love me, but keep me wild

Tell me something sweet to get me by.

[multiplicitymemes]

When the edgy teenage alter fronts

[hatefuckingunconditional]

not to flex but watch this

*dissociates*

[xanax1ety]

[londondominance]

[stonerparty]

buds2be

[lordendsavior]

THIS SLAPS SO HARD LOL

[ainatirb-j]

So hard it slaps.

[yemme]

[sbrown82]

THIS SLAPS SO HARD LOL

[theotherbrowndrank]

I looooove OUR CULTURE

[xxsweethoneycocainexx]

This shit fire lol

[peachisty-portfolio]

you are a work in progress c:

[regularlesbian]

friendly reminder that

if we’re mutuals, you are allowed to slip 1 (One) small lizard into my pocket if you see me at the farmer’s market

[sadhoc]

one consequence of gentrification that i never see talked about on here is that it can actually take resources away from schools in a gentrifying neighborhood.

the US government has a program called “title I” where schools in neighborhoods where at least 40% of the students are low income get extra funding for programs like free meals for the whole student body, extra reading and math specialists, clothing and school supply donations, food pantries on campus, etc. i attended a title I school as a kid, and the school where i work now as a classroom aide used to be one before gentrification. it’s a great program for a school to have because it means that kids living in poverty still get some of the resources they need to do well in school.

the problem with how it’s set up is that, when a bunch of richer families move into a neighborhood with a title I school, the percentage of low income students drops below 40%. that means that the school no longer qualifies for extra funding. so if a school that previously had, say, 48% low income students, now has 39%? no more schoolwide free lunches, no more campus food pantry, no more free clothing or school supplies, no more reading specialist. that means that the 39% of students at that school who are poor no longer have access to resources they need to survive. while the gentrifiers’ kids are fine with that stuff going away, the kids who’ve lived in the neighborhood actually need it. 

gentrification means that a neighborhood’s schools lose funding. it means that poor kids don’t get any extra help from their school. it really hurts the students when the neighborhood around their school gentrifies

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I want everything that this 🐕 doggo has 

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[memewhore]

[xanax1ety]

[librelivrevivre]

books to educate yourself about black history and struggle in America

disclaimer: I’m white. I’m white as snow. My ancestors came to America from Scotland before the war for Independence. My other ancestors came from Germany. I’m THAT white. So if there’s any books that I should take off the list or add, please let me know!! 

- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

- The Autobiography of Malcolm X

- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin

- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love

-  How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

-  Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

-  Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

- Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System by Cyntoia Brown-Long, Bethany Mauger

- Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell

- At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

cool so now you have resources to learn from! so stop asking black people to rec you books when you could, I don’t know…google it?? :) stop asking ppl like @blackgrad to educate you when you can do it yourself :))) hi it’s me your friendly education major I’ll teach you as best as I can!!!

[peachstonefemme]

In addition to these…

“Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson (focuses on racial prejudice within death-row sentences)

“Some of My Best Friends are Black” by Tanner Colby (the story of integration and schools dealing with racism)

“Black Boy” by Richard Wright (the author’s autobiography growing up in the Jim Crow south)

[everythingfox]

“Tough guy protecting his castle…Though the plan failed when he remembered he is a good boi ❤”

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