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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)

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35mm film

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Like it literally doesn’t matter if Trump can’t do any of the impossible, illegal things he’s promised. It doesn’t matter, because as soon as a platform built on hate is validated in this way, culture changes. Britain the morning after the Brexit vote was a different place. It wasn’t just the measurable rise in hate crimes and plummeting economy, it was people feeling free to say all the ugliest things they’d ever thought because they knew at least half the country was behind them.

In the coming days and months, please stay safe. Please never stop fighting for a better world. This won’t be forever.

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The Art of My Neighbor Totoro - Art Director Kazuo Oga (1988)

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I love it when you wake up and can feel autumn coming. It’s nothing that obvious maybe most wouldn’t even notice but it’s a difference you can feel in the air something you can almost touch something you can almost taste.

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Marc Le Bihan | Double Layers Jacket And Skirt

Guidi | Front Zip Horse Leather Boots

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Alton Sterling was the 558th person killed by a police officer so far in 2016 and we’re barely halfway through the year.., which means by the end of 2016 over a thousand people will be killed by the police and if that doesn’t convince you that there’s a huge flaw within our law enforcement then I don’t know what will

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Opening credits art: Peter Pan

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Jicarilla Apache camp, Stone Lake near Dulce, New Mexico

Creator: Lamme Photo Company Date: 1934 Negative Number 135066

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Scottish Folk Tales and Legends, illustrated by Nika Golz

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“There’s a complete double standard and a complete different experience that a certain element of this country has the privilege of being treated like human beings, and the rest of us are not treated like human beings, period. That needs to be discussed, that’s the story. That’s what gets frustrating for people — because you don’t know five black folks, five black men in particular, that have not been harassed and felt threatened by police officers. You can’t throw a rock and find five of them.”

– Jesse Williams (2014)

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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

(via fawun)

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Studio Ghibli Posters - Jack Bloom

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Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently

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Why is it that an attack by a Muslim in the West is always interpreted as “an attack on the Western way of life?” Even when a man goes specifically to a LGBTQ venue populated mostly by people of colour in order to commit murder, people still want to simplify this as some “clash of civilisations” bullshit. This wasn’t about “the West,” it was about homophobia.

Of course, if the media admitted that, we wouldn’t all get to take it personally. If it’s about homophobia, then cisgender straight people can’t make it all about themselves. And that would never do, because then we wouldn’t get behind the next big wave of Islamophobia.

There is no such thing as “the Western way of life.” My life as a cis bi white woman with mental health issues in Britain has almost nothing in common with the life of a black trans woman with arthritis in Canada, or a physically disabled Muslim man in Germany or a Mexican non-binary person living in poverty or a rich actor in Los Angeles.

The media wants you to believe we all share a common way of life and that it’s under attack from Islamic fundamentalism. They want to make this a “West vs Islam” thing. Whereas it’s actually an “LGBTQ people vs homophobia” thing.

The majority of people killed by ISIS are Muslims in Syria. Were they killed because of the Western way of life? No. They were killed to advance the political aims of ISIS. And the victims in Orlando were killed because the murderer was a homophobe with a gun. Stop trying to pretend that we’re all in it together when you know full well that the murderer knew exactly what he was doing going into a LGBTQ venue.