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[g0thcats]

i want to be a cat. jobless. educationless. useless. there to be pretty and soft

[6balls]

[grace--upon--grace]

Aaron Froese

[butchscientist]

the idea of "if a workplace is good to its workers then they wouldn't need a union" has got things the wrong way around. if a hypothetical workplace already treats its workers right & cares about them then it would have no reason to oppose workers unionizing because a union isn't threatening unless you're abusing your workers :)

[bijackkellys]

friendly reminder that u can be like “lin manuel miranda created a work of art that was meant to highlight performers of color and made broadway mainstream again and was full of amazing themes and motifs” and still be like “but hamilton is inherently problematic because it glorifies the founding fathers when they should not be treated as people to look up to” like u can and should do that

[bijackkellys]

this post blew up in the few hours since i made it wow so one thing i wanted to address is that some of the replies on this post and others that i’ve seen have argued that hamilton plays largely off of criticizing the founding fathers. and you’re right, it does. but the issue is a lot more fundamental than just the characters within the show calling each other out. when i say that the narrative glorifies the founding fathers, i don’t mean that it shows them as perfect—because to an extent it does bring up some of the bad things they did—i mean that the way that the story is written makes them the protagonists, and therefore as an audience we’re driven to root for them. a lot of that is also contributed to by the way we’ve learned american history in schools and stuff, but what i’m trying to stress is that after falling so in love with this musical, i now have to constantly make a conscious effort to separate lin manuel miranda’s version of the founding fathers from the actual people in history. because they’re not the same people. the plainest example: thomas jefferson was not a black man, he was a slaveowner and a disgusting human being! every single “character” in this show was historically at the very least a white supremacist; almost all of them owned slaves or engaged in the trade. they created a system that solely benefitted rich white men. and yet, every single time i listen to this musical it convinces me that i love them and i want them to succeed. that’s what media does. no matter how much it openly criticizes its characters, the moment you’re emotionally invested in them, it becomes extremely difficult to view them as bad people. i’m not immune to it, and neither are you. that’s why hamilton is inherently problematic, despite the groundbreaking things it did for the industry. that’s why it’s necessary to separate yourself from the text for long enough to say “this piece of media is incorrectly influencing my viewpoint and i need to make a conscious effort to undo that”. i am absolutely not saying you can’t enjoy it; i definitely do. and i believe, despite all of this, that it was well-intentioned. but unfortunately that’s not enough. double check the way you consume media and please, by god, allow yourself to acknowledge when the things you love are flawed.

[milkylilt]

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old ER technician and former EMT, was lying in her own bed when police broke in and shot her eight times without so much as announcing their presence. Say her name. Do the work. Text. Call. Sign. Donate.

All graphic credit to @xonecole on Instagram.

[resource-ids]

[id: Four-page guide reading: "Breonna Taylor. Ways you can help:

Request action: Mayor Greg Fischer, [phone], [email protected] Attorney Thomas Wine, [email protected] Governor Andy Beshear, [phone] Attorney General Daniel Cameron, [phone], [email protected] LMPD Chief Steve Conrad, [phone]

Sign the petitions: colorofchange.org, standwithbre.com, change.org

Text: ENOUGH to 55156

Defend, trust, honor, respect, help, accept, show for, employ, honor, believe, applaud, include, sanction, acknowledge, appreciate & celebrate black women". End id.]

[reverseracism]

Happy Birthday Breonna Taylor

[blacklinguist]

Donation links !

Support Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s family (She is an Afro Indigenous woman who was thrown off her own balcony and murdered by cops in Toronto, Canada): https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-regis

Support George Floyd’s family (He is an African American man who was murdered by four cops in Minneapolis, MN // his sister has an additional GoFundMe linked in the description!): https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Support the Black Visions Collective (similar to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, but BLACK-directed and specifically looking out for Black LGBT folk!): https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2

Support the Louisville Community Bail Fund (Protests are currently going on in Louisville due to the murder of sleeping Breonna Taylor in March, 7 people were shot last night): https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/

honestly …. please match me. I have $20 down each for all four funds…. like y’all can’t just sign petitions (especially change.org petitions lol) and think things will get done! If you have the means, please donate!

and at the very least REBLOG this if you see IT so that others can too? …

[toshiagain]

A night America should never forget. Our people are hurting, they have been for hundreds of years, and yet we continue to value property over lives. Minneapolis said with a clear voice last night that enough is enough. George Floyd is dead, you can rebuild stores and replace merchandise, but you cannot bring back a life. Martin Luther King Jr. said that a riot is the language of the unheard, well are you listening now America? Why does fire and pepper spray get your attention but innocent black people slaughtered by police get nothing more than a pause and then return to normal? We can't return to normal because normal means continuing to terrorize communities of colour and that is unacceptable. No justice, no peace should be common sense so let's not act shocked by these pictures, instead let's see the pain being expressed and do something about it.

[shinsyl]

“View from the balcony”

Painted on procreate [2020.03]

Have a nice day!

[sociolab]

Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes?  That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood.  Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.

[earthmoonlotus]

I really don’t care if I’ve already reblogged this

[aliyaraey-deactivated20171111]

Because this needs to be reblogged….

[jedda-martele]

I remember learning this for the first time as an adult. I had grown up thinking education was the great playing field leveler. So I was so furious to find out how very much it wasn’t anything of the kind.

[ayellowbirds]

This is a big part of why you’ll often see rich white people fussing about school district lines, because they hate the idea that their money is going towards the education of poor children.

[actuallyasisterofbattle]

Also when California tried to correct it by equalizing school district funding but centralizing property taxes, voters passed prop 13, limiting property tax to 1% of the last sale value, which matters when you live in a house for 30 years.

[llleighsmith]

i’m so thankful we’re alive to smell flowers and touch saltwater and get chilled in the breeze and take deep breaths and make foods warm with love and dance and laugh and move and wake up and dig our hands in dirt and eat strawberries and draw mindlessly and remember and sing and joke and walk down the same street again and again and make meaning. we are so lucky we get to be and feel and keep going

[soliderofallah777]

‫يا رب، استبدل حز نيء جميل‬

Oh Lord, replace my sadness with something beautiful.‬

[lohver]

[soracities]

if there is anything to take away from this it is that life is ongoing, always ongoing, and whether you know it or not, it is filling up with little things that you are adding to it. tiny things, perhaps, but worthy things. important things. you learn a new recipe for making cinnamon rolls. that’s a worthy thing. you burn the minced garlic a dozen times before getting it right. that’s a worthy thing. you are a better friend this year than you were last year. that’s a worthy thing. you’ve found a new song that you’ve played to death on repeat but when you hear it 10 years from now it will bring a wash of emotion so powerful you will be brought right back and freeze and remember and marvel at all that has passed since then. that, too, is a worthy thing. 

what you are made up of are these worthy things. they are not all Big Things done at a certain time, to a certain standard, not a checklist of Accomplishments that prove you can now be taken seriously as a human and that validate you being here. the burnt garlic is what validates you, the overplayed song, the new recipes, even the stretches of time in which it feels you have done nothing count to this, and even here it is not nothing – it is being. there are many ways of doing, not all of it holds a material result. being is one of them, the heavy and the light. and that more than anything, is the worthiest thing.

[championsaremade]

Wow

[petalier]

[becdoesbiomed]

[sailorcuba]

the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u