What Kind of Fuckery is This?

thirty-two flavors and then some

[jodielandon]

Rude white people that think they're better than the minorities at the laundromat. Bitch you're right here with me.

[princesscarriefisherarchive-dea]

So we were approaching the [beach] scene, and I was talking to the two guys and they were both really, really, really, really nervous. Partly because they’d never performed a sex scene in a film before, they’d hardly acted at all, I hadn’t directed a sex scene, just all around we’re all green as hell. But we get there and the one kid, Jharrel Jerome, who plays Kevin, he’d asked me, he said, ‘So, Barry, what is this scene?’ I was like, ‘It’s in the script. Exactly the scene.’ I’m just trying to make it chopping wood. And I go, ‘Jharrel, are you a virgin?’ He goes, ‘No I’m not a virgin.’ I was like, ‘Okay, was the person you lost your virginity to more experienced, with the same experience?’ He was like, ‘No, she was more experienced.’ I was like, ‘Was it a good experience?’ He said, ‘Yeah, it was, she was really kind.’ And now, I like the actor to sort of talk their way into the solution, I don’t wanna give it. So I got quiet, and he said, ‘Is this the first time Kevin has kissed another man?’ I said, ‘No, it’s not the first time Kevin has kissed another man.’ Then I got really quiet and I just watched him. And he said, ‘Is this the first time Chiron has kissed another man?’ I didn’t say anything, and he said, ‘Oh, it’s the first time Chiron has kissed anyone.’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And that’s what the scene became about.

Barry Jenkins x (via princesscarriefisher)

[thepowerofblackwomen]

Oscar Winning Actress Viola Davis photographed by Mark Seliger

[lemon-bunny]

caitlyn jenner being a piece of shit doesn’t give you a free pass to misgender a trans person. you can dislike a trans woman without calling her a man. if your immediately impulse when insulting a trans woman is to call her a man.. maybe just maybe you’re a transphobe.

[commongayboy-deactivated2018082]

[jodielandon]

It's 66 degrees in February and people are dressing like it's 100 degrees. You don't need a Cami and a sundress today, ok.

[jodielandon]

This dude at work is seriously eating a mayonnaise and peanut butter sandwich.

What the actual fuck.

[jayoncecarter]

[jazminesullivan]

How important is the fashion side of your music? I think that visual art in all aspects are super important to me, whether it be throughout the creation of my videos or my album artwork. Creating strong visual representation of not only myself but, again, black women, and getting to see us as avant-garde beings in a world that sometimes puts us in a box is really important to me.

[flo-nelja]

Good books

So, the “worst book you had to read for school” thread makes me sad, since there’s so many books I love in the list.

So, do people want to play with me and say their favorite book they had to read for school?

[vergilliusrex-deactivated201812]

Antigone by Jean Annouilh

[skeleton-richard]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

[shredsandpatches]

Henry IV part 1.

[cakesandfail]

Macbeth

[lilliburlero]

Robert Browning, Men and Women

[arcadiaego]

The Tempest.

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

Hamlet

[juushika]

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

[raiona-deactivated20191006]

I actually really loved Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

[witchpieceoftoast]

bless me, ultima by rudolfo anaya

[holdouttrout]

Oh my gosh someone else said old man and the seaaaaaaa

[mylittleredgirl]

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

or East of Eden, John Steinbeck, I can’t choose

[trainingforstarfleet]

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (literally this story is HILARIOUS)

[rush-keating-deactivated2018121]

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. I had to read that for college. 

[nerdfishgirl]

A Tale of Two Cities

[shipperqueen93]

Jane Eyre

[tjmystic]

Dang it, I was gonna say A Tale of Two Cities. Umm… well, in that case, I’ll have to go with Sister Outsider.

[nothingeverlost]

Really hard to pick but one was Bridge to Terabithia.

[anonymousnerdgirl]

I actually liked Catcher in the Rye.

[margaretmoony]

The Devine Comedy

[curliestofcrowns]

The Crucible

or maybe A Man for All Seasons

and it’s not a book but A Rose For Emily changed my world when i was 12

[ghost-in-the-ujb]

The Awakening and Great Expectations

[tsg2k15]

The Stranger

[jodielandon]

Invisible Man

[0z]

cmooooon raiden

[californiadrian]

OOOHHHH MMMMYYYYYY GGGGOOOOOODDDDD

[thechanelmuse]

How One Woman’s Tweet Helped Pay Student Lunch Debts Across the U.S.

New York City writer Ashley C. Ford hated knowing that thousands of school children—saddled with unpaid lunch accounts—were being offered embarrassing substitute meals in their school cafeterias. Wanting to make a difference, Ford took to Twitter, imploring her 66,000 followers to take action.

According to the Associated Press, Ford’s tweet had a major impact: She inspired hundreds of people to raise thousands of dollars. In fact, an online campaign raised nearly $100,000 for lunch debt in Minneapolis and $28,000 in St. Paul’s schools, the AP reports, while efforts in Topeka, Kansas, paid off $6,000 in debt and a movement in Bellevue, Washington, erased $2,000 in unpaid lunch dues.

As the AP noted, children from low-income families can qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunch. Some of these families, however, still struggle to pay the cost of reduced-price school meals, which can lead to their children’s lunch accounts being overdrawn (other instances of lunch debt can come from families who may not realize they qualify for discounted meals and fail to fill out necessary paperwork, or from parents who can afford to pay for meals but forget to put money in their children’s prepaid accounts).

Though most schools allow students to “run a tab” for a fixed number of meals, others will offer students an alternative lunch option, which can consist of just a cold cheese sandwich and a carton of milk.

One woman, Jill Draper, who worked to collect money for schools in Kingston, New York, told the AP she was moved to take action because Ford’s tweet made it seem easy.

“It seemed like a really easy way to make a positive difference locally,” Draper said. “It’s amazing how one tweet became this crazy movement.” And that’s exactly what Ford wanted.

“I sincerely just wanted to think of something really easy that people could do to make a difference locally,” Ford told the AP. “It was just one idea; another school might need help with uniforms or tutoring. The point was to do something that helps people in your community.”

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Brilliant!! Why haven’t I ever thought of this?? Def doing it and the other suggestions that’s bolded!

[being-rachelmarie]

[with-practice]

Yall be like pineapples on pizza is gross. But, yall drink milk......lmfao

Your judgement isn’t trusted.

[juniorvarsityjacket-deactivated]

Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination

A leaked copy of a draft executive order titled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom,” obtained by The Investigative Fund and The Nation, reveals sweeping plans by the Trump administration to legalize discrimination.

[pure]

all i have to say about people claiming that these recent events coming from the white house are “un-american” is… nothing that is happening is an aberration on an otherwise good-natured country. as i mentioned before, this isn’t exceptional. i think dr. mlk jr.’s realization bears repeating. 

[divalocity]

Actress Aja Naomi King

Photography Credit: Luke Fontana