#juneteenth joy

[chuutoro]

Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

#they showed this in film class and i LOVED it #what a joy #happy juneteenth yall #cinema #film #black lives matter #blm #activism #history #feminism #equality

[coldshrugs]

"The world is held together, really it is, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair." [x]

#azia gposes #io laithe #mene #azem tag #sorry if this is cheesy #but it's juneteenth and i'm black and i'm allowed to use james baldwin banger quotes for my ocs if it sparks joy :> #endwalker spoilers

[maxwelldpoetry]

Your blackness is beautiful no matter the shade.

Hold your head up high and keep your crown steady — you are the product of many generations of warriors, and they all stand with you today.

— maxwelldpoetry

#poetry #spilled ink #juneteenth #my writing #quotes #poets on tumblr #spilled thoughts #writers on tumblr #writerscreed #happy juneteenth #black is beautiful #black women #black men #black girl magic #black boy joy #melanin #black poets on tumblr #poets of color #short poem #black lives matter

[appreshaeation]

Outtakes from the 2023 ATL Juneteenth Parade

#appreshaeation #black tumblr #juneteenth #ATL #melanin #black girl magic #black girl joy #atlanta #brown skin girl #parade

[mobiissimo]

HAPPY JUNETEENTH EVERYONE! I'm Chloe! A Freelance Graphic Designer/Illustrator who loves anime and comics! If you like my work, how about commissioning me or donating on this wonderful Juneteenth weekend!

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PayPal.me/mobiisbank

Cashapp: $Mobiissimo

#juneteenth #juneteenth 2022 #artissimo #art #digital art #mobiissimoartissimo #black artist #black joy

[sapherin]

Happy Father's Day and Juneteenth! 🖤

Who better to draw this very fine day but no other than best anti-capitalist radical father Barret? This day was made ESPECIALLY for him. 

 And a reminder to everyone that I love my Blackness, and yours 🖤 (Also if you’re looking to support a Black creative today please consider me xoxo)

#digital art #Fanart #Barret Wallace #marlene wallace #final fantasy vii #ff7 #final fantasy 7 remake #Final Fantasy #juneteenth 2022 #black joy

[sweetcandygirl21]

so...last month I was accepted to New York University. it's been a dream of mine to study in the USA since I was a teenager and I am so happy I finally have the opportunity to make the move and continue my graduate education.

NYU and New York are very expensive and although I will be doing everything in my power to raise the money I need to start there next Autumn, I admit I need some help in the finances department.

to this end I have set up a gofundme page and I would truly appreciate any help you can give me so I can continue my educational journey!

thank you! and go violets! 💜💜💜

#go fund me #nyu 💜 #nyu bound #new york #juneteenth #lgbt #lgbtqiia+ #black lives matter #black joy

[calilili]

🪷 “resting happy face 😊🪷 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️“ by cali lili @CaliLiliIndies™️ CurrentsLeapsN’LandingZ™️🌊🐬🦋🏄🏽‍♀️🏄🏼‍♀️🏄🏿‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏻‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🧜🏿‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏽‍♀️🌊🪷 #Juneteenth #SummerSolstice #Yoga #Bliss #July4th Unmitigated Joy

🪷 “resting happy face 😊🪷 “ by cali lili @CaliLiliIndiest™️ Juneteenth, Summer Solstice and UnmitigatedJoy As a kid, yoga brought me healing from the “toxic stress” of an abusive childhood home. As a dancer I had already found tremendous joy in my art but something about the rabid competition in the entertainment world led me to seek solace in yoga, not as a replacement for dance, but as a…

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#©Cali Lili©™ #beach life #black joy #Cali Hauser #Cali Lili Hauser #Cali Lili Indies ™ #cinema #education #female joy #Gen Z #Generation Z #gentrification #healing #Independence day #Joy #July 4th #juneteenth #lgbtq #lgbtq joy #movies #Save democracy #summer #surfing #wellnes #yoga #yoga lifestyle #yogi

[3rdeyeblaque]

New Year’s Day of Jubilee in Hoodoo Culture & History

On this day we celebrate and honor our more recent ancestors who were liberated from chattel bondage with the stroke of a pen on what had once been the most dreaded day of the calendar year. On Jan 1st 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation became law. This became our lawful "Independence Day" - at least on paper (as we all know, two years later on June 19th 1865 is when the last of our people recieved official notice, marking "freedom" for ALL celebrated as Juneteenth). However, of course, this was news only to those fortunate few who were witness to the signing of the document in Beaufort, S.C. Hence why this day was the 1st of many Days of Jubilee. The day that our other more recent ancestors were delivered the news of that the chains of chattel slavery were broken, was their Day of Jubilee. This is why our rest is paramount today.

Up until then, Jan 1st was arguably the most dreaded day of the year for our enslaved ancestors; hence Night's Watch/Freedom Eve on Dec 31st, New Year's Eve. On Jan 1st, the auction block was stacked with our men, women, & children were sold off to the unknown parts of this land. This was called, Hiring Day. Whole families were ripped apart at the seams; Fathers forcibly taken from their children. Sons & Daughters torn from their Mothers' arms. Grandchildren stripped from their Grandparents skirts. Lovers torn from each other arms. Siblings split apart and separated from their parents. Rarely, if ever, to be seen or heard from again. This is why family togetherness remains so crucial for us today.

So today we celebrate 🍾 🙌🏾 with the people we love to keep close to heart. We stuff our bellies with greens, peas, cornbread, meat, & desserts. We drink ourselves into a splendid stupor. We sing our hearts out & dance until the floor caves in. Even as some of us immerse ourselves in the mainstream celebrations of the gregorian calendar's new year, keep the gravity of this day to heart. Hold onto your loved ones extra tight on this day. Extend an extra stroke of love to your close kin & chosen family. Remember the power & the importance of family wholesomeness. Above all, may we REST. This is how honor ourselves & our Dead on the New Year Day of Jubilee. 🎆

#hoodoo #hoodoos #atr #atrs #Hoodoo History #Hoodoo Culture #new years #new years eve #juju #black spirituality #Jubilee #new years day of Jubilee #1863 #1865 #Juneteenth #Emancipation #black family #joy #January #2023 #the hoodoo calendar

[mwalimujedi]

The #Sankofa Social Justice Ministry @GraceBaptistChurch, Mount Veron, NY had an AWESOME #Juneteenth Resource Fair. Our youth and young adults like #VictoriaManning added their voice and presence.

#juneteenth #Grace Baptist Church #Rev. F. Romall Smalls #Victoria Manning #Social Justice #african #joy #freedom #Spotify

[chaunaleatricia]

#Kindle Vella #free #free stories #discount #black women writers #black creatives #juneteenth #black joy #diverse authors #diverse voices #black authors #amazon books

[jazzerdoc]

It’s June 19th - a celebration of the official first day of full emancipation & a celebration of dads, step-dads, granddads, step-granddads, godfathers, uncles, brothers, single moms, & all those who play a fatherly role to others. We celebrate all that these two holidays mean. Class schedule for Monday, 6/20, listed below & @ the link in my bio. Message me for details on our #SummerSpecials! #LetFreedomRing #Juneteenth #FirstDancePartner💪🏽💃🏻♥️
545 am Nancy INTERVAL FUSION (live in-Studio & online!)
815 am Kelly DANCEMIXX (live in-Studio & online!)
1030 am Young INTERVAL DANCEMIXX (live & stored @ jazzercise.com/livestream PW: in members’ FB group & email)
600 pm Leslie DANCEMIXX (live in-Studio & online!)

#summerspecials #letfreedomring #juneteenth #firstdancepartner💪🏽💃🏻♥️ #pure joy #just dance #jazzercise #happy dance #dancefitness #freedom

[maxwelldpoetry]

Happy Juneteenth from your friendly neighborhood poet.

#juneteenth #poets on tumblr #black tumblr #black poets on tumblr #black boys #happy juneteenth #happy freedom day #black is beautiful #black boy joy #personal #me

[aesthetic-anatome]

Happy MF Juneteenth 🙏🏾✊🏾✨

Insta: @aesthetic_anatome

#artists on tumblr #artwork #original art #juneteenth #black characters #black boys #black boy joy #oc art #digital art #summer22

[blacksapphhicmaddonna]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, ALPHABET MAFIA

just a few reminders:

- first pride was a riot

- black & BIPOC queer people are the foundation of our entire nation and the global culture

- we owe most of our rights and progress to BIPOC trans women/femmes and different communities of lesbians, trans/gnc folks and elders.

- trans people have always existed, they are ancient and indigenous to many cultures and places and are SACRED.

- I’m glad you’re here and there is community out there for you, waiting with open arms. Don’t give up just yet, please.

- rainbow capitalism isn’t liberation

- we are all we have, be fucking better to each other

- lesbians have done so much for lgbtqia+ people and should maybe idk stop being erased for no reason

- biphobia is real and just bc your ex cheated on you doesn’t make it bi folks fault, you’re projecting babe

- being queer doesn’t dissolve white privilege, pls touch grass

- be safe at pride. they’re coming for us all and we need to protect ourselves.

- not everyone wants to use the word queer/dyke/fag etc. I’m glad you reclaimed the slurs used against you, me too, but not everyone wants to and you need to respect that. LGBTQIA+* exists for a reason.

- the black and brown belong on the flag.

- the A is for asexual/romantic or agender, not ally.

- get some pussy (or whatever you do (or don’t do)) and make space for joy! because black/queer joy is revolutionary and fucking righteous just as much as our anger is, too

- Juneteenth coming up too, issa parade in my city fr

- asexuals/aromantics belong at pride. Period. Full stop.

- safe sex is the best sex

- get tested!

- it’s okay to not watch the news. america is hell, go take a nap

- people 100% know themselves better than you ever will, people are who they say they are and you don’t get to decide that for them. respect pronouns, identity, etc. or argue w ya mama/god/someone else cause it ain’t finna be me ❤️

- you deserve relationships that feel safe and actually are safe. Don’t settle.

- learn your queer history. they won’t teach us. they took our elders from us.

- Black LGBTQIA+* history IS Black History.

- we all need to be thankful to the house mothers and the ballroom scene and those who gave us what we have now, regardless of who you are.

- don’t call yourself a stud if you’re not BLACK. wit a capital B and at least one BLACK parent.

- not everyone is out. happiest of pride month to y’all. you’re still gang and we love you just as much. 💗

- our collective liberation lies in the fact that we are all tied to each other. if you’re down for the gays but not the theys, you’re not as decolonized as you think you are.

- shout out to fanfiction writers who have been single-handedly providing queer art/content/representation for years while the industry continues to make a mockery of us or intentionally leave us out. one thing we gonna do is help someone find their queer awakening, and get that story right. love us 🤪 go team

- your life means something. it’s important beyond comprehension. you look good. your ass is fat (if you want it to be). get the mullet as a lil treat.

- LGBTQIA+* people across the board have ALWAYS existed in literally every culture and every continent (and Antarctica counts if you count the cute lil gay penguins😌). Don’t let them tell you different. We are not a “mInOrItY”, we have been MINORITIZED. we are not small, we are great and mighty and have ALWAYS been here. And we always will. We exist in the future just as we have existed in the past. We stand on the shoulders of MASSIVE collective ancestors. If that’s not an indication to keep going, keep fighting, keep laughing, dancing, voguing, and keep showing up authentically - then I don’t know what is.

- it’s gonna be ok baby. pinkie promise.

#pride month #pri DEMON th #black sapphic #sapphic #nonbinary #gang fr #rainbow shit #alphabet mafia #gay shit boutta ensue fr #they/thems assemble #munch szn #pansexual ig

[odinsblog]

ALICE RANDALL, on how she became a country music writer at the age of 23

Well, I decided to become a Black country songwriter and publisher. I was founding Midsummer Music because I was born in Detroit City in 1959, at the same year as Motown Records, and my father did not read books to me. He told me stories, and one of the stories he told me over and over was the founding of Anna Records that Barry Gordy's sisters had founded a year before Motown.

So he talked to me about women being song publishers and record company executives and songwriters, and I heard those stories and followed in Anna's footsteps.

On writing country melodies

I teasingly say that my melodies are so simple that when the ones I come up with, if I can sing them, the whole world can sing them, so it goes well for having hit sometimes. But I came to Nashville via Harvard in Washington, DC so I sort of took the skills that I learned analyzing the Harlem Renaissance poets and Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and I applied them to country lyrics. I love British metaphysical poetry and American metaphysical poetry, and it was alive and it was alive and hiding in country and western music, and I found it.

On race in the country music industry

The racial fault line in country is all around that theme of the past is better than the present. In much of white country, the past that is better than the present is a mythologized Dixie. In much of Black Country, the past that is better than the present, is a time in childhood where your parents were able, against all odds, to protect you, or a lost Africa before colonization that's manifest by nature.

On what makes a country song, country

Well, the equation is Celtic, that's English, Irish, Scottish ballot forms, plus African influences, plus evangelical Christianity equals country music. Don't have the Black influences, and you probably got folk music. Don't have the evangelical Christianity, and you may have blues.

It's emotional, and they're themes, the big themes of country, as far as I see it. Life is hard, God is real, the road, family, and liquor are significant compensations, and the past is better than the present.

On metaphors

Well, these lyrics, these really complicated lyrics such as, ‘Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goalpost of life,’ that's an extended metaphysical conceit. And you know what? On Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, Bodyguard is another one of those extended, complex metaphors that we see all through country.

On Black women in country music

I feel actually a Juneteenth, which is good news at long last. Because I will be 65 May 4th, and I have been in country and western music for 41 years professionally.

When I arrived here in 1983, Charlie Pride had been to the number one spot 29 times. It was about to go up for another time. So many Black men have gotten to the number one spot.

I can't remember all their names, but literally not one Black woman performer had gotten there. There's a phrase I want to say, cultural redlining. Black women have been culturally redlined out of that.

They had not been given the economic resources to make the campaign to get there. And Beyoncé eclipsed all of that. And I can retire now with a joy that all three of the things I wanted to see, they got done.

One came in right at the last moment, wouldn't have gotten there without Queen B.

On representation and the first time she heard one of her songs performed by Adia Victoria, a Black woman

I cried. I cried. Just thinking back on it right now almost makes me cry again.

It changed the whole beginning of my book, because I knew I had to start with that moment. Over the years, I've been honored, and I tell the story. Glenn Campbell, Moe Bandy, Radney Foster, Tricia Yearwood, so many extraordinary stars had sung my songs.

But no one had ever looked like me had sung one of my songs. And more significantly, listeners thought all the heroes and sheroes in my songs were white, because the singers were white. And some of those heroes and sheroes, I had imagined them, all of them I had imagined as Black.

And I was willing and embraced people projecting their identities onto them, but I resisted the identities I had originally imagined and created being erased. And Adia Victoria added the color back to that cowboy. And 20 to 30% of all cowboys in the American West were Black and Brown, and they deserve to be remembered.

And if we don't remember them, we cannot properly encounter Cowboy Carter.

#alice randall #politics #music #country music #my black country #beyonce #cowboy carter #black country #texas holdem