Don't Blame It On The Planets

Cancer☀️ Taurus🌙 NJ 20// Дилаpа, Kарачайли

[catasters]

[mjalti]

the more I think about it, the less it should be thought of

[idesofnovember]

[mapsontheweb]

Historical Settlements and Estimated Populations of Northwest Caucasians/Circassians in the 18th century and 21th century.

[sosuperawesome]

Mmumechii on Instagram

[butterflypeaflowertea]

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

[butterflypeaflowertea]

here’s a good thread to read through abt this exact topic as a start !!

[lothloriien]

because i know most of you can’t be bothered to look at the thread:

[royalhandmaidens]

take a time to read through the thread if you can!!

most of the ‘sufi poetry’ or works by rumi you’ll read in school or find at any book store or online is just a bunch of this orientalist garbage that not only mistranslates, but intentionally puts forward a colonialist, orientalist mindset that you consume without knowing it

[royalhandmaidens]

i’m sorry i’m still not over this butchery ^^^^^^^

[sweatermuppet]

if you're miserable, maybe u need to eat more citrus & open the windows a little wider & read that poetry book you've been putting off & enjoy hot bread with melted butter & go to bed with your phone on do not disturb

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

Just kindly reminding people that Caucasian doesn’t mean white, it should stop being used in that context since it reinforces scientific racism, and the term belongs to people from the Caucasus region in Western Asia. Just say white people.

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

Anyways please look at all these beautiful (actual) Caucasian cultures and people! 

(left to right: An armenian woman, Nogai girls, a Dagestani woman, Nogai men and women, an Avar woman, a Azerbajani woman, an Armenian woman, a Lak girl, Ingush women) 

[enfranchisement]

via artbydasan on instagram

[luminous-void]

Sergey Kuznetsov, Sunset, n.d.

[yastutma-deactivated20240911]

[safije]

Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Province of China ☪️

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Sara Mrad spring 2022 couture

[safije]

Traditional dress of the Caucasus.

[sedraboc]

[tendergazing]

GROWING PAINS

david wojnarowicz / alexander harding / su xinyu / @pearpoem / lorde / open house (1998) / billy collins / mitski / as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty (2000) / alain de bottom / hollis brown thornton / kalyn roseanne

[gaycommunist]

people are bad and all but when a stranger holds open a door for you and when a stranger picks up something you dropped and when a stranger smiles at you from across the street and when a stranger on a hike wishes you good morning and when a stranger hands you a rose and when a stranger lets you have their seat and when a stranger stops you to compliment your outfit and when a stranger gives you the 5 cents you’re missing and when a stranger jams their foot in the tram door so you can make it and when a stranger says bless you when you sneeze and when a stranger helps you with directions and when a stranger gets you something from the top shelf and when a stranger offers you a piece of watermelon in the park and when a stranger wishes you happy birthday because you’re holding a balloon.. maybe we are worth saving