Shanti

Mind and heart behind Black Ampersand | Chicago | Lesbian

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Shout out to the photographers that captured the heart of the movements.

These pictures will forever remind us of the people, who stood up ahainst the injustice!

[mysticcoyote]

Morgan Freeman Narrates Himself Playing Pokémon Go

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@nihilistgirlfriend

[corsolanite]

What a time to be alive 😂

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[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

i scrolled passed this several times before actually reading it. i’m not used to two white men talking sense…

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Alton Brown is no fucking joke a legend. 

[luvyourselfsomeesteem-deactivat]

Alton Brown definitely is a Culinary genius. I go to Culinary school and on assignments where I studied Southern cuisine I made a serious point to call it Soul Food or Black Southern Cuisine and emphasize that it’s entirely rooted in the black culture and slavery. I will never let ppl forget it is black people who educated white Americans to cook. There is a lot of of culture appropriation and whitewashing even in Culinary and they will have you believe whites are the masters of Southern food and Korean BBQ I swear ta gawd. 

[jehovahhthickness]

I love both of these chefs

[imonlyhereforthegiggles-deactiv]

“Not used to two white people talking sense” 😂😂

[sistersoil]

Tomboy-ish.

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[bobbsayshi]

Things They Don't Teach You in School

•Lincoln believed white people were the superior race •Gandhi hated black people •The CIA brought illegal drugs into the country •Ronald Reagan was the devil •White people mutated from the Dravidian Albinos and would be nothing without POC

[pastelpapi]

•9/11 was coordinated by the Bush administration •The laws written 15 years ago where pushed and backed by the kkk •Black people explored the world before white people where civilized and whitewashed history

[tastelessfashion]

•Christopher Columbus ain’t shit.

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*The father of modern gynecology experimented and tortured black women during slavery for his findings. *The government was successfully sued for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. *The CIA introduced crack/cocaine into inner-cities across the US *The US had been sterilizing many WoC *In the Tuskegee experiments, the US gave STDs and other diseases, including syphilis to unknowing black men. *Japan was already in line to surrender when we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima *The US created the Taliban

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Tea sipping shit. I re logged this earlier. But this list got longer

[donidarkowitz]

Jesus…

[sweetmintchocolatewitch]

• Native Americans had to register to become American • Black Panthers once watched over the police to prevent unjust arrests and beatings • Native American children were massively murdered when schools got too full • Black people were in zoos • There were Asian concentration camps during WW2

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You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I ain’t living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.”
“What’s that?”
“Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m doing down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”
“Really? What have you got to show for it?”
“Show? To who? Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.”
“Lonely, ain’t it?”
“Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.

Sula by Toni Morrison (via shiftingself)

[sistersoil]

*wants to share physical peace with someone worthy of my alignment and increasing self-awareness using sex as a vehicle to study and mend and be fully present* *rolls eyes at the lack of prospects*

[existentialwhale]

Active ways to cultivate positive body image:

(Because oh my god, it’s so hard, and everyone’s all like stop feeling so bad about yourself and it’s like how???) 

Be naked. A lot. Sleep naked. Have sex naked. Eat cereal naked. (Or naked and wrapped in a sheet. Favorite thing.) 

Follow beautiful, confident, (un-photoshopped) body-positive babes on the Internet. Unfollow anything that makes you feel insecure. Exposure is key. You’re not going to get it if you don’t seek it out, because the media sucks and wants us to feel like shit about ourselves so they can take our money. (Some hashtags to follow: #effyourbeautystandards #bootyrevolution #blackisbeautiful #transisbeautiful #wheelchairlife #fatkini #fatshion)

Lingerie. Next best thing to being naked. 

Self care, babe. Different for everyone. (Me? Showers, books, shaving my legs, nature walks, dark lipstick, good playlists, clean rooms, candles, sexy time.) 

Get ready in your underwear. Boobs = happiness. 

Self portraits. Be pro-selfie. Take a million selfies. Take sexy selfies. Take no makeup selfies. Take bad angle silly selfies. Take artsy tripod selfies. Take everything-is-on-point selfies. You’re gorgeous; document your gorgeousness. You don’t even need to post them. 

Stop with the self deprecationnnnn. Pleeeeaseeee. It’s hard to control your thoughts love, I know, but you can control what you say. NEVER insult yourself out loud. Dare I say compliment yourself out loud? (And if you can, do your best to try to body-positive-ify your thoughts too.) 

Sex (including solo sexy time), wine, and chocolate. In that order. 

Share the body love. Compliment your girlfriends. Cultivate a nonjudgemental, supportive, lift-each-other-up “we’re so cute” friend group. Everyone’s insecure. Compliment your besties. And strangers, too. Be that person that makes everyone feel good about themselves when they’re around. 

Good luck gorgeous. It’s a battle. We gotta unlearn all this societal bullshit.

[mytinyskullsizedpornbrain-deact]

Reblogging cuz this is vital. Especially the point on self-deprecation. Stop that shit now. It is a glamour-don’t, a welcome sign for fuck ass ppl.

[sistersoil]

My favorite sex shop advertised a job posting on Instagram. I quickly rushed to retrieve my most current resume and applied to said job posting. Twenty minutes later, I get an email extending an offer to interview tomorrow. On a full moon. #TalkAboutMotherFuckingMiracles #IsThisWhat21FeelsLike What am I gonna wear???

[hoodnearthy]

black. trans. lives. matter.

[farifos]

PAPI JUICE : SUMMER HONEY (3 Year Anniversary)

June 25, 2015

QWEENBEAT PRINCESSNOKIA JULIANA HUXTABLE FALSE WITNESS b2b OSCAR Nñ JLAMAR b2b ADAM R.

FOTOS x @farifos

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Baby: Turn up.

Dad: No, turn down.

Baby: Turn up.

Dad: No, your little ass goin to bed.

Baby: No.

Dad: Ain’t no turnin up tonight.

Baby: [walking away] Turn up.

Dad: No, night-night. C’mere.

Baby:Turn up.

Dad: I said turn down.

Baby [running away] Turn up.

Dad: No, turn down. Your little ass-

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@mercedesbenzodiazepine

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

I’m this baby

[queerwoc]

D.C. Will Fine You For Calling A Transgender Person The ‘Wrong’ Pronouns

Employers and employees in Washington D.C. are legally prohibited from referring to a transgender employee or coworker by the "wrong" pronouns or asking "personal questions" about their gender identit

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When my only lord is Audre.

Police burn me worse than the sun does— I’ve seen so many dead bodies Trayvon keeps me numb, so for once, let me hold the officer’s gun. I’ll do it myself, I just wanna click it, Kat Cleaver beneath my own chin, snap the trigger, say dig it. Life’s gone black and white, I don’t know if I’ll miss this; this Technicolor colored girl is tired of drifting, of wishing, of wearing the cold staring of white expectant spectators: I’m supposed to play slave, race police and black power educator. I’m supposed to be cool now but be subservient later. I’m supposed to speak slang, speak proper, be Ebonics translator while mapping out peace between the races like Mercator.

I’m not saying white people made me this depressed. I’m just saying living in white America is keeping me stressed. I’m just saying walking down my own block has got me distressed: hands up – take the test – my melanin assessed. As soon as I mention race, white people say, “You’re obsessed.” …But I already know how my own corpse will be dressed. So you post-racials, tell me which Jesus to pray to, cause these days are fatal and your god sleeps among sheep in a colorblind cradle.

I know, I know, thoughts like that don’t belong in the mouths of saints, but when living feels so wrong I’ve got nothing left to go on. Truth be told, I was still singing sad songs before Trayvon, so eradicate racism but I’ll still feel withdrawn. I’ll still be so low I look up to see sea level, I’ll still fail my class, I would love to see C level, I’ll still be so blind I can’t even reach see level, look in the mirror: All I see is black devil.

So does God still listen when I kneel? Because I’m just waiting for my fate to be sealed at the hot end of the gun— a statistic, black body dropped, I’ll just be another one left bloating in the sun. So stop telling me my body’s a temple, cause I’m counting the days till that gun hits my temple. I’m mental / detrimental / I can’t get a grip, but who’ll have the grip on the final pistol whipped from the hip? Will it be me?  Too tired of my own misery?

Or will it be just another cop vs. just another nigger, just another racist trigger sending the black girl Crip walking into eternity?

Some days, my only lord is Audre.

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This man right here…

[pashionforfashion21allday]

When he pulled out his business card my heart dropped young entrepreneur 😩👏🏾👏🏾

[anenigmaticmosaic]

Damn fam that boy going places. Believe that.

[denisefromgrovestreet]

Get it, young man.

[thereasonforthewordbitch]

y'all should donate if you guys can

[ushasloves]

What’s his name? What locations?

[didntfitthenarrative]

If you want to support his business: Daron Taylor 10313 Shale Ave Cleveland, Ohio, 44104 216-544-9141 [email protected] Paypal: [email protected] Instagram gofundme