#r . black

[starspilli]

batkids game night. they’re playing fortnite

(click for full quality <3 also available as a print!)

[copperbadge]

When I was in college, round about 2002 or so, I did a paper on hate groups that necessitated a couple of visits to Stormfront, a white supremacist website and message board. One of the pages on the site was a "children's page" operated by the child of Storrmfront's founder, which was a unique form of horrifying. But I also remember looking at a photo of the kid on the site and thinking, that poor fuckin' kid, what kind of chance did he ever have?

But it was just a paper and that was just a photo of a child I didn't know, so I turned in the paper and graduated and got on with life.

In 2016, @archwrites posted a link to an article by the Washington Post titled "The White Flight of Derek Black" (sorry about the paywall, Arch's post quotes some relevant parts here). I thought it looked like an interesting read: it was about a white supremacist named Derek Black and a group of campus activists at the school Black eventually attended, who set out to see if they could change his mind about race with radical kindness. In large part because of their work, Black eventually renounced white supremacy and became an antiracist.

And then I hit a photo in the article and gasped, because I recognized it. I'd seen the same photo on the Stormfront children's website. The kid I'd seen and pitied was grown up and had gotten out. Immensely satisfying to see.

But it was just a news story about someone I didn't even know, so I posted about how pleased I was to see it, and I got on with life again.

This morning, I woke to the news (sorry, it's the Daily Fail) that R. Derek Black, now 35, has just published a memoir, The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism. And in the epilogue, they come out as trans.

I can't imagine better news I could have heard about them -- that they're out, they're thriving, and they're embracing themself.

Congratulations, kid. It's a great new photo.

[ID: A recent photograph of R. Derek Black, with long curly red hair, wearing a floral collared shirt and a red cardigan, smiling for the camera.]

[sophbun]

this is my theory

[saydesole]

Vinyl Records 🎶

Music is the most beautiful thing in the world 🫶🏽

[aeteut]

Remember, my sweet star and wolf.

By likeafunerall, and reposted with permission.

[baenuit]

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/𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗋**

𝖽𝖺𝗒¹ ─ 𝒂 ' 𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗎𝗋. uma flor originária das ilhas distantes localizadas em meu coração.

𝗉����𝗅𝗈𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗌, 𝖾𝗎 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼.

𝟳% 𝟢𝟦:𝟢𝟢𝖠𝖬 𝗆𝗂𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅⁴

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𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗍𝗎&𝖾𝗎ᕯ

𝗋𝗈𝗆𝖺̂𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗌 𝗌𝗎𝖺𝗏𝖾𝗌ꓼ 𝗋𝗂𝗍𝗆𝗈 𝗅𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗈.

���𝖺𝖻𝗂𝖺𝗌 𝗉𝗈𝖾́𝗍𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗌 ── 𝘃𝗼𝗹¹

𝖽𝖺𝗒² ── 𝗈𝖼𝗍 , ✿︎皃. "my heart becomes a private island, just for my love for you to inhabit"

𝗇𝗈 𝖿𝗂𝗆, ♥︎弱い ╲ 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗈𝗌.

"eu construí o abismo; a ponte, e a velas para iluminar seu caminho até o meu coração". 23052024

random──bios

[goodkoji-kun]

One more meme and then I’ll draw something serious 😌

[blackgirlcurrent]

toni braxton 🤍

[n1ppthesillyandroid]

Idk if anyone has done it yet but

help

[ena333333]

me and my other half

[fluorescentbalaclava]

Rhaena Targaryen and Morning 🩷🐉

@ HBO you better give her her pink dragon....

[s0lidblack]

[taweetie]

Coco Jones | BET Awards 2024

[congeals-7]

the little lord and his loyal court

inspired by @heymarushii's art of a tea party

[sp00ky9]

“I am not so noble that I would stake my life for someone else, nor am I so forgiving that I would sit by and allow someone to trample me.

I am a selfish and self righteous human being.

I, to clear my own shame, used your power. Not for anyone else! But for myself!” - ciel phantomhive

Prints can be found here

[streetplaya]

Chaka Khan For Black Music & Jazz Review, December 1979.