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Gay culture is Boy A trying to talk to you and you hit it off for a while but then after a month he responds less and less. By the end of the month Boy A posts a pretty cryptic picture on his social media with Boy B but no tag. You don’t really think much of it and decide they’re probably just friends.

After dealing with the initial sting Boy C comes along, tries to talk to you, but you’re not really interested because you’re still recovering from Boy A. You do a bit of research on Boy C and you find out that he used to date Boy B. You find Boy B’s social media and find out that Boy A and Boy B are fucking and it all makes sense!

Gay culture is putting 2 and 2 together from little to no information and finding out way more than you were looking for and in the end your feelings are hurt.

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I feel ugly af

Me

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“I wish I had the time to do that.”

- me, a person who definitely has the time to do that but also has terrible time management skills and most likely to just spend 4 hours getting absolutely nothing accomplished instead of the hundred other things I could and should be doing

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tfw you think about something you did when you were younger and you realise it was a Symptom

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Paranoia be like

Brain: SOMETHING IS HAPPEN

Me: Okay, what?

Brain: SOMETHING

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lets play a fun game called ‘is this paranoid thinking or can i actually trust my instincts’

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Fuck whoever fucked me up so bad that I convinced myself I’m not even worth anyone’s time

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K so I’m not done.

This is the year 2017 and I’m still having to yell about how ridiculous Maya extinction myths are and tell people we are ‘Maya’ not ‘Mayan’. I’m not saying shame shame if anyone reads this and didn’t know. I’m so angry concerning how slowly these issues are being picked up by educational institutions, at how often I have to bring these things up to higher education professors.

We are a massive massive group of peoples. One of the largest Indigenous groups in the Americas. Wikipedia cites 7 million or so of us total but honestly that’s way off because that’s about how many Maya folks there are in Guatemala alone.

We’re not dead. The Maya did not ‘mysteriously disappear’. We did not ‘fall’. We did not fade into obscurity. We’ve led revolts and rebellions against colonial powers for hundreds of years. We’ve had a big hand in shaping legislative definitions and protections for Indigenous Peoples in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

We haven’t lost our cultures. We’re constantly threatened and experience a lot of violence and have our resources stolen but we are still very much alive and our cultures have persisted.

And don’t even try me with the whole “Oh well we mean your CIVILIZATION disappeared, not you.” The structure of our societies and layout of our network changed and decentralized in many areas. That didn’t make us turn invisible. That didn’t make us not still be large in numbers with a relationship with our lands and lose influence in the areas we live. We still held power in large cities way after what people like to cite as “the fall of the Maya Civilization” (around 600-900 A.D. when we still had cities that we held power of until nearly 1700 when the last was “conquered” by Spain.)

Which brings me to the next issue. Being “conquered” or having a colonial government installed does not erase Indigenous societies or civilizations. That’s an extremely eurocentric way of thinking. We didn’t suddenly turn into Spaniards. We still had massive amounts of towns and villages with leaders. We still had our cultures, our trade, our networks, our influence, while Spain focused on putting up flags in our cities.

So yeah. All your history books have you all convinced that an extremely large group of people, with a greater population than more than half of the countries in Europe, all died out 1100 years ago.

Now try to imagine what kind of shit Indigenous Peoples with much less numbers and much lower access to resources go through.

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in the mood to be kissed.. like all the time

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Today in racist businesses taking advantage of gentrification in East Liberty: a hip hop themed fried chicken joint: http://verysmartbrothas.com/welcome-to-pittsburgh-where-white-people-open-90s-style-hip-hop-fried-chicken-spots-in-the-gentrified-hood/ @verysmartbros Damon Young digs right into the outrageous whiteness of it all.

#racism #gentrification #eastofliberty #eastofliberty #getoutmovie #pittsburgh (at East Liberty, Pennsylvania)

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Matthew Gates / 22

Hampton University ‘17 Graduate

IG/Twitter: GatesNotFences

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Their dynamic captured in one shot 😂

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Feathers are weird. Watch this poof.

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I hate it when people ask “do you trust me” like …don’t call me out like that ……..the answer is no