Burdened With Glorious Pie

[mithli-archive]

american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

[mithli-archive]

im serious about this though. as an urban indian, i definitely cant speak on this as much as a rez indian could. but i know from talking to rez friends i have and from what the american indian movement has screamed for over the years that we need land we can grow on, we need clean water, we need to allow the wildlife that once lived in this land to live here again (meaning you need to listen to us before building those high speed rails you all get so hard over).

you cant drool over the zapatistas while ignoring people in your own country who have a similar goal

[mithli-archive]

silly me I never provided things to read on the topic of decolonization! I'd personally suggest the following as "beginner level" essential reading to understand decolonization:

Discourse on Colonialism (Aimé Césaire) - this is more a focus on colonization, but I feel it's a necessary read in my opinion as in order to understand decolonization I believe it's important to first understand colonization.

Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (Tuck, Yang)

also an "easy to process" read, to understand landback specifically here in Turtle Island, I'd suggest reading The Red Deal (there is a pdf, I don't mean the article with the same title)

[marxism-transgenderism]

Discourse on Colonialism (PDF, ebook, mobi)

The Wretched of the Earth (PDF, ebook)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (PDF)

The Red Deal (PDFs of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[glass-gears-deactivated20250123]

The only “Not All Men” post I’ll reblog.

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[cowboybootsandunderwear]

Rebloging because, no shit, I just recieved a scholarship for $1500…

[jehovahhthickness]

Ayyyyyy I’m here for it

[valyavalkyrie]

Please, so I can have money for the doctor and kinesiology

[jehovahhthickness]

I hope you get more than that.

[thefourtwentytimes]

that $1,500 would help my situation immensely right now.

[birger-wuvs-elsa]

I could use $1,500 so badly right now.

[spoopywitchboy]

I kinda need that much right now. Please and thank you.

[witchofobsession-deactivated202]

Last time I reblogged a post like this, I got an insurance payout we had previously been rejected for. Definitely reblogging.

[catchymemes]

[antique-scarecrow]

THE FUCKING PUNCHLINE, I’M ENDED

[chaoticgood-queer]

Straight men who embrace their femininity, express emotions in a healthy way and help advocate for minority groups without speaking over them? Big dick energy.

[cyborg-and-the-chamber-of-chisme]

You mean

[the-professor-persists]

More importantly than the Terry we know and love is Terry crews, bringing a Sexual assault case forward before a jury and saying this is not alright. The man is a legend.

[weavemama]

America is about to be that part in the lion king where where pride rock became all shitty bc Scar became king

[0fthem0untains]

have yet to see a better analogy

[mysticmoonhigh-deactivated20211]

Are you implying Hilary Clinton’s daughter will assassinate Donald Trump because I’m okay with this

[breelandwalker]

Actually, if we follow the narrative, I think it would be the Obama daughters. Which would be even MORE awesome.

[qi-mera]

Malia’s gonna fight Trump on the roof of the Whitehouse while it’s on fire.

[kyraneko]

Didn’t Scar get killed by the hyenas, who turned against him when he tried to throw blame at them while begging for his life?

The equivalent would be Trump cornered by both Obama sisters on the White House roof (yes, while it’s on fire, I can totally believe that Trump will somehow lead to the White House catching fire at some point) insisting that “we’re all friends against the Republican establishment, it’s their fault” and Sasha and Malia quote one of Trump’s tweets back at him to tell him to get the fuck out; Trump scurries away and runs right into Pence and Cruz. 

“Our fault, is it, Donald?”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Alternatively, since Scar originally gained the support of the hyenas by promising them a better life with lots of food, Trump is clearly going to fall off the roof of the White House into the arms of the Republican base that voted for him because he promised them a better economy.

[damnitrj]

Okay but then who’s going to dress in drag and do the hula?

[urboyrosanov]

Joe Biden??

[nodaybuttodaytodefygravity]

Definitely Joe Biden.

[jehovahhthickness]

You win $430 million tomorrow, wyd?

[lexxgotthejuice]

Not telling anybody.

[grandpaq]

Ask my mama to take me to McDonald’s and just wait for it….

[asia-divine]

Mom: Do you have McDonald’s mon…

[lenatheninjax3]

😂😂😂 the Rihanna gif

[magical-flying-moron]

this is the money Rihanna, reblog to have someone throw money at you

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[voidandfyre]

Good grade? Class cancelled? Enough time to finish my homework??

[jaxde-meme]

Cool

[chan-gemma]

Say that I’m crazy or call me a fool, but last night it seemed that I dreamed about you. I opened my mouth: What came out was a song, and you knew every word and we all sang along. COCO (2017)

[deejay]

Relog if you need this energy

source

[theryanproject]

[slimdaddymbaku]

Just one of these checks could change my life ,

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

what being a supernatural fan is like in a nutshell

what she says: i hope they end the show before it really turns bad for dragging out too long, you know, i am fond of the show and i like watching it but since i love it so much i don’t want it to get ruined by its own success :)

what she means: give me all the fucking seasons, never make it end, fucking kill them another 48 times each if you need to, make them fight god’s cousin’s catsitter i don’t even care just never take dean winchester out of my life

[nimmyno1-blog]

And why would screw over that one person who’s been down for you?! Are you dumb

[nimmyno1-blog]

And why is it so difficult to walk away from something that hurts you.

[nimmyno1-blog]

Being 100% down and 100% loyal is the best gift you can give to anyone.

[kai-tastrophe]

tbh the most exciting part of my day is when i finally go to bed at night and start creating imaginary scenarios in my head

[veliseraptor]

okay but I did not know that there is a story about f. scott fitzgerald nervously showing ernest hemingway his penis because zelda said he couldn’t satisfy a woman with it and ernest hemingway was like “lol no dude you’re fine”

what are the modernists even

[seagodofmagic]

the best part of that story in context is that before they pull out their dicks, hemingway spends the better part of a chapter physically describing fitzgerald in great detail, claiming to be grossed out by him but obviously, obviously uncomfortably attracted

[veliseraptor]

oh my god, it got better. I just went to find an excerpt and

Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hair, a high forehead, excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty. His chin was well built and he had good ears and a handsome, almost beautiful, unmarked nose. This should not have added up to a pretty face, but that came from the coloring, the very fair hair and the mouth. The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

ernest hemingway calm down and control your thirst a little

[flatluigi]

“The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more“ is a hell of a line 

[fozmeadows]

No Homo: A Literary Masterpiece

[sinbadism]

What’s amazing about this is that Hemingway’s writing is never this good in any other situation

[baawri]

Parineeti Chopra responds to a male reporter who claims to know nothing about periods (menstrual cycle). [X]

[rabbrakha]

SO IMPORTANT.

[manasaysay]

I started my period when I was 10 years old. But we didn’t tell my grandma for three years because she subscribed to the “old traditions”, where a woman on her period could not enter the house, not even to bathe. Where she had to sit outside in front of the house (where the whole village could be witness to her shame and isolation) for the entire duration.

My friend started her period unexpectedly while we were at our local temple (in America) for dance class. Asking around if any of the parents had pads (all of them apologized and acted like adults about it), I thought surely the front office has a first aid kit. Don’t they have pads? When we asked, not only did they not have any, when one of the women gave one from her purse, the head secretary told us “There are men who need to use the first-aid kit, ya? So we don’t keep period things there.” Not even ibuprofen (which has so many more uses than period pain).

There are girls in India and Nepal (and other places, but I just read an in-depth piece about the situations in Nepal) who have to go to the “period hut” when their period comes and not leave until its over. They can’t wash and dry their cloth pads in the daylight, so they do it at night when the pads won’t dry properly before their next use, making them vulnerable to infection.

It is incredibly important, especially in India, to break the taboo surrounding periods. Break the secrecy around an event that happens to almost every woman, every month for literally half of her lifetime. Break the hiding, break the cover-up, break the SHAME.

Just break EVERYTHING. So little girls can go to school every day of every month without feeling ashamed. So women can work every day of every month to provide for their families without being glared at. So single fathers can confidently take care of their daughters’ health. So that women can talk about how terrible their period is or isn’t and give each other advice on how to deal with it without looking around to make sure men aren’t listening. So that Whisper doesn’t have to be called Whisper, it can be called SHOUT. It can be called PROUD. So that we don’t NEED to fucking WHISPER about our bodies and our health.