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So many cars, queuing in lines

Such a sight just fills my heart with awe

Silent sadness fills my heart

In vapors of gas

Hours slowly pass

Yet, people don’t seem to care at all

Such a sight just fills my heart with awe

They just heed the highway call

Who shall call us off?

Such a sight just fills my heart with awe

Such a sight just fills my heart with awe

It’s some mysterious mass anesthesia

-Mediavolo

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Tumblr Tuesday: National Nothing Day

That's it. That's the post.

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Hunger is the most powerful weapon

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The Right to Childhood

I think what’s most interesting about the way people engage in the hunger games series is how people swiftly forget the atrocities that continue to inspire the franchise.

Childhood is obviously a reluctant happenstance but the recognition of the “child” or the experience of children is often ignored or even disregarded.

I swear the connection between childhood and The Hunger Games (specifically The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes will make sense in a minute)

Coriolanus, who I personally think is a stand in for American White Supremacy, is whisked away into Dr. Gaul's ghoulish laboratory and is asked about why the games exist in the first place. And he states that it is because "people love children."

If you read the book, then you would know that Coriolanus quickly dismisses that thought. And I would have to agree with him on that.

People do not love children.

I would go even further to say that people loathe children.

Atrocities like American school shootings and the Palestinian Genocide is allowed to continue because there is no childhood under systems of oppression

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Why is dating content (Twitter, tiktok, and podcasts) so barbaric???? It’s literally turned into:

“Me want sex”👹

“Me want home cooked meal” 👹

“Me want to get away with verbal and sexual violence towards you” 👹

Where is the humanity ?

Where is your humanity?

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There’s sooo many parallels between what occurs in TBOSBAS and what is happening in reality. As discussed earlier, Dr.Gaul is again asking the students what they loved/liked about the war; someone mentions that the Capitol has “the right to defend itself.” I was floored lmaoo. That was too synonymous with what we’ve all been repeatedly hearing for months, “Israel has a right to defend itself.” From what exactly, I’m still figuring that one out.

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Do Celebrities Owe Us Anything ?

I love Beyonce just like the rest of you. I actually think there might be something wrong with you if you don't like her. I'm kidding. Ok maybe I'm not, but whether you like her or not that's not the point here.

The point is, is she (and celebrities like her) required to participate in advocacy ? I will not be answering that question per se, I'll leave it up to you instead.

Beyonce and her art has always been undeniably Black AF. Well, I can confidently say her work has mirrored the Black Liberation aesthetic since 2016. Beyonce stood on top of cop cars with her fist hoisted in the air in her Formation music video, she went to the Super Bowl dressed as a Black Panther and she proclaims in her joint album with Jay Z, "Bitch I'm Malcolm X!" on Black Effect. Examples of Beyonce using the likeness of Civil Rights leaders and Black Liberation is pretty perceptible in Lemonade, Everything Is Love, and in her latest album Renaissance, which specifically amplifies the black queer experience.

I almost forgot her most blatant example of using Black aesthetics, is her "love letter to Africa." (that in and of itself deserves its own post)

Anyway, I mentioned all of these things because fans and haters alike, are disappointed in Beyonce's screening of Renaissance in Israel. Beyonce, as of yet, has made no comment on the genocide taking place in occupied Palestine.

The reason why Beyonce was even mentioned in this on going conversation is because of her use of the Black Liberation aesthetic. People are wondering if commodification of liberation or the aesthetics of it is good enough to be depicted in art alone or should artists actually practice what they preach/sing?

As a reminder, Malcolm X and other Civil Rights leaders, adamantly supported Palestine and even Alice Walker prevented The Color Purple from being translated to Hebrew (to avoid distribution to Israel).

To some, Beyonce's silence is deafening and ironic.

It's important to keep in mind that Black and Queer Liberation is ultimately tied to Palestinian Liberation. The common enemy is white supremacy and imperialism, which is important to not lose sight of.

So with all of that being said, should people with unimaginable influence advocate for those quite literally undergoing a genocide or is the aesthetics of the art good enough?

The bigger question is, can we as a society simply let the art that celebrities make just be art?

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The Right to Childhood

I think what’s most interesting about the way people engage in the hunger games series is how people swiftly forget the atrocities that continue to inspire the franchise.

Childhood is obviously a reluctant happenstance but the recognition of the “child” or the experience of children is often ignored or even disregarded.

I swear the connection between childhood and The Hunger Games (specifically The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes will make sense in a minute)

Coriolanus, who I personally think is a stand in for American White Supremacy, is whisked away into Dr. Gaul's ghoulish laboratory and is asked about why the games exist in the first place. And he states that it is because "people love children."

If you read the book, then you would know that Coriolanus quickly dismisses that thought. And I would have to agree with him on that.

People do not love children.

I would go even further to say that people loathe children.

Atrocities like American school shootings and the Palestinian Genocide is allowed to continue because there is no childhood under systems of oppression

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I’ve started to read Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes and I feel like I’m the only person who perceives Coryo as a symbol for white supremacy? Maybe? Maybe not.

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Eric Garner’s Daughter Wants You To Vote For Bernie Sanders— Here’s Why

Gifs: Bernie 2016

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Hotel de Monaco, Paris

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THIS HELLA ACCURATE BAHAHAAHAHAAHAH

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Ordering my coffee like this the next time I step foot in #Starbucks

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Yoncé: The Last Airbender