Marikees - ________

it’s that time of the year where u go outside and some are wearing tank tops some are wearing turtlenecks some are wearing a jacket and a coat and some are shirtless and you can’t blame anyone because it represents exactly how the weather is

Tired of self-care. How about a little bit of government care. political care. infrastructural care.

~ @caraellison

“The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs—it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Who are we? We are the global South, that large set of creations and creatures that has been sacrificed to the infinite voracity of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and all their satellite-oppressions. We are present at every cardinal point because our geography is the geography of injustice and oppression. We are not everyone; we are those who do not resign themselves to sacrifice and therefore resist. We have dignity. We are all indigenous peoples because we are where we have always been, before we had owners, masters, or bosses, or because we are where we were taken against our will and where owners, masters, or bosses were imposed on us. They want to impose on us the fear of having a boss and the fear of not having a boss, so that we may not imagine ourselves without fear. We resist. We are widely diverse human beings united by the idea that the understanding of the world is much larger than the Western understanding of the world. We believe that the transformation of the world may also occur in ways not foreseen by the global North. We are animals and plants, biodiversity and water, earth and Pachamama, ancestors and future generations—whose suffering appears less in the news than the suffering of humans but is closely linked to theirs, even though they may be unaware of it.

— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir; EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH: JUSTICE AGAINST EPISTEMICIDE  

they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight

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Millennials are the only generation to have to teach both their parents and children not to believe everything they read online

Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, French & Kiswahili.

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

like EXCUSE ME