i got no feelings to go

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[zagrebinaa]

[czzn]

[requiem-on-water]

Statue of Neptune (2001) rising from the sea at Melenara Beach, Gran Canaria | sculptor: Luis Arencibia | ph: Juan Manuel Orega

[04k96]

[zegalba]

A Moment of Romance (1990) Dir. Benny Chan

[tamper]

[memewhore]

[jimxugle]

12.1 million people, aka 3.54% of the country

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[mesimees]

btw

[cassie-is-trans]

Yay!

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[teaboot]

As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.

[teaboot]

If it's hard to do then it's not nothing. Be proud of yourself

[kitchen-light]

“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”

— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit

[cocofetti]

[her-vicez]

[heartpdf]

me pretending my enormous feelings arent crushing me to death and carrying out routine tasks that are good for my health and longevity

[vexheart]

Life finds a way, even in the cracks of concrete.

[esotericsnob]

It always finds a way. 🌼 🌸

[mysharona1987]

Who’s going to tell them?

[chainsawfuckersanonymous]

Maybe I read a different bible

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