The African diaspora is one of humanity’s greatest stories of cultural survival. Across oceans and centuries, people carried music, food, spirituality, language, rhythm, and memory with them.
Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That’s why I write about them.”
“I hope they’re not prophecy because I don’t want to live in that world.”
Apparently there’s been a blackout in Gary, Indiana that’s been going on for a week???? And folks are getting robbed and b34ten. Why is there nothing in the news or online trending about this?
it has to be skin to skin contact, so if ur out protesting cover every inch of your skin. they're trained primarily to grab your arms. also the manual advises to keep the gloves away from water, particularly salt water. fun little fact for you.
Before Hero’s, it would always air this type of low budget films called “The Dust Factory” with Hayden Panettiere. Not knowing it was a allegory for dealing with grief & lost.
Did anyone else's high school do that thing where they faked an extremely realistic car crash on the school grounds and made a video about kids from school getting in a drunk driving accident and dying and everyone was traumatized or is California just weird
in Citizen, Claudia Rankine removes the body of a lynched black person to afford them dignity in death. in the absence of the black body, what you're confronted w/ is the unbearable whiteness of the scene/violation. the lynch mob is now the subject of scrutiny, not the deceased.