For five weeks, the world has had no idea where Lu Guang is.
Lu Guang is an internationally acclaimed photographer from China, and he has been my friend for more than 15 years. I’m proud that the agency I co-founded represents and distributes his work. We first met in Beijing in 2002. He was already a well-known and widely awarded documentary photographer in his country, and he would soon win a slew of international awards, including some of the world’s most prestigious.
Five weeks ago, he was invited to travel to Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, in Western China. He went there to share his passion for photography by leading an informal, weeklong workshop with local photographers. The Chinese government has been conducting what it describes as a large-scale antiterrorism campaign in Xinjiang, targeting the Uighur ethnic group.
According to local sources, the security services detained Lu Guang, along with his local host, on or about Nov. 3. He was supposed to travel a day or two later to Sichuan Province, where he regularly does charity work. He never made it.
“Lacron was also behind a Tumblr account, “CharlestonChurchMiracle,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. That account, which is still live, contains hundreds of images that glorify mass killings.“
No female presenting nipples though I guess.
White violence has to be named so it can be changed.
That blog seems to be unsearchable now (though you now get a literal nazi-fetishist true crime blog and some other offering support/condolences in her tag)
But then there’s these three chucklefucks. The one in the middle could be anything, but the first and last are clearly ‘true crime’ blogs obsessed with our deaths. So. Like, fuck alladem
I made a page of this on the main site, but want to hear some words folk have said? Let’s cut and paste what’s currently up there…
“Really couldn’t have enjoyed DIE #1 more than I did. Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans are a powerful merging of talents. Feels like a well-oiled team that’s been working together for years. Image Comics continues to innovate.” -Rick Remender (Deadly Class, Low, Black Science, Seven to Eternity)
“DIE is wonderfully nerdy and emotionally complicated and… utterly beautiful.” – Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter
“So I read DIE today and it’s something special: clever, chilling, beautiful, and surprising. IT’S REAL GOOD AND I THINK YOU SHOULD GET IT.” Ryan North (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Dinosaur Comics, How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide For The Stranded Time Traveler)
“Emotional evisceration awaits. I cannot recommend this highly enough” -Margerite Bennett (Animosity, Bombshells)
“I’ve had the pleasure of reading DIE from Gillen, Hans & Cowles and it’s everything I love about comics. It’s such a great concept for a series.” – Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Analogue, Dead Rabbit)
“Do you wish that IT had fewer clowns luring in sewers with balloons and more RPG sessions that cause kids to disappear for several years? Then DIE by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans is the comic for you! Also, I got to test-play the RPG the book is built around and it’s SO FUN.” – Jody Houser (Stranger Things, Faith, Doctor Who)
“A smart, gripping story about fantasy, gaming, aging and things that can’t be said. Pre-order now and beat the rush.” – Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk)
“DIE is gaming glory reflected in a broken mirror, nostalgia gone wrong in a story that’s oh so right.” – Jim Zub (Conan-Red Sonja, Dungeons & Dragons)
“DIE is a compelling drama, filled with secrets and lies. It has the reliable wit and grace one expects from Gillen along with rich and stunning artwork by Hans, who is without a doubt delivering her best work to date. Gorgeously rendered, perfectly constructed, DIE is a fantastic new series that pulls the reader into a new world, in more ways than one.” – Declan Shalvey (Moon Knight, Injection, Return Of Wolverine)
‘This excellent work is about human beings, as seen through the lens of Dungeons and Dragons, which in a time of wandering monsters is surely the best possible instrument.’ – Paul Cornell (Saucer Country, Doctor Who)
“Fantasy is seductive, beautiful, worth obsessing over, and something that will destroy your life. Die doesn’t just want it both ways, it insists that both ways are the only way to have it…. It’s another fucking masterpiece” – Elizabeth Sandifer (TARDIS Eruditorum, The Last War In Albion.)
“I Love it. DIE #1 was an excellent first issue. Tons of hints about who these characters are and what they’ve been through. I’m DIE-ing to know more about the mysteries ” – Matt Wilson (Paper Girls, Thor, The Wicked + the Divine)
“I read DIE and I did not die! Except maybe a little bit from sheer goodosity. Beautiful and moody…” – Si Spurrier (Doctor Aphra, The Dreaming, Coda)
“Fantastic” – Ray Fawkes (Underwinter, Gotham by Midnight)
“Utterly gorgeous book about being kids, growing up, the games we play and other secrets “I can’t say.” This should absolutely go to the very top of your pull-lists.” – Ram V (Batman Secret Files, Paridiso, These Savage Shores)
“Soooooo Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ DIE is something ABSURDLY special. Really an incredible book.” – Mags Visaggio(Eternity Girl, Kim & Kim, Sex Death Revolution)
“I just read Stephanie Hans and Kieron Gillen’s first ish of Die, and blimey, it’s really good! Like, “NO BUT NO I NEED THE NEXT ONE RIGHT NOW!” good. Hans has taken her epic cover art style into an entire comic, and it looks just beautiful.” – John Walker (Rock Paper Shotgun)
“DIE is clever and thoughtful and you should definitely read it.” – Grant Howitt (Spire, Honey Heist, Hearty Dice Friends)
“A wonderful, beautiful, heart-wrenching comic.” – Jamie McKelvie (Young Avengers, The Wicked + the Divine)
Speak to your retailer this week to pre-order a copy and such things.
At home, Glynndana is used to living a modest life. But the past few years have been tougher than others. In 2014, she was evicted from her home and spent more than two months in a women’s shelter before moving into a trailer with a friend. After two years, the trailer fell through, and she moved her belongings into a storage unit. For the next 18 months, she mostly slept on the couches and guest beds of friends and family. When there was nowhere else to go, she slept in her car.
By 2017, Glynndana couldn’t figure out why her weekly paycheck of between $400 and $600—$15.70 an hour before taxes, sometimes with overtime—disappeared so quickly. “I just thought I was being really bad with my money,” she said. She kept her expenses low, resorting to a diet of eggs, cheese, and crackers when necessary, turning down invitations to go out for dinner, and waiting until her gas tank ran out before refilling it. She didn’t want to tell her friends how much she was struggling, and she wouldn’t dare tell her guests, even those she had known for years. Like many of her coworkers, Glynndana loves entertaining Disneyland’s visitors. Even when she felt hungry, worried about unpaid bills, or had nowhere to sleep, coming to work felt like throwing a party. She didn’t want to ruin the magic.
I wrote a paper about instituting better police hiring policies (because right now it’s a damn joke), and I researched this officer in particular because of the murder of Tamir Rice. Here is an excerpt of my paper:
“Candice Bernd, a journalist that writes for
an online news outlet called Truth Out,
writes about a Cleveland police officer named Timothy Loehmann who shot and
killed Tamir Rice. Loehmann took four written cognitive
entrance exams for four different police departments, failing all of them. He
did, however, pass the psychology exam and that alone deemed him “fit for
hire.” Bernd writes, “Just a few months later [after the shooting],
Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak recommended Loehmann be cut loose, writing
that Loehmann was ‘not mature enough in his accepting of responsibility or his
understanding the severity of his loss of control’ after he had multiple
emotional breakdowns during training. Loehmann was allowed to resign.”
Loehmann’s psychologist wrote in his psych evaluation that Loehmann “seems
fairly rigid and perhaps has some dogmatic attitudes that could be problematic
in police work” but still recommended him for hire. Dr. M.L. Dantzker points
out the flaws in the psych system from personal experience both as a former
Fort Worth, Texas, Police officer and as a mental health specialist. Bernd
interviews Dantzker who states, “Every psychologist in Texas can choose
whatever personality inventories they want to use and can do whatever else they
might want to do, all within what the departments are willing to pay for. That
sets us up for a very, what I consider, inconsistent, unstable protocol and
procedure for doing [evaluations].“ He continues on to explain how many
departments require the applicant to pay for their evaluation, which gives them
an opportunity to pick their own evaluator. “You can basically go shopping
for your own psychologist,” says Dantzker. “It makes it even
worse.” After the recruit has been hired, “it’s not standard practice to
re-evaluate police officer incumbents at any point post-hire” says Dantzker in
his interview with Bernd (Bernd C. 2015). Not only does there need to be better,
thorough tests for new recruits, but there definitely needs to be
re-evaluations for officers that are already on the job. The kind of work that
goes into being a police officer is taxing on the mental health of the officer,
it should be mandatory to continue to test the people entrusted with the lives
of many citizens within a city.”
I don’t want to fucking hear anyone say white privilege doesn’t exist ever again. You know who doesn’t get any more chances? Tamir Rice! And Philando Castile! And Sandra Bland! And ANYONE else killed by these Bastards in Blue.
i feel bad that those nyt journalists spent all that time proving that the president committed years of criminal tax fraud and the whole senate was just like
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