Just Lust

[ijaazat]

bell hooks

[ijaazat]

today i remember her for her resilient strength and for how she taught me how to let myself exist as a solitary individual with complete feelings and emotions.

here are some of my favourite lines from her works -

1. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

2. The initial gesture of taking responsibility for our well-being, wherein we confess to our brokenness, our woundedness, and open ourselves to salvation, must be made by the individual. This act of opening the heart enables us to receive the healing offered us by those who care. (All About Love)

3. Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion. (All About Love)

4. I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

5. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim 'You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself' made clear sense. And I add, 'Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

6. The source of all wakefulness, the source of all kindness and compassion, the source of all wisdom, is in each second of time. Anything that has us looking ahead is missing the point. - from x

7. Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

8. Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

9. If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I’m supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

10. Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

I ask of you all to read her books, she has been a great teacher through and through. You will gain enough insight to learn how and when to forgive yourself, and how to keep on living. It's all about love, and beauty is and will be political.

[toastbutteregg]

THIS!!

[adviceformefromme]

Ladies, if you’re not feeling a spark in the bedroom with your man it’s time to up your game. Firstly, stop blaming your man. This is your sign from the universe to level tf up and inject some sass and sexy vibes into yourself. You’re responsible for how irresistible and sexy you feel on a daily basis. How you show up in the world each day sets the tone for your life. If you’re feeling seductive, spicy, and high vibe in your empowered feminine energy, men are naturally going to gravitate towards you and become magnetised to you. Start showing up as the sexy vixen that you are, and tap into your yoni energy, and watch and see how every man you meet will be craving you. The universe will respond to the vibes you are emitting. So throw out those big knickers and washed out house clothes. Wear something to lounge in that makes you feel sexy and elegant. Move your hips, play music that makes you feel seductive. Get into creation mode, turn on your senses with delicious tastes and flavours in the kitchen. Read books, watch films, immerse yourself in passionate love stories. Remember this is your life, your movie, you are responsible for the life you create. 

[2productive]

get used to casual glamour. you don't need to wait for "deserving" times to indulge. have glam as your basic setting. get your nails done, do your hair, wear your expensive makeup and perfumes, take that bag out. wear those silk pajamas and eat that fancy food. casual glam sets a standard for you. make it your new normal.

[stars-bean]

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

[chucksrus84]

These tweets are from Dara Kass. She's an MD. Please take her advice on how to deal with this current situation. Read. Take notes. Memorize it. And protect yourselves.

All of you.

[cowshampoo]

I'm going to add image IDs when I get home, but this is all important advice. Here's a link to Planned Parenthood that might answer some other questions. Regarding the "bounty on pregnant people" - this law states that a $10,000 reward goes to private citizens who win a lawsuit case against people who are seeking an abortion, helping someone else get an abortion, or providing an abortion. This law (Senate Bill 8, or SB 8) has NO exceptions for rape, incest, or sexual abuse. It bans abortions after 6 weeks, OR if an ultra sound can detect a "heartbeat." I put "heartbeat" in quotes because the heart, at that stage, isn't even fully developed, and medical professions have even stated in opposition to the law that the fluttering caught on ultrasound isnt always a heartbeat.

Additionally, this law means you have to have two visits to the clinic before you can get the abortion - the first would be just an ultrasound, and then they do another ultrasound before the procedure to check again if a "heartbeat" has developed.

I highly encourage you to do your own research on this, since I'm just trying to quickly sum it up, ESPECIALLY if you need to get an abortion.

[djklmnx]

love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. anybody can do that. not just anybody can show you to yourself.

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

DoorDash workers are going on strike tomorrow (July 31st, 2021). They’re demanding tip transparency and a base pay of at least $4.25 per hour. Don’t cross the picket line.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[victoria-pedretti]

THE MUMMY (1999) — directed by Stephen Sommers

[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[the-collecting-turnip-deactivat]

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

[fgsshinyhoard]

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

[hockey-trash]

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

[cricketcat9]

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

[justgot1]

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

[lettingitoutabit-deactivated202]

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

[for-southendgirls]

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

[goingtiny]

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

[gamebird]

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

[arch-venus25]

Wow. Just wow.

[gravityofstars]

It gets so much worse when you realize there are a lot of Americans who don’t even realize that Africa is a continent. I wish I was joking. The amount of times I’ve heard someone talking about how “3rd world” or “rundown” Africa is, and I’ll be like, “Which country?”

And they respond with, “Africa.”

“Yeah, no. Which country, in Africa, are you referring to? Because you see Africa is a continent with over 50 countries…”

*blank stare*

Too many freaking times. It’s astounding. They legit do not know. And you can’t even call it ignorance because it’s seems pretty damn willful. What it is, is embarrassing.

[gulyas069]

i think it should be the norm to send people to the seaside for their health again

[userdilf-deactivated20210916]

Let me tell you a story about a Spaniard named Vasquez….

BLACK SAILS (2014-2017) → Episode I. (aired Jan. 25, 2014)

[thotsfortherapy]

it’s okay to mourn the person you could have been. it’s okay to be angry or resentful at that lost potential. it’s okay to be sad about it too. but i want you to know that there are so many parts of you, the you that exists right now, that are beautiful and lovely and meaningful. just because your past is lost doesn’t mean your future has to be too.

[initiala]

A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me after recess and said, “I got married at recess!” and I said “Oh? I didn’t know anyone was ordained under the age of twelve.” and she asked me what ordained meant and I explained and then she said “Oh, well, no, my wife and I were married by the slide, but we’ll be happy together anyway.”

So apparently on school playgrounds, slides are already legalizing same-sex marriage.

[hinoneko]

They warned us it would be a slippery slope.

[thunder-core]

- To be at sea and in

someone's heart at once