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Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Scandal (TV), How to Get Away with Murder Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Annalise Keating/Olivia Pope Characters: Annalise Keating, Olivia Pope, Marcus Walker, Michaela Pratt, Oliver Hampton, Asher Millstone, Connor Walsh, Nate Lahey, Fitzgerald Grant, Mellie Grant Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe, Pansexual Character, Disco, Social Justice Summary:

Annalise was nervous. She didn’t know why. Okay, she did know why. Olivia Pope was coming to Philadelphia. Why was she like this? She had never been this nervous around Olivia before. Maybe it was because Olivia was used to nice things, and right now Annalise didn’t have nice things to offer.

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First and foremost, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder are the intellectual property of Shonda Rhimes and Peter Nowalk respectively. No profit shall be made from this work. It is intended as an homage and kiki only.

Furthermore, this particular story takes place in what we might call an alternate timeline taking place after Season 4 of HTGAWM and the Series Finale of Scandal.

Just a quick glimpse of what happens when two powerful Black women come together to fight for a cause. Annalise Keating/Olivia Pope = Annalivia.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20774471/chapters/49365944

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From Puerto Rico to Copenhagen. If I can't be a Black nationalist on my radio, then where can I be one? Supporting Black artists (and Black Taureans) from '29 to infinity. #actlikeyouknow

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Engineering and producing is a scary thing to start and a very difficult thing to stick with and excel at. Making it to the top is very competitive. A lot has already been said about the idea that women are generally less likely to initially try something for fear of judgment or failure than men and to combat this I really believe the key to change is more visible female producers. The more there are in the public space, the more young girls will see it as a option for them from a young age and find the confidence to start learning. That means we need women not only to be producing but—and this is important—to stimulate meaningful change we need them to actually rise to the top and become visible. Producers by nature aren’t always visible, so that means to create most change, she must not only be a producer but also potentially have what it takes to be a performer—publicly seen and embraced. We all are aware of the standards expected of women in this area so I’ll just leave that there. We need some pretty one in a million girls to help break the cycle so it truly is a numbers game: the more women going into the industry means the more women going up, and visibility is the key to change.

WE SPOKE WITH ANNA LUNOE AND 12 OTHER FEMALE PRODUCERS ABOUT HOW TO CHANGE THE MALE-DOMINATED STUDIO CULTURE (via thefader)

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This was def. my experience...

College be like

Anthropology= the study of non white people

History= the study of old glorified white men

Political science= history without the research

Cultural studies= the last 5 mins of popular culture

Comparative literature= I don’t know what I want to do with my life but Shakespeare and Chaucer were dope

Women’s studies= Sylvia plath, Virginian Wolfe. Lots of white women who were bored one day and decided they wanted “rights” while their colored maids watched their children.

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Of course if we choose to use a language comprehensible only to law and economics graduates it will be easy to prove that the masses need to have their life run for them. But if we speak in plain language, if we are not obsessed with a perverse determination to confuse the issues and exclude the people, then it will be clear that the masses comprehend all the finer points and every artifice. Resorting to technical language means you are determined to treat the masses as uninitiated. Such language is a poor front for the lecturer’s intent to deceive the people and leave them on the sidelines. Language’s endeavor to confuse is a mask behind which looms an even greater undertaking to dispossess. The intention is to strip the people of their possessions as well as their sovereignty. You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via bourgeoisentimentality)

My life's mission. No joke. 

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He's buttah like cocoa, lololol, he's loco. 

LE1F - Letting Loose On Letterman (GIF)

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The reason that the government keeps old Black Panthers in prison is not because they fear that they will engage in violence or to just punish them, but rather because they fear their effects upon the youth, who are seeking leadership and will fight.

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin  (via america-wakiewakie)

This shit, doe!

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This is huge!

LE1F Live on Letterman (Thursday March 13th)

Le1f will make what I believe to be his first live television performance on David Letterman’s show next week.

IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT LIVE, LETTERMAN’S SHOW IS ON CBS, AND LE1F PERFORMS NEXT THURSDAY. (Bryan Cranston will also be on that night for all you Breaking Bad fans :)

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I think that a lot of this true, thought I think it's part of a much larger conversation that needs to happen, and that that conversation has to include a discussion gender, sexuality and capitalism. 

Just my thoughts on “Hip Hop is dead”

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I like to see a womyn goin' hard. Latasha Alcindor can get grimey with the best of 'em. There are a couple of really dope lines in this. Also, the intro to the beat sucks you in and then the beat drop kicks you in the gut. 

Latasha Alcindor “L.A. State of Mind”

The homie Latasha Alcindor is at it again, this time bringing the heat with new visuals for her hit “L.A. State Of Mind.”  The song has a classic Cyprus Hill feel to it, whimsical but gritty. The video is a rush, contrasting darkness and light while adequately conveying the revolutionary undertones of the lyrics. “L.A. State Of Mind” doesn’t disappoint. 

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Yeah, this bitch got a head on her shoulderz... respect, seriously. 

Just in case you didn’t know, @JUNGLEPUSSY is GREAT. On twitter and in her music.

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So, I really appreciate this video because it subverts the male gaze. Especially at the end when she busts out the semi-automatics. 

Malcolm X controversy aside, I am feeling the aesthetic of both this video and this single. 

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I don't know how I feel about the use of this photo, but I appreciate her response....

Responding to the criticisms about the Malcolm X Cover Art

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PSA for all non-indigenous peoples (or people who are not members of any cultures that have spirit animals): It is STILL not at all okay for you to be calling anyone or anything your 'spirit animal'.

This has been a post.

Real as fuck. 

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We have no problem in this country rewarding individuals of color momentarily as a way never to address structural cannibalistic inequalities that are faced by the communities these people come out of. …I am representative of a structural exclusion that room is made for “ones” so that room does not have to be made for the “manies”.

Junot Diaz (via lakripati)

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This pretty much sums up where Russia falls on the whole East/West colonial continuum. Well played... well played. 

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Ahhhhhh!!!!! This is too much flyness is one room!