All & Everything

Here are some pieces of my mind. Welcome. Enjoy !! Xx

[ssomebackgrounds]

[hipindie]

flamingos

[forests-and-oceans-blog]

Those who want equality, even if it means that they get less, I believe, that these people are the good people in the world.

Just me

[berniesrevolution]

[sheispernicious]

- why do you keep waiting for the future? who knows if we’ll even get a day after tomorrow?

excerpts from a book I’ll never write (via sheispernicious)

[forehsts]

-breathe-

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Indigenous women of Standing Rock issue heartbreaking plea for help ahead of evacuation

With just over a day to go before the evacuation deadline arrives at North Dakota’s Oceti Sakowin camp, protesters at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation have issued a plea: Come help — now.

In a viral video shared by journalist Shaun King on Monday, a group of indigenous women remind viewers that demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline are about much more than a single issue.

They’re about clean water, police brutality, treaty rights and the rights of future generations. Read more (2/21/17 8:00 AM)

follow @the-movemnt

[forests-and-oceans-blog]

Wow. First take their land, then their rights and lastly their freedom.

[mypenleaksiridescence]

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Indigenous women of Standing Rock issue heartbreaking plea for help ahead of evacuation

With just over a day to go before the evacuation deadline arrives at North Dakota’s Oceti Sakowin camp, protesters at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation have issued a plea: Come help — now.

In a viral video shared by journalist Shaun King on Monday, a group of indigenous women remind viewers that demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline are about much more than a single issue.

They’re about clean water, police brutality, treaty rights and the rights of future generations. Read more (2/21/17 8:00 AM)

follow @the-movemnt

[forests-and-oceans-blog]

Wow. First take their land, then their rights and lastly their freedom.

[i-wildest-dreams]

[forests-and-oceans-blog]

"Had I been given the ability to create a world of my own, surely, this is what it would have come to look like."

[wordsnquotes]

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret.

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (via wordsnquotes)

I have given so many people so many pieces of me. All they gotta do is connect them, if they will.

[lsleofskye]

Las Vegas, Nevada

[decepticun]

[forests-and-oceans-blog]

All these places make me feel so at ease

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

[gaywrites]

Rainbows Don’t Pay The Bills: Workers on Verge of Strike at the Los Angeles LGBT Center

"I’m not even the lowest paid worker there, but I still qualify for public housing."

As one of the largest LGBTQI organizations in the country, Los Angeles’ LGBT Center should counter the systems of inequality that have left so many in our communities without financial security and a safe home. Instead, the Center is perpetuating those systems of inequality within its very organizational structure.

The LGBT Center employs hundreds of LGBTQI workers; yet, it pays many of those workers poverty wages. Over half of the Center’s hourly workers are paid less than $15 an hour—salaries so low that these workers qualify for CalFresh food stamps, housing voucher programs, and other forms of public assistance. While staff struggle to make ends meet, the Center’s CEO, Lorri L. Jean pays herself an annual salary of $440,000, and another $60,000 in bonuses—making her one of the highest paid LGBTQ organizational directors in the country.

‬How can the Center be entrusted to care for our community and advocate for a more fair society when those in charge display a blatant disregard for their own workforce, most of whom are LGBTQI themselves?

‬What weight does the Center’s equality discourse have when queer folks—especially those who are marginalized by race, class, disability, and immigration status—continue to be kept down by dangerously low wages?

This is incredibly important and I urge you to read the entire article. You can’t claim to fight for justice if you don’t pay your workers just wages. 

[toonskribblez]

Department of Homeland Security suspends Trump's 'Muslim ban'

The Department of Homeland Security has suspended all enforcement of the Muslim ban signed by Donald Trump. Immigrants will be once more allowed into the US from the seven countries affected by the executive order last Friday: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. The move follows a nationwide ban of the executive order from federal judge James Robart in Washington.

[emcritchiephotography]

There is no wifi here but I promise you the connection is still very strong.