standard deviation

@standardeviation

A feeler and a thinker, a mover and a shaker, and queer as they come. Trans*/Queer Educator/Advocate NH. VT. BOS. "It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."- Nagulb Mahfouz He’s a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. "So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."- The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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swagintherain

‘cause nobody gives a shit about Black lives

eearth-deactivated20180601

JUNE 01, 2016 -

“Up to a thousand refugees are feared to have drowned in recent days while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The United Nations say this marks one of the highest weekly death tolls since the migrant crisis began in 2014.UNICEF says many of the victims were youth fleeing war and violence in their home countries.

The majority of the refugees were from Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/6/1/as_1_000_migrants_drown_under

theblerdgurl

OMG!

legograss-deactivated20161214

WHY IS THIS NOT ON THE HEADLINES.

swagintherain

Unfortunately, the answer’s still the same - the goddamn media doesn’t give a damn

urbanreading

irlpoetic

Being haunted by desire of authenticity I take stealthy photos sometimes. I am interested to know how people read when they think nobody’s looking. The world surely does not exist for them at that moment.

I really like this

one of my favorite posts

Feeling so broken from my core.

y2k-gay

jessicamaccormackrmack

primegifs

npr

The brief friendship of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama began close to 50 years ago with a handshake.

Diane Fujino, chairwoman of the Asian-American studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, details the moment in her biography Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

Kochiyama and her eldest son, 16-year-old Billy, were arrested along with hundreds of other people, mainly African-Americans, during a protest in Brooklyn, N.Y., in October 1963.

“[They were] in this packed courthouse,” Fujino says. “[There were] a lot of activists who [were] waiting their hearing on the civil disobedience charges.”

In walks Malcolm X, who was quickly mobbed by adoring activists.

Kochiyama described the scene in a Democracy Now! interview in 2008. “I felt so bad that I wasn’t black, that this should be just a black thing,” she recalled. “But the more I see them all so happily shaking his hands and Malcolm so happy, I said, ‘Gosh, darn it! I’m going to try to meet him somehow.’ ”

Not Just A 'Black Thing’: An Asian-American’s Bond With Malcolm X

Photo: Courtesy of the Kochiyama family/UCLA Asian American Studies Center Editor’s note: Today would have been Yuri Kochiyama’s birthday. She died of natural causes on June 1, 2014.

projectqueer

In honor of the National Day of Action to End State Violence Against Black Women, Girls and Femmes, lawyer, researcher and activist Andrea J. Ritchie presents some policy ideas to eliminate police sexual violence, gendered racial profiling and other ways officers target Black girls, women and gender nonconforming people.

Along with the collective call to #SayHerName, we also need policies that prevent and remedy the specific forms of police violence, racial profiling and criminalization that impact Black girls and women—cis and trans—and gender nonconforming people. In other words, we need to answer the call of Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, who last month told the Congressional Black Caucus on Women and Girls:

superpagangirl

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