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weavemama

TIME MAGAZINE SNAPPED

republicanidiots

Time doesn’t get to be indignant.

princezilla

…It literally says “President of the Divided States of America” right there on the cover, its not a flattering piece. Maybe if you actually did a little research you’d see that Person of the Year is not about virtue or positivity, its always been about influence and impact and there is no denying that Trump defined 2016 even if it was in the worst possible way.

bixbiboom

The framing of the cover is deliberately arranged so the M appears like devil horns on his head, and the posing is deliberately set to mirror the Time cover from 1941 depicting Hitler. Time also published numerous articles in 2016 heavily criticizing him; the August 22 cover of last year featured Trump’s melting face with the headline MELTDOWN (because he was having another one; I can’t tell you which one at this point, there’s been so many, but I’m sure it’s on Twitter).

Time absolutely gets to be indignant.

shitpostbishop

This one stopped me in my tracks at the grocery store, the bagging lady asked what I was doing when I took a photo. I explained this is the kind of shit that shows up in history books, it’s an outright fuck trump and his bullshit and it’s blatantly public. History man. I can’t believe we’re living this.

the-real-eye-to-see

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.

People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!

Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!

caliphorniaqueen

this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.

blackfemmejeanvaljean

she’s still alive by the way

profeminist

Ruby Bridges in 2010

“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“

U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”

More info on Ruby Bridges on Wikipedia

THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.

DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.

kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201

This was her then:

This is literally how she looks in 2017.

She’s literally not even old.

rosslynpaladin

Some of those people in that crowd are VOTING this year. Their children raised by them are voting this year. And they want to Make America Great Again.

VOTE.

uwiguwi

if you’re reading this

a lump sum of money is on the way to you

uwiguwi

it happened today, damn that was like 3 days maybe?

It Works the money is on its way!

goodluckrob-deactivated20221110

Need this.

mindyourbusinessitsfree

Of course

sauvamente

It worked tho

ourblackisgold-deactivated20191

I just won $500 off a scratch Ticket lottery.

sauvamente

ENERGY

deux-pour-chagrin-blog

OKAY LEGIT I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY. ME AND MY PARTNER ARE IN SUCH A TIGHT SPOT FOR MONEY ATM AS WE ARE SAVING FOR A DEPOSIT ON A HOUSE. I GOT PAID DOUBLE WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO GET AND SO DID HE AND HONESTLY I CRIED SO MUCH TODAY IM SO HAPPY AND RELIEVED

lilybeth666-blog

Positive vibes!!!!!

realtrashwitch

bongachong-deactivated20181020

Gimma ALLAT SHIT

Run it🗣

Yeah.

this literally changed my mood 180°

lunamoonlc123-deactivated201910

IT’S FACE WHEN IT POPS

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

<3_<3

LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

wan-shailu

every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”

historicity-was-already-taken

This weekend I was schmoozing at an event when some guy asked me what kind of history I study. I said “I’m currently researching the role of gender in Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich,” and he replied “oh you just threw gender in there for fun, huh?” and shot me what he clearly thought to be a charming smile.

The reality is that most of our understandings of history revolve around what men were doing. But by paying attention to the other half of humanity our understanding of history can be radically altered.

For example, with Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich it is just kind of assumed that it was a decision made by a man, and the rest of his family just followed him out of danger. But that is completely inaccurate. Women, constrained to the private social sphere to varying extents, were the first to notice the rise in social anti-Semitism in the beginning of Hitler’s rule. They were the ones to notice their friends pulling away and their social networks coming apart. They were the first to sense the danger.

German Jewish men tended to work in industries which were historically heavily Jewish, thus keeping them from directly experiencing this “social death.” These women would warn their husbands and urge them to begin the emigration process, and often their husbands would overlook or undervalue their concerns (“you’re just being hysterical” etc). After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, and after even more so after Kristallnacht, it fell to women to free their husbands from concentration camps, to run businesses, and to wade through the emigration process.

The fact that the Nazis initially focused their efforts on Jewish men meant that it fell to Jewish women to take charge of the family and plan their escape. In one case, a woman had her husband freed from a camp (to do so, she had to present emigration papers which were not easy to procure), and casually informed him that she had arranged their transport to Shanghai. Her husband—so traumatized from the camp—made no argument. Just by looking at what women were doing, our understanding of this era of Jewish history is changed.

I have read an article arguing that the Renaissance only existed for men, and that women did not undergo this cultural change. The writings of female loyalists in the American Revolutionary period add much needed nuance to our understanding of this period. The character of Jewish liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century is a direct result of the education and socialization of Jewish women. I can give you more examples, but I think you get the point.

So, you wanna understand history? Then you gotta remember the ladies (and not just the privileged ones).

ask historicity-was-already-taken a question

roachpatrol

Holy fuck. I was raised Jewish— with female Rabbis, even!— and I did not hear about any of this. Gender studies are important.

kogiopsis

Why Gender History is Important (Asshole)

treewizarded

“so you just threw gender in there for fun” ffs i hope you poured his drink down his pants

notyourdamsel-in-distress

I actually studied this in one of my classes last semester. It was beyond fascinating.

There was one woman who begged her husband for months to leave Germany. When he refused to listen to her, she refused to get into bed with him at night, instead kneeling down in front of him and begging him to listen to her, or if he wouldn’t listen to her, to at least tell her who he would listen to. He gave her the name of a close, trusted male friend. She went and found that friend, convinced him of the need to get the hell out of Europe, and then brought him home. Thankfully, her husband finally saw sense and moved their family to Palestine.

Another woman had a bit more control over her own situation (she was a lawyer). She had read Mein Kampf when it was first published and saw the writing on the wall. She asked her husband to leave Europe, but he didn’t want to leave his (very good) job and told her that he had faith in his countrymen not to allow an evil man to have his way. She sent their children to a boarding school in England, but stayed in Germany by her husband’s side. Once it was clear that if they stayed in Germany they were going to die, he fled to France but was quickly captured and killed. His wife, however, joined the French Resistance and was active for over a year before being captured and sent to Auschwitz.

(This is probably my favorite of these stories) The third story is about a young woman who saved her fiance and his father after Kristallnacht. She was at home when the soldiers came, but her fiance was working late in his shop. Worried for him, she snuck out (in the middle of all the chaos) to make sure he was alright. She found him cowering (quite understandably) in the back of his shop and then dragged him out, hoping to escape the violence. Unfortunately, they were stopped and he, along with hundreds of other men, was taken to a concentration camp. She was eventually told that she would have to go to the camp in person to free him, and so she did. Unfortunately, the only way she could get there was on a bus that was filled with SS men; she spent the entire trip smiling and flirting with them so that they would never suspect that she wasn’t supposed to be there. When she got to the camp, she convinced whoever was in charge to release her fiance. She then took him to another camp and managed to get her father-in-law to be released. Her father-in-law was a rabbi, so she grabbed a couple or witnesses and made him perform their marriage ceremony right then and there so that it would be easier for her to get her now-husband out of the country, which she did withing a few months. This woman was so bad ass that not only was her story passed around resistance circles, even the SS men told it to each other and honoured her courage.

The moral of these stories is that men tend to trust their governments to take care of them because they always have; women know that our governments will screw us over because they always have.

Another interesting tidbit is that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that Kristallnacht is a term that historians came up with after the fact, and was not what the event was actually called at the time. It’s likely that the event was actually called was (I’m sorry that I can’t remember the German word for it but it translates to) night of the feathers, because that, instead of broken glass, is the image that stuck in people’s minds because the soldiers also went into people’s homes and destroyed their bedding, throwing the feathers from pillows and blankets into the air. What does it say that in our history we have taken away the focus of the event from the more domestic, traditionally feminine, realms, and placed it in the business, traditionally masculine, realms?

historicity-reblogs

Badass women and interesting commentary. Though I would argue that “Night of Broken Glass" includes both the personal and the private spheres. It was called Kristallnacht by the Nazis, which led to Jewish survivors referring to it as the November Pogrom until the term “Kristallnacht" was reclaimed, as such.

None of this runs directly counter to your fascinating commentary, though.

wtfhistory

READ THIS.

margareit

i also wanna mention the women who were part of churchill’s special operations executive/SOE, whose task, as he put it, was to “set europe ablaze.”

because they were women they could go undercover much more easily compared to men, and parachuted down into enemy lines in france to push the allied resistence armies there! 39 of them went to france to do this and 15 were executed, with a few others sent to concentration camps.

(another thing to mention, though it diverts from the jewish theme of the post, was that women were responsible in britain for taking over all of the men’s jobs, they were in munitions factories working on weaponry, they built/tested and flew spitfires - the most iconic aircraft of the entire war - and did the same for the massive bomber aircrafts - i.e the lancaster bombers, one of the most successful of the bombers during the night blitz - not to mention they endured the blitz every single night (luckily there ARE books all about this, i.e. spitfire women of ww2 by giles whittell and im certain theres one on bomber women too, and on specific agents of churchill though i dont know their exact titles)

not forgetting that these women were the FIRST to receive equal pay to men in britain!

seriously ALL of these women mentioned in this whole post deserve to be talked about and TAUGHT in schools as PART of the ww2 topic that barely mentions them because they did just as much as the soldiers who fought on the front lines.

historicity-was-already-taken

@legohlas first of all i read your notes. you got this babe. glad you contributed.

second of all, YAS I LOVE THESE WOMEN. I’ve written about two SOE agents, and another woman who fought with the Jewish underground in Warsaw, if you’re interested:

Vladka Meed

Noor Inayat Khan

Hannah Szenes

ballsandsticks-blog

An Open Letter To Female Sports Fans 🙌🏼🙌🏼

kindofmykindoftown

The big brother our team always deserved - so happy you get to retire here in Chicago where you belong….

igxbaddies

herdreadsrock-deactivated202401

Kids be so damn cute and innocent like how

thefandomdropout

Awwww

scumbag-vanguard

This story was different actually??? And even better??? The girl, Brooklyn Andracke, used to wave at the truck every thursday and the trashman waved her back. It was a very important to her to do it every week. It was HER birthday, and she decided that she wanted to share her birthday cake with the trashman. She also wanted to meet her hero, whose name is Delvar Dopson.

The girl’s mother thanked Delvar for his work and explained to him how important it is for Brooklyn to wave at him every thursday. He was pretty surprised but he admitted that every time he drove near the house he hoped that the girl would wave at him. That’s not the end of the story though. Next week Delvar had a surprise for the little girl.

He brought her a bunch of amazing birthday gifts!

They both got quite popular, and Delvar is getting a lot of thank you messages from trashmen from all over the world for representing them in such a good way.

kandyie

The real story is even cuter 😩💕

connercant

IM SO GLAD I KNOW THE STORY

prozd

“After he left, we continued on to daycare. Brooklyn was unusually quiet in the backseat. I asked her if she was okay, and she said, ‘Mommy, I’m so happy.’”

c-c-cute

tooiconic

MY HEART

politicallyincorrectpug

Blessed post

shavingryansprivates-deactivate

dopenmind

Reblogging this once more because my mom and I legitimately laughed to tears.

idiotlibra

this is my favorite video on the internet

hashtagloveloses

mental health tip: save this video. watch it when you’re sad. it’s the best goddamn thing on the internet

pharmstudies

small habits to adopt

wake up early

drink a glass of water as soon as you wake up

meditate or concentrate on your breathing for at least 2 mins

visualize your goals for the day and for the future

make your bed

do calf raises or squats while brushing your teeth

floss

dry brush

take a cold shower (or end a hot shower with cold water right after for about 3 mins)

put on lotion while your skin is still damp

cleanse, tone, and moisturize your face

apply sunscreen

drink a glass of water before and after every meal

listen to a podcast/ted talk instead of music while walking or driving

park far away from where you’re going

stand up straight

look at people in the eye when talking to them

look straight ahead when walking, not at the ground

smile at strangers

stop complaining (it’s bad for your health)

bring cash instead of credit card

track your expenses

turn off notifications on your phone when doing work

resist the urge to go on your phone and observe your surroundings more

set a timer for 5 mins when scrolling through social media and stop when the time is up

learn at least 5 new vocab words from your target language every day

exercise while watching shows/videos

read at least 10 pages every day

do tasks that can be done in 2 mins right away

drink tea

prepare workout gear the night before

jot down tasks for the next day before sleeping

write down quotes/lyrics that strike a chord

spend 30 mins on a hobby

journal and write down things you are grateful for

aim for 7-8 hours of sleep

freshmoviequotes

Loving Vincent (2017)

jinxedbabbles

This quote

People always seem to assume that if you breakdown, or having a hard time, it’s because you’re weak, but this quote says the truth, even the best fall

lyhoradka

you know that the minute wakanda comes out to the world there’s a viral vine of t’challa getting thrown into the wall by his own suit. shuri has that shit on a dead man’s switch ready to email it out to ten major news broadcasters at all times. “delete that footage” my homie that video was uploaded to 5 serves and 3 satellites the nanosecond after it was recorded. rip t’challa

illiterateagenda

THIS IS A BLESSED DAY FOR LATINOS

COCO WON BEST ANIMATED PICTURE

RECUERDAME WON BEST ORIGINAL SONG

GUILLERMO DEL TORO WON BEST DIRECTING FOR SHAPE OF WATER

UNA MUJER FANTASTICA WON BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

OSCAR ISAAC HERNANDEZ ESTRADA YELLED OUT “VIVA LATINOAMERICA!” ON THAT MOTHERFUCKING STAGE

ESTOY TAN ORGULLOSA DE SER MEXICANA!!! ESTA ES UNA PRUEBA QUE LOS LATINOS SI SUPERAMOS!!

book-tease

halsey’s speech at the women’s march 😭💖

this was so emotional and heartbreaking and i absolutely love her 💖

lesbitchka

girls dont mature faster than boys, girls are punished from an early age for the same behaviour that boys are allowed to indulge in well into adulthood

transgendervegetamoved-deactiva

i actually talked about this with a psych professor and she believes that women/young girls have been pushed into responsibility from young ages for so long that its actually triggered an evolutionary effect where young girls are literally developing mentally early in order to cope with the stress.

shakespork

Local Girls Literally Evolve To Deal With Patriarchal Bullshit

celes7ial-deactivated20180319

in 2018, I wish you

better mental health

great looking skin

more energy

open-mindedness

healthy relationships

good dreams at night

success

delicious food

happiness

themodernmisandrist

If men stopped working…the world would continue on.

If women stopped working, then things would get ugly.

algo-hermoso

What?

tabathagfitzgerald

there has been an instance where this happened. it was 1975 and icelandic women decided not to work for one day. working as in cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, doing chores and so on, not only “not showing up to your workplace”. women did nothing that day, except showing up in reykjavik and protesting for gender equality, equal pay and equal representation in parliament, you know, cool stuff. you know what happened? havoc. men were left with food to cook and children they never took care of to pick up from kindergarden and entertain for the day. they went en masse to the food shops buying sausages because they could cook nothing else, they had to bond with children they never spent more than a couple hours a day with. they struggled combining their work day and the domestic tasks they had to sort out. and this just for one day. iceland in 1975 stopped working and things indeed got ugly. so ugly that women in the following decades became woke AF and soon it happened that women became president, took half of the seats in parliament and achieved one of the best living environments in the world. is your astonishment solved now?