i've always wanted to be excused

she/her | aching | black

[blackpyrefly]

"what if things were different" is a poisoned well and drinking from it will kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kosmogrl]

learning not to return to places where I miss the past but see no future

[dykecadence]

periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW

Libby Access — Queer Liberation Library

[queerliblib]

free!!! queer!! books!! for anyone, anywhere in the USA!

you can browse the collection here

sign up for a QLL card to check ebooks & audiobooks out

& if you love what we’re doing you can toss us a few bucks here so we can keep doing it <3

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[stuckinapril]

quoted by my Palestinian pi during our research meeting

[dykeferatu]

they were so right when they named it this

[kafk-a]

Julia Condon, Mobile of the Light among the Shadows

[makingimages]

[caribbeanangel]

Nightly Prayers, Print By Me.

[flickringghosts]

[caribbeanangel]

Black Love, By Me.

[caribbeanangel]

Drylongso, By Me.

[caribbeanangel]

Dorothy Ashby.

[caribbeanangel]

Xala (1975)

[caribbeanangel]

to the voices unheard. to the lives being taken. to the minds being fed with lies. i pray allah finds a balance within laws of nature to restore all of this pain.

[flickringghosts]

[dandridgelove]

Dorothy Dandridge on a break from rehearsing the limbo for a scene in the film Island in the Sun (1957).

[weltenwellen]

Soot Kaveh Akbar