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1. What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”]

2. What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary]

3. What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?  [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after. ]

4. If we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” [So, answer this today. And everyday.]

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#depressed by an awful job and needing to do job apps and not having time #help me self

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Labour in itself isn’t a bad thing, it can be joyful and therapeutic like how some people like washing dishes or gardening or hoovering or cooking. It’s just that capitalism twists and warps labour to something that’s only useful when it’s profitable. It’s the ever present idea that you have to market yourself in everything you do.

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Hard work causes stress, poor health and early death – above all, it has never solved poverty. We work longer hours now than we’ve done for fifty years, yet the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. Working hard cannot solve an economic crisis. The fact we are all expected to work so hard is in fact a result of economic crisis: a crisis that did not appear in 2008, but has been with us far longer. This is the crisis at the heart of capitalism: a tension between the 1 percent who control the economy, and want to continually increase their wealth, and the rest of us, who are expected to work ever harder, in order to generate profit and to keep us from occupying our time in meaningful ways like questioning or challenging the status quo.

from Strike! Magazine article by Selina Todd – Fuck Your Hard Work  (via llleighsmith)

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Parveen Sadiq being interviewed by Assed Baig for Channel 4 News regarding Prime Minister David Cameron’s English language policy. The screenshots are by Buzzfeed.

Buzzfeed article – Channel 4 News YouTube video

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“The Benevolent Dragon or Iguana” 

Oaxaca, Mexico. March 2013

“Iguanas symbolize and teach the importance of respecting and remembering our dreams, facing our fears, and moving in the underworld. Their power lies in the ability to save itself from danger by leaving a part of itself behind.”

Photographer: Holly Wilmeth, National Geographic, 03/05/2014

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So I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and this is the perfect opportunity to do so.

The pic on the left is about 7 years ago, where my depression was at an all time high. I hated myself, and everything about me. My identity was directly tied into all the negative shit I grew up being told about myself. I felt like every day I was alive was torture. It really was the hardest state of my life.

Fast forward to the pic on the right. And one of the most important things I did for myself was to embrace myself. Embrace who I was. Embrace everything that I was taught to hate. And to stand tall as a proud Black queer person. 

Am I 100% healed? Am I completely free of all self-esteem issues? Am I no longer suffering from depression and anxiety? Hell no. But one things for sure, I am happy to be alive. And #Blackout is a reminder to me of what gives life to me. I no longer run from my Blackness. I’m not ashamed of it. I embrace it. It feeds me as I give energy to it. I embrace my Blackness, and it nurtures and lifts me up. I move forward in learning to love myself, because my Blackness loves me. 

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some very simple powerpuff girls in honor of blackout~

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What you missed from the Democratic debate in Flint

With Hillary Clinton building a formidable delegate lead over Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidates sparred in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday evening, two days ahead of Michigan’s primary. Debate topics included racial inequality, public health, the role of government and even God. Sanders’ “mental health” dig at the Republicans raised a lot of eyebrows.

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mutuals this is really fun

strive to be compassionate and understanding to everyone

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softer moments in the swamp

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If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.

Glennon Doyle Melton (via welcomehomeward)

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Why is a porn blog following me

Ancient tumblr user proverb  (via mercurieux)

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“Fatigue” - Oil painting by @johnbrosioart #johnbrosio #art #beinartcollective #octopus #fatigue #painting

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In 2008 the Democratic voter turnout in South Carolina was 550,000. Now it’s at 375,000.

In 2008 the Republican voter turnout in South Carolina was 425,000. Now it’s at 750,000.

Democrats are seeing low numbers at the polling stations, while republicans are seeing an all time high. There’s a ton of support for the democratic runners, but turnout is not reaching expectancy. 

You know what that means? If you don’t go out to vote than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz is going to be the next president of the United States. Republicans are working real hard to get Trump (or Cruz) in the White House and at this rate it’s going to happen.