Word Harvest

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[thetrippytrip]

This year has been one of the most deadly on record for the transgender community — particularly for black trans women, who make up the majority of those who have been murdered over the last three years. The intersection of racism, transphobia, and transmisogyny, coupled with entrenched discrimination against both trans people and people of color, makes black trans women particularly vulnerable to violence. 

Whigham’s family started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for her burial.

I can’t believe another tragedy like this happened. I hope she is at peace now.

[wordharvest]

i’ve never gotten any mental illness diagnoses even though i had an awful eating disorder in high school and my pediatrician told me i was fine and i just had to maintain weight, not even bothering to do any sort of check for anything else and now years later i am dealing with exhausting anxiety and intrusive thoughts and compulsions, along with ptsd from having cancer that nearly killed me, which the same pediatrician dismissed as constipation. and now i’m scared to go get diagnoses for everything that i think i have (which i’m finally beginning to understand after years of thinking i was a horrible violent person because i didn’t know what intrusive thoughts were) because it still feels like i’m faking all of it. and on the other hand i’m scared of actually getting meds or diagnosed because i’m scared of side affects and addiction and burdening people. also i know you don’t need a professional diagnosis whatsoever but i think im getting to the point where i need meds 

[theproblackgirl]

“It’s time y’all. It’s time.”

We have not forgotten you, Sandra. 😔 Continue to rest in infinite power. 

❤️

[meshugenist]

urgent

my friend @weedlesbian and her family just got kicked out of the place they were living and they don’t have anywhere to go. kay supports the other four members of her family basically on her own and just paid rent so she has nothing left

please, if you can donate please do to help them be able to find a place to stay and move there, her paypal is https://www.paypal.me/weedlesbian

[fomysquad]

Shetamia Taylor says Taylor was at the protests Thursday night with her four sons, ages 12 to 17. Theresa Williams says that when the shooting began, Taylor threw herself over her sons. She was undergoing surgery early Friday after being shot in the right calf.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Say her name. Never forget the struggle of being black in America. Honor the victims of police brutality. Fight against The Police State.

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Guys please reblog this. The death of black women must be mourned too.

[kimreesesdaughter]

Not even just Black women, she was a Black girl. This just..I’m tired.

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

#blacklivesmatter #altonsterling #philandocastile (11.24.14- Washington, D.C.)

Photography by: Mikael Chukwuma Owunna (@owning-my-truth) www.mikaelowunna.com

[melqdrama]

it’s SO disgusting that around 125 citizens in Iraq were killed this weekend while celebrating the end of their holy month of Ramadan and there was ZERO talk about it. Big news companies such as ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc. mentioned the devastating attacks like once? maybe twice? Hell, even celebrities didn’t even mention it. After the Paris attacks, numerous celebrities sent their condolences to Paris and some even changed their profile pics on social media to a pray for paris picture. 

We all know why no one is mention the tragic events that occurred. Iraq being a Muslim country makes people see it in a negative light which is just soo ?????? People claim they’re not Islamophobic, yet when they are silent after something as horrific as this happens, their claims are hard to believe. 

Don’t even say it’s not because Iraq is a Muslim that no ones expressing concern because I’m pretty sure if 125 Christians were killed on Easter weekend in a Western country, the news outlets would go crazy and people would be tweeting their condolences left and right. People would blame Muslims and call every single one of them terrorists (which isn’t true and here’s something: ISIS apparently claimed responsibility for the attacks in Iraq, so tell me again how ISIS only targets people who aren’t Muslim). 

I am just so angry and disgusted at the media and at today’s society. My heart goes out to Iraq, the families, and anyone else who has been affected by this tragedy.

[wordharvest]

Me: *talks*

Me: please dont hate me please dont hate me please dont hate me please dont hate me please dont hate me please dont hate me please don;t htae m e

[wordharvest]

my girlfriend is coming to visit me for a whole month so fuck u homophobes we are gonna do gay things like give each other lil kisses and have picnics and go stargazing

[cssndralicia]

I am very upset, yet not surprised, that this horrific story is not receiving much media coverage. A White terrorist goes on racist xenophobic attack. First, he kills a father—40 year old Jesus Manso-Perez, in front of his 18 year old son after finding out they’re from Puerto Rico. Tells them they “have to go” before pulling trigger. Tries to shoot at son, but luckily he manages to get away. Then goes on to terrorize another family at nearby apartment complex. A family of four, plus a relative. He killed both parents, the father—36 year old Phia Vue, and the mother—32 year old Mai K. Vue. This criminal was NOT gunned down by police when he walked out with a rifle strapped to his shoulder, gets $150,000 bond, and is already being granted the “mental illness” defense. White privilege, what’s new? May these people get justice. (Google headline news will come up)

[iztac-coatl-deactivated20190408]

And the media will make this white terrorist seem like a good person but slightly troubled.

[thisiseverydayracism]

This is sickening.

White men are the devil.

[hemifever-deactivated20181222]

This is the Donald Trump way of thinking. If you don’t speak English,you have to go. Crazy

[thisiseverydayracism]

No doubt Donald Trump’s hate mongering is indirectly responsible for this.

Trump has blood on his hands.

[kidcharlemagne21]

Why is he “Milwaukee Man”? If a person of color is accused of even jaywalking, it is a headline with their full legal name & a google Maps link to all their relatives homes & places of work!

The killer’s name is Dan J. Popp.

[localgaysian]

honestly there better be as much of a backlash with poussey’s death as there was with lexa’s. there is absolutely no excuse about it being “well-written” or some shit and white (and fellow nonblack) people defending it, y’all sound just as ridiculous as jroth and the people YOU denounced when lexa died. fucking get it together. be there for black wlw. your white girl in a bindi wasn’t the be all end all of lesbian representation. 

[bodysanctuary]

fictional dead white lesbians get revolutions and fictional dead black lesbians’ deaths are seen as ‘well executed’ nice to know

[poonany]

It’s seen as getting an “important message” across

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

People crowd funded a billboard for a white lesbian character in brownface but for a black lesbian character whose death was honestly a lot more insulting and horrifying, it’s “fuck you, spoilers!”

[wordharvest]

just letting people know that if you defend Poussey's death in any way, shape, or form you can unfollow me now

[homelanders]

In loving memory of Poussey Washington

[callmeriah]

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[meliorn]

to everyone who hasn’t finished the new season of OITNB yet:

please be careful watching episode 12. it could be very triggering. explanation under the cut (super spoilery)

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