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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

did you see the sick art we had at @theflytrapmedia.com for a piece about this? the-flytrap.ghost.io/censorship-o...

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 21h

please dont put AI-generated weird shit on our timeline.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 22h

"[T]o make music is to beckon possibilities of a new world, and to listen to music is to want that world to become true."

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

British prosecutors will appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. Read here why the British state is so desperate to silence @kneecapceol.bsky.social:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

I am so proud to call @nicolefroio.bsky.social a comrade, friend, and colleague; her reporting and cultural criticism on the harms of colonialism and how they're deeply woven into Western society is incredible. Go read this on the suppression of pro-Palestine speech in music @theflytrapmedia.com!

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

Love this for you!!

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

THIS!

BurnieHanders 😨🔥👐 @treetickler.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from being unapologetically pro Palestine, Kneecap just bangs. Listen to and support their music! Its angry and bombastic and will let you crush your chores in record time

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes about the revolutionary potential of music through an analysis of Kneecap ( @kneecapceol.bsky.social ) and their solidarity with Palestine:

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

We are so psyched to publish it! btw you can get a poster here: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 1d

it's really not a coincidence that culture writing is out and right-wing shilling is in. We are trying to change that at The Flytrap. Check us out:

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

Looks like B*ri W*iss will be shilling right-wing propaganda on CBS News. You know who doesn't do that and needs your support? The Flytrap! Here's our latest on @kneecapceol.bsky.social and their solidarity with Palestine:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

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Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

Looks like B*ri W*iss will be shilling right-wing propaganda on CBS News. You know who doesn't do that and needs your support? The Flytrap! Here's our latest on @kneecapceol.bsky.social and their solidarity with Palestine:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone help me get this to Kneecap? I would love to have them read it and also ask them what's so great about Belfast's goodfellas pizza.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes about the revolutionary potential of music through an analysis of Kneecap ( @kneecapceol.bsky.social ) and their solidarity with Palestine:

the-flytrap.ghost.io/censorship-o...

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes about the revolutionary potential of music through an analysis of Kneecap ( @kneecapceol.bsky.social ) and their solidarity with Palestine:

the-flytrap.ghost.io/censorship-o...

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

LOVE <3

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 1d

We will win.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

The illustration for this piece goes so hard! Want it on your wall? Here's where to buy it: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes about the revolutionary potential of music through an analysis of Kneecap ( @kneecapceol.bsky.social ) and their solidarity with Palestine:

the-flytrap.ghost.io/censorship-o...

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

I mention that in the piece! Love Bob Vylan! - NF

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

In light of the sentencing of P. Diddy, I want to re-share @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's piece on how the court case would've gone differently if we valued sex workers as a society:

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If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different

What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

“Given these actions against Kneecap and ongoing efforts to censor the group, it’s essential to ask: Why are governments so scared of the spread of decolonial speech?”

@nicolefroio.bsky.social answers this question effectively in this must-read on censorship and the revolutionary potential of music

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 1d

Okay -- I finally got around to reading this. It's important.
"When we declare that something we don’t like...is “crazy,” the implication is that it is a pathology, and also...random, unpredictable..., uncontrollable. It is evidence of...a personal failing, rather than a social one."

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

Best cure for Sunday Scaries? Catching up on what The Flytrap has been up to. First up, @sesmith.lol on how talking about mentally ill people in the wake of mass shootings is a feature of eugenics and populational control: the-flytrap.ghost.io/mental-illne...

Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up

Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 1d

#Iconography

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

The illustration for this piece goes so hard! Want it on your wall? Here's where to buy it: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...

Saoirse Don Phalaistín 12x16 Poster

The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!

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