All the words in the world .

Allie.25.Pansexual.NY

[nevver]

Or selfishness, Brad Montague (because)

[flowerytale]

Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

[paceyjoeys]

Thora Birch as Dani Dennison in Hocus Pocus; (1993)

[pughsflorenceshasmoved]

[fuck-me-till-the-end-please]

“ When the kiss is so good that you end up having sex. “

[amoreterno]

the honduran flag in mr ratburn’s class, him reading pablo neruda, his husband making mexican chocolate and naming it frida kahlo..they’re both latino and you can’t convince me otherwise

[destinytomoon-deactivated202006]

GAY LATINO RIGHTS

[that-one-fat-guy-over-there]

[cher-pierrot]

[thebelchers]

You’re in eighth grade?

[giffingcartoons]

[lifeinpoetry]

The black birds are circling again and I haven’t slept in weeks.

The color underneath my eyes: smudged blackberries.

I can’t remember; was it me that smeared this fruit on my body during fall?

— Elizabeth Schmuhl, “#107,” Premonitions

[sayanythingtattoos]

Submission

[superbnature]

Jenga by AaronReedPhotography

[sosuperawesome]

Djamila Knopf on Instagram

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[90377]

Memories of August by 90377 Instagram | Etsy Shop

[mindblowingfactz]

In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

[wildwomanofthewoods-archive-blog]

One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

[fieldbears]

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

[maudnewton]

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

[shrineart]

This is an ally. This is a hell of an ally.

[tomorroejones-deactivated202209]

Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.

She did good work.

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.

“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“ 

–http://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959

If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link

https://www.gofundme.com/RuthCokerBurks

[gentlechamomile]

Dear Universe, send me love, send me support, send me intimacy, send me consistency, send me clear communication, send me partnership, send me patience, send me kindness, send me goodness, send me innocence, send me affection, send me presence. I am open to receiving all goodness for the highest good of all involved. 

[vivienvalentino]