queer run rampant

May you discover the enlivening power of darkness within yourself. May it nourish your rage. May your rage inform your actions, and your actions transform you as you struggle to transform your world. -Susan Stryker 

[momamiaaa]

Jellyfish Lake in Palau. Apparently the jellies have lost their ability to sting because of lack of predators in the lake and you can swim with them!

[frecklesandink]

BUCKET LIST.

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

WAIT BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN THE COOLEST PART: These jellyfish carry small populations of algae inside their bodies and derive much of their nutrition from the sugars that the algae produce. The jellyfish follow the sun across the lake each day and rotate continuously, so that the algae are always getting maximum sunlight exposure for photosynthesis. Then at night they dive to deeper parts of the lake so the algae can absorb nitrogen. It’s one of the best examples of endosymbiosis in action and it’s KICKASS.

[bassfanimation]

FLOATY FRIEND CABBAGES

[carbon2-deactivated20181212]

SCIENCE

[jasperislington]

[friendofhagrid]

this brings me such an incredible amount of joy.

[toddharold]

James Gobel

[clubfauna]

[bitchilovemangos]

🌴🌴

[freelgbtqpia]

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.

[PDF]

[tomahawkgreyeyes]

In resistance to settler colonialism

[decolonizingmedia]

UNITE. RISE. AND #DECOLONIZE

[seeedkeeeper-deactivated2018062]

One of the most durable paradoxes of white supremacy - the idea that those who are closest to an experience of oppression are its least credible witnesses.

Walter Johnson, Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market (via drapetomaniakkk)

This is the type of violence—from microaggressions to epistemic violence to emotional/physical violence to enslavement/genocide—that gets justified by asserting that the oppressor is “objective” and “logical” and thereby “credible.” As if there is objectivity in choosing to oppress. As if the emotions of entitlement, indifference, greed or hatred aren’t involved. 

(via gradientlair)

[mystery-elemental-deactivated20]

me at the family event: well actually gender is just a social construct and only exists as a lubricant for the Capitalist Machine

[humansofnewyork]

"I’m stuck in an institutional trap."

[disabilityhistory-blog]

“We thought the school was safer than our house,” says 32-year-old Monther Hamdan. He is lying on a cot with a wounded leg and grasps his father’s hand as he speaks. All thirteen members of his family were injured in the attack. They arrived at the school three days ago. “The tank shells fell like rain.”

‘The Tank Shells Fell Like Rain’: Survivors of the Attack on UNRWA School Report Scenes of Carnage and Destruction

hospitals, schools, UN shelters where hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing israeli attacks… 

tw for upsetting photo at the link. but i urge you, if you do not have ptsd, if you are not palestinian, if you have not experienced colonial/war violence personally, if those photos are upsetting, perhaps, but not destabilizing? don’t avoid them. this is happening. 

(via disabilityhistory)

[sierraoriginal]

[magictransistor]

Romare Bearden. Farewell Eugene. 1978.

[venusmilk]

Paul Ranson. The blue room or Nude with Fan (1891)

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[blue-voids]

Claire Rosen - Birds of a Feather, 2012

[b-case]

"the oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.”

 - audre lorde, “an open letter to mary daly”

[ethiopienne]

free PDF here.

[globalvoices]

Weapons will not be enough to get rid of the slavery we have lived in, We also need art, culture and civilization to weave our freedom.

Douma, Syria-based artist Akram Abu al-Fawz turns artillery into art.

Syrian Man Turns Artillery into Art

[somethingtoseeorhear]

basquiat