oh, queen bee

her/she.

[kafkasapartment]

Chaka Khan, 1977. Norman Seeff. Gelatin silver

[thesingingknives]

put me in your suitcase

let me help you pack

cuz you’re never coming back

no, you’re never coming back

[luxe-pauvre]

“Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.”

— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

[filmncolor]

Past Lives (2023), dir. Celine Song

[mulders]

[ofools]

not gonna say it again!!!!

a BOG is a wetland that is acidic

a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline

[hedgehog-moss]

“At last I fell fast asleep on the grass & awoke with a chorus of birds singing around me, & squirrels running up the trees & some Woodpeckers laughing, & it was as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, & I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed.”

— Charles Darwin, in a letter to his wife, April 28, 1858 (via exhaled-spirals)

[themostbeautifulanimals]

[mllebabushkat]

reblog for 10 years of peaceful sleep every night

[rose-tico]

I made a graphic for Women’s Studies Student Organization at my college that spotlights Dr. Angela Davis, Black, queer, pro-working class abolitionist and activist – and I’m pretty proud of it so I wanted to share :). For the rest of summer, our organization is doing weekly action items to support the Black Lives Matter movement – and this week’s action item is to listen to Dr. Angela Davis, read her works, access her speeches, and educate yourself.

Follow @wssouga on IG for our other action items and resources to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

[viciousmeme]

[khoaphan]

If Zelda was made into a Ghibli film (x)

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[woolandcoffee]

This is why we need abolition, not reform.

[bigstinkman-deactivated20191122]

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

“It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.”

— Larry Kramer in a truly extraordinary speech “The Tragedy of Today’s Gays”: http://www.towleroad.com/2004/11/larry_kramer_sp/

[gregtheegg69]

villanelles

[gregtheegg69]

billies

[theweirdwideweb]