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@duskanddaggers is my goths of color blog

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Currently

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not to be dramatic but the trauma of being a daughter is real and my relationship with my mother is and will always be one of the most devastating and complex relationships i will ever experience

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Dunked on by a dictionary 😭😭

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This is how they brainwash ppl into thinking Black ppl are dangerous, just lies

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but why…. on the subway….

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That part’s just New York

[midnight-spectrum-again]

Don’t know enough about New York to question it

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me revisiting my scene phase playlist

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me having a depressive episode

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This song is still a banger

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That's why they call it lean.

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Noname’s Book Club is Shaping Up to be One of the Best Things of 2020

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I am 2000 and late on the news, but it was a few days ago when I learned of The Book Club created and organized by Chicago rapper Noname. Initially started last year, I came across a tweet of hers on twitter when looking for some type of escapism from the horror of death, fire and military action by the U.S. in the Middle East.

The tweet I stumbled upon links to the Patreon of said book club and when I read on, I learned that it aims to become an online/IRL community dedicated to uplifting POC voices. Two authors of color will be highlighted each month by the club to be read and discussed along with local meetups in select cities. Imagine the smile on my face poking around on their website and the social media seeing so many Black and Brown folks with reading material, with smiles and most of all–gathered together.

But what takes the cake? What made me take out my wallet and sit down and bust this piece out on a Saturday morning before second breakfast? Noname’s Bookclub has a vision of sustainability and a pledge to push for education. With every subscription to the Patreon means compensating staff, graphic designers, photographers, and facilitators which is key. In a day and time where huge, multi-million dollar publications are still pushing unpaid internships and rent (is too damn high!) control still doesn’t exist in many places around the country–attempting to create and keep something creative ongoing is ideal and realistically needs support and especially support by way of dollar bills. The website also mentions that a 2020 goal is that they also want to raise funds to send their monthly picks to select prisons in various cities.

Further detailed is the push for acknowledging bookstore and libraries: for example, there are links to the Los Angeles Public Library and the Chicago Public Library who partnered up with the book club. As for the bookstores, shopping locally is encouraged with photos, addresses and phone numbers to such book havens like Hakim’s Bookstore in Philadelphia and the Reparations Club in Los Angeles. The stress to shop local is felt at the bottom of the about page on the website with the words: Noname. No Amazon. Shop Local. The intent is further felt when glancing on social media with such tweets as the one below, advertising #FuckAmazonDay where on January 11, a mass registering for library cards to promote free access to book and education will take place. Excited, I am.

Read on here. [x]

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Racial microaggressions you hear on a daily basis in America

Photographer Kiyun asked her friends at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus to “write down an instance of racial microaggression they have faced.”

#Black Lives Matter

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Kids tryna whisper in your ear is the worst feeling 😭😭

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spittin all in ya ear with the hot breath too

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Half the time they don’t even be whispering, still bout loud as hell

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Notice how Shan Yu doesn’t even question it or make a comment about “BUT YOU’RE A GIRL” he just instantly goes into a “I’LL TEACH YOU TO KILL MY MEN AND STEAL MY VICTORY” rage and I think about this a lot sometimes

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((Well that might have to do with the fact that he’s a Hun.  Women among the Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts and even some of their own men. Women were free to hunt and fight along side of the men, could choose their own husbands and divorce him if she choose to. There were even records of clans being led by women leaders. So for Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier))

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thank you, history side of tumblr.

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He also might not have been able to see very well, due to whatever horrible disease has taken hold in his eyeballs.

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Pretty serious Wilson’s Disease judging by the copper buildup in in irises, and apparent melanocytosis localized to his sclera.

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Thank you medical side of tumblr

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I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER

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It’s always mandatory to reblog this whenever it appears

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My piece for ECCC’s 2020 Monster and Dames charity book! 

Something very different from my usual stuff, but I had a lot of fun with it. 

More details about where/how to buy the book soon! 

Website | Store | Patreon | Twitter

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“When circumstances force you to some sort of distress, quickly return to yourself. Do not stay out of rhythm for longer than you must: you will master the harmony the more by constantly going back to it.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (trans. Mark Hammond)

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A transgender couple celebrated their love in Bengal’s first ever trans wedding

Tista Das, a transgender activist and actress, married her partner Dipan Chakraborty in a Hindu ceremony  in Agarpara, Kolkata in front of friends, neighbours and family members.

The couple met while Tista was working at a trans legal clinic. Dipan is also transgender. 

More over at Pink News.

“This wedding will boost the transgender community. It will  have a huge impact as the trans community fears being  rejected by society. I wish Dipan and Tista a happy married  life. They are both wonderful human beings,” said Aparajita Bose, a member Human Rights Law Network Kolkata, to The Times of India. 

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Every act of trans acceptance, of gay love, anything that rejects strict heterosexual gender norms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh is an act of anticolonial resistance. It’s been over 250 years, but brown people are slowly taking their countries back

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I think the last picture is favorite one.

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