We don't wanna hear you say "nigga" no more!

Free Palestine🇵🇸. Black, 30s. [ID: Profile picture is a still from the film Lemonade, showing a black girl with natural hair sitting on a porch, wearing a white dress.] Most posts are queued. I try to describe images I reblog ('described' tag) so blind and disabled tumblr users can understand images in posts. Undescribed images are tagged 'not described'. See 'image descriptions' tag if you want to start describing images. If I add an image description to your post, consider editing your post to include the description.

[quoms]

Memphis police permanently disband unit tied to deadly beating of Tyre Nichols | CNN

Protesters across the US were preparing to march on Saturday, one day after the release of video showing the horrific police beating of Tyre

The SCORPION unit, launched in 2021, was tasked with tackling rising crime in the city, but has been heavily criticized in the aftermath of the 29-year-old man’s killing. Nichols was brutally beaten on January 7 after a traffic stop. He required hospitalization and died on January 10. […]

“The officers currently assigned to the unit agree unreservedly with this next step,” police said. “While the heinous actions of a few casts a cloud of dishonor on the title SCORPION, it is imperative that we, the Memphis Police Department take proactive steps in the healing process for all impacted.”

American law enforcement culture is honestly a parody of itself

[antoine-roquentin]

Tyre Nichols case: Memphis police chief was once fired from Atlanta Police Department 

As a commander, she led Atlanta’s Special Operations Section, which included SWAT, mounted patrol, motors, APD’s helicopter unit, vice and narcotics. She also led the city’s infamous REDDOG unit, according to her biography on the Memphis police site.

She also served as the Atlanta Police Department’s internal affairs commander.

She was fired in 2008 for her alleged involvement in a botched sex crimes investigation into the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant.

Another police employee was also fired and the sergeant, Tonya Crane, resigned before the department decided how to punish her, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

Two detectives accused Davis of telling them not to investigate Crane’s husband, Terrill Marion “T.C.” Crane, after the department obtained sexual photos of him with underage girls. A federal grand jury later indicted T.C. Crane on charges of producing child pornography. He pleaded guilty to one count in January 2009.

The federal indictment was issued after Atlanta police took no action in the case, though an investigation by the city later pointed to Davis largely as the reason.

Red Dog disbanded: Atlanta police to shut down drug-fighting unit 

Red Dog – which is said to stand for Run Every Drug Dealer Out Of Georgia 

Controversial anti-gang units to disband amid LAPD probe 

CRASH – which stands for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums 

Scandals Bring Down Chicago’s Elite Police Unit

The Chicago Police Department is disbanding its elite Special Operations Section. Seven officers have been charged with robbery and kidnapping.

Chicago Tribune reporter Dave Heinzmann says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley cited systematic problems within the S.O.S. and the way the unit operates during the announcement of the unit’s closure.

The S.O.S. officers are considered among the city’s best and are entrusted with a lot of responsibility and freedom. That freedom allegedly led some of the officers “to the dark side,” Heinzmann says.

One S.O.S. officer allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill a fellow S.O.S. officer who was cooperating with an investigation into the unit.

Inside The GTTF: What Happened To The Officers In Baltimore’s Biggest Police Corruption Scandal 

At least 13 officers were brought down on allegations that included robbing citizens, stealing and selling drugs, falsifying reports and overtime and trying to cover it all up.

Where are the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force officers now? All but two remain in federal prison.

The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs.

He is serving the harshest sentence: 25 years in a Kentucky prison. Jenkins is expected to be released in 2038.

V. STRESS and Radical Response, 1971-1973

Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) was a specialized police tactical unit introduced by DPD Commissioner John Nichols and approved by Mayor Roman Gribbs in January 1971….

STRESS is “an execution squad rather than a law enforcement squad”–Mayoral candidate Coleman Young in Detroit Free Press, May 12, 1973…

Inspector James Bannon later boasted that STRESS was based on a new “proactive policing” concept: “We came up with the idea of invisible, zero visibility, policemen who would be present to interdict crime.” He championed the militarized approach for empowering highly trained police officers on the street–“a combination CIA and Green Beret group with badges”–to operate with almost total discretion in designing their own independent investigations of dangerous criminals. Bannon did acknowledge that this form of aggressive, preemptive policing “has perhaps been unacceptable to Americans.”

[mistsdancer]

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[clearpills]

[withbriefthanksgiving]

ID: a Nokia phone embedded in a stone wall or floor. End of ID.

[bebemoon]

"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.

The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."

from @dustseasons on instagram .

[radiofreederry]

Arby's employee found dead inside freezer 'beat her hands bloody trying to escape': Suit

A Texas family has filed a lawsuit against Arby's and the store's franchise owner following the recent death of a woman who was locked insid

[withbriefthanksgiving]

HOUSTON, Texas (WOAI) — A Texas family has filed a lawsuit against Arby's and the store's franchise owner following the recent death of a woman who was locked inside a freezer in a Louisiana Arby's. The woman's four children are seeking at least $1 million in damages, claiming Arby's and the Turbo Restaurants are guilty of negligence and gross negligence in not fixing the freezer door for over nine months.

The woman, identified as Nguyet Le, 63, was found dead by her son inside the freezer around 10 a.m. on May 11 at the Arby's in New Iberia, La.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed by Le's four children in a Harris County District Court, alleges that a latch on the freezer door had been broken since August 2022 and the store franchise owner and regional manager knew about it and didn't fix it. Employees say they had to use a screwdriver to open and close the freezer door and often used an oil box to prop the door open. A former employee says he personally showed the broken door to the regional manager after August 2022.

[…]

According to the lawsuit, Le was dropped off at the Arby's on May 11 to work on some opening duties before the rest of the employees arrived at 10 a.m. to finish opening the restaurant. At some point, Le became trapped inside the walk-in freezer, which a former employee says was kept at -10 degrees or lower, per company policy. Investigators reported that he inside of the freezer door "had been bloodied, leading him to conclude Ms. Le panicked once locked inside and beat her hands bloody trying to escape or get someone's attention," according to the lawsuit. Eventually, Le collapsed into a fetal position face down on the frozen floor.

May 30, 2023

[tracesofsandalwood]

Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver in LIVE AND LET DIE 1973

[sayruq]

[withbriefthanksgiving]

20 February 2024

[petewentzisblack1312]

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

[neshamama]

liu qi, "xizhi (geese)," 2023, ink and color on paper

[sentimentalbeing2001]

Beautiful days sometimes all fade into one

[dreamstars]

[withbriefthanksgiving]

ID: a warm white light glows from a lamp with a white lace lampshade with patterns of roses. End of ID.

[gatheringbones]

[“When I learned that my second baby would be designated “boy,” I googled the term “gender disappointment,” but my search didn’t turn up anything that tracked with how I was feeling. My love already felt endangered by the breadth of its demand: now there would be two kids to care for, and now I understood the comprehensive nature of that work. And in any case, hadn’t I always been disappointed by gender? Once he was born, I even felt for a time less pressure. He would be endowed with many layers of privilege; the kind I had as a white person and also the kind his father had, as a man. Jon and I joked uneasily that our jobs would be easier this time around. This baby would be fine. He would grow up to be a white man in a white man’s world.

In other words, at first I saw my second baby not as a victim of power, but more as an inevitable foe. As if here, in front of me, was someone who would benefit from all the power structures I hated, from everything that had troubled me and the women in my life. At the very least, I saw my new baby as someone who did not need my emotional protection in the same way my daughter would, and my rage took a different form with him in the first two years of his life, as it always had with rowdy little boys who seemed to take up all the space. As he brought his baby wrath to bear on my body every night at the witching hour, mouthing my breasts and tearing into me with his impossible-to-trim nails, I projected masculine violence onto his healthy infantile aggression. When he began to walk, I was harder on him when he bumped into other kids carelessly, just as I had always been with the boys at the daycare. I knew his right to take up space would always be greater than my daughter’s, and when he acted out in frustration, threw his body into it, I scolded him harder, trying to block off some path on which I felt he was already walking a little too firmly.

Parenting a son with patriarchy in mind meant I had to be extra attentive to the ways in which my best efforts at making him a good person would be thwarted by a culture of masculinity that would teach him to take take take. But by the time he turned two, I felt like I had been conned into reproducing the exact gender roles I was trying to avoid. I had positioned my daughter as a victim of the patriarchy, my son as an aggressor. I had left no room for anything in between. I had, despite my best efforts, developed a pattern of reinforcing the gender binary, even if the way I was doing it wasn’t quite in line with how I saw others projecting gender on to my children.

Trying to keep up with his big busy sister, Elliott became quite the bruiser. Whatever I did, however I hovered, I could not keep him from injuring himself. Those around us often linked his gaucheness with his perceived gender identity, which frustrated me, because I saw in him the confusion I felt as the younger sibling, carrying around a body so full of energy, without any clear understanding of where to direct that vitality, or how to get anyone in the family to pay attention to me. But Elliott also grew to be so tender, thoughtful in a way I never expected. Like all children, he became a multifaceted little creature.”]

amanda montei, from touched out: motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control, 2023

[fellahimedia]

Why is it whenever people correctly say that more people need to be engaged in militant tactics on the ground bc whats happening is too little are and too many are engaging with non violent tactics or social media, that the immediate response is "well not everyone is able to be involved on the ground like disabled people" there are certainly people who cannot be directly involved or leave the house without support but i dont see those posts as centering disabled people. If they were theyd be productively add on to the discussion about where to include disabled people in militant tactics? Again, we know the path forward is masses shutting down embassies, weapons factories, railroads and so on. There is no debate that this is the most effective tactic and i dont see how centering that discussion decenters disabled people. Especially since the tactic of empires like israel is too mass disable people when they revolt so we need to have these discussions

Also just to say I watched this vid today of PIJ in in gaza distributing candy and below is a screenshot of a palestinian militant with one leg and obviously I cant predict whether this is a result of war or whether he was born that way but heres an example of disabled peoples inclusion in militant efforts

Also whats happening is when a select few decide to bravely engage with the state and face extreme repercussions, is that instead of many people joining and sustaining the action, everyone just praises them and moves on. Not good

[sympathetichouse]

[dk-thrive]

Twilight over Holly Pond. 5:15 to 5:25 am. 55º F. June 1, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT (@dkct25)

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

I'll die on the hill that expecting women to remove hair that men are not expected to remove is misogynistic body policing.

Your body is your own. Body hair and facial hair do not become "unhygienic" or harm anyone, just because they belong to a woman instead of a man.

Every woman who doesn't do the hair removal demanded of her is participating in staking the feminist claim that women's bodies exist for ourselves, not to fulfill the aesthetic preferences of people with power over us.

I'm grateful to every woman I ever knew who showed me that it's possible to just stop removing body hair and (for many women in many situations) it's literally fine. No one in my life even comments on my pit hair or leg hair, except for a kid once in awhile, which gives me the chance to say things like "Most grownups grow hair there! Some grownups remove it, but I don't want to."

I'm also grateful to the transfeminists who taught me to see the gender role enforcement in the demand that women have no facial hair.

Even when the removal of certain hair feels necessary for safety from harassment or abuse, understanding that the stigma against female facial & body hair is misogynistic (and frequently specifically transmisogynistic and racist) can make it easier to identify the structural problem, instead of buying into the propaganda that there's something fundamentally wrong with your body if you grow this hair at all.

You have every right to decide what purely cosmetic work you will spend time, money, and planning on, and what isn't worth doing. Regardless of what you decide, you should have the right to live free of harassment, discrimination, and other forms of body policing. So should everyone else.

If people treat you badly in attempts to enforce this gender role, that's because they're misogynistic, not because you're doing anything wrong.

[iridessence]

House of Tara By Megan Winstone For 10 Magazine March 2021