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Life Is A Lesson In Letting Go, Wake Up, Open Your Eyes, Be Aware. Live Today, Don't Wait For Your Life To Start. Start Living Out Your Passions Now. REBEL, ENLIGHTEN, LOVE, EVOLVE.

[scifr-blog]

I don't like working in groups... Three weeks

[nevaehtyler]

Petition to recognize Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization gets over 100.000 signatures on the White House website, yet KKK are just casually passing around recruitment flyers… That’s America for you. It hasn’t been identified who was distributing the leaflets.  If you have any information regarding this, please share!

#BlackLivesMatter   #Amerikkka

[destinyrush]

W T F

BOOST !!!!

[pearlmarley]

Ohh shit

[left-reminders]

Destroy white supremacy

[happy-tofu]

20 Vegan Cheese Recipes That Will Rock Your World!

[scifr-blog]

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

[evlcnart-blog]

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Gordon Parks (via evlcnart)

[black--lamb-blog]

here’s the thing. MIA has said anti-black things in the past and I’m really starting to think this bitch has some sort of resentment towards us (another group of oppressed people) and I’m sick of other brown people who think like this.

At this point fuck her and her and her mind games. If you feel this way unfollow me

[theefrenchconnection]

PREACHHHHHHHHHUU

[lemmme-upgradeya]

RIGHT!!!! ITS NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO REPRESENT THE ENTIRE POPULATION WHEN WE GOT OUR OWN STRUGGLES!!!! A Pakistan could have started a #Pakistanlivesmatter movement but they didnt think of the idea first, black people are the ones who thought for it for black people, because our lives do matter. That is not to say the rest don’t but we are speaking for ourselves, rightfully . Ffs, I’m so over other races getting mad. Why are you mad? Why can’t other people do their own thing, yall are doing nothing and are made that we are vocal about our struggles.

[memoirsofaimperfectblackgirl-de]

The dismissal of black Muslims was really gross not to mention the anti - blackness that is rampant in this interview. No Beyonce or Kendrick Lamar may never say those things, that is not their community they’re not responsible for kick starting y'all’s movement, neither is any other black person. When non black POC do this, it does nothing but show how racist they are because instead of pointing your finger at the people oppressing you, your default response is blame black people. We are not y'all’s employees, were NOT y'all’s mules if you want to see change in your community take your ass to the streets just like we did and demand it. This shit makes me sick, to bad, I actually liked her ass, that’s over now.

[pashionforfashion21allday]

[trvviz]

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DMV Afroculinaria Community Farming Alliance Good Sense Farm Three Part Harmony

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DETROIT D-TownFarm

KENTUCKY Barbour’s Farm LLC

LOS ANGELES The Ron Finley Project Sola Food Co-op South Central Farmers’ Cooperative

PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Urban Creators Mill Creek Farm

NYC Black Urban Growers La Familia Verde The BLK ProjeK East New York Farms

PHOENIX Tiger Mountain Foundation

SAN DIEGO City Heights Farmers Market

SOUTHEASTERN US Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network

VIRGINIA Vanguard Ranch Natural Gourmet

[suitsandpencils]

Boost!!!!

[royallocs]

Put black money in black hands!

[thedailyshow]

Jessica Williams sits down with Colorado Representative Gordon Klingenschmitt to discuss transphobic bathroom laws.

[emq-blog]

wait is that really how she handled it? now i dont want to watching it

[weddingsandlesbians]

http://www.georgestreetphoto.com

[badassbeo]

@nicknamenyquil

[kimreesesdaughter]

I LOVEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[ourafrica]

“Malick Sidibé, the Malian photographer who chronicled his country’s burgeoning pop culture in the years after independence, has died at the age of 80. 

Sidibé’s dynamic black-and-white shots captured the energy, hope and nightlife of a generation of young ­Africans across two decades of social, cultural and political change.

The photographer’s nephew Oumar Sidibé confirmed his uncle’s death on Friday, saying he had been ailing for some time but did not give details of when he died.“It’s a great loss for Mali,” said the country’s culture minister N’Diaye Ramatoulaye Diallo. “He was part of our cultural heritage. The whole ofMali is in mourning.”Born in what was then French Sudan in 1936 (or 1935; in interviews he could never remember which), Sidibé only started school at 10, when he could be spared from shepherding duties by his father. He became known among his classmates and teachers as an accomplished artist, and in 1952 won a place at the École des Artisans Soudanais in Bamako.

Sidibé’s archive from those years totals tens of thousands of negatives, and his photographs are now held in collections across the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Museum in California.

In 2007, he became the first photographer – and the first African – to be awarded the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale.

“No African artist has done more to enhance photography’s stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our awareness of the textures and transformations of African culture in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st than Malick Sidibé,” said critic and curator Robert Storr of his achievements.

Sidibé was a World Press Photo winner in 2010 for a fashion shoot commissioned by the New York Times. “We’re saddened to hear of Malick Sidibé’s passing,”tweeted the organisation, as other photographers and artists also paid tribute to Mali’s master.

In a Guardian interview, also in 2010, Sidibé said a good photographer needed the “talent to observe, and to know what you want” but also to be sympathique, or friendly. “I believe with my heart and soul in the power of the image, but you also have to be sociable. I’m lucky. It’s in my nature,” he said.”

[Source: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/15/malick-sidibe-dies-aged-80-malian-photographer-eye-of-bamako]

[evlcnart-blog]

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

[black-culture]

Reblog if you support the demand for free tuition for Black and indigenous students

Then register for the call to see how’ll we will unite to get it!

[scifr-blog]

Be Patient. People will always reveal themselves.

Scifr

[artiebillz]

[hotrufftrade]

doesn’t mean anti-white.

[oofahpapa]

♂♂ http://oofahpapa.tumblr.com/archive

[profeminist]

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Her Gender Identity

The 17-year-old, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg has come out as non-binary. Stenberg - who plays Rue in the adventure film franchise – says she feels like she’s not a ‘woman’ all the time, and non-binary is a term that she feels comfortable using to describe herself. (She is using female pronouns).

“The 17-year-old, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg has come out as non-binary.

Stenberg – who plays Rue in the adventure film franchise – says she feels like she’s not a ‘woman’ all the time, and non-binary is a term that she feels comfortable using to describe herself. (She is using female pronouns).

Writing on Tumblr, she said she is organizing a workshop on feminism, specifically how ‘mainstream feminist movements have continuously excluded women who are not white, thin, cisgender, able-bodied and neurotypical’.

Something we are struggling with is understanding the intersection of feminism and gender identity…

We’re both people who don’t feel like “women” all the time – but we claim feminism as our movement.

Basically, we’re trying to understand the duality of being a non-binary person and a feminist. How do you claim a movement for women when you don’t always feel like one?”

Read the full piece here

#1: THANK YOU AMANDLA FOR YOUR CONSISTENT AWESOMENESS AS AN INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST AND ROLE MODEL FOR YOUTH & EVERYONE ELSE!

#2: YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WOMEN OR CIS TO BE FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS. Just like white people can and should advocate for racial equality, everyone can and should advocate for gender equality. 

I give Amandla a TON of credit for having to not only grow up in public, but grow up as a non-binary POC in a white / sexist / cisnormative society! She is young and figuring herself and society out.  I’m Team Stenberg and am not looking to call her out, I just wanted to make this crucial clarification. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, We Should All Be Feminists

[ayameyume]

People who bind:

For those of you who don’t already know, there is a petition going around to actually stock binders in stores (like Walmart/Kmart/Target etc.)!!!

[whiteassenby]

ALSO, people who don’t bind. Please, can I have your attention?

Here is your chance to exercise your allyship. Sign this petition. It can be very, very difficult for people who bind to get access to effective binders. They often resort to harmful things (like tape) that can break their ribs or suffocate them. 

Please, sign the petition. You will be saving someone from immeasurable pain.

[blurrybunnyboy-deactivated20170]

ONLY 560 TO GO

[texmexter]

Please. It’s fucking impossible for most people who need binders to find them easily, this would help so many god damn people