#orlando shooting

[lily-orchard-archives]

April 25, 2017

#lily orchard #orlando shooting

[mortaljortlebortles]

Rest in Peace

Stanley Almodovar III, 23

Amanda Alvear, 25

Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26

Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33

Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21

Martin Benitez Torres, 33

Antonio D. Brown, 30

Darryl R. Burt II, 29

Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24

Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28

Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez, 31

Juan Chavez-Martinez, 25

Luis D. Conde, 39

Cory J. Connell, 21

Tevin E. Crosby, 25

Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, 50

Deonka D. Drayton, 32

Mercedez M. Flores, 26

Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22

Juan R. Guerrero, 22

Paul T. Henry, 41

Frank Hernandez, 27

Miguel A. Honorato, 30

Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40

Jason B. Josaphat, 19

Eddie J. Justice, 30

Anthony L. Laureano Disla, 25

Christopher A. Leinonen, 32

Brenda L. Marquez McCool, 49

Jean C. Mendez Perez, 35

Akyra Monet Murray, 18

Kimberly Morris, 37

Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, 27

Luis O. Ocasio-Capo, 20

Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25

Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36

Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32

Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25

Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37

Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24

Christopher J. Sanfeliz, 24

Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35

Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25

Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34

Shane E. Tomlinson, 33

Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25

Luis S. Vielma, 22

Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37

Jerald A. Wright, 31

#may you be remembered #7 years ago #orlando shooting #may their families find healing and kindness #and may we remember to keep fighting #and never loose hope #ban guns #or tighten gun laws #and respect every person #it may not have been a hate crime #but they still hate us #and used tradagy #to silence and discriminate against people who emigrated to the usa #from specifically mexico and south america #who were the most affected by this tradegy #people in our community still died #and our existance still politicised #we need to keep talking #rememembering #we need to be united still #make something positive and never forget them #don't forget all the muslims who stopped fasting to provide blood #don't forget #all those who protected our community that night #imran yousuf #in particular #don't forget the fact that it easily could have been a hate crime #look out for yourself and others #and be kind #we know that we were attacked and that people think it is acceptable

[jacquelinemerritt]

The Existential Dread of Being Queer

“The nothing is the complete negation of the totality of being.”

Martin Heidegger, an influential German philosopher, wrote that as part of his essay “What is Metaphysics?”. Heidegger was not in any way attempting to talk about what we today call “identity politics,” but his definition of nothing is not far from the experience of the queer community, wherein our identities are systematically invalidated by the world around us and we are made to feel unwelcome in the shared experience of being.

“The nothing” was important to Heidegger for other reasons as well. He believed that understanding the nothing was essential to fully understanding being, and he believed that “Anxiety reveals the nothing. … Anxiety leaves us hanging because it induces the slipping away of beings as a whole. This implies that we ourselves–we humans who are … in the midst of being slip away from ourselves. … In the altogether unsettling experience … where there is nothing to hold onto, pure [human experience] is all that is still there.” This feeling of anxiety, which Heidegger believed could be self-induced by thinking about the inevitability of death, is how we come to a better understanding of our being.

For the longest time, I couldn’t quite wrap my head around Heidegger’s hypothesis. Sure, it was insightful to say the fear of death was the key to understanding life, but I couldn’t fathom why anyone would willingly put themselves through anxiety for that understanding.

Then, at two in the morning on June 12, 2016, a man opened fire with an AR-15 in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing fifty people and wounding over fifty more.

Over the course of that Sunday, I was slowly and gradually overwhelmed by the very anxiety Heidegger discussed. It was just five days until the anniversary of my coming out, and I had begun to feel more at ease as a part of the queer community than I ever had before. The attack undid that. My feelings of safety and security had been ripped from me. The people of this country hate me and my people enough to commit the worst mass shooting in its history. How the fuck was I supposed to feel safe?

My existence as a queer woman suddenly came into stark light. The world was no longer content to make subtle digs at my identity, attempting to erode my being into nothingness because they don’t understand it. The message of the shooting is clear. I am not only not welcome to experience the fullness of being; I, along with my sisters, brothers, and siblings in the community, may also not be welcome to any form of being for much longer.

It seems unlikely that Heidegger expected the experience of such anxiety, such existential dread, to reveal this specific truth to me. Despite that, this experience has helped me realize what he found important about anxiety. My existential dread over being part of the queer community has shown me that anxiety is essential to understanding the ultimate futility of fighting for being. It’s sobering, and it puts reality into perspective. The hope I had when I first read him is suddenly no longer worthwhile.

I’m not sure that that hope will ever feel genuinely worthwhile again.

#martin heidegger #philosophy #transgender #lesbian #orlando shooting #this is a hard piece to revisit #obviously being written right in the aftermath of the pulse shooting #it's genuinely reflective of the feelings i had at the time #that was a terrifying ordeal that showed me exactly how much some people hate queers like me #and there is value in expressing those emotions #but also? #this entire piece is blackpilled as fuck #and i simply refuse to be so nihilistic #there is hope #a better world is possible #we are going to have to fight like hell to get it #but it can be won #also just #yikes at quoting heidegger again #i guess it's safe to say his writing left an impact on me #especially as i turned to it for understanding during a dark period #but again #motherfucker was a nazi #he is rotting in his grave #and deserves no more attention

[cyarsk52-20]

Today, we remember the 49 lives taken seven years ago at the horrific mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

#Pulse nightclub #lgbtq+ #never forget #gun violence #orlando shooting #pulse night of remembrance

[jameslano]

#ford #mustang #cars #ford mustang #classic #vintage #retro #vintage cars #James lano #photography #photos #photo #photographers on tumblr #artists #orlando #florida #street photography #407 #life #canon #g7x mark iii #point and shoot #lightroom #adobe #reflection #outdoors #travel

[voguefashion]

Sharon Tate wearing Paco Rabanne, photographed by Orlando Suero, 1966.

#sharon tate #paco rabanne #orlando suero #1966 #fashion photography #photo shoot #fashion #photography #1960s

[wonderwhump]

Carnival Row S02E10

Rycroft Philostrate (Philo) is shot in the back.

#rycroft philostrate #carnival row #shooting #shot #shot in the back #presumed dead #hurt #whump #carnival row whump #orlando bloom #blood #philo #philo whump

[reasonwasoutforlunch]

Epcot

#kentucky #paper shoot #photos #paper shoot camera #Orlando #Disney world #Epcot #black and white photography

[yeetlegay]

Today marks 6 years since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. There aren’t words for the heartbreak of that night, so all I want to say is please take some time today if you can to learn about the victims, donate to the onePULSE Foundation or your LGBTQIA+ charity of choice, and call your officials to demand change. Pride isn’t just about celebrating; it’s about honoring the memories of all the people we’ve lost, and continuing the fight in their honor.

I’ll be offline this evening to spend time with my queer friends and loved ones 💕💕

#pulse nightclub #cw mass shooting #orlando

[somekindofablog]

Orlando, Florida

#papershoot camera #papershootph #taken by papershoot #film simulation #digital film #point and shoot #raw #roadtrip #travel #summer #usa #orlando #florida #disney springs #original photography

[jameslano]

Orlando, FL

#James lano #photography #photos #photo #photographers on tumblr #artists #orlando #florida #street photography #407 #life #canon #g7x mark iii #point and shoot #lightroom #adobe #reflection #outdoors #travel

[rayehendrix]

Sharing this poem from years ago because it's horrifically relevant. Again. I'm so tired.

AFTER ORLANDO

​The week after the shooting             every shower feels like violent baptism—symbolic rebirth             performed too literally—water too hot, skin too red. I let it blister             peel it off in layers until I can’t until my body is not a body             I recognize—becomes a diagram of the bruised blue threads             of nervous systems, bloody and exposed—and then             I ask you to hold me. We don’t know any of the dead             but when they read out the names on the evening news             we take turns weighing them on our tongues, marvel             at how something spoken can be so heavy, can choke             into throat. After that, we shower together. Say their names against             each other’s pruning skin. Say our own with the same reverence—as if             for the first time, or the last.

#poetry #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #colorado #colorado springs #we deserve better #orlando #pulse shooting #pulse #queer lit #queer #raye hendrix #poem

[memenewsdotcom]

Orlando journalist killed

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#florida #guns #meme #memes #news #orlando #report #reporter #shooting #Television #TV #violence