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if i look back, i am lost
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DEAR READER
Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
we're not kids anymore.

#extradirty
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@nicoatsume
When you put on a costume like this you are dehumanizing a culture. You are showing that my traditional clothing is something you can take without context, without any background knowledge and wear because it’s pretty or feels aesthetically pleasing. What you’re actually doing is taking a culture that historically goes back thousands of years and sexualizing and dehumanizing if until it is nothing more than a $20 costume hanging beside a Spider-Man costume.
I urge everyone to take a look around yourself, observe the culture and diversity around you, in your classroom, on the bus sitting next to you, in line behind you at the checkout. Look at these strangers and know that they are more than just a body. Everyone has a culture. Everyone has a background. Everyone deserves respect and honour.
We are not a costume.
(Please share this.)
by eddiekruger
Belly floof.
Basically my only talent
Sage Sohier chronicled the love of gay couples in the 1980s in her collection At Home With Themselves. Spurred by the AIDS crisis and the media representations of promiscuity and disease in the community, the project aimed to dispel stereotypes about gay love and showcase lesbian and gay couples of all ages, backgrounds and proclivities, capturing a visual that often went unseen.
“I was interested in how, as a culture, we weren’t used to looking at two men touching, and was struck by the visual novelty yet total ordinariness of these same-sex relationships. The visual ambiguity of same-sex relationships also intrigued me: were these sisters or friends or lovers or a mother and daughter?“
The photographic endeavor was also prompted by Sohier’s father. The book is dedicated to him and his partner Lee.
@bmwiid
wow - like…. I didn’t think corvids did that synced flying formations?!
I’ve only ever seen this with like ‘flocks’ of starlings and things
@is-the-bird-video-cute how or why are they so in sync?? Im so curious!
Rating: Wild/Cute
These are wild ravens in a courtship flight. It’s a rare treat to witness!
russia has been destroying mariupol and razing ukrainian donbas to the ground for more than a month now, and it is directly related to greece and hellenic studies.
after russian empire de facto occupied crimean khanate in the 1770s, it was decided to deport local christians from the peninsula, among them dozens of thousands of crimean greeks. they were resettled to north azov region, a mostly uninhabited by that time steppe land. in the new homeland, greeks founded dozens of settlements, including a city (πόλις) at the mouth of the river kalmius called marianopol, now mariupol.
living in crimea, greeks were traditionally bilingual, speaking both hellenic and turkic languages. this is the trait they saved after leaving the peninsula. modern azov greeks (whose settlements are now administratively belong to donetsk region) are divided in two groups. there are rumey greeks who speak rumaic language, a hellenic variety also called mariupolitan dialect and there are urum greeks who speak urum language, a turkic language similar to crimean tatar.
late imperial and soviet industrialization forced azov greeks to forsake their agricultural way of life and began to undermine their cultural identity. they started to switch to russian language in public life, and their dialects, that didn’t have any written tradition, functioned only as colloquial. in the early soviet union, “korenization” policy was imposed. it was meant to promote local cultures and languages, integrating them into public life and government, but even here greeks experienced some problems. for example, there wasn’t any education in local dialects, instead azov greeks were exposed to dimotika greek and crimean tatar, languages they didn’t understand very well.
nevertheless, “korenization” ended in the 1930s and the most violent wave of russification in history began. soviet greeks experienced it very painfully. schools and cultural institutions were closed, national districts and village councils were liquidated. many ethnic greeks were repressed because they were seen as potential enemies of the soviet government. there was the whole “greek operation”, often called πογκρόμ (pogrom) by greeks themselves, when soviets killed and deported dozens of thousands of greeks all over the ussr.
the relative liberalization of public life in the 1950s and early 1960s stopped the waves of terror and repression, but there was no return to a democratic solution to the national question. it was believed that the ussr had already formed a new national community, the soviet people, thus national differences were considered insignificant and temporary. as a result, there was a significant reduction in the number of azov greeks and especially greeks who would consider traditional idioms their mother tongues. in 1926 104,5 thousand greeks lived in ukraine, of which 83% considered “greek” their native language. in 2001 91,5 thousand ethnic greeks lived in ukraine, 77,5 thousand of them were azov greeks from donetsk region. only 5.4% of those greeks called “greek” their mother tongue, the rest called russian.
in independent ukraine greeks got the ability to breathe more freely. without any restrictions and with the help of greece they began to create institutions to research and preserve local culture. nevertheless, donbas remained one of the most russified regions of ukraine, and it was a “bad tone” to show your ukrainian identity in urban areas, not to say about identities like greek.
after the war in donbas started in 2014 most of traditionally greek settlements remained under ukrainian control. but now russia re-invaded and it has more urge and weapons to destroy this beautiful region. they are wiping out mariupol from the face of earth, causing humanitarian catastrophes and committing war crimes in greek villages like sartana, yalta, manhush, urzuf and others, and be sure, there won’t be any space for greek culture under the occupation. because of russia, azov greek community may cease to exist. remember what we’re loosing.
Mashrou’ Leila’s music reflects ways in which I, like other queer Arabs, am allowed to exist
While there is no neutral pronoun in Arabic (yet), Mashrou’ Leila attempts one version of trying to neutralize the language by switching back and forth between using female and male pronouns in their song “Kalam.” We are left imagining this person as someone on the gender spectrum, someone in between, or someone very genderqueer in their presentation. The lyrics in the Arabic of my youth, mutating into the queerness of my present, gives me a spaceless, borderless home.
Mashrou’ Leila’s music reflects ways in which I, like other queer Arabs, am allowed to exist; the ways in which my country, like many Arab countries, is not actually against us; the ways in which borders like those of Israel contribute to ideas like: “queers Arabs don’t exist.”
crab crab crab hand hand hand frighten
i like them..
i hope i make it. im rooting for myself.
I am screaming lmao also this reminds me of @rosewater1997
@kingofthewilderwest
I really do love that people have legitimately always just been people. Like how many angry breakup texts have their been that end with “Come get your stuff or I’m donating it to goodwill”? People never change.
The concubine after reading this:
This is my new breakup format
Fuck him and his harem. I hope Nisaba made you #1 wife, baby
screaaaming me
“pick up your flax shawls and sandals or else I will donate them to the temple of the moon god” idk why but this bit in particular is SENDING me humans have literally always been the same
Russian protesters showing solidarity with Ukrainians against Putin. That’s how it’s done. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Love to see it. 🇺🇦
The world stands with Ukraine
Tbilisi, Georgia
St. Petersburg, Russia
London, England
Paris, France
Thessaloniki, Greece
Rome, Italy
Berlin, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Montenegro
Mumbai, India
Warsaw, Poland
Lebanon
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Istanbul, Turkey
New York City, United States
Toronto, Canada
Vienna, Austria
Binnish, Syria
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain
Melbourne, Australia
Riga, Latvia
Tel Aviv, Israel
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bern, Switzerland
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tallinn, Estonia
Stockholm, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland
Reykjavík, Iceland
Even symbolic support is not meaningless; with every such gesture you are preventing the claim that no one cares, no one opposes, no one disagrees, no one minds.
Hi, guys!
As you may know, I am Ukrainian. I live in Kyiv. I have lived here since I was born and I love my country with my whole heart.
I see a lot of misinformation under the tag "Ukraine". Most of it comes from American people, who try to explain the conflict in their own words. They can't. It's impossible to explain if you haven't lived here. There are too many influences on this conflict. You keep looking from an american perspective, which is not crucial in understanding the conflict.
For example, have you ever had you language forbidden? Like straight up forbidden by the law? It happened to Ukrainian language a lot of times thought our history. And who did it? The Russian Empire. And it's not the end of it. The genocides, the assimilation, the deportation. Have you even researched Ukrainian history?
You do not uplift Ukrainian voices enough. And you should if you care about what's happening. If you don’t do it, you're just doing a performance of your support and activism.
Lucky for you, I am a Ukrainian person! And I am DYING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. I scored 191/200 points on my graduation exam in history, so you can suppose I know something about Ukrainian history.
If you stand for Ukraine, uplift Ukrainian voices. Educate yourself. Learn Ukrainian history. Ask Ukrainian people
adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline
ENCANTO, 2021
— dir. Byron Howard & Jared Bush