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remember real football is back next year

[strike-another-match]

every time i make a post about the suffering of the global south it undergoes some tumblr alchemy and is transformed into a post about the suffering of the americans

[shoppinghauer]

Puta terfa nadie te quiere. Despojo humano, efectivamente. Lo sabes hasta tú.

Jajaja, me encanta porque es una referencia a un poema de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a quien también le dijeron mil cosas por expresarse. Te dejo el link para que te eduques, cerda inculta.

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

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[cloudyyyy6]

[poetrylesbian]

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[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[ancestralia]

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

[thisaintnofuckingdisco]

Original link seems to be broken, but a quick search led me to this very touching accounting of the full story of how Mary Moran was able to find the village her great great grandmother was taken from:

How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved

[radiant-spirit-guardians]

remember how for a brief period back in the 2010s the message was that clothes/voice tone/mannerisms don't define you or hint at your sexuality at all and straight men could wear glitter eyeshadow and still be straight men and that it wasn't right to say "you look like a lesbian" to women who didn't wear makeup and preferred practical clothes? or did I hallucinate it all? because now there's this added layer of gender bullshit we have to contend with on top of it. calling others slurs and saying they're zesty & fruity was done by both homophobes and spicy straights who felt the need to reclaim those slurs, but now you just get called an egg if you fail to perform certain gender roles. girl brain boy brain crap. they're as obsessed with gender roles and stereotypes as their parents and grandparents.

"oh my god I didn't know this person was straight they dress/act/speak sooo gay" i'm going to kill you i'm gonna do it "or maybe their egg is about to crack" i swear to fucking god the only thing cracking here will be your skull

[sickofthis666]

I mourn that time so often.

Seeing ppl call a male character from a very famous video game "effeminate" bc he has mannerism/is dramatic/has a voice slightly higher pitched/moved his hands when he talks? AND because he's "effeminate", he HAS to be gay despite being canonically bi and straight women are dumb for falling for him?

Seeing articles about ppl from the past and it's a gnc gay man who gets called a drag queen/crossdresser when he simply dresses like he wanted bc HE understood that clothes are not genderlocked? And it's a gay or straight woman dressed like a man for personal safety who gets called a trans man with absolute confidence?

[blackcatdoomer]

the women who came before you felt the same injustice boiling in their blood, and they would want you to be brave

[anarchists-united]

[sproutlett]

just a reminder that there’s so much more that we still don’t know about ourselves and that’s what makes life so beautiful. next year you could find your next favorite musician or fall in love with someone you haven’t even met yet. you might see a new shade of green that will become your new favorite color or you could become obsessed with a new food that you thought you once hated. we change as life goes on. we grow as life changes. our experiences shape us into a new person. it’s beautiful.

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

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[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

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[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933