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There was a kid in my history class in highschool that raised his hand and said “wait… so completely non consensual?” In a discussion about slave masters assaulting slaves. My teacher was adamant “it was never consensual”.

“Like, not ever?” Shock was dawning on his face.

“Never.”

And I know tumblr is now the white gay website but I need yall to know, accept, and internalize the brutality of usamerican chattel slavery.

Both legally and socially, slaves were not people. They were property, animals, objects.

When people talk about the objectification and sexualization of black women, it very directly ties back to when black women were literally treated as sex objects. Not figuratively. Quite literally were on par with animals in the eyes of white usamericans.

“The American education system sucks”

Okay! Go read a book about slavery then.

You should know that chattel slavery is known world wide as one of the worst forms of slavery and that white Americans invented it. And you should know that white Americans continued to enslave black people long after slavery was abolished.

And you should know that the current prison system was created around the fact that prison slavery was and is still legal. So the fastest and easiest way to get free labor was to funnel as many black people into prisons as possible. And we’re still here. We’re still at a point in history where the dominant policing system is actively designed to funnel people into private prisons for free labor aka slavery.

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hey, I went to Mad At You Island and it wasn't empty. there was a stranger you were a bit curt with on a bad day, an old friend who you got into a falling out with, a labmate who's experiment you messed up by mistake, someone who's birthday you forgot, an internet stranger who is hellbent on deciding you're not morally good enough for not reblogging a post or not following a one day boycott. and it is kind of mortifying to realise that Mad At You Island will never be uninhabited, but it's just a fact of life. and if you try to reduce the population to zero, you'll end up whittling yourself down to nothing. you'll never please everyone and that's okay

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the mona lisa is famous for its realistic graphics

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A sweet interaction on the knitting Reddit

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This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. Click the link for the step-by-step guide.

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There was a time when Teen Vogue was just another teen magazine. That time has passed.

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When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

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Just so people know, epilepsy warnings aren’t about, like, purity culture, or online leftists acting as if disabled people are real. It’s about my mom

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made one of these 👍

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wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??

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fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

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I bet it’s sooooo fun to be an actor and getting to pretend to be another character in a body swap/possession/shapeshifting plotline. you’ve gotten to watch your coworker play their role for so long and now you finally get a chance to do their silly voices and mannerisms

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hate when people are always like "oh audiences don't want 22 episode seasons anymore they want shorter seasons and tighter storylines!" and then you look at the shorter season and it has multiple episodes longer than an hour, sometimes even rivaling or surpassing the average length of a marvel movie, with the worst pacing known to mankind and somehow everything is still rushed , and it's like actually ☝️ i would love a 22 episode season of 25 or 40 minute well-paced episodes with an arc that unfolds at a reasonable speed and suspense over the full season's runtime. which is probably the same damn length minutewise as your 10 episode crime against god at this point.

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Met this lady on a hike recently, and she reminded me autumn is close

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I believe in the separation of church (fandom) and state (media creators)

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when i was a teenager i was really into forum-based writing roleplay groups and one time i joined one that was essentially battle royale and i made up my character with his little bio and posted it for other people to read and was like “yay i can’t wait to make new friends here (:” and then it turned out that i had somehow named my character the exact same first and last name as one of the moderators who was understandably EXTREMELY freaked out and thought i was someone they knew in real life trying to play a prank on them. long story short i did not make any new friends on that server