Earthquake & Eclipse

This place is peopled with all sorts of mania.

[earthquakeandeclipse]

tagged — now you’re it

Tagged by @blueberrrykissses! Thanks, dear!

Rules: Answer these questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better, or catch up with:

Three ships:

- Sorato (Digimon)

- Zutara (ATLA)

- Jake/Amy (B99)

Last song:

Wiggle Room (Benji Reyes, Ci Majr)

https://open.spotify.com/track/7BnToV1TSTY2FgUp1dFa73?si=y40EjxDKQr6uBMr-UKBl-Q

Last movie:

Midsommar. Talk about a WTF film.

Currently reading:

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (her book is really fucking me up right now, as in smacking me with some hard truths about myself 😔)

Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski (also fucking me up. Yay for coming to terms with all the lies I’ve been telling myself about stress and self-worth 🙃)

Currently watching:

The Real Housewives of Atlanta (LOL. Don’t judge me 😆)

Also rewatching my favorite episodes of Netflix’s Queer Eye.

Currently consuming:

Trader Joe’s Joe-Joe’s Slims. Basically skinny Oreos, of which I could eat a solid 150 right now.

Oh and a glass of wine 🍷. Bahaha.

Currently craving:

A big ass doughnut.

Tagging: Anybody, really! Whoever wants to kill time and do a silly questionnaire. @ahiddenpath maybe?

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet Porsha Olayiwola heartbreakingly reminds us all that black women’s lives matter too. 

[russula-nongrata]

“Men and boys are seen as the primary target of racial injustice,” AAPF associate director Rachel Gilmer told TakePart in May. “This has led to the idea that women and girls of color are not doing as bad, or that we’re not at risk at all.”

But studies show otherwise: Black women are killed and sexually assaulted by the police, and incarcerated at almost three times the rate of their white female counterparts. Yet news coverage of these cases are focused largely on the relationship between law enforcement and black men.

From the linked article above. None of this diminishes the importance of any Black Lives Matter protests or the lives of black men.

[swedepea]

Reblogged for the important infographic

[lakecountylibrary]

Assistant Librarian Kelley Recommends:

Books by Black Authors to Read Because Black Lives Matter

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

March by John Lewis

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

For LCPL cardholders: All of these are available in our collection either in Overdrive/Libby or Hoopla for immediate download, or in physical format for curbside pickup (sometimes both!)

See more of Kelley’s Recs

[oberynmartell]

List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd 2

Justice for George Floyd 3

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Stand with Breonna

Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder

Justice For Tamir Rice

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Justice for Belly Mujinga.

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Dion Johnson

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Tete Gulley

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Darrius Stewart

Justice for Shukri Abdi

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice For Zinedine

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Christopher Josey

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Tamla Horsford

Justice for Collins Khosa

Free Siyanda

Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case 

Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality

Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child 

Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles

Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training

Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test

stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Join Campaign Zero

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!

Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case

Abolish Prison Labour in the USA

Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office

Donation Links

A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)

Black Lives Matter

We Cant Breathe

43 Bail Funds to Support

Homeless Black Trans women fund

Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers

Minnesota Healing Justice Network

Women for Political Change

Spiral Collective

When We All Vote

National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses

Venmo names of black trans people that need help

Latino Community on Lake Street

Black Immigrant Collective

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha

Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief

Al Maa'uun

Remembering Shana Isuroon 

Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses

Joyce Preschool

Black Table Arts

Northside business support

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund

Unicorn Riot

Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy

Pimento Relief Fund

Southside Harm Reduction

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition

Division of Indian Work

TC Care Collective

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Jamee

Justice for David McAtee

[rob-pattinson]

“I want to thank every single one of you for coming out. This is very important, this is very vital. Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important. We have always meant something. We have always succeeded, regardless. And now is the time. I ain’t waiting! I AIN’T WAITING! I’ve been born in this country. I am 28 years old. Born and raised in London. Every black person understands and realizes the first time you are reminded that you are black. You remember. Every black person in here remembers when another person reminded you that you were black. I need you guys to understand- I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that is never the case anymore. We’re going to try today. We are a physical representation of our support for George Floyd. We are a physical representation on our support for Sandra Bland. We are a physical representation on our support for Trayvon Martin. We are a physical representation of our support for Stephen Lawrence. For Mark Duggan. It is very very important that we keep control of this movement, and we make it as peaceful as possible. We make this as peaceful and as organized as possible. Because you know what, guys? They want us to mess up. They want us to be disorganized. But not today! NOT TODAY! Not today! This message is specifically for black men: black men, black men we need to take care of our black women. We need to take care of- They are our hearts! THEY ARE OUR HEARTS! They are our future. We cannot demonize our own. We are the pillars of the family. Imagine this, a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, that communicate, that raise their children in love have a better rate of becoming better human beings. And that’s what we need to create. Black men, it starts with you. It’s done man, we can’t be trash no more. We have to be better. You don’t understand? I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but f**k that! Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process. We don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. You lot came today, you left your kids, and when you see your kids they’re aimlessly playing, they don’t understand what’s going on. Today is the day that we remind them that we are dedicated and this is a lifelong dedication. Guys, we don’t leave them stop you now. This is longevity. Some of you are artists, some of you are bankers, some of you are lawyers, some of you own shop stores. You are important, your individual power, your individual right is very, very important. We can all join together to make this a better world.

Thank you for coming out today. Thank you for your support. To us. Black people I love you. I appreciate you. Today is an important day, we are fighting for our rights. We are fighting for our ability to live in freedom. We are fighting for our ability to achieve. We are fighting for equality. And you are the physical representation of that. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! Today is the day that we stand. We walk. It’s not about career, it’s not about money, it’s about your right to live as a human being.”

— John Boyega’s full speech during the Black Lives Matter protest at Hyde Park in London, England (June 3, 2020)

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[habibi243]

I hope these women are thriving and I hope they are alright

[laufeysonlowkey]

You know what doesn’t sit right and will NEVER sit right...

How George Floyd, a good innocent black man went to the store to buy things who then was murdered by a police officer for suspected forgery.

Then the next day Peter Manfredonia, a white armed serial killer who was on the run across 4 states, was caught and arrested peacefully.

And how black and black ally protesters in Minneapolis protesting for the arrest of the officers who killed George Floyd, were attacked by the police. They were peaceful.

But a few weeks ago, white people stormed governments buildings in Michigan protesting the quarantine because they wanted a haircut and the police did nothing to them. They were armed.

The problem is clear as water. WHITE PRIVILEGE AND RACISM. It exists and is real. Deny it? You’re the problem. Don’t say or do anything about it? You’re the problem. Abuse your white privilege? You’re the problem. Don’t see a problem with all this? YOURE THE PROBLEM.

CRY WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY. MOURN WITH THEM. STAND ALONG SIDE WITH THEM. FIGHT FOR THEM. BECAUSE BLACK LIVES ARE IMPORTANT AND THEY ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MATTER.

[nature-travel-photography]

First light in Seceda, Dolomites. [1393x2048] [OC] @marcograssiphotography - Author: marcograssiphoto on reddit

[gon-iii]

融ける花

背景の桜と同化。

[allthingseurope]

(*by Ilnur Kalimullin)

[allthingseurope]

Lago di Toblino, Italy  (by Marc)

[thorinsons]

Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the hand of the man who has ruined, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to censure of the world for caprice and my sister to derision for disappointed hopes, involving them both in misery of the acutest kind? Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[cowboydarling-deactivated201911]

womanhood is having moments where u are terrified of being physically witnessed by anyone because u haven’t put enough effort into ur appearance

[breathtakingdestinations]

Lake Pehoé - Chile (by Claudio Sepúlveda Geoffroy) 

[boohwanj-deactivated20240316-de]

2020-04-11

Canon EOS R + RF85mm f1.2L

https://www.instagram.com/hwantastic79vivid/

[bengurli]

u know what my goal is to eat pastries in different countries

[amandaherzman]

flowers that bloom in the night