Reminder That Stonewall Wasn’t About Marriage Equality. Stonewall Was About Police Brutality. It Was

can’t wait to move out into the middle of nowhere and build a happy cottage and grow raspberries and have dandelion tea with honey and bake bread and pies and raise goats and ducks and a cat or two

vergil is like: I will take war language and use it for love and take love language and use it for war

I wish I could terrorize ancient people with things that are commonplace today

something holy inside you wants to get out but you can’t let it

since we're close to st paddy's i wanna speak diaspora to diaspora, idk which irish american needs to hear this but your folks didn't come over from their colonized homeland risking death and almost certain estrangement from their families for you to be a cop in boston

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

I killed one brother and the lord punished me, who, I would like to know, is going to punish the lord for all those deaths, thought cain

José Saramago, Cain

You know what doesn’t sit right and will NEVER sit right...

How George Floyd, a good innocent black man went to the store to buy things who then was murdered by a police officer for suspected forgery.

Then the next day Peter Manfredonia, a white armed serial killer who was on the run across 4 states, was caught and arrested peacefully.

And how black and black ally protesters in Minneapolis protesting for the arrest of the officers who killed George Floyd, were attacked by the police. They were peaceful.

But a few weeks ago, white people stormed governments buildings in Michigan protesting the quarantine because they wanted a haircut and the police did nothing to them. They were armed.

The problem is clear as water. WHITE PRIVILEGE AND RACISM. It exists and is real. Deny it? You’re the problem. Don’t say or do anything about it? You’re the problem. Abuse your white privilege? You’re the problem. Don’t see a problem with all this? YOURE THE PROBLEM.

CRY WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY. MOURN WITH THEM. STAND ALONG SIDE WITH THEM. FIGHT FOR THEM. BECAUSE BLACK LIVES ARE IMPORTANT AND THEY ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MATTER.

Don’t let yourself be used and walked on. If you’re feeling upset over something, tell the person. It’s important to communicate your feelings! Your feelings are not a burden! Your feelings matter! They are valid and talking about them openly is perfectly healthy.

Don’t fret, my little one. Fly! Everything’s going to be all right. Fly, my Heart.

– John Berger, Into Their Labours: Lilac and Flag