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According to the BLACK employees, they worked extra hours through the night to make sure the store was pristine for the taping only to be made to stay in the background while White employees from other stores were brought in and allowed to be part of the taping. Whitewashed again

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Jimi Hendrix, Rock & Folk magazine, 1969

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PROTECT BLACK TRANS LIVES! 🚨 BOOST, SHARE, & DONATE! ‼️

WE ARE LESS THAN $1,000 from our GOAL! BIG THANKS to EVERYONE, who has shared and/or donated to DEAN’S DEFENSE!

WHAT HAPPENED:

Our comrade, activist, and friend Dean is in need your immediate support. Dean is currently facing a mandatory minimum of 1 - 10 years in prison. On March 22, Dean was stopped by two white officers for a broken tail light. Dean was instructed to exit the vehicle. The officer’s proceeded to search the car and Dean was arrested immediately. Upon arrival at the jail, Dean was placed into solitary confinement and held there until his release. Dean is being charged with felony possession of a controlled one substance (cannabis-derived-thc oil) w/intent to distribute. Dean returns to court for trial August 19th.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE?

Over 17 states have legalized (or decriminalized the use and/or sell of marijuana and marijuana-derived thc oil, including our nation’s capital.

WHILE WHITE PEOPLE PROFIT FROM THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, BLACK & BROWN FOLKS CONTINUE TO BE UNFAIRLY TARGETED & INCARCERATED FOR MARIJUANA-RELATED ARRESTS. ACCORDING TO A REPORT BY THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNITION, BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE USE MARIJUANA AT ABOUT THE SAME RATES, BUT BLACK PEOPLE ARE BETWEEN 3-10 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED."

WHAT’S AT STAKE?

Mandatory minimum of 1-10 years in prison

Life as a felon: loss of access to gov't assistance, voting rights, discrimination in housing & employment

Violence: Trans folks face higher rates of physical and sexual assault in prison.

Loss of livelihood: Dean has already lost his job as a result of the arrest. And has been denied employment opportunities due to the pending charges.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Boost. Share. Donate.

Whether you can donate $5 or 5 cents, donations of any amount help. If you can’t donate, please boost/share. Thank you all for your support! 🙏🏾

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Deon Hinton by David Urbanke

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alisha safo for anel fashion

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incorrect marvel quotes (4/?)

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So “queer” isn’t just an identity that’s broadly inclusive because, I don’t know, we like big parties. There’s actually an underlying ethic, a queer theory, that has political implications.

Its name reclaims a slur because the point is to say, “I am different, but that’s not a bad thing.” The queer movement is about upholding the right of all people to deviate from an oppressive cisgender, heterosexual, patriarchal norm. Broadening the spectrum of acceptable diversity; questioning and dismantling the social pressures that police and punish deviance. Changing not just our own lives, but how our entire society thinks about sex and gender.

That’s why “queer” embraces so many different groups. It’s not trying to erase their differences, but to try to coherently understand the complex overlapping pressures that affect each of them, and to extend our reach beyond the LGBT+ community. It’s about the right of lesbians to live without men and the right of trans and nonbinary people to be who they are, the right of asexuals to define for themselves what’s significant in their lives, the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent. When the great queering project is done, you will see the changes everywhere, not just in small LGBT+ enclaves.

It’s recognizing that something that harms or oppresses one of us is pretty likely to harm all of us, so we all benefit from taking it down together.

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^THIS^ It sums up queerness so concisely. And the best part? By including the line “the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent”, it illustrates what queerness is all about:

freedom– *real* freedom for *everybody* to be who they *really* want to be.

Queerness, at its core, is NOT about saying “I don’t feel I belong in any of these boxes”. Queerness, at its core, is about saying “No human being belongs in a box”.

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I NEED THAT AS A CROSS-STITCH SAMPLER

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I loved everything about this post! Day by day I’m trying to find out just exactly who I identify as, and things like this really really help.

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Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian/American, b. 1985), What Her Daughter Sees, 2018. Pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper

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Yves Tessier (Canadian, *1955, http://ytessier.com/)

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She’s adorable

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Beautiful

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#listening to kkb while driving

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propaganda photos for the concentration camp vs the us camp

lagonegirl

I hope he wins the lawsuit, a police officer was finally doing the right thing and they penalize him for not being a racist monster!

theboykingofhell

his name is stephen mader and not only did he refuse to shoot, he actively wanted to help the man (ronald ‘rj’ williams) because he could tell that he was only acting out because of mental illness. rj williams was suicidal and holding an unloaded gun and, while mader didn’t shoot him, a fellow officer (ryan kuzma) did and murdered him on the spot. here is the source and here’s to hoping rj williams gets justice

socialistexan

“Saying the words ‘Just shoot me’ sent up the red flag that he was just trying to harm himself and no one else … That’s what made me make my decision. He needed help” I hate this fucking world. The guy was actually trying to do his job by actually desculating the situation the right way (desculating these days apparently just means shoot them) and was fired for “failing to eliminate a threat.”