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Sandra Bland: Say Her Name

Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old woman from Chicago, who was taken into custody by a state trooper in Prairie View, Texas, following a minor traffic violation on July 10, 2015. Many people consider Sandra’s traffic stop to be a textbook case of rampant racial profiling.

After authorities reviewed the dashcam footage, the white state trooper who arrested Sandra was placed on administrative leave for failing to follow proper traffic stop procedures. He was subsequently indicted for perjury for making false statements about the circumstances surrounding Sandra’s arrest, and he was fired. On July 13, 2015 just three days after being arrested, Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell and her death was ruled a suicide.

Most of us today have suspicions about the alleged suicide.

Rest In Peace… Rest In Power.

CARTER™️ Magazine

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The Rainbow Serpent Ngalyod by Lofty Nadjamerrek

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everybody give it up for female characters who are WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. maybe even LOUD and UNAFRAID TO TAKE UP SPACE. round of applause. NOW.

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an excerpt from a speech delivered at Howard University, March 3, 1995

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Young Palestinian guerrilla fighter for the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), 2000s🇵🇸

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Aboriginal Artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was an early Papunya Western desert Artist. Unlike many early artists, he continued painting and innovating for over 30 years. He was at the forefront of the evolution of Aboriginal painting from traditional to abstract.

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Like other Native American prophets, Smohalla was labeled a fraud by the American authorities and press. They blamed Smohalla and his new Washat dances for stirring up discontent. They claimed he was the mastermind behind all Native acts of resistance. On several occasions they sought to force him to agree to treaties, but each time Smohalla outmaneuvered the Americans and kept his small community off the reservation. He would meet with the American negotiators on reservation lands, out debate them and shame them, camp there until they were gone, and then return to the Columbia, where his people, the Wanapams, the River people, would continue to live as they had for centuries. In every regard Smohalla rejected settler culture. He did not want their money, their annuities, their schools, their technology, or their churches. He was an iconoclast. He did not see any value in what they offered him. Instead , he preached the old values of his ancestors. While other yantcha upheld the same message, Smohalla became the most widely revered. His integrity and tenacity, as well as his reputation for outsmarting the aggressors, won him converts throughout the Plateau and as far away as Nevada and the Dakotas. The Washat dances spread far and wide, creating more anxiety among the American authorities.

--We Survived the End Of The World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston

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you’re beverly crusher. you wake up. you pop the hood of your stolen medical ship. you triage five people in the alien icu. you pass your son a Heineken. he commits three crimes. have 235 missed calls from captain jean-luc picard. you turn your phone off.

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underestimating the power of friendship is the single biggest mistake you can make as a villain in Star Trek. like “your friends will not come for you” bro you are cooked. wrap it up, babe.

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i think star trek will stay with me forever.

it has injected me with a permanent joy and whimsy and helped me unlearn shame/cringe culture. most importantly, it makes me see the good in humanity.

star trek has affected me in ways i never knew media could affect me. it keeps me optimistic about humanity’s future, and inspires me to do what is right no matter what. star trek makes me unashamed to be myself, however nerdy or silly I may be.

star trek is so important to me and i have a feeling it always will be.

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trans men and trans women are not opposites bc men and women period are not opposites. man and woman are not two sides of the same coin they are two drops of water in the great gender ocean

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