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summer looks  ☀️

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Sri Lanka de Christian Zuber & Senake Bandaranayake. Les Editions Delroisse. c.1979.                                     

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A soft woman is simply a wolf caught in meditation.

Pavana पवन  (via lucasta)

HELLO

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Shapes, 2010 Filippo Minelli

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Maybe you thought I would forget about the sunrise how the moon stayed in the morning time a lower lip your partly open partly spoken mouth Maybe you thought I would exaggerate the fire of the stars the fire of the wet wood burning by the waterside the fire of the fuck the sudden move you made me make to meet you (fire) BABY I do not exaggerate and if I could I would.

june jordan, after all is said and done. (via black-poetry)

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Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

I spent like 20 minutes trying to compose a tweet about how important it is for people to educate themselves on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls but i kept going over the character limit. There are families right now in Manitoba who are paying out of their own pockets to drag the Red River in hopes of finding the bodies of their loved ones who have gone missing. It’s impossible to fathom how tragic that is and how the Canadian government is refusing to help. Last year they found 7 bodies, if the Canadian government cared even the littlest bit about the Indigenous people in Canada those bodies women and girls would not have to wait for an annual drag of the river,  funded by their families to be found. If the government cared even the littlest bit they would be dragging those waters after an Indigenous women or girl is reported missing, they would be working with the families to find the girls and working with communities to help them heal. The Canadian government is a complete joke as Stephen Harper argues that this isn’t a race issue and says it isn’t on his radar. As he continues to ignore the issue Stephen Harper is perpetuating and encouraging violence against Indigenous women and girls. The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is in the thousands, and that is blood on the government’s hands. 

http://www.chrisd.ca/2015/04/05/manitobans-to-drag-red-river-again-to-find-missing-murdered-aboriginal-women/

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when your parents ask you to take out the trash before you walk out:

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Toni Morrison: I never use anyone I know. In The Bluest Eye I think I used some gestures and dialogue of my mother in certain places, and a little geography. I’ve never done that since. I really am very conscientious about that. It’s never based on anyone. I don’t do what many writers do.

Interviewer: Why is that?

Toni Morrison: There is this feeling that artists have—photographers, more than other people, and writers—that they are acting like a succubus … this process of taking from something that’s alive and using it for one’s own purposes. You can do it with trees, butterflies, or human beings. Making a little life for oneself by scavenging other people’s lives is a big question, and it does have moral and ethical implications.

In fiction, I feel the most intelligent, and the most free, and the most excited, when my characters are fully invented people. That’s part of the excitement. If they’re based on somebody else, in a funny way it’s an infringement of a copyright. That person owns his life, has a patent on it. It shouldn’t be available for fiction.

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mafioseo: Wanda Koop

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“So we heard the proposition last night, ‘We need to dismantle the United States.’ This sounds kind of preposterous and silly to most people but the question is, ‘Why? Why does it sound so absurd to say that we don’t want to live under a settler state founded on genocide and slavery?’ That the proposition seems silly shows the extent to which we have so completely normalized genocide that we cannot actually imagine a future without genocide.”

Andrea Smith, March 2011, at Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide (via unpoliceyourmind)

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"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." —Audre Lorde