you may emerge from this more dead than alive.

rayne. they/them. queer. canada.

[sassy-gay-justice]

[thelovejournals]

I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal. I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars. I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.

Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers (via thelovejournals)

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

im tired of saudi women being used as this like nightmare concept like “dont complain women in saudi arabia can’t even drive” like…  saudi women are alive and kicking and unless you care about starting a real conversation about saudi women’s rights shut up and shove an entire truck up your ass before you bring them into ur mouth as an anti-feminist gotcha tactic 

[peak-widow]

The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.

So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.

[ssstop-it-sunflowa]

Bring it back.

[pumpkinmcqueen]

Bring this back.

[cosmic-noir]

For real.

[thefandomdropout]

That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?

[goddesscru]

That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.

[bossymarmalade]

Also let’s be starkly clear about this: under COINTELPRO the FBI raided the homes of Black Panthers and outright murdered them. They conspired with local police forces to harass, assault, and concoct false evidence against anybody affiliated with the BPP. And they didn’t keep their operations confined to the black community directly. When a white woman working in civil rights was killed by the KKK (they were aiming at her black passenger) the FBI excused the KKK by claiming that she was a communist and slept with black men. They refused to accept the reports of white agents who said that the BPP were no threat and demanded that the agents falsify information to paint the BPP as violent domestic terrorists. The FBI was determined to quash revolutionary black movements that were chiefly devoted to community protection and development and they stopped at nothing in their attempts to reach this goal.

[occupythedisco]

One thing we don’t talk about even in our own retellings and reclaimings of BPP history is that a large part of the reason the government worked to break them up wasn’t because of armed action, but because they provided so many necessary social services and programs: free breakfast for children, walking the elderly to and from banks safely to cash their social security checks, free medical centers, door-to-door sickle cell testing, blood drives, raising money for bail, clothing donations, legal aide, busing people to and from prisons to visit, commissary for prisoners. Not only did they fight back against state violence in their confrontations with police, but also by resisting the forced conditions of poverty, criminality and scarcity created by the state to further destroy their communities. J. Edgar Hoover genuinely wrote in an FBI memo that:

“The Breakfast for Children Program B represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities B to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.”

When I need a good example of the antiblackness that is fundamental to this country’s history and how it persists even now, I remember that the BPP were viewed as a threat to national security, not because they were armed, but  because they wouldn’t allow black children to die from starvation and malnutrition. 

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Desperate, hungry people are easier to control and keep subjugated.

Desperate, hungry people are more likely, in their desperation and hunger, to lash out at those closest to themselves rather than the more distant, often unseen causes of their misery. 

Desperate, hungry people are easier to keep turned against each other.

[tashabilities]

^^^^And that white woman’s name was Viola Liuzzo. 

[piribolygo]

[cryingtotheocean]

same

[juliaereck]

hey, happy start of pride month to my fellow bi babes 💙💜💖 and all my lgbtqia+ fam 💘

[sapphic-and-ill]

Drawing of flowers with the text [know no shame]

[refinery29]

[heliosv-deactivated20180626]

[hanthelion]

@ikilledalaska

[sohnealaska-deactivated20220915]

i hanestly….… . fullheartedly agree

[littletootsierollaliengirl]

Aries

[frankenfemme]

True

[crusherccme]

found this gem in the 1996 Cornell Women’s Handbook. it’s what to say when a guy tries to get out of using a condom

[daichisthickthighs-deactivated2]

i just love the sassy ones

‘it doesn’t feel good’ ‘neither does sleeping alone bitch’ ‘maybe u should try the next size down lol’

[roboticutie]

‘it spoils the mood’ 'so does your attitude’

[catsbeaversandducks]

Mr. Baby the Cat and Miss Charles the Bearded Dragon

These two friends couldn’t look more different from each other, but their friendship goes beyond looks and where they came from.

Photos by ©charles_the_dragon - Via Love Meow

[for-the-love-of-lucy]

THEY’RE FUCKIN HOLDING HANDS IN THE LAST ONE. ARE YOU SHITTING ME. I FEEL SO ANGRY BECAUSE THIS IS SO DAMN CUTE.

[nestlesnipes-deactivated2022112]

[cryingtotheocean]

Me on a good day: "I wonder if I can tattoo queer on my fingers...hmmm..queer u i r..uh wait..spelling."

[galgadotssss-deactivated2016071]

[on-poetry]

I. We meet without an explanation. I torque at your touch like elm leaves in the wintertime, like we were trying to stop the wintertime, II. You are so so easy to love again that you’re breaking the world’s heart; the magnetism shifts beneath you like a sinking ship, so III. I sprout bruises on my chest and call it recognition, put the body at rest, your touch blanketing but IV. They took from us the bedside, the lamplight, the photos on the wall. Everything is candlelight, and I won’t fall in love with you until something is set on fire, until V. You chuck your heart at the ocean with no intent of staying, you drown like a chapel in a war, like VI. That night, wanting you with all my lungs. The blood on our lips was not enough, you were VII. Leaving without an explanation, called your leaving an explanation, chucked it at the wintertime.

7-weeks//The Things I Didn’t Tell You About From The Dream You Were In Last Night

From my upcoming poetry book 4:41

more details to come on the poetry book before the end of the month!

(via 7-weeks)

[viciere]

things i hate:

transphobes

institutionalized racism

banana strings

[mahimahi713]

If you peel the banana from the bottom, you will not get the strings

[viciere]

brilliant. do u have solutions for the other two

[opheliastardust]

Quick Carrie Brownstein thing that I did just for fun because confession I’ve been listening to Sleater-Kinney (also go read her memoir now it’s solid)

[laundryandtaxes]

The idea that LGBT people owe it to anyone to be more radical than cishets is pretty ridiculous and is clearly repackaged complacency for the politics of cishets as simply being the politics of people who somehow aren’t capable of knowing better. This is true of marginalized groups in general and it’s such a common part of how we talk about marginalized groups and their politics when it’s just loose reasoning that falls through after half a second of thought. There is no inherently revolutionary or radical subject position. This is what makes notions like “homonationalism” useless to me; nationalism among LGBT people is certainly real but it isn’t fundamentally a different beast than nationalism itself, just its particular expression in a subset of people. I’m not fond of LGBT liberals either but acting like being marginalized means you “should know better” is just downright lazy.

[zeitgeistygrantaire-deactivated]

I thought homonationalism was states using their LGBT rights record to distract from/ justify their imperialism not individual LGBT people being nationalist?

[laundryandtaxes]

I’ve heard “pinkwashing” used to refer to that actually, not “homonationalism.”