Darrow, D. P. (2021). Injuries from less-lethal weapons during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis. New England Journal of Medicine, 384(8), 774–775. https://doi.org/10.1056/ nejmc2032052
Grief can cause people to be destructive or apathetic, but it can also be one of the most powerful and motivating forms of love and care. ~ Kia
This season, Banana Leaf Collective members shared a few of our personal moments with grief, horror, and other formative themes that define the shifting currents in our lives. As part of the practice of tending to ourselves, we also wish to invite connection - to each other, and to the broader world we live in. We cannot ignore the collective grief and horror shared by those experiencing oppression and violence in our world today. We highlight the resources below to learn about and to denounce US backed genocide of Palestinian people. In general, we also invite you to explore ways of tapping into movements for collective liberation.
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UMN Students for Justice in Palestine Instagram: @sjpumn linktr.ee/uofmnsjp
Palestine Debrief compiled by @other_collective oc-palestine.carrd.co
MN Anti-War Committee Instagram: @antiwarmn
Boycott Divest Sanction bdsmovement.net
We’re also re-sharing information about upcoming local actions and organizing work via our Instagram (@bananaleaf.collective). Visit our highlight “TAKE ACTION” for ways to get involved.
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Jewish Voice for Peace jewishvoiceforpeace.org
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