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we make flowers out of our own blood. we can put them in water. we can put them in dirt. we can keep them and grow something else. flower you. we make love out of our own pain. the pain that comes. again. again. we made you from our regular pain. our red and fleeting joy. we grow blood out of our low accessible hearts. our stretched legs. our belly parts. we take love from the part of the brain that don’t breathe. we paint the world with the blood we keep. or leave.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in Fences directed by Denzel Washington

Regina Hall as Trinitie Childs in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul directed by Adamma Ebo

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I hate this whole needing money to live thing

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LATELY I'VE BEEN

MAKIN' NIGGAS MAD

BITCHES LONELY

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Please help donate and spread! Very time sensitive, please share with your followers, friends, and family - 57k out of 70k (4/12/2024)!

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4/27/24

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GOTTA SPIT ON IT

AND BITE IT

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"To create a spectacle of subjugation was a way of underlining its construction. Riffing the script did not mean being scripted by what were obvious falsities, because what black meant was not, and could not, be fixed by white fictions."

from Babylon Girls by Jayna Brown

"because what black meant was not, and could not, be fixed by white fictions"

And this infuriates this man because the only things he can muster to get the Negro vote is minstrelsy charcoal and empty discourses into locked down HBCUS and other Black spaces.

No way

This is the most racist man in history.

Just stop financing a genocide... I'm basically a 1 issue coterie at this point, but this fuckhead thinks menthol are gonna move the needle?

@ubernegro @meanmisscharles

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We the undersigned want to express our solidarity with our students, at an urgent moment of U.S.- backed state violence against a colonized, dispossessed and brutalized population. The United Nations states that at least one million people in Gaza have been forced to flee their homes in one week alone; “A river of people continues to flow south.”

We condemn the brutal killing of civilians that occurred in Israel on October 7th, which constitutes a war crime. We also condemn the massive and systematic violence being perpetrated against civilians both in Gaza and the occupied West Bank even as we write; Israel’s assault on Gaza also constitutes a war crime. We recognize that Israeli state violence against the Palestinians subject to its control has its roots in a a well-documented history of colonization, stretching back at least 75 years, that has produced what human rights groups today describe as an apartheid regime, characterized by ongoing processes of occupation, expropriation, ethnic cleansing and the denial to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza of the most basic human and civil rights – and of their right as a people to self-determination. These are the root causes of the current wave of violence; history did not begin on October 7, 2023, however horrific the massive killing of Israeli civilians on that day was. 

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Me seeing Fred Moten, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Terrance Hayes, and Aimee Meredith Cox as the signatories for the October 18 NYU FJP in support of Palestine:

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THEY JUST WANT A TASTE

WHAT YOU SERVIN'

CAN I GET A TASTE

PUSSY PURRIN'

WHAT YOU SERVIN'

NOW WHAT YOU SERVIN'

SEXY GIRL

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“it’s not easy to be resilient when you feel from below and you see from above. we broke in the middle so often we thought we’d evolve past hearts.”

 from M. Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Janelle Monáe in Knives Out: Glass Onion directed by Rian Johnson

Keke Palmer in Nope directed by Jordan Peele

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“No place to go is all over the place. Shifters, rifless, because the splits are staggered, get their drink on. Echoes can’t get located, obvious things gone aviary, map flown all over the place. We’re missing the overall.”

 from index by Fred Moten

Stephanie Hsu playing Jobu Tupaki in Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert photographed by Larkin Seiple

Kari Faux in the visuals to NIGHTIME directed by Dylan McGale

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i thought at least in my house. i thought at least in my house i could make everything right. i could make everything clean. i could make everything bright. at least in my house. but even in my house there was night.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Dumbs

Viola Davis as Rose Maxson, Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson, and Stephen McKinley Henderson as Jim Bono in Fences directed by Denzel Washington and adapted from the August Wilson's play and photographed by Charlotte Bruss Christensen

Nicole Beharie as Theo Parker in Striking Vipers (Black Mirror) directed by Owen Harris

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we make flowers out of our own blood. we can put them in water. we can put them in dirt. we can keep them and grow something else. flower you. we make love out of our own pain. the pain that comes. again. again. we made you from our regular pain. our red and fleeting joy. we grow blood out of our low accessible hearts. our stretched legs. our belly parts. we take love from the part of the brain that don’t breathe. we paint the world with the blood we keep. or leave.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in Fences directed by Denzel Washington

Regina Hall as Trinitie Childs in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul directed by Adamma Ebo

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YOU GOT

A SMART MOUTH

I'MMA PUT MY KITTY

IN IT