meet me at the intersection of anger and hope

[arthoerina]

for 3.99

[arthoerina]

rant towards the white latina™️ who was helping a spanish speaking customer in front of me and then acted like your brain short circuited when i spoke spanish to you… you are clearly antiblack. it is INSANE how proprietary you are over a language that was literally beaten into you through the violences of colonization. it’s very apparent that historical erasure is at the forefront of that violence, since the commodification of black (african) bodies was/is the bedrock of modernity. it’s so frustrating every time it happens, trying to deal with being erased in literal time…. and i’m working on not being so triggered by it, but idk it just don’t sit right with my soul. neither of us are even supposed to be speaking this tongue.

[art-creature]

some pages from the sketchbook I finished back in December / my instagram

[earth2lai]

[prodbyharpo]

“Wine, Roses, and Sweet Whispers” by David Patterson, 2003

[nostalgia1998]

[nostalgic-teddyy]

idea: African proverbs on the wrappings of crayons

[arthoerina]

make them please

[petrichara]

Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

1- @Bluewmist on Twitter / 2- Roly Poly is Taken on Twitter / 3- About Time (2012) by Richard Curtis, image from Mita Park on Unsplash / 4- Sherri Turner on Twitter / 5- Cold Solace by Anna Belle Kaufman / 6- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[redlipstickresurrected]

Marian Dioguardi (American, b. 1954, East Boston, MA, USA)Female Artists - 1: Shiny and Bright Morning, 2024 2: To Be or Not to Be, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Aluminum Panel

[arthoerina]

just saw this guy walking around hyde park with his full dick out dangling everywhere he moved please

[arthoerina]

finally finally finally got approved for my dream apartment!!!!!!!

[arthoerina]

27 firsthand accounts from the formerly enslaved in south carolina

[imyselfamthesun]

[arthoerina]

when i first started my journey over a decade ago, i was struck by the honesty of audre lorde.

faced with death, she reevaluated what it meant to truly be alive as a whole person inhabiting an earth that is here to protect you. she showed me how to make/take up space when there wasn’t any. how to hold myself accountable for following my own dreams, methods, and desires. she taught me to speak, even if it is through tears, even if it destroys you, because people will assign their own meaning onto you, and that’s also akin to death.

be unapologetically you, and critical of anyone and anything that tries to take that away from you.

[arthoerina]

the power of black feminism isn’t gender + race, it is exposing the over-arching matrix of domination that structures every facet of our lives and produces positionalities that are then forced to reproduce this shit all over again. who are you outside of who you were “made” to be? outside of who you have become…

[arthoerina]

you cannot be black with short term memory loss (historical erasure), that leaves you open for attack

[babybat729]

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.