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"time ain't gonna cure you, honey, time don't give a shit, time's just gonna hit on you, you got to go straight ahead"

[aliashawkat]

[lucifer-was-an-angel]

You guys are missing the REAL holiday here.

What a strange looking cabbage.

[aliashawkat]

[pandafuture-deactivated20150204]

hach Amadeus

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Nothing happened at all. Also nice.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), German-Austrian composer, journal entry

[useless-austriafacts]

Ich fühl dich, Wolfie

[sprachtraeume]

246 years ago today Mozart did nothing.

[gaywrites]

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia! Learn more about how you can get involved, including sharing these awesome graphics about why today is so important. 

[gaywrites]

Throwback to last year’s amazing #IDAHOT infographics, because they are still as relevant and important as ever. 

[gaywrites]

Bringin’ it back.

[gender-sexuality-happiness-rage]

[goofda]

You know what trend I really fuckin’ hate?

This whole new trend of labeling people by their races disguised as positivity. And I’m not talking about celebrating the accomplishments of someone despite racial discrimination. I’m taking about the posts that go ‘Look at this black girl who did a thing! And she’s black! Black is beautiful! No one will ever talk about this!’. The unnecessary comments on posts of beautiful women or successful people, ‘Black don’t crack. Glorious melanin! Black bitches getting shit done!’ and the incessant adding of political agendas to normal posts.

You see pictures of beautiful successful women and the comments are all about how that person is black. You see a man who has done something breaking in science and the comments are all about how he’s black and that black people can do things too and black lives matter, etc. etc. etc. People reblog post after post boiling down successful people to the fact that they’re black. Not that they’re smart, or beautiful, or talented, that they’re black. They aren’t beautiful because they have great complexion, or mesmerizing eyes, or beautiful hair, they’re beautiful because they’re black. That’s the only remarkable quality about them.

No one is even allowed to have any sort of accomplishment without it being some sort of political statement. No one talks about what makes them special. No one talks about the things that they’ve done. Everyone just marvels at the fact that they did that while being black. They were smart and black. Pretty and black. Successful even though they were black.

It’s not even defying stereotypes anymore, it’s feeding into them. It’s almost become a stereotype on its own. It’s saying ‘wow this person did something great despite not being white!’. It’s saying that being black is a handicap and celebrating anything black people do as extraordinary because they overcame this handicap instead of the fact that they did something genuinely amazing.

It’s not positivity. It’s not proving that racists and stereotypes are wrong. It’s not really even celebrating that person. It’s celebrating the fact that they did something that’ll prove you right. It’s loving other people because of your political agenda. Because they’re important to your opinion. Because they prove a point. Not because of any kindness of the heart. It’s not positivity and black people, or any race for that matter, are not to be your pawns. People are not to be appreciated because of what they do for you, but because of what they do for humanity and for what they do for themselves.

[goofda]

So is anyone who disagrees with this post actually going to break down why it’s wrong? Or add a grievance not already addressed in the original post itself? Or will this all just be unnecessary snappy one-liners? If you think my thinking is wrong I will gladly talk to you about it but you’re not going to change my mind with ‘i hate white people’, etc. Or do you not actually want to change anyone’s mind? Do you just want to feel like you’re right and this is all some joke?

[yourladyindank]

They all just wanting to continue to have a reason to feel a sense of pride in themselves, even though they have accomplished nothing.

There is not good argument against it that I can currently think of. Looking through the notes, neither can they,

[garudien]

Well, it’s not an uncommon phenomenon. In just about any group, the success of one is the success of the group. This much is especially true in competitive situations. This way of thinking is perfectly fine and normal… up until you get to realm of erasing the individual entirely. When your collectivism runs THAT deep, it starts becoming dehumanizing and disturbing. By all means, celebrate black achievement. Celebrate all achievement. However, don’t forget that the person is still their own being. It becomes especially disturbing when you start attributing their success to their melanin or lack thereof or other attributes they can’t control. Don’t disregard the work and effort that put in for the sake of boosting your own ego and supporting some insane superiority theory. People work hard, spending their whole lives to achieve something worth celebrating and we can and should celebrate it. We can’t and shouldn’t appropriate their life’s work to advocate supremacy or dehumanize/fetishize any race or group. Life isn’t a competition and someone’s success isn’t a point for your team winning against another team.

[such-justice-wow]

this pretty much explains why people commenting “black excellence” on things makes me uncomfortable

[butterflycrescent92]

Filipinos have the same attitude as well. They like to claim Manny Pacquiao’s achievements as their own. Not just Manny, but any Filipino celebrities who found success in America.

They don’t even care about that person’s achievement, the only thing they care about is that they’re Filipino. These people latch onto other people’s accomplishments. They’re leeches.

[tckawesomeanimation]

This is kind of unrelated, but I noticed @thesunshinekid69‘s response in the notes:

‘yeah like people’s race usually makes up a large part of your identity and often times culture too’

‘people’s race usually makes up a large part of your identity’

No. Honey, no. I won’t argue that culture is important to some people, but a person’s skin color is just a skin color. Making how black you are the center of who you are and not thinking of yourself as an individual and but one piece of a black conglomeration is not healthy. The fact that you think that it is is kind of worrying.

@specialsnowflakesanonymous, @siryouarebeingmocked, @cheshireinthemiddle, @thatgirlwithanopinion, what are you thoughts on what @goofda’s talking about?

[thatgirlwithanopinion-deactivat]

Heya, sorry I’m late (was in classes all day). But yeah, I have noticed the same thing, people will always attribute a person’s achievements to their race alone. I do feel that I kinda understand where it comes from. A person could be born into a community of people who glorify failure, or breed failure, and when they overcome that and achieve something great it’s seen as even more impressive because, from what I’ve seen, a lot of people in these communities love to air our dirty laundry. So when people see a black kid say, being accepted to multiple ivy league colleges, then they look and see Worldstar, The Maury Show and things like that and all the black people on there, they end up saying “hey, unlike being like all those other black people, they’re doing something great!” But I do agree that there’s more, way more to them than just their race, and sometimes race doesn’t even play as prominent a role. A person could be born black, but in an upper-middle class community and not be surrounded by those types of people. So many other things play a role in what kind of person you are, what you achieve, where you go, and to boil it down to just “he/she is black” kind of does a disservice to that.

[ariyahv-deactivated20190609]

#ShootWeek: May 25 - May 31. Spread the word! :) 

[celestialallegorist-blog]

[peachchihuahua]

Yaaaaas my school is doing it right

[cleverurlhere-deactivated201812]

Proud of my school for these posters! #usfca

[nezifae-deactivated20170429]

I want these and I want to put them EVERYWHERE

[blackness-by-your-side]

beautiful and sad at the same time

[loony-b]

So ANZ is a Aussie/NZ bank that have been openly supporting the LGBT community for the past few years for anyone who does’t know.

Every year during pride they pull out the GAYtm’s around the country that are good fun

Recently the Australian goverment (the prime minister there?) had a go at them, and other large companies for openly supporting groups like the LGBT community because apparently that sort of thing should be left up to the government, and companies shouldn’t be “making people uncomfortable” by producing these messages. I can’t remember if ANZ responded directly but hey, they’re not giving up the GAYtm anytime soon and fucken good on em.

[astralabs]

Hey there. 

I need you to stop and read this for a second. 

My best friend and I are creating an app to help closeted LGBTQIA+ kids in abusive situations. 

The app is finished, and we plan on submitting it to the Technovation competition in April. 

But there’s one problem. 

We can’t get the app to help people if we don’t have the data. 

The competition states we must source our own data through a survey, and if we don’t get enough participants, we can’t submit or release the app until we prove that there’s a need for it. 

We already polled our school’s relatively small GSA, but that gave us biased answers that weren’t enough to successfully draw a conclusion. 

Please, take this survey. No matter your sexuality, gender, preference, race, or anything of that matter. We need data to make this work. 

More importantly, we need you to make this work. 

The difference between this app helping people, and sitting in a trash folder on my computer is the amount of data this survey collects. 

If you can, please help us out. 

[rainbow-hotline]

Hey everyone, I took the survey and it literally takes less than a minute. This is a simple and easy way to help out the LGBTQIA+ community. Take it and reblog! - Casper

[moopl13]

Visit Original Link

IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU HONESTLY (x)

[star-wars-discousre]

You are LGBT if..

You are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. That’s it. Aces aren’t LGBT.

[feminismandmedia]

I mean for one your forgetting a bit of that. Like the Q+.

Mod Bethany

[star-wars-discousre]

The full acronym is LGBT.

[smallhorizons]

I love me some ahistorical bullshit

The “full” acronym at one point was “GL”, after lesbians fought against male homosexuality being the “face” of the movement (i.e., the Alliance for Gay Artists (AGA), founded in 1982, was renamed the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists shortly thereafter; and the Gay Activists Alliance never included “Lesbian” in their title).

The “full” acronym at another point was “LGB”, only after bisexual activists campaigned fiercely to be included, and is often still not even included in acronyms

The “full” acronym at yet another point was “LGBT”, only after trans activists campaigned fiercely to be included

Queer was added to the acronym after it was reclaimed and re-politicized by ACT UP off-shoot Queer Nation in the early 1990s. LGBTQ has been a thing since the 90s.

ONE Archives, which is the largest repository of LGBTQIA+ materials in the world and was founded by some of the principle members of the early (1950s-60s) homophile movement, which led to the gay rights movement post-Stonewall, uses the full acronym LGBTQ on their website and also freely uses the word “Queer” interchangeably.

As of 2014, NOW (National Organization for Women) agreed to switch to use of the full LGBTQIA acronym, and it likely isn’t the only large social rights organization to have done so

Many LGBTQ+ magazines use LGBTQ, including One (which has existed in some form since the 1950s) and The Advocate, use LGBTQ or LGBTQIA as the full acronym and regularly use “queer” as a phrase (and, in fact, some articles have welcomed asexual people and their narratives as part of the queer experience).

The acronym is constantly evolving. It’s not static. To claim otherwise is blatant ignorance. The modern-day LGBTQ+ community is a result of decades of political activism, social inclusion, and community outreach. It’s not a rigid structure that operates by a strict set of rules about who can and cannot join.

[star-wars-discousre]

The full acronym is LGBT. Cishets don’t belong in the community. Aces aren’t inherently lgbt. We don’t want our oppressors in our community.

[smallhorizons]

“we don’t want our oppressors in our community” 

as if trans people don’t already have to deal with their oppressors (cis people) being in their community

as if LGBTQIA+ people of color don’t have to deal with LGBTQIA+ white people in the community

as if LBTQIA+ women don’t have to deal with GBTQIA+ men in the community

as if disabled LGBTQIA+ people don’t have to deal with able-bodied LGBTQIA+ people in the community

the LGBTQIA+ community is huge and consists of people with multiply-overlapping identities and privileges. we all (unless you’re a cis, able-bodied, wealthy, white gay man) have to deal with a member of our oppressing class in the LGBTQIA+ community

ETA: “Straightness” is a position of power. Ace people, even if they are in heterosexual relationships, do not necessarily perform “straightness” in ways that are acceptable to the Straight class. 

[i-am-not-a-hero360]

Reblogging because osirisjones is completely hitting the nail on the head.

[micdotcom]

Adorable new Coca-Cola ad features a brother and sister thirsting after the same guy

[kimuracarter]

AHAHHA!

[micdotcom]

black-ish made television history last night

Last night, black-ish brought us into the middle of the tough conversations black families have been forced to have more and more recently. It did so with the utmost thought and humor, all the while giving nuanced, important depth to the issues of police brutality — including the characterization of police.

[sheisyourgirl]

“We’re both quite introverted - Alison in particular is extremely shy. But we discovered that we could communicate with each other through music. She was already in a band and I was amazed at this transformation from someone who would sit in a corner with her sketchbook and go bright red if you talked to her to this amazing performer on stage. So we formed a two-person social group that encompassed everything.”- Jamie Hince

[lanouvellevague]

Project: Révolution, je t’aime Situationist graffiti: “Révolution, je t'aime”