Maria Reads A Lot

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[rasdivine]

[khemicalvex]

i have to reblog this again because ugggh. 

THIS is how you do it. this is how break down a people. like the beginning. strip them of their language, along with everything else that makes them who they are.

and then they are yours.

[outofmymind-justintime-deactiva]

😞

[musinvenusian]

White colonizers are evil

[daniel-oneiroi]

people in america think afrikaans IS the native language but it’s actually mostly dutch and a little german. that’s why my translator friend picked it up in only a year from his native language, german.  then again, a lot of americans think africa is a country, not a continent, so

[spiritroots]

For anyone wondering what we mean by “decolonizing” ourselves, this is it. It’s the effort of undoing centuries of beating our own cultures out of us.

Learning our ancestral languages, cultures, and traditions is an important but very difficult thing for us to be able to do.

[imonlyhereforthegiggles-deactiv]

This is why I refuse to listen to ANYONE that says I must stop speaking my language around them.

[uninterruptedafricans]

God Bless him for remembering what he could.

[secretlycrazyhuman]

“That bushman knowledge that I have is something they can’t take from me”

Idk that speaks to me personally

Although I can’t speak my language anymore I still know my traditional heritage and knowledge

[madawhatever]

“Before the writers started working on the first season, I wrote a list of six things on the wall that every episode had to do.” - Mike Schur (x)

[raptorlily-deactivated20191105]

#ladies and gentlemen #a showrunner who knows what the fuck he is doing (via @stillscape)

[mylangbox]

BIG NEWS

[godisablckwoman-deactivated2019]

Keira Knightley when she’s offered projects that take place in modern day society

[theheartisalonelyhunter]

[luisonte]

Y asi se hacen las esponjas de baño

[facelesskinkyblackguyblog]

[imleft-handed-deactivated202011]

[dshonj]

[karayray1-deactivated20230129]

I honestly am more excited that I could read and understand spanish

[blackgirlsreverything]

This post is in response to @tia-lili OP. Not able to add videos to reblogs.

[perchperkinz]

@actual-factualities wow

[thabootyscholar]

Damn

[darkmoonperfume]

Yall ain’t know that? Lmao why you think ashanti can just take urban model pics and do nothing but breathe these days? She’s a great writer. Singer naw, but that pen game quite strong.

[kimreesesdaughter]

When I tell y’all these receipts on Twitter were wiped from the face of the Earth!

[mexicantransguy]

Ok but as a dysphoric trans man the whole ‘you need dysphoria to be trans’ actually baffles me because even tho I’ve always had severe dysphoria, it didn’t actually help me figure out my gender at all. I usually dismissed my dysphoria as ‘internalized misogyny’ or just not being feminine enough, which actually just caused me worse dysphoria.

You know what made me figure out that I’m trans though? Gender euphoria. The minute I got called a ‘sir’ is the moment that I realized, “shit this feels right.” And at that point I realized that I could no longer deny the fact that I’m not a woman and that I couldn’t keep living as one.

Here’s a hot take: maybe being trans isn’t so much about how uncomfortable you can be in your DGAB, but rather how much more comfortable you can be.

[froborr]

Trans woman chiming in to second this.

I was dysphoric since at least the onset of puberty, but it took me until age 36 to realize I was trans, and it wasn’t the dysphoria that made me realize it. I even knew that what I felt sounded exactly like what dysphoric trans people described. But I dismissed it as self-loathing, depression, unhappiness with my body type.

And just like OP, the dysphoria isn’t how I realized I was trans. That feeling of “this is right, this is what I want” is how I realized I was trans. The realization that wanting to be trans and being trans are the same thing. Only then did it become clear. Only then was I able to start transitioning. And only then did my dysphoria begin to break.

[noura-pal-deactivated20190308]

[onekisstotakewithme]

Reblog if you think fanfiction isn't a waste of time.

Reblog if you think it’s a good way to practice writing.

Reblog if you have made friends because of fanfiction.

My sister called it a waste of time and I want to prove her wrong.

[vity-dream]

I’ve read more fanfictions than books

[boggletheowl]

Thank you so much for all your kind words! Boggle is back this week, and I am feeling better!

Relationships are hard, whether you’re talking about romantic relationships or friendships. They’re even harder if you come from a background with mental illness, family dysfunction, or if you just feel drawn to someone you’re not ‘supposed to’ want to be with. People feel ashamed of who they are, what they want, and where they came from. And sometimes, there really are legitimate obstacles to overcome! But please believe that you deserve to overcome them. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to be more than, maybe, other people in your life want or expect you to be. And I believe you can.

[girlactionfigure]

Link / Link

[sweetmeatdale]

It was announced that Netflix is gonna do a live action version of Avatar the Last Airbrnder so I’d like to voice just one simple casting request.

The Boulder!

Played by The Rock!

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

The fuck people confused about?

[beyonceisstraight]

Why does this family only go to the beach once every 18 years?

[posting-disliker]

the economy

[beyonceisstraight]

Saved all that money from not going to the beach so their child could transition. Legends.

[tiredlonelysoft]

going to the beach is free???

[beyonceisstraight]

The economy

[heathens-and-kings]

Hey kids, your favorite black barista here. So I am the only person of color employed at my specific shop (I live in suburbia and it’s a living hell), and today we had this as our trivia question (answer is B). I didn’t pick it, although almost every white person who came in assumed I did. I thought I’d share some of the gems I heard because of it:

Older White Man who always answers the trivia every single fucking day and has NEVER complained about the questions: Who the hell cares?? They’re all idiots anyway. I hate this question. White Co-Worker: Couldn’t agree more! Me: *horrified silence*

White Woman: Wow this is a tough one, I don’t think many people who come in here listen to rap music. Do I look like I listen to rap music? *laughs* Me: Well I’m pretty sure you don’t need a certain look to listen to music, just…ears. So yeah, you do! White Woman: Oh…sure…

12 different White Customers throughout my shift: Did you write this question?

White Woman #2: Why would you choose a question that only certain people would know? Me: *almost rolls my eyes into oblivion*

College-aged white guy: Hmm… *turns to black guy waiting in line behind him whom HE DOESN’T FUCKING KNOW* You got the answer to this right? *laughs* Black Guy: *gives me the “can u believe this fucking cracker” look* Me: *gives him the “I know brotha just pray to the lord for strength” look*

And much more. Y’all it was fucking wild to see white people so uncomfortable with something as simple as a trivia question that even hinted at blackness. We have questions about everything from fucking astrophysics to types of cheese but it was this one that was just “too much” or “outside their knowledge.” Soooo ridiculous and childish and…welp, racist.

[raggedick]

this is an important post

[skyliting]

5 seconds on Google will answer this, and the white people rather moan than look it up. And assume the only other black people in the room just mystically know.

[biscuitmango]

I really like this gif because Stitch does that little squinty thing that animals do when they’re really happy and relaxed and you can tell that he’s having such a superb time playing that little ukulele

[geekophiliac]

fucking superb you funky little alien

[localstarboy]

OK MOOD

[heartgemsona]

sweet dreams ominously playing in the background really makes this

[meangirlnurse]

i think sometimes trauma survivors fall into this place where it’s very hard to believe that anything that happened to you was that bad. and the only proof you have that it was that bad is that you’re suffering. and so healing can be really scary and difficult because it means giving up the only tangible evidence you have that you were traumatized in the first place 

[naamahdarling]

Oh.

[da-at-ass]

Been experiencing this lately.