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@creepingfeminism
anyway why is it that people who hate on beyoncé always are either niggas who reblog nothing but porn and are misogynistic as hell or women who think they’re edgy bc they actually give men the benefit of the doubt and brag about having nothing but male friends
take one pint of water add half pound of sugar the juice of eight lemons the zest of half lemon pour the water from one jug then into the other several times strain through a clean napkin grandmother the alchemist you spun gold out of this hard life conjured beauty from the things left behind found healing where it did not live discovered the antidote in your own kitchen broke the curse with your own two hands you passed these instructions down to your daughter who then passed it down to her daughter [grandmother hattie speaks] ‘i had my ups and downs but i always find the inner strength to pull myself up i was served lemons but i made lemonade.’
Redemption, LEMONADE - performed by Beyoncé, written by Warsan Shire (via jawnbaeyega)
“can they stop casting 30 year olds to play teenagers and cast actual teenagers!!”
*marvel casts a 19 year old as spiderman*
“wtf is he 11?????????????”
That’s literally the point tho- the media has done this so often that when teens actually see someone onscreen who’s their age, they don’t recognise them as being the same.
Trump is emboldening white nationalists.
My father, on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, passed a car with the iron cross on its side and a “White Power” flag. This is the second time within the span of a week or so that he or I have had to contend with literal Nazis.
Please be careful out there.
Trump is a lightning rod for what’s already been building.
The KKK and other white supremacist groups really started recruiting hard after Obama was elected. In real life, I heard stories from friends in undergrad about how their brothers and cousins were invited on fishing trips and other outings by new friends only to find out they were Klan recruiting trips. Online, Stormfront has pushed its Swarmfront program, using places like reddit and 4chan to sway people to their side.
The online component has taken many forms. Some have been overt, like the “white genocide/anti-racism is anti-white” copypasta and attempts at distinguishing white supremacy from white nationalism (and softening the image of the latter). Some have been a little more subtle–handwringing about black pride vs. white pride, questioning Black History Month, pushing false-but-common ideas about affirmative action programs, maligning Black Lives Matter, talking about “black culture” vs. “black people,” using intentionally misleading statistics in debates, etc. And some have been sneaky as hell–like white supremacists posing as business owners or workers seeking advice on consistent problems with black patrons, white supremacists posing as black people to make black people look worse or spread ideas within more manipulable segments of the black radical community that support white supremacist viewpoints but look on the surface like pro-black concepts, and so on.
This works well because we’re at a cultural period that is fertile soil for fascism. There are many reasons for this, but one thing that highlights it better than any list of points could is comparing our current cultural state to Huxley’s Point Counter Point. The book was written between the World Wars, and it was published in 1928–two years before the Nazis really started gaining power in Germany. It’s set in a London that feels eerily identical to 2016 New York. Until a character gets a telegram late in the book, it could be set in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side two weeks ago and barely a word would need to change.
In the book, there’s a character called Everard Webley, who is a fascist. Throughout, he states his views, and what’s striking is how identical they are to those of libertarians, Men’s Rights Activists, and, yes, Donald Trump. He speaks in a prospering country with a generation of youth feeling disenchanted and lost about the weak being powerful over the strong, women having power and advantage over men, and the nation no longer being great for these and other related reasons. He speaks of the leadership of the mighty and the subordination of the weak, of social Darwinism, of all these ideas that sound familiar today because of how much of a grip they’ve taken over a not-insignificant portion of our generation and those a bit older in the last few years.
Ron Paul was a sign of this wave starting. And like Trump, Ron Paul had the endorsement of David Duke and many, many white supremacist groups. But Ron Paul was not a candidate who could capture the average person who was primed and ready to accept this sort of candidate. A thin, hunching old man in wrinkled, ill-fitting suits with a high-pitched, quiet speaking voice, and who (for all his many faults) tended to choose speaking on his views above personal insults toward his opponents, was not the type of leader this portion of the electorate could really gather behind. But Trump is.
And what’s worse is that we have a generation of boys who entered this world because they started off trying to annoy people on the internet, who learned that saying bigoted things could get a rise out of people, who found their enemies in people who stood against bigotry, and who from there found themselves being convinced of bigoted ideas in earnest by those around them. The boys of our generation have been easy prey, and the boys of the next generation are even easier prey, and we thus stand on a dangerous precipice.
I don’t think people really understand how dangerous of times we really live in. Not bodily, not of property, but of our culture and society. The progress we’ve made is in danger, and I worry about how much we can really do about it.
He went all out for his girl
SO CUTE!
💕💕💕
Awwwwwwww , where do y'all find these guys 😩
i’m screaming
That’s so cute!
❤aaaw 😊. Am I the only one who let out a sigh of relief when the camera panned to him walking up to a black girl 😥.😄
☝🏾️ I did too 😂
Lol me toooooo. I be so hurt when it’s not.
This is wild extra for prom but I love Black Love 😍
What happened to the 16-year-old girl who died in police custody?
(credit: Gynnya McMillen Instagram)
Once again, we are wondering what happened to another young person of color who has died in police custody.
This time, the victim is 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen, who was booked at Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center in Kentucky on January 10 after a “domestic incident,” according to CBS. McMillen spent the night alone in a cell where she was found dead the next morning.
Few details were initially released about the time McMillen spent in custody, but the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR) reported on Friday that guards employed martial arts on the young girl. According to the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, the teen was physically restrained after refusing to remove her sweatshirt:
“The staff performed an Aikido restraint hold to safely conduct a pat-down search and remove the youth’s hoodie,” said Stacy Floden, a spokesperson for the detention center.
Aikido is a modern Japanese form of martial arts.
While it is unclear whether or not the martial arts had anything to do with the teen’s death, attorney and juvenile justice expert Michele Deitch criticized the practice in particular, saying that youths in detention should only be restrained when there’s a risk of physical danger to themselves or others.
Deitch added that refusal to remove a sweatshirt is not acceptable grounds for restraint, reports CBS.
According to authorities, a staff member who failed to properly monitor McMillen while she was alone in her cell has been placed on “special investigative leave with pay.”
The scenario is one we have heard before: The teen’s death bears striking resemblance to the deaths of Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman—both women of color who died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody last year.
Bland’s death made national headlines in July when the 28-year old was found dead in her Texas jail cell. She had been arrested as the result of a minor traffic violation, and allegedly hanged herself while in custody—despite claims from her family that she would have never committed suicide.
A day after Bland’s death, Chapman, another young black woman, was found dead in her Alabama jail cell. As in Bland’s case, the state claimed that Chapman hanged herself. The Chapman family had doubts, but later confirmed the suicide.
Twitter amplified Bland and Chapman’s deaths, which led to national outcry. It also shone a spotlight on the issue of police brutality, and black people dying in police custody. Twitter users are taking to the social networking site once again, this time to question the suspicious circumstances surrounding McMillen’s death:
McMillen’s family has also taken to social media to demand justice, and has created a Facebook page titled “Justice for Gynnya McMillen.”
Multiple agencies—including the Department of Juvenile Justice and Kentucky State Police—are investigating, while more details surrounding McMillen’s death emerge.
-Emma Bracy
Because this is cute
literally nothing is stopping you from putting on a petticoat and getting a damn milkshake how many times do we as a society have to go though this
Like I swear to fucking god, you can have the aesthetic without wishing for everything from an awful time period to come back.
Don’t worry we still have milkshakes and racism. 😊😊
love is a feeling.
it inspires you to be extra kind and extra caring and prioritize your time with someone
because you want to, because they’re important to you
love is not obligation and guilt and boundary violations and fear and a terrified race to prove you’re what they want you to be
love is a warm gently growing feeling that inspires! it doesn’t force or entrap
if you’re trapped and afraid well maybe there’s love there but if there is it’s being overshadowed and like a plant love cannot survive that kind of darkness and toxic atmosphere
if your love is choking in that mess, it must be planted elsewhere to thrive
gather up your love and plant it where it can grow strong and beautiful. don’t curl around it in a dark cage - take it with you and run
Had a really bad mental health episode last night. Still recovering and processing. But I discovered this piece of wisdom in the depths of my episode: Being good will never solve the problem because the problem is not that I am bad. #trauma
Being good will never solve the problem because the problem is not that I am bad.
Tis that time of year
ah. Can’t wait.
BRUHHH MY FACEBOOK FEED WAS WONDERFUL TODAY!!! THEY DRAGGED THIS MAN TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL I CANT BREATHE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
don’t you miss the days when we didn’t have to be so politically correct all the time?
FAVORITE JOHN BOYEGA MOMENTS -
John + Shutting Down Foolishness 👊👊👊 (x)
LOVE HIM!!!!
love love love
the art of the clapback.
Irish town builds memorial to thank Native Americans who helped during Famine
A sculpture of nine eagle feathers will be installed in Bailic Park, in Midleton, Co Cork to thank the Choctaw Indians for their kindness and support during the Great Irish Famine.
Despite the oppression faced by the Choctaws in the years preceding the famine, on hearing of the plight and hunger of the Irish people in 1847, they raised $170 to send to the Irish people and ease their suffering. This figure is equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars in today’s currency.
The sculpture, consisting of nine giant, stainless steel eagle feathers, is currently being completed by Cork sculptor Alex Pentek. Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Pentek says, “I wanted to show the courage, fragility and humanity that they displayed in my work.”
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Okay, so I saw $170 and I thought that is was a cute but largely symbolic gesture of kindness but then i actually looked up the inflation from 1847 and it turns out that it is over $71 THOUSAND in today’s money, raised by a people who themselves were enduring economic oppression. As a descendant of Irish immigrants, I can’t tell you how much reverence and respect I have for the Choctaw people.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia both exist. They don’t operate in the same way. You can’t fight Islamophobia with anti-semitism. You can’t fight anti-semitism with Islamophobia. You have to learn what they look like and fight BOTH. Jews have EVERY RIGHT to protest Holocaust Denial. Muslims have EVERY RIGHT to protest the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. The fact that France has laws against Holocaust denial but not against depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is evidence of the presence of Islamophobia, it is NOT evidence of an absence of anti-semitism. These two hatreds are not Zero Sum. To act like they are is to pit Jews and Muslims against each other. It is trying to fight one oppression by enforcing the other.
C-PTSD
yesterday I learned that for those who have C-PTSD, emotional flashbacks are actually more common than visual flashbacks (which are more common in PTSD). And I feel SO validated. I have experienced few visual flashbacks but constant emotional flashbacks, and I always felt like the fact I didn’t have many visual flashbacks meant what I experienced wasn’t really severe enough and I felt ashamed to feel the way I did. But now it makes so much sense! The visual flashbacks I have had were from a one time, completely unrelated trauma when I was an adult (18). Whereas the emotional flashbacks are always from when I was a child.
I also figured out in my last therapy session that something which happens to me sometimes is actually an emotional flashback, whereas before I didn’t know what it was. It was just a sudden “thing” which happened, which felt like a very sudden breakdown which I couldn’t control, and once I came out of it, how I was acting seemed ridiculous. But now it makes so much sense! My therapist described it as the adult part of me getting overwhelmed with lots of different feeling parts fighting each other, and not being able to cope and so the traumatised child part of me takes over. And now that makes so much sense, because when it happens I do literally feel like a helpless, desperate terrified child, even though I’m an adult in a safe environment. I used to get angry at myself for it - like, look around! you’re safe! stop being pathetic! - but now I understand.
It just feels good when what you experience makes some kind of sense.
