Aisha

No point in telling you my story, you'll make up your own anyway.

[dutchster]

when it’s november 1st

[crazyaboutlefandoms]

Songs with the same bpm but played over different than original video tracks give me life

[browngurl]

[duskenpath]

In all seriousness I took a death and dying course in college for fun and that’s when I fell in love with, and began to seriously study, spontaneous or “street shrines”. These are the organic, unplanned placements of items when someone is killed, generally, and the community almost descends on a spot. I am fascinated by that interfaith, inter-spirit moment of connection fostered. What drives someone to leave the first item? Who guides them there? What do we, as humans, seek from the leaving of a memorial on a place that now hallowed? And we know it is, to some extent, even if we’re not spirit-workers. We have this human need to bear witness, no matter who we are, and over and over again it manifests as this need to build some space, some monument that says “they were here, and now they aren’t here, and we, collectively, of all faiths and walks of life, strangers to each other, will remember them”

We take comfort in, and protect to some measure, that space we create with tea-light candles and stuffed bears and flowers and it just feels like the Right Thing to Do. We rebuild these spaces when they are torn down by authority and we keep building them up and that’s beautiful

Street shrines are TRULY universal, too. They are largely non-verbal but it’s like we just KNOW what to do, like something moves inside all of us and it doesn’t fucking matter if we can’t understand anyone else standing at the site, it’s just a Knowing. It’s phenomenal 

[changingmorphologies]

One of my professors specializes in this, she wrote a book called Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture about her fieldwork in Texas.

[pukicho]

At the end of the day, we’re all just saying dumb shit then going to bed 

[bellygangstaboo]

Uncle Denzel out her dropping dimes everyday

[mrjynntastic]

Why I keep respecting this man

[kingjaffejoffer]

I like how most celebrities get on the red carpet talking about how happy they are to be there and what designer their wearing. 

Denzel get up there like “Please turn your textbooks to Chapter 8. Integrity is one of the pillars of being a responsible adult. And today we’re going to explore this in great detail….”

[malikthaelite]

MESSAGE!!

[jsullivanmusic]

Jazmine Sullivan - insecure

[miiriya]

[forever-my-sun-and-stars]

The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone

He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind

He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too

Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”

“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”

Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns

He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners

Many of them now rely on him for food

The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either

He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later

He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals

His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’

The man clearly has a sense of humor as well

[revolutionary-afrolatino-deacti]

source

[friendlycloud-blog]

This hero deserves way more notes.

[psychedelicsex]

There should be a way to donate to this guy

[psychedelicsex]

Actually I spent some time and I found a link to donate to him. Click here to be sent to a website where you can donate to his efforts

[blvckasthepit]

[brothasnsistas-deactivated20200]

If you’re black and this isn’t on your blog… -_-

[majestyxcarol876]

We matter

[gthekingred-deactivated20230927]

[important-shit-masterlist]

PREACH MOTHERFUCKING PREACH

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Mood

[alwaysbewoke]

i’ll just leave this right here… 

[17mul]

🗣☕️

[vagabondretired]

Kellyanne clarifies

[corpsecaat]

Can’t even comment how real this is.

[eraemx]

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

[i-amneveralone-deactivated20201]

wow.

[criteria-deactivated20190528]

Sudan Archives - Nont for Sale (2018)

[justalittletumblweed-deactivate]

[marqweabyss]

Impeccable

[martiii126-deactivated20190204]

Beautiful.

[uluhlynx-deactivated20251027]

E X C E L L E N C E

[niggazinmoscow]

I learned in a history class that because Einstein was an immigrant none of the US (white) colleges or universities would let him join their faculty but black colleges and universities welcomed his brilliance with open arms.

[guardianofthenudes]

ya hear 👂🏽 me