Something Clever

Hi, I'm Andrew. Afro-latino, Queer, Bronxite, Puerto Rican, Dominican. Ab'Orisha. I don't tolerate oppression, I don't have time for racist, homophobic, sexist and transphobic behavior or language, so keep that away or you will be called out. Ask me...

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Someone called me “Professor Viñales” in a comment and I almost threw up at the idea. LMFAO I’m beginning to think that I don’t want this life. 

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😂😂

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BuT wE NeEd PeOpLe LiKe Us In ThE AcAdEmY.

Lies and a setup.

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I want to get back to the place where I was happy and satisfied with my life.

Now I’m a disgruntled PhD student with anxiety.

Fuck.

Someone hire me outside of academia with benefits and a descent salary please.

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Some posts, like this one, are pretty serious stuff that I don’t want to make a little quip about, so I’ll just ask nicely, please follow us elsewhere: 

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I’m fully confident that my professor/department chair/ de facto adviser will not approve of the class I want to take next semester and, well, if he doesn’t I’m going to be annoying back.

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He really said NO! As if that was a legit answer.

And I was annoying back.

Why?

But why?

But why not?

I don’t get it? Can you tell me why?

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I’m fully confident that my professor/department chair/ de facto adviser will not approve of the class I want to take next semester and, well, if he doesn’t I’m going to be annoying back.

[npr]

Young Activists Can Sue Government Over Climate Change, Supreme Court Says

The 21 plaintiffs, many of whom are minors, say government policies infringe on their rights. "We need to as a country, do much bigger things," Leigh-Ann Draheim, the mother of one plaintiff said.

The youngest plaintiff, Levi, is 11. He was 8 when the lawsuit was first filed. 

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These academics is SNAKES.

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And vampires

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These academics is SNAKES.

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I know I can be very dramatic about my academic studies, part of it is because I don’t see the point in doing this thing, and part of it is because I know my blackness is being used as a pawn for this godforesaken program I’m in.

I’ve heard from a few black women in particular about the absolute violence they are experiencing and I know if I see it and experience imma pop off and very possibly throw hands. So id rather vent on here than get expelled.

But something happened this week and it just confirmed my feelings that they use “diversity” as a tool but never come up with ways to uplift the was Black diaspora folks are ALREADY doing our thing. But because it’s not in their rigid -boring- methods...

So I’m here one foot in the door the rest of my body looking for a way out.

Y estoy bien cansado de verdad!

[blackfilm]

Siempre Bruja

“The year is 1646. We’re in the colonial coastal settlement of Cartagena. A young black woman is about to burned at the stake in the plaza at the stone-built fort of the Colombian city. A man is outlining the reasons why women are feared and to be so punished: because they tempt, because they seduce, because they think. Quick flashbacks show us the same young woman madly in love in the cover of darkness. And so, surrounded by a throng of onlookers (rich white Spaniards wearing too many clothes to handle the heat, black slaves with ragged clothes looking on in despair) Carmen, this so-called witch, is burned alive.

What might be the end of another story is just the beginning of this Colombian Netflix production. Siempre Bruja picks up in 2019 when Carmen emerges from the ocean without having aged a day. The supernatural show, which just released its first teaser, will follow Carmen’s life as she adjusts to our modern world — selfies, cars, and neon-tinged parties included. Clearly giving us a different spin on bruja tales that are soon gonna take over our small screens, this Netflix original is sure to dive into Afro-Colombian culture like no show before it.

Catch newcomer Angely Gaviria alongside a few more recognizable names, including telenovela star Verónica Orózco and Youtuber Dylan Fuentes in the drum-scored trailer below and find out why the saying, once a witch, always a witch is more than a tagline for this young adult show.” via Remezcla 

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I’m so fucking excited about this. NO ME HABLEN CUANDO ESTOY VIENDO MI NOVELA COÑAZO

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She walked out that water and inFUCKING SCREAMED!!!!

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One of my favorite things is expressing love with the blue heart emoji 💙 and the wave emoji 🌊

Mama done took over my texts💙🌊

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😒😆

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Yesterday I was in despair because I couldn’t bring myself to write a crummy paper. So I wallowed around and cried in bed. Today it took a lot of energy to get out of bed but I made a plan, finally I was able to read and think a bit clearly. Then I got a letter from the IRS and now I’m having an angrier state of mental health. 

I feel like College depleted me of my joy and happiness. I will never be free of depression and anxiety because of the poor financial decisions I made just because I was brainwashed in to thinking that I NEEDED to go to college. 

Now I’m ANGRY af. The IRS took whatever clearer thinking I had. Who sent them TODAY??? 

BTW somehow I owe damn near $500 on some bullshit. So if you want to pay for it, cause since I decided against my better judgement to go to a PhD program and cut my pay by more than half, i can’t afford it, let me know!

[nycs]

and yet the world is silent…

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Reblog to spread this. This isn’t something to keep silent on.

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I would never want somethin like that to happen! Hell, i condemn it. But … I try to at least keep myself informed a little bit. Are there any good sources for this?

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Here (The Atlantic)

Here (Washington Post)

Here (The Guardian)

Here (Independent)

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Sources above are accurate and working. I have listed the above sources in chronological order, as well as adding sources I have found. The sources found by fandoms-of-a-tired-ravenclaw are marked with an asterisk (*)

Sources:

Chairs Urge Ambassador Branstad to Prioritize Mass Detention of Uyghurs, Including Family Members of Radio Free Asia Employees- Congress Executive Commission on China (April 3, 2018)

*Muslims Forced to Drink Alcohol and Eat Pork in China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps, Former Inmate Claims- The Independent (May 18, 2018) Covers the treatment the prisoners endure in the camps. Also has a short video of the witness, Omir Bekali, describing his time there.

*New Evidence Emerges of China Forcing Muslims into ‘Re-education’ Camps- The Washington Post (August 10, 2018) Another witness, Sayragul Sauytbay, speaks out. Also features some Chinese arrest statistics and explains the significance.

China Uighurs: One Million Held in Political Camps- BBC.com (August 10, 2018)

*China is Treating Islam like a Mental Illness- The Atlantic (August 28, 2018) This article links to many, many other articles and pieces about the camps, some of which are governmental sources. All the links work. One wants you to make an account to access it, but I have it saved. PM me if you want to see it.

UN Panel Confronts China Over Reports that it Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps- New York Times (August 28, 2018)

*Detention of Uighurs Must End, UN Tells China, Amid Claims of Prison Camps- The Guardian (August 30, 2018) There are many good links here, although one of them is in Chinese. They all work.

Internet Sleuths Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps, The Atlantic.com- (Sept. 15, 2018) - This article talks about the treatment the Uighurs get in the camp and talks about the risks some Chinese people are taking to find out the truth. It also goes over some of the solid evidence debunking Chinese claims that the camps do not exist, eyewitness accounts aside.

Uighurs Abroad Cut Off from Relatives in Chinese Detention, The LA Times, Sept. 17, 2018- More personal accounts

Action:

Here is a fundraiser started by an Uyghur with the aim to “ to start an organization, aim to seek practical action in Finnish foreign ministry, in the European Parliament and commission, to pressure the Chinese government to stop the concentration camp, stop the genocide of Uyghur Muslims. ”

The goal has been met, but the fundraiser ends October 31st, 2018.

Date Sourced: September 24, 2018

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‪I’m pretty sure I wrote the worst paper I’ve ever written in my entire life.

Not sure if it’s self sabotage or me not really grasping the material or not yet having the skills to write academically. But either way something’s got to give. Cause it was a lot of stress to produce terrible work.

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Now I can’t sleep cause I’m surely going to flunk out my first semester and I’m trying to find an alternative career ASAP so I have a job waiting for me once I lose my fellowship.

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‪I’m pretty sure I wrote the worst paper I’ve ever written in my entire life.

Not sure if it’s self sabotage or me not really grasping the material or not yet having the skills to write academically. But either way something’s got to give. Cause it was a lot of stress to produce terrible work.