Hey guys. I’ve gone in and out of inactivity on this account for a while now, but considering what’s happening in the US (where I live), I wanted to come on here and post some links. While I’ve been extremely active on my Twitter page, I know not everyone follows me there. And given the reach this blog has, I felt it was necessary to bring the information here.
If you do not support the Black Lives Matter movement, if you do not support equal rights for everyone regardless of race, if you do not believe that police brutality is a problem and that black people are disproportionately affected, then please unfollow me.
All of that said, here is an excellent resource created by ARMYs to help us all stay informed, stay updated, stay compassionate, and stay aware. It is a compiled list of non-profits to donate to and allows for donations to be split between multiple organizations. Please, if you can, I encourage you to donate.
Additionally, here is a link to another carrd containing a list of petitions. This list is ALWAYS updating, so please check it frequently. Your voice matters so very much right now. Please check it out and sign the petitions.
If you can’t donate yourself but still want to contribute, I will provide a link for a Youtube video that is part of an upcoming series. The creator is donating all ad revenue to BLM and to associated bail funds.
Please take the time to educate yourself. Not just about the unjust killing of George Floyd by police, but about all the unjust killings that led up to it. About the culture that allows for these people to disguise themselves as public servants. About the institutions which provide sanctuary for the oppressors while subsisting off of the lifeblood of the oppressed. Here are some really wonderful resources if you want to educate yourselves. Please give them a read. Link 1.Link 2.Link 3.
I realize I’ve been absent from this account, and I should have thought to come here and address this far sooner. That said, I will continue to do my best to offer support and allyship not only right now when it feels immediate, but forever. Even when racism and anti-black sentiment move more covertly than they are moving now.
My account is, was, and will always be a safe space for the disenfranchised. Please never feel uncomfortable here and if there is any way I can support you, let me know. Especially my black followers during this time.
Please stay safe and remember your life is valuable.
Rode our bikes to the George Floyd demonstration at the statehouse. He was brutally executed in Minnesota on the street a week ago. I’ve never been to a protest rally where the police presence is so extra and intimidating. Helicopters, officers on the roof, filing out the building like ants, at every edge of the premises, on every street leaving downtown. And they just stand there, even at the protestors request they don’t empathize. The problem is racism, the policing itself, and the systems that support all of it. Sad to say, this outrage is inevitable and will continue to happen until structural change occurs. I never could’ve imagined that 2020 would be like this and that black people would still be fighting against those who kill and dehumanize us.
We know you must have a lot of questions or are feeling distressed about the news. The world has been dealing with a lot this year, and it is an especially harrowing time for Black Americans and Black folks abroad. We know your biggest question right now could be summed up by a quote from Toni Morrison:
“What can I do where I am?”
Here at #TheBlackout, we have decided to help you start finding an answer to that question - we feel that we need each other. We need unity, organization, a clear sense of direction, but more importantly, a space where you can be yourself without judgement or fear.
So, in addition to boosting your art and businesses, our highest priority right now is to provide you all with resources to help you start from where you are.
This is a masterpost of places you can donate, find mental health + spaces for radical self-care, and just do something fun. We will be adding on as things change.
Ethel’s Club - Black-owned and operated social club offering access to Black therapists and a multitude of creative events for People of Color.
Crisis Text Line - A different approach to crisis intervention, Crisis Text Line offers you help when you text 741-741. You’ll be able to chat with someone who is willing to listen and provide you with additional resources.
Shine Text. – Black-owned! Sign up to receive cheerful texts and tips every day.
Therapy For Black Girls - A Black-owned a directory to help you find Black therapists in your area.
Join us for the 5/31 Emergency #Blackout/#BlackoutDay here on Tumblr and Twitter.
Update (5/30/2020 4:41 PM EST): Our original post included a memorial link to Tony McDade. We corrected the link to an ongoing petition. As of this posting, there is no official memorial fund collections for Tony McDade.
we have a responsibility to take a stand against racism. we cannot be silent. we absolutely must fight for change.
Satan: How do you justify the killing of the Palestinian civilians by fully-armed soldiers? IOF: easy, we throw a knife near the body and we claim self defence.
Odeh family is a Palestinian family, living in Silwan and the IOF forced them to demolish their own house, otherwise they will get their house demolished for them and get fined with >20,000$
Odeh family and other families‘ houses are going to be demolished and left homeless, this is a part of a zionist plan to forcefully expel the Palestinians from Jerusalem to change it from an arab-majority city to a zionist majority city, this form of colonisation is called “Settler colonialism” where the indigenous people of the land are being forcefully replaced by the people of the occupier.
Eyad Hraibat, 39-years-old, is currently in a coma in Soroka medical center after the Israelis removed his prostate last June. He was injected with an unknown medical drug in 2014 that caused to him complete paralysis and memory loss.
A soldier of the “world’s least moral army” spraying pepper at a press‘ face to prevent him from documenting their terrorism in Palestine.
Typical terrorists. Israel is nothing but a political cult, same as ISIS covering their war crimes in name of religion. Fuck Izrael and the world’s double standards.
In August 2021, the Israeli government plans to continue its ethnic cleansing across all of Palestine by forcing Palestinians out of their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, and beyond. Together we rise up for the Month of Action.
The Palestinian people remain steadfast in their resistance, refusing to be uprooted from their homeland, even as Israeli murder of Palestinians accelerates. For decades, the U.S. has funded this violence, and now in solidarity with a continuing, historic Palestinian uprising of unity against Israel’s colonialism, we in the U.S. have a role to rise with them. Rise up in solidarity with the steadfast Palestinian people and demand an end to U.S. military funding to Israel, and don’t let up until reps support H.R. 2590 as a bare minimum.
Mohammad Al-Allamy (11 y-o) was shot dead today by IOF , he was directly targeted at his chest while he was sitting in his parents car coming back from a grocery trip, the Israeli military intentionally targets children. this is a cold blooded murder, we have to hold this fascist Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians, share and expose these crimes.
Palestinian lives matter, save the Palestinian children from the Israeli terrorism.
Muhammad Tamimi, a 17 year old resident of Nabi Saleh, was shot and killed by IDF soldiers in his own village today. The regular loss of Palestinian children’s lives due to soldiers’ unregulated use of excessive force is impossible to bear.
As a studyblr, my content has always been quite inwards facing. I post my studying, cafes, maybe some music that I listen to whilst I study. Sometimes I reblog aesthetic academia posts and other studying-adjacent posts. My content has always been about myself, and my studies. I don’t veer from that theme of content.
However I am going to become a lawyer, and studying law has been one of the most transformative processes of my academic life. But the central tenet I have learnt is that the law only works if everyone is treated the same way under it.Equality under the law only works if those who enforce it treat people equally also. This is it just from a legalistic standpoint. This isn’t even from the human rights perspective, the socio-economic perspective, the racial perspective, the cultural perspective, the political perspective.
I am white and I am middle class. I am privileged. I knew racism still existed, still took the lives of millions, but my privilege enabled me to forget about it on a day-to-day basis. The events of the last week have put this privilege into perspective. I am committed to forget about it no longer.
So, I’m going to do what I do best. I am going to study. I am going to learn everything and I am going to use my legal knowledge to do something about it.
If anything I have said offends you, please unfollow. You are not interested in education or the law, just aesthetic pictures of pens.
Hi friends! As Early Voting is starting in many states, and Election Day is approaching, please make a plan to vote. You can find your local polling station and check your registration with the link. This election is so so important. Go out and vote
In addition to my previous post, I want to share another, for me, significant thing.
I know that many of you want to support #blacklivesmatter, but aren’t US citizens. You want to help, but you don’t have money to donate, you don’t have any protests you could attend.
Well, I want to share more ways with you so you can help and participate.
@nnoorxo uploaded an important and, in my opinion, helpful and educational guide for Europeans to fight anti-blackness.
So all my European dudes and dudettes, use your voice! We are many and we can help our brothers and sisters in the US and all over the world!
Hey folks, this is not your typical post about incorrect quotes.
I want to address a serious issue today, and most of you probably know what’s been going on in the US.
The killing of George Floyd started another serious and necessary debate on Police brutality in the states. (And I think not just there. Every country is affected in some way or another.)
My heart doesn’t ache, no. My heart is bleeding and crying out of pain about what has been going on for days now. What people have been going through for years and years. This is not the first case of police brutality against POC, nor the second, and it probably isn’t the last one.
It happened so many times already that I can’t count them all. Our world has lost so many beautiful souls to this never-ending issue. Additionally to this, we lost so many brothers and sisters of color who were part of the LGBTQ+ community too. Even though it is pride month, I can’t enjoy and celebrate it as much as I want to.
But now is the time to act. Now more than ever! We all have a voice, and I’m sure as hell using mine. And I want you to do the same.
40 Ways you can help right now shows you different techniques and approaches to support the #blacklivesmatter movement in various forms.
Everyone’s able to do something. Even if you don’t have the money to donate, or you’re not from the US, share articles, draw attention to it in some way. Being silent about this puts you on the side of the offenders.
I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand with all of you!!!
Credit goes to @sfbucketlist on instagram for these 40 ways you can help right now.
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Our Zoe doll’s hair is specially designed with curl power that allows it to be washed and styled in any way you can think of. You can use real products and try out countless styles from puffs to box braids.
She is the perfect companion with hair that is bigger than life.
Christina Jenkins: the Black woman who created the sew in weave technique. Thank her for y’all inchesssss♀️
Feb 2:
Katherine Johnson: the Black woman who calculated rocket trajectories BY HAND because her boss at NASA Buzz Aldrin trusted no one not even the computers
Feb 3:
John Morton-Finney: a Black man who earned 11 degrees and practice law until he was 106 years old and is believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the US ⚖️
Feb 4:
Haben Girma: the first deaf-blind student to graduate Harvard Law School
Feb 5:
Viola Davis: the first Black woman in history to win an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony
Feb 6:
Otis Boykin: a Black man that owned 26 patents one of which being the invention of the pacemaker that saved a lot of lives even in today’s world
Feb 7:
Mansa Musa: richest man in world history with a fortune of about 4 trillion
Feb 8:
Arsenio Hall: in the 50’s he hosted the first black late-night talk show in history
Feb 9:
Clare Hale: opened up a business caring for children and founded Hale house which is the first care center for infants born addicted to drugs
Feb 10:
Michele Obama: the first First Lady to attend and Ivy League university for undergrad. She graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law ✨
Feb 11:
John Mercer Langston was the first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio, in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America. John Mercer Langston was also the great-uncle of Langston Hughes, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Feb 12:
While Rosa Parks is credited with helping to spark the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955—inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott—the lesser-known Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months prior for not giving up her bus seat to white passengers.
Feb 13:
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and served on the court from 1967 to 1991.
Feb 14:
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.
Feb 15:
Madam C.J. Walker was born on a cotton plantation in Louisiana and became wealthy after inventing a line of African American hair care products. She established Madame C.J. Walker Laboratories and was also known for her philanthropy.
Feb 16:
Before Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan joined the billionaire’s club, Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 2001.
Feb 17:
The Black population of the United States in 1870 was 4.8 million; in 2018, the number of Black residents of the United States 43.8 million.
Feb 18:
The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976. The month of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Feb 19:
On February 12, 2019, the NAACP marked its 110th anniversary. Spurred by growing racial violence in the early 20th century, and particularly by 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, a group of African American leaders joined together to form a new permanent civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). February 12, 1909, was chosen because it was the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Feb 20:
Jack Johnson became the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915.
Feb 21:
As a child, Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed to never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career. ✍
Feb 22:
Jazz, an African American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century. The word “jazz” is a slang term that at one point referred to a sexual act.
Feb 23:
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou’s birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta’s death in 2006.
Feb 24:
Louis Armstrong learned how to play the cornet while living at the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys.
Feb 25:
After African American performer Josephine Baker expatriated to France, she famously smuggled military intelligence to French allies during World War II. She did this by pinning secrets inside her dress, as well as hiding them in her sheet music.
Feb 26:
Scientist and mathematician Benjamin Banneker is credited with helping to design the blueprints for Washington, D.C.
Feb 27:
The parents of actress Halle Berry chose their daughter’s name from Halle’s Department Store, a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio.
Feb 28:
In 1938, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt challenged the segregation rules at the Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama, so she could sit next to African American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Roosevelt would come to refer to Bethune as “her closest friend in her age group.” ♀️
