Roberto von Archimboldi on Nostr: I cannot stress enough that you should read this essay. In Libya, survival came at ...
I cannot stress enough that you should read this essay.
In Libya, survival came at the cost of being erased even as I labored to sustain the lives of others. The militias do this with impunity, and why shouldn’t they? Europe pays them to keep us trapped, to break us before we reach its borders. The echoes of the past are loud in Libya. The auctions today carry the same cold calculations as those centuries ago: a man reduced to the strength of his arms, a woman to the curve of her back, a child to the potential of their years. And as I stood in the midst of it, I felt the weight of history pressing down, telling me that this is what Blackness has always meant to them, a body to be used, a soul to be ignored.
https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/chronicles-of-blackness-surviving-the-shadows-of-libya-and-europe
#FerriesNotFrontex, #NoBorders, #NoHumanIsIllegal
In Libya, survival came at the cost of being erased even as I labored to sustain the lives of others. The militias do this with impunity, and why shouldn’t they? Europe pays them to keep us trapped, to break us before we reach its borders. The echoes of the past are loud in Libya. The auctions today carry the same cold calculations as those centuries ago: a man reduced to the strength of his arms, a woman to the curve of her back, a child to the potential of their years. And as I stood in the midst of it, I felt the weight of history pressing down, telling me that this is what Blackness has always meant to them, a body to be used, a soul to be ignored.
https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/chronicles-of-blackness-surviving-the-shadows-of-libya-and-europe
#FerriesNotFrontex, #NoBorders, #NoHumanIsIllegal