In the Italian city of Verona, local street artist Cibo paints colorful wall art full of appetizing food over neo-nazi graffiti (x)
“It’s my civic duty, and my right … honestly I feel like have a right to cover [erase] these kinds of things. Since I’m doing a public form of art, I have to take care of my city and … it’s like my own art gallery. How do you explain a swastika to a child? How do you do it? It’s impossible. It’s a racist message. And it’s not okay .”
I think this is really important, as are the things coming out from veterans of conflict who fought fascism and Nazis on the front line, whether in war or in their communities. We need to look to the elders among us as to how to deal with this present. Whether those elders are black, Hispanic, queer, Jewish, Roma, migrant, disabled, Native/First Nations, white, Asian, or something different entirely or any combination of intersectionality of identities – these people have fought this kind of hatred before. They have knowledge. They have understanding. They have tools that they can give us, and they have the strength and resilience that comes from surviving terrible circumstances.
knitting in the dark 