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[neworleanswife]

I just need a few moments to… *take a deep breath in, and exhale out*

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

Thanks to Bookshop, There Is No Reason to Buy Books on Amazon Anymore

Independent bookstores, and booksellers, get a lifeline just when they need it most.

[disc80s]

[sheabutterbitch]

Despite me being a know-it-all, I actually love being with someone who can teach me things or is skilled in areas that I am not. Most importantly I love bearing witness to my partner being actively engaged in whatever they have a passion for.

[thcartierrug]

@meganpfisher

[c4tbus]

Today, Therese Patricia Okoumou, a Congolese immigrant, scaled the Statue of Liberty and said she would not be moved until all the children detained from ICE were released.

[beyknowles]

SUCK ON MY BALLS!

[eljotitodeperris]

That Moment A Lonely Gay Brown Boy Learns He Can Be Loved, Too

Brown boys aren’t taught how to be open, communicative, or honest about our sadness. The resulting isolation is slowly killing us. Learning to love yourself is a lifelong journey that often feels impossible, but by bridging the fragmented parts of ourselves, our vulnerability will allow us to build a world where we can love and be loved

I promised I would be more vulnerable and that I would write more this year. Here, in my first published piece of writing, I do both. 

[oaluz]

“Self-sabotage is often a way of avoiding that moment of showing up, of facing potential loss, of being strong enough and courageous enough to surrender to the unknown — but also, to surrender to the goodness of ordinary human beings.” “When we’re immature and addicted to fantasies and we resist surrender, when we live in the world of “I have to be on top, charming, impressive, better than anyone else, and only then will I deserve love/success/happiness/high-caliber friends and lovers,” we view surrender and being present as the realm of sad drippy nothing people who speak in sentimental cliches but fail to set themselves apart, who connect but aren’t original, who commune with others, but only because they’re a little simple or a little stupid. Or they’re suckers who will get hurt eventually. Or all of the above. The beauty of surrender, though, is that, contrary to your prejudices against it, it isn’t stagnant and sad. It doesn’t keep you small or hurt. It propels you forward, into a world of connection and feeling that not only generates more love and inspiration and hope, but also gives you inspired, clear, focused, generous energy that you can share with anyone. It’s so sad that the active resistance to high-capitalist fantasies is painted as the stuff of hippies and commies and losers in our commerce-dominated world, because it’s the difference between alienated suffering and feeling alive and good and real and in love, not just with one person but with the whole world.”

Ask Polly: ‘How Do I Stop Sabotaging My Amazing New Relationship?’

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

How do you deal with being sensitive ? I hate being sensitive and wish I had more of a back bone but I feel things deeply and I just get so swept up by emotion.

Being sensitive is being open and receptive and allowing your heart to do its work whenever there is work to be done. Your emotions are not there to be escaped from or dealt with. They are there to be felt. “Why” you feel them is not important. “How” you feel them is everything. Having a strong back bone means being present in your feelings and powerfully filtering them both consciously and subconsciously. It’s a subjectively beautiful ongoing process. Destroy the idea that being sensitive has to do with weakness.

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

'Pretty awesome thing': Striking teachers make sure students still eat

As teachers prepared to strike in West Virginia, they also prepared to feed their students who rely on free breakfast and lunch for many of their meals.

a strike movement is nothing if you can’t support the people! good job!

[hex-360a1b]

Donate to the strike fund!

[nextwavecinema]

These black women are working to take down R. Kelly. And that’s only step one.

ANALYSIS | #MuteRKelly and sexual violence against women of color

wrote this. pls join the movement to #MUTERKELLY

[alovesogentle]

Support our pedophile ending queen.

[kny111]

Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots Into Bee Farms

"Work hard, stay bumble" is their nonprofit motto.

A pair of Detroit natives have decided to combat neighborhood blight in a pretty sweet way — by transforming abandoned vacant lots in their city into honeybee farms.

Detroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully functioning bee farms.

“These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most cases,”. “The area can be a breeding ground for environmental hazards, which creates a stigma around the city.”

[florafaunafolk]

How to Make an Attractive City // The School of Life

a very clever, well-designed and enjoyable video!

[eco-socialism]

This is a great video because it highlights why a democratically-planned economy can meet our desires for aesthetic beauty where we live. It never explicitly calls for a post-capitalist economy, but there is an emphasis on planning in accordance with community interests – and that requires an egalitarian for-need economy. We have the technology and know-how to eliminate the alienation of grey urban sprawl and replace it with colorful cultural centers and vibrant ecotopias, but capitalism doesn’t let us do that; our living spaces are always beholden to the profit demands of the richest elites in town. We can do so much better.

[thequeenbey]

2017 -  Beyonce Calendar

[wetheurban]

Pre-Fame Prince

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