CriolloKid

A melting-pot of goodness. Queer Cuban/Venezuelan mixed latinx repping the islands, spoken word, hip-hop, and grass-roots social justice movements. this blog is for me, i don't have to prove shit to you.

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Illustration for Do what you want magazine, Laura Callaghan

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Watch: In a powerful Congresional speech, Sandra Bland’s mother called people who think they’re woke “the walking dead” because of how little we still know

The speech included a rousing call to action before the newly formed Congressional Caucus On Black Women & Girls. And her words were incredibly resonant, even if you think you know the whole story.

Gifs: Josh Begley

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fucking hell, plz share this

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This is Star Amerasu, and she also makes beautiful music that totally made me cry when I saw her. www.makestarfamous.com

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omg its star amerasu!!!!

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you’re not a bad person if you can’t protest due to accessibility, physical disability, neurodivergency, lack of transportation, an unsafe environment, needing to work, fear of violence, the people around you, or any other issue that would put you in danger. (this goes especially for poc.)

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Standing Rock has become the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than 100 years, with water protectors and land defenders coming from across North America to stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline. They are risking their lives to protect the land and the generations that will inherit it.

What I desire is that my fellow American citizens stand with us. I ask you to please call or write your Senators and Representative to stop this blindness and greed.

And, if nothing else, please, offer a prayer for my people and all the people who are standing with us in prayer. Just offer some thoughts of protection for us. We ask that you offer a prayer for sensibility and common sense in behalf of all the two legged, as this is not just a Lakota/Dakota issue, this is a human issue.

This land that is being disturbed was once ours. Our people, our Indian Nations lived and governed our people all over this territory. This land across the Cannonball River that is now threatened was forcibly taken from us and there was nothing that we could do about it then and now.

Nonetheless, we still believe that we are the keepers of this beautiful land. Although it was taken from us, we know, we must stand and speak on this land’s behalf. We want everyone and the federal government to respect this land and water and take care of it. That is why our people are standing up and standing with the land and water. We have to be here. It is instructions that the Creator has given us. We have to be here. We have to protect ourselves and those that cannot speak for themselves.

Dave Archambault II (Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Demonstrations a cry to stop desecration of Mother Earth

Art by Marty Two Bulls for Indian Country Today Media Network

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#Repost @micahbazant ・・・ All land is Indigenous land. Oil is death. #WaterIsLife #NoDakotaAccess #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock

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#Repost @jackiefawn ・・・ My newest illustration of a water warrior fighting the black snake that is the pipeline. We must stand and resist against the evils that threaten not just indigenous life but all life. Will have posters and test (black and white) available to raise funds for Standing Rock and to help me get out there. #NODAPL #rezpectourwater #standwithstandingrock #indigenousrising #nativeresistence #nativeart #art4change #fierce #callingallwarriors #warriorwoman

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This comic is about how there are two sides to every story.

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on point

A guy insulting his ex to “compliment” you is always a red flag.

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A Tip for Girls: The term “crazy bitches” is often just dudebro code for “women who have become legitimately angry with me for the crappy things I do/did to them, but my complete lack of empathy with them and inability to see them as people has made me confused by the reactions and feelings I incite in them.”

In other words, if a guy ever uses the phrase “crazy bitches” to describe women (most particularly the women he’s dated), he’s basically just confessing to you that he systematically and consistently pisses off women and yet he doesn’t understand why. Get away immediately.

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this is who i am, not what i am

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So important

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A group of Civil Rights era activists has supported the Movement for Black Lives’ policy platform.

A group of civil rights era activists have passed the torch to a younger generation, so to speak.

One week after the Movement for Black Lives released a wide-ranging, and long-awaited policy platform, the activists’ vision for change has earned an endorsement from delegates of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a famed student organizing group that formed in the 1960s.

In a letter signed by more than 67 former SNCC members, the activists, under the umbrella of the SNCC Legacy Project, wrote that “we of yesterday’s SNCC say to today’s #BlackLivesMatter:

‘Ya’ll take it from here!’”

The letter’s signees include some well-known and important figures of the Civil Rights movement.

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Photographer Joshua Rashaad Explores Black Masculinity, Colorism, and Identity With Powerful Projects

Currently, Joshua’s work centers around the concept of intersectional black identities and the ways in which society interprets and treats them. With his ‘Come to Selfhood’ series, McFadden explores what black masculinity by juxtaposing contemporary portraits of his peers with photos of the influential black men in their lives, which is accompanied by personal anecdotes of lessons and gifts passed down through the generations. #Love it!

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“People of Color Mobilizing Against AIDS,” AIDS activists march in front of Oakland City Hall to demand increased funding for AIDS prevention and education in communities of color, Oakland, California, April 1, 1989. Photo from the Oakland Tribune Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #queerhistorymatters #haveprideinhistory (at Oakland, California)

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“SAY IT LOUD – SAY IT PROUD – WE ARE GAY AND THAT’S ALLOWED,” first annual Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally, Central Park, New York City, June 28, 1970. Photo by Richard C. Wandel, @lgbtcenternyc. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #queerhistorymatters #haveprideinhistory (at Sheep’s Meadow)