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[𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗬🕷️🧢 @mf__trey]

When I’m hotboxing with my headphones on & the song got a siren in it

[ZeroBlank #niggatwt @vodettes_]

white people really think racism lies in intent and not in impact and that scares me a lot

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others cannot eat.

[g @34rths]

Taking my big thoughts to big places so they feel small

[Michelle Allison, RD @fatnutritionist]

this is a good example of how population health cannot be secured individually

health cannot be a personal responsibility when the conditions for health do not exist

when you lack safe food, clean air, or clean water, individual choices cannot save you

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

nobody talks about how CPTSD can make you an incredible friend because you’re so attuned to other people’s needs, so patient, so present. and also how completely depleting that is when you give that same energy to everyone around you and have never once given it to yourself.

[princess˙⋆✮ @projecttcakes]

i love this

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

As an autistic person, for me, masking has never been about pleasing people. It has been about keeping myself safe from the consequences of displeasing people.

[aria .ᐟ @ofheavyheart]

europeans: hey we’re all dying over here, there’s near sahara temperatures outdoors, northern cities were built to retain heat, climate change will doom us all in a few years

americans: just get ac 👍🏻

[dakota @im2hai]

i get so non verbal off that marijuana

[hamdi @xamdl4]

Fuck it Wii Ball

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Last week, I spent several days at the @SchomburgCenter, going through photographs of James Baldwin as part of my work as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition curated by the phenomenal Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

One of the highlights was this snapshot of Baldwin and Toni Morrison in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Unlike the carefully staged portraits that helped construct Baldwin's public image, this photograph feels deeply personal. It wasn't made for publication. It looks like the kind of photograph that might have been processed at a local drugstore and tucked into a family album.

Here are two of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, not performing literary celebrity, but simply enjoying one another's company. There is something wonderfully ordinary about it.

As I think through Baldwin's self-fashioning, this photograph reminds me that public intellectuals are not made through ideas alone. Their lives are sustained by friendships, intellectual communities, chosen families, and private moments of joy. Sometimes a casual photo can reveal more than a professional headshot.

[Katy (not a girl) 🧡🤍🩷🐞 @hey_its_katy]

“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage

[marissa @marissaleigh152]

I'm so happy this legend came back one last time. I have not stopped laughing at this scene and it just gets funnier every time I watch it. 😂 Laurie Metcalf, your delivery is fucking incredible here 🤌🏻

[Namwali @namwalien]

I always tell my students, you can be certain that Toni Morrison herself carefully chose every word she ever wrote. That's what makes close reading her work so enjoyable and so fruitful. Today, we launch PASSAGES, a podcast about reading Morrison together. https://t.co/twlhFyoouN

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I really hate the “no person who works a full-time job should live in poverty” discourse. It should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We have to let go of the idea that we work in exchange for our worth. People are innately worthy and deserving of the basics.

[aa @heartofscandal]

gay

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

The fact that we’re bipedal and walk around with our throats and soft vitals exposed shows that we’re by nature altruistic beings that begin each interaction with the assumption of trust, and everything we’ve accomplished from hunting mammoths to going to the moon was possible because of our radical ability to work in teams

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

I don't know that I've ever met a CPTSD survivor who didn't struggle with chronic exhaustion. Dealing with trauma w/ inadequate support for years is its own trauma-- & also makes EVERY cognitive & emotional task on our plate 1,473,993 times more effortful than it should be.