Kufiyaspotting: Psychosis 2010

Psychosis 2010, a photo by tsweden on Flickr.

This lame British horror film opens with a group of anarchist squatters who, in 1992, are attempting to preserve the local wildlife in the vicinity of a village. All except for one are slaughtered by a serial killer. This is one of the victims. The kufiya signals her politics.

more kufiyas from Kanye and Hova

I never got around to posting about Jay Z & Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild" video from May 2012.

It is full of kufiyas. The video is all street confrontations between police and a mixed-race, all-male bunch who look like (or are made to look like) anarchists. Since it's from corporate rappers, I think it's all about a commercialized exploitation of the energies of Occupy Wall Street and street battles in London. And aestheticizing the hell out of it, while at the same time trying to show just a little bit of sympathy for the rioters who get beat up by the cops. I don't know whether I'll have the energy to spend much more time thinking about it. Here are some kufiya shots. The vid is below.

Anarchist Queer from "Syria"

I'm feeling too crummy (rheumy, achy, coughy) to blog right now, but I just learned about an excellent blog, which y'all should check out: Anarchist Queer from "Syria." Among other great things about it is that it features a red kufiya on the logo. (Uh, Anarchist Queer, isn't black the color of anarchy? Or are you in fact more of a leftist?)

And I'm going to link to it, right now.