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First snow day of the year in Harajuku, Tokyo today (January 6, 2022).

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Jane Fonda running late, Un dimanche à Paris, Café de Flore 1961.

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Blumarine fall 2008

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“Go crazy, into the night Back to the future sexy.” Retro Future (2018), Triple H.

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SEULRENE x Romeo + Juliet (1996); Juliet + Juliet au

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in honour of lithub making a list of ‘best 50 novels under 200 pages’ with a pathetic showing for women of colour… here’s a list excluding whites and men:

adania shibli, touch

shahrnush parsipur, women without men

fae myenne ng, bone

gwendolyn brooks, maud martha

theresa hak kyung cha, dictee

nawal el saadawi, woman at point zero

jamaica kincaid, a small place, lucy, annie john, my brother

mariama ba, so long a letter

maryse conde, i tituba, black witch of salem

kopano matlwa, coconut, evening primrose

suzette mayr, dr edith vane and the hares of crawley hall

tanya tagaq, split tooth

michelle cliff, no telephone to heaven, abeng

buchi emechata, second class citizen, the joys of motherhood

hiromi goto, chorus of mushrooms

tsitsi dangarembga, nervous conditions

yvonne vera, nehanda

emma perez, gulf dreams

etel adnan, sitt marie rose

jaqueline woodson, red at the bone

akwaeke emezi, freshwater

nella larsen, passing

laila lalami, hope and other dangerous pursuits

naomi fontaine, kuessipan

vi khi nao, fish in exile

shay youngbloood, soul kiss

bessie head, a question of power

han suyin, winter love

le thi diem thuy, the gangster we are all looking for

oyinkan braithwaite, my sister the serial killer

zinzi clemmons, what we lose

janet campbell hale, the jailing of cecelia capture

kim thuy, ru

sahar khalifeh, wild thorns

suniti namjoshi, the conversations of cow

gayl jones, corregidora

tamai kobayshi, prairie ostritch

gloria naylor, the women of brewster place

terri de la pena, margins

zen cho, the terracotta bride

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Nah dude, some police are genuinely trying to make the world a better place. They go through a lot of shit so that they can try and help people. I hate most of the shit police do. I don't like being told what to do either. But people are fucking killing cops. That's people killin people and it's fucked. You're the death of your own cause if you condone violence and murder ya dumb fuck. Black lives matter, let's protect them by not murdering good people and giving nazis any sort of argument.

Gonna break down this response as clearly as possible.

The origins of the police are evil.

It has been shown repeatedly that the police were formed to oppress the working class and (1, 2) and enforce white supremacy (1, 2, 3). In fact, the early U.S. police grew directly out of slavery.

The police aren’t the people you think they are.

The police don’t care about you – they don’t even have a constitutional duty to protect you. They’re allowed to take your property without your consent (the NYPD seizes so much property they can’t even log it in their computers). In fact, cops are more likely to steal your property than burglars are. They commit hundreds of crimes and human rights violations against people like you & me and get away with it because they cover for each other.

Cops tend to be unusually aggressive, authoritarian, and secretive (Greene & Heilbrun, 2011). They are more than twice as likely to commit domestic violence than the rest of the population, and (once again) they cover for each other when doing so. The police are on the side of neo-Nazis (1, 2). In fact, many times the police themselves are the neo-Nazis/klansmen (1, 2, 3). And even besides all this, cops do all kinds of other shady shit – for instance, undercover police are used to instigate fights during protests and rallies.

The police terrorize those of us who are marginalized.

The police disproportionately arrest Black people for drugs even though white people use drugs more often. They disproportionately pull Black people over for traffic stops. The police terrorize people with disabilities.They are viciously anti-indigenous – and always have been. Police terrorize sex workers. There are countless examples of police brutalizing homeless people (1, 2, 3). The police have a lengthy history of brutality against the LGBT community (1, 2). They terrorize women of color and get away with it (1, 2, 3). They kill massive numbers of people each year – and a disproportionate number of their victims are Black and native. On top of that, recent data suggests cops may kill up to twice as many people as we even thought they did. And while police love to defend themselves by saying they have the most dangerous job, that’s not even close to being true.

The police’s best kept secret: We don’t need them!

A world without the police is completely possible (1, 2, 3, 4). We have resources for resolving violence as communities without the need for state intervention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – as some examples). We as communities are better capable of resolving violence than the police are, because we don’t have the vested interest in the status quo that they have. Even if a few cops are well-intentioned here or there, it doesn’t change that the role of the police is to work against the vast majority of us in the interests of the (white) elite few.

Why are you so invested in the police when they are complicit in your dehumanization?