Rafael Romero Barros (Spanish, 1832-1895) Still life with oranges, 1863

Unmute !

“LOOK INTO MY EYES AND GET OUT OF MY LAND!” (via Johayna جهينة خالدية)

Not every hero wears a cape, some wears a hijab.

It would mean so much to me if you could check out my fashion instagram, here is a sneak peek of today's post!

Krikor Jabotian Chapter XI

I don’t know how I didn’t figure this out but now that I have I don’t know what to do with this information

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)

thinking over and over and over of that clip from a maya angelou talk about the importance of knowing one another's history. no matter how brutal no matter how bleak no matter how despairing no matter anything because the only way through it is to go all the way through it. and the only way to build anything with one another is by having gone all the way through it because otherwise there is no connection. whats a connection worth that's built on ignorance? sustained by ignorance? "only equals can make friends" she says. only equals.