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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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a compilation of videos very worth watching! 

the pink triangles: the story of the gay holocaust

nawal el saadawi on feminism, fiction and the illusion of democracy

life beyond: alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history 

life beyond II: the museum of alien life

stephen axford: how fungi changed my view of the world

man spends 30 years turning degraded land into massive forest 

the prisoner of azkaban - why john williams’ score is the best in the series

video essay: the world of wong kar wai

how much is enough?

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Paestum Temple in Morning Light - Jules Coignet (ca. 1860)

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Sometimes everything is quiet, some other times I get irrevocably possessed by the crushing urge of writing a rant paper about how social media is a development of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon concept

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Someone should write a book on how to ruin your mental health by trying to write a research proposal

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Well... explains a lot.

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Denizler Kitabevi Bookshop in Istanbul, specializing in antique maps and maritime books.

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I aim low

I aim true, and the ground's where I go

I work late where I'm free from the phone

And the job gets done

But you worry some, I know

But who wants to live forever, babe?

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from “James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78,” interviewed by Jordan Elgrably, Paris Review (no. 91, Spring 1984)

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Reblogging this as a good luck ritual, and to honour the left eye I'm sacrificing to write my thesis on Shirley Jackson.

it will just kill you

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I've been drinking caffeine like late 19th century bohemian poets drank absinthe

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actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

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guys. please

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How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

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It's just me and my favourite writers against the world

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The average humanities academic