Too Bi For You

Is tumblr still a thing?

[terraswallows]

The perfect counter.

[catcrumb]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Otis P. Lord, featured in The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[musc1ememory]

Sunlight makes spiderwebs iridescent

[brooklynmuseum]

Now open, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power presents the complex work of Black artists who—at a time of dizzying political, social, and aesthetic revolution—produced some of the most innovative and electric art of the 20th century. See it now through Feb 3. And, don’t forgot to grab your tickets for tomorrow’s horn-infused dance party with Soul in the Horn! Dance to hits from the 1960-80’s, enjoy a special after hours viewing of Soul of a Nation, and have your portrait taken by Paper Monday. 

Barkley L. Hendricks, (American, 1945–2017). Blood (Donald Formey), 1975. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto. © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and @jackshainman, New York. 

[discovering-sam]

Find a soul that doesn’t lose appreciation once they are used to you.

[puppetwithapistol-deactivated20]

Shalom Harlow & Amber Valletta by Dewey Nicks, 1992.

[parasoli]

amber valletta by peter lindbergh for harper’s bazaar december 1993 in “angels”.

[frackoviak]

Angel | Amber Valletta by Peter Lindbergh Harper’s Bazaar December 1993

[determinate-negation]

when anticommunists tell u that “you havent paid attention to history” or “you need to study history” what theyre really saying is “why wont you take at face value the biased and often reductionist history you were taught by capitalists about why socialism is evil”. when they talk about “studying history” theyre not interested in talking about every coup the cia backed, every terrorist group the us funded in order to “fight communists”, every war that imperialist powers started over profit, or every innocent person killed in those wars. they dont want to talk about the history of violent racism and police brutality, or about every person the us government has tortured, or the history of suppression of leftists and the working class, or how companies fund right wing death squads, they just want to say “the ussr is why communism is bad”

[determinate-negation]

ok since this post made a lot of people who cant stand to see capitalism critiqued in any form mad im going to provide sources for all the shit im talking about. 

list of us involvement in regime changes and heres a notable one when the cia helped overthrow the democratically elected socialist president of chile and replaced him with a fascist dictator who was responsible for thousands of deaths

oh here, 35 countries where the us supported fascists drug lords and terrorists 

that time when reagan supported and funded islamic extremists because they were “fighting communists”, now go forward a decade or so and the us thinks islamic extremism is a huge threat

a timeline of atrocities committed by the cia- did you know the cia took in a bunch of nazis spies right after ww2 so they could help the us once again fight communists?

when reagan illegally sold weapons to iran and used the money to fund a right wing militia in nicaragua called the contras, who were fighting the left wing socialist sandinistas. oh heres all the human rights violations the contras committed while illegally getting money from the us, home of the free and land of the brave am i right

torture under the bush administration and by the cia

us war crimes and the casualties of the iraq war

btw the us has most likely been lying about the amount of civilian deaths caused by drone strikes and the actual number is way higher than theyre officially saying and this is just from the obama administration

that time coca cola used right wing death squads to murder and terrorize workers and stop them from unionzing 

nestle using slave labour

how cointelpro targeted civil rights movements, black power movements, and radical leftists and murdered leaders of the movements 

when the us outlawed the communist party and being involved in communist actions

and if you didnt know the us uses prison labour where prisoners get payed sometimes only a few dollars a week all for the profit of the prisons

list of people killed by police by year 

if you want to tell leftists they need to study history but you dont want to look at any of the crimes of capital, or the crimes committed in upholding capitalism then you dont give a shit about studying history. if you can recognize that gulags were fucked up and horrible, as you should, you cant turn a blind eye on the american prison system where people are being forced to work for almost no pay. so the question is do you actually care about studying history or do you just want to deflect off every critique of capitalism

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

Sources on capitalism and world poverty

Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty - Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty—what should it be dreaming? 

Exposing the Great Poverty Reduction Lie - Poverty is not disappearing as quickly as they say. In fact, according to some measures, poverty has been getting significantly worse. If we are to be serious about eradicating poverty, we need to cut through the sugarcoating and face up to some hard facts.

The True Extent of Global Poverty and Hunger: Questioning the Good News Narrative of the Millennium Development Goals - Closer inspection reveals that the UN’s claims about poverty and hunger are misleading, and even intentionally inaccurate. 

The Contradictions in Global Poverty Numbers - Analysis on the World Bank’s report.

World Hunger Again on the Rise - After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released today. At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide.

[berniesrevolution]

What is Neoliberalism? Part #2 By the Funky Academic

[fullpraxisnow]

See “What is Neoliberalism? Part #1″ by the Funky Academic too. 

[wholesomethemedmemes]

My Depression: What do you have to live for?

Me, full of self-love and ready for this shit:

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[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

i scrolled passed this several times before actually reading it. i’m not used to two white men talking sense…

[straggletag]

Alton Brown is no fucking joke a legend. 

[luvyourselfsomeesteem-deactivat]

Alton Brown definitely is a Culinary genius. I go to Culinary school and on assignments where I studied Southern cuisine I made a serious point to call it Soul Food or Black Southern Cuisine and emphasize that it’s entirely rooted in the black culture and slavery. I will never let ppl forget it is black people who educated white Americans to cook. There is a lot of of culture appropriation and whitewashing even in Culinary and they will have you believe whites are the masters of Southern food and Korean BBQ I swear ta gawd. 

[jehovahhthickness]

Stop dating abusive women 2018

[jessnesquik]

Hardly any women are gonna reblog this tbh 🙃

[jehovahhthickness]

A lot of women behave like this and think this ain’t abuse

But let a nigga slap them, damage their clothes and pour a drink on them, all hell will break loose.

EVERYONE CAN BE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE!

[thesunsword]

Buddy has the soul of an angel and composure out of this world

[goldaquarius-deactivated2018070]

Just in case anyone wants the context: He has been making music in Chicago, he recently performed to a large audience and met London on da track, who offered him an opportunity in LA. She didn’t want to leave Chicago because of her business there. He told her that she doesn’t have to go, he just needs to do this for his music. She got upset because he straight up told her that he valued his career over their relationship and she did this. 

Now I’m not a relationship expert, but I will never understand how some of y’all expect people to put you above the shit they have to do. Always put your career, your job, your livelihood first. This was all kinds of fucked up, really fucking abusive and manipulative, he should definitely go to LA with or without her. 

[chrstabellathornofthebriars-blog]

Many women *WILL* reblog this, because part of feminism is acknowledging that women are just as capable of being abusive as men. Acting as though women cannot be abusive is misogyny, and relies on the misogynist tropes that women are frail, and innocent in comparison to men. Any true feminist must acknowledge that neither of these things are necessarily true and that a woman is in fact capable of being abusive whether it’s to another woman, a man, or a nonbinary person. The reason we focus on abuse from men towards women is that it is more prevalent, and institutionally encouraged, justified, and allowed without consequence, while a woman even “talking back” to a man is to be “put in her place.” Don’t bring your weak, fragile “Few women will reblog this” shit up in here. We know what abuse looks like when we see it.

[jehovahhthickness]