#murdered by police

[thesocklesswonder]

Hadis Najafi and Mahsa Amini, both Iranian women who are now dead - just in the last nine days - because of the Iranian morality police. The latter was killed in police custody after being arrested for not wearing the hijab (head scarf) correctly, in their eyes. The former was killed in the protests that followed. The internet has been cut off repeatedly to obscure the crisis that's happening in Iran right now.

We haven't heard much about this in the U.S., but we need to. This is happening here and in other places. Women are being repressed worldwide and it needs to stop!

These women are our sisters. All of the women of the world are our sisters. (And you don't have to be a woman to feel they are our sisters. Men have sisters ffs)

We don't turn our backs on people suffering, do we? If you think it's okay to do so "because that's them, not us", then piss off. There is no "them" and "us" when it comes to murdering people for what they're wearing or the color of their skin or anything else.

We're all human beings. Every. Damn. One. Of. Us. There are no other species of people. We're all the same and we need to start acting like it.

Look at their faces, memorize their names, and remember what happened. We have to stop it happening again and it will keep happening until we stop it.

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

The Minneapolis police department did not respond to requests for comment

[samble-moved]

post itself

false flags

trans/adjacent tags

accessibility features

tumblr live post (thanks for the link, @problemnyatic)

flashing / strobing / lights

unblockable flashing ad

buying ad free

staff @/macmanx guilt trip

list of staff + more issues

[bebx]

“enemies to lovers as a fictional trope is harmful because it normalizes and romanticizes abuse and toxicity” my brother in Christ, touch. grass. they fuck while trying to murder each other and also they use each other’s blood as lube and yeah they look hot as fuck. what are you going to do about it?

[bossymarmalade]

Installation view of Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at the Chicago Cultural Center

The exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opens with the installation “Homegoing.” The work is a suspended image depicting a screenshot from Ma’Khia Bryant’s personal TikTok. In the photo she’s laying her edges, her jet-black hair shining, her baby face clean and free of makeup. Below the printed photo is a collection of candles, stuffed animals, and a bouquet. On April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia was killed by an Ohio police officer in what was later determined a justifiable homicide. She was 16 years old. 

In the gallery titled Rest and Recess: The Courtyard, the exhibition transports the viewer to the Caribbean where Black girls play together unburdened and hopeful. A tree, sculpted by Robert Narciso and made from branches from Rekia Boyd’s family home, sits in the center of the room casting a protective shadow over everything. From its branches hang yellow paper hearts scribed with the hopes and dreams of little Black girls. The sound of their joyful cacophony activates the space.

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[kropotkindersurprise]

Me, a serious journalist, when the NYPD shoot a man multiple times, shoot a random woman in the leg, shoot another random bystander in the head (just a graze, no biggie!), and shoot a cop in the stomach, because they were trying to stop someone from evading the $2.90 fare:

"Police said bullets had struck an officer and various people"

[shotmrmiller]

baby calls reader ‘mama’ the first time and reader is immediately like oh my god i’m so sorry simon i swear i didn’t teach her that i know im just the babysitter but simon is just like ‘no it’s fine darling don’t even worry about it’ because he’s been teaching baby to call reader ‘mama’ behind her back the whole time

finds out when johnny drops the baby off like there's mama and you're already trying to stammer out a response but he's not having it. "have a good day, mrs. riley," then looks at the the baby. "be good for yer mama, alrigh'?"

OI.

SIR. SIR COME BACK I HAVE A DATE SIR. CANT TAKE THE BABY WITH ME.

now you're being dragged to a surprisingly nice restaurant by simon because "if ya wanted to go out on a date, coulda jus' say so."

you'd be angry but the wine is $300 a bottle so you guessss you'll stay and enjoy it.

yeah it ends with him covering your mouth while he fucks you into the couch. "gotta keep it quiet unless ya tryna wake our baby."

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this

[fosliie]

You know what they say, once you got some fav characters, gotta blast ‘em with the gender ray B). Anyways here’s some fem versions of Sam and Max! Just as in love and murdering even more so if that’s even possible

[angelnumber27]

The Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund

Tyre Nichols was loved by his community and was known to be gentle, kind, and joyful. He loved skating and was originally from the Bay Area in California. He was known as someone “you know when he comes through the door he wants to give you a hug” and that “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

“He had never been in trouble with the law, not even a parking ticket. He was an honest man, a wonderful son, and kind to everyone. He was quirky and true to himself, and his loss will be felt nationally.”

Btw, the link includes a photo of graphic injuries. View with discretion.

[my-midlife-crisis]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

tag y’all’s problematic ships 🫶🏻

[atavist]

The Last Shall Be First

In 1994, the deadliest year in New Orleans history, Len Davis of the NOPD ordered a hit on a civilian who had filed a brutality complaint against him. The most notorious cop in the city went away for murder but left a hidden legacy of harm in his wake. People are still crying out for justice.

Issue no. 150 is now live:

Over the years, the various men whom Davis helped in one way or another to put away for life had advocates on the outside, well-meaning people who did what they could with the resources they had. Juluke pretended that he understood the documents a lawyer shared with him during his appeals—he didn’t know how to read and wouldn’t learn until he was 31 and still locked up at Angola. His grandmother always believed in his innocence, and when she passed away in 2008, it felt like he was left without a soul in the world who truly cared about him. One of Singleton’s young daughters saved the money she otherwise would have spent on sweets—she liked Honey Buns best—because she wanted to help pay the $25,000 retainer she’d heard someone say her father needed for a good attorney. Just the thought of her kindness and naïveté made Singleton tear up. He told himself that if he weren’t in prison, a rival in the drug game might have come along one day and shot up his home. His big-hearted daughter might have been killed.

[politijohn]

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[gothhabiba]

analyses that seek to talk about the relationship between “femininity,” “masculinity,” and social punishment and reward shoot themselves in the foot when they refuse to define what “femininity” or “masculinity” are and instead just consider them to be two distinct, intangible, immutable qualities of objects or people themselves, such that people just kind of are “feminine” or “masculine”—rather than thinking of different kinds of femininities and masculinities as shifting and multivalent categories that are imposed on people, scripts that people manipulate, or ways in which things are read. people who want to analyse femininity and masculinity for their social disciplinary functions are often unable to really get there because they don’t make this distinction. perhaps they assume that we all know what “femininity” or “masculinity” are and so how these ideas are actually created and applied doesn’t need to be theorised?

this gets especially dicey when you start trying to talk about racialised discourses surrounding gender, and leads you to claims such as “Black men are socially punished for their masculinity”—for the “masculinity” that they just sort of ‘have’—rather than the more productive analysis that the concept of “Black masculinity” is a white invention and sexual fantasy imposed on Black men that serves a specific social-political function re: the policing of Black men and racial corralling, division, and denial of public space justified by viewing Black men as a sexual threat; police murder as an arm of capitalist biopower/ control of populations justified by claiming Black men are a physical threat; the government’s role in systematically destabilising the engine of social reproduction that is the nuclear family in Black communities; &c. &c.. To describe this spectacle of an invented threat as “[Black men’s] masculinity” as though it describes anything actually ‘possessed by’ Black men is, I think, weak analysis to say the very least

[whaliiwatching]

gay people judging you