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"No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." - Micah Bazant
EDIT: "Non-judgmental FYI that this quote was actually coined by white trans artist Micah Bazant and is often wrongfully attributed to Marsha P. Johnson! Nothing against the quote or its origins, they just aren't Johnson's words." @faerantstory
"The phrase 'No Pride For Some of Us Without Liberation For All of Us' was originally written by me, but has become globally attributed to Marsha. This attribution has made it much more meaningful and powerful for trans and queer communities, and I am happy for her to receive credit for it. I am unendingly grateful for all Marsha gave us, and for the countless other warriors who sacrificed their lives to create space for trans existence." - Micah Bazant
#the first pride was a riot#remember your roots#Micah Bazant#marsha p johnson#other#black#women#and other#humans#opened the door#stonewall riots#paved the way#transgender#lgbtq#queer#blm#black lives matter#black women#trans rights#intersectional social justice#intersectional feminism#us history#queer history#BIPOC history#queer bipoc#1980s#lgbtq history#gnc#drag#ivy speaks
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, & The Most Elusive Tribe On Earth by Adam Goodheart
4/5⭐
This is a nonfiction book that delves into the history of the Adaman Islands and North Sentinel Island while following the story of a historian -- Adam Goodheart -- who traveled there to do research. The Adaman Islands are a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, currently under the control of India. They are home to some of the most isolated indigenous peoples in the world including the Jarawa, the Onge, and the Sentinelese with the Sentinelese perhaps being the most isolated tribe in the world. That we know of.
This has somehow managed to be one of the most hopeful and depressing books I've ever read in my life. It reads more like a novel than a textbook which is a plus for me, and it's definitely more of a book about perseverance than anything else. It's a story about how the indigenous peoples of the Adamans managed to survive despite colonists' best efforts to erase them from the earth. Like all history, there are parts of the book that are incredibly disturbing and depressing to read. Frankly, if those parts don't enrage you then.......You should probably find someone to talk to about that.
The way historians before Goodheart have written about the Adamanese and the Sentinelese is disgusting. Some of it was fascinating until it finally sinks in that these are people who are considered subhuman by their oppressors. And that's not okay. Like to suggest that they are ancestors of a lost species of human is an interesting hypothesis. That doesn't make them beneath anyone else, though. Reading this I couldn't help but think that anthropology is a really fucked up field of science. You're literally treating humans and their various cultures as science experiments. Like what the fuck?
It made me feel a bit guilty for how much I loved this book, I'm not gonna lie. Cause like these are people's lives and cultures. They aren't artifacts or play things. They're human beings that are entitled to their privacy which has been encroached upon by people like Goodheart who are so eager to shove them under a microscope. Tribal reserves have been transformed into human zoos.
That being said, I would definitely recommend this to anyone with an interest in history or foreign cultures. There are parts of it that are difficult to read but that's just how history is. It's not pretty. It's appropriate for ages twelve and up.
#books books books#book review#bookworm#booknerd#bibliophile#book lover#nonfiction#global history#asia#india#bipoc representation#bipoc history
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Tapping the "your support and solidarity and care for Jews and Romani people and BIPOC should be more powerful than your hatred of nazis" sign so fucking hard rn.
Bcs u should support Jews and Romani people and BIPOC more than u hate nazis and some of u it is very clear that u couldn't give a shite about Jews and romani or BIPOC. You hate nazis but you've forgotten nazis aren't just generalised bigots or bad people and they have an ideology which targets "undesirables" and people who ate racially seen as inferior or less than. Only part of combating white supremacy and fascism is hating nazis and a lot of it is helping communities effected by white supremacy and fascism and listening to and understanding us.
#jew#jewish#judaism#jewish memes#jewish history#jews#jumblr#frumblr#jew stuff#romani#bipoc#blm#black lives matter
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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don’t understand how anyone with a curious bone in their body doesn’t get why banning any sort of face covering outright is fascism but that seems to be where we’re at right now. the reason we were all ‘forced’ into our homes (and i know for a fact many of us here in the states never actually stayed at home the entire time early into the pandemic so stop lying) was because there was and and still is a massive disabling disease running rampant and killing people! people died! and people are still dying to this day!! statistically right now 1 in 40 US Americans has COVID! you continue to spread it by walking around unmasked! It’s one thing to sit here and say you don’t want to wear a mask. Perfectly fine by me at this point. Drink up the toxic air filled with a bsl-3 pathogen, micro plastics, wildfire smoke, and lord knows what else. I don’t care anymore but coming on here and claiming that you were forced when there were people at the start of the pandemic refusing to mask is absolutely ludicrous. Just say you don’t care about your health and the health of anyone else around you and be quiet. These mask bans are about the student protestors for Palestine, DRC, now Lebanon and many other parts of the world where contradictions are at an all time high. These mask bans are about using ai to track us better and to carry out violence on people of color, especially black bodies. These mask bans are about disabled people as many people in my previous post have mentioned and how the state wants to cull as many undesirables as possible. This isn’t about you. This is about the future and the world we want to live in.
#covid 19#long covid#covid vaccine#covid#still coviding#covid isn't over#covid conscious#covid is airborne#i think i hauve covid#covid pandemic#pandemic#disability#free palestine#i stand with palestine#save palestine#free drc#lebanon#disability justice#politics#history#socialism#capitalism#bipoc#fascisim#us politics#police state
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Frances Thompson (deceased)
Gender: Transgender woman
Sexuality: N/A
DOB: Born 1840
RIP: Died 1876
Ethnicity: African American
Occupation: Activist, laundry woman, former slave
Note 1: One of the five black women to testify before a congressional committee that investigated the Memphis Riots of 1866. She is believed to be the first transgender woman to testify before the United States Congress.
Note 2: Some reports state she could have been intersex.
#Frances Thompson#lgbt history#trans history#transgender hisotry#black history#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbt people#black excellence#bipoc#qpoc#transgender#trans woman#1840#rip#historical#poc#black#african american#activist#slave#first#intersex#popular#popular post#200
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While this information may technically be new, government infiltration is not. As mentioned in the video, COINTELPRO is a perfect historical example of the insidious downfall of so many leftist grassroots organizations, and guess what? We've made posts about COINTELPRO in the past!
This information isn't made to scare you though, but to empower us all to come together even stronger, even smarter, even more diligently. We owe it to ourselves, to our communities, and to our predecessors to do at least that much. As working class citizens, we must protect one another. Do not get distracted by the divisions those in power wish to ensue.
Confused on where to start? Even if you don't apply as a volunteer, @bfpnola is a safe space for all youth activists to ask questions and receive free resources! Here’s what you need to get started:
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#reaux speaks#resources#black lives matter#history#cointelpro#indigenous#anti capitalism#bipoc#abolition#queer#protest#intersectional feminism#disability justice#anarchism
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#blm#discrimination#defund the police#bipoc#black lives matter#civil rights#black lives fucking matter#lgbtqia#black lives movement#black lives have always mattered#black lives are important#black history#lgbtq#black liberation#african american history#civil rights movement#black community#civil war#civil liberties#black history month#black pride#black culture#black archives#black excellence
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#instagram#instagram post#instagram stuff#social justice#current events#human rights#africa#pan africanism#important#political#political posting#politics#world politics#support local businesses#support black creatives#support black business#travel#support black women#support bipoc#african history#black lives matter#black love#blm#black is beautiful#black is king#african politics#african travel#world travel#travel tips#travel advice
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On Our Backs (Feb/ March 1999)
#on our backs#magazines#photos#90s#lesbian history#lgbt history#bipoc lgbt history#black lgbt history#op#mine
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Paris2024 Olympics Update: Team USA Brings Home The Gold for The Women's 4x100 relay final 🏃🏾♀️💨🥇
Team USA made it to the finals after heat1 (with a national score of 41.94s), Aug. 7th.
In the finals (Aug 8th), Team USA was able to secure a win and close the gap thanks to Sha'Carri Richardson's beautiful save in the last leg of the rally.
Team USA, final scores:
Melissa Jefferson 11.46 🇺🇸🥇
Twanisha Terry 9.98 🇺🇸🥇
Gabrielle Thomas 10.25 🇺🇸🥇
Sha'carri Richardson 10.09 🇺🇸🥇
USA FINAL SCORE: 41:78s 🇺🇸🥇
❤️🤍💙 Congrats Ladies ❤️🤍💙
#woc#team usa#sha'carri richardson#gabby thomas#twanisha terry#melissa jefferson#bipoc#black women#black history#phenomenal women#women history#womens track and field#olympics track and field#track and field#women's 4x100m#paris#paris france#paris 2024#paris olympics#paris 2024 olympics#paris olympics 2024#olympics#olympics 2024#olympics paris#olympics 2024 paris#olympics paris 2024#2024 olympics#2024 paris#2024 olympics paris#2024 paris olympics
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Eartha Kitt - Kaz Rowe
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#Juneteenth#eartha kitt#black women#black history#women history#ally#lgbtq ally#ivys queue#domestic abuse#abuse survival#BIPOC women#bipoc history#heterosexual#intersectional social justice#intersectional feminism#racism#indigenous#black#blm#black lives matter#kaz rowe#history#segregation#black women artists#black voices#feminism#feminist#black feminism#feminist history#feminist icon
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The Black Empress of China (throwback)
Today I want to do a throwback to a 2019 piece I did of Empress Li from the Chinese Jin Dynasty (266-420 AD). Chroniclers described her as "tall and black", characteristics for which the Emperor's concubines mocked her. Nonetheless, she would proceed to give birth to the Emperor Xiao Wu (r. 373-396 AD). It's anyone's guess where Empress Li came from, but I like to think it was somewhere in eastern Africa, especially since they tend to have taller stature than either Indian or Asian Negrito people in addition to being dark-skinned.
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#ancient china#chinese#jin dynasty#african#black woman#woman of color#dark skin#bipoc#woc#history#digital art#art
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Aníbal Quijano's essay "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality" is a short and interesting read if you're interested in the way colonialism shapes subjectivity, knowledge-production and epistemology more broadly ❤️
#philosophy#politics#sociology#indigenous#poc#bipoc#colonialism#anarchy#socialism#communism#blacklivesmatter#black history#queer
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my (stone) butch oc, lovet (she / her)
she's a werewolf, a black Bahamian immigrant bitten by an american cop after making her way here on a boat with an Irish friend, Old Boss (not his real name). she overtakes his position as owner for their speakeasy Saint Peter, a refuge for society's deviants and undesirables.
#i can put as many tags as i want fuck you:#artists on tumblr#wlw#nblw#bipoc#bipocartists#poc artist#black artist#black art#bahamian#1920s fashion#1920s style#1920s#historical oc#history oc#1920s oc#butch lesbian#butch#stone butch#butch oc#stone butch oc#werewolf#werewolf oc#werewolves#wolves in paradise#wlw blog#wlw post#wlw art#wlw ocs#wlw oc
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ALL of us need to educate ourselves...fast
Trump won. As much as I would like to say we will all get through this, not all of us will. As a matter of fact, the Trever Project has reported a 700% increase in suicides since the election. I'm scared, yes, but right now we have an opportunity to set up protections(VPNs, grassroots organizations, learning what we need to do to keep ourselves and others safe) that will be harder to access under Trump. I'm going to leave some videos/websites/books that I can think of off the top of my head. I don't agree with everything said(far from it), so put your critical thinking cap on ;). If ya'll have anything like this send it to me, please. I'm deleting this on December 31. Good luck to everyone.
!!GET A FRICKING VPN THAT IS NOT INSIDE THE 14 EYES & DOES NOT LOG!!
Websites:
ACLU // Amnesty International // CODEPINK // EFF // The Trever Project // justicemap.org
Video Essays:
What Did We Learn? by Signified B Sides // Solidarity is Supposed to be Hard. by Elliot Sang // The Alt-Right Playbook by Innuendo Studios(series) // Andrewism // First Thought // Second Thought // What is Project 2025 What is Project 2025? | what you should probably know about it by Dasia Sade // Mutual Aid is Radical! by COLORMIND. // Media Literacy Can't Save Us by Dummy // How Mutual Aid Works (and Why You Should Care) by Lucretia McEvil // Donald Trump is Not A Fascist Pt. 2 by The Morbid Zoo // Shanspeare // Hamilton and the Death of the Obama Era by Alexander Avila
Read:
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice Hardcover by Shon Faye // Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many Hardcover by Mona Gable // The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot // To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota by Cathy Coats // The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins // Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho // Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer //
Socialism & Communism:
I beg you to learn what both are because we are going to hear a lot about them in the next 4 years. Learn from sites like socialism101, NPR, or hell even Reddit. Just learn a bit more so the term "Marxist" doesn't catch you off guard when arguing with your MAGA grandpop.
This is all I have on hand right now. Stay safe loves <3
#donald trump#us politics#anti trump#alternative#video#youtube video#fascisim#trump#democracy#video essay#fuck trump#trump is the enemy of the people#project 2025#politics#my post#lgbtq#love#important#self improvement#bipoc#queer history#usa#america#election#united states#usa politics#united states of america#usa news#fvck#:( <3
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