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1960s fashion illustrations by Antonio Lopez (1943-1987).

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An Intro To Indian Dishes, by BuzzFeed India

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so fucking tired.

zzzzzzzzzz

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Need SkyMiles for being Fly this often 📸: @bkhtpz @BekahTopaz on IG. Styled by me: @nanitheboss

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Being poor is just a series of emergencies.

Emergencies really do crop up more often for poor people. Necessities, like vacuum cleaners or phones or bedding or shoes, need replacement or repair more often when you only buy the cheapest possible option.

Poor people’s health tends to be compromised by cheap, unhealthy food; stress; being around lots of similarly-poor contagious sick people who can’t afford to stay home or get treatment; inadequate healthcare; and often, hazardous and/or demanding work conditions.

So we get sick more. On top of that, many people are poor specifically because of disability. All of that is expensive - even if you just allow your health to deteriorate, eventually you can’t work, which is - say it with me - expensive.

When you’re poor, even the cheapest (most temporary) solution for an emergency often breaks the bank. Unexpected expenses can be devastating. People who aren’t poor don’t realize that an urgent expense of thirty dollars can mean not eating for a week. Poor people who try to save find our savings slipping away as emergency after emergency happens.

I don’t think people who’ve never been poor realise what it’s like. It’s not that we’re terrible at budgeting, it’s that even the most perfect budget breaks under the weight of the basic maths: we do not have enough resources.

Cos we’re fucking poor.

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Joseph Hémard (1880 - 1961)

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my world don’t spin without you

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I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people

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Chicken of the Sea

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By Antoine Doré

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Unknown, Untitled (Ribbon Abstraction), c. 1945

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I am An Infinity In The Becoming

silkscreen on canvas

22.5"x33.5" (85x57cm)

2015

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Lieu incertain#Nouvelle Aquitaine#Photo Numérique Retouche Numérique #Valérie -Dussurgey

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the nihilistic strategy of queer theory to divide the priorities of political activism based on a queer/straight dichotomy had its moment and political utility in history, but it’s outdated and it’s also always been centered around white narratives. i wish more people on tumblr would read cathy cohen’s seminal essay, “punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens”, because she talks about the necessity of coalition politics, and one of her most important examples is hiv/aids activism. 

i think many white lgbt people on here forget that black people and latino people and other people of color of all genders and sexualities were also severely impacted - and continue to be impacted - by hiv/aids. not to mention that the lgbt context of the epidemic also broke down on racial lines. plus, nonwestern countries that continue to struggle with hiv/aids (such as india and south africa) have entirely different histories with hiv/aids activism, ones that were and are impacted by western colonialism, eurocentrism, racism, and neoliberalism. 

the idea that someone who is hiv+ is impure or unclean didn’t just detrimentally affect gay men or bi men or trans women - it also impacted people of color who were hiv+. and in fact this “impure sexuality” narrative has been historically imposed on nonwhite and nonwestern people since before lgbt activism itself even began in the US and the west. 

i’m really fucking tired of white lgbt people acting as if hiv/aids is something that only impacted their community. 

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Anyone else tired of the 3 guy 1 girl character setup in literally every movie ever?

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