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krishna • 19 • they/them

[wandering-songstress]

AALIYAH HYDES wearing ULYANA SERGEENKO FALL 2017 COUTURE

[678i0u]

Danai Gurira by David Urbanke for Harper’s Bazaar (2016)

[geopsych]

More pictures of those hills that were covered with flowers. 

July 11.

[transmortifried]

Older WLW Couples

reblog if you agree

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Someone PLEASE add some photos I beg of you.

[cockyroaches]

On it!

💕💕💕💕💕💕

[transmortifried]

[for-southendgirls]

Reblogging myself because I can’t believe I forgot the OGs, aka Edie and Thea, aka the Jewish lesbians who gave y’all MARRIAGE. 

[tphd]

IN 2018 OPTIMISM FEELS BOTH RECKLESS AND NECESSARY

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

uploading this here so you guys actually understand how insane this whole thing in hawai'i is

[psychedelicfelon]

Cameraman….you a little close ain’t you fam?

[hunters-schafer]

My pops said Wakanda was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. 

[shingojira]

god i hope first party sony developers recreating gifs becomes a trend

[maxbegone]

why would you forget this one?

[tallwife]

penumbra

[suspensful guitar]

juno: hyperion city is like a ballsack,if you think about it. nice in concept, ugly up close. and like the ballsack, things in hyperion city can get pretty damn hairy. my name’s juno steel. im a private eye. or at least. i used to be.

[guitar increases]

[kadtherine]

since tumblr is us-centric, this is probably going to be one of the only posts about it, but here it is. 

early this week, naomi musenga, a 22-year-old black woman, called the samu, our equivalent of 911, because she was suffering from extreme stomachache and had a fever. when the operator picked up, naomi was out of breath, as if she had difficulty breathing, and was basically begging for help, saying that she was going to die. you’d expect them to be worried about her and do anything in their power to help, right? 

wrong. 

the operator who took the call - and another colleague of hers - proceeded to make fun of her, not taking her seriously and saying that “everybody dies eventually”. the operator threathened to hang up on naomi because she wasn’t clear enough, because of the fact that she was in pain? because of her accent?the operator told her to call either sos doctor or her attending physician because “she couldn’t do it for her”. after she did call sos doctors - and taken seriously - she was rushed into the ER before dying of a heart attack, six hours after she called the samu.

naomi musenga was only 22. she has a daughter, who now has to grow up without a mother because of racist - yeah, this is about racism and bigotry and just plain hatred - women who didn’t want to do their jobs.

[french-ement-votre]

je sais c’est pas un post en français mais vous pouvez signer la pétition ici :

https://www.change.org/p/justice-pour-naomi/psf/promote_or_share?share=false

[racial]

if youre a 4 eyed demon girl pls dm me

[wlwellbutrin]

it’s really fucking interesting that accusations of inaccessibility never seem to be levied against The Hard Sciences

[wlwellbutrin]

if someone asks me what i’m doing in lab and i explain a little bit of maxwell’s vortex hypothesis, nobody expects to understand the whole thing. you have to have some foundational knowledge of calculus and electromagnetism, and you need to study faraday’s experimental data; without those, i can give you a summary of maxwell but i can’t possibly make you understand the whole thing. that’s not a failing on my part, your part, or maxwell’s. it’s just how it goes when someone produces a paper in a specialized field, and people generally accept that.

if someone asks me what i’m writing my annual essay on and i say it’s about spinoza’s conception of god as explicated through nature, suddenly i’ll get people who expect that either the entire thing needs to be stated in fifth-grade vocab terms, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being easy, or i’m being inaccessible and elitist, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being pretentious and esoteric. it’s striking, actually, the extent to which people have different expectations of subjects i’m in fact studying simultaneously in an interdisciplinary program.

there are plenty of academics who overuse jargon, whose writing is genuinely unintelligible and needlessly convoluted, and who i would like to punch in the face. but the solution to that problem is not to make blanket statements about how knowledge must always be accessible to people outside the field. and even when people do make those statements they never mean them. what they mean is that they think humanities are essentially lower and dumber than hard sciences and that the way students discuss them should reflect that.

[sisterofiris]

One of the most powerful moments I experienced as an ancient history student was when I was teaching cuneiform to visitors at a fair. A father and his two little children came up to the table where I was working. I recognised them from an interfaith ceremony I’d attended several months before: the father had said a prayer for his homeland, Syria, and for his hometown, Aleppo.

All three of them were soft-spoken, kind and curious. I taught the little girl how to press wedges into the clay, and I taught the little boy that his name meant “sun” and that there was an ancient Mesopotamian God with the same name. I told them they were about the same age as scribes were when they started their training. As they worked, their father said to them gently: “See, this is how your ancestors used to write.”

And I thought of how the Ancient City of Aleppo is almost entirely destroyed now, and how the Citadel was shelled and used as a military base, and how Palmyran temples were blown up and such a wealth of culture and history has been lost forever. And there I was with these children, two small pieces of the future of a broken country, and I was teaching them cuneiform. They were smiling and chatting to each other about Mesopotamia and “can you imagine, our great-great-great-grandparents used to write like this four thousand years ago!” For them and their father, it was more than a fun weekend activity. It was a way of connecting, despite everything and thousands of kilometres away from home, with their own history.

This moment showed me, in a concrete way, why ancient studies matter. They may not seem important now, not to many people at least. But history represents so much of our cultural identity: it teaches us where we come from, explains who we are, and guides us as we go forward. Lose it, and we lose a part of ourselves. As historians, our role is to preserve this knowledge as best we can and pass it on to future generations who will need it. I helped pass it on to two little Syrian children that day. They learnt that their country isn’t just blood and bombs, it’s also scribes and powerful kings and Sun-Gods and stories about immortality and tablets that make your hands sticky. And that matters.

[john-vanderpuije-deactivated201]

Untitled, 1960s. Photo: Raphael Albert

[accras]

A beauty

[jessicachastainsource]

Fan Bingbing, Marion Cotillard, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong'o attend the photocall for “355” during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Majestic Beach Pier on May 10, 2018 in Cannes, France.

[teamwang]

[yesterdaysprint]

Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924