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"El quinto verso era corto como un relámpago y al escribirlo, me dejó en la razón su quemadura." - Pablo Neruda
~ Wednesday, February 1 ~
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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don’t want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
— Audre Lorde (via blkcowrie)

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Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

— Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

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thegoddamazon:

pixyled:

esmeweatherwax:

racemash:

thespunkywallflower:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.
 

You guys should really google him. 
(if you click the link, I did it for you)

fucking hell I just nearly got sick.

tumblrs tuaght me so much I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting. This is just apalling 

But guys, we’re just supposed to get over it, right?

thegoddamazon:

pixyled:

esmeweatherwax:

racemash:

thespunkywallflower:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. 

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. 

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. 

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.
 

You guys should really google him

(if you click the link, I did it for you)

fucking hell I just nearly got sick.

tumblrs tuaght me so much 
I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting.

This is just

apalling 

But guys, we’re just supposed to get over it, right?


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baddominicana:

perfection.

baddominicana:

perfection.

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baddominicana:

dreaminginspanish:

Coño!

Coñazo!

baddominicana:

dreaminginspanish:

Coño!

Coñazo!

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If love be a day

If love be a day

Let hate be the last minute of the previous day

Let indifference be the last moment before noon

Compassion being the highest point of sun

Rising as kindness in twilight hour;

 

Light might be your sweet smiling sleeping face

Light might be the space between us, facilitating communion

Light might be another set of hours with which to hold you more

Light might be much more than dawn

 

Light might be

 

If love be a day

Let the moment our spirits recognized each other be called illumination

Be afternoon reservations birthed out of wounds we were too scard to heal otherwise

Let evening find us open sunset blushed sky waiting for dancing stars from the chaos of our movement

 

Let it be sacred

This repose, this sigh of long stretch of reaching towards something like rest

Something like retiring the fight for what it was worth

Something like…you feel like home

Like…this be how it goes after all this work

 

If love be a day

Let darkness fall and turn the world down low

If love be a day

Let us end the way we started: from the infinite possibilities that light might be

 

If love be a day

Let night be making it.

 

* “If love be a day” is a line from an e.e cummings poem

 


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rowanherpty:

this made tears in my eyes. 

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onesmartblackboy:

my favorite thing about you is your honesty

the true self seems to emerge on two occasions

when it is by itself

and when it is effortlessly comfortable among others

thank you for making your bed here


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adeana:

Goddess Fruit - Amanda Sage

adeana:

Goddess Fruit - Amanda Sage


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~ Monday, January 30 ~
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What We Are - Ernest Cline

Dance monkeys, dance!