I Went To A BLM March Yesterday And Got Some Shots. It Was An Incredible Experience And The Energy Levels

I’m really tired of seeing people broken up into labels of absolutes.

People are not just “good” or “bad”.

People are not a list of labels. 

People are complex, situations are complex.

I know, that makes it a lot harder when you want to just write off everything someone’s ever done as bad – but that’s not how people actually are, and it would do everyone good to stop pretending they are.

I am tired of hearing about the fear people have in putting themselves out there. And it is a scary thing! Putting yourself out there means subjecting yourself to people who want a really good reason to tear you down, who will jump at the first chance to feel “good” by labeling someone else as “bad”.

I reject this. I reject the idea that there should be fear in speaking up and talking about experiences and trying to reach an understanding of a situation.

I’m unhappy to see people spitefully urging others to cut off ties with their friends under the guise of “well, that person’s just inherently bad, so if you talk to them you’re bad too.” That is fucked up. You definitely have the right to let the friend know you don’t want to hear about whoever troubles you, but you do not at all have the right to decide who their friends should be. This includes guilt trips.

Anyway, just try to be more aware of others. Everyone else is a person like you. They might not have the same experiences as you. They might not understand how their words are harmful, or how what they’re doing is wrong. They certainly won’t if you never tell them.

Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.

Nothing gets solved, no growth happens when you put people into a box from which you’ll never let them escape.

Yes, you absolutely must be careful about people who have tendencies and patterns that are harmful to you. Sometimes people try to overcome those patterns and they fail, and you have to distance yourself from them: that is the sad reality of life. Sometimes though, they can overcome it. But they certainly won’t if the first thing you do is write them off after a fuck up. 

Be sincere. Use your best judgment.

Omg pls stop

IM SORRY

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A FEVER

PLEASE STOP CALLING ME SEPSIS SISTER

PLZ OMG

callout post for a friend of mine - she knows who she is - who got ill two weeks ago and had to go to hospital where they thought she had sepsis and is sTILL convinced that iT wAsNt ThAt BaD

Angst...

Me reading amnesia Sweden posts from @the-other-scared-turtle like

How about, instead of "Magandang Umaga" we say

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Please don't take seriously*

You can't say "Magandang Umaga" without being cheerful

*and I hate it.

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Three ships in any order: Sufin (hetalia), Nalu (Fairy tail, used to be Nali) and Natsumikan (Gakuen Alice, it was in my school)

Last song: Living it up on top, Hadestown

Last movie: Song if the sea (GO WATCH IT, IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND I)

Currently reading: Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Currently watching: an anime that has some dude who makes manga and has a girl with bright orange or something hair and red bows

Currently consuming: soup

Food I'm craving: ADOBO PLEASE

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Last song: tkm - boy Pablo

Last Movie: parasite

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Currently watching: avatar again

Currently consuming: I ate halo top ice cream

Foods I’m craving currently: Dino nuggets

Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson's slave.

Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally's children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God... when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson's dead wife's half sister. Sally's mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson's father.

These people left a legacy.

A legacy of entitlement under the most criminal of circumstances, and White Supremacist beliefs which pervade U.S. Society and Culture, to this very day.

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

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I love this fandom but wtf dudes?

On Top

Iceland: Why is Sve on top of the Christmas tree?

Finland: I couldn't decide between a star or an angel, so I went with both.

I was looking up stuff and found this article about gender-neutral language is developing. I found this because I was looking for arab ace things.

For queer and feminist communities in the Middle East, the fight to gain acceptance in society has come in tandem with another conversation: how to define words like gay, bisexual and transgender in Arabic. Some people default to a transliteration of the English words in LGBTQ, others prefer the phrase “mujtama’a al meem” (مجتمع الميم) — or the meem community — a reference to the m-sounding Arabic letter that starts off these terms when translated into Arabic. After years of efforts led by activists in Lebanon, the word “mithly” (مثلي) and “mithliya” (مثلية) for gay is now standard for many media.

Anyways thought that was interesting to see the debate between the use of English and the active disuse of it. The article goes over more cultures as well.

Washington Post

A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world

What pronouns do you use? There are, in fact, many non-binary ways to answer in historically gendered-languages.

There’s also this arab ace group if you want more ace things in arabic.

Remember when watching this video to watch three or more between each replay and THEN watching it again. I think this is why it was removed before because I had saved the link and when I clicked it, it was removed.

WATCH 3 VIDEOS BETWEEN EACH REPLAY

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.