prima anarchia.

every dick i take is a fight for freedom.

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Mermaids on the beach from PETER PAN (1924)

[ranciavida-blog]

Le Triomphe de l’Art, 1894, by Léon Bonnat (1833-1922)

[loveisarevolutionaryact]

"Making a relationship ‘work’ is not the same thing as ‘creating love’."

 -bell hooks (via loveisarevolutionaryact)

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My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (via insipidexpectations)

[rawvanillafolk]

[elgyem]

[fatchickswhoexercise]

Michelle Gibson teaches 10 aerobics classes a week. “I’m a full-figured woman who would run circles around the average person, and I know it,” she says. “I kind of think it’s my secret weapon.”

[yourbigsisnissi]

i see black women of all shapes and sizes and ages, getting it in the gym. they demonstrate every day that fat =/= unhealthy and that health comes in all sizes.

[aquify]

i made a thing

[aimeebeebrooks]

[serotonical]

How to break out of a zip-tie- potentially life-saving information

[just-another-bandom-blog-deacti]

You guys, please share it. You never know when someone is going to need this information.

[pettyartist]

PLEASE reblog this— zipties are one of the most common ways of binding a person upon kidnapping because they are cheap and hard to break.

Knowing things like this puts you one step closer to freedom if, heaven forbid, you fall into a situation where you need to use this information.

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and if tied behind your back

[30thcenturyboy]

“Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.”

Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)

Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.

(via fishingboatproceeds)

[terra-mater]

15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe actually exist

Source

[dfw-cub-deactivated20130922]

I am gonna make it my personal mission to see these places some day.

[disciplesofmalcolm]

When I say Black Power, I know exactly what I’m talking about. But the white man runs up to me and says, “Black Power: that means violence, doesn’t it?” I refuse to react to that. I know what I’m talking about. If the white man doesn’t know what I’m talking about, that’s his problem, because black people understand me and that is who I’m talking to anyways.

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

Taken from the book “Target Zero: Eldridge Cleaver” (Page 100)

[theblacksophisticate]

Crushed little Black boys can’t dance. Can’t swim. Can’t play…so they rob and steal. They sit on buses, glancing out the window trying to keep pain down. Crushed little Black boys DON’T NEED FATHERS! THEY NEED LOVE, HUGS, KISSES, AND REMINDERS THAT THEIR SELF WORTH AIN’T NOWHERE NEAR THEIR GENITALS. THEY NEED ENCOURAGEMENT. THEY NEED. THEY ARE NEEDY. Sensitive Black boys don’t exist because we turn them into monsters and then ask why they’re in pain.

HowToBeTerrell. (via theblacksophisticate)

Got me crying in a staff meeting.

(via glitterlion)

[melissa]

While I was in the process of leaving my abusive ex-partner, I confided in my social worker (after asking at length about her confidentiality policy, which she assured me was full proof) that I had previously worked as a sex worker in a parlor. She agreed to leave this off my notes but informed that had I still been working at that time, she would have informed child protective services. When I asked why, since I was based away from my house and my children were looked after by family while I was at work, she said that “prostitution is usually indicative of other issues.” Later, speaking to a friend of mine at the brothel about this, she told me that her child had been removed from her care because her ex partner told child protective services about her job during a custody dispute. There did not need to be “other issues”; the assumption of other dysfunction and ignorance of the realities of sex work was enough that she lost her child to the state. Another friend of mine from the same parlor was threatened by her soon to be ex-husband with being outed if she obtained legal council during their separation. Rather than take the risk of losing her children and her family, she lost her house, financial stability, all her savings and everything she had worked for up to that point. Her ex-husband took everything.

The Legends are True: I’m A Whore (and why I will never tell my family) | The Life and Works of Olive Seraphim (via redupnyc)

My Worst Nightmare aka 1 great reason why to raise a child outside the US 

(via sadielune)

THIS.

(via izfierce)

holy shit every time i see this i go THAT HAPPENED TO ME oh wait.

Also what I wish I’d mentioned previously is that I DID have other factors that would be considered dysfunctional and often occurring along with sex work, namely mental health problems and drug addiction, and those WERE covered by their confidentiality policy. So like, things that COULD potentially cause harm to my kids were confidential but something that had no connection towards child abuse/neglect wasn’t. Just to add to the fuckedupness of that whole thing.

(via oliveseraphim)

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Foucault will win