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terribleisthinking: ★Terribleisthinking’s 666+ Follower...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:33 -0400

★Terribleisthinking’s 666+ Follower Giveaway★

To celebrate reaching 666 followers, as promised I will be doing a really cute giveaway!!! Here is what you can win:
★A Cat Mouth Sweatshirt

★A Fox Shoulder Bag

★Fairy Kei Antler Hair Clips

I haven’t decided if i’m going to giveaway all three too separate people or all three too one, but 1st place will get first pick and 2nd place will get second pick and 3rd place will get whats left

Now for a few rules:

Contest will run until the 22nd of June

You do have to be following me to enter (otherwise it wouldn’t be a follower giveaway uwu)

You can reblog this up to three times (Likes don’t count)

The winners will be chosen at random using a number generator. Winners will be sent an ask in which they must respond to within three days stating the item they want. If they do not respond, they forfeit their item and the next winner will get to pick.

You do not pay shipping. Most items will be shipped directly from the websites.

(p.s I would like to apologize for the fact its so girl but it you win you could give it to your girlf/friends/family to make them uber cute!)

(EDIT Also, if it get’s under 750 notes it will be cancelled)

artsandcrafts28: John Singer Sargent - “The Countess of Warwick...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:45:23 -0400

artsandcrafts28:

John Singer Sargent - “The Countess of Warwick and her Son”

1904-5

omnivincitamor: blackpoemusic: “Study can’t be calculated from...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:30:23 -0400

omnivincitamor:

blackpoemusic:

“Study can’t be calculated from the number of pages read in a night or by the quantity of books read in the course of a semester. Study is not an act of consuming ideas, but rather one of creating them and recreating them.”

By Paulo Freire

^ I totally needed to read this, gracias herman@ Jason.
no stressing over school because it will not break me, I will put my energy towards that AND towards being an active member of my community

orgasmictipsforgirls: slightlyawkwardperson: lustnspace: Photo...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:15:44 -0400

orgasmictipsforgirls:

slightlyawkwardperson:

lustnspace:

Photographer: Francois Rousseau

soo many statements (needed to be said) captured in a couple pictures. i bet you could stare at them for a day-and-a-half and still find new meaning on top of what you already discovered…

These are so beautiful!

thetallblacknerd: My respect for a woman has nothing to do with how long she waits to have sex. I...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:35:38 -0400

thetallblacknerd:

My respect for a woman has nothing to do with how long she waits to have sex. I see how she treats others, namely other women, and that’s usually a good base for me. How would her waiting a month to fuck mean she is respectable? Half this niggas would call her prude anyways. But that begs the question, what makes a man respectable?

yellowbrickload: Pumzi is a Kenyan science fiction short film...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:31:44 -0400

yellowbrickload:

Pumzi is a Kenyan science fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program.

Pumzi,imagines a dystopian future 35 years after water wars have torn the world apart. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.

blackamazon: strugglingtobeheard: caramelblackness: ubuntulibe...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:54 -0400

blackamazon:

strugglingtobeheard:

caramelblackness:

ubuntuliberation:

Did you know that there were Human Zoos on display in Europe and America from the 1870’s to the 1950’s? These public exhibits of humans,often called Negro Villages, usually showed indigenous people in a so-called natural or primitive state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilization and non-European peoples.

Above is a photo from Amsterdam Holland around 1890, of an African child in one of these Human Zoo exhibits,being fed like an animal by white spectators.

What in all the fucks?!

Reasons why that pet my hair shit and all that isn’t cute. I didn’t know these places existed until the 50s tho, jeez. Fucking sick. And that baby is just a beautiful child that’s so terrible

Why you can’t pet my hair

Why you aren’t bringing me in to shit

Why the rhetoric of curating and introducing grown as people is iffy as FUCK

Please note 1950 as a date of continuance. They were doing this while my mom was ALIVE. And while civil rights was started.

think-progress: 46 people were shot in less than 72 hours this...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:18:07 -0400

think-progress:

46 people were shot in less than 72 hours this weekend in Chicago.

The families of gun victims grieve during Chicago’s deadliest weekend of the year. Photo Credit: Chicago Tribune

"if you deserve honey mine will flow from my arms to yours no effort, no asking. but, if there is..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:12:00 -0400

“if you deserve
honey
mine will flow from my arms to yours
no effort, no asking.
but, if there is none
and
you feel wind instead,
know
that my spirit already
knows that
when you see sweetness
you
begin harvesting blades in your hands.”

- kindness is a form of intelligence, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

"Egypt is on the coast of Africa. It is not some small village in Sweden."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:45:25 -0400

““Egypt is on the coast of Africa. It is not some small village in Sweden.””

- Paul Mooney on the whitewashing of Egypt and Cleopatra (via humanformat)

foodiebooty: Lemon, White Chocolate and Strawberry Cake with...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:30:17 -0400

foodiebooty:

Lemon, White Chocolate and Strawberry Cake

with recipe (link)

vastderp: Being skeptical that another person can be incapacitated by a mental illness because you...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:15:24 -0400

vastderp:

Being skeptical that another person can be incapacitated by a mental illness because you cope just fine with your problems is basically the same as saying “I don’t understand why other people’s brakes fail, because my car works great.”

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:20:54 -0400

lovebeyondmeasure: Quick, messy graphic to explain a concept...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:20:23 -0400

lovebeyondmeasure:

Quick, messy graphic to explain a concept that seems obvious to me:

We shouldn’t be helping women because they’re related to someone else. We shouldn’t be helping women because someone else cares about them. We should be helping women because they are people.

We should be helping women for their own sake.

Why is that a hard concept for people to grasp?

NOT a white girl: sevenselves: this whole idea that men are inherently dogs and won’t...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:26:21 -0400

NOT a white girl: sevenselves: this whole idea that men are inherently dogs and won’t...:

sevenselves:

this whole idea that men are inherently dogs and won’t respect us based on our bodies, or will rape us based on our bodies is ridiculous and everyone should be ashamed if they believe that it’s true.

Society creates this idea that it’s not a mans fault that he’s a fuckhead,…

"Cover me with soft Earth.. jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they grow above me.. they will..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:08:11 -0400

“Cover me with soft Earth.. jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they grow above me.. they will breathe the fragrance of my Heart into space.”

- Kahlil Gibran (via owls-love-tea)

kawaiifive-oh: yungbardock: power stance I see your power...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:05:14 -0400

kawaiifive-oh:

yungbardock:

power stance

I see your power stance and raise you

a majestic mermaid

tastemysole: laurenthemuse: gothgirlsgotogivenchy: neo-belpheg...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:57:20 -0400

tastemysole:

laurenthemuse:

gothgirlsgotogivenchy:

neo-belphegor:

horrorandglamour:

Boss Bitch wearing the dancefloor out and giving me LIFE.

Ummmmm this is my mini me

holy mother of christ

Yaass hunty.

this girl is lifeeeeee

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:52:00 -0400

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’:

saandusti:

canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

Fun fact, it doesn’t stop there. After King Leopold II relinquished his personal control of the Congo Free State in 1908 it became the Belgian Congo under Belgian control, and they allowed scientists to use the Congolese population as forced test subjects for a (failed) Polio vaccine that may have contributed to the introduction of a mutated strain of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) into the African population in the mid-20th Century. This was because the Polio virus was cultured in the livers of apes, and when they produced it in Africa they used local chimps, where SIV had been present for thousands of years.

friendlyangryfeminist: but how much must men hate women, to see a woman’s difficult or unhealthy or...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:47:48 -0400

friendlyangryfeminist:

but how much must men hate women, to see a woman’s difficult or unhealthy or absent relationship with her father

and then sexualize her for that pain?