"An oppressive system often seems stable because it limits people’s lives and imaginations so much that they can’t see beyond the limitations. This is especially true when a social system has existed for so long that its past extends beyond collective memory of anything different. As a result, it lays down terms of social life - including various forms of privilege - that can easily be mistaken for some kind of normal and inevitable human condition.
But this situation masks a fundamental long-term instability caused by the dynamics of oppression itself. Any system organized around one group’s efforts to control and exploit another is ultimately a losing proposition, because it contradicts the essentially uncontrollable nature of reality and does violence to basic human needs and values."
But this situation masks a fundamental long-term instability caused by the dynamics of oppression itself. Any system organized around one group’s efforts to control and exploit another is ultimately a losing proposition, because it contradicts the essentially uncontrollable nature of reality and does violence to basic human needs and values."
— Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)
(via wretchedoftheearth)
"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes."
— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), 87. (Originally published 1942)
(Source: vigilanteespresso, via howtobeterrell)
Okay so this is Ruli and this is Ruli’s eldest babbu. She’s got a second babbu boy.
From the horse’s mouth:
Long and Foster really screwed us over with the place we got. The homeowner essentially fire them over how crappy of a job they did. It kept us from being able to move in for at least 2 weeks over how dirty and the bug infested the place is. Husband and I have actually considered legal action against them. Long story short it’s really depleted the money I had set aside and am already in need of more money to maintain living here.
Basically, they are running down broke and need about $1000 to avoid being evicted. Please donate what you can so that my dear precious does not get evicted and thrust back into an even more shit situation.
Please help me get this person who deserves all and every good thing ever to a stable place. @_@ PLS.
boost!
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(via Wu Tang’s sign language interpreter is incredible)
Check out this short clip of Wu Tang’s Bonnaroo performance from this past week. Closely watch the incredible sign language interpreter in the bottom right HERE
This made me so happy.
sweet, they gettin it too
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett for Spencer Hart Spring/Summer 2014
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Scenes of life in early-twentieth-century Little Manila, the Filipino American community in Stockton, California. From Little Manila Is in the Heart by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (Duke University Press, 2013).
(via fckyeahfilipinoculture)
BEAUTIFUL.
now let the congregation say, “Amen.”
dear gods they are beautiful
(Source: lloyd2nd)
"call
your
grandmother.
mother.
a
bitch.
hoe.
slut.
dumb cunt. in that order.
to
her face.
watch her spirit leave her body.
watch her fall into herself.
take pride in your aim. your precision.
stay.
grab a plate.
eat what remains of her.
that is what you do
to
women
who are not yours everyday."
your
grandmother.
mother.
a
bitch.
hoe.
slut.
dumb cunt. in that order.
to
her face.
watch her spirit leave her body.
watch her fall into herself.
take pride in your aim. your precision.
stay.
grab a plate.
eat what remains of her.
that is what you do
to
women
who are not yours everyday."
— i am speaking to men and women, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
(via nayyirahwaheed)
if your feminism doesn’t even DISCUSS racism, it’s inherently white supremacist. Oppression is upheld by a culture of silence.
(via blackinasia)
we’re not gonna put up with your shit
(Source: deangelise, via bitterangrybrownwomyn)
GUISE
GUISE
IF YOU HIT “X+C” IT SHUTS OFF EVERY GIF ON YOUR DASH
EVERY SINGLE ONE TURNS TO A LITTLE GREY BOX WITH A LOCK
GUISE
TUMBLR HAS MADE ITSELF SAFE FOR EPILEPTICS
PASS IT ON
I BRING FORTH THIS KNOWLEDGE TO ANY FELLOW TUMBLRITES/SEIZURE-PRONE PEOPLE THAT MAY FOLLOW ME
KINDLY THANK THE OP FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE
I AM A HUMBLE MESSENGER
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"my english is broken.
on purpose.
you
have to try harder to understand
me.
breaking this language
you so love
is my pleasure.
in your arrogance
you presume that i want your skinny language.
that my mouth is building a room for
it
in the back of my throat
it is not."
on purpose.
you
have to try harder to understand
me.
breaking this language
you so love
is my pleasure.
in your arrogance
you presume that i want your skinny language.
that my mouth is building a room for
it
in the back of my throat
it is not."
— i have seven different words for love, you have one, that makes alot of sense, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
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