That's so Nano.

Do we really want happiness or are we too scared to be willing to find it? 21. Thoughts and stuff. Beyonce, Virginia Woolf and Olaf are living inside of me.

[vlf]

[alikitmblr]

What do you think about it

[wordsnquotes]

I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?

Langston Hughes (via wordsnquotes)

[tenderculture]

It’s always so difficult to make that balance where your valid critiques of geopolitics, terrorism, empire & institutionalised islamophobia can be communicated without appearing like you are being deflective or unsympathetic to the victims of terror attacks. I know it’s because these large words & ‘ideas’ seem like very abstract, cold things when something as visceral as a terrorist attack happens, when people are brutally & senselessly murdered. But they are not abstract things at all. They are things that configure the lives of muslims & shape the way we are treated. They justify & enable the violence faced for decades in muslim-populated countries, that justify the incarceration & torture of suspected muslims in Guantanamo Bay, that justify the killings of innocent civilians, including children, in drone attacks. 

When muslims (it’s like reflex now, a muscle we’ve exercised so often it’s second nature) have to come forward & affirm our humanity, to condemn these attacks to distance ourselves from these murderers, it seems as if we are more interested in proclaiming our innocence than acknowledging the horrendous suffering the victims & their families must be going through. But it’s not that at all. We do this because we recognize that these attacks are not isolated incidents but an eventuality in a continuum which we are hyperaware of. A continuum that began with imperialism, that was cemented with the war on terror in a post 9-11 world, that exacerbates each time discourse gets polarised. We know this will keep happening if we do not come forward each time & say – those are not muslims, we are not like them. To remind people to not keep entrenching the polarity from which these attacks exacerbate. Because if we don’t do that, & if you don’t believe us, then this will keep happening. So we do it each time. Each time more aware that people don’t really want to believe us. 

The world lit up for Paris today. The world marched for Paris when the Charlie Hebdo shootings happened. Yet the world struggled for decades to publicly & hearteningly give that same level of acknowledgement of suffering to the people of Palestine who have lost & continue to lose every day. The people of Iraq. Afghanistan. The Rohingya in Myannmar. Will the world march for all these places & the victims in them? Will the world march for the 250,000 dead in Syria? Will the world march for Beirut? Will the world march for the blood & bodies holding non-Eurocentric pain? Because Muslims know more than anyone what it’s like to lose people through senseless violence. Through the machinery of militaristic capitalism, war & global apathy. A machinery of empire that decides the hierarchy, the value of lives, that decides who gets to be mourned & who doesn’t. We stand in solidarity with you & your pain. We want it to stop. But it won’t unless the world can snap awake & recognize our common humanity. The biggest lie the world order sells us is the notion that we stand opposed. We must refuse to believe the systems that have worked tirelessly to drain us of our humanity, for it is precisely this that has allowed the dichotimization of the victims of terror and it is precisely this that has allowed acts of terror like this to continue to happen.

It’s not that muslims are trying to deflect from your suffering. It’s that we are aware of it every single day & know precisely why it is happening & we want you to see it too.

[mindlesslegend]

[passivites]

Magic Mountain Lodge is a charming hotel that is nestled within the Valdivian forest. 

[moviegoersmx]

The Addams family (1991)

[bluesey]

British rapper Akala vs EDL leader Tommy Robinson

Interesting debate on racism in Britain

[yuricema-deactivated20230814]

White people won’t shut up lol. I love akala.

[pettyheauxmaker]

SLAYYYYY!!!

[locdup22]

His face at the end tho! Shut his ass up! 

[ttheophiluss]

^^

[milly-vinilly-blog]

Right, now stfu 😒

[smeliot-deactivated20220528]

“What do you mean the cast isn’t diverse?”

[dntgetmad]

[tforteefs]

😥

[dirtybxnigga-deactivated2020052]

This was so wild

[moisemorancy-deactivated2022061]

Woah.

[jehovahhthickness]

Yall need to watch this

[voodoo-for-dummies]

Damn 💔

[the-rashad-chronicles-deactivat]

Wow

[negrocops]

we really need to have several discussions on child abuse in the black community

[kingshootah]

yea cause we be thinking this shit is normal and i guess it aint

[fanshen]

So beautiful. Truth & reconciliation.

[sharontates]

Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930 [X]

[biscuitsarenice]

Rich Hall’s Inventing the Indian

[stability]

[girlactionfigure]

Debunk BDS

[palestinianliberator]

Hmmm do you think, perhaps, that this is because an active part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine involved the pillaging and destruction of Palestinian libraries?

That Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books on Palestinian history and culture because they posed a “security threat” to the state, all so fucking idiots like you can go and make claims like this?

How Israel stole over 70,000 Palestinian books and “recycled” them to be used in paper mills in a concentrated effort to erase Palestinian culture and history?

Or how the few books that did survive are being kept in the Israel National Library, off-limits to Palestinians and historians?

These books include historical texts, personal diaries from hundreds and hundreds of Palestinians living in Palestine pre-1948, paintings and other works of art, and cultural texts documenting life in Palestine pre-1948 and reaching centuries back.

Israel and the armies of the Zionist terrorists in 1948 made a very deliberate effort to destroy every aspect of Palestinian culture and history in its effort to wipe us out, and allow future scum like the op to go and make such claims, as if that in some way invalidates the Palestinian struggle.

What’s funny is that you won’t find any history books that detail Israeli culture or history prior to the 1940′s because *gasp*, there was no Israel!

These scum are so transparent, they’re pathetic

[afrenchieinla]

This is not a sad story.

It’s like any kind of sad stories. But it’s not a sad story. I mean, sure, hearts are broken, souls are lost and tears are shed. But it’s not a sad story. It is just a stupid story. I should’ve said no in the first place. But wait, I said no in the first place. They just didn’t let me. So I let it go and I called it destiny. Fuck this, it wasn’t destiny. It was a story full of shit. It was not sad, I tell you, it’s never sad, it’s just stupid. So I fell. Not for him. I never fall for men. I fall for boys. No, kidding, I’m not falling for anyone. I’m falling into the depth of my person. If that means something. 

So here it is again. You know, I was sure, I was certain that my past would stay in the past. I was so sure. But it never stays in the past. it always comes back. But when the past comes back to bother you for a second, or a month, it just puzzles you. And then you wonder, if your past is coming back, is it because you made a mistake? I didn’t make any mistake. I didn’t. I swear. I believe so. They all told me that if I didn’t love then I should let go. All of them. Except the people that matters. 

You believe you’re going to learn a story from all of the shit that happens in your life. But sometimes, nothing happens. Just a regular day. And you forget to think about what this day taught you. About what the people you talked to taught you. You forget to think about it because you’re too busy.Tell me, please tell me. Is living as important as thinking? Is thinking as important as living? Can we forget to think because we’re too busy living? Can we forget to live because we’re too busy thinking? 

I was hoping that now, I’d be somewhere. God, I had so much hope. I thought I’d be a new person. I thought I’d be in love by now. God I was so sure. But now, all I am is scared. just scared. 

This wasn’t a sad story. It was just stupid. But trust me, I won’t force myself to love you just because you’re coming back. Please, understand,I needed to write this down before I made a mistake.

[emmacarstairs]

Holland Roden | photographed for VVV Magazine

[teenwolf]

YAS Queen. 

[heart]

have you ever been in the mood where something small bothered you and then you suddenly just didn’t want to talk to anybody at all

[afrenchieinla]

I saw a flower this morning. It was red. A bloody red. It was a poppy. I heard poppies could kill you. But I thought, men can kill you too. And you see them everyday, but you’re not afraid. So tell me, why should I be afraid? Men point out others men, others things, and they say, these things can kill you. But you see, you can kill me too. 

So, I saw this flower this morning. A bright, deep, red flower. But I didn’t take it. The flower belongs to the earth; if I took it, then I’d kill it. Do you understand? It is as simple as that.

Then I listenned to the radio, they said five thousands people were killed in that place but you should not care that much because that famous kid who had one million followers on youtube was found dead too and this one, this one story is very sad. But don’t feel sorry for the five thousands people. You know why? They were born in the wrong place. They have the wrong religion. They have the wrong blood running through their veins, because you know, humans classify men. And they can spread this idea that this person is better than you.

So I looked at the poppy and I thought about this world where oportunity wasn’t a problem.