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I saw this a little while back and I still can’t get over how much I love this:

When I read this, I think of a particular little black girl I taught last year who would have greatly benefitted from owning a book like this - that affirmed her beauty and value as a black girl. It is truly heartbreaking to see how early young black girls with curly/afro textured hair internalize that their natural features are ugly and un-worthy. 

I don’t think the tumblr picture shows everything, but her smile on this cover is so happy and pure. I’ve seen young black girls conditioned to not even believe that they’re entitled to such carefree joy.

And taking care of babies once they’re born: making sure they have enough food and medical care. Actions speak louder than words…

The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon. 

trends girls hate:

Kira, you’re our hero (x)

made a little anti-body shaming gif. 

Reblogging in honor of the announcement that Viola Davis is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

More Viola Davis posts on Profeminist

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This is actually pretty important

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This needs to be seen more. Rape needs to flat out stop, but until then victims need to know there’s support for them.

Nuh uh, honey!🗽✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🗽silence is compliance, and we say #NoBan #NoWall #NoHate #NoFear #RefugeesAreWelcomeInBroadCity #AllAreWelcome

In terms of race and gender prejudice, the American wizarding world is more progressive than no-maj society. The MACUSA president is a black woman, there’s a woman of color on the Auror team, and Tina used to be an Auror.

Yet this all takes place within living memory of slavery, during a time of massive social inequality in the no-maj world. It makes you wonder: What about magical children born to no-maj families? The culture shock must be tremendous.

In no-maj society, women and people of color were second-class citizens in 1926. Meanwhile in the magical world, sexism and racism appear to be minor issues, but you’re forbidden from befriending any no-majs—a difficult feat for any muggleborns. It’s almost impossible to imagine how this works from a historical perspective.

What about magical kids who were born into slavery? Were they whisked off to Ilvermorny, the American Hogwarts, while their friends and family remained enslaved? Once they grew up in the magical world, were they expected to ignore the plight of people like themselves, and follow the MACUSA’s policy of non-interference in the no-maj world? In the context of a character like MACUSA president Seraphina Picquery, this raises a lot of troubling questions, none of which are even hinted at in the movie.

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