"Because blackface developed as popular entertainment during slavery, the ability for white audiences and performers to embody, consume, and enact blackness as a source of 'delectability' cannot be separated from the real-life terror that black people experienced everyday…" 1/
- @drmadmo.bsky.social
Male-centered Black women are a danger to all Black women.
Siding with misogyny isn’t a flex because the same men that hate the rest of us actually hates you too. You’re just easy to manipulate.
There's a difference between spending your life trying to get white folks to act right versus spending your life loving and protecting Black people. I'm focusing on the latter.
does anyone else have a cat that nags them to go to sleep? like buddy im working to pay YOUR BILLS
@joycelaurie.bsky.social classic
I have to dig out a new path I can’t see myself here anymore I’m not gonna keep pretending this fits
pretty girl rubbing her stubble on my face like a kitty
Doing my makeup real cute and experimental just to smoke weed and play baldurs gate 3 on my couch
I don't give a fuck about what people have to say about trans men when the only time they have ever said anything about trans men is something pejorative or perfunctory. Anything they're saying someone else who isn't barely hiding their transphobia can say better. This includes other trans men btw
These damning stats make one thing clear: lawmakers must resist industry pressure to embrace facial recognition and enshrine our right to opt out into the law.
Tell them to stand with passenger privacy, not dystopian surveillance and corporate profits!
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
NEW: Report from @ajlunited.bsky.social exposes just how hard it is for passengers to opt-out of #FacialRecognition at the airport. Meanwhile, TSA + the airline industry have been lobbying hard to get rid of a face scan opt-out altogether.www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Q0...
you're so cute in your hat 😭🩷
Utena piece I wipped up last minute for an art market!!
#rgu #revolutionarygirlutena #utena #utenanthy #yuri #lesbianart
Mutual aid flyer that says mutual aid for lex with the they/xe/any in parentheses to the left of the title it says share, in a box below that it says lex is a disabled PDA autistic, non-binary in need of funds for rent food, and basic needs in the box next to that it says chronic pain plus constant threat of autistic burn out, make it challenging to find work that consistently support them in the box on the bottom it says Venmo plus cash app: liberationlex
Hii still disabled & trying to survive! Any support helps even just a rt!
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ENTIRE BOOKS have tried and could not say this as concisely and as elegantly. And it's true.
I'm scared that no one will stop what's happening because everyone is afraid of the US government
You should check on your immigrant friends and if you are a poc, immigrant or not, you really need to be careful and lay low
If you are a pregnant person in a state with an abortion ban, you are twice as likely to die during pregnancy, birth, or immediately postpartum than people in states without.
Fantastic interview! This passage really resonates
We cannot let the Wayback Machine get deep-sixed, as it may be the only place we can find some govt docs/sites that this regime alters or "disappears." NPR article: is.gd/BsVRpI
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Lmao I have felt that way my whole life. I tried to combat it by making myself useful and needed…..
Don’t do that
No goodbyes, only "I love you"
the urge to change your hair in the midst of an emotional crisis should be called the groomies
a post from lightnersdream-archive on tumblr, reading, "depiction isn't endorsement but not all depictions have the same merit" with a reply adding, "the more sensitive a subject is the harsher the criticism will be if you fuck it up. that's how this works" and a tag, "and criticism isn't censorship".
there's a tumblr post that perfectly summarizes my feelings on a specific topic for everything
