I Confront [white Guilt] Every Year, About A Month Into My Course On Racism, Among [white] Students Who

“I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things: 1) People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood. 2) Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism. 3) White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.”

hey Emily I know we haven’t talked in 5 or 6 years, how’s it going? kids doing good? pregnancy going okay for you? anyway I sent you this because some rando on the Internet thought you might be happier knowing you inadvertently reposted MLP fetish art. wait what’s MLP? well okay let me start off with saying I am a completely normal individual caught in the crosshairs of a violently loud subculture on the internet I am not actually a part of but I constantly bear witness to. secondly does your kid watch cartoons? well you might have seen

If you like these popular gay books, try these ones out

So I’ve noticed a large and growing fandom/interest in Carry On/Wayward Son, Red White & Royal Blue, The Raven Cycle, The Song of Achilles, Simon Vs, The Gentleman’s Guide to Virtue and Vice, and Six of Crows, and the gay storylines in them, this is GREAT! it’s lovely! not all that long ago the idea of a gay book becoming popular on it’s own, mind blowing. However there are other books out there that need your love, your fandom art talent, etc so please think about cracking open these high quality novels and enjoying any of the following 

Peter Darling

The Lightning-Struck Heart

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

They Both Die at the End

Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

When Ryan Came Back

Wonders of the Invisible World

Wild and Crooked

More Happy Than Not

Last Bus to Everland

We Contain Multitudes

Love & Other Curses

Jack of Hearts

The Darkest Part of the Forest

The Love Interest

Boy Meets Boy

okay so I have many many more good books, but if you like any of the books I listed in my opening I feel like you’ll love at least some of these, all of these books deserve your love, time, readership, come on, new world’s await 

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even though baz managed to be full on in love with simon for three years and never do anything, i am still so surprised by his willpower in wayward son to not say “i love you.” in the absolute worst of times, i’d accidentally blurt that shit out and it would s u c k

It’s important to remember Pride month being about two things:

1. First and foremost, Pride is meant to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, where our queer and trans ancestors of color fought against police brutality and queerphobia.

2. Love. That’s it. Just love. Love of any kind. Love between any people. Love, romantic or platonic. Love of yourself.

Love is love is love.

Happy end of Pride, everyone!!!