RAGE IS LOVE'S DIGNITY

|Riad|they/he|adult|mixed|femme 3rd gender homo|leftist(Ⓐ☭)|kemetic| header art by abdalla m assad

[saloongirls]

“Once Upon a Time” by Mark Maggiori | oil on linen

[mr-deep-downer]

[sailatina3]

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[threeninesfine]

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

[creatingblackcharacters]

"From these made-up horrors, these fictionalized enemies, he had created a villain worthy of the violent bravado that he imagined he would display if confronted by said villain. This web of racist lies was what he needed to make himself seem like a man. He invented a story about bad guys who were out to get him, and he repeated it to himself and others until he believed it. Then he made up another story- of himself as hero, defending himself and his family against this violent threat- and he repeated that one until he believed it too. Brian wrote himself into his own American westen, a world of cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. And for a man with no job, few friends, and a family that couldn't stand him, pretending to be a main character in violent American mythology was as close to belonging as he was ever going to get."

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[profkew]

Searching for a Fortress Built by People Who Escaped Slavery

Its ruins are somewhere in the swamps of Georgia. What will it take to find them?

"American Maroon communities weren’t as large as their counterparts in Central and South America, she writes, and they didn’t wage wars against enslavers; their settlements weren’t well documented, and, whereas everyone has heard of the Underground Railroad, marronage “lacked the high drama of the escape to the North.” Diouf also argues that the Maroons’ “narrative of autonomous survival without benevolent white involvement” probably lacked mass appeal."

[nisreenaaa1992]

Regardless of our religion, our colors, our thoughts, or our beliefs, in the end we all share one thing in common: humanity.

Please, show your humanity to kids.

I am a mother of three children. We lost everything in the war on Gaza. My husband is disabled and unable to move, and all I want is to be able to buy a meal for my kids.

Food prices here are unbearably expensive — even a simple meal costs around $20, while a proper filling meal can cost $50.

The type of food does not matter anymore… all that matters is seeing my children eat and sleep without hunger. Please

https://gofund.me/e4bb15f2

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[chanafehs]

Palestinian Lesbians, happy pride to my Palesbians !

[chalkrub]

going through old art and realised i never posted this from last year. i love it when women

[wolf-aid]

We're in the middle of the school. Guys, we're done building the classrooms. School thanks to your donations, this is a very wonderful thing Thank you to everyone who donated and participated But we still have a lot of lacking

[wolf-aid]

Hey guys, let's be snug. Why don't we complete donations quickly? Why don't you help us spread this out for fundraising? This is considered an institution. Why doesn't anyone care about her? I'm overloading my energy. Please create posts everywhere. Everything is available in Gaza, but education is still not available please help with posting We're doing a good job, please share and donate now.

Donate to Help the children of Gaza get a safe and free education., organized by Asma Yunis

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[faacethefacts]

Please donate anything you can, you could make a real difference in these children's education here!

[trawl]

Ibrahim is doing really really important work! Let's help him!

[wolfer-aid]

Hey guys, come on, come on, we can do it all together. Please donate and share this post now, and if you can post about it, you guys are our only hope. Come on, come on, please.

[djbeat]

I like it in here.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[riverpiracy]

[anneemay]

[petulantpony]

walking into a fandom focused convention wearing a shirt that reads “I AM NOT AMUSED BY JOKES WHERE WHITE CHARACTERS USE AAVE” and getting my throat torn out for it probably

[bardace]

Shut Up, I Don’t Care

[thedreamthieves]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[harbinger-of-the-defiled-heires]

if the usamerican civil war was happening now instead of the 1800s you would see posts on here like "im literally disabled and i need a slave to function"

[whereserpentswalk]

People would talk about how impoverished the south is and how being against white southerners is classist.

[whereserpentswalk]

So many people in the notes trying to make this about ethical consumption under capitalism. This is a post about how the ruling class use progressive language to defend their status, not about the immorality of the working class.

[bisforbutch]

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" and the topic of the post is FUCKING SLAVERY