#latinx dark academia

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new people a century before the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the Plymouth coast. For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.

— Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.

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#Eduardo Galeano #Open Veins of Latin America #Latin America #Colonization #Neocolonialism #quotes #quote #us imperialism #imperialism #colonialism #colonial violence #gradblr #studyblr #academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #philosophy #philosophy quotes #book quotes #South america #latino #latin #latinx #hispanic #latina #US History #History

[linguisticty]

can you recommend some portuguese literature, not just in portuguese but from Portugal? I've saved your post on brazilian literature and appreaciated it a lot 🧡

sorry it took so long, anon. i always forget to check if someone asked something!

thank you so much for your request! i would love to do that. i might not be the hugest fan of portuguese literature, but i did major in it too... i'll start planning it and working on it. it will probably take a while, since i always make an effort to find any available translations and interesting info to bring to the table. i will make it clear i will only mention well known (as in, well known world-wide) portuguese authors because my idea is to bring light to more authors who deserve recognition.

i think i'll take advantage of this request and work on some portuguese language african literature masterpost as well, and even get back to some of my other masterposts ideas!

#linguisticty #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia women #latinx academia #latin american academia #latin american dark academia #literature #lit #portuguese literature #darkest academia #poc dark academia #portuguese major #poc academia #portuguese language literature #african literature

[qbdatabase]

The Grimoire of Grave Fates ed. by Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul to reinvent itself into an academy where all students are welcome--but when the dead body of a professor unhappy with these changes is found with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone is a suspect. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

#asian rep #daily book #disabled rep #indigenous rep #Latinx rep #mental health rep #mga #Muslim rep #nonbinary #queer rep #trans male #transgender #wlw #anthology #dark academia #fantasy #female protagonist #horror #lgbtqia #male protagonist #mystery #nonbinary protagonist #queer books #witches #YA books

[wormwoodandhoney]

2024 anticipated reads: february

(note: i have not yet read any of these and cannot speak to their quality- i'm just intrigued by the synopsis or author!)

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Feb 6): a romance set in modern Harlem with references to the Harlem Renaissance. Really enjoyed the author's last romance.

Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman (Feb 6): an anthology of Latine authors retelling stories from Frankenstein to Pride and Prejudice.

Projections by SE Porter (Feb 13): a young woman seeks vengeance on the sorcerer who murdered her. Isn't that an insanely good pitch?

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Feb 13): Japanese novel being translated into English, about a father/daughter duo who can recreate a recipe from a person's treasured memories.

An Education in Malice by ST Gibson (Feb 15): a dark academia retelling of Carmilla. no further info needed, I'm in.

A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (Feb 20): a young woman and her crew of misfits set out to pull a heist over a glamorous society of vampires.

#anticipated books #anticipated releases #books #2024 books #booklr #q

[rockislandadultreads]

Nonfiction Thursday: LGBTQIA+ History Month

The LGBTQ+ History Book by DK Publishing

Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to the Kinseys' modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Allen Ginsberg.

The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first transgender surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian “Night Police” to the 20th century “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones - the secret language of polari, Black and Latinx ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community - and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century “molly houses” to modern “gayborhoods.”

The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman

The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights - the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers - is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. In “the most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement” (The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling.

The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties; the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic; and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele

Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped 'queer theory'.

From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.

Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal', such as Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality; Judith Butler's view of gendered behavior as a performance; the play Wicked, which reinterprets characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.

Fire Island by Jack Parlett

Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop.

Now, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination - its history, its meaning and its cultural significance - told through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge on its shores. Together, figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Patricia Highsmith and Jeremy O. Harris tell the story of a queer space in constant evolution.

Transporting, impeccably researched and gorgeously written, Fire Island is the definitive book on an iconic American destination and an essential contribution to queer history.

#lgbtqia history #nonfiction #nonfiction books #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

[nurtelo]

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[drunkacademie]

"That was the difference between the student and the adolescent. I knew the rules of writing without suspecting the rules of love. I had had orgies of Latin, and was a virgin in women."

Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #chaotic academia #quotes #light academia #books & libraries #booklr #bookish #bookworm #books #machado de assis #love quotes #literature #romantic academia #academia #latinx dark academia

[missus-meticulous]

I see alot of Victorian themed dark academia and I posit:

Latinx Dark Academia:

-turning the page of Don Quixote, you promised your Abuela you’d read it and it’s taken several years but your halfway through

-sweat slowly trickling down the side of your face, you wipe it before it lands on the book

-crisp, cool air blows through and you smell the charged ions, a potent for heavy rainfall and lightening storms later that day

-the soft murmur of your Abuela as her soft, aged hands slowly make their way from one side of the rosary to the other. The late afternoon sun lights her warm, brown hands, the wrinkles, the veins, the life carried across borders

#dark academia #latinx #latinx dark academia #is this dark academia? #did i do it right?

[creepykuroneko]

Out of curiosity I was looking at other people's reviews and thoughts on the novel Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith.

The book is written by a Vietnamese American woman, takes place in Vietnam, revolves around a mixed race Vietnamese American woman who has returned to Vietnam, and several other Vietnamese characters, explores the devastation done to Vietnam by various colonizers, and includes a couple of ghosts and Mysteries. Not hard to comprehend.

Yet basically every single review I've seen for this book has been made by a white woman, and the most common criticism they make is, "I didn't get it". Literally what is not get? The book is not a hard read.

One woman even said she doesn't understand what the two main characters have to do with each other. Bitch did you stop reading the book halfway through or what? They end up meeting up towards the end and going on adventure together. What do you mean you don't understand what they had to do with each other?

The sad thing is these type of reviews are extremely common on books that are written by authors of color, made for people of color, and star people of color.

Children of Blood and Bone, God's of Jade and Shadow, Queen of the cicadas, the Only Good Indians, These Women all tend to get the same kind of shit thrown at them by white women.

Meanwell garbage like Nightbitch and the southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires are highly praised by the exact same white women. So here's a challenge for white women who love to read, really challenge yourselves when you read. Think about what you're reading and what historic events have gone down there and are currently still going on. Think about why you like one book but why you didn't like another book. Be honest with yourself, is it really because you found the characters boring and you thought it was full of cliche tropes? Or is it because you didn't like how the characters talk, different cultures, that the character ended up with the guy, that the character didn't end up with the guy, that the character was a lesbian, or that they were living life completely different from yours?

#booklr #readerscommunity #dark Academia #pop culture #lgbt #latinx #black literature #stop asian hate

[chaotic-academiamelb]

I have seen a lot of people create these collages to challenge the systemic racism of academia. As a multiracial person, I have often seen, as with most minoritized groups, education focused primarily on Anglo-European canon, as an art history major it was the focus of their aesthetics. In my own time, I had to learn about Latinx classics the mythology of Incans, Olmecs, Mayans, and Aztecs, and the indigenous language of Mexico being Nahuatl. Recognizing and unlearning the Spanish colonization of my mestiza(mixed) heritage.

Even learning how the term Latina/o is inaccurately applied to those of SouthAmerican/American heritage, its a lot to take in. When I see other POC shake up the institutional norms, you enlighten me on my self-worth and biases as a Latina in academia, so thank you! Follow me if you want to learn more, discuss #Latinx Academia

#latina #latino #latinx #mexican #colombian #veracruz #argentina #light academia #desi academia #black academia #darkacademism #dark acadamia aesthetic #poc dark academia #poc academia #chaotic academia

[magicalmusingsblog]

"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart...I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly."

#aesthetic #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #vintage #writing #dark ages #dark aesthetic #dark academia #dead poetic #dark asthetic #shitpost #artists on tumblr #tumblog #dark blog #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academism #grateful dead #latinx #greek aesthetic #explore

[chicanastudies]

tfw you're trying to look for latinidad and latinecore in academia aesthetics but all that shows up is latin😔😔😔

#fuck #i want latine academia #not latin #pls #im blaming dark academia for this one #smh #this gotta exist #im looking specifically for latino/latina/latine core #not just overall poc #someone pls #i want that to be my blog aesthetic #i know this gotta already exist #if not #fuck it we'll make it ourselves #latino academia #maybe i should try latinx? #oof??? #own post #latina academia #latinx academia #my own post

[bfpnola]

New Pinned Post!

[ID: An ombre green to royal blue background layered with green and royal blue stripes. White text on top in bold reads “Better Future Program” End ID]

Hi! My name is @reaux07 (she/they) and this is my nonprofit Better Future Program, better known online as BFPnola.

Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, BFP is an active and thriving community run entirely by teens for the past 4 years, dedicated to building a better and brighter future for young people around the world who are interested in learning, engaging and contributing to the communities in which they live.

Posts are made everyday on Instagram and Tumblr, as well as reposts to other amazing organizations, regarding various social justice issues, mental health, and education!

Some examples of what we post on this blog:

[ID: Pictures include 1) a slide on Racism in Healthcare: Black Maternal Mortality with a drawing of a nude Black mother holding a swaddled baby with dark and light brown spots ar the top, 2) a slide on Casual Ableism, displayed upon a bold yellow background with a pastel pink paint splatter, 3) a slide on Asian Fetishization in Media, displayed upon a dusty purple background with darker purple and periwinkle stripes at the top and a black-and-white figure of an Asian woman looking slyly at the camera, 4) a slide on Why it Shouldn’t Matter That George Floyd Had a Record and Elijah McClain Was a Soft-Spoken Violin Player, written in rose pink text on top of a dark purple box against a pastel purple background, 5) a slide on Police in Schools Aren’t Helping Kids. Here’s Why, written in thick black text on top of a bright yellow highlight and a pastel blue background. There are orange lines underlining “here’s why” and handcuffs in the upper right corner, and lastly 6) a slide on Women & Climate Change, on a white background with brown women of varying heights and one woman in a wheelchair marching in gray, mint green, and muted blue-green outfits, waving mint green flags. End ID]

Organized by topic, if you want access to over 1000+ social justice, mental health, and academic resources, click here! Below are screenshots of what those documents look like and just a hint of what you can easily have access to and add to your Google Drive.

[ID: 3 screenshots of Google Documents. Written in thin, black Calibri font, they each respectively read “Free Social Justice Reaources,” “Free Mental Health Resources,” and “Academic Resources” at the top. They each contain just a snapshot of a very long list of links written in blue Calibri text to PDFs, e-books, interviews, movies, therapy networks, tutoring networks, and more. End ID]

In order of how they appear, the social justice document as of December 29th, 2020, includes resources on: Racial Injustice & Prison Abolition, Indigenous Rights, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Immigration, Climate Change & Intersectional Environmentalism, Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, Reproductive Rights & Health, LGBTQ+ Rights, Disability Rights (both physical & mental), Classism, Educational Equity, Political Structures, Animal Rights, and Organizing.

In order of how they appear, the mental health document as of December 29th, 2020, includes resources on: Suicide Prevention, COVID-19, General Mental Health, LGBTQ+ Mental Health, Black Mental Helath, Indigenous Mental Health, Asian American Mental Health, Hispanic & Latinx Mental Health, Mental Illnesses/Disorders, General Abuse, Substance Abuse, Sexual Abuse/Assault/Harassment, Missing Children/Runaways/Homelessness, and Misc.

In order of how they appear, the academics document as of December 29th, 2020, includes resources on: General (Studying/Researching), College Admissions, English/Reading/Writing, Sciences, Mathematics, Social Studies/History, Language, Arts, Music for Studying, Free Online Classes, Free Novels/Textbooks/Audiobooks, and Misc. (which includes various topics like first aid, yoga, gardening, and more).

I felt it really important that we all have equal and equitable access to resources! So on those documents, I’ve listed PDFs, eBooks, interviews, music, sites to help you study, and so much more! Please check it out and share it with anyone and everyone you can.

Anyway, thank you so much for taking the time to read this! Send in asks anytime if you have questions, suggestions for what we should educate on next, or suggestions for a project you’d like us to bring to life (our last project was successfully donating over 700 reading glasses, exceeding our goal of 200, to homeless shelters in New Orleans, LA and Houston, TX)!

-this post was last updated 12/29/20. feel free to repost and share with others.-

#black liberation #bipoc #no justice no peace #poc #activism #equality #gen z #ID #dark academia #education #climate change #lgbtq #womens rights #indigenous #hispanic #latinx #black tumblr #mental health #asian american #pacific islander #aapi #disability #anti semitism #islamophobia #anti racism #books and literature #support black business #resources #pinned post

[lilareblogsstuff]

The Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Here is the hotel's website, if anyone is interested in staying there!

This is the source of the photo, but I couldn't find the photographer! If you know who it is, please let me know however you feel comfortable doing so!

#latinx #latam #latin culture #cozycore #aesthetic #brazil #cottagecore #forestcore #flowercore #cottagecore aesthetic #cozy cottage #fairycore #springcore #light academia #naturecore #gardencore #dark academia

[porquemepersigueladesgracia]

ojalá todos los días fueran un sábado a la tarde

#latinx #latina #dark acadamia aesthetic #books #dark academia #dark acadamia #dark academia aesthetic #coffetime #coffee #coffeshop #argentina #argentique #aestheitcs #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia

[nurtelo]

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