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Tbf for AAVE specifically, I think we need to just note who our allies are and otherwise let it go. Our language has **always** become the basis of hood slang, and because of that, we've **always** had it co-opted: first by poor non-Black minorities, and then by more privileged folks [most notably and irritatingly, yt ppl]. Calling out an appropriated Blaccent, especially when it's being profited off of, will forever be important. But it's also getting into muddy waters and emboldening white "allies" to police others over it IRL. For example, my German punk friend recently got berated by a white American for using the socialist solidarity fist (which is where the Black Power fist originated). I've seen Latinx friends "called out" for using a supposed Blaccent when they were just raised in the hood.

It's annoying, yes, but even white/ non-Black gays are often just matching the coding of their found families. Black queers have often been in leadership in spaces where disowned, abused, or otherwise unsafe queer people can gather, *especially* in Ball culture, so it makes sense that they'd mimic their heroes, or ppl they spend a lot of time around.

Part of the misfortune of being Black in America is that our culture, built from the ground up, has been both stolen from us repeatedly, and shared by us with others out of necessity and love. It's hard to ask for cultural isolation and gatekeeping as a minority without cutting off the communities we've shared. I think the best solution is to let clowns look like clowns and save our breath for those who **need** to be called out.

None of this, of course, accounts for non-Muslims appropriating Islamic phrases for jokes, because that is **insane** and y'all deserve to gatekeep the fuck out of that.

I think we should start gatekeeping language and dialects. Because we shouldn’t have to suffer through some white twink butchering AAVE on TikTok, or a group of white bloggers stumbling through Arab phrases and sayings because they think it’s quirky.

#i only addressed the AAVE thing bc ive seen the conversation get out of hand so many times #its ultimately an extension of the biggest Black American issue: how do we keep a cultural identity that has already been stolen and shared? #its relevant for our music our food our values and ofc our language #i see too many of us online running towards gatekeeping as a solution. it works about as well as it does for the LGBTQIA+ community. #people start to question whos 'Black enough' to be within the gate. and the circle gets smaller the more you examine it. #it also often fosters unnecessary hostility with other POC and minorities when we're strongest together. #not saying youre doing that OP!! if it were as clear cut as saying the N word or giving yourself a Nigerian name id agree. #which i think is why appropriation of islamic language is so cut and dried to me. its obvious whos doing it and their intentions. #earlier though I just meant like. if we respond to our kneejerk reactions to gatekeep AAVE #we are likely to make it more difficult to work with minorities who just talk like that. be it from friends community whatever. ive seen it. #the shitty thing about being a Black american (among many other things) is that the level of peacemaking we do SHOULDNT be on us. #but if we want a better future for us and others....it often does lie on us to pick our battles. #ofc OP do what you like. simultaneously its our **right** to seek justice as we see fit.

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Hello guys i have good news and bad news.

The good news that I'm finally in Egypt now with my youngest brother and the bad news is my mother and my other brother with his wife still in Rafah waiting to evacute to Egypt.

I feel so sad and depressed for leaving them i should stayed and get out together.

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the casual mockery and bastardization of Islamic culture that is so pervasive in western media and thought makes my blood boil

#non islamics its free.99 to say “my brother in christ” and “The Lorde Willing” ironically and in a funny voice #or yknow #talking about sin. #idk i just feel like religious irony should be reserved for your own background/ the oppressing religion at hand #i think the only case we're allowed to use this is stuff like 'by allah you people are dogs. i will reblog as usual' #and even then id only reblog the image bc man already said it. him saying it in-image means the joke is WHAT he said #not the fact that it's using islam-based language. #you get me? do you feel me? #anyway if any islamic person reads this and has a correction pls hit up my askbox!! #im just a black pastor's kid with muslim friends. but as a non-muslim...there are alternatives #yes including to ND verbal ticks that came from memes. find the appropriate alternative!

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girl exorcism

get ur hair trimmed

get ur nails done

go grocery shopping (god is concealed somewhere between the aisles)

sit on a swing under the spring sun

STUDY !!!!!

it’s not that deep

work out

watch a movie (or documentary)

read a fucking book

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i have a question for the tumblr girlies. what do you guys call these + where are you from

#a shirt for personal reasons #wifebeater if its appropriate in context. like when the person wearing it is sus #otherwise i just call it an A shirt bc its real damn weird to use domestic abuse as a nickname i feel #and im [drumroll]... from Texas

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Shaunese Crawford (photographer, cinematographer, director)

website, Boogie Down Cinema, Facebook, IG, TikTok

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This post is addressed to the Palestinians in Ghazzah following me. If someone is asking you to send them money to put your fundraiser on their website or whatever and telling you you won't have your fundraiser succeed otherwise, do not listen to him he is scamming you or lying to you.

Everything I've done on this blog has been to help people. I do not charge anyone money EVER. I don't even ask my other followers to send me any cash. DO NOT LISTEN TO SOMEONE ASKING YOU FOR MONEY.

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normalize saying "okay💖 yay💖" while masc

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genuinely think i might stop reading the news entirely. this is so dire

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as far as i'm concerned all gore is necessary

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

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I think some people get “I approve of this morally” and “I don’t approve of this morally but realistically fighting a crusade against it would cause more harm than good” confused in fandom spaces.

Is there certain types of fanfic I don’t enjoy the existence of? Yes. Do I think going on a tirade against those types of fanfic would cause any type of positive change in the world? No. It would cause more problems for me, my online followers, and fanfic writing as a whole.

Like there’s certain immoral or gross things in this world that going after them causes more tangible harm than the thing itself. That’s also why I’m not specifying which types of fanfic or literature I find morally questionable. Bringing those up would cause a storm about it. People would focus in on that when that’s not the point of this post. I’m not aiming to open old wounds or tell people what kinds of things they should or shouldn’t indulge in if they’re not tangibly harming anyone in a major way. The harm I could potentially cause by inflaming old debates or starting new ones has the potential to be more harmful than the things I don’t like in the first place.