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Art by Laivi Põder (source)

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"The moral component of history [...] is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer."

Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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"There's nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant."

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

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this blog is for floor people!!!!! we r all sitting on my rug together <3

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We think because we have words, not the other way around, and the greater our vocabulary, the greater our ability to think conceptually. The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, Madeleine L'Engle

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Baldwin always has been and always will be the one I go to when everything is *waves around* whatever the fuck this is

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Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate.”

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dorian & basil siblings and now white heathcliff. gothlit enjoyers are in the fucking trenches this year

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thinking about the very common idea among antebellum american slaveowners that ex-slaves would initiate a race war as soon as they were free and that whites would never be safe among people they or their ancestors owned so they should be moved to a different country. and how that was completely stupid and the racial violence post-abolition was racist anti-black violence not slews of anti-white revenge killings across the nation and a dissolution of society. anyway thinking about that and also the insistence from the zionist crowd that if palestinians were given equal rights or even if the occupation slackened its grip a little every single israeli from the river to the sea would be murdered by vengeful palestinians.

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You want me to use anti-ageing products? The thing that killed Dorian Gray?

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I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

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"Touch grass"

So easy to say when you can touch it without getting all itchy and miserable.

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"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"

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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

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why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph