Mina

❤ | ☥ | ✌ a drop of sun under the earth - Frantz Fanon ☼ 🌸🌻🌞

[noorskitchen]

One of the most challenging things I’ve had to learn is that healing must be intentional. There is no one golden day that comes and saves you from all your misery. Healing is a practice. You have to decide that it’s what you want to do and actively do it. You have to make a habit out of it. Once I learned that, I only looked back to see how far I came.

[nonchalante]

Admit you were wrong. Apologize. Understand that you’re fallible. You make mistakes. You hurt people. Apologize. That’s growth; understanding you did something wrong and working towards making things right.

[mishproductions]

“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”

— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays

[naraazgiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

“i once asked my father who was his favourite. me or my brothers ‘baba, who do you love more?’ i remember, baba smiled and told me ‘i love my kids all the same’ so i smiled back, right into his tired brown eyes but baba carried on ‘i know you will never leave me alone’ baba said. he read on my face that his words confused me. so baba kept going ‘i know when i am old, it is my daughter who will put the food into my mouth. i know it is my daughter who will bring me a glass of water on hot days. i know it is my daughter who will take my hand and listen to me rambling like old people often do. i know my daughter will have a husband and kids. but i know she’ll never forget her old father’ baba said. ‘because daughters are grateful, daughters are soft and caring, daughters remember and daughters give back.’”

— mother of Nur / baba’s little girl  (via heifa)

[laabmagazine]

When Aretha Franklin offered to post bail for Angela Davis

"I know you got to disturb the peace when you can't get no peace."

[dynastylnoire]

MOTHER!!!!!

[the-yaadihla-girls]

NATIVES READ TOO

NATIVES READ TOO

Browsing the internet, found some free PDFs to read:

Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples by Andrea Smith (article)«li

All Our Relations Native Struggles: Land and Life by Winona LaDuke

Lakote Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Lovely Hula Hands by Haunani Kay-Trask

Custer Died for Your Sins- An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.

The Case of Leonard Peltier by Arthur J. Miller and Pio Celestino (zine)

Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? (zine) 

Headdress (a small zine on native appropriation)

Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century (zine)

Indian Education by Sherman Alexie

You have here, writings that detail Indigenous topics covering or in the style of: manifestos, creative writings, political, cultural, “feminist”, environment/ecosystems, and Natural Law. 

Enjoy the readings!

[osiyonahnai-deactivated20160825]

Didn’t know this. BOOST.

[tatliruyalar]

Keep an eye on your loved ones. Your sad friends. Your friends with a history of depression. But also your “strong” friends, and “overachieving” friends. Ask, “how are you?” more often but be present long enough to hear more than “good”. Many of us scream with silence. For some, this life is a heavy, teething thing. May we find ourselves loved in all our being.

[naturalpalettes]

忘却の蓮田

[yourbigsisnissi]

I have to remember that there is something to celebrate in continuing to try to be a better person. I will never be perfect. But I’m not required to be perfect to have a positive impact. Life is so short and precious. It takes energy to beat myself up. I much rather use that effort to help others and try my best

[tufffgenius-deactivated20190503]

[with-practice]

black women deserve better.

[ombjay]

ALL*

[vanta-black-girl]

Eaxctly all black women deserve better.

[heavyweightheart]

skills for coping with harsh negative judgments about the self, even something like the practice of asking “who profits off of this emotion?”, are not meant to make the experience just go away. they’re meant to interrupt our automatic thought processes, to put some space between us and our programming. they make the cracks which let a little light in.

it took many years of messaging to fill us with shame about ourselves and our bodies, and to indoctrinate us to blame ourselves for failing to meet oppressive standards which we were never given the choice to assent to or reject. it will also take years, and a different kind of messaging, to undo that damage. 

the new kind of messaging–like critical-theoretical questions and honest affirmations–can become habitual with time and practice. even then they might not always feel true, tho you know intellectually that they are. it’s okay and in fact very productive to say “i know one thing, but i’m feeling another”. that’s all we can do. it’s this process thru which our sense of self and embodiment moves toward freedom

[ohthebrave-deactivated20180212]

It doesn’t happen like that. You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day. You must learn to handle your issues with grace because you respect what they are attempting to teach you. You must drown your insecurities slowly, one self-realization at a time. You must allow yourself to feel the fear bubbling just beneath your skin but you must never allow it the satisfaction of crippling you; grit your teeth and march on. You see, they never tell you how hard these things will be. This fight to reclaim yourself is not easy or straightforward but, my god, is it necessary. 

[heteroglossia]

“I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[kaisi-teri-khudgarzi]

“The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: ‘These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself.”

— Henri Nouwen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[itmustbehalloweeninthesea]

“I’m a child of blackness. Blackness was not meant to survive, and we have survived. And we have thrived. And we’ve given this world more genius than we have ever received.”

— junot diaz

[ximaraix]