Leaf Greens

hiya

[lilybrandin-deactivated20170419]

[chantssecrets]

Captured in 1957, Louisa Jenkins stands strong with a cigarette in hand as police question her during a protest. This powerful moment reminds us of the courage it takes to stand up for what is right.

Louise Jenkins Meriwether was not just a witness to history; she helped shape it. A novelist, journalist, and social activist, her work reflects the struggles and triumphs of her community. From her early life during the Great Depression to becoming the first Black story analyst in Hollywood, she used her voice to fight for justice and equality.

[animentality]

[inkandguns]

[thattripleabattery]

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[kingworm]

rest in peace george michael you would’ve done numbers on here

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

[ryannorth]

much to consider

[bruzum]

[bruzum]

[jareckiworld]

Francine Van Hove (1942-2025) — The Sphinxes and the Dictionary [oil on canvas, 1985]

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[queerlyexhausted]

insalubrious???

Yeah. Fuck Eric Carle's unwholesome blobby art.

Jesus Christ.

[unicornempire]

I honestly don't think you could come up with a dumber take on the Very Hungry Caterpillar if you were literally trying to.

I bet this woman read the Ugly Duckling and her takeaway was that children need to be beautiful in order to be worthy of love, too.

[autumngracy]

Part of why the art of The Very Hungry Caterpillar is so appealing is because it's very reminiscent of children's artwork—as in, artwork made by a child. A child could cut and paste painted paper to make something that looks just like this!

Kids resonate with this playful style because it feels like their inner world: familiar and cozy, simplistic yet fanciful—vibrant, joyous.

Imagine your child spends hours and makes you a collage that looks just like this, and you look them dead in the eye snd tell them their work is immoral, degenerate filth because it's not "realistic enough".

Jesus christ.

[crittaslink]

"who said that" is a powerful spell that casts a defensive bubble around your most vulnerable thoughts

[pisshandkerchief]

there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look

[astralprogesterone]

untitled by margaret kammerer, late 2010s? ceramic tile

[ltwilliammowett]

The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship

What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.

[ltwilliammowett]

Well wonderful tumblr ate my associated text explaining why this article is so interesting. This article describes a letter from a former prisoner of a Prison Hulk from 1842, which not only reports about life on board but also about same-sex marriages. That there were homosexual acts, but also about a social construct that already existed with the pirates, namely the matelotage.

A structure similar to marriage, which at its core is only about caring for each other and is not accompanied by the physical act. Whereby the one does not exclude the other. It seems that at that time, at least on board this hulk, it was normal and apparently accepted. The only question is to what extent it was accepted.

Because that would shed a whole new light on the social coexistence within close-knit same-sex structures such as on ships and would certainly shed new light on some of the court rulings regarding homosexuality on board. For not all the accused have always been sentenced to death.