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spoke deeply to me.

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 2005・dir. Ang Lee

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(Sound on.) Bonus clip today: Penguins navigating stairs.

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Inuktitut cover of Dua Lipa's "Levitating" by Riit, featured on North of North.

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PARAMORE | STILL INTO YOU (x)

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) [Switzerland] — ‘Equilibre’, 1931. Oil on canvas (32 x 25,5 cm).

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Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

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Albee Bee

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was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

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