4 Drag Queens pose at the Granville Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA, c. 1955.

reblog if you remember what it felt like to walk into blockbuster

I feel like a lot of the time (white) ppl complain about how much harder it is to make a living wage nowadays without going to college + having direct job experience, they rarely bring up the fact that a lot of this....is due to racism.

like yeah sure, YOUR parents could comfortably afford to feed a family of five on a high school degree. mine sure as hell couldnt. a lot of black ppl couldn't. so then we started fighting to go to college to get the same opportunities as whites with high school degrees, and suddenly, not only is a college degree not enough, but getting a college degree costs ten times more than previously.

and we have to start fighting to get into STEM fields but then THATS not enough, now we need ~job experience~ even though most people only get those comfy high paying jobs via nepotism.

which black ppl dont get cuz we've been barred from most social and work spaces for hundreds of years that no one knows us.

like, you can complain all you want about capitalism and how CEO's have become more greedy, but failing to acknowledge that this road was paved by your very same racist parents who didn't want black and brown people to even have the same chance at the same opportunities....you're missing the whole picture, 1. and 2, we will never get anywhere until you grapple with this first and recognize the damage racism has done to the very fabric of society.

I'm glad we're all supposedly in agreement with this, all I ask is that you remember it the next time you (a white person) want to rage against capitalism for all it took from you. remember that it was meant to keep the rest of us black & brown folks down first, yall just caught the strays 🤷

“you have an unnatural allegiance to losers” might be the hardest bar i’ve heard in a long-time

For a certain type of online leftist, "the Revolution" is essentially a secular rapture: the Revolution is going to happen, we know not the day or date, and we don't need to do anything to make the Revolution happen, certainly not real-life activism, just believe the right things before it happens and fixes everything.

Just like how evangelicals oppose doing anything to improve the Earth before the rapture comes, these types believe half-measures are pointless. "We DON'T need [change that would benefit many people right now], we NEED a REVOLUTION!" We don't need gradual change; all at once or not at all, and in fact, it's suspect if you are working on those smaller-scale changes. But since all these people do is tweet and do podcasts they're uh, not exactly forcing the end anytime soon

When the days of the week on the calendar being "terrorist names" was going around I laughed because it was so, so ridiculously stupid. When a plate of dates was presented as "proof of terrorist activity" I looked at my own plate of dates and laughed. But the implications and the effect of those accusation, no matter how incredulously stupid they are, aren't funny in the slightest. I hate that our language is "proof" of terrorism. That a popular snack here is "proof". I hate that people believe anything tangentially related to being Arab is a sign of evil. I hate that whenever I see any recording containing Arabic in it, we scramble to translate it as quick as possible, not even to share information, but because we know if we're a second too late someone will put vile words in their mouths to dehumanize them and we need to beat them to the punch.

Me.

From the court today. Israel IS committing a genocide.

it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

gen z is not falling for media propaganda because we have alternate independent sources of information! look at this video:

[2 minute tiktok full of conspiracy theories, racism, and history distorted like a pretzel]

This is a simple introduction to how Israel rules Palestine 🇵🇸

Diana Ross for Saint Laurent Spring 2024. Photographed by David Sims.

lost two years of your life cause of covid - then got hit with inflation right after. we're down tremendously

And still gon thrive cus it’s what we do.

brother this ain’t a kumbaya words of affirmation chain. the price of groceries is very real out here

You don't need to wait for the love of your life to love your life.

you are the love of your life.