#happy juneteenth

[keyara-nyasha]

[o66k0l]

Happy juneteenth guys

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Reminder that generations of abolitionists lived and died being told that their cause was fruitless because slavery was simply the natural way of the world.

Reminder that John Brown’s raid failed, but he still managed to leverage his imprisonment into martyrdom.

Reminder that slavery went from being legal in all countries to legal in none.

Reminder that the abolitionist movement suffered many devastating setbacks before succeeding in the end.

Do not let anything discourage you from working for a better world. We have come so far, and we will go further.

Happy Juneteenth.

[sapphireh3arts]

happy juneteenth! you need to watch the film Sing Sing (2023). take some time out of your day to center Black stories and get more prison abolitionist Now while you're at it.

Based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, the film centers on a group of incarcerated men involved in the creation of theatrical stage shows through the program. It stars professional actors Colman Domingo, Sean San José and Paul Raci, alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of the program during their incarceration, including Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin and Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez.

This impactful film is dedicated to the RTA members who have made it home and those still inside.

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[jazzthatonewriterchick]

HAPPY JUNETEENTH TO ALL MY FELLOW BLACK MOOTIES, WRITERS, CREATORS, READERS, FREAKS, GEEKS & SMUT LOVERS!! ✊🏾✊🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🤎🤎🖤🖤✊🏽✊🏽✊🏿✊🏿

And if you’re not off from work cuz your job doesn’t consider Juneteenth to be an official holiday like mine, your higher ups are hella racist.

[h3avenlyglory]

GOOD MORNING GORGEOUS!!!

Happy Juneteenth to all of my beautiful Black Americans! I am so proud of us and how far we have come — this is what our ancestors died for, sacrificed, and fought for: to see future generations empowered and united, proud of our beauty and strength. May our ancestors be blessed in the afterlife and rest peacefully, watching down on us with a smile. Being Black will never be easy (cause we come from greatness, duh), but we make it inspiring and full of light! Bless all my Black writers, the pen game is elite, brothers and sisters. Bless all my Black people in music, theater, film, acting, etc. Our talent and beauty are unmatched. Never question yourself or your worth — Black is beauty. Once again, happy Juneteenth, everyone!

[biria8]

And maybe LaVonte wishes he could be that free.

I've been thinking of how LaVonte looks at HJ and how that look has changed the more HJ feels like himself. "stop shimmying" "don't make eye contact with me". HJ's body language towards LaVonte taunts and invites him to join him in releasing the inhibitions, to feel and move with that feeling, to be free in their mind and bodies. But I think LaVonte can't quite or doesn't quite want to get there, because that freedom is scary.

One of the facets of socioeconomic oppression is the policing of embodiment and feeling. There are consequences to that freedom.

Growing up as a Black child and being a Black man, being a Black vampire in and despite the institution of the Camarilla, LaVonte has likely experienced or witnessed the consequences of that freedom. The consequences of not following the rules. The consequences of not having your shit in a way amicable to the white supremacist, colonial, and capitalist cisheteropatriachy. Those cops listened to him because he was a Black business owner in 2025; unlikely they would have in 1960, 1970, or 1980. His life has literally been threatened multiple times by white Camarilla elders.

I started feeling that freedom recently and it truly is free. But it can also be scary. To look at how you have been conditioned, pressured, and forced to be as a Black person and choose to not comply, to resist, and be in your body, mind, and spirit, is a hard thing.

The easier thing is to aspire to acquire the power that has been wielded against you. And the way to do that is being orderly as order has been defined by those powers. To be a Black capitalist. So LaVonte did that, does that. He sucks while being sucked as it feels him in ways that obscure the emptiness he doesn't want to feel. As he said looking at his stark white room, it makes him feel whole.

When Maya challenges that power and the ownership he is acquiring in Purpee, when HJ, Herbert Jean Wingstreet, a white man who has lived centuries wielding that power, challenges his, it could feel reminiscent of the first and every other time he was told how to be.