#painfully relevant

[feraltrenchcoat]

[haltandcatchfiretothemax]

Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017) season 3, episode 2: “One Way or Another” 

dir. Kimberly Peirce

[lesbianherstorian]

excerpt from “queer today, gone tomorrow” by emma healey in diva magazine, c. 1990s

[stanwalkerofficial]

[indiefic]

2019 Kinda Sucked?! But Here's What I Learned.

[naturallog-t]

PITY THE NATION (After Khalil Gibran) Pity the nation whose people are sheep    And whose shepherds mislead them  Pity the nation whose leaders are liars             Whose sages are silenced   And whose bigots haunt the airwaves  Pity the nation that raises not its voice           Except  to praise conquerers        And acclaim the bully as hero           And aims to rule the world               By force and by torture           Pity the nation that knows         No other language but its own       And no other culture but its own  Pity the nation whose breath is money  And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed       Pity the nation oh pity the people         who allow their rights to  erode    and their freedoms to be washed away                My country, tears of thee                    Sweet land of liberty! - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[artisticallyawk]

[drsallygrissom]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

“The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” by Carl Sagan