Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 20 A collection of protest art, pamphlets, photos from the HK pro-democracy movement filled with tears and teargas. {{ posts|...
CW: eye injuries, blood On 11 August 2019, HK police shot a street medic in the face. Source: Telegram, Aug 2019 It was not the first, nor would it be the last serious eye injury from ‘non lethal’ rounds (that we know of/ was captured on camera, because, you know), but the incident marks the point from which a bandaged bloodied eye becomes part of the HK protest iconography, and the tone of the…
Thread of HK's Lady Liberty statue
The last part of the thread started in Fighting Words (Part 1) , continued in Fighting Words (Part 2) and Fighting Words (Part 3) . Most of the below appeared/ became also prominent from November 2019 and beyond. A bit like the slogans in Fighting Words (Part 3) , these are infinitely less sunny that those in Fighting Words (Part 1) and Fighting Words (Part 2) . But it also ends with a hope. Maybe…
The third part of the thread started in Fighting Words (Part 1) and continued in Fighting Words (Part 2) . Source: Telegram, May 2020 Most of the below appeared/ became prominent from November 2019 and beyond. They also are a bit different in flavour as the fire-and-brimstone and fatalistic slogans documented in Fighting Words (Part 2) . They are still indescribably angry , but many also are…
Part of the thread started in Fighting Words (Part 1) . As I said, HKers had a lot of slogans, because we had a lot to get off our chests. After all, the city had been protesting Chinese rule for 20+ years by 2019. All that tear gas and police beatings just inspired a lot more angry words. Most of the below appeared/ became prominent early August to November 2019. They mark a step-up in localist…
2019自由之夏 '2019 - Summer of Liberty' Source: Apple Daily, Sep 2019 The HK pro-democracy protests in 2019-2020 had a myriad of slogans, way too many to count, and some became so ubiquitous it's hard to say whether they even count as slogans. Which slogans gained popularity and which 'died out' in the course of the protests says a lot about how the the movement and its hopes evolved through the…
Source: Telegram (Jul 1 2019) What this blog is This blog is meant to be a collection of protest art, pamphlets, photos from the HK pro-democracy movement filled with tears and teargas. Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget. The material are mostly from the 2019-2020 protests, with some of the essays written then, others with the benefit of hindsight…