#educate yourselves

[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

[mewl3tte]

Lovingly I really need some of y’all to realise that presenting femininely does not automatically make you a femme, and that it’s not just short for feminine (which is just fem, btw)

You can’t be a femme and hate/villainise butches

You can’t be a femme if you’re idea of femininity is still centred around men or the male gaze

You can’t be a femme and be transphobic

You can’t be a femme and still support genocide or any of the atrocities our government commits time and time again

The femme identity is a sociopolitical identity that has such a rich history in rebellion and going against societal norms, it’s not an aesthetic.

[longliveblackness]

On January 1, 1830, North Carolina enacted legislation making it a crime to teach any enslaved person to read or write. The law included:

• Fines for anyone (Black or white) caught teaching literacy to enslaved people.

• Specific penalties for distributing abolitionist materials, which authorities feared could spark rebellion.

This law was part of a wave of anti-literacy laws passed across the South after events like: The 1829 publication of David Walker’s Appeal — a radical antislavery text written by a free Black man and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, which further intensified white fears and led to even harsher restrictions afterward.

Teaching enslaved people to read was seen as dangerous because literacy:

• Enabled communication and organizing.

• Allowed access to abolitionist writings.

• Empowered enslaved people to challenge their legal and social conditions.

Enslavers knew literacy was power — which is why Black communities pursued it despite the risks.

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El 1 de enero de 1830, Carolina del Norte decretó una ley que tipificaba como delito enseñar a leer o escribir a cualquier persona esclavizada. La ley incluía:

• Multas para cualquier persona (negra o blanca) que fuera encontrada enseñando a leer y escribir a personas esclavizadas.

• Sanciones específicas por distribuir material abolicionista, ya que las autoridades temían que esto podría causar una rebelión.

Esta ley formaba parte de una ola de leyes contra la alfabetización aprobadas en todo el sur tras acontecimientos como: la publicación en 1829 llamada La Apelación de David Walker, un texto radical contra la esclavitud escrito por un hombre negro libre y la rebelión de Nat Turner en 1831, la cual intensificó aún más los temores de las personas blancas y dio lugar a restricciones aún más severas.

Enseñar a leer a las personas esclavizadas se consideraba peligroso porque la alfabetización:

• Permitía la comunicación y la organización.

• Permitía el acceso a escritos abolicionistas.

• Empoderaba a las personas esclavizadas para que desafiaran sus condiciones legales y sociales.

Los esclavistas sabían que la alfabetización era poder, por lo que las comunidades negras la buscaban a pesar de los riesgos.

[rafiknytvphotoandfilm]

Must be stopped.

[empireofthestates]

What You Need to Know about Project 2025

The GOP's Radical Plans for America's Future

graphics from @/pinballwizardess on tiktok

[greenwichtraders]

Let this be so.

[constantly-deactivated]

Just a reminder...

2919 - Remember when ABC refused to air Amy Robach’s "We have everything" story on the Epstein client list? 🤔

[aci25]

The rice canister has returned to demonstrate how hard our tax dollars work for everyone except for us.

To understand what your government is doing with American taxpayers' money, everyone—Republicans or Democrats alike—needs to watch this. With all of this corruption, money wasted on pointless wars, deteriorating U.S. infrastructure, a lack of universal healthcare, and rising living expenses, ENOUGH is ENOUGH. WAKE UP, AMERICA!