Azia

Curator of her own taste, or so she thinks.

[sweatycoffeeexpert]

Don't stop talking about Palestine🇵🇸🍉

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[houseofpurplestars]

Tell them

the olives ripened

no one to gather them

the children

did not gather

nor ripen

tell them

—Suheir Hammad, Palestinian poet

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery; “Art Objects”

[kushblazer666]

[amazoogle]

[gorbling]

this is fucked up. can anyone do something about this?

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Attributed to Elihu Vedder, ‘Psyche and Cupid’ - Late 19th Century.

[demo]

Passing through Times Square by Mareen Fischinger

[naryamirie]

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

— Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 1, 1931-1934

[nousrose]

No exoteric teaching is capable of providing true knowledge, which man must find only within himself, for in fact no knowledge can be acquired except through a personal comprehension. Without this comprehension, no teaching can lead to an effective result, and the teaching that awakens no personal resonance in the one who receives it cannot give any kind of knowledge. This is why plato says that 'everything that a man learns is already within him'. All the experiences, all the external things that surround him, are only an occasion to help him become aware of what is within himself. This awakening he calls anamnesis, which signifies 'recollection'.

Know Thyself

René Guénon

[albertserra]

i dont care that margot robbie didnt get an oscar nom for a mattel commercial

[naryamirie]

What a secret language we talk. Undertones, overtones, nuances, abstractions, symbols.

— Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 1

[unlivedtenderness]

“Anger is an acceptable form of grief. You don't have to make your emotions palatable to those who are unmoved. Rage isn't the curse, apathy is.

In the absence of relief, our collective conscience can atrophy. You begin to believe this is the way it has to be. Resist. Dehumanization of the suffering is by design, but it is not an inevitable one.”

—Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies, January 2024

[earlysummer1951]

Broadcast News (1987) dir. James L. Brooks

[escuerzoresucitado]

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]