something clever

the most random tumblr page you'll ever come across...

[blankvhs]

That scene in Shrek 2 where they’re staying in Fiona’s childhood bedroom and he can’t sleep… powerful

[blankvhs]

[sonofkrabkrab]

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

We did it. We’re finally free.

[breadwinnnerz]

[tony-hawks-underground]

[cablehaver-deactivated-48673-de]

number 1 in the Hood, G

[east-coaster-deactivated2021073]

Have you ever had your bussy lips sucked on

I beg your pardon

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[calvin-klein-and-hobbes]

Tumblr wants to monetize THIS????

[selfcarevibes]

Healing is not an end point. It‘s okay to revisit and even cry over things you “thought you had healed“

[cheer-deforest-kelley]

This is heart wrenching.

Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) has been suffering from Dementia for years. She’s lots most of her money, the home she loved and there is a fight for her conservatorship

Her sister has set up a GoFundMe site for her. The link is at the very bottom of this post. Please share this information.

Read the article below and please donate if you can. Even a couple dollars will help.

https://www.al.com/life/2021/08/nichelle-nichols-star-treks-lt-uhura-faces-heartbreaking-conservatorship-fight.html

Nichelle Nichols, Shields Up!, organized by Marian Nichols Smothers

Help Legendary Nichelle Nichols Recover from Tragic Elder Abuse Perpetrated by … Marian Nichols Smothers needs your support for Nichelle Ni

https://gofund.me/376980a8

[yinx1]

Y’all went hard for Free Brittany over conservatorship now do the same for Nichelle

[prismatic-bell]

So I read the entire thing, and this one is slightly more complex than “dad is abusive conservator.” So I’m going to lay out here what’s going on:

1) Nichelle has dementia.

2) In 2010, this guy approached her all “hey so I want to make this movie with you as a costar, very good contract, please accept.”

3) she did.

4) he was lying.

5) during the next several years he moved onto her property and became a squatter, billing all his utilities and expenses to Nichelle. In other words, she’s paying for the privilege of him using her property.

6) during this time he also managed to get her to give him power of attorney over both financial AND MEDICAL decisions. Much of her savings has just kind of vanished, and it seems likely he’s been leeching it away.

Okay. So, recap: this guy is NOT a conservator. He got power of attorney, which is actually a very good and useful thing when appropriately applied. (Basically, it means if you become incapacitated you’ve already selected a person to handle certain kinds of affairs for you.) In this case, however, it’s pretty clear POA is being abused and seriously misused.

7) Nichelle’s son managed to become her conservator, with the goal of kicking the deadbeat off the property and ensuring his mom has access to her hard-earned funds so she can be old with dignity. (In a perfect world, this is how conservatorship would always be used. His interest is in protecting the person, not making a profit.) He has become her primary caretaker.

I don’t know how advanced Nichelle’s dementia is, but I can tell you from experience that as the disease progresses, being a caretaker can become a full-time job, and that, yes—this is one of those extremely limited cases where conservatorship might actually be a good idea. My grandmother had Alzheimer’s (not all dementia is caused by Alzheimer’s, but all cases of Alzheimer’s are dementia), and nearly burned down the house once because she turned on the stove, forgot she’d turned it on, and went to take a nap. Having someone of sound mind who can make arrangements for things like appropriate in-home care so this doesn’t happen is deeply important.

8) deadbeat is fighting to get conservatorship removed—and possibly reassigned to himself. That part is a little less clear. What is clear is that he does not have Nichelle’s best interests at heart.

9) this fundraiser is to help with legal fees to get deadbeat off the property and help assist Nichelle and her son in securing what’s left of her assets.

So just so we’re clear: in this case we are actually fighting FOR a conservatorship. However, this conservatorship is to protect someone with an actual medical diagnosis that means she has diminished mental capacity to care for herself (literally, that’s what dementia is: loss of memory and cognition on a scale significant enough to interfere with daily life), and to ensure that what is hers, REMAINS hers.

[asettledsky]

Reblogging this version for the commentary, since people seem to be unclear about the situation.

[oshuns-ambience]

Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

[oshuns-ambience]

[oshuns-ambience]

A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

[oshuns-ambience]

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

[oshuns-ambience]

[oshuns-ambience]

[molothoo]

Enough of us do not even realize how much of a post-colonial white-supremic world we still live in. Things like racism, the gender binary, homophobia are all concepts and inventions of the european influence on us globally.

Too many times I have read about a pre-colonial culture (the fact that I even have to say pre colonial 🙄) where I read that certain things were or were not common practice until Europeans arrived and forced their culture on everybody and then used Christianity to justify it while they were enslaving, raping, kidnapping, and committing genocide. And there are actual poc who can’t see pass the eurocentricity of literaly EVERYTHING because it’s what we were raised to think and believe and were never exposed to anything that would suggest otherwise.

[kwehnyah]

Always reblog and remember: gender fluidity and homosexuality is not "crap made by the left" they have always been here, but christianity and colonialism set them as bad and wrong, they did their brainwashing so good that made A LOT of people believe and enforce their bigotry.

[oshuns-ambience]

[sodiumstreetlight]

Nothing against LGBTQ+, but what is the purpose for conflating homosexuality with Blackness? We need the Black family unit now more than ever, and unfortunately that will require more organic heterosexual relationships.

Yes there have always been Black homosexuals, however I’m uncertain it means that we’ve coined this practice. Refuting ≠ Uncertain.

Side-note: I’m not stigmatizing LGBTQ+. I’m raising a question out of genuine curiosity. So, hold the crucifixes please.

Furthermore, other communities can afford to promote this, because they have the socioeconomic leverage. There will be Black people who will take this at face-value and think being LGBTQ is a trend and not a genuine preference. It parallels promoting the image of Black men in dresses in the mass media.

How can we sustainably procreate if we’re pushing for same-sex relationships in large numbers?

[oshuns-ambience]

How does Black gay people existing stop heteros from having children? You’re making no sense whatsoever. Additionally, Black LGBTQ people can have children biologically and through other means depending on their circumstances.

ignorance like that which you’re expressing is exactly the reason why these posts are needed. Because bigoted people like you wish to exclude human beings within the Black community. If you are pro-Black then you should be supportive and loving to ALL Black people, including gay and trans people, who have nothing to do with when and how heterosexuals decide to have children.

[sodiumstreetlight]

@oshuns-ambience Instead of throwing sophomoric barbs, try to understand my point.

My point is that these notions are being overblown in the media, which could potentially cause black youth whom aren’t LGBTQ+ to trend hop, set bad precedents and practice sexual dishonesty with one another. This would be an even bigger slight to the Black LGBTQ+ demographic that deal with their realities each day.

I won’t be redundant in my post, so you’ll just have to go back and read.

Yes, in theory it’s possible for LGBTQ+ to have biologically engineered offspring. However, the keyword is “engineered”. Those infertility treatments run the risk of genetic mutation being passed to the offspring. Even still, there’s an artificial element to that.

[oshuns-ambience]

Can yall believe this ignorance this person is saying…? I’m almost in shock at this ridiculousness…? How do we handle nonsense like this? How do Black queer people continue to fight for the freedom of all Black people when all Black people wish us to be underrepresented or nonexistent…this is very heartbreaking

your ignorance is so harmful it’s ridiculous…are you even reading what youre saying? “The flagship image of our family unit should remain heterosexual”-it’s people like you who cause the divides in our community and ostracize children who are not straight. We’ve lost so much ground in history, it’s disgusting that you wish to erase the lives and voices of gay Black people which is what you’re advocating for. The cishetero family unit you love so much is European concept.

If you wanted to make a Straight Lives Matter post then you should have done so on your own post and not one clearly meant to be supportive of the Black gay people you wish to be second hand citizens to the “heterosexual family unit” which once again, is something reinforced by the white patriarchy and enslavement-bc black folks have been raised by the village/not their parents for centuries…

bisexual people can have children BIOLOGICALLY. Trans people can have children BIOLOGICALLY-Out of their vaginas…your comments about “engineered” offspring is highlighting of the fact that you have never educated yourself about trans or nonbinary people and just decided to impose yourself on this post with ignorance fueled comments..

make your own post if you wanna discuss Straight Pride, otherwise you are a heterosexual person using your privilege and power to over-talk marginalized people, meaning the Black LGBTQ people that you wish to take a backseat to straight Black people

You’re not advocating for Black children, stop that lie. You’re advocating for perpetuating the white cishetero patriarchy.

[thenewmi6]

the oft unspoken truth of society is that the line between quirky and cringy is often how conventionally attractive you are

[swanlake1998]

yvonne hall photographed by dth archives

[modelsof-color]

Adut Akech by Chris Colls for Elle US Magazine , August 2021.

[afronerdism]

isnt leaving dogs chained up outside animal neglect?? like gentrification is bad but so is animal neglect

Them dogs are fine. We’re talking about human beings right now.

[saltedweather]

if you’re white and your response to “this is harming Black people” is to start talking about dogs,

S T O P.

[afronerdism]

isnt leaving dogs chained up outside animal neglect?? like gentrification is bad but so is animal neglect

Them dogs are fine. We’re talking about human beings right now.

[saltedweather]

if you’re white and your response to “this is harming Black people” is to start talking about dogs,

S T O P.

[psikonauti]

Richard Mudariki (Zimbabwean, b. 1985)

Bonde, 2021

Oil on canvas

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[glass-gears-deactivated20250123]

The only “Not All Men” post I’ll reblog.

[dxmedstudent]

To break down rape culture, we need to stop teaching people that men can’t help themselves; they absolutely can look for enthusiastic consent, and they must. This is absolute bare minimum decent human being behaviour. 

[nineprotons]

Also, if you stop teaching people that “men can’t help themselves” it tends to go hand in hand with teaching the fact that no, men do not “always want it”– which in turn is beneficial for those men who might themselves be assaulted, regardless of the rapist’s gender. Enthusiastic, mindful consent applies to everyone.

[tamquamm-alter-idem]

In conclusion, men can, in fact, keep it in their pants.

[asuperiorlife]

[benjaandco]

nothingspecialphoto