~black girl scientist~

rachel, 24, london, anxious, queer, neuroscientist (photo: plitvice lakes, croatia) links below; i = home / ii = ask / iii = me / iv = insta / v = archive

[dollsofthe1960s]

Vintage Cher Looks

[escapekit]

Speculations

NYC-based artist Sarah Meyohas creates infinite tunnels that are created with facing mirrors set against pastel backdrops. Smoke, flowers, and finger tips border the reflective surfaces, creating dream-like environments that pull the viewer deep into the image’s frame. 

[blairwarner]

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

[latenightlaundromat]

[girlsluvbeyonce]

[ohagis]

a moodboard of cher wearing a facemask (and a hair net) in public

[1dietcokeinacan]

MOOOOOOM

[downwithneocolonialism]

[cincylibrary]

Illustrations from The fossil flora of Great Britain, 1831-1833.

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

Remember when Stephen Hawking was more worried about inequality under capitalism than artificial intelligence in a Reddit AMA and people started telling him to read an economics 101 book? Wild. Anyways rip Steve

[dekapon]

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. “  

[weavemama]

SHOUTOUT TO THE MISS PERU 2018 CONTESTANTS FOR GIVING STATS ABOUT WOMEN’S ISSUES INSTEAD OF THEIR BODY MEASUREMENTS

[tropiuz-deactivated20200618]

AHHH PERÚ DID THAT!!!

[meanrunway]

Rodarte SS 2019

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

I read a story on the news that has been haunting me the last week.

about a 17/18 year old Somali boy (some links report him aged 17 at the time of his death) here in London. He went missing december last year and his family filed a missing person claim with the police, their last memory of him was at his sister’s wedding.

…..about 2 weeks ago his body was discovered in the attic of a house belonging to a white couple who stabbed him to death. 

His body was discovered in august 2018.

He died december last year.

his name was Abdi Ali

there is little to no media coverage…I only heard about it through twitter.

Links :

Pair charged with murder after body found in attic

Body found in Enfield loft eight months after reported missing

Abdi Ali death: Missing teen was found killed in attic after eight months of agony for family

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

his family has set up a gofundme page for his burial, they aren’t far off the goal so if you can please help do.

I cannot imagine what the family is going through, in Islam, people are traditionally buried immediately once they pass away……to think that your loved one, a teenager, went missing and for months, you hoped that they would come back (with no help from the police)….to find out that he has been dead for over 8 months and his body was decomposing in the attic of the ones that killed him who lived less than 1.5 miles away from your family home is just such a morbid and depressing thought.

I read somewhere that his parents came from Somalia a decade ago to start a better life and safer life for their children, my heart goes out them all…to think you uprooted your entire family unit from their ancestral land because of the threat of violence and then this happening.

[sweetmutuals]

https://instagram.com/p/BicNsDTnMnh/

[thegoodplacefans]

Manny Jacinto photographed by Sela Shiloni (2018)

[riverselkie-deactivated20190510]

anyway so i feel like the western obsession with romantic love is symptomatic of the absence of community we experience in our socially isolating society,

[lizardest-bethany]

it’s the only type of love we’re really “allowed” to have and it’s really sad. i hope everyone realizes at some point that you don’t need to be dating someone to love them, and that you don’t need any romance just to be loved.

[thesnadger]

It’s harmful in so many ways. It’s harmful and isolating to people who don’t experience romantic love. It’s harmful to people who, for any reason, can’t be in a romantic relationship. It minimizes the importance of other forms of love and trivializes non-romantic relationships. And finally it harms people who are actually in romantic relationships by sending the message that your romantic partner should be the only person to fulfill all your emotional needs and vice versa.

[lvrdsupersaiyan]

[feministism]

[thelazyhaitigal-deactivated2021]

Getting this tattooed