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“Keeping the internet open is critical for us. It powers social movements, and provides a global platform for people of color, LGBTQ folks and the most marginalized communities to tell their own stories, run their own businesses and route around powerful gatekeepers.”—Candace Clement, Free Press Action Fund Campaign Director via @fight4future​

Starting today, June 11, U.S. internet providers will be legally allowed to censor and block websites and apps, and force you to pay extra fees to to access your favorite places online. Your internet sanctuaries, the communities you are part of, the ones you have help build up, could be decimated.

Will it happen today? No. Next week? Probably not. The changes will not be swift. They will come piece by piece. A slow, tempered death to the free and open internet we love.

It doesn’t have to be this way. You can still make a difference, Tumblr. We need the House of Representatives to sign a discharge petition in support of the Congressional Review Act that would force a vote on the floor.

Contact your reps—let them know you support net neutrality.

It’s so easy. Just go to BattleForTheNet.com, fill out the form, and follow their directions from there.

They have an updated widget for you to throw on your websites to urge others to make a difference. You can put it on your Tumblr. Let your followers know what you stand for, encourage them to do the same. It’s so easy to do. Just copy and paste their small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.

Go, go, go, go. We know you have that passion in you. We’re fighting right alongside you.

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Love these!!

How Did They Get That Shot?

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The woman alone, finding parts of herself she never knew existed will always be more powerful.

- Poem No. 2, Questions for Ada by @theijeoma

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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your hair your smile your skin your poise the magnificient beauty of it all even the sun pays attention its flares salute keep shining

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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the beauty of my people is so thick and intricate. i spend my days to undo my eyes so i can sleep.

– nayyirah waheed

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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the beauty of my people is so thick and intricate. i spend my days to undo my eyes so i can sleep.

-- nayyirah waheed

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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NO ONE  should be able to ruin you. Protect your happiness, sanity and love

- Alex Elle

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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All our mothers have always known the power of sisterhood, you didn't teach them how to use their weapons.

- Narratives by @theijeoma

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

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The woman carried herself  like God worshipped her body. - @theijeoma

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

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use their hate as an ointment to glow even more - @theijeoma

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

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One of the best/most powerful writers of all time!!

“Nobody warned you that the women whose feet you cut from running would give birth to daughters with wings.” - #questionsforada

December 2nd, 2016. Amazon, Kindle & iBooks.

New cover, more poems

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I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

- Langston Hughes

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

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Love...

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

[darekumolu]

Queen Ama.

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

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With grace & style

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!

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A God as woman as me

My sins as painful as hers

- @theijeoma

AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016

Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson

This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail...no matter what!!! 

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A spark in darkness

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