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pour le moment

[secondlastk]

u dont understand how disappointed i am that this dog didnt appear on my dash this year and how hard i tried to find a post that included both pictures

[swordsafetyy-deactivated2019092]

happy tdov yall !!! here’s a summary of me loving myself and here’s to another year more !!! (he/him)

[pragmaticfantasizer]

crushes are fucking TORTURE. every single thing i fuck up i am gauche and my stomach turns and i can’t concentrate and i’ve royally fucked it up ugh god damn it why am i like this why does she have to be the one i like

[sungodsevenoclock]

The second best pun I’ve ever encountered in the wild was when I was walking down the street in a “hip” part of Seattle and saw a couple of Budweiser cans thrown into a bush. And I said to a random stranger walking nearby “damn, the local beer harvest is really poor this year”. And the random stranger responded “give it time, they’re only buds”.

[coachellaravedad]

So…what was the first best pun?

[sungodsevenoclock]

Somehow this thing got 1k notes while the previous post, which was about the best pun I’ve ever encountered in the wild got 3 notes. Anyway: I was TAing an electrostatics lab. The experiment was to see what happens when you rub wool on a bunch of rods of different materials and then bring the rods near scraps of paper.

One student’s lab report had this observation on what happens when you try to charge up a metal rod: “paper remains stationery”

[just-opal-things]

These are the best puns

[hechodeoro-deactivated20180924]

protect lil girls who develop early they’re still lil girls who deserve to enjoy their youth protect these lil girls from men who say shit like “no way she 13” and put the blame on lil girls who can’t help how they look and are just tryna be cute and have fun

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

Protect these girls from women who are complicit in the patriarchy and treat these girls like they’re goddamn succubi who are going to magically seduce every man who sees them, including members of their own family

Let children have childhoods, puberty does not mean you’re suddenly an adult or that you’re suddenly supposed to be

[blaquebypopulardemand]

Please please please protect little girls from grown women who call them “fast” and make them cover up when grown men gawk instead of chastising the pedophile. Puberty is definitely not adulthood.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Some reminders about Dr. King before tomorrow:

The United States Government was found guilty of his murder in a civil trial in 1999 that his family fought for years.

He spoke out against police brutality, capitalism, and war.

He believed that white moderates were and are the greatest threat to civil rights, moreso than any hate group.

He was arrested over 10 times.

He was considered a dangerous radical by the majority of white Americans. 

He refused to condemn rioters, because “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

Any white person who voted for Trump who tries to use MLK or his words as a rhtetorical tactic to justify their bigotry and complain about people protesting can personally come to my apartment in the next 24 hours for an ass-kicking.

[ithelpstodream]

Here’s a MLK quote I’d love to see white people share.

[cumaeansibyl]

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[sixpenceee]

The above are pearls in an oyster. 

[just-a-sinnamon-roll]

People are so weird. Someone popped one of these guys opened, looked at that mess, and thought to themselves “well dang diddly gosh, that might make someone’s neck look absolutely sublime” and just slapped ‘em on a necklace.

[advicefromsurvivors]

Tell your kids you’re proud of them. I hardly ever heard “I’m proud of you.” I hardly ever heard that growing up. Instead of “I’m proud of you for working hard and doing as well as you did,” I got “Why didn’t you work harder and do better?” It left me feeling like nothing I ever did would be good enough and that the hard work I did put forth meant nothing.

So when your kid has done their best, tell them you’re proud of them.

[5hahem]

Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.

Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.

[skeletonmug]

Well then, let’s bring that name back.

Bayard Rustin, openly gay, human rights activist, proud black man.

[metrospotting-deactivated202104]

(the guy on the left in case you wondered)

[gaypriori]

Yeah he was literally the guy who was the head of planning the March on Washington.

If you want to learn more about him, there’s a great documentary on him called Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

You can watch the full documentary here (until March 31st, 2016)

[dosajam]

bell hooks resources

Some of the work bell hooks’ has done as available on the internet for personal education and reference. Certain books that were up are gone and I’m looking about finding them again. In the meantime if you need them, contact me by leaving a message with your email address in the submissions box and I’ll email them to you. If you find anything, please contact me as well. The most updated version of this list will always be here.

Ain’t I a Woman (pdf)

All About Love: New Visions (pdf)

Art on my Mind (ask through email)

Beauty Laid Bare: Aesthetics in the Ordinary (google doc)

Black Looks: Race and Representation (pdf)

Black Women Intellectuals (pdf) (from Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life with Cornel West)

“Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness” (pdf) (from Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics)

“Cool Cynicism” (pdf) (from Reel to Real

Cultural Criticism and Transformation (youtube video, part 1) Also: Transcript (pdf)

Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance (page 366 or type in page 406 of 795)

Ending Domination: The Struggle Continues (youtube video, full)

“Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression” (pdf) (from Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center)

Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics (pdf)

“Feminist Class Struggle” (article, though pdf download available through the link) (as I understand, excerpted from Feminism is for Everybody)

“Feminist Theory: A Radical Agenda” (pdf) (from Talking Back)

“Ice Cube Culture: A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth” (ask through email) (chapter 12 from Outlaw Culture, an interview with ice cube)

“Is Paris Burning?” (pdf) (Chapter 9 of Black Looks: Race and Representation

Killing Rage: Ending Racism (pdf, chapter 1) and the opening essay (pdf)

Love as the Practice of Freedom (pdf, from Outlaw Culture?)

“Marginality as site of resistance” (pdf)

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (pdf—parts of the book, anyway)

“Postmodern Blackness” (pdf) (from Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics)

Remembered Rapture: Dancing With Words (pdf)

“Romance: Sweet Love” (pdf) (from Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, 4th Ed. By S. Shaw and J. Lee)

Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace. (pdf)

“Straightening out Hair” (article)

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (pdf)

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (pdf on the web!)

The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators. (pdf)

Understanding Patriarchy (pdf) 

Where We Stand: Class Matters (pdf) Also here. Also “Feminism and Class Politics”, a specific chapter from the book here. (pdf)

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (pdf).

Her talk at Louis & Clark college from 1 February, 2006 here.

To note, this is meant in particular for those people who’d like to educate themselves but don’t have the resources to get these books for themselves. bell hooks has put a lot of work into these, and it would be horrible if you could afford to buy the books and didn’t.

More online resources here.

Edit as of 23rd June, 2014: list updated (and alphabetized). Many thanks to wretchedoftheearth, elainecastillo, grim-dark, erosum, mmmajestic, andreaisace, ebookcollective, cantbereallif, ericstoller, sittinghereinbluejayway, nebulaemporium and other people through emails who all helped add links and resources.

[fomysquad]

#BlackPride #YouSmart #BlackExcellence 

[pure]

everyone forgot that mlk jr. said he hated white moderates

[pure]

he said white moderates were a greater stumbling block to freedom than the kkk. mlk jr said that.

[swtrgy-deactivated20250202]

yo can someone please tell me if this is accurate? Because that’s fucked up

[regularlesbian]

yes and he was right

[projectburnt]

read the thing for yourself https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf

Most relevant paragraph 

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

[rev-krissy]

He wasn’t wrong. It is, sadly, still true today.

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

“…who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” We talk about this in seminary all the time: peace that is won by one side holding its foot on the other side’s throat is not peace. When we pray for peace, we must pray for peace with justice, never at the cost of justice, made by silencing the oppressed.

Fellow white people, don’t just reblog or share mlk jr.’s more palatable “hate cannot drive out hate” type quotes and ignore the fact that he also said challenging things like this. We must hold ourselves accountable. We must not be lukewarm. And there is never a “more convenient season” to act to secure rights for all people – the time is now.

[sourcedumal]

He also had a speech to the APA that openly called out white people for caring more about “riots” and damaged property than the fact that Black people were suffering under institutional violence.

He called out white people regularly for their lack of empathy for Black lives and their continuance to spout respectability at Black people than hold the white policymakers accountable for their racism.

[rechkka]

[feelboss]

me: i’m fine

internally: *the tunnel scene from willy wonka*

[ithelpstodream]

[crapshootarchivist]

SMACK REBLOG SO DAMN FAST

[soleilarchive-deactivated201902]

Document those moments you feel most in love with yourself — what you’re wearing, who you’re with, what you’re doing, the scenery that surrounds you, the scents that envelope you. Recreate and repeat.

note to self  (via bonvivantx)