#southern il

[rainbowcafelgbtqcenter]

Did you know that October 22nd is National Anti-Police Brutality Day?

Back in August of this year, The Independent reported that over 700 people had already been murdered from police brutality and violence, and that 2022 was well on track to become the most deadly year thus far. Despite the gains made during the Black Lives Matter surge in 2020, people of color - especially Black and Brown people, as well as other marginalized groups like queer and trans people - have been routinely and systematically killed by an increasingly fascist police system.

Police brutality and white supremacy are why mutual aid and community are invaluable. dontcallthepolice.com has a list of national resources to consider before calling law enforcement, whether it's for mental health like using the Trevor Project, FORGE, TransLifeline, Blackline, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline; abuse with national resources like Love Is Respect, the National Domestic and Sexual Abuse hotlines, Boys and Girls Town, SAGE; crime-related with organizations like the Victim Connect Resource Center or National Center for Victims of Crime; etc. Additionally, we recommend local Southern Illinois mutual aid organizations and partners like The Center for Empowerment and Justice, The Community Action Place, Inc., Jackson County Health Department - Illinois, Choices: Center for Reproductive Health, Carbondale Warming Center, The Night's Shield, Survivor Empowerment Center, SIU Medicine Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development, and others BEFORE pursuing police intervention. And of course, consider donating and supporting local Black organizations - Black Lives Matter didn't stop after 2020 or after the conviction of Derek Chauvin.

To find out more about National Anti-Police Brutality Day, or National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, which has been happening every year since 1996, check out https://www.october22.org/

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pietro Vannucci (Italian, c.1446-1523) Ritratto di giovinetto, 1494 Uffizi Gallery Florence

[calabria-mediterranea]

Rino Gaetano (Crotone, 29 October 1950 – Rome, 2 June 1981) was an Italian musician and singer-songwriter who was born in Crotone, Calabria.

In March 1960, at the age of ten, his family moved to Rome, where he would spend the rest of his life.

He is famous for his satirical songs and oblique yet incisive political commentary. He is remembered for his raspy voice, for the heavily ironic lyrics of his songs and his social protests. He died in a car accident at age 30. He was a popular and influential figure, widely re-evaluated by the following teen generations.

Success for Gaetano came the following year with the 45 rpm hit record Ma il cielo è sempre più blu ("But the sky is always bluer"), perhaps now the most famous and instantly recognisable of his songs. Unusually, the 45 contained only one song, but it was split into two. In this song Gaetano offers several pictures of everyday life, with irony, clichés and contradictions, citing also his hometown Calabria.

[billiennn]

Dream home

My photo taken from my trip to Champaign, IL on my way to a barn show my uncle was working

[thechildisgone]

reading gillian flynn is so funny bc her novels are mostly set in missouri but it’s still so relatable lmfao small towns in the midwest r very similar

[nowhere302]

treating myself to CDs because I'm getting my new car tomorrow 😁

[wine-porn]

9 of 7

Spent a couple hours this morning on a very informative zoom with the vigneron from this place and although I had opened their two least expensive and most-distributed wines the past week, had not really acclimated myself with what was in the rest of the care-package. Sure enough, there’s a 100% Merlot in there and lord knows I love myself some Italian Merlot (and we’re not talking super-Tuscan…

[ross-nekochan]

Chiesa del SS. Salvatore, Palermo, (Sicily)~

[dlyarchitecture]

[petitepluiedemai]

© Mark Steinmetz

Southern, IL - North of Paducah, 1990 © Mark SteinmetzT

[rainbowcafelgbtqcenter]

Hey Franklin County! Rainbow Cafe is coming to YOU for RC On the Go starting next week!

RC On the Go is a collaborative program we organize to provide Rainbow Cafe social drop-in youth services to places outside of our main Carbondale location - such as our amazing partners Arrowleaf for Anna in Union County and now The Stress & Trauma Treatment Center to provide those same services in Benton and Franklin County!

It's completely free - so stop by for a safe and welcoming space to hang out with other LGBTQIA+ young people in your area! Anna's location is every first Tuesday from 3:30-5:30 PM, and Benton will be every first Wednesday from 3-5 PM. We'll see you there!

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Raffaello Sorbi (Italian, 1844-1931) Fidia che scolpisce la statua di Minerva per il Partenone, Detail, 1869

[madegeeky]

Freed from the basement I go forth to spread evil wherever I can.

[mchiti]

mamma mia vedere il nome di graham potter accostato al napoli mi sta facendo pisciare dalle risate oggi

[artistmacposts]

"Repairs" on the Viaduct near 45th and Stewart #infrastructure #chicago

[lotties-ashwagandha]

BEING STUCK IN A SNOWSTORM WITH THE YELLOWJACKETS (headcanons)

bc currently my town is being decimated by a winter storm and it gave me inspiration . also we aren’t talking about how half of yellowjackets is set in the snow it’s when they’re teens smh this is adult timeline

SHAUNA

gets grumpy bc one of you is going to have to shovel the driveway and it’ll probably end up being her

apart from that she loves the snow

she’ll take a bunch of pictures of it to post on facebook in an unhinged uncaptioned photo dump

she’ll make the two of you an unhealthy amount of coffee or hot chocolate or tea whatever you’re feeling , you’ll develop an addiction to it with the amount she’s giving you . but “you have to stay warm” in her opinion , and also it makes her feel all aesthetic pinterest girl

she’s one of those people that has a collection of heavy knitted blankets that are worth like $500 each and she puts them to use ‼️‼️‼️ you’ll be BURIED in comfort she will make sure of that . no one gets cold in this house

also when it starts to really hardcore snow she’ll just go outside and stand there and watch. you know that tiktok of the woman making fun of american southerners who get a tornado warning and go stand out to see the tornado? that’s shauna with the blizzard

LOTTIE

you have to literally beg her not to go fucking “give the wilderness blood” bc girl sees one snowflake and is like omg il veut du sang

that being said lottie matthews is at heart a rich girl with 10,000 pinterest followers and when it snows , sunshine honey wellness center becomes a place of AESTHETICS

im talking the two of you will be laying in bed with heavy blankets and a record will be playing and lottie will have 3 or 4 candles lit

the two of you reading classic novels in bed <3

she sees heavy winters as very spiritual. a time to recharge and reset and be calm. she’ll coerce you into doing a couple of guided meditations with her that are themed on spiritual guidance and recharge

when you lose power tho she has a complete meltdown. not that she uses electronics much but when she realizes the stove doesn’t work and that the blender for her smoothies won’t work things go downhill so fast. you have to hook up the generator just so she can make a smoothie for her anxiety that came because she couldn’t make smoothies. girl is a mess

TAISSA

you’ll be taking care of her all week because she gets sick every winter without fail

doesn’t matter if she got a flu shot, covid shot, you name it . first snowflake comes down and she’s off to the doctor

but it gives you an excuse to sort of hold her hostage at home and cuddle with her and watch movies you’ve been meaning to watch together but haven’t since she’s been busy with the campaign

she actually gets kind of excited in the snow storm if the power goes out because it feels like camping. she will get frustrated with no TV tho , but if sammy’s there with the two of you she’ll go all non deadbeat dad for once and the two of you will make a blanket fort with him and all the other shit kids like to do

will try to order you guys a pizza and then get confused when the pizza place doesn’t answer. you have to remind her there’s no power before she goes on a tangent about stores having weird hours and how everyone’s so lazy

VAN

will NOT go out to shovel snow. you’re going to be doing that thanks she’ll be re sorting her movie collection to find some good blizzard themed movies for the two of you to watch

she’ll also go all autistic about the history of snowstorms and you’ll come back in from shoveling and get a lecture about some random snowstorm in some country you’ve never heard of from fucking 500 BC.

her house has a shitty heating system so you spend most of the time under blankets together but that’s not such a bad thing <3

she makes you watch her favorite winter movies, and if the power goes out and you can’t then the two of you will spend the night playing drinking games or playing cards or something like that

she won’t outright tell you to wear her jackets but she loves when you get cold and grab one of her sweatshirts/jackets to wear. she also does that 2000s movie boyfriend thing where you get cold and she’s like oh here take my jacket and while it’s so cliche it’s cute when she does it

NATALIE

tbh girl probably learned abt the snow storm bc she woke up covered in snow somewhere and was like oh it’s snowing huh

but anyway

she’d probably spend the duration of the snowstorm at your place because can you imagine staying out a blizzard in a motel??? no thanks

she’ll raid your booze and you’ll get drunk together by the fire. she might have some weed on her too if you’re lucky

you’ll listen to music together, she has better taste but she will still listen to your music, you take turns playing each other different songs you think remind you of each other

she WILL throw balls of ice at any kids that walk by. you will be having a lot of angry parents at your door the next day.

MISTY

is lowkey a prepper so she doesn’t care that much if there’s a snow storm. if the power goes out she can think of 50 different ways to get it back on

she loves to watch it snow out the window and show caligula

she’s definitely the one you want to spend a blizzard with

she absolutely will not let you leave the house until you’re wearing 20 layers of clothes

she’ll try to write poetry about the snow storm but it just sounds like a daunting ancient prophecy. when she shows you tho you obviously say it’s amazing and you love it because she worked so hard on it