when ocean vuong said: "all this time i told myself we were born from warโbut i was wrong, ma. we were born from beauty. let no one mistake us for the fruit of violenceโbut that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it" ๐ต๐ธ
only when men hold men accountable can we begin to change the social conditions that allow rape culture to survive. moving away from rape culture requires more than condemning individual perpetrators after violence has occurred.
The whole AAVE thing is so funny to me because, no, I'm not trying to imitate black people when I say y'all, I just heard native speakers saying it and assumed it was a correct way of speaking in a language I'm not 100% fluent in? Sorry for learning a language I guess
"entrepreneur" "voyeurism" "connoisseur" "challenge" etc and you're american ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ