[98babylons]

"you think you're charcoal, burning ebony

but i see you in shades of navy, plum, violet

i see the bits of shooting stars you ignore

i see a universe within

the galaxies that make up your brain

but when you dim the lights, when the black engulfs

you escape from my vision

and i can't give you a mirror if you won't look at it"

— the pain of loving you, r.s.

[jude-st-francis]

you know that I'm still at the restaurant still sitting in a corner I haunt cross-legged in the dim light they say “what a sad sight” I swear you could hear a hair pin drop right when I felt the moment stop glass shattered on the white cloth everybody moved on I stayed there dust collected on my pinned-up hair they expected me to find somewhere some perspective, but I sat and stared

[mai-m-rashad]

“أحب جذورك, لا الزهور التي يراها الجميع.”

[muhtesemz]

لا أحبُّ الحب الصامت، أخبرني كَمْ تحبّني وأجعلني أجن بك.

I do not like silent love, tell me how much you love me and make me insane about you.

- Naguib Mahfouz

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[phresious]

[magicalboye]

Archive moodboard for @ichigokeks

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ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒...

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[sunkissedandbronzed]

[bluereevesphotography]

Misty Edinburgh - 6/4/19

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[soap-stones]

hi y’all–

if you don’t already know (and i haven’t seen any major news coverage), indigenous land defenders have been protesting Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore. at least 12 were arrested yesterday (3 July)  and a number of their cars and trucks were impounded. 

the land that’s been carved into, called the Black Hills or, in Lakota, Pahá Sápa, is sacred to a number of indigenous peoples, particularly the Lakota, from whom the land was stolen originally. the faces engraved on this ancestral land belong to presidents with documented histories of white supremacism–and the carving itself was done by a member of the KKK. 

learn more + donate to the black hills legal defense fund HERE 

video coverage via Indigenous Rising HERE 

Layli Long Soldier’s poems on “Ȟe Sápa” are good reading on the Black Hills

there are many places to learn about the actions of Roosevelt, Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, but for Lincoln in particular (who I think still often gets taught as a white savior), I’d also recommend Long Soldier’s “38″ and LeAnne Howe’s Savage Conversations.

you can also donate to the Lakota Law Project HERE.

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