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isolate:

psa: you do not have to love and respect your parents if they do not love and respect you too. you are not owned by your mother or father, and if you have been wrongly treated by them, you do not have to keep them in your life. people need to stop hating on those who openly admit that they don’t love their abusive parent(s). just because they gave you life, does not mean they own your life.

spirituallythin:

Clear and Present Danger

I locked the front door and popped in one of my earbuds.

I can’t put both in yet;

I have to be able to hear my surroundings

I walk quickly and with purpose.

My purse strap across my chest and close to my body.

I don’t want to become a target of a strangers’ maleficence.

I step into the light of the streets and out of the sidewalk shaded by trees.

I’ll risk being hit by a car before running into someone unsavory in the dark night.

Three men exit an apartment laughing happily together.

I cross to the other side of the street and pick up my pace.

I don’t know their motive.

I’ve been warned and educated on how to be safe and protect myself.

I wonder if they’ve been educated on not hurting me?

In my life I always fear.

I am in clear and present danger.

studyblr:

first day of school last year: new pens, new pencil case, new highlighter, new erasers, new gel pens, new pencils, basically an entire stationery store, folders for every subjects, cute planner with me at all times,

first day of school this year: a (functioning?) pen somewhere maybe

hundondestiny:

snackeater:

witchgays:

Unpopular opinion but unless you’re a gay man, don’t use the gay flag. It’s not a “pride flag”, it’s not an “LGBT flag”, it is a GAY flag, for men who love men and only men, and it makes no sense for someone who isn’t a gay man to use it.

this is a really terrible and ignorant take, the original flag was designed to show what brings us together as a community

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the pink was removed due to shortage of fabric, and indigo-turquoise was replaced with a royal blue when they wanted the flag to have two equal halves. 30 people with varying identities hand-dyed and hand-stitched the first pride flag together, the only reason it was called the “gay flag” (and the “gay community” and “gay pride” for that matter) is because everything fell under “gay” at the time, including being trans.

if you want to make us a flag then go for it, but don’t go around ignoring the rainbow flag’s history.

Gilbert Baker, designer of the rainbow pride flag, on the meaning of the flag:

“At this point, the pink triangle was the symbol for the gay movement. But it represented a dark chapter in the history of same-sex rights. … We all felt that we needed something that was positive, that celebrated our love.

I thought a gay nation should have a flag too, to proclaim its own idea of power.As a community, both local and international, gay people were in the midst of an upheaval, a battle for equal rights, a shift in status where we were now demanding power, taking it. This was our new revolution: a tribal, individualistic, and collective vision. It deserved a new symbol.

A Rainbow Flag was a conscious choice, natural and necessary. The rainbow came from earliest recorded history as a symbol of hope. In the Book of Genesis, it appeared as proof of a covenant between God and all living creatures. It was also found in Chinese, Egyptian and Native American history. A Rainbow Flag would be our modern alternative to the pink triangle. Now the rioters who claimed their freedom at the Stonewall Bar in 1969 would have their own symbol of liberation.”

robotlyra:

Don’t confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don’t want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens’ basic survival needs.