effervesce Or don’t

- 34 • she/her, cis • tall • fat • non-black, non-white mestize latine (🇲🇽) • Colorado (US) • bisexual • married - i’m just tryin to ball with my bruvs

[lavzyq]

side blog for reblogs n tags talk aesthetic blog for things I find aesthetically pleasing

[lavzyq]

hopefully I’ll be geocaching around Denver again today bc there’s this botánica that I want to stop at

[lavzyq]

smh no cute sopera or candles for me today I guess since we’re all the way over in fakewood and then longmont later 👎🏽

[lavzyq]

hopefully I’ll be geocaching around Denver again today bc there’s this botánica that I want to stop at

[key-cat]

上を向くことは命の本能だと思う

I think looking up is a basic human instinct

[lavzyq]

How the fuck did I just barely today in my big ass age learn that B5 sang that Corbin Bleu song from HMS…..

[lavzyq]

I’ve had this interest in geocaching for like 10 years or so and so I made an account in 2018 but just made my first find last month and I was so right to be interested in it it’s exactly as fun as I thought it would be. just sharing that you’ve been somewhere and found the thing that was placed there specifically to be found with other people that have found it also by signing the logs and leaving/collecting treasures is cool as hell. Like. I love it it genuinely makes me happy and gets me outside more and into places I otherwise would never go and to interact with others positively

And I’ll admit that I’m not the type to look up people who share an interest of mine ie I won’t go on yt or or tt or whatever and look up “geocaching” or “geocachers” and tbh after this post I probably will but I need to discuss smth on the matter of geocaching in the united states lol

There’s no geocaches in the hood and I feel a way about it, not necessarily negatively but not all the way positively either.

On one hand I prefer for there to not be white people poking around places that they really don’t need to be but on the other hand where the fuck am /I/ supposed to find and place geocaches lmaoooooooo bc here’s the thing

Just as much as I don’t want white people where they Shouldn’t Be, I know they don’t want me where I “shouldn’t be” lmaoooooo

And there are times—like right now lol—where I’ll be out with my husband as he’s at work (so that I don’t feel like killing my self by staying in the house, yall know how it is) driving around installing windshields all around de northern front range and we inevitably end up in white neighborhoods and there will be nearby geocaches and I’ll be like “alright I’m gonna go hit this cache while you do that windshield rq love you brb” and he lovingly would prefer I not go bc ‘there’s all that blue lives matter bullshit around here’ or bc we’re in a sundowny ass part of CO or even just bc it’s a housing development full of bored white people just waiting to call the cops on this big scary brown bitch poking around like she’s looking for something which I mean they wouldn’t be wrong and of course I’ve had police roll up and ask what I was doing even while not geocaching lmao so it’s not like an unrealistic fear. I really am a big scary brown bitch and I really would be poking around like I was looking for something lmao and like even though I wouldn’t be doing anything wrong I just don’t want to make my husband all anxious if he hears I had to explain myself to police and then he just wouldn’t like me geocaching in predominantly white areas at all and here we circle back to OKAY WHERE THE FUCJ ELSE AM I SUPPO-, you see where I’m going here. But I’m not mad at him bc I would feel the exact same way if he were the geocacher.

And like I want to place a cool lil cache around my mom’s house but I also know my fam would NOT be okay with random white people walking and digging ariund like they’re trying to find things because there no doubt would be lol geocaching is mainly white people. For sure I KNOW there’s Cachers Of Color but it’s mainly white.

Anyways let me go look up geocachers bc I know they have a bunch of tips and shit I can use on my lil hunts anyway yk

[lavzyq]

I really need to stop bothering my friends with my random ass thoughts

[qillermeme]

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[lavzyq]

I hate when a white bitch says “give me my flowers” like okay algernon

[through-a-historic-lens]

On 28 January 1917, Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old Mexican maid who worked in the United States, refused to take the mandatory gasoline bath given to day labourers at the border, and convinced 30 other trolley passengers to join her. 

Her protest spread in what became known as the bath riots. Torres was one of many workers who crossed the border between Juarez and El Paso each day. In the name of public health, Mexican workers were frequently subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment. They had to strip naked, brave, undergo a toxic gasoline bath, and have their clothes steamed. The stated aim of the programme was to kill lice, which can spread typhus. However, it was not applied to everyone crossing the border: just working class Mexicans. 

In addition to gasoline being poisonous, it was also a deadly fire risk. A group of prisoners in El Paso being treated with gasoline were burned to death in an accidental fire. Furthermore, US health workers were secretly photographing naked Mexican women.

 On January 28, anger at the practice finally exploded, and within a few hours Torres had amassed a crowd of several thousand mostly women protesters. They blocked all traffic and trolleys into El Paso. They pelted immigration officers with rocks and bottles when they try to disperse them, and when US and then Mexican troops arrived they received the same treatment. The riots were eventually suppressed by the soldiers, and Torres herself was arrested. This appeared to have the effect of discouraging future protests. 

The enforced bathing and fumigation of Mexican workers with toxic chemicals like gasoline, and later DDT and Zyklon B, continued until the 1950′s. The use of Zyklon B at the border appealed to scientists in Nazi Germany, who in the late 1930′s began using the agent at borders and in concentration camps for delousing. Although notoriously they later used it to exterminate millions of people in the Holocaust.“

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Sources/further reading:

Jan. 28, 1917: The Bath Riots

A protest of the toxic chemical “baths” required for all workers coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, led by 17-year-old Carmelita Torres.

El Paso Border Practices Influence the Holocaust | Texas Story Project

In 1917, the mayor of El Paso, Tom Lea, sent an alarmist telegram to Washington D.C. demanding a quarantine, claiming that “hundreds [of] di

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[lavzyq]

there hasn’t been a car as revolutionary as the Chrysler 300C since the Chrysler 300C first came out

[t4t4t]

A watercolor illustration of Hopi people tearing down the cross from the mission church and putting a Catholic priest to death.

Cat. No. 54019/13. 1680 Pueblo Revolt at Hopi, Fred Nakayoma Kabotie, 1976. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe.

[lavzyq]

Lmaooooooooooooo

[huaracheblog]

Zapatistas marching on Xochimilco. Mexico City 1914.

[lostupnorth]

“Beware of Artists” - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.

[radicalgraff]

"Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds"

Seen in South Minneapolis, January 2026