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i’ve done it! like a fucking idiot, i’ve done it! i split the alt black babe mixtape into ten mini-tapes. no one asked me to do this. i did not need to do this

anyway!

the head honcho - the alt black babe mixtape: all 385 or so songs

for fun babes: the party bangers, stuff you can twerk to (includes bey, bree runway, kelis)

for loud babes: the loud, sweaty songs (includes rico nasty, straight line stitch, big joanie)

for ethereal babes: the songs that are there to help you float off in your mind (includes fka twigs, mereba, spellling)

for sad babes: self-explanatory (includes willow, arlo parks, fefe dobson)

for chill babes: songs to relax to, great for wash days (includes the internet, kennie, nao)

for goth babes: and also the vampires (includes adia victoria, moor mother, light asylum)

for folksy babes: folk and country folk and bluesy folk yee-yee (includes rhiannon giddens, kaia kater, kimya dawson)

for quirky babes: all sortsa sounds in here to embroider your converses to (includes janelle monae, santigold, brittany howard)

for classic babes: sounds from the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, etc (includes sister rosetta tharpe, skunk anansie, tina turner)

for poetic babes: we love a lyricist (includes noname, jamila woods, esperanza spalding)

#playlists #music #OOOOO

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Pdf of The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

#to read #pdfs

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COME OUT! magazine, Vol 1, Issue 1, 1969

#lgbt #illustration

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here's my biggest complaint about fanmixes in the post 8tracks era: these bitches are putting WAY too many songs by the same artist on each one. 2 is reasonable, 3 is tolerable if they're really on the nose, anything more than that is unacceptable to me. 'but what if they're all fitting' i dont care. kill your darlings out of respect for the craft.

#for the paper #8tracks

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handmade trilobite bandanas now listed in my shop! printed and dyed by me

#WOAH #trilobites

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how it feels finding a cool base location in minecraft

#coded #just like me in this way…

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lets give it up for pretentious bitches i love snobs who try to keep intellectualism alive gooooooo assholes

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gazafunds seeks to uplift stagnant or otherwise struggling fundraisers for gazans seeking evacuation or simple necessities. i know many of the images crossing your feeds today are harrowing and impossible to fathom, but those in the line of fire need your help, not your complacency. gazafunds also urges those who are able to adopt a fundraiser to amplify to do so (you can contact them via their twitter.)

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everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"

#SOOO tru #coded

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To donate eSims: gazaesims

To donate via: Operation Olive Branch

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victor frankenstein had post partum depression

#IM SAYING!!! IM SAYING IM LITERALLY SAYING!!!!!!!!!!!! #literally said this IN my paper. im saying. #frankenstein #lucky that im not posting stuff from my essay in response to this

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the current trend of "tumblr users embarrassing themselves by proudly announcing why they don't listen to any music made by black people" is really astounding.

i cannot help but think this is a direct result of liberal White Guilt and how people have interpreted "anti-racism" as form of cultural self-segregation - the kind of person who thinks trying to cook chicken curry is cultural appropriation, or sends white people anon hate for wearing a kimono (yes, this kind of discourse happened). like, "oh, no, i could never participate in this culture, i'd get my evil white hands all over it! it would be more Progressive if I only did White things."

if you're a poc you've seen this, i'm sure - this deer-in-the-headlights stare you can get from white people when you play music / show art / share a story / anything that is Racially Coded, this total refusal to actually engage with it out of fear that it is in some way Wrong for them to have any opinion on it. because they read somewhere that it's bad to use AAVE but the only lesson they actually learned from that is "gotcha, white people are not allowed to interact with other cultures as punishment for my White Crimes. this helps to fill up the gaping pit of my white guilt and makes me one of the Good People." this transforms their discomfort around non-white cultures (black culture, especially, i should add) into a kind of virtue

anyway if you are white and reading this. go listen to some fucking haliu mergia. ethiopian jazz. will knock your dick right off. go listen to rap or reggae or bollywood and have a genuine reaction to it - like, an actual, from-the-heart reaction. you are allowed to not like some of it. but you will definitely like at least a little. yes, you can compare it to lemon demon (or whatever) if that helps you get into it and that's your only point of reference. maybe don't say that part out loud. but don't, like, separate yourself from it, like you are seeing it in a museum and the only polite thing to do is go "ahh, huh, very interesting, so much culture here."

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Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017

#!!!!!! #artists books

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no david… WE are in eskew 🤝

#eskew #real....

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teaching literature is 50% teaching history AT LEAST esp if youre trying to get young people to be interested in, like, the early modern / early colonial period…

#literature #pedagogy

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Israeli army shells reach us. They saved the lives of me and my wife, by making a financial donation through my PayPal wallet.

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A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.

I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.

'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?

'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?

'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!

'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?

You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.